![Scientific Pollyannaism]( "Scientific Pollyannaism")
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Yakushko, O. (2019)
This book argues that the story of the orphan girl Pollyanna (namely, her strategy of playing the “glad games” to manage loss, abuse, and social prejudice) serves as a framework …
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![The Medicalized Body and Anesthetic Culture]( "The Medicalized Body and Anesthetic Culture")
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Robbins, B. D. (2018)
This book examines how modern medicine’s mechanistic conception of the body has become a defense mechanism to cope with death anxiety. Robbins draws from research on the …
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![Tribalism]( "Tribalism")
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Hobfoll, S. E. (2018)
Unearthing the most primal motivations behind the fear politics movements sweeping across the USA, Europe, and the Middle East, Stevan E. Hobfoll examines how the increasing …
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![Trauma and Madness in Mental Health Services]( "Trauma and Madness in Mental Health Services")
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Hunter, N. (2018)
How do survivors of child abuse, bullying, chronic oppression and discrimination, and other developmental traumas adapt to such unimaginable situations? It is taken for granted …
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![The Palgrave Handbook of Ethics in Critical Research]( "The Palgrave Handbook of Ethics in Critical Research")
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Macleod, C. I. (Ed), Marx, J. (Ed), Mnyaka, P. (Ed), Treharne, G. J. (Ed) (2018)
This handbook highlights the growing tensions surrounding the current dominant ethical clearance model which is increasingly being questioned, particularly in critical research. …
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![Outline of Theoretical Psychology]( "Outline of Theoretical Psychology")
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Teo, T. (2018)
Outline of Theoretical Psychology discusses basic philosophical problems in the discipline and profession of psychology. The author addresses such topics as what it means to be …
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![Psychoanalyzing the Politics of the New Brain Sciences]( "Psychoanalyzing the Politics of the New Brain Sciences")
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Samuels, R. (2017)
This book argues that neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and behavioral economics often function as a political ideology masquerading as a new science. In looking at works by …
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![Medicalizing Counselling]( "Medicalizing Counselling")
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Strong, T. (2017)
This book discusses how counselling, a profession known for diverse and innovative practices, has recently been influenced by scientific, marketplace, and administrative …
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![Unhappiness, Sadness and 'Depression']( "Unhappiness, Sadness and 'Depression'")
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Giraldi, T. (2017)
This book examines existing treatments, legislation and research methodology of depression and exposes their limitations, championing psycho-social support as an alternative. …
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![The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Social Psychology]( "The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Social Psychology")
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Gough, B. (Ed) (2017)
This handbook is the first to bring together the latest theory and research on critical approaches to social psychological challenges. Edited by a leading authority in the field, …
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![Examining Mental Health through Social Constructionism]( "Examining Mental Health through Social Constructionism")
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O'Reilly, M., Lester, J. N. (2017)
This book explores social constructionism and the language of mental distress. Mental health research has traditionally been dominated by genetic and biomedical explanations that …
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![The Sedated Society]( "The Sedated Society")
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Davies, J. (Ed) (2017)
This edited volume provides an answer to a rising public health concern: what drives the over prescription of psychiatric medication epidemic? Over 15% of the UK public takes a …
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![Intoxication, Modernity, and Colonialism]( "Intoxication, Modernity, and Colonialism")
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Bjelić, D. I. (2016)
This book depicts how Freud’s cocaine and Benjamin’s hashish illustrate two critiques of modernity and two messianic emancipations through the pleasures of intoxicating discourse. …
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![Psychoanalyzing the Left and Right after Donald Trump]( "Psychoanalyzing the Left and Right after Donald Trump")
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Samuels, R. (2016)
This book outlines a new model for global social justice movements that is based on Freud and Lacan’s central insights regarding the unconscious, repetition, drives, and …
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![A History of “Relevance” in Psychology]( "A History of “Relevance” in Psychology")
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Long, W. (2016)
This book represents the first attempt to historicise and theorise appeals for ‘relevance’ in psychology. It argues that the persistence of questions about the ‘relevance’ of …
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![Psychiatry Interrogated]( "Psychiatry Interrogated")
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Burstow, B. (Ed) (2016)
This edited volume is an anthology of institutional ethnography (IE) inquiries into psychiatry—the first ever to be written. It focuses on a large variety of different geographic …
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![Sleeplessness]( "Sleeplessness")
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Horne, J. (2016)
This book critically evaluates the popular notion that today’s society is suffering from ‘sleep debt’, or what Horne calls ‘societal insomnia’ - an apparent chronic loss of sleep, …
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![Youth Work, Early Education, and Psychology]( "Youth Work, Early Education, and Psychology")
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Pacini-Ketchabaw, V. (Ed), Skott-Myhre, K. (Ed) (2016)
Youth Work, Early Education, and Psychology re-examines the set of relations generally referred to as working with children and youth. It presents a series of propositions that …
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![Psychosocial Imaginaries]( "Psychosocial Imaginaries")
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Frosh, S. (Ed) (2015)
Psychosocial studies challenges the traditions of psychology and sociology from a genuinely transdisciplinary perspective. The book reflects this agenda in its varied theoretical …
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![Orgasmic Bodies]( "Orgasmic Bodies")
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Frith, H. (2015)
Orgasmic Bodies explores how bodily experiences of orgasm are worked up as present/absent, complicated/straightforward, too slow/too fast, fake or real, in the doing of …
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