Have you been wondering if today’s technology is making us more self-absorbed? Have you wondered if you or others can be classified as a narcissist because of an obsession with taking selfie’s? Are you worried that you or someone close to you may be a narcissist? Because they always want to be the center of attention? There is a lot of talk and interest centering around narcissism. When you hear the term narcissism, or someone labels a person as a narcissist, what images co...

Have you been wondering if today’s technology is making us more self-absorbed? Have you wondered if you or others can be classified as a narcissist because of an obsession with taking selfie’s?Are you worried that you or someone close to you may be a narcissist? Because they always want to be the center of attention?There is a lot of talk and interest centering around narcissism. When you hear the term narcissism, or someone labels a person as a narcissist, what images come t...

Have you been wondering if today’s technology is making us more self-absorbed? Have you wondered if you or others can be classified as a narcissist because of an obsession with taking selfie’s?Are you worried that you or someone close to you may be a narcissist? Because they always want to be the center of attention?There is a lot of talk and interest centering around narcissism. When you hear the term narcissism, or someone labels a person as a narcissist, what images come t...

Who is the devil you know?Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?Your sadistic high school gym teacher?Your boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings?The colleague who stole your idea and passed it off as her own?In the pages of The Sociopath Next Door, you will realize that your ex was not just misunderstood. He’s a sociopath. And your boss, teacher, and colleague? They may be sociopaths too.We are accusto...

Like Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's groundbreaking On Death and Dying, Susan Anderson's book clearly defines the five phases of a different kind of grieving--grieving over a lost relationship. An experienced professional who has specialized in helping people with loss, heartbreak, and abandonment for more than two decades, Susan Anderson gives this subject the serious attention it deserves. The Journey From Abandonment to Healing

Cognitive therapy, with its clear-cut measurable techniques, has been a welcome innovation in recent years. However, the very specificity that lends itself so well to research and training has minimized the role of the therapeutic relationship, making it difficult for therapists to respond flexibly to different clinical situations. What is needed is an approach that focuses on the underlying mechanisms of therapeutic change, not just on interventions.In this practical and original ...

Originally published in 1948 and used as a textbook by the United States Army for years, this authoritative guide provides a complete theoretical exploration of the purpose and nature of propaganda in times of war. Detailing and defining the history, strategies, limitations, and effectiveness of psychological warfare, this reference allows readers to draw comparisons to the modern usage of such techniques that exist in the news media and within advertising and political campaigns.—Print Ed...

Why are jokes funny? Why do we laugh? In Funny Peculiar, Mikita Brottman demurs from recent scholarship that takes laughter-- and the broader domain of humor and the comical--as a liberating social force and an endearing aspect of self-expression. For Brottman, there is nothing funny about laughter, which is less connected to mirth and feelings of good will than to a nexus of darker emotions: fear, aggression, shame, anxiety.Brottman rethinks not only the mechanisms of hum...

From the psychologist who coined the phrase "healthy dependency"—the first and only book that outlines its four key steps and helps readers understand and use these principles to achieve balance in love, in friendships, with family, and at work.The research is clear: Too much dependency in our relationships can be a bad thing, but too little dependency is just as bad. Healthy dependency—that flexible middle ground between rigid independence and unhealthy overdependence—is the abili...

This is an average person's attempt to define fear for what it is, examine its effects on our cognitive abilities and at the same time come up with a solution to its debilitating nature. I will assume that everyone has had the misfortune of fearing real or imagined threats and I will also rightly assume that the experience itself was unpleasant.When engulfed by fear caused by a certain object, it is not the fear itself that we find crippling because we always pay too much attention...

In this volume, the authors complete the circle begun with Faces in a Cloud (1979) and continued with Structures of Subjectivity (1984) and Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Intersubjective Approach (1987- with Brandchaft). They now extend intersubjectivity theory to a rethinking of the foundational pillars of psychoanalytic theory since they have already demonstrated the degree to which psychological theory is influenced by the subjective world of the psychological t...

Take back control of your life!Do you ever feel as if your emotions run your life? Do you fear to have an episode of crying or anger getting in the way? This likely means that you are out of touch, and therefore, out of control of your emotions.Mental toughness is the ability to tactfully maneuver your life and reaching your goals by honing in on your mind’s capabilities. Being mentally tough means that you can persevere even through the toughest times to r...