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Introduction to Neural and Cognitive Modeling: 3rd Edition
By Daniel S. Levine. 2018
This textbook provides a general introduction to the field of neural networks. Thoroughly revised and updated from the previous editions…
of 1991 and 2000, the current edition concentrates on networks for modeling brain processes involved in cognitive and behavioral functions. Part one explores the philosophy of modeling and the field’s history starting from the mid-1940s, and then discusses past models of associative learning and of short-term memory that provide building blocks for more complex recent models. Part two of the book reviews recent experimental findings in cognitive neuroscience and discusses models of conditioning, categorization, category learning, vision, visual attention, sequence learning, behavioral control, decision making, reasoning, and creativity. The book presents these models both as abstract ideas and through examples and concrete data for specific brain regions. The book includes two appendices to help ground the reader: one reviewing the mathematics used in network modeling, and a second reviewing basic neuroscience at both the neuron and brain region level. The book also includes equations, practice exercises, and thought experiments.Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and Adolescent Development: Non-Linear Perspectives on the Regulation of the Self
By Harold K. Bendicsen. 2019
Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and Adolescent Development: Non-Linear Perspectives on the Regulation of the Self explores how psychoanalysis can combine its theoretical…
perspectives with more recent discoveries about neurological and non-linear developmental processes that unfold during the period of puberty to young adulthood, to help inform understanding of contemporary adolescent behaviours and mental health issues. With the powerful impact of neuroscience research findings, opportunities emerge to create a new paradigm to attempt to organize specific psychoanalytic theories. Neurobiological regulation offers such an opportunity. By combining elements of domains of compatible knowledge into a flexible explanatory synergy, the potential for an intellectually satisfying theoretical framework can be created. In this work, Harold Bendicsen formulates a multi-disciplinary theoretical approach involving current research and drawing on neuroscience to consider the behaviour regulation processes of the mind/brain and the capacities and potential it brings to understanding the development of adolescents and young adults. Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and Adolescent Development advances Bendicsen’s study of adolescence and the transition to young adulthood, begun in The Transformational Self. It will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, as well as psychologists, clinical social workers, psychiatrists and counsellors.Principles of Effective Parenting: How Socialization Works
By Joan E. Grusec. 2019
Grounded in pioneering research, this authoritative text examines the parenting strategies that help children and adolescents develop into productive, happy…
members of society. Joan Grusec gives students and practitioners a roadmap for navigating the vast, seemingly contradictory literature on parenting. Rather than advocating one "best" style of parent–child interaction, Grusec identifies five domains of socialization and shows that different ways of responding to children are appropriate for each one. Chapters on each domain--protection, reciprocity, control, guided learning, and group participation--combine theory, empirical findings, cross-cultural considerations, and real-world applications. Personal recollections from culturally diverse young adults illustrate how parents helped impart important life lessons. Learning exercises present examples of children's behavior and invite the reader to select the most effective parenting action from several possible options.Discovering Françoise Dolto: Psychoanalysis, Identity and Child Development
By Kathleen Saint-Onge. 2020
This psychobiographical study of the renowned French pediatrician and psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto introduces both her theories of child development and…
her unique insights into language and identity. A friend of Jacques Lacan’s, Dolto believed that we are all humanized through language, and that the words we use carry unconscious traces of our early histories of love, suffering and desire. Suggesting that infants unconsciously symbolize and that a continuous circulation of unconscious affects—the transference—prevails in all language-based relations, her findings challenge assumptions about autism, autobiography, linguistics, literacy, pedagogy and therapy. Dolto’s own corpus—a rich archive blending the personal and professional—demonstrates this, with echoes between Dolto’s constructs about the child and her own challenging childhood. This fascinating book will not only introduce the work of Françoise Dolto to many readers, but will be a valuable resource for all psychoanalytic researchers and theorists interested in childhood, language and identity.Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change
By Matt Wallaert. 2019
Nudge meets Hooked in a practical approach to designing products and services that change behavior, from what we buy to…
how we work.Deciding what to create at modern companies often looks like an episode of Mad Men: people throw ideas around until one sounds sexy enough to execute and then they scale it to everyone. The result? Companies overspend on marketing to drive engagement with products and services that people don't want and won't help them be happier and healthier.Start at the End offers a new framework for design, grounded in behavioral science. Technology executive and behavioral scientist Matt Wallaert argues that the purpose of everything is behavior change. By starting with outcomes instead of processes, the most effective companies understand what people want to do and why they aren't already doing it, then build products and services to bridge the gap.Wallaert is a behavioral psychologist who has led product design at organizations ranging from startups like Clover Health to industry leaders such as Microsoft. Whether dissecting the success behind Uber's ridesharing service or Flamin' Hot Cheetos, he underscores with clarity and humor how this approach can improve the way we work and live. This is an essential roadmap for building products that matter--and changing behavior for the better.Public Probity and Corruption in Chile (Routledge Corruption and Anti-Corruption Studies)
By Patricio Silva. 2019
In most Latin American countries, key officials and political figures have been involved in big corruption scandals in the last…
decade, leading to a rigorous academic debate on the possible socio-economic, political and cultural factors responsible for corrupt practices across the region. This book takes a different approach by focusing on Chile, which shows the lowest levels of corruption in the region. Instead of analysing notoriously bad cases in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela, this book explores the factors which have led to a relatively high degree of public probity among power holders in Chile. Public Probity and Corruption in Chile presents a long-term historical analysis demonstrating that public probity in Chile has its roots in the colonial period, and that public and state responses have historically shown a low level of tolerance for public cases of corruption. In particular, the author highlights the role played by relative poverty and lack of resources, geographical remoteness, the impact of the Arauco War against the Mapuche people, the militarisation of both government and public administration, the extreme oligarchic nature of the Chilean aristocracy, the early consolidation of state institutions and the rule of law, high levels of political stability and the role played by patriotism. Studying an example of better practice in detail in this way provides valuable insights into the factors and actors which can help to prevent or to revert the phenomenon of public corruption in the region more generally. As such, this book will be of interest to researchers of corruption and public probity both in Chile and further afield.Cognitieve gedragstherapie bij: Baas over obesitas (Kind en adolescent praktijkreeks)
By Leonie Van Ginkel, Sjoukje Adema. 2019
Dit boek geeft therapeuten uitleg over de behandeling van jongeren met obesitas door cognitieve gedragstherapie. Het doel van de behandeling…
is een duurzaam gezonde leefstijl voor het hele gezin. Het protocol is geschreven als groepsbehandeling, maar kan ook individueel worden gebruikt. Het boek is bedoeld voor therapeuten, psychologen en psychiaters in en buiten de kinder- en jeugdpsychiatrie.Cognitieve gedragstherapie bij (LVB-)jongeren met obesitas (van 15 tot 23 jaar) bestaat uit twee delen. Het eerste deel is de theoretische onderbouwing van de behandeling. Dit deel bevat wetenschappelijke inzichten en pragmatische aspecten van de diagnostiek en behandeling van obesitas bij jongeren. Het tweede deel bestaat uit een praktische handleiding voor de behandeling: achttien bijeenkomsten en vier boosterbijeenkomsten, die concreet worden uitgewerkt. Daarnaast worden vier ouderbijeenkomsten beschreven. In de behandeling staan cognitieve gedragstherapie, systeemtherapie en positieve psychologie centraal. Het boek bevat ook werkvormen voor psychomotorische therapie. Bij de handleiding hoort het werkboek voor jongeren, Baas over obesitas. Hierin staan duidelijke uitleg, aantrekkelijke werkvormen en handige registratielijsten. Door het concrete werkboek en de opbouw van de bijeenkomsten, is het protocol ook geschikt voor jongeren met een licht verstandelijke beperking. Cognitieve gedragstherapie bij (LVB-)jongeren met obesitas is geschreven door Leonie van Ginkel, gezondheidszorgpsycholoog, cognitief gedragstherapeut en supervisor VGCt, en Sjoukje Adema, cognitief gedragstherapeutisch werker VGCt.The New Normal: Pressures on Technical Communication Programs in the Age of Austerity (Baywood's Technical Communications)
By Denise Tillery, Ed Nagelhout. 2015
As colleges and universities across the country continue to deal with regular decreases in state funding, technical communication programs, in…
particular, are being forced to "do more with less." As budget cuts become the new normal, the long-term health of technical communication depends on our ability to evolve and adapt to an array of internal, external, and technological pressures. The New Normal: Pressures on Technical Communication Programs in the Age of Austerity explores the ways technical communication programs are responding to conditions of economic austerity and investigates how smaller programs, or programs situated in smaller institutions, use increasingly limited resources to meet the challenges of increased student demand, the responsibilities of teaching service courses effectively, the technological demands for online education, and the constant pressure to prepare our students appropriately for the ever-changing needs of the job market in technical communication. More specifically, the contributors to this collection are overtly conscious of the marginalized/peripheral status of technical communication programs within both small and large institutions. This awareness allows them to articulate specific ways that austerity has had a direct, and local, effect on a particular technical communication program and to describe short- and long-term strategies for creating sustainable futures for a technical communication program, despite cuts and marginalization.Sadness, Depression, and the Dark Night of the Soul: Transcending the Medicalisation of Sadness
By Glòria Durà-Vilà. 2003
This ground-breaking book contemplates how some religious individuals and communities conceptualise severe sadness and emotional distress, which might otherwise be…
described as pathological, as an essential ingredient for spiritual development. It explores the implications this may have for clergy and psychiatrists seeking to understand sadness.The author uses her popular columns from The Independent to explore the therapeutic process. Successful analysis, she argues, is less…
about following pre-formulated theory and more about being led by the experience of what is actually happening.Understanding Religion and Spirituality in Clinical Practice is a volume in the clinical practice monograph series from the Society of…
Analytical Psychology. This series is intended primarily for trainees on psychotherapy and psychodynamic counselling courses, and for those who are newly qualified. Here, the author considers the difficulties clinicians may encounter when patients talk about God or about their spiritual life, and how necessary it is for therapists to examine their own image of God and their own understanding of spirituality, so that they can distinguish these from those of their patients. She emphasizes how varied are people's images and understanding of what "God" stands for, and how in healthy development these will change over time. The book demonstrates, through numerous clinical vignettes, how clinicians can understand a patient's talking about religion or about God - hearing the voice of God, having a vision of God, or being convinced that God wants them to act in a particular way; or, equally, seeing the Devil.Vital Signs: Psychological Responses to Ecological Crisis
By Nick Totton, Mary-Jayne Rust. 2012
This anthology illustrates the range and diversity of responses from the psychological world to the multiple ecological crises with which…
our society is faced. “Vital signs” are the basic physiological measures of functioning which health practitioners use to assess how ill a patient is. This book focuses not on our physical predicament, with so many of the earth’s systems severely stressed and beginning to fail, but on our psychological predicament. As news of this very serious situation slowly penetrates our defences, we struggle as individuals and as a society to find an adequate response.Waiting To Be Found: Papers on Children in Care (Tavistock Clinic Series)
By Andrew Briggs. 2012
This book explores the importance of relationship between child and care system, child and clinician or other practitioner, practitioners with…
practitioners, or individuals with the organisation in which they work. It presents the analytic and multifaceted centrality of relationship concept.Thinking of Becoming a Counsellor?
By Jonathan Ingrams. 2012
If you are thinking of becoming a counsellor, you may be wondering if you could put to good use your…
own life experience by offering support and understanding to those trying to cope with difficulties that you may have encountered and worked through yourself. The ancient Greek aphorism "know thyself" is immensely important in this regard. For unless counsellors are in harmony with themselves they cannot truly relate to the needs of those they seek to help. It is not enough for the counsellor to play the role of the therapist. He or she has to be the therapist - a very different concept. This book explores the journeys of self-discovery that prompted the pioneering practitioners to direct their skills in particular ways and the influence exerted by their backgrounds, ambitions, and personal histories. The overall objective is to help intending therapists to arrive at an understanding of the inner resources they will need to embark on a counselling career, and to help them determine which approach might best accord with their temperament and lifetime's experience.Thought Paralysis: The Virtues of Discrimination (Exploring Psycho-social Studies)
By Farhad Dalal. 2012
Given the enormous struggles, efforts and money expended on the equalities enterprise, why has more progress not been made? And…
further, why have things actually become worse in some circumstances? It is argued this has occurred because:- The values of Equality have been bureaucratized, allowing the liberal principle of "live and let live" to be perverted and put in the service of fear and control.- The Diversity discourse has been hijacked by the libertarians and put in the service of increasing profit, under the guise of liberty and inclusivity.- The equality movements have become apolitical, sidetracked into the project of the indiscriminate celebration and preservation of cultures, in lieu of challenging the status quo within cultures as much as between them.- The versions of psychology and sociology that the equality movements have drawn on are over simpleThe Transactional Analyst in Action: Clinical Seminars
By Michele Novellino. 2012
This book represents a synthesis of more than thirty years dedicated to the spreading and teaching of transactional analysis, and…
will be useful to students, directors and professors of the schools of transactional analysis, and also to therapists of other schools, providing an up-to-date and complete idea of the current state of the analytic transactional methodology. The handbook describes the epistemological and methodological roots for a well-grounded psychotherapy with transactional analysis (TA): differences among method, methodology, therapeutic plan, and strategy and technique are all illustrated. TA is presented as a phenomenological branch of modern relational psychoanalysis. Transference and counter-transference are reconsidered in a Bernean perspective. The four strategic phases of alliance, decontamination, deconfusion, and relearning are presented, together with the well-known techniques of the eight Bernean therapeutic operations, two and three-chairs work, redecision technique, and dream-work.This book looks at dreams from a twenty-first century perspective. It takes its inspiration from Freud's insights, but pursues psychoanalytic…
interest into both neuroscience and the modern psychoanalytic consulting room. The book looks at laboratory research on dreaming alongside the modern clinical use of dreams and links together clinical and empirical research, integrating classical ideas with the plurality of psychoanalytic theoretical constructs available to modern researchers. Psychoanalysts writing about dreams have traditionally represented the cutting edge of clinical and theoretical development, and this book is no exception. Many of the contributions, as well as the epistemological position taken by the writers, represent a kind of radical openness to new ways of thinking about the clinical situation and about theory. In line with the ambition of the editors, this volume represents an integration of theories and disciplines, and a scientific context for modern psychoanalysis. The link between clinical research and extraclinical research via the royal road of dreaming is a theme that runs through all the contributions.The book argues the case for the usefulness of an empirically based understanding of the internal world of juvenile sex…
offenders as a way of humanely relating to their difficulties. It details the extent and nature of juvenile sex offending and its impact on victims and provides an extensive psychoanalytically oriented description of this offender group. The background of these offenders is examined, focusing on their experience of abuse, especially sexual abuse. Attention is paid to the unique characteristics of these offenders, particularly their attachment difficulties. The value of attachment theory and the concepts of psychopathy and malignant narcissism are then explored as a means of viewing their internal world. This internal world is also viewed through an empirical lens, which reveals them to have impaired psychic representations of human relationship, different needs for relationship and, in the most psychopathic group, an obfuscation of that need. The implications of these findings are then considered and the application of these understandings of their internal world is then explored.The Language of Drawings: A New Finding in Psychodynamic Work
By A. H. Brafman. 2012
If a person is struggling with feeling that involve pain or anxiety, then we find a complex network of difficulties…
affecting that person's capacity to express what torments him. Whatever the person's age, they very often have no access to the words that might convey their internal conflicts. People interacting with that person may believe he is deliberately refusing to express what affects him, but it is certainly true that most times this is not the case. When dealing with children, these difficulties are even more acute. However, children often express in their drawings elements of the conflicts they are experiencing in themselves and the world in which they live. The author applied these findings in his work - not only with children and adolescents, but at times also with adults.This fascinating book arose from the discovery that single drawings could at times represent only a part of an underlying emotional experience that "completed" its expression in another picture drawn after that first one.The Historical and Philosophical Context of Rational Psychotherapy: The Legacy of Epictetus
By Windy Dryden, Arthur Still. 2012
This book brings together the papers written by the authors over the last fifteen years on the historical and philosophical…
foundations of Albert Ellis' Rational Psychotherapy (later Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, REBT) and its relationship to Stoicism, especially the later practical form represented by Epictetus. It goes beneath the well known similarities between Stoic "spiritual exercises" and modern psychotherapy, to look at the cause of these similarities. These lie in the conceptual continuities that connect the Stoics and other ancient philosophies with the modern cultural framework underlying psychotherapy.