Subjects:  1. Case studies    2. Family Psychotherapy    3. Psychology    4. Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior    5. Psychotherapy - Couples & Family   

Subjects:  1. Cognitive Psychology    2. Medical    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Neuroscience    5. Social Psychology    6. Cognition & cognitive psychology    7. Cognitive theory    8. Experimental psychology    9. Medical / Neuroscience    10. Neurosciences    11. Physiological & neuro-psychology    12. Psychology | Cognitive   

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Excerpt from Personnal Psychology Review!
Personnel Psychology, 2003: As you would expect in a comprehensive handbook, there is something for everyone: perspective, techniques, guidelines, conceptual frameworks, research findings, and comprehensive reference lists. It is a genuine portal into the vast interdisciplinary world of consulting psychology for practitioners, academics, researchers, and students. Bon appetit! Stephen Hrop, Personnel Psychology, 2003, p. 785. Comprehensive Book on Organizational Consulting!
Wow! Incredibly comprehensive coverage of topics in organizational consulting. Destined to be a "classic" for years to come. Shows what works and doesn't in organizational consulting. Assessment, interventions, ethics, outcomes--it's all here!

A must read for every consultant.
The 31 chapters organized into 8 sections are a treasure for any one who serves in a consulting role. The text is written for psychologist but is of extraordinary value for consultants in all domains. Of broad interest are the chapters on "Assessing Candidates for Leadership Positions," "Individual Level Variables," "The Effectiveness of Executive Coaching," "Integrating Individual Assessment, Position Requirements, Team-Based Competencies, and Organizational Vision," "Successfully Implementing Teams," "Proactive Ways to Improve Leadership Performance," and two areas on Organizational Performance. Well worth both the price and the time to read it. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Industrial & Organizational Psychology    2. Mental Health    3. Organizational behavior    4. Organizational change    5. Psychology    6. Psychology, Industrial    7. Occupational & industrial psychology    8. Psychology & Psychiatry / Occupational & Industrial Psychology    9. Social, group or collective psychology   

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The Loner's Manifesto
Great book, very enjoyable.I liked the style of writing, presenting the book as a Manifesto.As a "loner," I am continually amazed that "nonloners" can not fathom why anyone would want to be alone.I enjoy my solitude.I enjoy my company.From time to time, I can tolerate and perhaps even enjoy social events.
Lots of dry information
I bought and read this book to feel some solidarity with other introverts who enjoy peace, quiet, nature, books, cooking for themselves, etc.
Loner does NOT mean psychopath!
A great non-fiction read for anyone who tends toward needing alone time.More importantly, a MUST read for those who LIVE with loners!My daughter is a loner (yes, recharges her battery by solitude... and she's not a serial killer nor on antidepressants!)Those of us non-loners (those who enjoy the company of others more frequently,) must learn more about this severely misunderstood group of wonderful, creative, witty and inwardly strong people who would just rather stay home than go out with friends.Teachers, therapists, clergy...please, please consider this book for "the antisocials" in your care. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Individuality    2. Interpersonal Relations    3. Introversion    4. Personality    5. Psychology    6. Self    7. Social Psychology    8. Social aspects   

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A fascinating collection of articles
Which brain mechanisms are involved in the typical social interactions that humans engage in everyday life? To what extent are these interactions determined by the dynamical processes in the human brain? Are there separate areas or modules in the brain responsible for these interactions, and what happens when these modules become dysfunctional? These questions, along with many more, are addressed in this collection of articles, which are written for experts in cognitive neuroscience. However, non-experts, such as this reviewer, can profit from a perusal of the articles, even if they have only an understanding of the basic rudiments of cognitive neuroscience. Only twenty-six of these articles were read by this reviewer, and for lack of space just a few of these will be reviewed here.
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Subjects:  1. Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology    2. Medical    3. Neurology - General    4. Neuropsychology    5. Neuroscience    6. Neurosciences    7. Psychiatry - General    8. Psychology    9. Science    10. Social Psychology    11. Social aspects    12. Medical / Neuroscience    13. Social, group or collective psychology   

Subjects:  1. Forensic Psychology    2. Psychology    3. Social Psychology    4. Psychology & Psychiatry / Social Psychology    5. Social, group or collective psychology   

Subjects:  1. Mental Illness    2. Psychiatric Social Work    3. Psychology    4. Psychotherapy - Group    5. Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare    6. Social Group Work    7. Social Work    8. Sociology    9. Counselling    10. Psychology & Psychiatry / Counseling    11. Social issues    12. Social, group or collective psychology   

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A Challenge for the Church
Richard Sipe's study of how celibacy is lived providea challenge to the Church and to celibates themselves.The issues that Sipe raises uncovers the need on the part of the Roman Catholic Church to become engaged in the issues of celibate living from the beginning of a priest's training in the seminary to ongoing formation throughout his life.Read more

Subjects:  1. Catholic Church    2. Celibacy    3. Christianity - Pastoral Ministry    4. Clergy    5. General    6. Psychology    7. Religion    8. Roman Catholic Doctrinal Theology (General)    9. Sexual behavior    10. Christian life & practice    11. Psychology & Psychiatry / Human Sexuality    12. Sexual behaviour    13. Social, group or collective psychology   

Subjects:  1. Case studies    2. Family psychotherapy    3. Framo, James L    4. General    5. Psychology    6. Psychotherapy - Counseling    7. Psychotherapy - Couples & Family    8. Webber family    9. Weber, Timothy T    10. Family & relationships    11. Levine, Felise B    12. Psychology & Psychiatry / Family Therapy    13. Psychotherapy    14. Social, group or collective psychology   

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Simmel: a German intellectual
A good collection of Simmel's important essays, especially the parts from Philosophy of Money are useful, but it also carries the weaknesses of its original author.Whether you call it impressionistic sociology or whatever, it lacks explanatory vigour, and in so far as philosophical insight is concerned it is not good enough for a devoted philosopher.We know that Simmel's interests span a wide range of domains, and if this is a strength it is also a major source of weakness in his case.

Impressionist Sociology!
Georg Simmel's social thought having being neglected for several decades, experiences a revival since the early nineties. A reason for this may be traced in his "gifted" - almost literary - style and in hisbreadth and vision regarding the state of modern urban culture.Thecollection of Simmel essays assembled in this volume by Donald Levine,covers a wide variety of the topics with which Simmel was preoccupiedduring his lifetime.One will find here Simmel's seminal work on socialtypes, particularly on the "stranger" and the "poor".Simmel's brilliant essays on the "conflict in modern culture",the "tragedy of culture" and on the modern metropolis areincluded constituting essential reading for those who apart from asociological perspective wish also to gain an aesthetic view of socialreality.Simmel's intellectual roots are manifold. One can trace them backto Kant and Hegel but equally to the existentialist thinkers Schopenhauerand Nietzsche.Many of the arguments raised by Simmel in these essays bearthe marks of the aforementioned philosophers while others sound incrediblyrelevant for today's (post)modern culture (for example the essay on"fashion" and on the "conflict in modern culture". Thereader of this volume is introduced to Simmel's thought through anexcellent and scholarly essay by D.Levine which also locates Simmel'ssociologyin the American intellectual context (i.e Parsons and Park). This collection has become a classic among Simmel scholars and it providesessential reading for sociologists and philosophers alike. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Addresses, essays, lectures    2. Social psychology    3. Sociology    4. Sociology - General    5. Social Science / Sociology / General    6. Social, group or collective psychology    7. Sociology, Social Studies   

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A liberal genius trip
Kenneth E. Boulding did not just write this book. He also used it as a text for an evening course which contained a large number of adult students ("More than half the students had fulltime jobs in a great variety of fields" p. 258), and he asked each student to review the book. Fall of 1989 was such a modern time, most of them were subject to "the very act of thinking about power in our lives and experiences creates a process of revelation and self-analysis that may even make us look at ourselves in a new light. The internal search for the way in which the various forms of power have been exercised by a person and upon a person may have effects resembling a mild psychoanalysis." (p. 259). Though this book does not suggest that anyone should try to write a review before reading the book, a comment, "we miss a great opportunity in our teaching by not encouraging students to read--and write--reviews, which sometimes save us the time it would take to read the book." (p. 260). I have often spent more time reading a book than writing a review, but the larger share of my time has been devoted to ranting and raving about power issues on which I have firmly made up my mind, and my surprise that others are not in the same boat, on the same trip.Read more

Subjects:  1. General    2. Political Science    3. Politics/International Relations    4. Reference    5. Social Psychology    6. Sociology    7. Sociology - General    8. Economics    9. Political Science / General    10. Political Science-General    11. Political science & theory    12. Power (Social sciences)    13. Psychology-Social Psychology    14. Social Science / Sociology / General   

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Great Resource for Researchers
This is a terrific compilation of research into nonverbal communication. It is a thoroughly sourced review of writings on nonverbal topics, tending toward a psychological, academic tone.
Classic work in the field of nonverbal communication
Dr. Knapp has been a distinguished scholar in the field of communication for the past 35 years. This is a very small sampling of his honors: He is a Fellow of the International Communication Association and has served as its President. He received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Speech Communication Association in l993 and served as President of that association in l989-90. Dr. Knapp is the author of many articles and several books besides this one, including: Interpersonal Communication and Human Relationships (with A. Vangelisti) and Handbook of Interpersonal Communication (with G. Miller). Dr. Knapp has acted as consultant, lecturer, and trainer for over fifty different business organizations, voluntary groups, and government agencies. He is currently a Professor in the Communication Department at the University of Texas at Austin. ... Let's "talk" nonverbally!
It's enough to read the table of contents - and you're amazed, astonished of possibilities to communicate without the words! I just can't imagine how it would be to read the whole book... Super, turbo, extra, lux! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Body language    2. Communication    3. General    4. Language    5. Language Arts & Disciplines    6. Social Psychology    7. Sociology    8. Speech    9. Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication    10. Social, group or collective psychology    11. Sociolinguistics   

Editorial Review

One hundred years ago social scientists predicted that belief in God would decrease by the year 2000. "In fact ... the opposite is has occurred," Shermer writes in his introduction. "Never in history have so many, and such a high percentage of the population, believed in God. Not only is God not dead as Nietzche proclaimed, but he has never been more alive."Read more

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Fascinating Look at god Belief
How We Believe is a nice read--very informative, often fascinating, and very timely.Written in a straightforward style somewhere between Dawkins and Sam Harris, How We Believe should be read right along with The God Delusion and Letter to a Christian Nation.Mr. Shermer publishes some very interesting information about the general characteristics of "believers" in the U.S. and who are those most likely to have no god belief.He does a nice job of succinctly describing messiah myths and the endemic nature of "end-times" thinking in cultures throughout the world.
Personable, interesting, but sloppy and unpersuasive.
Having just finished two other books by skeptics (Sam Harris and Pascal Boyer) who want to explain and / or abolish religion, Shermer's easy style and cheerful approach were a welcome change of pace.Sure, he meanders a bit, but in the process covers many interesting topics, and offers some great quotes.Unlike Harris or Boyer, Shermer is not afraid to credit faith with good influence on occasion (making his argument far more credible), and he has a pretty decent grounding, overall, in Christianity, the "orthodoxy" he goes after most often.(Though he also discusses the Bible Code, NDEs, Ghost Dances, Nation of Islam, and other Messianic cults -- most of which I found fascinating.) I also liked the last chapter, on Steven Jay Gould and historical contingency -- the butterfly effect.As an historian, I think the theory helps explain both the pattern of Chinese dynastic power, and the way schools of thought mix as they form, then congeal into orthodoxies.
Shermer did it again
Michael Shermer is awesome, thats pretty much all there is too it.
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Subjects:  1. Faith and reason    2. General    3. Philosophy & Social Aspects    4. Religion    5. Religion & Science    6. Religion - Socialissues    7. Religion And Science    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Social Psychology    10. Theism   

Subjects:  1. Psychology    2. Social Psychology    3. Psychology & Psychiatry / Social Psychology    4. Social, group or collective psychology   

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One of the best book on communication
A very intresting book.After I have got this book, I acquired all the other books by the author and found that this book is probably his best one.A must read for those who are interested in knowing the interactions between communication and paradoxical psychotherapy.
A great bridge between psychology and mathematic
I bought the book wanting to know something more about the world of communication and was delighted to find references to my youth interests: logics and mathematic and to my more recent one: spirituality. What was of a particular interest, even if it might be considered a bit partial, was the importance the authors put on paradoxes both as the root for patology and cure. In this latter respect references are given to zen sayings and their relationships to actual therapeuthical episodes.
A surprising great, readable, and useful academic work
This book has the trappings of a typical academic, scholarly work, with ten zillion references and each chapter broken down into sections (1.1, 1.2, etc.) discussing a specific topic in each section.By section 1.2 (not far into the book!), I was becoming put off, because the author launched into a discussing of "the mathematical concept of functions."As I "sat through" this explanation, I was wondering "why the hell am I reading about mathematical function in a book titled the Pragmatics of Communication."Still, I stuck with it, and later in the book, the author tied everything together.I stuck with it because the book is so readable, and the points the author makes are so eye-opening, that I truly enjoyed reading it.I suspect you will, to, regardless of the level of your interest in academic or scholarly works!One thing about a great book - you get an appetite for more!Unfortunately, based on other reviewers comments, other Watzlawick works do not rise to the level shown here, so if you have to chose one, chose this one! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Communication    2. General    3. Reference    4. Communication Studies    5. Social, group or collective psychology   

Subjects:  1. Communication    2. Interpersonal Communication    3. Interpersonal Relations    4. Language    5. Language Arts & Disciplines    6. Sociology    7. Sociology - General    8. Communication Studies    9. Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication    10. Marriage, family & other relationships    11. Social, group or collective psychology   

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Do something. Now decide what have you done.
Weick in his brillant book shows how different is organizational practice from what we try to believe in. He suggests a completely different from traditional approach to organizations - he claims, that in organizations people attach sense to their actions AFTER they perform them, but afterwards try to reason they 'had decided' before. Unclear as it may seem, it is pretty easy to grasp from the book.Weick also develops a notion of 'organizing' rather than 'organizations' and shows how processes are important in describing actions performed by organizational actors.The book is old, but is worth studying for researchers, scholars and even the consultants.

A grammar for understanding
Weick book is based on a few simple principles: organising is a kind or reiterated, continuous, evolutionary process of interaction. All kind of simple theories on processes are true, most of all the process of callingsomething "true". Its is true because it has been called so. Ourgoal: reduce equivocality, equivocality introduced by (external) changes. The book contains examples, case studies, facts, theories and cartoons onthe way we organize organizations. It has even picture you may finishyourself! Somebody stole my edition years ago - or thought i had agreed ona long lease contract -, and that book was loaded with annotation, dirtyand used. Need i say more?

The best book on organizations that I have ever read
Of all the books on my shelf referring to organizational life, Weick's classic is the only one in which almost all the pages are highlighted in yellow!This book is superb.Not only does it provide provocative fodderfor discussion amongst academics, it rings true with managers who haveexperienced organizational life in all its dimensions.It is a must-readfor anyone who is a student of organizations or for anyone who wishes tosucceed within them.And since organizations pervade our lives,understanding them better translates readily into making sense of the oftenoverwhelming complexity and contradiction they create. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Organizational sociology    2. Psychology    3. Social Psychology    4. Sociology    5. Sociology - General    6. Psychology & Psychiatry / Social Psychology    7. Social, group or collective psychology   

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Boring...but
Do we need a dictionary of network formulae and methods? This is an excruciatingly futile book if you seek ideas or clarity. But it does have a value as a compendium of math stuff for those who occasionally need a formal reference.
relatively useless
This book is basically a compilation of different things, most of them pretty useless. In particular, all the mathematical part is in view of the recent developments of network theory, totally obsolete. It seems a better investment to buy a network theory book or a "real" sociology book.

Understanding graph theory in many scenarios.
This book is supported in graph theory, the authors make a comprehensively use of matrix techniqueand short formulas for explaining how social groups are associated.
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Subjects:  1. Methodology    2. Research    3. Social Science    4. Social networks    5. Sociology    6. Sociology - General    7. Sociology - Social Theory    8. Social Science / Sociology / General    9. Social networks--Research--Methodology    10. Social research & statistics    11. Social, group or collective psychology   

Subjects:  1. Emotions    2. Movements - General    3. Positive psychology    4. Psychology    5. Psychology & Psychiatry / Social Psychology    6. Psychology | Health   

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Great tool for working with kids!
This is a great book for counselors and therapists who work with children.It has both a narrative and solution focused approach to helping children overcome their problems.I like the way it helps adults relate to children on their level - the level of play.A book all school counselors should have on their shelf.

Useful techniques but not grounded in real life practice
I would be more than happy to give this book a five star review but for a few key, significant complaints about narrative therapy. The main one is that no therapeutic failures are ever presented in narrative texts (including this one). This leads me to wonder if the authors' political, or politically correct, agenda is not more important than the clinical aspect of the work. Helpful and well writen
Provides original solutions to tough and common problems. I found that I was able to apply the concepts and suggestions, both personally, and in my practice, effortlessly. I bought it for every therapist I knew. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Child Psychiatry    2. Child psychotherapy    3. Family psychotherapy    4. Metaphor    5. Narrative therapy    6. Pediatrics    7. Play Therapy    8. Psychology    9. Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior    10. Psychotherapy - Couples & Family    11. Therapeutic use    12. Psychiatry    13. Psychotherapy    14. Social, group or collective psychology