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• Preference, reason and agency
• Freedom of choice: source and leeway
• Reason, preference and freedom

• Preface: The Unwelcome Guest
• What Is the Super-Ego?
• Did Freud Discover the Super-Ego?
• The Super-Ego's Public History 1: Nietzsche
• The Super-Ego's Public History 2: Arendt
• The Personal History of the Super-Ego
• The Future of the Super-Ego
• Super-Ego Dreams
• The Post-Modern Super-Ego
• Death and the Super-Ego
• Politics and the Super-Ego 1: Hypnotized!
• Politics and the Super-Ego 2: Social Justice
• Politics and the Super-Ego 3: The Blessed and the Damned
• Are the Kids Alright?
• Identity!
• Super-Ego Drugs: Adderall and Amphetamines
• Internet!
• The Super-Ego and the Sense of Time
• Beauty and the Super-Ego
• Patriarchy and the Super-Ego
• The Super-Ego and Race
• Crack a Joke
• Get Lucky
• Get Drunk
• Take a Pill
• Get Religion
• Get a Shrink 1
• Get a Shrink 2
• Embrace the Ideals
• Bibliographic Essay

• Preface: The Unwelcome Guest
• What Is the Super-Ego?
• Did Freud Discover the Super-Ego?
• The Super-Ego's Public History 1: Nietzsche
• The Super-Ego's Public History 2: Arendt
• The Personal History of the Super-Ego
• The Future of the Super-Ego
• Super-Ego Dreams
• The Post-Modern Super-Ego
• Death and the Super-Ego
• Politics and the Super-Ego 1: Hypnotized!
• Politics and the Super-Ego 2: Social Justice
• Politics and the Super-Ego 3: The Blessed and the Damned
• Are the Kids Alright?
• Identity!
• Super-Ego Drugs: Adderall and Amphetamines
• Internet!
• The Super-Ego and the Sense of Time
• Beauty and the Super-Ego
• Patriarchy and the Super-Ego
• The Super-Ego and Race
• Crack a Joke
• Get Lucky
• Get Drunk
• Take a Pill
• Get Religion
• Get a Shrink 1
• Get a Shrink 2
• Embrace the Ideals
• Bibliographic Essay

"Cancellation, scapegoating, raving on Twitter. How did the Internet, which began as a place for open thought and exchange, become a forum for cruelty and judgment? Can a whole culture become mentally ill? How do we understand and respond to this problem? Mark Edmundson views contemporary culture and discourse through Freud's concept of the super-ego, the moralistic and frequently irrational inner judge. The poet William Blake was attuned to this "dark pressure of self-condemnation," and Nietzsche knew its power as well. One way to mitigate (temporarily) the self-judgment of the super-ego is to aim it outward instead, judging and even punishing others for supposed infractions. Naturally these targets fight back, resulting in a cascade of bitterness and even hatred. Edmundson traces the destructive passion of the super-ego on politics, race, gender, class, education, and more, drawing on psychological studies, classroom experience, and the work of Adam Phillips and Slavoj Žižek. Edmundson proposes ways to manage the super-ego and even to transform it into an affirmative power"-- Amazon

"A book that invites you to listen more closely to the beepers, bells, and buzzers that have shaped modern minds"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• Horror stories
• Healing stories
• How to stand up
• Keeping an anthology [of both, but in order]

"An Anthology of Monsters by Cherie Dimaline, award-winning Métis author of The Marrow Thieves, is the tale of an intricate dance with life-long anxiety. It is about how the stories we tell ourselves--both the excellent and the horrible--can help reshape the ways in which we think, cope, and ultimately survive. Using examples from her published and forthcoming books, from her mère, and from her own late night worry sessions, Dimaline choreographs a deeply personal narrative about all the ways in which we cower and crush through stories. Witches emerge as figures of misfortune but also empowerment, and the fearsome Rougarou inspires obedience, but also belonging and responsibility. Dimaline reveals how to collect and curate these stories, how they elicit difficult and beautiful conversations, and how family and community is a place of refuge and strength."-- Provided by the publisher

• Introduction: Adolescent and Young Adult Development in a Changing World Lisa J. Crockett, Gustavo Carlo, John E. Schulenberg Part I. Biological Underpinnings Chapter 1. Puberty: Foundations, Findings, and the Future Lorah D. Dorn and Adriene M. Beltz Chapter 2. Brain Development During Adolescence and Early Adulthood Amanda E. Guyer, Sarah J. Beard, and Joseph S. Venticinque Chapter 3. Gene-Environment Interplay in Adolescence and Early Adulthood Jenae M. Neiderhiser and Tong Chen Chapter 4. Stress and Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Activity in Adolescence and Early Adulthood Emma K. Adam, Sarah Collier Villaume, Sara Thomas, Leah D. Doane, and Kathryn Grant Part II. Cognition, Emotion, and Social Cognition Chapter 5. Cognition in Adolescence and the Transition to Adulthood Daniel P. Keating, Michael I. Demidenko, and Dominic P. Kelly Chapter 6. Emotion Regulation Processes as Transdiagnostic in Adolescence and Early Adulthood: A Neuro-bioecological Systems Framework Jeffrey Liew, Amanda Sheffield Morris, and Kara L. Kerr Chapter 7. Decision Making in Adolescence and Early Adulthood Sarah M. Edelson and Valerie F. Reyna Chapter 8. Moral Cognition in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood Daniel Lapsley, Emily LaPorte, Katheryn Kelley Chapter 9. Fifty Years of Longitudinal Research into Identity Development in Adolescence and Early Adulthood: An Overview Wim Meeus
• Chapter 10. When Fairness and Group Loyalty Conflict: Social Exclusion, Prejudice, and Bias in Adolescence and Early Adulthood Kelly Lynn Mulvey, Aline Hitti, and Melanie Killen Part III. Social Contexts of Development Chapter 11. Studying Families as Systems in Adolescence and Early Adulthood Kimberly A. Updegraff and Norma J. Perez-Brena Chapter 12. The Parenting of Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States Andrea Hussong, Allegra Midgette, and Drew Rothenberg Chapter 13. An International Perspective on Parenting and Family Influences on Adolescents and Young Adults Jennifer E. Lansford, Liane PeNa Alampay, and Paul Oburu Chapter 14. The Prominence of Peer Interactions, Relationships, and Networks in Adolescence and Early Adulthood RenE Veenstra and Lydia Laninga-Wijnen Chapter 15. Romantic Relationships in Adolescence and Early Adulthood Jennifer Connolly, Samuel Shulman, and Katherine Benvenuto Chapter 16. Patterns and Correlates of Sexual Well-Being in Adolescence and Early Adulthood Carolyn T. Halpern Chapter 17. Schooling from Adolescence through Young Adulthood Aprile D. Benner and Robert Crosnoe Chapter 18. Consequences of Adolescent Employment for Young Adult Development Jeremy Staff, Brittany N. Freelin, and Jeylan T. Mortimer Chapter 19. Socially Networked Lives: How Adolescents and Young Adults Engage with Social Media and What It Means for Their Relationships and Adjustment Marion K. Underwood, Madeleine J. George, and Kaitlyn Burnell Part IV.Diversity in Adolescence and the Transition to Adulthood Chapter 20. Culturally and Contextually Informed Perspectives on Latinx Adolescent and Young Adult Development Rebecca M. B. White, Rajni L. Nair, and Claudia A. Vega Chapter 21. African American and Black Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States: Development in Context Dawn P. Witherspoon, Wei Wei, Tiyobista Maereg, Daphney Chancy, and Saskia Boggs Chapter 22. Development Against the Backdrop of the Model Minority Myth: Strengths and Vulnerabilities Among Asian American Adolescents and Young Adults Tiffany Yip, Milou Haskin, Jillianne Fowle, Mingjun Xie, Yuen Mi Cheon, Pak See Ip, and Shubarna Akhter Chapter 23. Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Stephen T. Russell and Armin A. Dorri Chapter 24. The Promises and Challenges of Using an Intersectional Framework to Study Identity Development During Adolescence and Early Adulthood Margarita Azmitia, Paulette D. Garcia Peraza, Virginia Thomas, Alex A. Ajayi, and Moin Syed Chapter 25. Immigrant Youth Resilience in the Context of Challenging Receiving Societies Frosso Motti-Stefanidi Chapter 26. Rural Youth Development: Theoretical Perspectives, Challenges, and Protective Processes Shauna M. Cooper, Velma McBride Murry, Misha N. Inniss-Thompson, Marketa Burnett, Cecelia Valrie, Catherine Gonzalez, Janae Shaheed, Margarett McBride, and Kylie Bezdek Chapter 27. Challenges of Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood in Latin America Anderson Siqueira Pereira, Felipe Vilanova, Luciana Dutra-ThomE, and Silvia H. Koller Chapter 28. Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Transition to Adulthood Fred R. Volkmar and Calvin Solomon Chapter 29. The Impact of Protective Custody and Out-of-Home Care on the Health and Development of Adolescents and Young Adults Sarah J. Beal, Miguel NuNez, and Mary V. Greiner Part V.Challenges to Healthy Development Chapter 30. A Multiple Levels of Analysis Developmental Psychopathology Perspective on Adolescence and Early Adulthood Dante Cicchetti Chapter 31. Internalizing in Adolescents and Young Adults Colleen S. Conley, Lori M. Hilt, and Carol Hundert Gonzales Chapter 32. The Development of Externalizing Across Adolescence and Early Adulthood Hailey L. Dotterer, Heidi B. Westerman, Emma L. Rodgers, and Luke W. Hyde Chapter 33. Substance Use Across Adolescence and Early Adulthood: Prevalence, Causes, Developmental Roots, and Consequences Jennifer L. Maggs, Brian H. Calhoun, and Hannah K. Allen Part VI.Positive Youth Development Chapter 34. Prosocial Behavior During Adolescence and the Transition to Adulthood Laura M. Padilla-Walker and Jolien Van der Graaff Chapter 35. Civic Engagement Across Adolescence and Young Adulthood Laura Wray-Lake & Parissa J. Ballard Chapter 36. Religious Development Across Adolescence and Early Adulthood Sam A. Hardy and Jenae M. Nelson Chapter 37. Hindsight in 2020: Looking Back and Forward to Positive Youth Development and Thriving Pamela Ebstyne King & Susan Mangan Chapter 38. Neurobiological Development in Adolescence and Early Adulthood: Implications for Positive Youth Adjustment Eva H. Telzer, Seh-Joo Kwon, and Nathan A. Jorgensen Part VII.Intervention and Policy Chapter 39. The Promise and Challenges of Promotive and Preventative Interventions in Adolescence Joanna J. Kim, Nancy A. Gonzales, Armando Pina, and Phillip Graham Chapter 40. Youth and the Justice System Colleen Brown, Adam Fine, and Elizabeth Cauffman Chapter 41. Border and Asylum Immigration Policies and Adolescent Development in the United States Silvia Rodriguez Vega and Hirokazu Yoshikawa Chapter 42. Health Care Policy for Adolescents and Young Adults M. Jane Park, Claire D. Brindis, and Charles E. Irwin, Jr. Chapter 43. Translating Developmental Science to Policy and Practice Rebekah Levine Coley and Naoka E. Carey Part VIII. Past and Future Science of Adolescence and Early Adulthood Chapter 44. The Development of the Developmental Science of Adolescence: Then, Now, Next - and Necessary Richard M. Lerner, Jacqueline V. Lerner, and Mary H. Buckingham.
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This handbook offers comprehensive coverage of the topics that are relevant to the field of adolescent and young adult development. The APA Handbook of Adolescent and Young Adult Developmentreviews the many factors that impact youth development across varying themes including biological underpinnings, cognitive and emotive processes, development through social contexts and roles, diversity in adolescence and the transition to adulthood, risk behaviors and psychopathology, positive youth development, intervention and policy, and new directions. The expert co-editors have recruited a new generation of top scholars as chapter authors to ensure that this comprehensive guide is thorough, detailed, and invaluable to readers. The handbook is also integrative and incorporates diversity so that clinicians, graduate students, and researchers can gain further understanding and apply this knowledge to a wider range of the population.
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• V. 1. Foundations, planning, measures, and psychometrics
• v. 2. Research designs: quantitative, qualitative, neuropsychological, and biological
• v. 3. Data analysis and research publication.

"With significant new and updated content, the second edition of the indispensable APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology describes techniques developed to pursue a shared understanding of why humans think, feel, and behave the way they do"-- Provided by publisher.

"This work addresses the issue of magical communication found in the Elder Futhark runic inscriptions. It examines the Kragehul Spear Shaft (DR 196), Björketorp runestone (DR 360), the Horn(s) of Gallehus (DR 12), Gummarp runestone (DR 358), Lindholm amulet (DR 261), Straum whetstone (KJ 50), Ribe skull fragment (DR EM85; 151B), the Noleby runestone (KJ 67), and the Eggja runestone (N KJ 101). It seeks magical communication which may putatively be encompassed by the law of magical semiosis. By setting objective parameters for measuring this law of magical communication, we can then determine whether or not a particular inscription should be understood as magical or non-magical specific to the Umwelt and Weltanschauung of the Runemaster. Essentially, this work is meant to challenge runologists in postulating falsifiable criteria so we may, in an academic setting, discuss magical communication in the world of the Runemaster. The work begins by discussing how Charles Sanders Peirce can help provide us with a basic framework regarding the sign. His phenomenological framework is applied to the world of the Runemaster. The next section then addresses the problem with the word "magic," which goes far beyond the concept of "if it does not make sense, it must be magical." It then leads to a discussion of runes and numinous qualities and finally to a corpus chapter which applies the theories and methods I have adopted"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction: How Well Do You Listen?
• Recognize the Unsaid
• Seek to Understand
• Decode
• Act
• Close The Loop
• Conclusion: Are You Ready to Become a Better Active Listener?

"Leaders can achieve better working relationships, higher loyalty, and higher revenues simply by changing their listening strategy. Organizations are caught up in the Great Resignation because team members have not felt heard for a long time. Even with renewed focus on human resources and DEI initiatives, we aren't hearing each other. Heather Younger says what we need is a new change model for organizational listening. She illustrates five steps in the "cycle of listening": 1. Recognize what's not being said-Pick up important signals, including nonverbal ones, in our environments. 2. Seek to understand-Step outside our own experiences to uncover the needs and perceptions of our colleagues. 3. Decode-Reflect on what we hear to gain a deeper understanding. 4. Act-Apply this understanding to create and communicate a plan of action. 5. Close the loop-Connect the dots between what we hear and what we will do in response. This book will help break our current listening cycles so we can implement one that honors all parties and works for the long haul. Discussion guide is available in the book for reading groups and book clubs"-- Provided by publisher.

Coach Dar has seen a fair share of calamitous situations in her career, from major league players suffering slumps and season-ending injuries to executives floundering and experiencing financial devastation-plus her own setbacks like three strokes and the loss of her parents. As a mental skills coach, Coach Dar specializes in helping the best of the best get up and get going again after suffering setbacks. In The Art of Bouncing Back, she shares these proven strategies and techniques so you can ensure the obstacles and setbacks you face morph into setups for your next success. You'll discover how to pour a strong emotional foundation, accept feedback, connect with your "Why-Power, " and create your own bounce-back environment. Every chapter provides a blueprint that helps you learn more about yourself, so you can identify the exact pivot you need to push forward, start reframing your setbacks, and cultivate the strength you need to handle future adversity better. Packed with strategies and exercises to help you achieve the life-changing results her clients see, The Art of Bouncing Back is what you need to see that the adversity in your life can create opportunities from any setback

• Introduction
• Embracing The Suck
• Principle 2: Understanding Who You Are
• Principle 3: Seeking And Applying Feedback
• Principle Four: Discovering Your Why Power
• Principle 5: Creating Your Bounce Back Environment
• Principle Six: Activating Emotional Intelligence
• Principle: Reframing Setbacks
• Principle Eight Cultivating Grit
• Principle Nine Turning The Page
• Conclusion: Putting It All Together and Into Practice.

"Board-certified occupational therapist, leaderships advisor, and mental skills coach for some of the top CEOs in the country and professional athletes in world from the NBA, NHL, NFL, MLB, and MLS, Coach Dar shares her proven methods that any business professional can use to bounce back from setbacks and thrive even in the toughest of times"-- Provided by publisher.

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. "On the verge of flying Black": the problematic of the young, gifted, and Black artist in Bill Gunn's Johnnas
• Chapter 2. "My portrait is gold": resiliency and the crisis of the Black child's image in Dael Orlandersmith's The Gimmick
• Chapter 3.
• Posttraumatic literacies and the material body in Sapphire's Push
• Chapter 4. "My body of a free boy...my body of dance": violence and the choreography of survival in Sapphire's The Kid
• Chapter 5. "You're young, you're Black, and you're on trial. What else do they need to know?": reading Walter Dean Myers's Monster
• Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Index

• Intro
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. The Awakening of the Dogmatic Dream: The Quest for Certainties in Science and Philosophy
• 1.1. Science
• 1.2. Philosophy
• 1.3. Conclusions
• Chapter 2. The Nature of the Laws of Physics: Regularist Physicalism
• 2.1. Regularist physicalism
• 2.2. Brief history of physical theories
• 2.3. Laws of nature
• Chapter 3. Basic Principles of Quantum Mechanics
• 3.1. Introduction
• 3.2. Kinematics: States, physical magnitudes, and systems
• 3.3. Kinematics: Physical magnitudes, eigenvalues and eigenvectors

• 3.4. Dynamics: Probabilities and evolution
• 3.5. Dynamics: Measurement and preparation of states
• 3.6. Concluding remarks
• Chapter 4. A First Approach to the Ontology of Quantum Mechanics
• 4.1. Events and measurements
• 4.2. Systems and states
• Chapter 5. Causal Closure and Strong Emergence in Quantum Mechanics
• 5.1. Physicalism and causal closure in quantum mechanics
• 5.2. Strong emergence
• 5.2.1. Non-separability of the quantum states
• 5.2.2. Non-supervenience of the quantum properties
• 5.2.3. Top-down causation
• 5.3. No cloning and inaccessibility of quantum states

• Chapter 6. The Measurement Problem: Decoherence and Some Interpretations that Admit an Ontology of Quantum Objects and Events
• 6.1. Introduction
• 6.2. Decoherence
• 6.3. The Many Worlds Interpretation
• 6.4. The Montevideo Interpretation of quantum mechanics
• Chapter 7. Processes and Individuals
• Chapter 8. Quantum Ontology and the First-Person Perspective
• 8.1. First-person perspective and direct inner acquaintance
• 8.2. Quantum ontology and direct inner acquaintance
• 8.3. States and direct inner acquaintance
• Chapter 9. Physical Requirements for Models of Consciousness

• 9.1. The hard problem of consciousness
• 9.2. Relevance of quantum mechanics in conscious phenomena
• 9.3. Requirements for quantum models of consciousness
• 9.4. Scenarios for quantum models of consciousness
• 9.4.1. Is a quantum-based consciousness compatible with decoherence?
• 9.4.2. Fisher's model of quantum cognition
• 9.5. Conclusions
• Chapter 10. The Role of Consciousness in Living Beings
• 10.1. Introduction
• 10.2. Unlimited associative learning
• Chapter 11. Free Will and the Quantum Consciousness
• 11.1. Determinism
• 11.2. Indeterminism

• 11.3. Addressing some objections to free will
• Chapter 12. Self-consciousness and Persons
• 12.1. Self-consciousness and self-determination
• 12.2. Episodic vs. permanent self
• 12.3. Self-consciousness and persons
• 12.4. Conclusion
• Chapter 13. The Higher Activities of the Self: Cognition
• 13.1. Origins
• 13.2. Conceptual representations
• 13.3. Rudimentary and robust first-person perspectives
• 13.4. The distinction between the 'I' and the 'me' self
• 13.5. The self as a process: The centrality of freedom
• Chapter 14. The Transcendence of the Self
• Chapter 15. Persons and the Search for Transcendence

What is consciousness? Does free will exist?There exists a widespread conviction that the recent scientific discoveries, especially those related to physics and biology, in particular in contemporary neurosciences, question the traditional attempts to give meaning to life and a basis for our moral compass. Current scientific thinking usually identifies the mind with the mere exchange of electrical signals among neurons. It claims that consciousness is an irrelevant epiphenomenon and that introspection is an unreliable instrument to achieve any form of knowledge. Also, that the physical universe is causally closed and therefore all that occurs only has physical causes and all kind of freedom is excluded. The problem of assigning meaning and purpose to our lives, to the essential conceptions of the value of human life and social justice, becomes practically insoluble if one accepts the predominant notions that supposedly stem from contemporary science. The clash between the scientific and humanistic conception of human beings seems to have no option but to abandon the latter.The aim of this book is to show that, contrary to what is usually considered, current advances in science allow to re-evaluate the role of consciousness and human freedom without entering into contradiction with empirical evidence or scientific theories in place today. The book starts by analyzing the certainties provided by the scientific thought and philosophical reflection while discussing the role and content of physical theories, and in particular, quantum mechanics. It discusses in detail the nature of quantum objects and the role they may have in consciousness. In particular, it analyzes models that allow phenomena of quantum nature to manifest themselves in the brains of animals and humans, and account for many of the properties of consciousness. Finally, we analyze how self-conscious and free entities like persons emerge, making compatible the scientific view with a renewed and better supported way of perceiving people, their values and culture.
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"In Attachment, Sexuality, Power, Jerome C. Wakefield challenges established views of Freudian psychoanalysis by applying Foucault's concept of 'power/knowledge' to Freud's case of Little Hans, illuminating the role that Oedipal theory has played in reorganizing intimate family relationships. Combining close examination of the Hans case with accounts of the history of marriage and psychology of co-sleeping, this book argues that the Oedipal theory achieved prominence because its implications for family dynamics supported changing social values. Wakefield identifies a previously overlooked reason for Hans's anxiety-his father attempted to protect Hans from his supposed Oedipal desires by separating Hans from his mother. Thus, Wakefield argues, the father's exercise of power based on his belief in Oedipal theory, not an actual Oedipus complex, caused Hans's vulnerability to anxiety-revealing the theory's potential to cause harm by distancing children from their parents, even as such distancing made the theory socially appealing. This book's novel and carefully documented articulation of the mechanisms of power by which Oedipal theory exerts its influence on family life will be of interest to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists alike, and essential for scholars in the fields of psychoanalysis, philosophy of science and the history of psychiatry"-- Provided by publisher

• Part I. Attachment theory: its original version and our expansion of it
• Attachment theory and security dynamics
• An outline of the expanded theory
• The expanded theory in relation to other social-psychological theories
• Part II. Seeking and attaining felt security: the distress-relief cycle involving proximity
• Seeking and others' responsiveness
• Facing threats and challenges: seeking a safe haven and secure base for exploration
• A cost of becoming attached: facing the threat of attachment-figure unavailability
• Feeling protected and supported: calming and empowering effects
• Feeling protected and supported: security-enhancing effects
• Part III. Intrapersonal, relational, and societal implications of attaining or failing to attain security
• The broaden-and-build effects of felt security: resilience, subjective well-being, and mental health
• The broaden-and-build effects of felt security: mature, other-oriented love
• The broaden-and-build effects of felt security: personal growth and autonomous relatedness
• Thwarted security and the development of anxious and avoidant patterns of self regulation and relating
• Part IV. Epilogue
• Wrapping up, taking stock.

"From pioneering attachment researchers, this book takes an expansive look at the nature and functions of security dynamics in personal and social relationships. Mario Mikulincer and Phillip R. Shaver examine how attachment operates not only in close dyadic relationships (parent-child, romantic partners), but also between teachers and students, therapists and clients, physicians and patients, leaders and followers, and within organizations. Also considered is the nature of "attachments" to objects; commercial brands; substances, such as foods and drugs; and places. The book highlights ways to integrate attachment theory with other influential social and psychological theories concerning factors that enable individuals, groups, and societies to flourish despite inevitable threats, conflicts, and losses. Key words/Subject areas: applications, interventions, attachment-based, adults, romantic, close relationships, couples, developmental psychology research, infant mental health, mothers, parents, caregiving, children, early childhood, psychotherapy, assessments Audience: Researchers and students in developmental, social, and clinical psychology and family studies; mental health practitioners"-- Provided by publisher.
"From pioneering attachment researchers, this book takes an expansive look at the nature and functions of security dynamics in personal and social relationships. Mario Mikulincer and Phillip R. Shaver examine how attachment operates not only in close dyadic relationships (parent-child, romantic partners), but also between teachers and students, therapists and clients, physicians and patients, leaders and followers, and within organizations. Also considered is the nature of "attachments" to objects; commercial brands; substances, such as foods and drugs; and places. The book highlights ways to integrate attachment theory with other influential social and psychological theories concerning factors that enable individuals, groups, and societies to flourish despite inevitable threats, conflicts, and losses. "-- Provided by publisher.