Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Hunecke, Marcel, Psychology of Sustainability: From Sustainability Marketing to Social-Ecological Transformation. 191 pp. 2022:12 (Springer, GW) <688-959>
ISBN 978-3-031-16751-5 hard ¥23,536.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This book analyzes key findings and developments of psychology for sustainable development. The starting point is a discussion of the established literature of environmental psychology in regards to which factors influence environment-related behavior. Afterwards, the author discusses strategies and interventions that can promote sustainable behavior. It is very important that in order to increase the effectiveness of environmental psychological interventions, these must be first contextualized socially. Furthermore, interventions that aim to bring about a socio-ecological transformation should also focus on the goal of subjective well-being. Overall, the findings of environmental psychology are brought together with theories from positive psychology and the approach of psychological resources from positive psychology and the approach of psychological resources from health psychology to answer the question: How can the socio-ecological transformation of a consumer society be supported by an inner transformation of human beings. An answer to this question is provided by the promotion of six psychological resources for sustainable lifestyles: mindfulness, capacity for pleasure, self-acceptance, self-efficacy, construction of meaning and solidarity can both promote individual well-being and increase motivation for sustainable behavior.

Jennings, Carolyn Dicey, Attention and Mental Control. (Elements in Philosophy of Mind) 75 pp. 2022:11 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <688-60>
ISBN 978-1-108-98706-6 paper ¥4,843.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

Mental control refers to the ability to control our own minds. Its primary expression, attention has become a popular topic for philosophers in the past few decades, generating the need for a primer on the concept. It is related to self-control, which typically refers to the maintenance of preferred behavior in the face of temptation. While a distinct concept, criticisms of self-control can also be applied to mental control, such as that it implies the existence of an unscientific homunculus-like agent or is not a natural kind. Yet, as this Element suggests, a scientifically-grounded account of mental control remains possible. The Element is organized into five main sections, which cover the concept of mental control, the relationship between mental control and attention, the phenomena of meditation and mind-wandering, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and emergence-based accounts of mental control, including an original account by the author.

Skrzypinska, Katarzyna, I Believe, So I Am: Reflections on the Psychology of Spirituality. (Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and Psychology) 2022:10 (Brill, NE) <688-185>
ISBN 978-90-04-53333-2 paper ¥16,478.- (税込) EUR 70.00

Goldstein, Sam / Brooks, Robert B. (eds.), Handbook of Resilience in Children. 3rd ed. 1192 pp. 2022:12 (Springer, GW) <688-1228>
ISBN 978-3-031-14727-2 hard ¥82,386.- (税込) EUR 349.99 *

The third edition of this handbook addresses not only the concept of resilience in children who overcome adversity, but it also explores the development of children not considered at risk addressing recent challenges as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The new edition reviews the scientific literature that supports findings that stress-hardiness and resilience in all children leads to happier and healthier lives as well as improved functionality across the lifespan. In this edition, expert contributors examine resilience in relation to environmental stressors as phenomena in child and adolescent disorders and as a means toward positive adaptation into adulthood. The significantly expanded third edition includes new and significantly revised chapters that explore strategies for developing resilience in families, clinical practice, and educational settings as well as its nurturance in caregivers and teachers. Key areas of coverage include: Exploration of the four waves of resilience research.Resilience in gene-environment transactions.Resilience in boys and girls. Resilience in family processes. Asset building as an essential component of intervention.Assessment of social and emotional competencies related to resilience.Building resilience through school bullying prevention.Resilience in positive youth development.Enhancing resilience through effective thinking. The Handbook of Resilience in Children, Third Edition, is an essential reference for researchers, clinicians and allied practitioners, and graduate students across such interrelated disciplines as child and school psychology, social work, public health as well as developmental psychology, special and general education, child and adolescent psychiatry, family studies, and pediatrics.

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Burack, Jacob A. / Edgin, Jamie / Abbeduto, Leonard (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Down Syndrome and Development. (Oxford Library of Psychology) 664 pp. 2023:3 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <688-1230>
ISBN 978-0-19-064544-1 hard ¥35,574.- (税込) US$ 165.00 *

The Oxford Handbook of Down Syndrome and Development comprises cutting-edge and provocative integrative reviews of essential theory and research about persons with Down syndrome at various stages of the lifespan. The volume opens with a brief section on historic and contemporary scientific approaches to understanding the development of persons with Down syndrome with subsequent sections on social development and family relations, cognition and neuropsychology, and comorbid conditions. Together these chapters provide extensive background that leads to a comprehensive understanding of the development and well-being of persons with Down syndrome across many different aspects of everyday living. The final section contains innovative and forward-looking chapters on interventions and directions for future research. The contributors to all these chapters are leading scholars in the study of persons with Down syndrome and other neurodevelopmental conditions. However, the final word of the volume is left to those with lived experience -persons with Down syndrome and their family members who share and reflect on their life stories. This handbook is essential reading for all those interested in the development of persons with Down syndrome.

Garcia, Luciano Nicolas, Communist Psychology in Argentina: Transnational Politics, Scientific Culture and Psychotherapy (1935-1991). (Latin American Voices) 222 pp. 2022:10 (Springer, GW) <688-1231>
ISBN 978-3-031-15620-5 hard ¥23,536.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This book presents an intellectual history of the reception of Soviet psychology in Argentina as part of the communist scientific culture promoted by the Argentine Communist Party. This research reconstructs the material conditions, the political conjunctures and disciplinary disputes that allowed the international circulation of the works and ideas of Ivan Pavlov and Lev Vygotsky, and analyzes how pavlovism and vygotskianism impacted psychology, psychiatry and the wider mental health field in Argentina between 1935 and 1991. Starting on the 1930s, a group of professionals, scientists and intellectuals who belonged to the Argentine Communist Party introduced Soviet psychology in Argentina as an effort to promote the philosophical and political principles of Marxism-Leninism in Argentinean psychological and psychiatric academic circles, as well as in mental health institutions. This book shows how the efforts of this group contributed to the diffusion of communist scientific ideas and practices in South America as part of a transnational circuit of communist scholars and intellectuals that included France, Spain and the USA, which fostered scientific exchange and politicized science during the years of antifascist struggle and the Cold War. Communist Psychology in Argentina: Transnational Politics, Scientific Culture and Psychotherapy (1935-1991) will be of interest to historians of psychology and psychiatry concerned with the study of the relationship between Marxism and psychology in the 20th century, as well as to historians of science in general attentive to the study of the circulation of scientific ideas, as the book reconstructs the networks of the international communist movement as an effort to provide a scientific basis for the development of a socialist program in different parts of the world.

Gozli, Davood / Valsiner, Jaan (eds.), Experimental Psychology: Ambitions and Possibilities. (Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences) 242 pp. 2022:11 (Springer, GW) <688-1233>
ISBN 978-3-031-17052-2 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This work brings together different perspectives on psychological methods and particularly methods involving experimentation. To encourage a reflective use of research methods, the authors illuminate the historical, philosophical, and scientific dimensions of methodology, providing both defenses and criticisms of experimental psychology. The primary audience of the work are students and researchers in psychological and behavioral sciences, who have an interest in methodology

Hashim, Hashim Talib / Alexiou, Athanasios (eds.), The Psychology of Anger. 204 pp. 2022:11 (Springer, GW) <688-1234>
ISBN 978-3-031-16604-4 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book discusses anger in psychology, its mechanisms, predisposing factors, precipitating factors, its impacts on brain structure. Anger in psychology is considered from two perspectives - function, and its impacts on physical health. This book is compiled of cutting-edge research, presenting anger in a new, modern and educational way. It presents a mathematical expression for the law of anger, allowing us to understand anger before it truly occurs and to control the anger to prevent its occurrence.The book is highly specialized with anger and considers various perspectives, such as race, historical origin and how these theories align with the modern psychology and neurosciences.

Holcombe, Alex, Attending to Moving Objects. (Elements in Perception) 75 pp. 2022:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <688-1235>
ISBN 978-1-00-900997-3 paper ¥4,843.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

Our minds are severely limited in how much information they can extensively process, in spite of being massively parallel at the visual end. When people attempt to track moving objects, only a limited number can be tracked, which varies with display parameters. Associated experiments indicate that spatial selection and updating has higher capacity than selection and updating of features such as color and shape, and is mediated by processes specific to each cerebral hemisphere, such that each hemifield has its own spatial tracking limit. These spatial selection processes act as a bottleneck that gate subsequent processing. To improve our understanding of this bottleneck, future work should strive to avoid contamination of tracking tasks by high-level cognition. While we are far from fully understanding how attention keeps up with multiple moving objects, what we already know illuminates the architecture of visual processing and offers promising directions for new discoveries.

Krafft, Andreas, Our Hopes, Our Future: Insights from the Hope Barometer. 179 pp. 2022:12 (Springer, GW) <688-1238>
ISBN 978-3-662-66204-5 paper ¥7,058.- (税込) EUR 29.99

How can we overcome crises and shape our common future?Since the beginning of the Corona pandemic, we have all been put to an immense test. This shows how humanity can successfully and constructively deal with such situations and make the best of them. And we learn that the future is not something that happens to us, but that we can actively and constructively shape it. The basic prerequisite for this is an attitude of openness, mutual helpfulness and hope. This non-fiction book vividly reports on the currently prevailing images of the future and the common longings as well as on people's capacity for hope and action. It reveals the power of desirable images of the future and of a collective hope as the opposite of general helplessness or of blind and naive optimism. The central statements of this book are based on the experiences of thousands of people in more than ten countries who participated in the scientific study of the Hope Barometer in 2019 and 2020. In a unique way, this combines lived practice with the latest findings of social science futurology, positive psychology and pragmatic philosophy. Target groups:This book is for anyone who wants to look to the future with hope. It offers concrete answers to key questions and shows how crises can be overcome while shaping a better future for individuals and society as a whole. About the author:Dr. Andreas M. Krafft teaches at the University of St. Gallen and at the Free University of Berlin. As co-president of swissfuture, the Swiss Association for Futures Research, and as a board member of the Swiss Society for Positive Psychology, he leads the international research network of the Hope Barometer.

Samuels, Robert, (Mis)Understanding Freud with Lacan, Zizek, and Neuroscience. (The Palgrave Lacan Series) 195 pp. 2022:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <688-1239>
ISBN 978-3-031-13326-8 hard ¥23,536.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This book sets out to clarify five key Freudian concepts (the pleasure principle, the primary processes, the unconscious, transference, and the reality principle) elaborated early on in Freud's work but, it is argued, rarely understood-even by psychoanalysts themselves. It examines in turn the post-Freudian paradigms employed in neuropsychoanalysis, Lacan, Zizek, object relations, and psychoanalytic approaches to identity politics, and in doing so reveals the extent to which they have been distorted and repressed in these new contexts. Over the course of the book the author demonstrates how Freud's unpublished Project for a Scientific Psychology can be seen as a complete system of core concepts that both ground psychoanalysis in neurology and also introduce a vital challenge to the brain sciences. This book will appeal to students and scholars of psychoanalysis, clinical psychology, and psychoanalytic theory.

Sandner, Dieter, Society and the Unconscious: Cultural Psychological Insights. 183 pp. 2022:11 (Springer, GW) <688-1240>
ISBN 978-3-662-66174-1 paper ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99 *

This book will interest anyone seeking a comprehensive understanding of the psychological relationship between individual psychological dynamics, social structure and the unconscious collective paradigms. It focuses on an analysis of patriarchal culture, which is, as it were, the psychological enclosure in which all individual and collective processes take place.Starting from the genesis and current structure of this culture, the strong social changes of the last 50 years are examined:the change in relations between men and womensocial relations in terms of solidarity and desolidarisationthe situation of social security the social and political power relations, andthe economic dynamics.At the same time, collective fantasies are elaborated that emerge from the socio-structural changes. The basis of the study is psychoanalytical cultural theory in the form of a cultural-critical deconstruction of its fundamental assumptions. In 16 interesting chapters, essential questions of psychological cultural theory are answered and practical applications of this theory to current sociostructural processes are shown.

Segal, Robert A. / Blocian, I. / Kuzmicki, A. (eds.), Collective Structures of Imagination in Jungian Interpretation. (Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies 30) 12 pp. 2022:10 (Brill, NE) <688-1241>
ISBN 978-90-04-46874-0 hard ¥36,957.- (税込) EUR 157.00

This book presents an analysis of the social aspects of Carl Gustav Jung's thought and its followers, the interpretation of the phenomena of contemporary social life (social imagery) from the perspective of the main categories of this thought (archetype, unconscious, collectivity, mass society, mass man). It also contains an attempt of their application for understanding contemporary social and political phenomena (e.g. Brazilian sebastianism, Balkan conflicts, virtual-imagery sphere of communication, figures of imagery in popular culture, and others). The authors examine the relationship between Jung's and Jungians' (E. Neumann, J. Hillman, J. L. Henderson) conceptions and many accompanying them (e.g. Frankfurt school, Bachelard's philosophy, American cultural psychoanalysis) and the background of contemporary conceptions of social psychology, sociology, and cultural anthropology.