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

Frisby, Craig L. / Redding, Richard E. et al. (eds.), Ideological and Political Bias in Psychology: Nature, Scope, and Solutions. 392 pp. 2023:8 (Springer, GW) <704-653>
ISBN 978-3-031-29147-0 hard ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book examines the traditional assumptions made by academics and professionals alike that have embedded sociopolitical biases that impede practice. and undermine efforts to achieve an objective scientific status. If allowed to go unchallenged, the credibility of psychology as a discipline is compromised. This contributed volume thoroughly and comprehensively examines this concern in a conceptually and empirically rigorous manner and offers constructive solutions for minimizing undue political influences within the field of psychology. Societies in the 21st century desperately need reliable psychological science, but we don't have it. This important volume explains one of the main reasons why we are making little progress on any issue that gets contaminated by the left-right culture war: because the field of psychology is an enthusiastic member of one of the two teams, so it rejects findings and researchers who question its ideological commitments. The authors of this engaging volume also show us the way out. They diagnose the social dynamics of bias and point to reforms that would give us the psychology that we need to address 21st century problems. Jonathan Haidt, Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, NYU-Stern School of Business and author of The Righteous Mind The boundaries of free speech, censorship, moral cultures, social justice, and ideological biases are among the many incendiary topics discussed in this book. If you are looking for a deep-dive into real-world contemporary controversies, Ideological and Political Bias in Psychology fits the bill. The chapters are thoughtful and thought-provoking. Most readers will find something to agree with and something to rage at in almost every chapter. It just may change how you think about some of these topics. Diane F. Halpern, Professor of Psychology Emerita, Claremont McKenna College and Past President, American Psychological Association Unless the political left is always correct about everything (in which case, we wouldn't need to do research; we could just ask a leftist), the growing political monoculture of social science is a major barrier to our search for the truth. This volume shows how ideological bias should be treated as a source of research error, up there with classic methodological flaws like non-random assignment and non-blind measurement. Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and the author of Rationality An important read for academics curious about how their politics fashions beliefs that too often are uncritically taken for granted, and for non-academics wondering why we can't shake off the politics that so influences scientific work. Vernon Smith, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences and George L. Argyros Chair in Finance and Economics, Chapman UniversityAdvances and deepens empirically rigorous scholarship into biased political influences affecting academic and professional psychology.Offers constructive solutions for minimizing undue political influences within psychology and moving the field forward.Serves as a resource for psychological academicians, researchers, practitioners, and consultants seeking to restore the principles of accurate science and effective practice to their respective areas of research.

Maloney, J. Christopher, Akratic Compatibilism and All Too Human Psychology: Almost Enough Is Free Will Enough. 190 pp. 2023:5 (Lexington Books, US) <704-41>
ISBN 978-1-66691-948-6 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *

Do we have free will? How could we have the psychological leeway to choose and act otherwise than we do? The sum of history and the laws of science, including psychology, deterministically imply all events, including each of our actions. Is nature's iron determination of deliberation compatible with the will's freedom? The philosophers who answer affirmatively, both classical and current, assume that either the ultimate scientific laws or the grand historical record-or both-are merely contingent. By proceeding to infer the contingency of lawfully determined actions, these compatibilists would secure the leeway presumably requisite for the will's liberty. Akratic Compatibilism and All Too Human Psychology: Almost Enough Is Free Will Enough argues, however, that they may be dead wrong about the modality of nature's laws and history's plasticity. Might the laws be necessary, and history absolutely fixed? Nevertheless, J. Christopher Maloney posits, we would yet be free. For psychology ordains volitional conflict: sometimes we akratically will to be able to act otherwise than we irresistibly do. Being akratic by nature, we asymptotically resist even a necessitating psychology's governance. That Sisyphean resistance against the laws of cognition almost achieves the will's liberating leeway. Nevertheless, almost free is free enough for deliberators as weak-willed as we.

Reshe, Julie, Negative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead: Philosophical Pessimism and the Death Drive. 144 pp. 2023:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <704-48>
ISBN 978-3-031-31200-7 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book offers a radical alternative to the positive orientation of popular psychology. This positive orientation has been criticized numerous times. However, there has yet to be a coherent alternative proposed. We all know today that life hurts and that there is no ultimate remedy to this pain. The positive approach feels to us as dishonest and irrelevant. We require a new, more negative, perspective and practice, one that is honest and does not pretend to offer an escape from the agonies of the world. This book offers in three main chapters a 'depressive realist' perspective that explores the structural role of negativity and tragedy in relation to the individual psyche, society, and nature. It explores the possibility of 'negative psychoanalysis' which takes into account the tragedy of human existence instead of adopting escapist positions.

Singh, Kamlesh / Saxena, Gaurav (eds.), Religious and Spiritual Practices in India: A Positive Psychological Perspective. 678 pp. 2023:8 (Springer, GW) <704-151>
ISBN 978-981-9923-96-0 hard ¥36,461.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book explores the positive psychological aspects of religion and spirituality in the Indian context. It discusses the concepts and practices of Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, Jainism, and Sikhism and their impact on overall well-being. As the global enthusiasm for Indian spirituality grows, this book brings together scholars to share their perspectives and reflections on various religious aspects. The chapters offer readers a psychological "capsule" of mental health, well-being, compassion, kindness, character strength, mind-body relationship, and mindfulness, providing practical strategies for a better quality of life.Furthermore, this book offers insights into the different perspectives of happiness and well-being measured across diverse demographics. It also provides a qualitative conceptualization of happiness among older people, reflections on positive aging, and highlights the facilitators and inhibitors of happiness. With its comprehensive coverage and multidisciplinary approach, this book serves as a valuable reference for postgraduate and doctoral students of Psychology, as well as a treasure trove in the libraries for researchers and faculties associated with spiritual psychology, positive psychology, religious studies, comparative literature, mental health professionals, academicians, and anyone interested in allied health fields.

幸福ハンドブック
Chetri, Saamdu / Dutta, T. / Mandal, M. K. et al. (eds.), Handbook of Happiness: Reflections and Praxis from Around the World. 519 pp. 2023:8 (Springer, GW) <704-242>
ISBN 978-981-9926-36-7 hard ¥55,909.- (税込) EUR 229.99 *

This book contains contributions from diverse perspectives and traditions that focus on reflections and happiness practices. It addresses diversity in happiness and eastern and western thoughts and practices by contributing authors from around the world from varied backgrounds. The book provides ample avenue for readers and researchers to broaden their horizons and deepen their understanding of various aspects of happiness culturally and conceptually. It opens opportunities for exploring and understanding how happiness can be practiced, experienced, taught, and learned in various contexts, thus assisting both educators and interested readers to create opportunities for themselves or their students to engage in diverse and creative happiness explorations. This book is a crucial resource for teachers, educators, students, and researchers involved in the science and practice of happiness. It enables them to find new avenues to understand happiness from different perspectives, understanding inner and outer spaces and other dimensions of happiness. It serves as an essential reference for academicians in related fields of psychology, such as cross-cultural, social, and developmental, as well as in the upcoming field of happiness studies.

Collins, David / Vidmar Jovanovic, Iris / Alfano, M. (eds.), The Moral Psychology of Trust. (Moral Psychology of the Emotions) 352 pp. 2023:5 (Lexington Books, US) <704-1258>
ISBN 978-1-66692-159-5 hard ¥26,928.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *

Is it good to be trusting, or should we be wary of trusting others? Trust seems to be the basis of large-scale social cooperation and even of democracy itself, but in recent years many commentators and researchers have lamented the dawn of a post-trust era. Edited by David Collins, Iris Vidmar Jovanovic, and Mark Alfano, The Moral Psychology of Trust examines trust from a variety of perspectives in philosophy and the social sciences. The contributors explore topics such as the nature of trust and its connection to a range of other emotions, conditions under which it is good to be trusting and trustworthy, and what role trust might play in our intellectual, moral, and political lives. The chapters apply theoretical perspectives on trust to a number of issues of current concern, including how trust can and should function in conditions of social oppression, trust and technology, trust and conspiracy theories, the place of trust in medical ethics, and the ethics of trust in a variety of interpersonal relationships.

de la Pena, Augustin, Boredom Experience and Associated Behaviors: A Lifelong Research by Dr. Augustin de la Pena. Ed. by J. Ros Velasco et al. 644 pp. 2023:8 (Springer, GW) <704-1259>
ISBN 978-3-031-32684-4 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book collects the lifelong research on boredom by American psychologist Augustin de la Pena (1942-2021). It focuses on the experience of boredom-and other similar states, including ennui, melancholy, laziness, interest, attention, and entertainment-and its associated behaviors. Offering an interdisciplinary chronicle of boredom, from Antiquity to the present, special attention is paid to its daily experience as a ubiquitous phenomenon that informs cultural and political actions that continue to shape our society. Dr. de la Pena describes the obsolescence of the Western Commonsense View of Reality to propose a Developmental Psychophysiological Approach to Reality, reconceptualizing boredom. The book theorizes the condition as both logical and emotional, an axis that has defined the sensibility of the modern era. This is a volume edited posthumously by Josefa Ros Velasco and Christian Parreno in homage to Augustin's work and his invaluable contribution to the establishment of the field of boredom studies.

Ho, David Y. F., Fire Burning in My Head: A Psychologist's Self-Study Reveals How Madness May Enrich Your Life in Diverse Cultures. 2023:2 (P. Lang, SZ) <704-1261>
ISBN 978-1-4331-9996-7 paper ¥18,480.- (税込) SFR 75.00

Written by a professor of clinical of psychology, this book is accessible to thoughtful readers who seek to be better informed on how to harness the creative energy of madness to enrich one’s life. It comprises two main parts: The first part tells the story of how a psychologist-cum-patient performs a self-study of "madness" in great detail. It belongs to the long tradition of ideographic studies that attend to the uniqueness of each individual. The author says: "During episodes, manic symptoms are manifest. Yet, I become more colorful, sensitive, generous, and loving. I see beauty everywhere and delight in the simple things of life. I glimpse into mystical magnanimity. My mind explodes: Creative thoughts rain down fast. Now, I can bear testimony that on balance the creative energy of madness may enrich rather than damage one’s life, and that it is possible to retain a measure of madness in dignified living and of dignity even in a state of madness." The second part gives extensive coverage to various aspects of mental disorders from a scientific perspective. Adhering to the nomothetic tradition of knowledge generation, it provides the psychiatric as well as ethical, political, and sociocultural contexts for understanding mental disorders in general and the author’s own case in particular. The two parts are linked together and integrated in a dialectical fashion, with the interplay between nomothetic and idiographic methods leading to a deeper understanding that neither one may obtain alone.

Marsico, Giuseppina / Tateo, Luca (eds.), Humanity in Psychology: The Intellectual Legacy of Pina Boggi Cavallo. (Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences) 284 pp. 2023:8 (Springer, GW) <704-1263>
ISBN 978-3-031-30639-6 hard ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book is aimed at appreciating and further developing the work of Pina Boggi Cavallo. She was a scholar that fully embodied the spirit of the first cognitive revolution in psychology, whose ideal was to consider human being in its totality. The focus of scientific investigation in her work, were the processes of thought, as connected to the affective and ethical dimensions, the social construction of the developing Self within the real context of its making.The book is organized in three sections:Sowing: the selected works of Pina Boggi Cavallo translated in English;Fertilizing: invited commentaries which develop the ideas of Pina Boggi Cavallo in the current and future scientific landscape;Cultivating: invited chapters by international scholars, including some who collaborated with her.

児童期の有害事象ハンドブック
Portwood, Sharon G. / Lawler, Michael J. et al. (eds.), Handbook of Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Framework for Collaborative Health Promotion. (Issues in Clinical Child Psychology) 254 pp. 2023:8 (Springer, GW) <704-1265>
ISBN 978-3-031-32596-0 hard ¥72,926.- (税込) EUR 299.99 *

This handbook explores ways to unify the study and application of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) across multiple fields and disciplines, including clinical child and adolescent psychology, school psychology, pediatrics, social work, public health, education, and other health and human services. The book outlines a cohesive framework that organizes critical ACEs concepts throughout individual chapters, highlighting key issues and themes across settings and disciplines as well as gaps in current knowledge. Chapters examine interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches to ACEs and their impact on health and well-being within a specific topic area or setting. In addition, chapters review the foundations and development of the relevant science and provide examples of ACEs research and intervention applications as well as suggestions for continued advancement in this field. Key areas of coverage include: Definition and measurement of ACEs. Theory and models guiding ACEs research and practice. Applications of ACEs science across settings, including healthcare, mental and behavioral health, schools, justice system, and child welfare system. Applications of ACEs to public health and policy issues.Prevention strategies and policy approaches to ACEs. Handbook of Adverse Childhood Experiences is an essential resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians and related mental health and medical therapists and professionals in developmental and clinical child and adolescent psychology, school psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, social work, child and family studies, public health, pediatrics, and all interrelated disciplines.

Roskam, Isabelle / Gross, James J. / Mikolajczak, M. (eds.), Emotion Regulation and Parenting. (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction) 350 pp. 2024:2 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <704-1267>
ISBN 978-1-00-930437-5 hard ¥27,379.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00 *

Emotion Regulation and Parenting provides a state-of-the-art account of research conducted on emotion regulation in parenting. After describing the conceptual foundations of parenthood and emotion regulation, the book reviews the influence of parents' emotion regulation on parenting, how and to what extent emotion regulation influences child development, cross-cultural perspectives on emotion regulation, and highlights current and future directions. Drawing on contributions from renowned experts from all over the world, chapters cover the most important topics at the intersection of parenting and emotion regulation. Essentials are explored, as well as current, topical, and controversial issues, pointing both to what is known and what requires further research. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Tang, Shin Shin, Asian American Psychology and Psychotherapy: Intergenerational Trauma, Betrayal, and Liberation. 222 pp. 2023:7 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <704-1269>
ISBN 978-1-5381-6720-5 hard ¥24,684.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5381-6721-2 paper ¥8,078.- (税込) US$ 36.00 *

Drawing from liberation psychology and betrayal trauma theory, Decolonizing Asian American Psychology is an essential resource for psychotherapists working with Asian American clients. It clarifies the distinction between historical and generational trauma and presents additional key concepts for conceptualizing Asian American experiences, including institutional betrayal trauma, cultural betrayal trauma, and epistemic violence. In doing so, it offers a critical analysis of how the model minority myth perpetuates biases in research and practice regarding Asian Americans. Models for theory, practice, and social justice are richly illustrated with interviews, client testimonios, and case presentations using relational cultural therapy.

孤独の科学と力
Weinstein, Netta / Hansen, Heather / Nguyen, Thuy-Vy T., Solitude: The Science and Power of Being Alone. 300 pp. 2024:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <704-1270>
ISBN 978-1-00-925660-5 hard ¥5,764.- (税込) GB￡ 20.00 *

The average adult spends nearly one-third of their waking life alone. How do we overcome the stigma of solitude and find strength in going it alone? Whether we love it or try to avoid it, we can make better use of that time. The science of solitude shows that alone time can be a powerful space used to tap into countless benefits. Translating key research findings into actionable facts and advice, this book shows that alone time can boost well-being. From relaxation and recharging to problem solving and emotional regulation, solitude can benefit personal growth, contentment, creativity, and our relationships with ourselves and others. By learning what makes us better at spending time alone, you can use these principles to move toward your best possible self.

Pant, Naveen, Spirituality, Mental Health and Quality of Life: Pathways in Indian Psychology. 145 pp. 2023:7 (Springer, GW) <704-144>
ISBN 978-981-9927-02-9 hard ¥34,030.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book is about spiritual intelligence and its effects on mental health and quality of life. As mental health and related problems are increasing rapidly and have become a matter of great concern, there has not been a unanimous and empirical approach to assess and cure it, due to its divergence or other causes. This book is based on the most developed construct: spiritual intelligence and its effects on mental health and quality of life. Spirituality and its other constructs are one of the most interesting topics nowadays in the area of positive/indigenous/transpersonal psychology and among social/behavioral scientists. This book provides content on spirituality, spiritual intelligence, mental health, and quality of life. The book also attempts to review related literature (whether review or empirical), to have a look at past and current scenarios on spirituality and mental health and quality of life research. Through an exploration of Indian indigenous psychology,this book provides a look at mental health and the mind from an Indian psychological perspective and examines Indian psychology, taking into consideration modern psychological concepts.