This standard textbook on battered children updates and adds to the previous editions, while retaining their multidisciplinary, comprehensive approach. It contains chapters on the current treatment and prevention of child abuse, covering paediatrics, psychiatry, and social and legal studies.

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The Evolving Self focuses upon the most basic and universal of psychological problems--the individual's effort to make sense of experience, to make meaning of life. According to Robert Kegan, meaning-making is a lifelong activity tha... read more

With the evolution of human consciousness, nature has finally become conscious of itself. It has taken eons of time, this lumbering progress through the minds of reptiles, mammals, and primates, and it is still working out its purpose in the archetypes of th... read more

Dissociative identity disorder is now recognized to be a common reaction to prolonged childhood trauma such as abuse or neglect. This is one of the only books to offer inspiring stories of survivors who lead functional and successful lives. The author gives academic presentations on women's issues and appears on local television.

"Psychology Demystified" helps students of "Introductory Psychology" understand their primary text and all the subjects in the standard curriculum.

"This fourth edition incorporates a number of substantive new topics, including a new chapter on women's health, as well as opportunities for the reader to critically examine key conceptual and methodological issues within each chapter. It remains clearly written and hi... read more

The principal objectives of this book are to enable childcare workers to understand and deal more effectively with cases of emotional and psychological abuse. The concepts of emotional development, emotional abuse, psychological development, ... read more

Like food and water, sleep is essential for all. In this excellent study aid, the authors look at the nature and purpose of sleeping and related disorders, dreaming and hypnosis. This clear and focused introduction provides a fantastic entry point fo... read more

When can we trust what we believe - that "teams and players have winning streaks", that "flattery works", or that "the more people who agree, the more likely they are to be right" - and when are such beliefs suspect? Thomas Gilovich offers a guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life. Illust... read more