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  • Contextualising Eating Disorders

    The Hidden Social Contexts of Unusual Eating

    Series series Exploring the Environmental and Social Foundations of Human Behaviour
    This book rethinks the diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders by putting the spotlight on their social and societal contexts, examining how these behaviours are shaped by the difficult life conditions of those suffering.Drawing on the lived experiences of nine women, this book uses in-depth case studies and interviews to discuss eating disorders with a Social Contextual Analysis framework. It ... Read more

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  • Conducting Contextual Research

    How to Find Out About Yourself and Other People

    Series series Exploring the Environmental and Social Foundations of Human Behaviour
    This innovative book proposes an entirely new approach to social research, presenting practical ways to discover people’s life contexts in order to understand why they do what they do, which is essential for any forms of research that need to understand people.Taking a novel approach that goes beyond traditional categorisations of qualitative and quantitative research, the book starts by ... Read more

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  • Turning Psychology into a Social Science

    Series series Exploring the Environmental and Social Foundations of Human Behaviour
    This radical book explores a new understanding of psychology based on human engagement with external contexts, rather than what goes on inside our heads. It is part of a trilogy that offers a new way of doing psychology, focusing on people’s social and societal environments as determining their behaviour, rather than internal and individualistic attributions.By showing that we engage directly with ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Reimagining Therapy through Social Contextual Analyses

    Finding New Ways to Support People in Distress

    Series series Exploring the Environmental and Social Foundations of Human Behaviour
    This book attempts to ‘shake up’ the current complacency around therapy and ‘mental health’ behaviours by putting therapy fully into context using Social Contextual Analysis; showing how changes to our social, discursive, and societal environments, rather than changes to an individual’s ‘mind’, will reduce suffering from the ‘mental health’ behaviours.Guerin challenges many assumptions about both ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Turning Psychology into Social Contextual Analysis

    Series series Exploring the Environmental and Social Foundations of Human Behaviour
    This groundbreaking book shows how we can build a better understandingof people by merging psychology with the social sciences. It is part of atrilogy that offers a new way of doing psychology focusing on people’ssocial and societal environments as determining their behaviour, rather thaninternal and individualistic attributions.Putting the ‘social’ properly back into psychology, Bernard Guerin ... Read more

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  • Turning Mental Health into Social Action

    Series series Exploring the Environmental and Social Foundations of Human Behaviour
    This book offers a refreshing new approach to mental health by showing how ‘mental health’ behaviours, lived experiences, and our interventions arise from our social worlds and not from our neurophysiology gone wrong. It is part of a trilogy which offers a new way of doing psychology focusing on people’s social and societal environments as determining their behaviour, rather than internal and ... Read more

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  • How to Rethink Psychology

    New metaphors for understanding people and their behavior

    Series series Exploring the Environmental and Social Foundations of Human Behaviour
    Based on the author’s forty years of experience in psychology, philosophy, and the social sciences, How to Rethink Psychology argues that to understand people we need to know more about their contexts than the dominant modes of thinking and research presently allow. Drawing upon insights from sources as diverse as Freud, CBT, quantum physics, and Zen philosophy, the book offers several fascinating ... Read more

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  • How to Rethink Mental Illness

    The Human Contexts Behind the Labels

    Series series Exploring the Environmental and Social Foundations of Human Behaviour
    The world of mental illness is typically framed around symptoms and cures, where every client is given a label. In this challenging new book, Professor Bernard Guerin provides a fresh alternative to considering these issues, based in interdisciplinary social sciences and discourse analysis rather than medical studies or cognitive metaphors.A timely and articulate challenge to mainstream approaches ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • How to Rethink Human Behavior

    A Practical Guide to Social Contextual Analysis

    Series series Exploring the Environmental and Social Foundations of Human Behaviour
    Developed from the author’s long teaching career, How to Rethink Human Behavior aims to cultivate practical skills in human observation and analysis, rather than offer a catalogue of immutable ‘facts’. It synthesizes key psychological concepts with insights from other disciplines, including sociology, social anthropology, economics, and history.The skills detailed in the book will help readers to ... Read more

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  • Social Psychology

    A Guide To Social and Cultural Psychology Fourth Edition

    Series Book 35 - An Introductory Series
    This engaging 4th edition is perfect for psychology students and professionals alike!Do you want to learn why groups behave like they do?Do you want to learn how our groups influence us?Do you want to learn how our culture impacts our behaviour?If the answer to any of these questions and more is yes, then this is the book for you!In this book, you’ll learn about social and cultural psychology and ... Read more

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  • The Trauma Myth

    The Truth About the Sexual Abuse of Children--and Its Aftermath

    Drawing on the latest research on memory and traumatic experience, Susan Clancy, an expert in experimental psychopathology, demonstrates that children describe abuse and molestation encounters in ways that don't fit the conventional trauma model. In fact, the most common feeling reported is not fear but confusion.Clancy calls for an honest look at sexual abuse and its aftermath, and argues that ... Read more

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