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  • Constructing Panic

    The Discourse of Agoraphobia

    by Lisa Capps, Elinor Ochs ...
    Meg Logan has not been farther than two miles from home in six years. She has agoraphobia, a debilitating anxiety disorder that entraps its sufferers in the fear of leaving safe havens such as home. Paradoxically, while at this safe haven, agoraphobics spend much of their time ruminating over past panic experiences and imagining similar hypothetical situations. In doing so, they create a narrative ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Constructing Panic

    The Discourse of Agoraphobia

    by Lisa Capps, Elinor Ochs ...
    Meg Logan has not been farther than two miles from home in six years. She has agoraphobia, a debilitating anxiety disorder that entraps its sufferers in the fear of leaving safe havens such as home. Paradoxically, while at this safe haven, agoraphobics spend much of their time ruminating over past panic experiences and imagining similar hypothetical situations. In doing so, they create a narrative ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Acquiring conversational competence

    by Elinor Ochs, Bambi B. Schieffelin ...
    Series series RLE: Discourse Analysis
    First published in 1983, this book represents a substantial body of detailed research on children’s language and communication, and more generally on the nature of interactive spoken discourse. It looks at areas of competence often examined in young children’s speech have that have not been described for adults — leading to insights not only in the character of adult conversation but also the ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Fast-Forward Family

    Home, Work, and Relationships in Middle-Class America

    Edited by Elinor Ochs, Tamar Kremer-Sadlik ...
    Called "the most unusually voyeuristic anthropology study ever conducted" by the New York Times, this groundbreaking book provides an unprecedented glimpse into modern-day American families. In a study by the UCLA Sloan Center on Everyday Lives and Families, researchers tracked the daily lives of 32 dualworker middle class Los Angeles families between 2001 and 2004. The results are startling, and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Handbook of Language Socialization

    Edited by Alessandro Duranti, Elinor Ochs, Bambi B. Schieffelin ...
    Series Book 72 - Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
    Documenting how in the course of acquiring language children become speakers and members of communities, The Handbook of Language Socialization is a unique reference work for an emerging and fast-moving field.Spans the fields of anthropology, education, applied linguistics, and human developmentIncludes the latest developments in second and heritage language socialization, and literary and media ... Read more

    $55.00 USD

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  • The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

    by Daniel N. Stern ...
    Series series Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology
    While most psychotherapies agree that therapeutic work in the 'here and now' has the greatest power to bring about change, few if any books have ever addressed the problem of what 'here and now' actually means.Beginning with the claim that we are psychologically alive only in the now, internationally acclaimed child psychiatrist Daniel N. Stern tackles vexing yet fascinating questions such as: ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Therapeutic Communication

    Knowing What to Say When

    by Paul L. Wachtel, PhD ...
    A uniquely practical guide and widely adopted text, this book shows precisely what therapists can say at key moments to enhance the process of healing and change. Paul Wachtel explains why some communications in therapy are particularly effective, while others that address essentially the same content may actually be countertherapeutic. He offers clear and specific guidelines for how to ask ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Psychology

    by Amelie von Zumbusch ...
    Series series The Britannica Guide to the Social Sciences
    This volume is a comprehensive overview of the scientific discipline that studies psychological and biological processes and behavior in humans and other animals. It features chapters on the history of the field, the thought process, memory, theories of personality, and key figures—such as William James, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, B. F. Skinner, and Daniel Kahneman—who helped shape the field. The ... Read more

    $32.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Metaphor in Practice

    A Professional's Guide to Using the Science of Language in Psychotherapy

    by Niklas Törneke, MD ...
    "Approachable and user-friendly."—The Professional CounselorThe use of metaphor is central to the implementation of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and is a powerful tool for all practicing psychotherapists. In Metaphor in Practice, psychotherapist Niklas Törneke presents the first practical book to combine the behavioral and linguistic sciences of ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Child Development in Educational Settings

    by Marilyn Fleer ...
    Child Development in Educational Settings provides a comprehensive introduction to traditional and contemporary theories of development and learning in the contexts of early childhood and primary education. Drawing upon the experiences and perspectives of children, families, educators and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scholars, Marilyn Fleer provides insights into significant theories and ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • The Narcissistic and Borderline Disorders

    An Integrated Developmental Approach

    by James F. Masterson, M.D. ...
    This volume presents a fully integrated developmental approach that not only differentiates between varying etiologies of the narcissistic and borderline disorders but also provides a detailed guide to effective treatment. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Remembered Self

    Emotion and Memory in Personality

    by Jefferson A. Singer, Peter Salovey ...
    A theory for psychologists on the role of memory in personality psychology.In The Remembered Self, Jefferson A. Singer and Peter Salovey persuasively argue that memories are an important window into one's life story, revealing characteristic moods, motives, and thinking patterns. Through experimental evidence, clinical case material, and examples from literature, the authors offer a fresh ... Read more

    $19.99 USD