Social Psychology & Interactions

Many countries have reduced dramatically the proportion of patients in psychiatric hospitals in favour of community care. The demand for mental health care in the community keeps growing, and cannot be met by traditional, conventional services alone. Radical and innovative approaches are now being r... More

Trying to change human behaviour seems to have become a pandemic of our times. A Change Industry has developed, with beneficial objectives and strong moral standards but which uses processes that are to a large extent accepted as articles of faith. Without defining what we mean by 'change' it is dif... More

Routledge is now re-issuing this prestigious series of 204 volumes originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include works by key figures such asC.G. Jung, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Otto Rank, James Hillman, Erich Fromm, Karen Horney and Susan Isaacs. Each volume is available on its o... More

Addressing Violence, Abuse and Oppression provides a broad overview of violence in relation to a range of groups and areas that social workers and human service professionals work with - men, women, children, mental health, youth, older people, the workplace, disability, sexuality and rural communit... More

The essential guide to getting ahead and knowing what other people are thinking...before they know what they are thinking A fascinating, highly illustrated guide to the secret language of body gestures and postures that reveals what we really think and mean.• If you cross your legs are you relaxe... More

Contributed papers presented at a seminar held in New Delhi in November 2002.... More

This volume is an important complement to Wasserman and Faust's Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (Cambridge, 1995). The authors, leading methodologists, present the most significant developments in quantitative models and methods for analyzing social network data that appeared in th... More

This book enables the readers to investigate astrology for themselves, to watch the year-by-year workings of the planets in their ownlives and to see with their own eyes how and under what circumstances they respond to planetary influences. New Book... More

Culture in Minds and Societies: Foundations of Cultural Psychology makes a decisive break from the post-modernist theoretical framework that considers knowledge as local and situation-specific. It restores the goal of construction of general knowledge to the social sciences. While recognizing the un... More

This book contains a clear text and methodicalanalyses of the vital aspects of the subject in detail. It puts social entities such as neighbourhood,community, region, ethnicity, assimilation, cultural identity, and public-government interface in the appropriate perspective. The text has been conveni... More

Feminist Psychology introduces a distinctive new mode of doing psychology. This psychology is based on an increasingly popular range of ideas called social constructionism. Within the book, new forms of theory and methods of inquiry relating social constructionism to feminist topics are introduced. ... More

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