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Mental Traveler A Father, a Son, and a Journey through Schizophrenia
ISBN: HB: 9780226695938, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 18 halftones
How does a parent make sense of a child's severe mental illness? How does a father meet the daily challenges of caring for his gifted but delusional son, while seeking to overcome the stigma of madness and the limits of psychiatry?  W. J. T. Mitchell...
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£18,00
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Master and His Emissary The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
ISBN: PB: 9780300245929, Yale University Press, February 2019
616 pp., 21x14 cm, 15 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain – the place where mind meets matter. Until recently, the left hemisphere of our brain has been seen as the 'rational' side, the superior partner to the right. But is this...
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£14,99
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Why We Fight
ISBN: HB: 9781849048897, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
328 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Why are we willing to die for our countries? How can ideology persuade someone to blow themselves up? When we go to war, morality, religion and ideology often take the blame. But Mike Martin boldly argues that the opposite is...
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£20,00
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Girl's Childhood Psychological Development, Social Change, and the Yale Child Study Center
ISBN: HB: 9780300117592, Yale University Press, December 2014
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 40 black&white illus.
Sixty years ago, a group of prominent psychoanalysts, developmentalists, pediatricians, and educators at the Yale Child Center joined together with the purpose of formulating a general psychoanalytic theory of children's early development. The group'...
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£65,00
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Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon Toward a Political History of Madness
ISBN: HB: 9780226025735, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
"The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon" is built around a bizarre historical event and an off-hand challenge. The event? In December 1840, nearly twenty years after his death, the remains of Napoleon were returned to Paris for burial – and the next day...
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£36,00
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Sites of the Unconscious Hypnosis and the Emergence of the Psychoanalytic Setting
ISBN: HB: 9780226057958, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 4 line drawings
In the late nineteenth century, scientists, psychiatrists, and medical practitioners began employing a new experimental technique for the study of neuroses: hypnotism. Though the efforts of the famous French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot to transfo...
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£39,00
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Parents and Their Deaf Children The Early Years
ISBN: HB: 9781563681370, Gallaudet University Press, April 2003
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
To correct the paucity of information on deaf or hard of hearing children and their parents' experiences with early intervention services, researchers explored these relationships as part of the National Parent Project. From this investigation, "Pare...
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£46,00
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