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Emotionally Disturbed A History of Caring for America's Troubled Children
ISBN: HB: 9780226621432, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 3 line drawings
Before the 1940s, children in the United States with severe emotional difficulties would have had few options for care. The first option was usually a child guidance clinic within the community, but they might also have been placed in a state mental...
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£34,00
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Empathy A History
ISBN: HB: 9780300222685, Yale University Press, September 2018
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.
"Empathy: A History" tells the fascinating and largely unknown story of the first appearance of "empathy" in 1908 and tracks its shifting meanings over the following century. Despite empathy's ubiquity today, few realize that it began as a translatio...
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£20,00
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Erotic Attunement Parenthood and the Ethics of Sensuality between Unequals
ISBN: HB: 9780226811383, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
376 pp., 22x15 cm
Heightened awareness of the problem of sexual abuse has led to deep anxiety over adults touching children – in nearly any context. Though our society has moved toward increasingly strict enforcement of this taboo, studies have shown that young childr...
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£56,00
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Enacting Pleasure A Response to Carol Gilligan's New Map of Love
ISBN: HB: 9781906497699, Seagull Books, May 2011
300 pp., 25x15 cm, 2 halftones
In her book "In a Different Voice", psychologist Carol Gilligan proffered the controversial idea that a psychology of male development could not suffice as a psychology of all human development, both male and female. Since the publication of that rev...
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£26,50
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Educating Intuition
ISBN: PB: 9780226348629, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 line drawings, 7 tables, 3 halftones
In "Educating Intuition", Robin M. Hogarth offers the first comprehensive overview of what the science of psychology can tell us about intuition – where it comes from, how it works, whether we can trust it. He finds that intuition is a normal and imp...
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£23,00
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