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Author
Publisher
American Psychological Association
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
'A comprehensive overview of the field of counseling psychology that surveys key professional practices, interventions, research, and basic concepts. It examines the growth of the field; its foundations; contributions to research; and the ways in which counseling psychologists have helped develop effective practices in psychotherapy and counseling.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Passions and Tempers may excite passions and tempers in some of its readers, as a good work of intellectual history should. You will learn a lot from its pages."
-Washington Post
The humours-blood, phlegm, black bile, and choler-were substances thought to circulate within the body and determine a person's health, mood, and character. The theory of humours remained an inexact but powerful tool for centuries, surviving scientific changes and offering...
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Is there a resemblance between the contemporary anorexic teenager counting every calorie in her single-minded pursuit of thinness, and an ascetic medieval saint examining her every desire? Rudolph M. Bell suggests that the answer is yes.
"Everyone interested in anorexia nervosa . . . should skim this book or study it. It will make you realize how dependent upon culture the definition of disease is. I will never look at an anorexic patient in the...