Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences, Paperback - Thomas Szasz

Reducere. From one of the most renowned and controversial thinkers in behavioral science, here is a critical examination of the way both science and society ...

* A new book by one of the world s leading anthropologists and a leading figure in the study of material culture. * Brings together Miller s key wr...

Developmental Coordination Disorder and its Consequences is the most comprehensive volume to cover the health and social consequences of DCD in chi...

Although many clinical treatments target symptoms of PTSD, an optimal treatment strategy would also address the many health problems that co-occur....

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

National Bestseller On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts...

Reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. In this title, the author's study of the killings and subsequ...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Eli TzipermanIllustration(s): 150 color illus.Number of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions:...

A revealing and surprising look at how classification systems can shape both worldviews and social interactions.What do a seventeenth-century morta...

Moving, sometimes funny and often dramatic, the pieces are written by some of the key activists in the mental health survivors' movement, as well a...

Reducere. Inform your theology by delving into E. L. Mascall's discussion about the incarnation of the Son of God and its crucial connection to the individua...

DescriptionHumanity is a part of Nature, yet every thinking person at one time or another asks herself or himself, "How did we get here? What makes...

Reducere. This volume collects novel contributions to comparative generative linguistics that "rethink" existing approaches to an extensive range of phenomen...

Reducere. Ethics of Psychoanalysis, Paperback

Reducere. DescriptionWhy are we sleepwalking toward a foreordained ecological collapse? What is the connection between the ecological crisis and the breakdow...

Reducere. For more than half a century Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to a radical critique of psychiatry. His latest work, Psychiatry: The Scie...

Reducere. Planet Hurt Volume One: The Idea & The Process is a revolutionary psychological eye opener and guidebook of sorts for those who wish to improve the...

Reducere. In Western thought, suicide has evolved from sin to sin and crime, to crime, to mental illness, and to semilegal act. A legal act is one we are fre...

Reducere. For over half a century Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to a radical critique of psychiatry. His latest work is a culmination of his li...

In this brilliantly original and highly accessible work, Thomas Szasz demonstrates the futility of analyzing the mind as a collection of brain func...

Reducere. Szasz argues that the word schizophrenia does not stand for a genuine disease, that psychiatry has invented the concept as a sacred symbol to justi...

Reducere. DescriptionE. Fuller Torrey, the author of the definitive guides to schizophrenia and manic depression, chronicles a disastrous swing in the balanc...

Reducere. In Our Right to Drugs, Szasz shows how the present drug war started at the beginning of this century, when the US government first assumed the task...

Reducere. Every age, labels others to a particular fate, such as the witch consigned to the fire. The priest has now been replaced by the psychiatrist and th...

Reducere. In this polemical response to the controversy about drug use and drug criminalization, Thomas Szasz suggests that governments have overstepped thei...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Lilliana MasonIllustration(s): 45 line drawings, 7 tablesNumber of pages: 224Collection: Chica...

Written by a leading academic in the field of leadership, with a practitioner co-author, this book combines the theory and research from both a bus...

This book explains why and how the U.S. and NATO military gains have not produced the expected political victory, and calls for rethinking U.S. pol...

Wandering the Wards provides a detailed and unflinching ethnographic examination of life within the contemporary hospital.Publisher: Taylor & Franc...

Reducere. Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psycho-Analysis and Psychiatry, Paperback

11 Oak Street is the true story of how the Queen's bankers, Coutts & Co, sent two cashier's cheques to a law firm in San Francisco with the wrong a...

This collection gathers a stellar roster of contributors to offer a range of perspectives from different disciplines to attempt to understand the p...

Reducere. More than fifty years ago, Thomas Szasz showed that the concept of mental illness - a disease of the mind - is an oxymoron, a metaphor, a myth. In ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Lilliana MasonIllustration(s): 45 line drawings, 7 tablesNumber of pages: 216Collection: Chica...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Daniel ChirotIllustration(s): 1 table.Number of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 2...

Reducere. DescriptionThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.Th...

11 Oak Street is the true story of how the Queen's bankers, Coutts & Co, sent two cashier's cheques to a law firm in San Francisco with the wrong a...

In this work Dr. Szasz dispels popular and scientific confusion about what pain and pleasure actually are. Demonstrating the doubtful value of such...

Reducere. This is an excellent book, a solid, well-written and very smart work. I couldn't put it down. It is superb. Dr. Sternberg is an excellent story-tel...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Read BooksAuthor(s): H H ThomasNumber of pages: 82Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 139 x 218 x 7Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedesco...

Reducere. It is easy for us to believe that as a society we are getting smarter, at least as measured by IQ tests. This supposed improvement, the Flynn Effec...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom a Harvard scholar and former Obama official, a powerful proposal for curtailing violent crime in America Urban violence is one of t...

Reducere. This is the first republication of Volume 1 of a rare three volume set of books favoring polygamy. In 1781, when this book was first published, the...

Publisher: Key Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Thomas, AndyIllustration(s): 180Number of pages: 96Collection: Britain's Railways SeriesPublication date: 2...

The recent rash of corporate scandals--and the ensuing financial ruin of companies and their stockholders -- proves that even the bluest of blue ch...