Written three years before his death, The Undiscovered Self combines acuity with concision in masterly fashion and is Jung at his very best. Offering clear and crisp insights into some of his major theories, such as the duality of human nature, the unconscious, human instinct and spirituality, Jung warns against the threats of totalitarianism and political and social propaganda to the free-thinking individual. As timely now as when it was first written, Jung's vision is a salutary reminder of...

Provides an introduction to the field of psychology, from its origins to the present, and shows the contribution of psychology to understanding human behaviour and experience. This book introduces students to the five core conceptual frameworks (or approaches) to psychology: biological; behaviourist; cognitive; psychodynamic; and humanistic.

This fully revised edition of the popular textbook provides an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to the psychology of language. It contains everything the student needs to know about how we acquire, understand, produce, and store language.

This succinct but absorbing book covers the main way stations on James Reason's 40-year journey in pursuit of the nature and varieties of human error. In it he presents an engrossing and very personal perspective, offering the reader exceptional insights, wisdom and wit as only James Reason can. The journey begins with a bizarre absent-minded action slip committed by Professor Reason in the early 1970s - putting cat food into the teapot - and continues up to the present day, conveying his uni...

With a more specific focus than the all-encompassing textbook, each title in the Foundations of Psychology series enables students who are new to psychology to get to grips with a key area of psychological research, while also developing an understanding of basic concepts, debates, and research methodologies. In this book Diana Jackson-Dwyer presents an introductory survey of classic and recent research on relationships and the theories that underpin them. The book starts with a brief overvie...

Statistiek is voor veel studenten psychologie een struikelblok in hun studie. Deze inleidende serie Statistiek voor de psychologie presenteert de stof daarom zo toegankelijk mogelijk: in een strakke didactische structuur, zonder een overdaad aan formules en voorzien van vele voorbeelden en opgaven. De inleidingen bereiden je voor op het doen van zelfstandig onderzoek, zoals dat nodig is voor het schrijven van een scriptie of artikel. Daarnaast leer je zelfstandig wetenschappelijke artikelen e...