Published February, 2008
By Richard C. Friedman and Jennifer I. Downey
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Shows how important it is for students of human sexuality to understand motives that are often irrational and unconscious. This book presents a perspective about male and female development, emphasizing the ways in which sexual orientation and homophobia appear early in life. It focuses on the psychodynamics and treatment of homophobia.

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Published December, 2007
By Daniel N. Robinson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Questions our approach to the study of consciousness and the way modern discoveries either mirror or contradict understandings reached in the centuries leading up to our own. Approaching the issue from both a philosophical and a psychological perspective, this work corrects many claims made about the success of brain science.

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Published November, 2007
By Marian Bussey and Judith Bula Wise
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Offers approaches necessary for successful and empowering interventions across the trauma spectrum. This book provides insight into the psychological and spiritual resources practitioners need to help victims move forward and improve upon their circumstances. It helps readers learn to strengthen their sense of self to prevent secondary trauma.

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Published November, 2007
By Marian Bussey and Judith Bula Wise
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Offers approaches necessary for successful and empowering interventions across the trauma spectrum. This book provides insight into the psychological and spiritual resources practitioners need to help victims move forward and improve upon their circumstances. It helps readers learn to strengthen their sense of self to prevent secondary trauma.

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Published September, 2007
By Jerrold R. Brandell and Shoshana Ringel
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Examines attachment theory and its relationship to other psychodynamic theories of development, from Sigmund Freud to Heinz Kohut, and then discusses the contributions of John Bowlby, the "father" of modern attachment theory. This book also focuses on clinical applications with child, adolescent, and adult client populations.

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Published August, 2007
By John Fiscalini
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Traditionally, two clinical models have been dominant in psychoanalysis: the classical paradigm, which views the analyst as an objective mirror, and the participant-observation paradigm, which views the analyst as an intersubjective participant-observer. This book defines coparticipant inquiry and articulates its major principles.

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Published June, 2007
By Phil Brown, Lois Marie Gibbs and Lois Gibbs
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Drawing on environmental and medical sociology, environmental justice, and social movement studies, this work looks at the ways scientific findings are made available to the public and the changing nature of policy offers a new perspective on health and the environment and the relationship among people, knowledge, power, and authority.

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Published April, 2007
By Daniel C. Dennett, Maxwell Bennett, Maxwell R. Bennett, Peter Hacker, John Searle, Daniel N. Robinson and Daniel Dennett
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Presents fundamentally different conceptions of philosophical method, cognitive-neuroscientific explanation, and human nature. This book discusses the clash of philosophers and neuroscientists over the conceptual presuppositions of cognitive neuroscience. It is useful for those interested in the relation of mind to brain.

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Published December, 2006
By Julie G. Cwikel and Julie Cwikel
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Tracking the distribution of disease and pinpointing relevant risk factors, this book reveals how social problems are intrinsically linked to the health of populations. This book shows how the growing field of social epidemiology is both practical and activist. It draws on empirical findings to conduct policymaking research.

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Published November, 2006
By Elliot S. Valenstein and Elliot Valenstein
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Presents the saga of the dispute between the pharmacologists, who had uncovered the first evidence that nerves communicate by releasing chemicals, and the neurophysiologists, experts on the nervous system, who dismissed the evidence and remained committed to electrical explanations.

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