The message of social psychology

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Richard Sennett

A landmark study of urban society, reissued for the 40th anniversary of the original publication with a new epilogue by the author. A sweeping, farsighted study of the changing nature of public culture and urban society, The Fall of Public Man spans more than two centuries of Western sociopolitical evolution and investigates the causes of our declining involvement in political life. Richard Sennett’s insights into the danger of the cult of individualism remain thoroughly relevant to our world today. In a new epilogue, he extends his analysis to the new “public” realm of social media, questioning how public culture has fared since the digital revolution.

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Albert Ellis

In Better, Deeper, and More Enduring Brief Therapy, Albert Ellis, founder of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, describes how REBT can help clients to significantly improve in a short period of time (10 to 20 sessions) and effect a profound philosophical-emotional-behavioral change - more often than can be achieved with other popular forms of therapy. In a comprehensive, accessible format, Dr. Ellis offers his theories, practices, verbatim sessions, and other materials that help to describe how REBT can be a valuable asset in psychotherapeutic treatment. He clearly elaborates those REBT methods best suited to helping people reduce their neurotic symptoms and achieve more fulfilling individual and social lives. He also includes alternative approaches that often prove effective, as well as common pitfalls to avoid when employing them.

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Roland Littlewood

"Roland Littlewood marshals arguments that help us understand more clearly how we interactively use religion and science/healing to come to terms with the world around us. He draws in part on his clinical work as a psychiatrist with patients from religious movements in the West, but primarily on his earlier anthropological fieldwork with a new African-Caribbean religion in Trinidad, and more recently with ethical transformations in the older Caribbean cults and among the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Hasidim. There exists a close relationship between the explanations of misfortune, reconciliation, and restitution in the historical - and other - religions and in therapeutics. Professor Littlewood believes that cosmological and redemptive assumptions exist in any type of healing, whether physical or psychological. Spiritual and healing theories interact in surprising ways, and he examines the religious aspect in systems of therapeutics as well as appearance of healing practices within social institutions that are generally regarded as religious."--BOOK JACKET.

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Philip Hesketh

"Learn how to influence others and get your own way more often Wouldn't it be great if you could get the pay rise you've asked for, win the business you've pitched for or get that job you so desperately want? Well, with this book you can learn how to get inside the head of the person making the decision and find out exactly what is it that's going to get them to say yes! Persuade explains the seven psychological drivers that motivate us all. By understanding these drivers and the impact they have on our own lives, we can gain valuable insights into how we can motivate ourselves, improve our relationships, negotiate more effectively, get people to like us and ultimately get our own way more often. Persuade: Is written in Phil's trademark humourous, yet well-researched style Draws from scientific and psychological sources Is delivered in short, accessible, bite-sized chapters "-- "Asking for a pay rise, pitching to win a client inbusiness, going for a job interview or even simply asking afriend for a favour...we all have areas of our lives where we'd love to hear a yes more often. We need to understand what's going on inside the head of the person making the decision and find out exactly what is it that's going to get them to agree. In this book, Phil Hesketh explores the seven key pyschological drivers that motivate us all and influence our behaviour and choices. Just what is it that makes a person decide one way over another? And how can we sway them to help turn the tables our way? THE SEVEN DRIVERS - The need to be loved - The need to feel important - The deep- seated need to belong - The need to believe - The need for some certainty and some uncertainty in our lives - The need for 'a place' - The need for growth and improvement Written in Phil's trademark humourous, yet well-researched style, (drawing from scientific and pyschological sources to the wisdom of Coco Chanel) this book shows us how by understanding these drivers and the impact they have on our own lives, we can gain valuable insights into how we can motivate ourselves, improve our relationships, negotiate more effectively, get people to like us and ultimately get our own way more often"--