Book Reviews - February 2008

Experimental Psychology

The main goal of the book is to highlight that the research methods are the most enjoyable –and the easiest to learn- when you are actively involved and to teach the readers how to phrase questions scientifically, how to design and conduct scientific research and how to interpret and communicate the results. (more...)

 

Book Reviews - November 2007

The Contact Work Primer

“Much more than a primer … this is a superb practical introduction to Pre-Therapy and contact work that will be of value to all mental health professionals working with contact-impaired individuals”..... Pre-Therapy as individual psychotherapy was born in the United Sates and contact work for institutional settings was developed in Europe. This book reflects the development of contact work with growing range of clients. (more...)

 

Book Reviews - November 2007

CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY: A ONCE AND FUTURE DISCIPLINE

Undoubtedly we are now witnessing the dawns of a new era in the theory and practice of Wundt’s “second psychology”, an era of re-discovery and re-assessment of all key issues that concern the maturation of a discipline. At such times proposing integrated and viable approaches to the study of mind and culture is both daring and praiseworthy. Michael Cole, Professor of Communication and Psychology at the University of California, San Diego, has successfully undertook such a task and by this offered us an exemplary textbook of “contemporary” cultural psychology. (more...)

 

Book Reviews - August 2007

Regulating the Psychological Therapies – From Taxonomy to Taxidermy

Denis Postle, the author of this book, is not the typical therapist or writer. He epitomizes the creative personality with a history of two decades as an accomplished documentary film-maker, who decided to use his talent and devotion to make psychotherapy a fit home for the human spirit. (more...)

 

Book Reviews - May 2007

Handbook of Research Methods in Industrial and Organizational Psychology

To cover an extensive topic such as research methods in organizational psychology is most definitely an ambitious goal. Nowadays more than ever researchers and practitioners are dealing with an overwhelming variety of methods and designs. With these new concerns arise, among them the problem of choosing the most adequate methodology, of increasing the validity of our instruments, of collecting and reporting data while respecting research ethics. (more...)

 

Book Reviews - February 2007

TA Today: A New Introduction to Transactional Analysis.

Transactional analysis is a theory of personality that can be applied in virtually all fields of psychology: educational, counseling, organizational and psychotherapy. Besides the theory on personality, TA also provides us with a theory of communication, a theory of child development, and a theory of psychopathology. (more...)

 

Book Reviews - November 2006

A Mind for Structure: Exploring the Roots of Intelligent Systems

The nature of mind, its origins, evolution, and working principles, is an area besieged by psychologists, cognitive scientists, biologists, anthropologists, mathematicians, comp-uter modellers, and even physicists. (more...)

 

Book Reviews - August 2006

GROUP COMPOSITION AND EFFECTIVENESS

In the context of group research, group composition represents an aspect that provide to be both theoretical and practical relevant. The theoretical relevance emerges from the models of group effectiveness including group composition as central drivers of group outcomes. Furthermore, the results concerning the implications of group composition for group effectiveness are mixed and no clear pattern seems to emerge from the scientific literature, representing an intellectually challenging in this field. The research field has a major practical implication because group composition is an essential element in group design as well as in “human resources engineering” outlining ways in which managers can create effective groups or improve the functioning of their work groups. (more...)

 

Book Reviews - May 2006

Destructive Emotions: How can we overcome them?

by Daniel Goleman Reviewed by Mihaela Popa Chraif MA degree - DAFI (Capital Markets Management and Stocks– ASE) Student at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Bucharest “Most of the human dramas and suffering are the effects of destructive emotions, as the hate feeds violence and the strong needs feed the dependence. One of our greatest responsibilities as human beings full of compassion for our co-habitants is to reduce the human losses caused by those destructive emotions.” (Dalai Lama, 28 august 2002) (more...)

 

Book Reviews - February 2006

The three Financial Styles of Very Successful Leaders

By E. Ted Prince Dr. E. Ted Prince is the Founder of Perth Leadership Institute. For more than two decades, he was a CEO for both public and private companies in New York, Boston and the United Kingdom thus achieving great experience in the organizational behavior field. He has had extensive operating background at the CEO level in both public and private companies. Dr. Prince was Chairman and CEO of Clearstory System (CSYS, formerly INSCI Corp) a Boston-based public (NASDAQ) company that developed software for enterprise content management. He has consulted with numerous companies and has served on the boards of many others. Also, he has had extensive experience in the merges and acquisitions field and has acquired many companies in both the US and overseas including Europe and Asia. Mr. Ted Prince is the architect of Perth’s Leadership Outcome Model (PLOM), the basis for the Perth Leadership System. (more...)

 

Book Reviews - November 2005

The Therapy for the Sane

The Therapy for the Sane How Philosophy Can Change Your Life by Lou Marinoff Bloomsbury USA, 2003 Review by Ben Mulvey, Ph.D In his Gorgias Plato has Socrates explain that his philosophical discussion concerns "a matter in which even a man of slight intelligence must take the profoundest of interest--namely, what course of life is best." In the Apology Socrates justifies his mission by claiming "life without this sort of examination is not worth living." Thus, there is little doubt that from its earliest recorded history the discipline of philosophy has been deeply concerned with how people are to best live their lives. (more...)