"Learn how to overcome anxiety, self-doubt, and self-sabotage without needing to rely on motivation or willpower - now updated with expanded guidance and contemplative exercises to help change the way you think. In this book, you'll discover the root cause of all psychological and emotional suffering and how to achieve freedom of mind to effortlessly create the life you've always wanted to live. Although pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. This book offers a completely new paradigm and understanding of where our human experience comes from, allowing us to end our own suffering and create how we want to feel at any moment"-- Provided by publisher.

"Comprehensive and integrated survey of the field of affective science. The text covers the major theories of emotion in detail and reviews both classic and cutting-edge research on emotional processes from various subdisciplines. The authors' thoughtful engagement with ongoing controversies, contradictory findings, methodological limitations, and replication failures encourages critical thinking. While highly rigorous, the text is also student-friendly, with a light, humorous tone, real-world stories, and an intuitive structure. Emotion, Third Edition, addresses the questions undergraduates are most likely to ask: Why do we have emotions? How do they affect our lives? and How can we improve emotional well-being?"--

"Volume One of The History of Psychology through Symbols provides a groundbreaking approach by expanding the roots of psychology beyond the Greeks to concurrent events during the same period (800 BCE-200 BCE), defined as the Axial Age by German-Swiss psychiatrist Karl Jaspers. The Axial Age emphasized seeking the universal connection that unites all humanity, a focus not on what one believed, but how one lived. This includes the human desire to connect to something greater, the totality of being human, explained by using symbols, the universal language. This volume describes the psychological implications of the Axial Age through the developments of Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Daoism, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism, as well as Greek thought. Rooted in the Axial Age, Volume One explores how the Christian and Islamic eras influenced psychology, which resulted in the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution, which provided the historic roots of modern psychology. Rejecting the idea that science transcends historical events, this volume provides a political, socioeconomic, and cultural context for all the historic developments. The chapter on the history of mental illness provides inspiration for a new mental health system with specific recommendations for radical system reform. In the spirit of the Axial Age on the importance of how one lives, there is an emphasis on engagement with symbols and with specific exercises, called emancipatory opportunities, to apply the lessons of psychological history to daily life. This book is ideal for those seeking a dynamic and engaging way of learning about or teaching the history of psychology and would also be of interest to students, practitioners, and scholars of science, philosophy, history and systems, religious studies, art, and mental health and drug and alcohol treatment, as well as those interested in applying the lessons of history to daily life." -- Amazon.com viewed October 28, 2025

"Volume 27 of Heidegger's Complete Works offers a translation of the lecture course Einleitung in die Philosophie, which Martin Heidegger delivered in the winter semester of 1928-29 at the University of Freiburg. This course represents an important bridge between the last course Heidegger offered at Marburg in summer semester 1928, The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic, and the seminal winter semester 1929-30 course The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics. The two major themes treated in the course are the relation between philosophy and science and that between philosophy and Weltanschauung. It will come as no surprise to those familiar with Heidegger's work and teaching that the course is anything but a schematic introduction to an academic discipline labeled Philosophy. It is designed instead as a veritable initiation into philosophical thinking, with the stated aim of "getting philosophizing underway.""--

"This key textbook introduces students to the field of industrial and organizational psychology, explaining how industrial-organizational psychologists make work and working better. It explains how industrial-organizational psychologists help organizations hire the best people, make work safer and less stressful, and support managers and leaders to be more effective at leading others. It also describes how industrial-organizational psychologists work with organizations to embrace diversity in the workforce, design the physical work environment to best suit employees, and market their products and services to consumers. Rich with various pedagogical tools and real-world examples, the book will be of interest to undergraduate students in introduction industrial-organizational psychology or psychology of work behaviour courses"--

"If the perpetual seeker of a truthful person in ancient Greece, Diogenes, met Sigmund Freud whose theory of personality included multiple selves (i.e., ego, id, and superego), could they argue to a resolution? In a famous experiment with chronic schizophrenics who believed they were each Jesus Christ, Rokeach (1964) brought three of them into the Ypsilanti State Mental Hospital in Michigan. They were placed in the same ward to see how they would handle each other's claims. Surprisingly, they worked out that each of them was Jesus Christ but each was a different aspect or part of Jesus. Although wondering about yourself and life is likely to have haunted early hominids, the concept of an individual self seems to have gathered momentum around 1,000 CE. It is during this period that a person's separation from their Gods, nature, and other tribe members seems to have begun in earnest. The growth of self-awareness began far earlier as suggested in cave paintings and early clay representations of others and animals. Finding the Real Self is Tougher than Finding Waldo If there a true self? Yes and no. Yes, there is in terms of authenticity and genuineness especially if a person is consistent (i.e., an aspect of being mindful). A person can enact or live a "true" self in that sense. No, there is no inner or unwavering self. The Real Self is dependent on one's past, relationships and context. Therefore, becoming aware of them is elusive. Our self-awareness falls prey to the Dunning-Kruger effect, "we don't know, what we don't know." (Dunning, 2011). Consciously, that is. Hostages to the Ought Self The Ought Self was introduced in Chapter 2. The confusion and distraction from a path of sustained, desired change was the Ought Self and ought selves juxtaposed against the Ideal Self. Amid the barrage of well-intended but oppressive ought selves provided throughout our childhood, adolescence and young adulthood, it is not only difficult to establish a dream or vision but to develop a realistic self-image of how a person acts and appears to others. When the Ought Self comes from a potent person in our environment, like a loved and respected parent or grandparent, in wanting to please them, a person may edit or change their dreams and aspirations, and alter their perception of themselves to become more like the person valued by their potent and significant other. In collectivist cultures, this emerges out of respect for elders. In any culture, it may also emerge out of fear of disapproval or abuse. In later life, when seeking to belong to a group, organization or community, a person may again alter their perception of themselves to believe they are more like the desired others. The forces propelling such changes may come from socialization practices designed to appeal to inclusion and membership in a special group. They may also come from various forms of brainwashing and manipulation (Schein, et. al, 1961; Storr, 1996). The resulting distortions or changes to a person's image of themselves, when perpetuated over time, become commonplace and accepted as true. It burrows its way into our personal identity, as discussed in Chapter 2. The emerging perception of one's Real Self will affect choices as to social identity groups, social groups, and work. These changed perceptions, whether consistent or not, real or illusory may affect changes in our core values through changes first on our contingent values. Through many factors, our perception of our Real Self evolves in odd ways. Forces Distorting Access to the Real Self"-- Provided by publisher.

This book concerns any progressive discipline and human profession looking to transform its practice via the cultivation of thinking professionals, which are preferable to unthinking professionals who may be inattentive, unphilosophical, not inclined or not know how to think deeply and profoundly. Thus, they fail to give due consideration to an issue or the consequences before acting. Thinking professionals have a complete and accurate image (mastery) of their professional identity and reality, and they can reflect on, reason through, and justify any decision to act. They would have thinking acumen (i.e., able to make good judgements and shrewd decisions), which requires a rich repertoire of contemporary perspectives and lenses, ideally with a critical bend (exposing and challenging power). Both The Thinking Professional and transformative practice are used as hooks and threads through the entire book and as anchors for each chapter. The 17-chapter collection is organized into (a) what thinking professionals could think about in the abstract as well as more concrete ideas including (b) how they could think about or view their practice differently and (c) how they could transform their practice and do things differently. Topics include paradigm shifts, the human condition, transdisciplinarity, the holomovement principle, philosophical well-being, perspective transformation, and transformative social change agency. Readers will also engage with intellectual curiosity and skeptical thinking, tacit knowledge management, the critical science approach, and critical discourse analysis. Other topics include transformative leadership, postmodernism, after postmodernism, reflective human action leadership, and communities of practice. In some cases, the century-old home economics profession is used as a working case to bring ideas alive. This book showcases The Thinking Professional who has transformative practice as their end goal.