The New Laws of Psychology : Why Nature and Nurture Alone Can't Explain Human Behaviour
By: Kinderman, Peter
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Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 616.89 KI NE (Browse shelf) | Available | T0050751 |
This controversial new book describes how human behaviour - thoughts, emotions, actions and mental health - can be largely explained if we understand how people make sense of their world and how that framework of understanding has been learned. In this ground-breaking book, Peter Kinderman, presents a simple, but radical new model of mental well-being. Published following the publication of the new edition of the controversial, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the author challenges notions such as 'mental illness' and 'abnormal psychology' as old-fashioned, demeaning
Introduction; 1 Are we controlled by our brains?; 2 The old laws of psychology; 3 The new laws of psychology: psychology at the heart of everything; 4 Thinking differently: diagnosis; 5 Thinking differently: well-being; 6 Thinking differently: therapy; 7 Master of your fate, captain of your soul; Notes; Index