A practical, clinician-friendly guide to behavioral and emotional health in cancer patients -- from one of the world's leading cancer treatment centersManual of Psycho-Social Oncology provides health
This text deconstructs the process of knowledge discovery and theory construction. Grounded in the tradition of second-order cybernetics, the concept of self-reference is used in the context of system
This book introduces envy theory, a conceptual exploration of hypotheses and conjectures about the mind's fundamental cognitive and emotional makeup. It addresses basic propositions about human psycho
A guided tour through the each stages of process, Kansei/Affective Engineering explores how to apply Kansei/Affective Engineering. It describes the psychological survey and psycho-physiological measur
A compendium of religious symbols and their meanings, this scholarly reference is relevant to a wide variety of spiritual and metaphysical interests, including Judeo-Christian theology, Jungian psycho
Cyberfiction: After the Future explores a world where cybernetics sets the terms for life and culture—our world of ubiquitous info-tech, instantaneous capital flows, and immanent catastrophe. Economi
Farmer (political science and public administration, Virginia Commonwealth U.) considers public administration from traditional, business, economic, political, critical theory, post-structural, psycho
Emerging in the 1940s, the first cybernetics—the study of communication and control systems—was mainstreamed under the names artificial intelligence and computer science and taken up by the social sci
Emerging in the 1940s, the first cybernetics—the study of communication and control systems—was mainstreamed under the names artificial intelligence and computer science and taken up by the social sci
The year is 2054, and life is reduced to a data feed. The fusing of virtual reality and cybernetics has ushered in the era of the personal surrogate, android substitutes that let users interact with t
Includes Screenwriter's Forum; Psycho dossier; essays on The Lodger, Rear Window, and To Catch a Thief; Hitchcock and French Film Criticism; and reviews.
The American Psychological Association's Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct requires therapists to be mindful of diversity, which includes religious diversity, says Plante (psycho
The systems approach in which this work is grounded enables the development of the new kind of intelligent organizations so urgently needed. Powerful models, based on organizational cybernetics and sy
According to various traditional and New Age esoteric teachings, the self is comprised of several psycho-spiritual "subtle bodies." In this inter-disciplinary exploration drawing on Eastern philosophi
In this text for graduate students in teacher- and clinical-preparation programs, Ensher (education, Syracuse University) looks at the medical, cultural, psycho-social, developmental, and educational
This study aims to fill a research gap in the phenomenology of Egyptian women’s experiences and perceptions of affective suffering and psycho-social distress. Deconstructing disciplinary boundaries, i
Directed at oncology specialists, health policy makers, educators, insurers, health planners, researchers and their sponsors and consumer advocates, this collection of eight articles focuses on psycho
Exploring the boundaries of one of the most contested fields of literary study--a field that in fact shares territory with philology, aesthetics, cultural theory, philosophy, and even cybernetics--thi
Jerusalem-based Falk is an internationally known scholar in the fields of psycho-history, psychobiography, and political psychology. Drawing on insights of psychoanalysis to probe Napoleon's unconscio
A self-contained treatment, this text covers both theory and applications. Topics include homogeneous finite and infinite Markov chains, including those employed in the mathematical modeling of psycho
This book presents two recently developed knowledge areas that can significantly improve the management and the performance of business enterprise: System Science and Cybernetics and Key Performance A
This book reviews current health risk communication strategies, and examines and assesses the technical and psycho-sociological tools available to support risk communication plans. It brings together
Taken from an August 2004 conference of the same name, these 19 papers from researchers in clinical psychology and psychiatry; cognitive, affective, and behavioral neuroscience; and comparative psycho
Film scholar Ronald Schwartz examines the most significant representatives of the "Neo-Noir" style, beginning with Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and concluding with Michael Mann's Collateral (2004). Schwa
Erotikon brings together leading contemporary intellectuals from a variety of fields for an expansive debate on the full meaning of eros. Renowned scholars of philosophy, literature, classics, psycho
The book is the first of its kind to specifically outline the psycho-educational nursing interventions required by the anxious, adult patient undergoing elective, ambulatory surgery. Anxiety managemen
Updating the work to reflect current epidemiological data, changes in recent clinical understanding, and other advances, Berman (executive director, American Association of Suicidology), Jobes (psycho
This book outlines a compelling new agenda for feminist theories of identity and social relations. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis with feminist epistemology, the author sets out a groundbreaking psycho
Piirto's (education, Ashland U., Ashland, Ohio) latest text is a substantially revised and reordered version of her earlier publication, Understanding Those Who Create (second edition, Gifted Psycho
A new guide to conducting more comprehensive and meaningful psychological assessments of young childrenEarly Childhood Assessment presents a thorough, step-by-step approach to the comprehensive psycho
Poetry. African American studies. "Williams' intensely moving first book bridges more gaps than many words (and careers) thrice as long: quiet humor to quiet anger; weighty concerns (cybernetics, anth
Using an energy systems language that combines energetics, kinetics, information, cybernetics, and simulation, Ecological and General Systems compares models of many fields of science, helping to deri
More than sixty contributions in From Animals to Animats 2 by researchers in ethology, ecology, cybernetics, artificial intelligence, robotics, and related fields investigate behaviors and the underl
This book deals with emotional experiences that are directly related both to theories of knowledge and to clinical psycho-analysis, and that in the most practical manner.
Covers encoding and binary digits, entropy, language and meaning, efficient encoding and the noisy channel, and explores ways in which information theory relates to physics, cybernetics, psychology,
Darwin's work of 1872 still provides the point of departure for research in the theory of emotion and expression. Although he lacked the modern research tool of cybernetics, his basic methods have not
The New York Times bestselling author of A Noise Downstairs and No Time for Goodbye returns with an edge-of-your-seat thriller that does for elevators what Psycho did for showers and Jaws did for the
