Eric A. Kreuter • Kenneth M. Moltner 2014 The phenomenology of human behavior involves many forms of adaptation in response to stimuli encountered within the spectrum of everyday life. Such responses include identifiable patterns of negativity brought on by the perception of the individual or as the result of trauma from extraordinary events. These responses provide the basis for […]

Todd K. Shackelford • Ranald D. Hansen Editors 2014 In April 2012, we invited dozens of scholars from around the USA to join us at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan for a day-long interdisciplinary conference on “The Evolution of Violence.” This conference followed a visit and lecture the day before by Steven Pinker on his recent book, The […]

Amber E. Brueggemann Taylor 2014 Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice When the possibility of writing this text was first introduced I was somewhat hesitant because of my uncertainty of others’ interest in the topic. After consideration, the reason for my hesitancy became my motivation to complete the book. I first encountered the ambivalence and indifference surrounding […]

William H. Moorcroft 2013 As I am writing this, the 60th anniversary of a pivotal moment in the field of sleep is approaching. For it was in 1953 that Aserinsky and Kleitman discovered REMS in a lab at the University of Chicago. They were surprised to notice that eye movements occurred periodically even when their subject was, by […]

Frank N. Thomas 2013 A Resource-Oriented Approach to Developing Clinical Expertise I would be the first to ask this question in a conversation about supervision among my peers. At the same time, a tacit understanding seems to exist in the psychotherapy world: good supervision is something experienced therapists can provide to students, novice therapists, and peers and requires little […]

Luciano L’Abate 2013 The purpose of this volume is to fulfill this writer’s life-long, perhaps ambitious if not grandiose, mission to provide the best possible mental health care for troubled people through scientific rather than artistic practices at the least possible cost. To be and become scientific, mental health practices need to be replicable from one professional to another.