Catalog Search Results
Author
Description
En este segundo tomo del libro Formar-se en psicología: Conversaciones con maestros de la disciplina, de nuevo hemos invitado a renombra¬dos autores de la psicología que han hecho contribuciones relevantes en asuntos epistemológicos, teóricos, metodológicos y de formación de varias generaciones de psicólogos, y hemos conservado el espíritu y el aliento con que elaboramos el volumen inicial: que personas, tanto del campo de la psicología...
Author
Description
Summary of Presence by Amy Cuddy | Includes Analysis Preview: Have you ever bombed a job interview or fumbled an "elevator pitch"? Based on a number of social psychology studies, Presence is a book by Harvard Business School professor Amy Cuddy that encourages people to stop worrying about the impression they make on others and instead use simple tools like body language to change the way they feel about themselves. Presence shows how, by accessing...
Author
Description
Summary of Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by Daniel G. Amen | Includes Analysis Preview: Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by psychiatrist Daniel D. Amen is a non-fiction book based on the idea that brain functioning can be improved, and such improvement can drastically change lives for the better. Amen's approach to healing the brain is based on more than 100,000 scans he and his colleagues have conducted at the Amen Clinics, a medical facility...
Author
Series
Description
Music in therapy allows a sensual awareness of overlapping inner and outer spaces. This in turn allows thoughts to wander and linger over objects of interest that both contain the past and make possible the present, that are associated with amiable beginnings as well as leaving open what the future will bring. Due to these processes we do not only live once. Everything is reverberating, says Erich Fried, and continues: "and everything that I say about...
Author
Description
Summary of Grit by Angela Duckworth | Includes Analysis Preview: In Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, Angela Duckworth discusses her research into the characteristics of successful people. She argues that innate talent is less important to success than the willingness to persevere despite difficulty and initial failure. People tend to believe that innate ability is the most important determinant of success and achievement. However, IQ tests...
Author
Description
An irresistible look within the mind and behind the hit TV drama, House.
While House is a smart medical drama and Gregory House faces countless ethical quandaries as a doctor, what makes the show unique is that it's much more deeply rooted in psychology than in medicine. At its core, House is a show about the mind and human behavior. Gregory House is a medical genius and a Sherlock Holmesian figure, but he's also a deeply troubled misanthrope. What's...
Author
Description
Las organizaciones tienden a ser productivas, competitivas y, en términos prácticos, exitosas para lo cual demandan cada vez más de las capacidades físicas, mentales, cognitivas y emocionales de los trabajadores para desempeñar un trabajo que se enfoca en la producción de bienes o servicios a la sociedad. El trabajo debe ser saludable y contribuir al mas completo desarrollo del individuo, como persona y como trabajador.
Author
Description
Está dirigido particularmente a personas en proceso de formación como consultores y consultores más avezados que buscan conocer otras prácticas de intervención. También es de gran utilidad para directores de empresas interesados en el desarrollo de sus organizaciones. Si deseas leer la versión impresa búscala en https://publicaciones.iteso.mx/ (ITESO) (ITESO Universidad).
Author
Description
Summary of Into the Magic Shop by James R. Doty | Includes Analysis Preview: In his memoir Into the Magic Shop Dr. James R. Doty describes how simple meditative techniques have had a profound effect on both his personal and professional paths. His account traces his evolution from troubled child to struggling student to distinguished neurosurgeon, including his tenure as the CEO of a billion-dollar company. From the vantage of his current role as...
Author
Description
Summary, Analysis & Review of Dan Ariely's Payoff by Instaread Preview: Payoff by Dan Ariely is a companion to the author's well-known TED talks, which focus on research that illuminates the role of reward and effort in motivation. Ariely examined his own motivations for helping a woman whose teenage boys were badly burned, a medical trauma he experienced himself when he was approximately the boys' age. He realized that he helped the woman because...
Author
Series
Description
Hoy, cuando hablamos de convivencia escolar tenemos que hablar también de ciberconvivencia, y cuando hablamos de acoso escolar (bullying) tenemos que hablar de cyberbullying. Ambos fenómenos tienen lugar en el entramado de relaciones interpersonales que los escolares activan como redes de comunicación, actividades y vida en común. Esta vida en común proporciona muchos beneficios y ventajas, pero también algunos problemas y dificultades.
Convivencia...
Author
Description
Modern psychology is at an impasse as it searches anxiously for new therapies to address the increasing occurrence of mental illness in contemporary society. In this groundbreaking anthology, leading authors from the perennialist school, including Huston Smith, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, and Frithjof Schuon, draw on the age-old insights of the world's wisdom traditions to argue that modern psychology-behaviorism, psychoanalysis, humanistic and transpersonal...
Author
Description
The rise in legalized gambling in the United States over the last fifteen years has led to much debate among scientists and practitioners about how to conceptualize and study the phenomenon, treat persons who experience difficulties controlling their level of play, and prevent individuals from becoming problem or 'pathological' gamblers. The current volume brings together a group of basic and applied behavior scientists to discuss these matters. Gambling...
Author
Description
Summary, Analysis & Review of Malcolm Gladwell's David and Goliath by Instaread Preview: Malcolm Gladwell's David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants is a book about perceived disadvantage. People with few resources or certain disadvantages may seem weak and unlikely to win. However, in many cases, the same factors that make underdogs seem weak gives them built-in advantages. Underdogs are much more likely to win than people...
Author
Description
An all-star lineup of scientists takes you to the front lines of brain research.
Are we born to be shy? Why do we remember some events so clearly and others not at all? Are creativity and depression somehow linked? Do our dreams really have deeper meanings?
Now in paperback, here is a wonderfully accessible introduction to the most important recent findings about how our health, behavior, feelings, and identities are influenced by what goes on inside...
Author
Description
Este libro presenta los principales hallazgos de la investigación sobre sufrimiento emocional profundo e ideación suicida, que se adelantó con estudiantes de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Sede Bogotá; siendo su propósito comprender de manera más cercana las implicaciones psicológicas, emocionales y de sentido, vinculados al sufrimiento emocional y psíquico de los estudiantes junto a la toma de decisiones sobre su propia vida. A partir...
Author
Description
Summary, Analysis & Review of Susan David's Emotional Agility by Instaread Preview: Emotional Agility by psychologist Susan David is a nonfiction self-help book designed to help people embrace difficult emotions that hold them back in life and work so that they can thrive even in the most challenging of situations. David outlines a four-part method for becoming emotionally agile. The four parts are facing emotions, creating distance from those emotions,...
Author
Description
Hoy en día, cuando las más profundas y variadas inequidades se revelan de forma evidente, es necesario cuestionar una de las ideas más extendidas sobre el modo de administrarlas y justificarlas. Este libro propone analizar diferentes promesas y paradojas del mérito y de la meritocracia, articulando una perspectiva psicosocial y crítica que pone en diálogo a la psicología con las ciencias de la sociedad, la educación y el trabajo. La obra se...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Let us know! Suggest a Title