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Attractively packaged, this book is thematically structured, covering all the key areas of psychology - perception and action, memory, cognition, affect, the social self, personality, anxiety and sleep. "This Book Has Issues" explores the marvel of the human mind by looking at the myriad ways in which it fails to work. Scientists have long exploited breakdowns and failures to learn more about phenomena, and sometimes even to put them right."This Book Has Issues" assembles a wide variety of intriguing psychological issues - instructive errors, interesting mistakes, and revealing vulnerabilities - in order to show just how much we can learn from our failings. It is divided into eight sections covering the major components of common experience and how they go wrong. The dysfunctions covered arise in perception, memory, emotion and cognition, but also in interpersonal relationships and identity issues. Personality disorders, the ravages of anxiety and stress, and problems sleeping are also treated. Tests and exercises abound throughout the book.Each chapter includes a feature spread on a psychologist of note. And each chapter ends on a positive note, with tips, help, and exercises to promote healthy functioning in each domain.
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Christian Jarrett has a PhD in Sensorimotor Neuroscience from UMIST, Manchester, UK. He is editor of the British Psychological Society's Research Digest blog and staff journalist on their monthly magazine, The Psychologist. He has also written for a range of popular science publications, including New Scientist and the BBC's Focus magazine. In 2007 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Joannah Ginsburg is a psychotherapist and journalist. She has been a features writer for The Wall Herald and is a regular contributor to various psychology publications and newsletters.
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This Book Has Issues: Adventures in popular psychology by Christian Jarrett and Joannah Ginsberg, Continuum, 2008, 160 ff.
An Essay in Popular Psychology
By Howard Jones
This book does for psychology what a comparable book in the same series by Michael Picard does for philosophy - it gives a layman's overview of psychology featuring many of the main contributors to the subject. This is a somewhat easier task than in philosophy because where philosophy has been around for more than two millennia, psychology as a scientific study has only been in existence for little more than a century.
The material is divided into eight chapters, the subjects of which are of importance to us all in our everyday lives, even if not as scientific studies. They are Perception and Action, Memory, Cognition, Affect, The Social Self, Personality, Stress and Anxiety, and Sleep. As with its companion book in philosophy, this book is again printed on coloured paper, but the paper is much lighter coloured so that the print is clearly readable, if a little small. Each subject is covered in a succinct double-page opening with a minimum of technical jargon, so that readers will not be overwhelmed and can easily move on to another topic that might be more interesting. As the back panel description says: the book takes you on a journey through the amazing landscape of the mind, and in a very entertaining way.
Dr Howard A. Jones is the author of The Thoughtful Guide to God (2006) and The Tao of Holism (2008), both published by O Books of Winchester, U.K.; and The World as Spirit published by Fairhill Publishing, Whitland, West Wales, 2011.
An Essay in Popular Psychology
By Howard Jones
This book does for psychology what a comparable book in the same series by Michael Picard does for philosophy - it gives a layman's overview of psychology featuring many of the main contributors to the subject. This is a somewhat easier task than in philosophy because where philosophy has been around for more than two millennia, psychology as a scientific study has only been in existence for little more than a century.
The material is divided into eight chapters, the subjects of which are of importance to us all in our everyday lives, even if not as scientific studies. They are Perception and Action, Memory, Cognition, Affect, The Social Self, Personality, Stress and Anxiety, and Sleep. As with its companion book in philosophy, this book is again printed on coloured paper, but the paper is much lighter coloured so that the print is clearly readable, if a little small. Each subject is covered in a succinct double-page opening with a minimum of technical jargon, so that readers will not be overwhelmed and can easily move on to another topic that might be more interesting. As the back panel description says: the book takes you on a journey through the amazing landscape of the mind, and in a very entertaining way.
Dr Howard A. Jones is the author of The Thoughtful Guide to God (2006) and The Tao of Holism (2008), both published by O Books of Winchester, U.K.; and The World as Spirit published by Fairhill Publishing, Whitland, West Wales, 2011.
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