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Fully revised and updated, Genealogy, Psychology and Therapy highlights the importance of genealogy in the development of identity, and the therapeutic potential of family history in cultivating wellbeing.

The popularity of amateur genealogy and family history has soared in recent times. We will never know any of the people we discover from our...

Why should Hanna, a Stasi agent, collaborate with the British? What links a patriotic Polish man to a group determined to re-establish the Third Reich across Western Europe? Why is Agata, a Polish exile living in London, obsessed by her priest? How did Wilson, a young psychiatrist, become a spy? Containment is a story of the fears, lives, loves...

When Marion Morgan begs psychoanalyst and former intelligence officer Wilson Coffey to investigate the death of her grandmother in Nuremberg at the end of the 2nd World War, he finds himself drawn into the life of another psychoanalyst Erika Adler, a member of the team assessing the Nazi prisoners before their trial. The mysteries surrounding...

Anna has buried the memory of an horrendous rape when she was a student. Now she is a successful psychology professor. Suddenly her world collapses when she discovers that the man who raped her is going to be her new boss and he is trying to reconnect. This is a story of envy, betrayal and murder in the Ivory Tower. A campus noir novel.

Bystander is a darkly humorous campus novel in which the characters’ egotistical and competitive relationships are captured through the investigation of a murder.
It should appeal to readers who enjoyed the sardonic radio dramas High Table, Lower Orders by Mark Tavener, and the classic novel The Masters by C. P. Snow, as well as readers of David...

The popularity of amateur genealogy and family history has soared in recent times. Genealogy, Psychology and Identity explores this popular international pastime and offers reasons why it informs our sense of who we are, and our place in both contemporary culture and historical context. We will never know any of the people we discover from our...

Work organizations are a major site of gender politics for professional women and men, and although there are more women in senior positions than ever before, these increased opportunities have not been gained without psychological consequences. Evidence-based and theoretically driven, the new edition of Gender, Power and Organization raises...

What does it mean to be human? This critical text from a well-respected author captures and interrogates the many models which have been developed to explore and explain human behaviour. Informed by sociological, psychological and biological perspectives, the book plots the key stages of the life course from childhood through to older age.

We are so lucky; we can have everything: dazzling careers,financial success, happy and fulfilling emotional lives,well-adjusted children, a strong and supportive intimaterelationship, friends, a social life, be feminine and look lovelytoo. Can’t we?

No. Most women find themselves lacking somewhere and how much westruggle towards achieving all...

Post-Natal Depression challenges the expectation that it is normal to be a ‘happy mother’. It provides a radical critique of the traditional medical and social science explanations of ‘post natal depression’ by supplying a systematic feminist psychological analysis of women’s experiences following childbirth. Paula Nicolson argues that, far from...

Despite changes to laws and policies across most western democracies intended to combat violence to women, intimate partner violence and abuse (IPVA) remains discouragingly commonplace.

Domestic Violence and Psychology: Critical Perspectives on Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse showcases women’s harrowing stories of living with and leaving...

Taking a break from renovating their new home on the English Riviera, retired psychologists Karen and Dex decide to go on a cruise. But the much needed holiday becomes a nightmare when they discover a man’s body on the ship, turning their plans for a relaxing cruise around the Canary Islands into a series of mysteries. Deaths, deception and...

This new edition from a trusted author team bridges the gap between psychological theory and social work practice. Revisited and re-structured to reflect the changing social work context, it provides an authoritative introduction to the key ideas, skills and research from psychology and highlights their role within effective social work...