In recent decades there has been increasing interest in the subject of stress and a
proliferation of research into the contribution of stress as a cause of illness. This association …

Internet addiction is a rapidly growing field of research, receiving attention from researchers,
journalists and policy makers. Despite much empirical data being collected and analyzed …

BackgroundOpposition to homosexuality in Europe reached a crescendo in the 19th century.
What had earlier been regarded as a vice evolved as a perversion or psychological illness …

Recent attempts to challenge the primacy of reason--and its realization in foundationalist
accounts of knowledge and cognitive formulations of human action--have focused on …

Personal in its style yet radical in its vision, Radical Ecopsychology, Second Edition offers an
original introduction to ecopsychology—an emerging field that ties the human mind to the …

This study of the popularity of phrenology in the second quarter of the nineteenth century
concentrates on the social and ideological functions of science during the consolidation of …

The meanings and causes of hearing voices that others cannot hear (auditory verbal
hallucinations, in psychiatric parlance) have been debated for thousands of years. Voice …

How are we to make sense of madness and psychosis? For most of us the words conjure up
images from television and newspapers of seemingly random, meaningless violence. It is …

Users and Abusers of Psychiatry is a radically different, critical account of day-to-day
practice in psychiatric settings. Using real-life examples and her own experience as a …

Pillar of Salt introduces the controversy over recollections of childhood sexual abuse as the
window onto a much broader field of ideas concerning memory, storytelling, and the …