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This book offers a science-based, neurodiverse-affirming approach to burnout prevention and recovery, highlighting how personal, interpersonal, and organisational factors shape stress and wellbeing. The book reframes burnout as a neurological and situational condition rather than a personal failure, then guides readers through practical strategies grounded in neuroscience, occupational health and clinical experience. Chapters explore early identification, motivation and energy patterns, workplace design, communication, support networks and sustainable recovery. Themes such as burnout prevention, neurodiversity, workplace wellbeing, and systemic stressors are woven throughout to support readers with diverse cognitive profiles working across different workplaces. Clear tools, reflective exercises and accessible explanations make the material suitable for both specialists and non?specialists. Broader than workplace-only guides and more inclusive than sector-specific texts, it fills key gaps in current burnout literature by integrating personal strategies with organisational and community-level solutions.

This book establishes Applied AI Epistemics as a field of inquiry at the intersection of political economy, epistemology, cognitive psychology, and institutional theory. It advances a single, claim that the vocabulary through which large language models are currently understood ? intelligence, understanding, capability ? constitutes a governance failure before it constitutes a philosophical error. Against narratives centered on machine autonomy or alignment, the book argues that the most consequential questions raised by generative AI concern who owns the cognitive infrastructure of the future, how it redistributes agency and economic surplus, and what institutional arrangements can restore epistemic sovereignty to those whose cognition these systems extract and capitalise.

The argument develops across three analytical axes. The first is the political economy of epistemic extraction, theorised through cognitive capitalism and epistemic colonialism, which reframes AI not as a tool of intelligence but as a system for enclosing the epistemic commons. The second is the epistemology of naming, addressed through the Synthetic Interlocutor Systems (SIS) framework: a corrective to the misclassification of probabilistic synthesis as autonomous cognition, and an account of how that misclassification reconfigures both human judgment and machine behavior. The third is institutional design, examined through engineered directionality, the Cognitive Growth Index (CGI), and Epistemic Arbitrage, including an analysis of whether financial markets are mispricing the risks of algorithmic opacity.

Moving from political economy through the philosophy of naming, authorship and cognitive identity, institutional governance, the reallocation of human agency, and the systemic exposure of financial markets, the book culminates in an agenda for cognitive sovereignty and a human-in-the-loop economy. Its position is critical without being techno-dystopian, insisting that AI governance is a psychopolitical and economic problem, not merely a technical one. Applied AI Epistemics offers researchers, practitioners, and institutions a rigorous framework for confronting what has actually changed in the epistemic configuration of institutions, and what those changes demand.

This book examines loneliness as a complex biopsychosocial phenomenon. Synthesizing research from psychology, communication, sociology, and public health, this volume provides a comprehensive framework for understanding the antecedents, outcomes, and potential remedies for loneliness in the 21st century.?The book begins by conceptualizing loneliness as distinct from social isolation and solitude, grounding its analysis in foundational theories such as attachment theory, socioemotional selectivity, and evolutionary psychology. Epidemiological data are presented to illustrate the global prevalence and demographic distribution of loneliness, with attention to measurement challenges and public health implications.?Subsequent chapters explore the multifactorial origins of loneliness, including personality traits, attachment styles, life transitions, and structural conditions such as socioeconomic status, urbanization, and technological change. The consequences of loneliness are examined in depth, encompassing psychological distress, physical health deterioration, cognitive decline, and broader societal costs including diminished social trust and increased healthcare burden.?A critical analysis of digital technologies?including social media and artificial intelligence?addresses their dual role in both mitigating and exacerbating loneliness. The book evaluates emerging forms of digital companionship and considers ethical concerns surrounding authenticity, dependency, and data privacy. The volume concludes with a synthesis of evidence-based interventions, ranging from individual therapies and relational approaches to community programs and policy-level strategies. It highlights promising innovations in telehealth, app-based support, and urban design, while identifying conditions under which interventions are most effective.

This book?is a practical post-pandemic guide to qualifying as a counsellor, edited by someone who has recently followed the same path, it offers honest insight into the challenges, setbacks and opportunities in today’s training landscape. Contributions from experienced counselling and psychology professionals add further guidance for readers making decisions about their own route into the profession.

Counsellors help people understand their behaviour, build awareness without judgement, and find healthier ways forward. Their work may be one-to-one, with families or in groups, either in person or online. It is a meaningful role, but entering the profession can feel complex. This book helps readers understand where to begin, how to approach training, and what part they might play in supporting clients.

How to Become a Counsellor?is for career changers, those exploring training options, people just starting out, and trainers, supervisors or others interested in the varied world of counselling psychology.

Retained Primitive Reflexes and Potential for Intervention in Autism Spectrum Disorders offers a bold developmental framework for understanding autism spectrum disorder through the lens of early sensorimotor organization, hemispheric maturation, and functional brain connectivity. Primitive reflexes are among the earliest expressions of nervous system activity. Normally, they support survival, movement, sensory exploration, and early interaction with the world before being progressively inhibited as cortical control, postural stability, and voluntary motor function emerge. When these reflexes persist beyond infancy, they may signal more than delayed motor maturation; they may reveal broader disruptions in developmental timing, neural integration, and brainstem-cortical regulation.

In this volume, Gerry Leisman and Robert John Melillo examine retained primitive reflexes as accessible markers of neurodevelopmental organization and as potential contributors to the motor, sensory, cognitive, behavioral, and social features associated with autism spectrum disorder. Moving across developmental neuroscience, clinical neurology, rehabilitation science, motor control, electrophysiology, and intervention research, the book situates reflex persistence within a larger systems model of autism as a condition involving altered hemispheric asymmetry, reduced long-range connectivity, increased local processing, and inefficient coordination among distributed neural networks.

The book advances a nuanced, testable, and clinically relevant hypothesis: that retained primitive reflexes may provide a window into maturational delay and neural inefficiency, and that carefully designed intervention may help improve timing, coordination, connectivity, and function in selected individuals. Written for clinicians, neuroscientists, therapists, educators, and researchers, this book invites a reconsideration of early motor development as a foundational pathway into brain organization, autism, and neurodevelopmental intervention. It is both a theoretical synthesis and practical challenge for future controlled research programs.

This book examines the theoretical foundations of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for autistic individuals. It describes assessment procedures, case formulation models, and structured treatment planning tailored for autistic youth. The book addresses key issues, such as the treatment of co-occurring anxiety, depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in autism. It explores adaptations of core CBT components, including teaching the thought-emotion-behavior link, cognitive restructuring, and behavioral activation. The volume details strategies for enhancing social cognition, perspective-taking, and problem-solving skills.

Key areas of coverage include:

• Establishing targets for intervention and setting treatment goals.
• Building therapeutic alliance and engagement.
• Psychoeducation and emotional awareness in autism-adapted CBT.
• Enhancing cognitive flexibility.
• Exposure-based interventions.
• Parent-mediated interventions and school collaboration models.
• Outcome monitoring and relapse prevention.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Autistic Children and Adolescents is a must-have resource for clinicians, therapists, and other professionals as well as researchers, professors, and graduate students across such interrelated disciplines as clinical child, school, and developmental psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, social work, pediatrics, behavioral therapy/rehabilitation, and special education.

This book offers the first genuinely global synthesis of meaningful work. While research in the field has expanded rapidly, it remains heavily shaped by Western, WEIRD-based theories and measurement tools. Bringing together evidence from more than 25 countries across North America, Europe, East Asia, the Arab world, Latin America, and Africa, the book examines how culture influences experiences of meaningful work.

It argues that meaningful work is a culturally mediated and institutionally shaped phenomenon experienced through diverse pathways, including autonomy, duty, spirituality, dignity, social recognition, and relational contribution. Integrating insights from organisational psychology, cross-cultural research, philosophy, labour ethics, and the sociology of work, the book provides an internationally relevant framework for scholars, graduate students, and practitioners seeking to understand and improve meaningful work.

The volume gathers theoretical and practical contributions to current research on resilience with a focus on the ambivalent effects of hope, consolation and gratitude on resilience. To address this challenge, they apply the outcomes of the DFG funded research group ‘Resilience in Religion and Spirituality' (DFG-FOR 2686) as a framework. The contributions in this volume explore the theme of ambivalence from an interdisciplinary perspective. In doing so, they reflect the interdisciplinary work of the research group, which draws on theology, philosophy, moral psychology, psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy, palliative care and spiritual care. Building on the group's preliminary work, three different areas of further development are demonstrated: Firstly, key terms and concepts are discussed and re-evaluated. Secondly, theoretical and methodological reflections are carried out. Thirdly, illustrative case studies are conducted and potential areas of application are explored.

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This book draws on the Multimodal Corpus of Gerontolinguistic Discourse (MCGD) to offer an in-depth analysis of pragmatic impairments and compensatory strategies among Chinese-speaking older adults with AD. It investigates how individuals navigate communicative challenges using both verbal and non-verbal resources, uncovering patterns of pragmatic decline and the multimodal strategies employed to mitigate these deficits. Specifically, the study explores three interrelated research questions: (1) What are the features of pragmatic impairments in older adults with AD? (2) What compensatory mechanisms are employed when pragmatic difficulties arise? (3) What are the overarching patterns of pragmatic decline observed in this population? The book broadens the disciplinary scope of clinical linguistics and advances the development of gerontolinguistics by focusing on older adults with neurodegenerative diseases, an underrepresented population in current research. It shifts the focus toward pragmatic impairments resulting from cognitive decline, emphasizing the value of pragmatic discourse analysis in identifying and understanding communicative changes associated with Alzheimer’s Disease and related conditions and proposing an assessment framework for evaluating pragmatic competence in older adults. This book will be of interest to academic researchers, healthcare professionals, and policy makers working at the intersection of aging, dementia care, and linguistics.

Engaging with psychic suffering has become commonplace in everyday life, science, and public discourse. Numerous studies investigate potential causal relationships and debate the connection between psychic suffering and social conditions and dynamics. In this book, Simon Heyny takes an interdisciplinary approach to examining whether, and to what extent, psychic suffering can serve as a meaningful criterion for social critique.

?At a foundational theoretical level, and particularly through engagement with the work of Alfred Lorenzer, the book analyzes the relationships between psychic suffering, social conditions and dynamics, as well as different approaches to the normative justification of social critique. In addition to established topics such as family and work, migration-specific aspects are explicitly incorporated and used to illustrate theoretical perspectives.?

The result is the development of an integrative analytical perspective, which is then employed to advance a formal ethics of socially avoidable suffering. In this way, the book opens up a perspective on the interferences, internal dynamics, and transformative potentials of the psychic and the social.

A neuroscientist argues we’ve misunderstood the brain by focusing on individual neurons and unveils a new theory of how the brain really works.

In 2007, doctors in Marseille discovered that their patient had a gaping, fluid-filled hole in his brain. His neurons had disintegrated, severing the fragile connections that form the brain's communication system. And yet, the man’s only complaint was weakness in one leg. He could still read, remember, and reason. How was that possible?

The Latent Brain is the surprising answer. For decades, neuroscientists have insisted that our thoughts, feelings, and actions depend on the rapid electrical signals fired by each of the brain’s neurons. But they can’t explain why many neurons carry no useful information, or why, when neurons die, our behavior doesn’t necessarily change. Mark Humphries offers a radically new idea. Our mental lives, he argues, arise not from the activity of individual neurons but from collective signals formed by vast networks of neurons acting in concert. These signals guide our behavior; enable different brains to perform the same tasks; and even explain how we learn?why it's sometimes easy and sometimes devilishly hard. Humphries’s theory promises a revolution in neuroscience: a set of laws that map the activity of billions of neurons to the immense catalog of human behavior and experiences.

Bold, lucid, and ambitious, The Latent Brain is a big-idea science book by every measure.

A thrilling new account of psychology's most notorious and least understood experiment

In 1961, months after the Eichmann trial opened, Stanley Milgram tackled the question haunting the postwar world: how could ordinary people have taken part in atrocity? In a Yale basement, men and women recruited for a memory test were ordered to punish a stranger's mistakes with ever-stronger electric shocks. The shocks were fake and the victim an actor?but they didn't know that. As the screams grew, a man in a grey lab coat said only: ‘The experiment requires that you continue.’ Most went all the way to a lethal 450 volts.

The results seemed to expose something monstrous in human nature?the Holocaust was in all of us. Yet Milgram could never explain it, and nor, despite many attempts, could anyone else. Returning to the recordings, David Kaposi overturns the story we thought we knew. What made Milgram’s subjects continue with?the experiment?

Gripping and profoundly original, this book finally reveals what happened in that laboratory?and how ordinary people are drawn into cruelty.

This handbook examines critical issues confronting the field of applied behavior analysis (ABA) for autism spectrum disorder. It discusses the history of research-based ABA principles and interventions that have resulted in positive life changes for autistic individuals. The book describes systemic ABA interventions delivered in various settings (e.g., clinics, homes, schools, communities) that have improved learner outcomes. In addition, it addresses existing and emerging issues in the field of ABA that confront autistic learners as well as researchers, practitioners, teachers, and family members. It covers a broad range of topics, including optimal outcomes for individuals; graduate-level and staff training for ABA professionals; adult ABA services; sex education; the neurodiversity movement; assent in ABA; compassionate ABA care; and meaningful classroom curriculum.

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• History of ABA interventions for autistic learners.
• Graduate-level training in ABA.
• ABA certification and licensure.
• Delivery of quality ABA interventions for autistic learners.
• Use of artificial intelligence (AI) in ABA.
• Future directions in research and practice.

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Clinical Handbook of ABA Interventions for Autistic Learners is a must-have resource for behavior analysts, clinicians, therapists, and other professionals as well as researchers, professors, and graduate students across such interrelated disciplines as clinical child, school, and developmental psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, developmental disabilities, clinical social work, rehabilitation medicine/therapy, pediatrics, and special education.

This book demonstrates how pedagogical matters can be studied through interaction in educational settings. It presents empirical studies of classrooms and other educational settings, showing how meaning, knowledge, and learning are shaped in talk and social action. The chapters move across educational contexts, from early childhood education and primary school to higher education and educational policy.

Along the way, the book explores topics such as children's mathematical thinking, preschool mealtimes, comics and literacy, persuasion in language teaching, students' struggles with fiction reading, and the interactional work of policy making. Bringing together international scholars, the volume highlights how educational practices are accomplished through language, interaction, and shared activity. This book encourages a wider adoption of discursive psychology research within the fields of pedagogy, education, early childhood education, higher education and the many other fields where researchers study aspects of education and learning.

This brief highlights innovative and creative applications of established clinical interventions across different systemic models, with clients of South Asian Indian background, including foundational, contemporary, and empirically based approaches. Chapters illustrate a specific systemic intervention and how it has been adapted and therapeutically applied by each author to a particular South Asian Indian client population (e.g., LGBTQ+ youth, recent immigrant families, interracial couples) and specific presenting problem issue (e.g., SUDs, affective disorders, couple intimacy issues, parenting, partner selection, career, technology, etc.). In addition, chapters provide practical ideas for the application of systemic interventions through service delivery approaches that address the unique needs of this client population.

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• Specific systemic interventions that have been creatively adapted for clinical application with South Asian Indian clients.
• Step-by-step process of adapting and utilizing the systemic intervention.
• Innovative intervention, assessment, and service delivery models.
• Case examples highlighting the development and application of specific systemic interventions.
• Recommendations for clinicians to expand and elaborate established systemic models to better address the diverse needs of diverse client populations.

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Systemic Therapy with South Asian Populations is an essential resource for clinicians, therapists, and practitioners as well as researchers, professors, and graduate students in family studies, clinical psychology, and public health, as well as all interrelated disciplines.

This cohesive volume examines the different theoretical foundations that inform the field of cultural psychology from a behavioral perspective. In two sections it focuses on conceptual work that defines the field and explores directions for future development. Broadly considering theoretical foundations, the book provides a sound foundation for understanding the strengths of behavior analysis and its applicability to social issues. In addition to clearly conceptualizing how various theories overlap and can be integrated, it also focuses on specific topics such as sexual orientation and gender identity, disability, racism, and aging. Aimed at both researchers and practitioners, it provides a critical viewpoint as well as helpful clinical practices.

This handbook brings together psychiatry, clinical psychology, philosophy, and public mental health to examine how phenomenology and values-based practice can inform personalised, recovery-oriented mental health care. Framed by a pluralistic “thousand flowers” approach, the volume complements symptom-based and evidence-based paradigms by foregrounding lived experience, meaning, and individual values in clinical decision-making.

Across six thematic parts, the book develops a shared decision-making model that integrates empirical evidence with phenomenological psychopathological analysis and patient priorities. Foundational chapters introduce key concepts including values-based practice, phenomenological psychopathology, and recovery as an outcome defined by what matters to the individual. Subsequent sections present applied case studies and conceptual contributions demonstrating how phenomenology and values-based practice enrich diagnosis, dialogue, and treatment planning in mental health care.?

The volume also critically examines methodological and ethical challenges ? such as intersectionality, diagnostic frameworks, and the limits of phenomenological reduction ? while advancing co-production, equality of voices, and narrative-informed approaches to care. By combining expertise-by-training and expertise-by-experience, it highlights the role of dialogue and lived experience in shaping clinically meaningful outcomes.

The Handbook of Phenomenology, Values and Clinical Decision-Making in Personalised Mental Health Care: Contemporary Approaches and Challenges will be of interest to researchers and clinicians in clinical psychology, psychiatry, philosophy of psychiatry, and health humanities, as well as those working in personalised and recovery-oriented mental health care.

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This book presents a machine-generated literature overview of research that analyze how parents’ emotions and parenting styles influence their children. Emotions, defined by physical arousal, behaviors, and internal awareness, guide humans through their environment by signaling rewards and dangers. They are categorized into positive (joy, happiness) and negative (fear, sadness) emotions. Emotional expression and labeling are key components of emotions, with facial expressions and body language conveying feelings, while emotional labeling involves identifying and naming emotions.

Parents’ emotions also influence their parenting styles, such as permissive, authoritative, neglectful, and authoritarian. Each style impacts children differently based on the balance between responsiveness and demandingness. Permissive parents act more as friends, authoritative parents are nurturing and firm, neglectful parents are disengaged, and authoritarian parents enforce strict discipline without seeking input.

The emotional climate set by parents profoundly affects children’s emotional regulation. Children are particularly sensitive to parental anger, which can lead to emotional distress, behavioral issues, and long-term negative effects on health and relationships. Conversely, parents who effectively manage their emotions promote better emotional regulation in their children. Research suggests that empathetic parenting fosters social skills and reduces emotional and behavioral problems. Ultimately, parental emotions play a significant role in shaping a child's development into adulthood.

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This handbook provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of theory, research, and practice on the maltreatment of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities as a global public health and societal concern. It examines various forms of maltreatment?violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation?and highlights systemic barriers and structural inequities with perspectives from multiple disciplines. Using a strengths-based approach to prevention, intervention, and treatment, it addresses evidence-based approaches for individual risk-reduction and skills training. The global reach of the handbook serves as a catalyst for policy and practice reforms aimed at strengthening safeguards and support for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities worldwide and sets a strong foundation for moving the field forward in research and action for maltreatment prevention.

Featured topics include:

? ? ?The nature of maltreatment across the lifespan, how it is identified, and unique patterns of maltreatment as viewed through a socio-ecological framework.?
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? ? ?Disparities and intersectionality of experiences of maltreatment with race, gender, socio-economic status, living situation, and level of functional needs.?
? ? ?The importance of elevating the participation and voices of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in setting future priorities for the design of effective services and supports.?

The Handbook on Maltreatment and its Prevention in Individuals with Intellectual and developmental disabilities is an essential resource for self-advocates, researchers, academics, policymakers, doctoral students, clinicians, and care providers in the fields of special education, public health, medicine, psychology, disability services, domestic violence, rehabilitation, and allied disciplines.

Jacques Lacan’s Seminar XVI (1968?69), From an Other to the other, is a pivotal text for readers interested in how psychoanalysis bears on politics, knowledge, and sexuality. Delivered in the aftermath of May ’68, the seminar brings Lacan’s formal concerns about language and the subject into contact with the university, capitalism, and the social organisation of enjoyment. This edited collection offers a set of carefully guided readings of Seminar XVI, designed to clarify its key moves while remaining faithful to its difficulty.

Across the volume, contributors show why Lacan turns to logic, set theory, and topology, and how these resources help him formulate limits internal to discourse, including the claim that there is no metalanguage. The chapters also develop Lacan’s account of the “big Other” and the subject, and trace how Seminar XVI prepares later work on discourse and social bonds. Further essays read Lacan’s discussion of Pascal’s wager alongside the logic of capitalist accumulation, and examine the seminar’s treatment of drive, perversion, sublimation, and sexuation, including the concept of surplus jouissance.

Written for scholars and advanced readers across Lacanian psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, and critical theory, the volume provides a reliable route into a notoriously demanding seminar and demonstrates its continuing importance for contemporary debates on knowledge, politics, and sexuality.

What is a story, what is an anecdote, and how do they differ from a narrative structure? What kinds of stories can I tell to make my point?to persuade, inspire, or inform? Which main characters should appear in my stories? How do I begin, how do I end, and how long should a story be? The aim of this scholarly book is to provide concrete answers to these and other key questions related to storytelling and to illustrate them through numerous examples.

This book demonstrates how storytelling can significantly support and enhance communication in academia, business, politics, and training contexts. Stories engage emotions and thereby create, on the one hand, a deeper connection between the storyteller and the audience. On the other hand, they enable complex ideas and information to be communicated in ways that are easier to understand and more likely to be remembered over the long term.

The book outlines the most important theoretical reference points and offers numerous practical examples, as well as analyses of stories from the respective fields of application. It is aimed at readers who value clarity and memorability in their communication, who wish to foster attention and interaction, and who seek to increase the creativity and engagement of their audiences?whether in presentations, lectures, press interviews, team meetings, workshops, or other professional settings.

Readers can also benefit from stories drawn from fields outside their own personal or professional backgrounds, as scientists, business leaders, politicians, and trainers alike can use stories in the following ways:

• Stories to convey complex content ? Chapter Science
• Stories to build trust ? Chapter Business
• Stories to inspire ? Chapter Politics
• Stories to teach others ? Chapter Training

Through numerous examples, the book shows how stories can be applied in practice across science, business, politics, and training. Ultimately, it aims to support readers in selecting appropriate stories, shaping their structure, identifying suitable contexts for their use, and mastering questions of timing.

This volume explores the idea and practice of everyday flourishing from positive psychological perspectives and evidence-based research. Through non-Western contributions to the global literature on flourishing, it significantly adds diversity to the field. The volume provides a comprehensive understanding of how individuals, communities, and organizations can endure adversity. It also utilizes innovative research, practical strategies, and case studies highlighting the positive aspects of resilience, well-being, and personal growth under challenging circumstances. The practical strategies and evidence-based exercises in this volume create bases for discussions on self-awareness, positive relationships, and a sense of purpose in both personal and professional spheres. What sets this book apart is its accessibility: combining engaging writing with a reader-friendly focus. The volume provides a roadmap on how concepts related to flourishing can be applied in practical ways in non-WEIRD settings. This volume is a useful resource for both academics and professionals working in the areas of human well-being, positive psychology, life coaching, and related fields.

This book offers a bold and interdisciplinary exploration of living consciousness, a dynamic, participatory mode of the mind which influences perception, morality, and human development far more deeply than conventional theories allow. This work asks: what if consciousness is not merely a passive witness to reality, but an active force that shapes the world we inhabit?
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The first part of the book examines how consciousness constructs subjective reality and how applied psychology and psychotherapy harness this constructive power in practice. It shows how the concept of living consciousness reframes long standing challenges in moral behavior and opens new pathways for thinking about artificial intelligence, agency, and responsibility. The second turns to development, cognition, and culture. It reveals how living consciousness transforms our understanding of executive function, becomes a measurable subject in experimental psychology, and emerges gradually in children as they learn to navigate inner and outer worlds. Education is presented as the cultivation of living consciousness, while magical participation (a mode of connection beyond causality, correlation, or symbolism) offers a fresh lens on how humans relate to each other and to the world. Clear, integrative, and provocative, this book invites readers to rethink what consciousness is, what it does, and why it matters for the future of humanity and intelligent systems.

The Second Edition examines the diagnostic overlap and continuing confusion between the DSM-5 diagnostic categories of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), which include autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and trauma and stressor related disorders (TSRDs). Specifically, the book addresses challenges to diagnostic considerations resulting from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the exponential increase of information available to the public about trauma, neurodiversity, and autism-affirming services. It describes the ways in which these conditions are similar in that children with developmental disorders are particularly vulnerable to traumatic events and all have pervasive effects on the brain and development. Chapters provide a wealth of effective clinical, family, and school-based interventions developed from established studies and important new findings. In addition, chapters use illustrative case studies to survey assessment challenges in the healthcare climate and consider alternative routes for improving correct diagnoses, identify appropriate interventions, and refer proper targeted, evidence-based treatment and services. The book offers recommendations for needs-based service access, including a more widespread use and acceptance of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) framework.

Key areas of coverage include:

• Trauma and neurodevelopmental disorders from a public health perspective.
• The neurobiological contributors to trauma and stressor related disorders (TSRDs) and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) and their diagnosis in children with a history of trauma.
• Interventions for trauma and stressor-related disorders in preschool-aged children.
• Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis and care in a cultural context.
• Considerations in ASD identification and treatment across the lifespan and for diverse populations (race, gender, international).

Trauma, Autism, and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Second Edition, is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and related professionals in developmental psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, public health, social work, pediatrics, and special education.

The Making of A New Science: A Study of the Life and Work of the Philosopher Psychologist Theodule-Armand Ribot is the first comprehensive book in the English language dedicated to the life and work of Theodule-Armand Ribot (1839-1916). Despite his central role in the emergence of modern psychology, Ribot remains surprisingly understudied, particularly in comparison to contemporaries such as William James, Wilhelm Wundt, Pierre Janet, and Alfred Binet.

Ribot, at once philosopher and psychologist, embodied the intellectual tensions of psychology’s formative period. The book serves both as a contribution to the historical reconstruction of the making of psychology as a modern science and as a systematic presentation of Ribot’s psychological doctrines, many of which are translated here into English for the first time.?

Against this historical background, the present monograph offers a study of Ribot’s work in its full intellectual and cultural context. It examines (1) the philosophical background that shaped his thought, and (2) the medical and scientific frameworks that informed his methodology, tracing how these converged in the formation of a scientific psychology. ?

The book pursues the following main objectives: (1) to situate Ribot’s life and work within the broader intellectual and cultural debates of late nineteenth-century France and Europe, where he played a decisive role; (2) to present and critically analyse the core ideas of his psychology; (3) to contribute to the ongoing discussion of “psychology as a science,” a question that remains vital for understanding the foundations and evolution of the discipline.

Despite his prominence among contemporaries, Ribot’s legacy has long suffered from neglect, particularly in the Anglophone world. This book fills that gap, re-establishing Ribot as a key figure in the history of psychology and a pivotal thinker at the intersection of philosophy, physiology, and psychiatry.