阿伦•贝克 （Aaron T. Beck） 著名的心理学家，宾夕法尼亚大学精神病学名誉教授，认知治疗学派的创立者，被誉为“美国有史以来最具影响力的五位心理治疗师之一”。贝克观察到抑郁的人具有错误或扭曲的思维模式，由此开创了区别于弗洛伊德精神分析法的认知疗法，用纠正“认知信念歪曲”的方法治疗抑郁症，获得了广泛的认同及应用。他还创办了贝克认知治疗与研究学院，将认知疗法广泛应用于抑郁、焦虑、药物滥用等临床治疗中，并开发了包括“贝克抑郁量表”在内的多种应用广泛的心理测量量表。贝克教授获得的奖项和荣誉众多，包括素有“美国的诺贝尔奖”之称的基础医学研究“亚伯雷斯克奖”（Albert Lasker Award），著述了17本书和500多种其他出版物。 布拉德•奥尔福德 （Brad A. Alford） 斯克兰顿大学心理学教授，与阿伦•贝克合著多篇关于抑郁症和认知疗...(展开全部)

More than forty years ago, Dr. Aaron T. Beck's pioneering Depression: Causes and Treatment presented the first comprehensive account of all aspects of depression and introduced cognitive therapy to health care providers and patients struggling with one of the most common and devastating diseases of the modern age. Since that classic text first appeared, the appreciation of the ...(展开全部)

What really causes depression and anxiety - and how can we really solve them? Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and started taking anti-depressants when he was a teenager. He was told that his problems were caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain. As an adult, trained in the social sciences, he began to investigate whether th...(展开全部)

What really causes depression and anxiety - and how can we really solve them? Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and started taking anti-depressants when he was a teenager. He was told that his problems were caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain. As an adult, trained in the social sciences, he began to investigate whether th...(展开全部)

This third volume in Bowlby's groundbreaking trilogy on child development examines the effects of a death in the family on the lives of children and adults.

Michael Yapko's seminal 1992 book, Hypnosis and the Treatment of Depressions, was the first book ever written on the subject of applying hypnosis in the treatment of depressed individuals. Since its publication, Yapko's work has not only withstood the test of colleagues previously dismissive of the merits of hypnosis as a tool of treatment, but has thrived in the face of it. Hy...(展开全部)

Michael Yapko's seminal 1992 book, Hypnosis and the Treatment of Depressions, was the first book ever written on the subject of applying hypnosis in the treatment of depressed individuals. Since its publication, Yapko's work has not only withstood the test of colleagues previously dismissive of the merits of hypnosis as a tool of treatment, but has thrived in the face of it. Hy...(展开全部)

本书繁体中文版介绍： 躁鬱症是一種很奇特的疾病，使一個人的情緒擺盪在狂躁與憂鬱的兩極之間。《躁鬱奇才：不凡創造力的背後》一書，作者藉由研究貝多芬、狄更斯、牛頓與梵谷這四位天才的一生，來了解躁鬱症在他們生命中所扮演的角色，精彩的呈現精神病理如何深深地影響他們的創造發明與生命歷程。 誠如本書作者所言，人類的心智與精神狀態是由大腦細胞的狀況與大腦的化學狀態所決定，在精神疾病治療的第三波革命的此世代，精神疾病患者並非相對於正常人的另一類族群，而是能夠經由精神藥物治療獲得改善的一般人。過去許多研究創造力的專家學者對於精神病態與創造力之間是否具有關聯這個議題相當感興趣。目前已有研究顯示，患有躁鬱症或是有其前兆的孩童在創造力的得分比一般孩童的得分顯著的高。此外，許多著名的藝術家、音樂家、作家、科學家等具有創造力的人也都被診斷出患有躁鬱症，除了本書所提的四位天才之外...(展开全部)

Common sense tells us that we are morally responsible for our actions only if we have free will - and that we have free will only if we are able to choose among alternative actions. Common sense tells us that we do have free will and are morally responsible for many of the things we do. Common sense also tells us that we are objects in the natural world, governed by its laws. ...(展开全部)

This book suggests how high levels of corruption limit investment and growth can lead to ineffective government. Developing countries and those making a transition from socialism are particularly at risk, but corruption is a worldwide phenomenon. Corruption creates economic inefficiencies and inequities, but reforms are possible to reduce the material benefits from payoffs. Cor...(展开全部)