Learn how to study smarter and succeed at uni, with the definitive guide to study skills. Packed with tips and advice, and a fantastic free companion website, it's essential reading for anyone who wants to do their best at university.
The rise of psychotherapy has been one of the defining features of the 20th century. In this Very Short Introduction, Tom Burns and Eva Burns-Lundgren trace the development of psychotherapy and counselling, from its origins in Freud's psychoanalysis to the variety of different approaches on offer today.
Explains what psychiatry is and what it does. This book looks at the major illnesses and how they are treated, and outlines a brief history of the subject, focusing on the controversies that have inevitably surrounded it - from political abuse to the very existence or otherwise of both mental illness and 'normality'.
The Application of the Theory of Actor-System Dynamics to Conflict, Social Power, and Institutional Innovation in Economic Life
Actor-systems dynamics is a multidisciplinary methodology for analyzing social struggles over economic resources and the interplay between economic and socio-political institutions. The authors, sociologists and economists, provide a systemic perspective on contemporary socio-economic issues such as economic crises, unemployment, inflation, and economic democracy. They identify key factors that drive interactions, initiate change, and provoke resistance. Major themes include conflict over economic resource distribution, the structural bases of economic inequality, and the shaping of socio-economic institutions, alongside the contradictions and instabilities these developments evoke. The text critiques orthodox economic theories, including Keynesianism, for their inadequacy in addressing recurrent economic crises. It presents an open, dynamic actor-oriented systems theory grounded in social sciences, diverging from conventional economics. The collected papers explore social power, conflict, and struggle related to economic resources and institutions, as well as the structural factors that drive initiatives, conflict, and social innovation. This work is aimed at a broad audience of social and managerial scientists interested in socio-economic issues, institutions, and development.