Suicide is the cause of death for nearly one million people per year. Death by suicide is often reported as being due to other causes to avoid stig...

The need for neuropathology reviews in epilepsy surgery tissues steadily increases. However, textbooks and case presentations highlighting and focu...

This book is the integrated presentation of a large body of work on understanding the operation of biological brains as systems. The work has been ...

Anyone who is plagued by nightmares night after night knows what a heavy burden these nocturnal apparitions represent: one is unable to resume slee...

Talent identification. A concept dating back to Greek philosophers, now as it was then, is about the ability to identify talent in different contex...

In 1987, Cloninger proposed a bio-social model of personality based on four temperamental dimensions exhibited early in life and related to specifi...

This book deals with personal, social and cultural time perceptions and their impact on love and romantic relationships. By focusing on time orient...

In 1983, Swiss psychiatrist C.A. Meier delivered a fascinating paper at the 3rd World Wilderness Congress in Inverness, Scotland. 'Wilderness and t...

This volume includes the complete texts of two of John Stuart Mill's most important works, Utilitarianism and On Liberty, and selections from his o...

The collector is a pseudo sub-species of human who endeavours to amass items for building wealth, in the pursuit of a hobby or, in extreme cases, a...

Periodically, researchers express concern about the research conducted on suicide. Back in 1966, Merton Kahne criticised the quality of the researc...

Personality traits are enduring dispositional tendencies commonly defined as "dimensions of individual differences in tendencies to show consistent...

In The Hydra's Tale, Robert Rawdon Wilson treats the experience of disgust not from the perspective of the disgusting object-in-the-world, but from...

The Lonely Ape that Told Himself Stories is a book that tries to explore the fact that humans are the only animals on this planet that tell stories...

Curiosity is the foundation of childhood development and continues on into adulthood; it is the cornerstone of scientific discovery, art and play. ...

Compassion is associated with feelings, emotions, expressions of care and comfort, derived from a place of love and relationship. However, as this ...