Health Psychology Arena

New: The Positive Psychology of Buddhism and Yoga: Paths to A Mature Happiness, 2nd Edition

This book describes Buddhist-Yogic ideas in relation to those of contemporary Western psychology.

The book begins with the Buddhist view of the human psyche and of the human condition.

This leads to the question of what psychological changes need to be made to improve that condition.

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Critical Feminist Approaches to Eating Dis/Orders

Over the past decade there have been significant shifts both in feminist approaches to the field of eating disorders and in the ways in which gender, bodies, body weight, body management and food are understood, represented and regulated within the dominant cultural milieus of the early twenty-first century.

Critical Feminist Approaches to Eating Dis/Orders addresses these developments, exploring how eating disordered subjectivities, experiences and body management practices are theorised and researched within postmodern and post-structuralist feminist frameworks.

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Call for Papers: Medicine, Conflict and Survival

Medicine, Conflict and Survival is an international journal for all those interested in health aspects of violence and human rights.

Now under new editorship, and due to be relaunched in January 2010, the journal continues to play an important role in debates around health, peace and violence.

The Editors welcome submission of articles or shorter comment pieces. Submissions for consideration should be original contributions, relevant to the aims and scope of the journal, and should not currently be under consideration for publication elsewhere.

download the PDF flyer for full details of this call for papers

New Free Shipping Levels for UK, US and Canadian orders

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Chronic Headaches: Biology, Psychology, and Behavioral Treatment gets 4-star rating

Chronic Headaches by Jonathan M. Borkum has recently been given a 4-star rating by Doody's Medical Reviews for their subscriber libraries.

This puts the book in joint-second place in terms of ratings out of the 128 books on headache in their database.

Chronic Headaches is the first new book in many years to provide a comprehensive review of the latest theory, research, and treatment of chronic headaches from a biopsychological perspective. It is designed to make the tools of assessment and therapy widely accessible, while placing them in the context of how the disorders arise.

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Routledge launches Mental Health podcast

Beginning May 2008, we're releasing regular interviews with figures in the world of mental health, asking them about their fields of interest, opinions, and published works.

In our first podcast episode, Jane Harris interviews Denise Cullington, author of Breaking Up Blues, an indispensable, practical self-help book for those going through break-up and divorce.

Denise Cullington is a psychoanalyst living and working in Oxford. She trained at the Institute of Psychoanalysis; the Tavistock Clinic, London; and as a Clinical Psychologist.

You can listen to the interview without subscribing to the podcast by simply going to the Breaking Up Blues mini-site.

If you'd like to subscribe to the podcast and have iTunes or other Podcast software installed then use one of the links below:

• Subscribe in iTunes
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Call for Papers: Clinical Psychologist

Clinical Psychologist is the journal of the Australian Psychological Society’s College of Clinical Psychologists.

The journal covers a range of topics of broad general relevance to psychologists working in clinical and health settings, including assessment and treatment of psychopathology as well as commentary on theoretical, social and cultural issues and applied therapies across the lifespan.

To be reviewed for possible publication in this journal please see the instructions in the PDF file linked to below.

find out more about this call for papers (PDF file)

New Journal: Health Psychology Review

Health Psychology Review is a landmark publication — the first review journal in the important and growing discipline of health psychology.

This new international forum, edited by a highly respected team, will provide a leading environment for review, theory, and conceptual development.

UPDATE: Health Psychology Review has issued a call for papers - please see this PDF flyer

Find out more about Health Psychology Review.

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