The Complete Companions blend together the content and skills that are needed to perform well in the new exam - making it easy for teachers to prepare students for the new A2 exams and boosting students' grades by combining great psychology with unparalleled support for effective exam performance.

Combines good psychology with effective exam performance. This title provides exam-focused coverage of various concepts, studies and terms. It features full colour, highly illustrated, magazine-style double-page spreads which are student-friendly. It offers examiner advice throughout. It contains host of accompanying support materials.

This text presents Freud's theory that man is unable to tolerate too much reality, and that dreams are the contraband representations of the beast within man which are smuggled into awareness during sleep. The analysis of dreams is the key to unlocking the vital secrets of the unconscious mind.

This new edition, edited by the best-selling team of Cardwell, Clark and Meldrum, has been fully revised and updated to match the new AQA A specification containing new features to ensure your students are completely up-to-date!

'Why Love Matters' explains why love is essential to brain development in the early years of life, particularly to the development of our social and emotional brain systems, and presents the startling discoveries that provide the answers to how our emotional lives work.

A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest.

Illustrates how and why the face of sexual fantasy has become more imaginative. This book collects the sexual fantasies of dozens of women and men, and teaches us to proudly own the creativity of our sexual imagination and indulge in the power of our sexual visions. It captures the sexual pulse of a people living in an uninhibited age of equality.

Irrational beliefs and behaviour are virtually universal. This title draws on research to examine why we are irrational, the different types of irrationality, the damage it does us, and the possible cures. It also argues that we could significantly reduce irrationality and its effects - but only if we recognize just how irrational we really are.

A guide to the developmental progress of pre-school children. It is useful as a reference for professionals training or working in health, education and social care. It includes charts describing the stages in the development of motor, perception, communication, play, independence and social skills. It contains information on how children develop.

Written for the AS-Level courses, this book is suitable for the AQA A, OCR and Edexcel courses. It covers the facts students need to know in order to get a top grade with questions for students to check their understanding. It also covers the 'How Science Works' part of the course, with evaluation of the key experiments.

Written for the AQA A AS-Level course, this book covers the AQA A course - providing the facts students need to know to get an A grade with questions for students to check their progress and understanding. It also covers the 'How Science Works' part of the course, with evaluation of the key experiments.

Explains the key theories and research in various areas of child development. This work is a useful resource for students at Levels 3 and 4, in Foundation and Early Childhood Studies Degrees.

This best-selling textbook has been fully revised in line with the new AQA (A) specification for A2 Level, which will be taught for the first time from September 2009.

Provides an introduction to the ways in which psychologists study developmental processes. This book considers major aspects of development from conception through to adolescence. It includes a range of theoretical perspectives, from evolutionary developmental psychology to cultural-ecological and social-constructionist viewpoints.

Integrated with traditional approaches to create an overview of perception, attention, memory, concepts, language, problem solving, judgement and reasoning. This fifth edition has a two-colour design, plus an array of supplementary multimedia materials. It is for students and lecturers in the field of cognitive psychology.

A guide to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), a popular and successful therapy. It is for those who like to learn CBT techniques to practise 'self-therapy', who are preparing to see a therapist or who are already a trained counsellor but would like to learn more about CBT. It contains CBT worksheets, diaries, case studies and tasks.

Specifically designed to meet the needs of the WJEC specification, this new AS Student Book has a host of features to underpin the delivery of the new course. Written by a leading team of authors and consultant editors, this textbook makes progression through the A Level course as stimulating and enjoyable as possible.

In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything was transformed. Huxley described his experience in this book and its sequel Heaven and Hell .

AQA Psychology A is the only set of resources to have been developed with, and exclusively endorsed by, AQA, making them the first choice to support the new AQA specification for AS and A2.