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Mind in motion
Dr. Barbara Tversky is Professor of Psychology & Education at Columbia, Professor Emerita of Psychology at Stanford. Could movement, not language, be the foundation of thought? Pictures (including mental movies) are remembered far better than words. Both recognition and recall — of faces, scenes, and events — are utterly wordless processes, and much of our most abstract thinking is done without words. In her new book, Mind in Motion, psychologist Barbara Tversky discusses the mental primacy of bodily action. MIT's Steven Pinker says that Mind in Motion is "an intriguing exploration of the spatial thinking that is embedded in our reasoning, our language, and our culture." Watch the video about her…
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MSD-1
https://shopsomsp.com/shop/course-material/msd-1/ it is an addition to the symptom oriented approach of the DSM-5 and ICD-11 and helps understand the unconscious spatial cognition underlying all mental activity, it is an instrument for clinical psychological researchers, psychotherapists and psychiatrists alike, and it is an illustrated guide to the spatial processes that underly all manner of psychological problems and mental disorders. The illustrations in the MSD-1 give a visual explanation of personal time-line, social panorama, self-representation, spiritual panorama and related spatial models asbrought together by the International Laboratory for Mental Space Research (ILMSR) Lucas Derks combines his fascination for the mind with insights acquired as researcher, trainer and therapist. In mental space psychology…
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Mental Space Psychology
https://shopsomsp.com/shop/books/mental_space_psychology/ “Space is the primary organizing principle in the mind” Thanks to fast growing insights, it has become evident that psychology awaits a turnaround: a paradigm shift in the next decade. Now still a science in which behavior, neuroscience, cognition and linguistics are central, in the next decennia will be dominated by mental space. This will automatically imply a synthesis between academic research and psychotherapeutic practice. In this book the field of spatial cognition meets experience from therapeutic work. To some readers it may still sounds like science fiction, but this develoment was already slumbering for three decades. Lucas Derks combines his fascination for the mind with insights acquired as…
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Social Panoramas
Why am I unhappy with my social life? How can I improve my relationships? Why do I feel bullied and intimidated? The answers to all these questions are to be found in your social panorama. Social Panoramas reveals the unconscious landscape of images and people that surrounds each of us. It helps us to sense the location of significant others within our mental space, teaches us to reshape our inner worlds and guides us towards the successful recreation of our perspectives on others and ourselves. By reading this book, your unique social panorama will become clear to you, leading to more confidence, greater self-esteem and dramatic improvements in your relationships…