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GREAT BOOKS OF 2018
Selected by Library of Social Science
Combining respect for profound thought and excellent writing—with a flair for publicity—Library of Social Science is the leader in bringing serious scholarship to a world-wide audience. We exhibit our clients' titles at cutting-edge conferences throughout North America—and sell publishers' books through the LSS Newsletter, which reaches 30,000 scholars, professionals and students throughout the world.

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—selected titles exhibited at our 2018 conferences. We think you'll find these books to be exciting, and relevant. For information on and/or to purchase any title—please CLICK THOUGH TO AMAZON.
Humanity's Dark Side: Evil, Destructive
Experience, and Psychotherapy
(APA Books)
Human destructiveness can take many forms, from the everyday "little" ways in which we hurt each other to atrocities like genocide and slavery. In this book, prominent writers on psychotherapy present different views on humanity's dark side, and consider how these views impact their clinical practice.
APA Books
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Humanity's Dark Side: Evil, Destructive Experience, and Psychotherapy (APA Books)
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Klein in the Trenches (Brill)
This book explores the theoretical and technical aspects of Modern Kleinian Therapy with borderline, narcissistic, and psychotic patients who are in great psychological conflict—and who struggle to find stable footing in the relational world.
Brill
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Klein in the Trenches
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Culture, Trauma, and Conflict (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
War was pervasive in the 20th century, and the 21st century seems to hold little promise of improvement. Cultural War Studies analyzes the conflicts that push us to glorify killing our fellow human beings, and how we then try to forget the self-inflicted trauma.
Cambridge Schoalrs Publishing
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Culture, Trauma, and Conflict (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
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Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy (Guilford)
Regarded as the definitive practitioner reference and text, this accessible work addresses how to set up therapy groups and make them work. A wealth of clinical material illustrates the components of effective group therapy and the mechanisms and processes of change.
Guilford Press
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Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy (Guilford)
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Freud & American Sociology (Polity)
Although Freud's impact on social science has been extraordinary, his impact on American sociology has been left relatively unexplored. This ground-breaking book examines the work of pioneers such as G. H. Mead, Cooley, Parsons and Goffman to provide a history of the role Freud and psychoanalysis played in the development of American social theory.
Polity
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Freud & American Sociology (Polity)
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Deconstructing Race (Teachers College Press)
Mahiri argues that multicultural education needs to move beyond racial categories. Exploring contemporary on race, the emergence of multiculturalism, and the rise of the digital age, the author provides a compelling framework for understanding the diversity of individuals and groups.
Teachers College Press
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Deconstructing Race (Teachers College Press)
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