Ah, the holidays! Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa offer us festivities andgatherings to take our minds off the gloom of winter. Of course, they also offer the stress of gift-giving. What should you get for your sister with chronic relationship problems, for your nephew who just entered college, or for your therapist, who is helping you understand your love-hate relationship with your mother? A book can be the perfect present for people interested in human nature. Consider the following:
Anyone with a serious interest in psychology (especially students, professors and therapists) would be delighted to own these eight, oversized green volumes. A joint effort of the American Psychological Association and Oxford University Press, this monumental work has an editorial board that includes many prominent members of the field, including Lauren Resnick, Ph.D., and the late Hans Eysenck, Ph.D., all under the direction of Editor-in-Chief Alan Kazdin, Ph.D., of Yale University. Each of the nearly 1500 articles present is written by an expert on the topic. Interested in accidents, for example? Turn to that word in volume one, read the article by Ulrik Malt, Ph.D., and you'll find that neurotic extroverts are especially accident-prone. The final volume includes a directory of the 1400 contributors, a synoptic outline of contents, and a 61-page index. What more could a psychology devotee want?
