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About the Book

This revised Global Encyclopaedia of the Theoretical Psychology is an up-to-date edition of 191 entries in four volumes giving the latest developments in modern psychology. Different areas are specified in relation to their fields. The compilation is made in alphabetical order of areas representing current developments. This edition has incorporated 17 new entries that help to complete most of the areas of psychology and its allied subjects where substantial advancements have been made and are going on now. The additional entries included in the second edition are attachment theory, counseling psychology, drive theory, environmental psychology, feature integration theory, holonomic brain theory, humanistic psychology, military psychology, moral psychology, neuropsychology, opponent-process theory, psycholinguistics, psychometrics, psychophysics, psychosynthesis, psychotherapy and transpersonal psychology. This Encyclopaedia is prepared especially for graduate and postgraduate students of psychology and the general readers intending to acquaint themself with the latest developments in modern psychology. It is also helpful to teachers and students who wish to go for the Ph.D. and select problem of their interest and expertise.

About the Authors

Moazziz Ali Beg is an Internationally known psychologist and has lectured in many Indian Universities and in Universities of Munich, California and Georgia where his work initiated considerable research on the Sufi and Vedantic thought. He taught in the Department of Psychology till 1989, till his retirement from there as Professor and Chairman of Department of Psychology. He joined Maharishi Dayanand University at Rohtak in 1990-91 as Visiting Professor, and later on joined the University of Roorkee as Visiting Scholar in 1991 and left in 1993. He is member of the Association of Humanistic Psychology, International Philosophers for Peace, University of Virginia, Chairman, Association of World Citizens (Lucknow Chapter), and academic associate of the Department of Higher Education, Lucknow University.

Sangeeta Gupta Beg took her Ph.D. in Psychology from Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Agra. She is author of many papers published in India and abroad, and has presented papers in seminars held in the Department. of Higher Studies in Education, Lucknow University where she is working as Research Associate. Her work is focused upon the Vedantic orientation in Psychology carrying high appreciation from scholars of Finland, Germany and England.