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Ivan P. Pavlov was a pioneering Russian physiologist whose influence on Russian psychology was politically emphasized in 1930s to 1950s. This volume analyses the major contributions of Pavlov from the standpoint of idiographic science, and demonstrates how generalizations in science are possible from single specimens.

Provides a rich collection of chapters that provide an invaluable resource to scholars, researchers and practitioners in psychology. Psychological interventions are becoming increasingly popular in contemporary societies. This volume is intended to help psychologists and other professionals understand how general psychological knowledge can serve to guide local and particular interventions.

Offers an idiographic perspective in order to discuss the concept of health, to define its cultural meanings and possible polysemy, and its areas of pertinence and intervention, trying to offer possible alternatives to the "normalization" of health and creating new incentives for reflection.

Offers an idiographic perspective in order to discuss the concept of health, to define its cultural meanings and possible polysemy, and its areas of pertinence and intervention, trying to offer possible alternatives to the "normalization" of health and creating new incentives for reflection.

Provides a rich collection of chapters that provide an invaluable resource to scholars, researchers and practitioners in psychology. Psychological interventions are becoming increasingly popular in contemporary societies. This volume is intended to help psychologists and other professionals understand how general psychological knowledge can serve to guide local and particular interventions.