Psychology & Psychiatry
98 Articles & Excerpts
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Adult Children of Abusive Parents: A Healing Program for Those Who Have Been Physically, Sexually, or Emotionally Abused by Steven Farmer, M.A., M.F.C.C. A history of a childhood abuse is not a life sentence. Here is hope, healing, and a chance to recover the self lost in childhood. Drawing on his extensive work with Adult Children, and on his own experience as a survivor of emotional neglect, therapist
Alchemy: The Opus Of The Soul, Part 1
A Life at Work: The Joy of Discovering What You Were Born to Do by Thomas Moore, Ph.D. A job is never just a job. It is always connected to a deep and invisible process of finding meaning in life through work. In Thomas Moore's groundbreaking book Care of the Soul, he wrote of the great malady of the twentieth century ... the loss of soul.
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Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind Body Medicine by Deepak Chopra, M.D. Here is an extraordinary new approach to healing by an extraordinary physician-writer - a book filled with the mystery, wonder, and hope of people who have experienced seemingly miraculous recoveries from cancer and other serious illnesses.
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The Isaiah Effect; Decoding the Lost Science of Prayer and Prophecy by Gregg Braden A Groundbreaking Interpretation of Prayer, Quantum Science, and Prophecy. Only one document was discovered completely intact among the 25,000 fragments of papyrus, parchment, and hammered copper known as the Dead Sea Scrolls: the Great Isaiah Scroll.
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Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life by Judith Orloff, M.D. Picture yourself trapped in a traffic jam feeling utterly calm. Imagine being unflappable and relaxed when your supervisor loses her temper. What if you were peaceful instead of anxious? What if your life were filled with nurturing relationships
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Man and His Symbols by Carl Gustav Jung Illustrated throughout with revealing images, this is the first and only work in which the world-famous Swiss psychologist explains to the layperson his enormously influential theory of symbolism as revealed in dreams.
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The Unthinkable; Who Survives When Disaster Strikes and Why by Amanda Ripley Discover how human beings react to danger - and what makes the difference between life and death. Today, nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism, or other disasters.
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The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip G. Zimbardo, Ph.D. What makes good people do bad things? How can moral people be seduced to act immorally? Where is the line separating good from evil, and who is in danger of crossing it? Renowned social psychologist Philip Zimbardo has the answers, and in The Lucifer
The Importance of People
Type Talk at Work: How the 16 Personality Types Determine Your Success on the Job by Otto Kroeger, Janet M. Thuesen, Hile Rutledge Are you one of those organized people who always complete your projects before they are due? Or do you put off getting the job done until the very last possible moment? Is your boss someone who readily lets you know how you are doing?
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The Wise Heart; A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology by Jack Kornfield You have within you unlimited capacities for extraordinary love, for joy, for communion with life, and for unshakable freedom - and here is how to awaken them. In The Wise Heart, celebrated author and psychologist Jack Kornfield offers the most accessible
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Musicophilia; Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition.
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Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania by Andy Behrman Electroboy is an emotionally frenzied memoir that reveals with kaleidoscopic intensity the terrifying world of manic depression. For years Andy Behrman hid his raging mania behind a larger-than-life personality.
Ambushed and Assaulted: Coping with the Unexpected
Turn Your Life Around: Break Free from Your Past to a New and Better You by Dr. Tim Clinton What happens when you can't get over the hurt? Those soul-deep wounds can ignite spiritual and emotional devastation, Dr. Clinton warns, unless you stop the downward spiral into despair.
The Story of the Mind by James Mark Baldwin Psychology is the science of the mind. It aims to find out all about the mind - the whole story - just as the other sciences aim to find out all about the subjects of which they treat - astronomy, of the stars; geology, of the earth; physiology
Freedom Talks No. II by Julia Seton, M.D. With the ever present increase of insanity, it is not only interesting but important that the subject of insanity should be studied from all view-points, and anything which can be contributed that will help in controlling or curing it
What Is Gaslighting?
The Gaslight Effect: How to Spot and Survive the Hidden Manipulation Others Use to Control Your Life by Robin Stern, Ph.D. Gaslighting is an insidious form of emotional abuse and manipulation that is difficult to recognize and even harder to break free from. That's because it plays into one of our worst fears - of being abandoned - and many of our deepest needs
Increasing Efficiency In Business: A Contribution to the Psychology of Business
by Walter Dill Scott, Ph.D. The modern business man is the true heir of the old magicians. Every thing he touches seems to increase ten or a hundredfold in value and usefulness. All the old methods, old tools, old instruments have yielded to his transforming spell
The Analysis of Mind
by Bertrand Russell There are certain occurrences which we are in the habit of calling 'mental.' Among these we may take as typical BELIEVING and DESIRING. The exact definition of the word 'mental' will, I hope, emerge as the lectures proceed
The Nervous Housewife by Abraham Myerson, M.D. Did the semi-mythical Cave Man (who is perhaps only a pseudo-scientific creation) on his return from a prehistoric hunt find his leafy spouse all in tears over her staglocythic house-cleaning, or the conduct of the youngest cave child?
Origin and Nature of Emotions by George W. Crile, M.D. Traditional religion, traditional medicine, and traditional psychology have insisted upon the existence in man of a triune nature. Three 'ologies' have been developed for the study of each nature as a separate entity - body, soul, and spirit
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