. . except himself. Out of control of his actions, Billy Milligan was a man tormented by twenty-four distinct personalities battling for supremacy over his body—a battle that culminated when he awoke in jail, arrested for the kidnap and rape of three women. In a landmark trial, Billy was acquitted of his crimes by reason of insanity caused by multiple personality—the first such court decision in history—bringing to public light the most remarkable and harrowing case of multiple personality ever recorded.Twenty-four people live inside Billy Milligan. Philip, a petty criminal; Kevin, who dealt drugs and masterminded a drugstore robbery; April, whose only ambition was to kill Billy's stepfather; Adalana, the shy, lonely, affection-starved lesbian who “used” Billy's body in the rapes that led to his arrest; David, the eight-year-old “keeper of pain”; and all of the others, including men, women, several children, both boys and girls, and the Teacher, the only one who can put them all together. You will meet each in this often shocking true story. And you will be drawn deeply into the mind of this tortured young man and his splintered, terrifying world.

    It discusses neuroanatomy, cell and molecular mechanisms and signaling through a cognitive approach to behaviour. It features an expanded treatment of the nervous system, neurological and psychiatric diseases and perception.

    . . "A small seven-year-old boy who couldn't speak except to repeat weather forecasts and other people's words . . . A beautiful little girl of seven who had been brain damaged by terrible parental beatings and was so ashamed because she couldn't learn to read . . . A violently angry ten-year-old who had seen his stepmother murder his father and had been sent from one foster home to another . . . A shy twelve-year-old from a Catholic school which put her out when she became pregnant . . ."What do we matter?""Why do you care?"They were four problem children-put in Torey Hayden's class because no one else knew what to do with them. Together, with the help of a remarkable teacher who cared too much to ever give up, they became almost a family, able to give each other the love and understanding they had found nowhere else.

    With over 1,000,000 copies sold, it has helped hundreds of thousands of readers deal successfully with their inner hurts.

    From verbalizing chimpanzees to scientific speculations involving machines with souls, from the mesmerizing, maze-like fiction of Borges to the tantalizing, dreamlike fiction of Lem and Princess Ineffable, her circuits glowing read and gold, The Mind's I opens the mind to the Black Box of fantasy, to the windfalls of reflection, to new dimensions of exciting possibilities."Ever since David Hume declared in the 18th century that the Self is only a heap of perceptions, the poor Ego has been in a shaky conditions indeed...Mind and consciousness becomes dispensable items in our accounts of reality, ghosts in the bodily machine...Yet there are indications here and there that the tide may be tuming...and the appearance of The Mind's I, edited by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett, seems a welcome sign of change." William Barrett, The New York Times Book Review

    It consists of vividly picturing in your mind a desired goal or objective and holding that image until it sinks into your unconscious mind, where it releases great untapped energies.Through Positive Imaging you will learn how to-- Solve your money problems-- Outwit worry-- Banish loneliness-- Improve your health-- Strengthen your marriage-- Relate to others more successfullyDiscover the power available to you through Positive Imaging.You can take control of your problems.You can command your life.This book is designed to help you do it -- and do it well.

    The title of Alice Miller's book, first published in Germany in 1981, spells out the unspoken commandment that such abused children - indeed, all of us - have been obeying since early childhood. We have all been made to feel from our earliest days that we are to blame for anything shameful that happens to us, so that our awareness of these inflicted abuses dims. Alice Miller demonstrates that this centuries-old tradition also finds expression in Freud's notions of "the Oedipus complex" and "infantile sexuality" - his drive theory - which put the blame on the child. Freud maintained that his patients who claimed to have been sexually molested as children were only "fantasizing" as a defense against their own sexual desires for their innocent parents. This theory helped to conceal the fact that sexual abuse of children occurs frequently and results in later emotional disturbances in the victims of such abuse - because they are not allowed awareness of it. In fairy tales, works of literature, and dreams, Alice Miller maintains, the truth about childhood can emerge, precisely because it is not recognized as such. Detailed examples from Kafka, Flaubert, Beckett, and Virginia Woolf offer proof of her thesis and illustrate her understanding of human creativity.

    It's the best book to learn about real hypnosis, the structure of hypnosis. There are many books that can teach you to hypnotize people, but few that can teach you to break through the consensual trance that you are already in. This book can get you on the road to doing that. "Hypnosis is a word that usually gets strong responses from people" - positive or negative. Often, people associate trance states with mysticism or magic, which has not helped the reputation of hypnosis. We encourage skeptics to suspend their beliefs or assumptions about hypnosis long enough to read this book. NLP cofounders Bandler and Grinder studied the famous therapist Milton Erickson to determine the structure of hypnosis. This book turns the "magic" into specific understandable procedures, some of which are useful in everyday conversation. In addition to the hows of hypnosis (basic and advanced), the authors describe numerous important uses for this science. A great introduction to the subject - and an important reference book for hypnosis practitioners.

    If you're putting your life back together after a divorce, you need this book! an all new revised, updated and expanded edition of a best-seller!

    This guide offers the most comprehensive insight and advice into coping with nervous stress.Sufferers of nervous illness regard Self Help for Your Nerves as their bible – many believe that if they had found it earlier they would have been saved years of unnecessary suffering.Dr Claire Weekes looks at:How the Nervous System WorksWhat is Nervous IllnessCommon factors in the development of nervous illnessRecurring Nervous AttacksPlus important chapters on depression, sorrow, guilt and disgrace, obsessions, sleeplessness, confidence, loneliness and agoraphobia.The book also shows the Dr Claire Weekes method, a practical programme on learning to take your place among people without fear.

    Many women of childbearing age and their partners find it hard to make this life-changing decision. Without a crystal ball, what can you do? Some women say “I like the idea of motherhood, but how do I know I’d really enjoy it? What will happen to my job, my relationship, my sanity?” Or they say, “I’m leaning toward being childfree, but will I be sorry later?” Merle Bombardieri, MSW, LICSW has been helping people make this decision for over thirty years in her therapy and coaching practice and in her Baby Decision Workshops. With a depth that only a psychotherapist can provide, she shows you strategies for dealing with doubt and ambivalence and uncovering your deepest self-knowledge. Through anecdotes, exercises, guidelines, and checklists, she leads you to your best possible choice.Imagine the relief of finally cutting through the tangled vines of pros and cons and seeing a clear decision emerge. Merle helps you not only to make a decision but to use it as an opportunity for you and your relationship to grow. You will learn how to:•Use dozens of “Secret Doors” exercises to uncover hidden feelings and wisdom.•Separate your own needs and preferences from societal myths and expectations.•Give full consideration to the rewards and opportunities of living childfree.•Talk constructively with your partner even if you disagree.•Manage work-life balance and keep your relationship strong.•Make decisions about one-child families, single and gay parenting, fertility and adoption.•Borrow some of the benefits of the other choice.You will also learn how to trust your decision and make the most of it.•Includes resources and bibliography.•Bonus section: Preparing your body for a healthy pregnancy.Upcoming Events"The Baby Decision" Parenthood Decision Making WorkshopsOctober 30, 2016 Cambridge Center for Adult Education (ccae.org)

    New Foreword by the author.

    It won the School Library Journal Best Book Award. Another exploration of the very real and painful world of the learning-disabled child.

    . . . Freedom's characteristics, fruits, and problems; destiny's reality; death; and therapy's place in the confrontation between freedom and destiny are examined. . . . Poets, social critics, artists, and other thinkers are invoked appropriately to support May's theory of freedom and destiny's interdependence."—Library Journal "Especially instructive, even stunning, is Dr. May's willingness to respect mystery. . . .There is, too, at work throughout the book a disciplined yet relaxed clinical mind, inclined to celebrate . . . what Flannery O'Connor called 'mystery and manners,' and to do so in a tactful, meditative manner."—Robert Coles, America

    Based on groundbreaking scientific research, Under The Influence examine the physical factors that set alcoholics and non-alcoholics apart, and suggests a bold, stigma-free way of understanding and treating the alcoholic.How to tell if someone you know is an alcoholic.The progressive stages of alcoholism.How to get an alcoholic into treatment -- and how to choose a treatment program.Why frequently prescribed drugs can be dangerous -- even fatal -- for alcoholics.How to ensure a lasting recovery.

    Dr. Minuchin has achieved renown for his theoretical breakthroughs and his success at treatment. Now he explains in close detail those precise and difficult maneuvers that constitute his art. The book thus codifies the method of one of the country's most successful practitioners.

    Tens of thousands of people, many of them therapists, have studied his blend of hypnosis, linguistics and precise thinking in the United States, Europe, and Australia. Bandler is the author of Trance-formation, "Using Your Brain-for a Change, Time for a Change", "Magic in Action, "and" the Structure of Magic". He coauthored "Frogs into Princes, " "Persuasion Engineering", "The Structure of Magic II", and "Magic in Practice". Grinder is a communication specialist whose background includes a degree in linguistics and development of a communication model for psychotherapy which has revolutionized the field. He has studied the best communicators in many fields, including management, and developed techniques to make their effectiveness learnable. A highly entertaining speaker, he has given workshops around the world to executives, lawyers, salespeople and therapists.

    Time is money is obviously a good attitude to have in business or work. It is not at all obvious that in love the same attitude is the cause of so much unhappiness. We often make mistakes. We carry over from one activity to another attitudes of mind that do not make life what it could be. romance is obviously a fine thing. Romantic love is enchanting, but not so good if one partner is money-minded and the other is romantic. In time, they will finish at the psychiatrist's or in court. Many troubled relationships come from inadvertently carrying over seemingly good habits of thought to where they do not apply. Somehow we behave as if good habits are always good. We think or rather feel that we need not bother about behaving otherwise. It is not so obvious that good habits can make us unhappy. It is an elusive truth. Yet habitual lack of free choice is often, nay, usually, disastrous. If you come across something obviously new to you, in its form at least, please stop for a moment and look inward. Working out new alternatives assists us to grow stronger and wiser. My editor tells me that I should free readers from having to think and look inward. I believe she knows what the average reader likes. I myself do not like predigested food. For you, the reader, I have added to the beginning and end of each chapter a short introduction and summary to facilitate your digestion so that you will find it easier to make what is elusive more obvious.

    James Fowler has asked these questions, and others like them, of nearly six hundred people. He has talked with men, women, and children of all ages, from four to eighty-eight, including Jews, Catholics, Protestants, agnostics, and atheists. In many cases, the interviews became in-depth conversations that provided rare, intimate glimpses into the various ways our lives have meaning and purpose, windows into what this books calls faith. Faith, as approached here, is not necessarily religious, nor is it to be equated with belief. Rather, faith is a person's way of leaning into and making sense of life. More verb that noun, faith is the dynamic system of images, values, and commitments that guide one's life. It is thus universal: everyone who chooses to go on living operated by some basic faith.Building on the contributions of such key thinkers as Piaget, Erikson, and Kohlberg, Fowler draws on a wide range of scholarship, literature, and firsthand research to present expertly and engagingly the six stages that emerge in working out the meaning of our lives--from the intuitive, imitative faith of childhood through conventional and then more independent faith to the universalizing, self-transcending faith of full maturity. Stages of Faith helps us to understand our own pilgrimage of faith, the passages of our own quest for meaning and value.

    In a new afterword, Herman offers a lucid and thorough overview of the knowledge that has developed about incest and other forms of sexual abuse since this book was first published.Reviewing the extensive research literature that demonstrates the validity of incest survivors' sometimes repressed and recovered memories, she convincingly challenges the rhetoric and methods of the backlash movement against incest survivors, and the concerted attempt to deny the events they find the courage to describe.

    The author presents the first comprehensive attempt to collect, describe, and draw in map form the most important concepts of the human mind.

    

    And is a compilation of lectures, letters, sayings and the miraculous sermon of the fourth Caliph Hazrat Ali ibn Abi Talib (Alaih-e-Salam)

    Kushner shares his wisdom as a rabbi, a parent, a reader, and a human being. Often imitated but never superseded, When Bad Things Happen to Good People is a classic that offers clear thinking and consolation in times of sorrow.Since its original publication in 1981, When Bad Things Happen to Good People has brought solace and hope to millions of readers and its author has become a nationally known spiritual leader.

    This Eighth Edition redefines the high standard set by previous editions. It offers the best balance of rigor and accessibility, the most current research, and the most thorough technology integration available for your course--all presented within a unique modular format that supports student mastery and provides instructors with maximum teaching flexibility. In every chapter, Kalat accurately portrays biopsychology as a dynamic and empirical field in which fascinating new discoveries are constantly being made. He captures readers' interest with the latest biological psychology findings, such as how gingko biloba claims to aid memory and coverage of the hypothesis that humans' mate choice patterns are influenced by natural selection. Throughout, the author's goal is not only to convey information, but also to convey his excitement about and dedication to the subject.

    Carlson's Seventh Edition of Physiology of Behavior continues its tradition as the most comprehensive, current, and teachable book for physiological psychology. This classic incorporates the latest discoveries in the rapidly changing fields of neuroscience and physiological psychology and offers the most comprehensive and integrative coverage of research and theory in contemporary behavioral neuroscience. Thoughtfully organized, it offers scholarly-yet-accessible coverage and effectively emphasizes the dynamic interaction between biology and behavior. Collaboration with a talented artist has provided beautiful, accurate, and informative full-color illustrations that further enhance the appeal to both students and professors alike. For anyone interested in physiological psychology or biological psychology.

    Now with a new foreword by Carol S. Pearson.

    

    A retelling of four Old Testament stories from a psychological perspective to help contemporary readers become whole and conscious persons.

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    1919 (CW 293)Although these lectures were given to teachers as preparatory material, they are by no means concerned only with education. Study of Man is Steiner's most succinct presentation of his human-centered spiritual psychology, and it is accessible to anyone genuinely interested in the questions of human existence. His approach is unique because it considers not only the influences that affect humanity from the past, but also future states of consciousness and being. Reprinted here in the original "classic" translation by A.C. Harwood and Helen Fox, these lectures were given in 1919 to the teachers of the Waldorf school in Stuttgart--the first to be based on the educational ideas of Rudolf Steiner. After eighty-five years of Waldorf education--and exponential growth around the world--this volume remains the basic study text for teachers in Steiner schools. As well as providing a basis for the work of educators, Study of Man will be of special interest to parents, counselors, psychologists, and students of Rudolf Steiner's philosophy--for whom this volume provides a fundamental picture of the human being according to the anthroposophic understanding of the world.This book is a translation of Allgemeine Menschenkunde als Grundlage der Padagogik (GA 293), published by Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach.

    Beginning with a discussion of the problem of autonomy in dynamic psychiatry and a review of its development from infancy to adolescence, the author of Neurotic Styles explores, with numerous clinical examples, the distortion of the development of autonomy in obsessive-compulsive conditions, in sadism and masochism, and, finally, in paranoia.

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    Merrill's acclaimed "Style Awareness Workshops" The goal: improvement of interpersonal effectiveness skills-inspiring better communication, improved productivity, and a more harmonious working environment.Students preparing for business, management, or sales careers can also benefit from Merrill's techniques, presented in Personal Styles & Effective Performance.Merrill's approach emphasizes the interrelationships between behavior and social style-encouraging students to consider how their own actions influence responsiveness from others. Those actions tend to be rooted in one of four primary social styles: Analytical, Amiable, Driving, and Expressive-which readers are invited to compare and contrast with their own styles, as a starting point for potential improvement.First published in 1981, Personal Styles & Effective Performance continues to be a popular resource for the self-improvement minded. By learning its lessons now, tomorrow's business professionals can have the edge in interpersonal effectiveness-one of the most important facets of a successful career.

    You can give yourself suggestions for centuries and say, 'I will remember my dreams,' while at the same time you think, 'Dreams are a part of me I do not want to know.'"You must believe in the power and energy and strength and glory of your being, and know that problems are challenges for you to solve. Then face them joyfully, knowing that when" you know your entire self, waking or sleeping, you will be pleased—as in the old legend. God was pleased when he created the world."Do not cower before your belief that the inner self is frightening or that there are bad things hidden down there. Tell yourself that there is nothing in yourself to be afraid of. And again, this applies to all of you."—from Volume Two of CONVERSATIONS WITH SETHFrom Dust jacket Flaps"You make your reality—or you do not. And if you do not, then you are everywhere a victim. That is the only other alternative to forming your own reality! [Either} everything has a reason, or nothing has a reason. So— choose your side."—Seth, in a conversation with a research scientistIn the first volume of CONVERSATIONS WITH SETH, Susan M. Watkins began the mind-bending account of Jane Roberts's ESP Class. Now she concludes her account with an examination of Class's heyday, when students began taking Seth's precepts seriously and testing them in daily life.The results were startling, as parameters of physical existence became more tolerant and elastic. Class members sighted outlandish birds, logged out-of-body travels, experienced startling incidents in which time seemed to collapse, and recorded "True Dreams from the Gates of Horn"—all subject, of course, to analysis on the following Tuesday night.Seth also greatly expanded the notion of personal selfhood. In Class, many students met their counterparts—other portions of the same source-self or entity, simultaneously reincarnated on earth. In addition, many students encountered their own probable selves—parallel individuals who had followed other "unofficial" paths of development.Here you'll find Seth's advice for good health and self-healing, his observations on cannibalism and Christ, religion and drugs, spontaneity and the draft... Class's stunned reaction to his tip, "If it isn't fun, stop doing it"... and his tireless (if not always patient) efforts to make students take responsibility for the realities they created.After her move from the West Water Street apartment, Jane Roberts discontinued Class. But as Ms. Watkins documents, her students' independent evolution only confirms Seth's precept that learning is endless; and that simple desire and curiosity are enough to attract an infinity of new colleagues, new challenges—and new solutions. With drawings made in class by George Rhoads, this book is the capstone to a full understanding of Jane Roberts's work.SUSAN M. WATKINS has worked as a reporter, interviewer, and newswrker. In Conversations With Seth, she has "tried to maintain a balance between metaphysics and manic behavior." She lives with her son, Sean, in Dundee, New York.“(Unknown Source)You cannot help creating any more than you can help breathing; and when you breathe no longer, you still create. You cannot escape your own creations. It is not death any of you have to worry about—it is your own creations, and you cannot blame your own creations upon any god or any ‘fact’ or any predestination! YOU CREATE YOUR OWN REALITY.” —Seth, Conversations with Seth, book 2 Picking up where book 1 left off, we continue our adventures with Jane Roberts and her ESP class members as they converse, wrangle, and debate with Seth and each other about the practical application of the theory that we each create our own reality. It’s the 1970s and the names and places may be distant memories, but the issues remain as fresh and relevant as ever: homosexuality and sex and gender issues (remember Anita Bryant’s anti-gay campaign?); political and religious fanaticism; man-made drugs versus natural stimulants and remedies; the role of religion, biblical texts, and God in our culture and around the world; premonition dreams involving mass events—these are but a few of the topics covered. And, in a series of powerful “therapy” sessions, Seth gives pointed personal advice to three class members: one regarding a marriage in crisis, another a chronic health issue, and another, an artist wondering why he can’t make a living doing what he loves. By exploring, with humor and intelligence, these timeless issues, Seth, Jane Roberts, Sue Watkins, and class members help us understand both the theory and practical application of “You create your own reality.” “Susan Watkins has accomplished an immeasurable task in chronicling the time she spent in the company of Jane Roberts and Seth, who together produced one of the most amazing bodies of metaphysical literature of our time. She tells the story from the point of view of the novice and so takes us with her as we discover the "Seth" within us all. Reading Conversations with Seth is the next best thing to having actually been there ourselves.” —Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D., featured in the movie "What the Bleep Do We Know?!" and author of Dr. Quantum's Little Book of Big Ideas and The Spiritual Universe

    . . illustrated epigrams that will inspire your personal quest for telling communication. Fresh, funny, wistful, bright; they may well reflect some of your own deep or whimsical thoughts. Ashleigh's Pot Shots are acclaimed, told and re-told, by young and old, secular and religious, mainstream and offbeat they speak to everyone. What they say: Clifton Fadiman: Most enjoyable; Isaac Asimov: Good one-liners; Richard Armour: Wise, and witty; People magazine: Artistic trailblazer, Ashleigh Brilliant coins epigrams that would drive Oscar wild. Ashleigh's Pot Shots are copyrighted and the names Pot Shots and Brilliant Thoughts are registered trademarks.

    Reveals the yogic understanding of the power of words and images (matrika shakti) and explains how to still the mind and reveal the divinity within.

    Sedgwick argues that mental health movements have overemphasised individual civil liberty at the expense of developing collective responsibility for mental health care.

    . . "This book should be read by everyone who wishes to reclaim the lost land of personality theory and personality disorders (it's so good that I was tempted to say read by anyone who has a personality). This book can be applauded as a companion volume to DSM-III. . . Then, too, it can be appreciated for its thorough and scholarly style." --Journal of Personality Assessment." . .an impressive effort to bring together the clinical literature on personality disorders . . .A very useful book. . . --Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic." . .an important source for clinicians and researchers seeking a more comprehensive understanding of these major clinical entities . . . Exhaustively documented and yet written and presented in a clear and simple way, this work is among the most thorough and up-to-date texts in the field and will be particularly valuable for students being introduced to psychiatric diagnosis." --Library Journal." . .an excellent descriptive book . . .its strength lies in the reality of its case-work material. A book for practitioners. . . --British Journal of Psychiatry"Dr. Millon's book is scholarly, comprehensive, well organized, and gracefully written. . . .Millon is equally adept at critically and encyclopedically summarizing the psychoanalytic, constitutional, temperamental, behavioral, phenomenologic, interpersonal, and social learning theories of personality development and disorder. . . .This is by far the best available text on personality disorders and will be of great interest to clinicians and researchers alike." --American Journal of Psychiatry"The book contains a great deal of information on topics about which DSM-III is either carefully guarded or silent. It can be appreciated as representing the point of view of one highly respected dean of personality and psychopathology. . . .one joins Millon in a serious consideration of how each personality disorder developed, what it is like intraphysically and psychodynamically, the manifold ways in which it can express itself, all the complicated other disorders with which it may combine, and the richness of prognostic possibilities." --Contemporary PsychologyDisorders of Personality: DSM-IVTM and Beyond is the fully revised Second Edition of Theodore Millon's landmark work on personality disorders. Indeed, Dr. Millon has been universally recognized as a pioneer and leading authority in this rapidly evolving field. As one of the founders of the Journal of Personality Disorders, a prime organizer of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, and a full member of the DSM-IVTM, Axis II Work Group, he has played a dominant role in shaping the character of this extraordinarily challenging area of psychological study.In this new edition, practitioners, researchers, teachers, and students will find the same clarity of insight that made the previous edition the standard text on personality disorders. Like its predecessor, the Second Edition guides the reader through the special complexities of this group of disorders and aids clinicians in the difficult work of diagnosis. It serves as an indispensable companion volume to DSM-IVTM, especially in the light of advances that have transformed personality disorders from an area of marginal relevance in diagnostic practice to one that is now central to the comprehensive multiaxial format. Major revisions and an almost doubling in length make this book more valuable than ever before:A revised theoretical framework--from a learning theory-biosocial framework to a more evolutionary model that includes constructs applicable to phylogenesis and human adaptive styles An expansion of the 15 basic personality prototypes into personality disorder subcategories, resulting in over 60 additional adult subtypes An enlarged review of historical and contemporary thinking on personality disorders that makes this an invaluable single sourcebook for evaluating various theories A substantial expansion of the "Clinical Picture" section of each chapter now incorporates eight realms of patient data, and therefore facilitates the selection of modalities of therapeutic intervention Comprehensive reviews of the newer personality prototypes, such as avoidant, narcissistic, borderline, schizotypal, depressive, sadistic, and masochisticDetailed discussion of frequent Comor-bid Axis I and Axis II diagnoses--a feature especially useful to those in managed care practices An instructive discussion of childhood personality disorders, a subject frequently ignored in the literature Major new chapters on personality assessment and personality therapy, including an up-to-date review of available instruments Expanded and detailed discussion of short-term, focused therapy Comprehensive, authoritative, and superbly organized, Disorders of Personality: DSM-IVTM and Beyond is an absolutely essential resource for psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and social workers, teachers, students, researchers, and all others who seek greater understanding of the complex web of human personality disorders.

    A spiritual approach to wholistic psychology.

    

    Intelligence, creativity and happiness are all functions of this remarkable tool we call the mind and you can increase your ability to use your mind with these informative Reader's Digest features and articles.

    Charles Lumsden and Edward O. Wilson thereby argue compellingly that human nature is neither arbitrary nor predetermined. They identify mechanisms that energize the upward translation from genes to culture and assess the properties of genetic evolution of mind within emergent cultural patterns." Lumsden and Wilson explore the rich and sophisticated data of developmental psychology and cognitive science in a fashion that, for the first time, aligns these disciplines with human sociobiology. The authors also draw on population genetics, cultural anthropology, and mathematical physics to set human sociobiology on a predictive base, and so trace the main steps that lead from the genes through human consciousness to culture.

    Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

    regard themselves as "shy." Yet, shyness can be cured, says Dr. Philip Zimbardo, the nation's leading authority on shyness. With co-author Shirley Radl, Dr. Zimbardo presents a program for overcoming and preventing shyness from infancy to adulthood. The Shy Child is based on pioneering research conducted at the Stanford Shyness Clinic, including surveys of people in the U.S. and abroad, interviews with children, parents, teachers, and systematic experimental research that compared the behavior of shy to non-shy people. This book documents which parenting "style" encourages self-confidence in a child, helps with the problems of being shy and provides methods for building a child's trust and self-esteem. It explores the role that school plays in contributing to a child's shyness, and suggests ways to improve the quality of the classroom experience for every child. The Shy Child is the only book to provide an effective program for conquering shyness in childhood, before it has a chance to limit a child's options and determine the course of the child's life.

    Having examined more than 300 novels by both major and minor women writers over three centuries, Annis Pratt perceives in women's fiction distinctive elements of plot, characterization, image, and tone. She argues that women's fiction should be read as a mutually illuminative or interrelated field of texts reflecting feminine archetypes that are signals of a repressed tradition in conflict with patriarchal culture. Pratt suggests that the archetypal patterns in women's fiction provide a ritual expression containing the potential for the reader's personal transformation and that women's novels constitute literary variations on preliterary folk practices that are available in the realm of imagination even when they have long been absent from day-to-day life.

    

    This edition documents the past ten years of research and provides evidence of behavior-neural-endocrine-immune interactions.

    From them, Ann Ulanov states, a common voice emerged speaking about each woman's struggle to receive all of herself. Each was trying to find and put together different parts of herself into a whole that was personal, alive, and real to herself and to others. This book focuses on helping women receive themselves by rejecting stereotypes and categories and seeking out their own individuality.

    

    

    The book is concise, well organized and clearly written. --Contemporary PsychologyA classic work which uses imaginative techniques to help achievebalance within the family. It gives attention to specific problemssuch as violence, drug abuse, and depression, and seeks the hiddenmeaning in these symptoms, which are clues to the underlying familystructure.

    Depicts the outbreak of legionnaires' disease at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia in 1976 and the efforts of scientists to discover its cause.

    In this volume the authors address thenselves to those aspects of Erickson's therapeutic work that did not rely on the utilization of formal trance states. Using Erickson's own verbatim descriptions of this work, those patterns which are characteristic of his approach are not only identified for the reader, but are described as sequenses of internal and external behaviors that can be duplicated by anyone.

    Why have we become so afraid of authority? What real needs for authority do we have—for guidance, stability, images of strength? What happens when our fear of and our need for authority come into conflict? In exploring these questions, Sennett examines traditional forms of authority (The father’s in the family, the lord’s in society) and the dominant contemporary styles of authority, and he shows how our needs for, no less than our resistance to, authority have been shaped by history and culture, as well as by psychological disposition.

    Because we haven't helped YOU discover just How to feel good about yourself. You appreciate models, not critics, says Sol Gordon, author of The Teenage Survival Book. You want information which can lead to self-acquired wisdom (when the mind is ready a teacher appears).

    Sections include: Discovering and Recognizing Shame; Confronting Shame; The Healingr of Shame.

    

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    It was the prophecy of Gustave Le Bon in 1895 that the twentieth century would be 'l'�ge des foules' that gave Serge Moscovici the title for his book, and it presents a systematic exposition of Le Bon's ideas and those of Gabriel Tarde, demonstrating convincingly their influence on the theories of collective psychology advanced by Sigmund Freud. These theories are re-examined by Professor Moscovici in a fascinating commentary on political life: Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky all in some way applied them in their leadership styles with consequences that are all too familiar. The scenario painted by this volume is a disturbing one. Serge Moscovici's acute analyses of mass phenomena raise fundamental questions concerning the foundations of democracy.

    The starting point for thinking is a rigorous philosophical scepticism; one might say that in this book she describes the psychological consequences of making a Humean scepticism the starting point rather than the conclusion of one's thinking, and of not diverting one's mind from the psychological consequences of this philosophical position by indulging, like Hume, in a little backgammon with one's friends.The Opening chapters of the book develop the picture of normal human psychology implied in The Human Evasion, and to some extent in the first half of The Decline and Fall of Science, a picture which makes Schopenhauer's view of human nature appear almost optimistic. Celia Green proposes the theory that human beings are in a state of fundamental hostility to one another, and that this hostility is a form of displaced aggression at the universe, and in particular the finite predicament in which they find themselves. The desire to transcend their own limitations has been repressed, in the interests of avoiding frustration, and is replaced by a desire to impose limitations on other people by way of compensation. Nietzsche once remarked, or implied, that his books where written in blood; in the central third of the book Celia Green start to explain the origins of her psychological ideas, and how they arose out of the battlefield of her education. 'My system of psychology was effectively complete by the time I was twenty-one.'These autobiographical chapters lead up to the presentation of an entirely original—and most powerful—psychological concept, that of 'centralisation', which is developed in Chapters 24 to 30.The remainder of the book consists of the application of this concept of centralisation, and various other striking and original psychological ideas, to a number of historical and literary examples. These analyses produce many fascinating and original sidelights on some quite familiar cultural phenomena, as well as shedding further light on Celia Green's own subtle and at first sight difficult psychological criteria; for example, she produces the interesting speculation that the crucified Christ might have been a teenager.Despite the seriousness and profundity of its subject matter, this book is written in Celia Green's usual direct and lapidary style, and with the same astringent humour as The human Evasion and The Decline and Fall of Science. Even those who do not agree with her (and they will no doubt be in the great majority) will be liable to find thought—provoking ideas or talking points on every page—one might almost say in every line, such is the wealth of thought behind the book.(Taken from inside the dust jacket)

    

    

    

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