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Viktor Frankl is known to millions of listeners as a psychotherapist who has transcended his field in his search for answers to the ultimate questions of life, death, and suffering. His smash bestseller Man's Search for Meaning sold over nine million copies worldwide. These nine essays comprise a kind of sequel to the author's foundation work of "logotherapy" Man's Search for Meaning, with a focus on a person's spiritual rather than existential striving....
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Martin is a nutty suicide hotline worker whose group is about to be evicted on Christmas Eve.
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In an effort to enlighten a new generation about its growing reliance on psychiatry, this illuminating volume investigates why psychiatry has become the fastest-growing medical field in history; why psychiatric drugs are now more widely prescribed than ever before; and why psychiatry, without solid scientific justification, keeps expanding the number of mental disorders it believes to exist. This revealing volume shows that these issues can be explained...
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#1 New York Times bestseller
“Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society.” —Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies
A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing in this New York Times bestseller
Trauma...
“Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society.” —Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies
A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing in this New York Times bestseller
Trauma...
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During the late nineteenth-century, Dr. Sigmund Freud introduced a theory about human nature that has continued to hinder medical and psychiatric progress for over a century. Freud's approach, called psychoanalysis, ignored differences in human physiology. He presumed that all problematic symptoms or unusual behaviors were rooted in perverted thoughts. He was mistaken. Freud, a medical doctor, overlooked a fundamental medical procedure: the physical...
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As a doctor of the human psyche for 54 years, R. Duncan Wallace, M.D. has discovered valuable psychological truths that create most of our mental and emotional functioning in all areas of living. Rarely are they, used knowingly because they are largely unconscious and unknown, until now. In The Great Little Book of Stress Release, Dr. Wallace discusses their application to the area of stress. You will learn:
• How to instantly remove most stress
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In this continuation of our speculations and conjectures about brain dynamics as it pertains the attainment of the introspective self conscious state and the concomitant brain proto language faculty activation -both sine qua non antecedents to the decision making process- we are now trying to get a clearer picture about what seems to our species confusion of consciously experiencing two simultaneous but opposing perspectives of the same existential...
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The information explosion we have witnessed in the last two decades has unexpectedly accelerated the relentless, forward evolutionary process of complexity as experienced in the real existential reality as narrated from human to human in the language semantic accounts of our communications. Sometimes there are consistent, verifiable experiences by all witnesses that resist being described in common language terms and their undeniable presence must...
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Anyone who has ever enjoyed the honor to lecture a graduate school audience will tell you that simplicity in delivery as a goal is a worthwhile pragmatic and theoretical virtue if and only the expected and appropriate cognitive content are aimed at the student and not for self indulgence, independent of the corresponding level of complexity to be communicated. There is a tacit presumption that selling/marketing an idea by a professor implies there...
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Conferencia impartida en el acot de apertura de la XXXI edición de la Univeristat d'Estiu de Gandia, el 21 de julio de 2015, a cargo de Rafael Tabarés Seisdedos, Catedrático de Psiquiatría de la Universitat de València e investigador principal de uno de los grupos del Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Salud Mental (CIBERSAM). Tabarés explica cómo desde un punto de vista patológico, el siglo XXI comienza como un periodo psicopatológico,...
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Harry Stack Sullivan remains America's most important and unique contributor to dynamic psychiatry. His published writings never conveyed what his theories were nor how he used them to help his patients. In Participant Observation, Leston L.Havens defines and makes operable Sullivan's interviewing methods for the practicing clinician.
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When Dr. Paul Garfinkel started his career in psychiatry in the 1970s, psychoanalysis dominated the profession. Then the pendulum swung the other way. Psychoanalysis was discredited and drugs became the treatment of choice for mental illness. Throughout his career, Garfinkel has struggled to find a balance between these two poles, between compassion and human touch on one hand and the rigour of science and the prescribed drugs that have revolutionized...
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TAKE AN ACTIVE ROLE IN YOUR MENTAL HEALTH
Both easy to use and highly informative, The Complete Guide to Psychiatric Drugs is an indispensable reference for both patients and professionals. Now in a revised and expanded edition, this up-to-date handbook supplies current information on the newest and most commonly used psychiatric drugs as well as the latest details regarding side effects, dosages, and precautions.
Drawing upon his years of experience...
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"Bastante tengo con estar loco, como para aguantar además que me llamen enfermo mental". Este comentario de un paciente transmite con lucidez y precisión la oposición entre locura y enfermedad mental, y muestra, asimismo, su preferencia de la primera a la segunda. Las palabras son muy sensibles a los tiempos, las modas y los contextos. Gustan más o menos y son mejor o peor aceptadas dependiendo del ámbito y el momento en que se empleen. A nadie...
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Has PTSD invaded your world? Are you always walking on eggshells? Feel like nothing you do is right. Are you the victim of physical, emotional or verbal abuse? Are you in a relationship with someone who suffers from PTSD? Then this book is a must read for you. There is hope! So many spouses of PTSD sufferers have the false belief that nobody can understand what they are going through. Believe me when I say, you are not alone. There are literally thousands...
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Cracking the Mind-Body Cipher
Dr. Niall (Jock) McLaren is an Australian psychiatrist who uses philosophical analysis to show that modern psychiatry has no scientific basis. This startling conclusion dovetails neatly with the growing evidence that psychiatric drug treatment is crude and damaging. Needless to say, this message is not popular with mainstream psychiatrists. However, in this book, he shows how the principles of information processing give...
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Si la melancolía corre el peligro de perder el estatuto que ha tenido durante tantos siglos, en una época atravesada por el capitalismo, en una época de individuos aparentemente libres y solos, en una época de sobreabundancia de objetos, en una época en que la tristeza es un pecado (pero no lo es tanto estar apático y vacío); en este caso, es el momento más adecuado para hablar de la melancolía, y cuanto más, mejor. El melancólico contemporáneo,...
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