Download or read book Farewell and new beginning written by Kathrin Rothenberg-Elder and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-24 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is full of transitions. These transitions have to be addressed, shaped, processed and integrated into our lives in some way. Regardless of the belief in a God, traditional structures always come into view, here especially religiously traditional rites of passage such as baptism and circumcision, communion and bar mitzvah, marriage as well as convalescence, death and funeral rites. What is the psychological function of religiously traditional rites of passage today? This question will be investigated with the help of interactive interviews with functionaries and members of the religious communities of all three monotheistic currents in Northern Europe, flanked by two interviews with atheists.

Download or read book Mutual Impact written by Joachim Kuchenhoff and published by Phoenix Publishing House. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can psychoanalysis contribute to the interpretation and understanding of cultural products, in particular, literary works? What, on the other hand, can novels and plays offer to widen the conceptual and theoretical perspectives in psychology and psychoanalysis? The interpretative strategies offered by psychoanalysis, often unfamiliar to cultural studies, can adorn literature with new meaning. Psychoanalysis enables the perspective of unconscious motivations of social action and thought and widens semiotic strategies to understand linguistic, and even infra-linguistic, signs. Conversely, psychoanalytic thinking has since its advent greatly profited from literature and literary criticism. From Freud onwards, psychoanalytic theory has integrated poetic knowledge or transformed epistemological and interpretative concepts of cultural studies into psychoanalysis. Nine chapters each cover a famous work of literature from the likes of William Shakespeare and Herman Melville. Joachim Kuchenhoff interprets each work from a psychoanalytic perspective while simultaneously combing its content for lessons which can be drawn and utilised in psychoanalytic practice, thereby eliciting the symbiotic relationship between the two fields. Covering topics ranging from the tolerance for loss and the negative in King Lear to the difficulties in mourning and beginning anew in Nathan Hill's The Nix, this intriguing work is a must-read for all those with an interest in literature, as well as those in the psychoanalytic field who wish to expand their knowledge base and adopt new and different ways of thinking.

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Mahler written by Jeremy Barham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years approaching the centenary of Mahler's death, this book provides both summation of, and starting point for, an assessment and reassessment of the composer's output and creative activity. Authored by a collection of leading specialists in Mahler scholarship, its opening chapters place the composer in socio-political and cultural contexts, and discuss his work in light of developments in the aesthetics of musical meaning. Part II examines from a variety of analytical, interpretative and critical standpoints the complete range of his output, from early student works and unfinished fragments to the sketches and performing versions of the Tenth Symphony. Part III evaluates Mahler's role as interpreter of his own and other composers' works during his lifelong career as operatic and orchestral conductor. Part IV addresses Mahler's fluctuating reception history from scholarly, journalistic, creative, public and commercial perspectives, with special attention being paid to his compositional legacy.

Download or read book News from Berlin written by Otto de Kat and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June 1941. Dutch diplomat Oscar Verschuur has been posted to neutral Switzerland. His family is spread across Europe. His wife Kate works as a nurse in London and their daughter Emma is living in Berlin with her husband Carl, a 'good' German who works at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Briefly reunited with her father in a restaurant in Geneva, Emma drops a bombshell. A date and a codename, and the fate of nations is placed in Verschuur's hands: June 22, Barbarossa. What should he do? Warn the world, or put his daughter's safety first? The Gestapo are watching them both. And with Stalin lulled by his alliance with Hitler, will anyone even listen? Otto de Kat is fast gaining a reputation as one of Europe's sharpest and most lucid writers. News from Berlin, a book for all readers, a true page-turner driven by the pulse of a ticking clock, confirms him as a storyteller of subtly extravagant gifts.

Download or read book Centered and Connected written by Thea Rytz and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centered and Connected presents body-based techniques that integrate practices of self-reflection and non-judgmental awareness in order to foster healing, build self-esteem, and develop a stronger connection to one’s body. Author Rytz explores the disconnection between the mind and body, which can create alienation, lack of self-acceptance, and more serious emotional problems. Some of the body areas explored include the head, heart, hands, feet, stomach, and pelvis, as well as body-related phenomena such as the breath, gravity, and the voice. Each topic is followed by four simple and enjoyable activities meant to improve the body-mind relationship. There are 128 activities in all. More than 250 photographs and illustrations help readers visualize and utilize the exercises described.

Download or read book A Farewell to Arms written by Michael Cox and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and original study is the first to explain in detail how the Good Friday Agreement ran into trouble, why we are still some way from a final settlement, but why a return to war is most unlikely--even in an age where global terror now threatens world order more seriously than at any time in the past. This new edition of an established, authoritative text will be essential reading for students, researchers and academics of Irish politics, conflict and peace studies, and international relations.

Download or read book Leaving Sarah written by June Mendez and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fading lights of the departing train force Josephine Trent out of the shadows… She could barely stifle the scream that rose to her throat as waves of self-loathing, relief and pain threatened to smother her. Her actions leave her in a state of shock and disbelief, as the image of her baby being snatched out of her hands manifested itself before her eyes. This desperate step sets off a chain of events that would plunge their lives into an abyss so dark that the annihilation of two beautiful souls was inevitable.

Download or read book Vera Lossau the beautiful farewell written by Jeannine Burch and published by Brockmeyer Verlag. This book was released on 2008 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Total New Beginnings written by Ann M Pratley and published by Edwin Manor Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her early adulthood, Debbie made a choice. She had two men who loved her. She chose one. She lost the friendship of the other. Twenty years on, horrific tragedy strikes. Mother to three grown children, she has to find the strength to be there for them, while pushing her own grief aside. Dealing with the loss of the man who has been by her side for two decades pushes her into depression. Every day seems harder to deal with than the last. The feeling of loss is further heightened by finding her husband's lifetime of journals. Hesitant at first to look inside them, she eventually does. Almost instantly, she regrets that decision. In the years of her husband's writing, she reads things that lead her to seriously question whether she ever really knew him at all, or if they had actually been strangers for two decades. The combination of the loss of her husband, and the uncertainty about who he truly was, pushes her to retire into a dark room and have no desire to leave. She wants to shut out the world. She wants to not believe what she knows in her heart is real. With her youngest daughter, Poppy, still living at home, Debbie is eventually pulled from the darkness by her daughter's pleas. Finally, the dark days start to fade, and Debbie begins to see the sun shining once more. She can find the strength to keep going. She can start to move into a period of recovery and growth. Finally, she can accept that it's okay to accept help and lean on others. As she starts rediscovering her ability to embrace life again, results appear from her daughter's determination to help her mother. Someone from her past is brought back into her life. A friendship is re-established. It's time to let go of the past and begin a new future. It's time for total new beginnings. Did you ever hear the words in your head … 'what if'? What if you chose one path earlier in life but later had the chance to walk down the path previously unchosen? Would you?

Download or read book The Month written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Counselling for Toads written by Robert de Board and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-02-21 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 3 million copies sold worldwide and translated into seven languages! For over 25 years Counselling for Toads has provided readers with a warm and engaging introduction to counselling, brought to life by Toad and his friends from Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows. Over the course of ten sessions, which correspond to chapters of the book, a very depressed Toad learns how to analyse his own feelings and develop his emotional intelligence using the language and ideas of transactional analysis. He meets his 'rebellious child' and his 'adult' along the way and by the end of the book, Toad is setting out on a completely new adventure – as debonair as he ever was. Readers will learn about the counselling process and themselves as they join Toad on his journey from psychological distress to psychological growth and development. A must-read for anyone approaching counselling for the first time, whether as a student or as a client, or for the professional counsellor looking for something to recommend to the hesitant.

Download or read book Farewell to the Horse A Cultural History written by Ulrich Raulff and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surprising, lively, and erudite history of horse and man, for readers of The Invention of Nature and The Soul of an Octopus. Horses and humans share an ancient, profoundly complex relationship. Once our most indispensable companions, horses were for millennia essential in helping build our cities, farms, and industries. But during the twentieth century, in an increasingly mechanized society, they began to disappear from human history. In this esoteric and rich tribute, award-winning historian Ulrich Raulff chronicles the dramatic story of this most spectacular creature, thoroughly examining how they’ve been muses and brothers in arms, neglected and sacrificed in war yet memorialized in paintings, sculpture, and novels—and ultimately marginalized on racetracks and in pony clubs. Elegiac and absorbing, Farewell to the Horse paints a stunning panorama of a world shaped by hooves, and the imprint left on humankind. “A beautiful and thoughtful exploration. . . . Farewell to the Horse is a grown-up, but also lyrical and creative, history book, and I very much enjoyed it.”— James Rebanks, author of the New York Times bestseller The Shepherd’s Life

Download or read book The Farewell written by Debjeet Mukherjee and published by Uditi Prakashan. This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A working mom, a US-aspirant son, an army colonel as dad and all the love it takes to keep a family together. Read this beautiful short story of mother-son relationship during contemporary times. Also included is a tribute to the concluding chapters of an acclaimed fantasy-drama-series in television of the twenty-tens.

Download or read book The Stone of Farewell written by Tad Williams and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-04-05 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon, a young kitchen boy and magician's apprentice, finds his dreams of great deeds and heroic wars becoming an all too shocking reality in a terrifying civil war.

Download or read book Oh No Time to Go written by and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young boy presents the different ways his family members and others say goodbye, then describes the worst goodbye he ever experienced. By the author of Some Helpful Tips for a Better World and a Happier Life.

Download or read book Faith and Farewell written by Rev. Dr Jack DiMatteo and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Startling Thought: When did you first realize your parents were not going to live on this planet forever? An Even More Startling Thought: When did you realize that your parents may die soon? In Faith and Farewell, a veteran hospice chaplain explores the spiritual dimensions of saying good-bye to aging parents. Discover the Seven Spiritual Themes which commonly surface for adults whose parents are rapidly declining and advancing toward death: Authority Control Guilt Loss Isolation Anger Grace Pastor Jack shares his own story while encouraging others to let go, to stop micromanaging every detail, and to entrust those final days to the sovereign will of the Creator. Learn how to grow spiritually as you lead your parents through the concluding chapter of their lives. Sensitive and scholarly, Faith and Farewell includes biblical instruction, meditation tools, and insights into how families can cope during the spiritual process of ushering their parents to their earthly finish line.

Download or read book Praying Our Goodbyes written by Joyce Rupp and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 250,000 copies sold, this new edition of Joyce Rupp’s most popular book offers a fresh opportunity for readers to reflect, ritualize, and reorient themselves as they navigate life’s inevitable changes. Everyone has unique goodbyes—times of losing someone or something that has given life meaning and value. With the touch of a poet, Joyce Rupp offers her wisdom on "these experiences of leaving behind and moving on, the stories of union and separation that are written in all our hearts." Praying Our Goodbyes, Rupp says, is about the spirituality of change. It is a book for anyone who has experienced loss, whether a job change, the end of a relationship, the death of a loved one, a financial struggle, a mid-life crisis, or an extended illness. It is designed to help readers reflect, ritualize, and re-orient themselves—to help heal the hurts caused by goodbyes and the anxieties encountered when one season of life ends and another begins.