Download or read book BUILDING BLOCKS OF THE MIND A Powerful Protocol For Clearing Mental Distress written by Peter Owen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Owen is one of the few Master Practitioners of Percussive Suggestion Technique (PSTEC) in the world. PSTEC is a system of therapy tools which have been creating shockwaves amongst the psychological community. The author has worked with well over 1000 clients and in doing so has devised a system which can be applied to almost any psychological problem. As well as providing step by step details, he also gives countless real world examples of the process in action. Peter demonstrates the sheer power of the array of PSTEC tools as well as what to do when things don't go smoothly. There are comprehensive notes on grief, anxiety, OCD, anger, self hate, suicidal thoughts, post traumatic stress & so much more. Existing PSTEC therapists will learn novel approaches to issues which can only come from years of constant trial and error. CBT therapists & counsellors will see how they can plug in some of these methods to quickly overcome certain stumbling blocks which often crop up in the talking therapies.
Download or read book Viable Utopian Ideas written by Art Shostak and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utopias - whether philosophical, literary, or actual experiments - are attempts to solve all social problems. In the wake of the attack on the World Trade Center, unfolding corporate scandals, and other devastating shocks, it is natural to search for practical lessons in utopian literature. In this collection noted sociologists renew the call to develop an altruistic social order. They address a wide variety of topics as they look for viable utopian ideas that can be applied to today's society. Written in an engaging, jargon-free style, and directed to introductory sociology students as well as anyone concerned with social problems, the book provides both visionary ideals and insights for pragmatic decision-making as we venture into an uncertain future.
Download or read book The Burdens of Intimacy written by Christopher Lane and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does passion bewilder and torment so many Victorian protagonists? And why do so many literary characters experience moments of ecstasy before their deaths? In this original study, Christopher Lane shows why Victorian fiction conveys both the pleasure and anguish of intimacy. Examining works by Bulwer-Lytton, Swinburne, Schreiner, Hardy, James, Santayana, and Forster, he argues that these writers struggled with aspects of psychology that were undermining the utilitarian ethos of the Victorian age. Lane discredits the conservative notion that Victorian literature expresses only a demand for repression and moral restraint. But he also refutes historicist and Foucauldian approaches, arguing that they dismiss the very idea of repression and end up denouncing psychoanalysis as complicit in various kinds of oppression. These approaches, Lane argues, reduce Victorian literature to a drama about politics, power, and the ego. Striving instead to reinvigorate discussions of fantasy and the unconscious, Lane offers a clear, often startling account of writers who grapple with the genuine complexities of love, desire, and friendship.
Download or read book Report and Recommendations of the National Advisory Commission on Multiple Sclerosis written by National Advisory Commission on Multiple Sclerosis (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mom I Hate You written by Mary Higgins Clark and published by Three Rivers Press (CA). This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You Can't Make Me!" "You're Stupid!" "I Wish You Were Dead." From embarrassing public displays of defiance and snide remarks at the dinner table to shocking outbursts of hate and anger, children often communicate in ways that push the notion of freedom of expression way beyond acceptable boundaries. In Mom, I Hate You!, respected psychotherapist Don Fleming demonstrates that such behavior is a natural, necessary part of growing up and offers parents effective strategies for responding to provocative statements and establishing meaningful, mutually satisfying parent-child communications. Dr. Fleming takes parents through these tactics step by step, including: - Decoding the meaning behind children's words - Responding to the meaning, not the words - Strategies for change--incentives and consequences - Provocative communication and sibling rivalry - Line-by-line examples Dr. Fleming explains how to decode the emotional message behind a child's seemingly rude, mean-spirited, or disrespectful words and helps parents evaluate their own habitual, often counterproductive reactions to specific situations and behavior patterns. Using realistic examples, he shows that parents can reduce antagonizing and aggressive confrontations while teaching their kids to express their emotions freely and honestly.
Download or read book Oliver Stone s USA written by Robert Brent Toplin and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging audiences and critics alike, the films of Oliver Stone have compelled many viewers to re-examine some of their most revered beliefs about America's past. Stone has generated enormous controversy and debate among those who take issue with his dramatic use of history. This book brings Stone face to face with some of his most thoughtful critics and supporters and allows him room to respond to their views. Writers including David Halberstam, Stephen Ambrose, Arthur Schlesinger Jr, Walter LaFeber and Robert Rosenstone critique Stone's most contested films to show how they may distort, amplify or transcend the historical realities they appear to depict.
Download or read book The Devil in History written by Vladimir Tismaneanu and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an analysis of the relationship between communism and fascism. This title examines the ideological appeal of these radical, revolutionary political movements, the visions of salvation and revolution they pursued, the value and types of charisma of leaders within these political movements, and their legacies in contemporary politics.
Download or read book Reading Bataille Now written by Shannon Winnubst and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-08 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of Georges Bataille (1897-1962) has often been reduced to his outrageous, erotic, and libertine fiction and essays. This book presents contemporary interpretations that situate Bataille in French and European intellectual traditions, and brings forward key concepts to understand the challenges posed by his important work and philosophy
Download or read book God for an Old Man written by Thomas M. Dicken and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God for an Old Man blends elements of careful academic thought about God with elements of personal autobiography and memoir. The author is deeply influenced by modern process thought about God, stemming from the thought of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, but he also describes his own life as a child, adult, and now a person entering his eighties. The central premise is that a person cannot write about a meaningful God without taking seriously the meaning, conflict, loss, and joy in one's own life. Thomas M. Dicken is immersed in both literature and visual art. He explores the ways in which art and literature can evoke a sense of ultimacy, even though we can never attain certain knowledge of the ultimate. Just as the psychiatrist Erik Erikson wrote about major stages in human lives, Dicken writes with a sense of fulfillment about the insights and values of old age. Old age is the age of wisdom, a time for offering younger people the insight that all the stages of life have been very much worth living. This is not a book of easy or dogmatic answers; it is a book of honest exploration.
Download or read book What s So Great about Christianity written by Dinesh D'Souza and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the assumptions of Christianity and atheism, and argues, among other issues, that Christianity explains what modern science tells us about the universe and our origins better than atheism.
Download or read book Teaching L vi Strauss written by Hans H. Penner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claude L ́evi-Strauss's mid-twentieth-century work in structural anthropology revolutionized the study of myth, kinship, and totemism, with lasting effects in cultural studies generally and especially in religious studies. This book provides an introduction to this revolution through generous excerpts of some of L ́evi-Strauss's most important writing on religion. Reactions and responses, both positive and negative, to the revolution are also included, along with some of L ́evi-Strauss's replies to his critics. A general introduction by volume editor Hans Penner provides a framework for understanding the historical development and contemporary meaning of structuralism for religious studies. This volume provides an unparalleled resource for teaching about structuralism.
Download or read book Current Practices in Workplace and Organizational Learning written by Bente Elkjaer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central assumption that guides this book is that research and practice about learning at the workplace has recently lost its critical edge. This book explores what has happened to workplace learning and organizational learning and studies what has replaced it. In addition, the book discusses to what extend there are reasons to revitalize it. Today, themes such as ‘innovation’, ‘co-creation’ and ‘knowledge sharing’ seem to have become preferred and referred to as theoretical fields as well as fields of practice. In several chapters of this book it is argued that the critical power of learning could be regained by starting a new discussion of how these new fields of practice can be substantiated by topics such as learning arrangements, learning mechanisms, and learning strategies. Hence, the aim of this book is to both advance and recapture our knowledge of learning in today’s increasingly complex world of work and organizing. The contributions in this work do so by revisiting classic research on workplace and organizational learning and discussing how insights from this body of literature evokes new meaning. It sets the stage for new agendas and rethinks current practices that are entangled in activities such as innovation, co-creation, knowledge sharing or other currently widespread fields of practice.
Download or read book Race ing Masculinity written by John Christopher Cunningham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the intersection of race and gender identity in writings by contemporary American men of color, showing how ostensibly sexist or homophobic texts coexist with or are engendered by articulations of anti-racism. Conversely, certain articulations of gender concerns produce reactionary ideas about race. The author examines Asian American identity in the works of Frank Chin, John Okada, and Shawn Hsu Wong, contending that these writers exhibit a strong masculinist/sexist bias, limiting their value for Asian American women and homosexuals. The author then looks at the work of African American writer Charles Johnson. He examines the conflict between feminism and male supremacy in Johnson's novels, tracing the relationship between this vision of gender and the conservatism of Johnson's approach to race issues. The author also considers the discourse of perverse sexuality with particular attention to the possibility of a countertradition of the joto, or queer in the canon of Chicano novels from Jose Antonio Villareal to Arturo Islas. Through an examination of the readings of Richard Rodriguez and Oscar Zeta Acosta, Cunningham demonstrates the interplay of homosocial sexual politics with Rodriguez and Acosta's respective conservative and revolutionary approaches to race. Finally, the study considers how claims about the universality of postmodern experience implicit in Don DeLillo's novel, White Noise, actually bear the particularizing marks of whiteness and masculinity. Includes index and bibliography
Download or read book Provocative Suggestions written by Jorgen Rasmussen and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you think there is nothing new in the world of NLP and hypnosis, you have not read "Provocative Suggestions." From the forward by Dr. Lewis Walker: If you are of a very sensitive nature and disposition then perhaps best not to read on! From Anthony Jacquin, Hypnotist and Hypnosis Instructor: This brilliant book is raw, honest and of real value. Illustrated with compelling dips into the authors case book and clear descriptions of his bread and butter techniques, it has the potential to transform you as a therapist or better still turn you into a self-transforming agent of change.
Download or read book CIVICUS Global Survey of the State of Civil Society Comparative perspectives written by Volkhart Heinrich and published by Kumarian Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of the CIVICUS Global Survey of the State of Civil Societyoffers a wide-ranging analysis of key issues facing civil society worldwide with contributions from prominent researchers and civil society practitioners. Comprising 24 chapters, the book draws on the information collected by the CIVICUS Civil Society Index project in more than 45 countries to explore issues such as civil society "s accountability, its relations to the state and corporate sector and its role in governance and development. It also includes regional overviews of the state of civil society in different continents. By bringing together a diversity of perspectives and themes, this book offers one of the most comprehensive and engaging analyses of civil society worldwide. Other Contributors: Helmut Anheier, Stefanie Bailer, Monica Blagescu, Thilo Bodenstein, David Bonbright, L. David Brown, Jerzy Celichowski, Julius Court, Wolfgang D rner, Alan Fowler, Marc M. Howard, Mohini Kak, Mahi Khallaf, Natalia Kiryttopoulou, Petr Kopecky, Barry Knight, Carmen Malena, Jacob Mati, Cas Mudde, Kumi Naidoo, Paul Opoku-Mensah, Aruna Rao, Laurie Regelbrugge, Janine Schall-Emden, Andres Serbin, Catherine Shea, Carla Suarez, Rajesh Tandon, –zlem T r, and Jan van Deth.
Download or read book The Idea of Order written by Richard Bradley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bradley's volume uses archaeological evidence to investigate the creation, use, and ultimate demise of circular architecture in prehistoric Europe. Concerned mainly with the prehistoric period from the origins of farming to the early first millennium AD, it considers the role of circular features across a wide geographical spectrum.
