Download or read book Sick Souls Healthy Minds written by John Kaag and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James believed that philosophy was meant to articulate, and help answer, a single existential question, one which lent itself to the title of one of his most famous essays: "Is life worth living?" Through examination of an array of existentially loaded topics covered in his works-truth, God, evil, suffering, death, and the meaning of life-James concluded that it is up to us to make life worth living. He said that our beliefs, the truths that guide our lives, matter-their value and veracity turn on the way they play out practically for ourselves and our communities. For James, philosophy was about making life meaningful, and for some of us, liveable. This is the core of his "pragmatic maxim," that truth should be judged on the bases of its practical consequences. Kaag shows how James put this maxim into use in his philosophy and his life and how we can do so in our own. .

Download or read book The Sick Mind written by Warren Simoneaux and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Healing the Sick Mind written by Henry James Samuel Guntrip and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Neat Desk is a Sign of a Sick Mind written by Mab Graff Hoover and published by Accent Publishing. This book was released on 1981 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Welcome to the Sick Mind of a Sane Person written by Terry Lee Watson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2022-03-13 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’ve crawled, walked, marched, and run. Fought, prayed, protected, and some. Now, it is time for my mind to be well. Not tomorrow, not later, but now. Know this America, whatever you gained from my black sick mind, I’ll be taking it back. What does it take to deal with the legacy of white supremacy as a conscious black mind in America? Terry Lee Watson explores that weighty topic in Welcome to the Sick Mind of a Sane Person—a timely anthology of poems, short stories, and critical essays that reveal why we’re still coping with an oppressive structure in America. The book is divided into four moments: • The Walk is a collection that critically examine the complexity of racism and white supremacy. • The American Celebration seeks to define what makes a mind sick. This collection lends insight into how our willingness to disguise our sanity to fit the status quo contributes to the overwhelming theme of white supremacy. • I Fight for My People shows how we find, sustain, and pass on strength as a culture. • The Playing of The Fifth Note speaks to the strategist in you. If deconstructing white supremacy is the beginning, then what is your end? What is your fifth note? Join the author as he considers what it means to be black in America, what must be done to effect meaningful change, and whether we should be hopeful about the future.

Download or read book Healing the Sick Mind written by Harry Guntrip and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sickening Mind written by Paul Martin and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A masterpiece of popularization' Times Literary Supplement 'A fascinating account, based on objective scientific research, of the ways in which mental states affect the individual's liability to disease... Martin is a highly civilised scientist, who seasons his text with witty parentheses. He also provides many examples from literature, ranging widely from Shakespeare, Goethe and Hardy to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Kafka... Interesting, informative and a pleasure to read.' ANTHONY STORR, Sunday Times 'Excellent' JON TURNEY, Financial Times 'This most accessible account of a difficult subject blows away some prejudices and pleasingly justifies others... Martin is a biologist whose style is considerate of the layman...and it is a tribute to his own benignly infectious enthusiasm for his subject that his closing thoughts are encouraging... Remarkable.' ALAN JUDD, Daily Telegraph 'Compelling... Balanced and impressively up to date... The tone of voice, the open-minded but critical intelligence should uplift the quality of the debate... Martin's lucid account of possible mechanisms of the connections between mental states and personality traits and illnesses is a notable triumph of his book... Excellent.' RAYMOND TALLIS, Times Literary Supplement

Download or read book How the Brain Lost Its Mind written by Allan H. Ropper and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted neurologist challenges the widespread misunderstanding of brain disease and mental illness. How the Brain Lost Its Mind tells the rich and compelling story of two confounding ailments, syphilis and hysteria, and the extraordinary efforts to confront their effects on mental life. How does the mind work? Where does madness lie, in the brain or in the mind? How should it be treated? Throughout the nineteenth century, syphilis--a disease of mad poets, musicians, and artists--swept through the highest and lowest rungs of European society like a plague. Known as "the Great Imitator," it could produce almost any form of mental or physical illness, and it would bring down a host of famous and infamous characters--among them Guy de Maupassant, Vincent van Gogh, the Marquis de Sade, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Al Capone. It was the first truly psychiatric disease and it filled asylums to overflowing. At the same time, an outbreak of bizarre behaviors resembling epilepsy, but with no identifiable source in the body, strained the diagnostic skills of the great neurologists. It was referred to as hysteria. For more than a century, neurosyphilis stood out as the archetype of a brain-based mental illness, fully understood but largely forgotten, and today far from gone. Hysteria, under many different names, remains unexplained and epidemic. These two conditions stand at opposite poles of the current debate over the role of the brain in mental illness. Hysteria led Freud to insert sex into psychology. Neurosyphilis led to the proliferation of mental institutions. The problem of managing the inmates led to the abuse of lobotomy and electroshock therapy, and ultimately the overuse of psychotropic drugs. Today we know that syphilitic madness was a destructive disease of the brain while hysteria and, more broadly, many varieties of mental illness reside solely in the mind. Or do they? Afflictions once written off as "hysterical" continue to elude explanation. Addiction, alcoholism, autism, ADHD, Tourette syndrome, depression, and sociopathy, though regarded as brain-based, have not been proven to be so. In these pages, the authors raise a host of philosophical and practical questions. What is the difference between a sick mind and a sick brain? If we understood everything about the brain, would we understand ourselves? By delving into an overlooked history, this book shows how neuroscience and brain scans alone cannot account for a robust mental life, or a deeply disturbed one.

Download or read book Hoaling the Sick Mind Foreword by Henry V Dicks written by Harry Guntrip and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Thoughts from a Sick Mind written by shAmyAble and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of poetry that touches on sensitive subjects. Addiction, mental health, sexuality, public education, the government, and religion are all questioned and brought into a new light in a way that has not been done before. Itll make you question your own beliefs as well as rethink the unspoken issues with society. This collection tells the story of who I am, what I believe in, and what I have experienced that makes me believe everyone should hear it.

Download or read book Everfair written by Nisi Shawl and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An "alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's ... colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier"--Amazon.com.

Download or read book Healing and the Mind written by Bill Moyers and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last, the paperback edition of the monumental best-seller (almost half a million copies in print!) that has changed the way Americans think about sickness and health -- the companion volume to the landmark PBS series of the same name. In a remarkably short period of time, Bill Moyers's Healing And The Mind has become a touchstone, shaping the debate over alternative medical treatments and the role of the mind in illness and recovery in a way that few books have in recent memory. With almost half a million copies in print, it is already a classic -- the most widely read and influential book of its kind. In a series of fascinating interviews with world-renowned experts and laypeople alike, Bill Moyers explores the new mind/body medicine. Healing And The Mind shows how it is being practiced in the treatment of stress, chronic disease, and neonatal problems in several American hospitals; examines the chemical basis of emotions, and their potential for making us sick (and making us well); explores the fusion of traditional Chinese medicine with modern Western practices in contemporary China; and takes an up-close, personal look at alternative healing therapies, including a Massachusetts center that combines Eastern meditation and Western group therapy, and a California retreat for cancer patients who help each other even when a cure is impossible. Combining the incisive yet personal interview approach that made A World Of Ideas a feast for the mind and the provocative interplay of text and art that made The Power Of Myth a feast for the imagination, Healing And The Mind is a landmark work.

Download or read book The Sick Mind written by Freudian Trips and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-11-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all want to be healthy. So why do we make choices that contradict our aims? In The Sick Mind, the author explores the self-defeating behaviors that sabotage our health goals. With wit and compassion, the book delves into the emotional and psychological drivers behind our worst habits using insights from neuroscience and health psychology research. From emotional eating to addiction to lack of exercise motivation, The Sick Mind reveals why our minds often work against us. By understanding these subconscious patterns, we can recognize our triggers, reframe negative thought narratives, and take control. The book offers science-based techniques to outsmart traps like the nocebo effect, wire new neural pathways, and align environments with desired change. Backed by academic research yet written for a general audience, The Sick Mind offers real solutions to start writing a new story of health. Unpack the mental roadblocks holding you back from lasting wellness transformation.

Download or read book Why People Get Sick written by Darian Leader and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the argument that the mind affects a variety of conditions, from heart disease and cancer to asthma and arthritis, and calls for greater awareness of the mind-body connection.

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Download or read book The Products of a Sickly Mind written by D. G. Jones and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Products of A Sick Mind has now become a trilogy, The Sick Mind Trilogy!!!After another brief period of incarceration for public safety, award winning writer D G Jones returns with two brand new mini books to add to the popular Products of A Sick Mind, thus creating the Sick Mind Trilogy... The sickness now comes in three gurgling chunks:The Products of A Sick MindThe Products of A Sickly MindThe Products of A Sicker Mind(Books can be read in any order)All new tales of strange weirdness, some horrific, some funny and all disturbing, come explore the wonderful creations of the Underground's Number One Author in journeys of gore splattered, entrail rupturing fun...The Products of A Sick MindSix stories of the sick, the strange, and the downright weird exploring such delights as parasites, extreme sexual deviance, hacksaw surgery, and the real nature of lycanthropes. Not for the squeamish, The Products of a Sick Mind walks a nightmare path of horror, comedy, and bizarre sexual practises. This collection pushes at the boundaries of taste and sanity, and forms a prequel to the Thaylian Asylum Trilogy. Exclusive eBook material, containing six brand new stories and added bonus content: some of the choice cuts from the now legendary D G Jones blog "Slippery Entrails".The Products of A Sickly MindStarting off with a gentle meandering tale of resurrecting corpses, A Sickly Mind gradually cranks up the sickness with two brothers fighting the world's craziest duel, a midnight drive down Strange Disappearance Road, Jo and Maria running a rather messy business together and finally a tale of necrophiliac romance that goes badly wrong and is off the stomach turning scale . The Products of A Sicker MindOnce again trawling some of the darkest corners of the sick bucket, A Sicker Mind is a searing collection of nauseating lunacy all done with a cheery smile. In this collection, lie such gems as wandering penis syndrome, constipation on a never seen before scale, an internet date that goes very badly wrong and for no other reason than as a lazy plot device, encounters with a demented leprechaun who has a habit of putting very unpleasant hexes on people. WARNING: Explicit content, disturbing, and graphic material. Follow on Twitter: @theflayedprinceWebsite: www.theflayedprince.co.ukThe Sick Mind Trilogy was inspired by the following review from Ansible in the US: "Is this porn? Or just sick? This review is from: THE MACHINE (The Machine Trilogy industrial edition) I missed the note about "explicit content" so I was quite shocked when I started reading. It starts out with very sadistic descriptions and grossly described sexual situations...I have no idea how this book ended up on the Top 100 Free Books in Science Fiction. Sorry to say, but this book looks like the product of a sick mind. I won't be reading it." April 17, 2012. "This, (along with T-bag's write up of The Oddball Express) has got to be one of my favourite ever reviews, but it got me thinking, sure, THE MACHINE is violent, brutal and uncompromising, but it's not sick, I wonder if I can write something that is. If this one makes you squirm or feel physically ill, it's done its job..." (D G Jones 12/02/13).

Download or read book Brainwashing written by Kathleen Taylor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-29 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, humans have attempted to influence and control the thoughts of others. Since the word 'brainwashing' was coined in the aftermath of the Korean War, it has become part of the popular culture and been exploited to create sensational headlines. It has also been the subject of learned discussion from many disciplines: including history, sociology, psychology, and psychotherapy. But until now, a crucial part of the debate has been missing: that of any serious reference to the science of the human brain. Descriptions of how opinions can be changed, whether by persuasion, deceit, or force, have been almost entirely psychological. In Brainwashing, Kathleen Taylor brought the worlds of neuroscience and social psychology together for the first time. In elegant and accessible prose, and with abundant use of anecdotes and case-studies, she examines the ethical problems involved in carrying out the required experiments on humans, the limitations of animal models, and the frightening implications of such research. She also explores the history of thought-control and shows how it persists all around us, from marketing and television, to politics and education. This edition includes a new preface from the author reflecting on the uses of brainwashing today, including by the Islamic State. Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think.