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En un principio, los hombres atribuían la enfermedad a la influencia de los dioses y recurrían a la ayuda de los sacerdotes para una buena sanación. Con el tiempo descubrieron el poder curativo de las plantas y aprendieron a sacar de ellas ungüentos y brebajes. Sin embargo, ante las enfermedades del espíritu, el hombre estuvo desamparado hasta bien entrado el siglo XVIII, cuando aún era incapaz de establecer las causas y los motivos de las enfermedades...
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This book reconstructs the story of Roy Coupland Winn 1890-1963, Australia's first fulltime practising psychoanalyst, of whom it was said that he was 'dedicated to the continual inner search to understand himself and others'.
From a background of privilege, he volunteered in 1915 and cut his teeth as a military medic on Gallipoli. On the Western Front he gained a Military Cross, lost his foot and was left wondering if he wasn't losing his mind too....
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Diana Wells's intriguing exploration into the rewards of relationships--both the canine and human varieties--begins when she reluctantly starts seeing a psychologist, Beth, during a difficult time in her life. With no insurance to pay for counseling, a barter is arranged in which the client becomes part-time caretaker to the therapist's dog, Luggs, a sweet, clumsy black Labrador retriever.
As Wells examines her past--her peripatetic childhood,...
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Visionaries, crackpots, fanatics, dreamers, suffragettes, temperance workers, be-sloganned devotees of betterment in marriage, religion, sex, alcohol, labor relations, penal codes and the treatment of mental illness rub shoulders in a book, which encompasses the American dream of Utopia, sobriety and the pursuit of happiness.
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Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) was a British physician. She was first woman to study medicine at university in the United States, as well as the first to be put on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council. She was a key reformer in both the United States and the United Kingdom who pioneered the education of women in medicine. Blackwell also played an important role as an organiser of nurses during the American Civil War. Her most notable...
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This intriguing memoir details in a quiet and restrained manner with what it meant to be a committed black intellectual activist during the apartheid years and beyond. Few autobiographies exploring the 'life of the mind' and the 'history of ideas' have come out of South Africa, and N Chabani Manganyi's reflections on a life engaged with ideas, the psychological and philosophical workings of the mind and the act of writing are a refreshing addition...
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Witness True Resilience in These Incredible Survival Stories
"Michael Tougias converts the wisdom of survivors into advice we can all use..." -Amanda Ripley, bestselling author of The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes-and Why
#1 New Release in Disaster Relief
Extreme Survival will have you on the edge-of-your-seat with truly amazing survival stories.
New York Times bestselling author Michael Tougias has earned critical acclaim...
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An incisive biography of the founder of "self-psychology" -a key movement in American psychology -and one of the greatest analysts since Freud.
Heinz Kohut was at the center of the twentieth-century psychoanalytic movement. After fleeing his native Vienna when the Nazis took power there, he settled in Chicago and worked in its university; within a decade he became the leader of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, a site for some of the most...
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Prize-winning journalist and the co-author of smash New York Times bestseller I Am Malala, Christina Lamb, now tells the inspiring true story of another remarkable young hero: Nujeen Mustafa, a teenager born with cerebral palsy, whose harrowing journey from war-ravaged Syria to Germany in a wheelchair is a breathtaking tale of fortitude, grit, and hope that lends a face to the greatest humanitarian issue of our time, the Syrian refugee crisis.
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A unique and engaging perspective of humanity – a journey to wisdom shared through stories of self-awareness, acceptance, and discovery, by acclaimed psychotherapist Dr. Hassan Khalili.
In A Life Spent Listening, Dr. Hassan Khalili reflects on four decades of being a frontline community psychotherapist and shares the wisdom he has learned over the years. By inviting the reader into his own life and the lives of his patients, Dr. Khalili explores...
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Uses real-life episodes of psychosis and recovery to show how poetic paradigms for thinking about psychiatric symptoms can enlarge contemporary understandings of mental illness and improve long-term treatment outcome.
"Twenty-two years ago, I lost my mind." So begins Jeanne Ellen Petrolle's fascinating personal narrative about her mental illness and recovery. Drawing on literature, art, and philosophy, Petrolle explores a unique understanding of...
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Finally, the Diary Book, where we find the author's everyday life, his particularities and reflections that colours the happenings of his daily life. What to say about this writing that many times seems to be unreal for the reader, but that in João Rosa de Castro's experience appears to have much meaning? The reader is not up to decipher the enigmas nor understand them, but enjoy the words of the writer's intimacy that lead us to seversal situations...
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This volume explores and contextualizes the contributions of Gilles Paquet as a social scientist. A quintessential public intellectual, Gilles Paquet's long and multifaceted career has shown him to be a thinker of significant power and creativity. This self-described "homo hereticus"-always critical and sometimes controversial-has influenced scholars and policy makers in Canada and around the globe. The contributors reveal how his assessments of economics,...
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Extrait : "La vie de Maine de Biran n'offre point ces circonstances qui éveillent la curiosité générale. Les orages de la Révolution l'atteignent à peine ; il fournit une longue carrière politique sous l'Empire et la Restauration, et, une seule fois, il se trouve appelé à prendre une part active à un de ces faits qui s'inscrivent pour toujours dans les annales des nations."
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116) Life's Golden Thread
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This is an account of the life of a Jewish psychiatrist growing up in Melbourne, Australia in the 1940s and 1950s as a child of a traumatised immigrant mother who had a limited capacity for love. The consequence of this was poor self-esteem as well as an inability to become emotionally separate and realise his potential for love and relationships. Another result was a difficult first marriage, the psychological manifestations of which are discussed...
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In September 1970, ex-Harvard professor and 'High Priest of LSD' Dr. Timothy Leary escaped from prison with the aid of the radical Weather Underground. Spanning twenty-eight months, President Nixon's careening, global manhunt for Dr. Timothy Leary winds its way among homegrown radicals, European aristocrats, a Black Panther outpost in Algeria, an international arms dealer, hash-smuggling hippies from the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, and secret agents...
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"A fascinating biography and in-depth look at the work of bestselling writer and psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson, by award-winning author Jim Proser. Who is psychologist, professor, bestselling author, and YouTube personality Dr. Peterson? What does he believe in? Who are his followers? And why is he so controversial? These are among the many questions raised in this compelling, exhaustively researched account of his life-from Peterson's early days...
119) Unnatural history
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Alex Delaware novels volume 38
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"The most enduring detectives in American crime fiction are back in this electrifying thriller of art and brutality from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense. Los Angeles is a city of stark contrast, the palaces of the affluent coexisting uneasily with the hellholes of the mad and the needy. It is that shadow world and the violence it breeds that draw brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis into an unsettling...
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El libro rojo es una leyenda en el movimiento junguiano reveladora de los grandes secretos de la vida del maestro. Pocas personas lo conocían, y la discreción de la mayoría de ellas, junto con la resistencia de la familia de Jung por publicarlo, lo transformó en un verdadero misterio. El hecho de saber que el original estaba en una caja fuerte en un banco en Zúrich lo convertía en un tesoro codiciado.
Después de El libro rojo, surge un nuevo...
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