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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...
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En nuestro agobiado mundo, regido por la prisa y la angustia, la figura de Freud, fundador del Psicoanálisis, no solo no ha perdido actualidad, sino que se ha agrandado, espoleada por fenómenos crecientes y generalizados como el erotismo, las neurosis, fobias y el amplio abanico de enfermedades mentales, desplegado como nunca en nuestro tiempo. Pero aún hay más, el genial médico vienés fue el primero que ofreció una interpretación científica...
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«¿A quiénes se dirige Deconstruyendo al Joyce de Lacan? ¿A joyceanos, lacanianos o deconstructores? Creo que a los tres, y con un mismo propósito, el de incitarlos a leer a Lacan de otra manera, desde supuestos, presunciones e inclinaciones que, lamentablemente, hoy son todavía inhabituales. Es un tour de forcé, un proyecto que reclama madurez, y Cerruti pone su experiencia de lector, escritor, editor y psicoanalista en el intento de vencer...
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"Stone carving is a slow, meditative experience. The process can be transformative. Each of my projects has taken life's rough moments and opens them up to the discovery of our shared humanity. The finished work may be the sculpture, but the creative process is never ending."
Sculpting Towards the Light is an intimate and insightful story of a sculptor and his work. It follows the paths of imagination and activity which gave birth to a very unique...
125) Fighting for Hanne
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Hanne Schafer, 63, had just retired as a psychologist from her position in a mental health clinic. Youthful and energetic, she looked forward to engaging in more travel, socializing, hiking and ballroom dancing with her partner, Daniel Laurin. When Hanne received a devastating diagnosis, she asked Daniel and Mary, her long-time friends, for help in dealing with a grim reality. She asked them for the 'unthinkable'.
How would you respond? What would...
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An innovative reassessment of the last writings and final years of Karl Marx.
In the last years of his life, Karl Marx expanded his research in new directions-studying recent anthropological discoveries, analyzing communal forms of ownership in precapitalist societies, supporting the populist movement in Russia, and expressing critiques of colonial oppression in India, Ireland, Algeria, and Egypt. Between 1881 and 1883, he also traveled beyond Europe...
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Dorothy Garrod opened many doors; not only was she the first female professor at Cambridge University, but she illuminated - and in some cases initiated - some of prehistoric archaeology's most central issues. The quiet yet self possessed woman was best known as a fieldworker, often venturing into dangerous regions such as Kurdistan. Her first and highly successful excavation revealed fragments of Neanderthal fossils in Gibralter. This volume reviews...
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The Marcé Society had long pointed to the dearth of information on Marcé's life and the need to situate Marcé's magisterial Treatise on the Madness of Pregnant Women in the context of Marcé's entire scholarly production. The thorough investigation conducted by the late Thérèse Lempérière (1925-2013) and Jean-Pierre Luauté brings to light for the first time the facts surrounding Marcé's tragic death and sheds additional light on Marcé's...
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We all grieve. From the moment we are born into this cold, loud, bright world, we experience change and loss that can often threaten to overwhelm us, but – when managed well – can help mould us into our strongest, most powerful selves.
Grief is not only about death: it is part of our everyday lives. We are all grieving something. We grieve when our life changes – when meaningful relationships end, when we move house, change schools or jobs,...
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Estudiar las consecuencias de erradicar de la doctrina freudiana el principio de placer implica correr ciertos riesgos. La conveniencia de correrlos se presenta en tres niveles: el de la consistencia interna de la doctrina y su relación con la experiencia, el de las implicancias clínicas deducibles, y el del modo de concebir la naturaleza del ser hablante y su cultura. Prescindir de ese principio da lugar a una doctrina más consistente y simple...
131) This is How We Leave
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We all run from something, but do we have to leave?
Against a background of family runaways, award-winning memoirist Joanne Nelson explores what it takes to stay when the going begins to dazzle and the staying seems way too ordinary. With a great grandfather who disappears, a grandfather who strays, and a father who walks away, she's lived a life liable to give way at any time. In unflinching prose that is by turns intimate and humorous, she dives...
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Who was Sabina Spielrein? She is probably best known for her notorious affair with Carl Jung, which was dramatized in the film A Dangerous Method, starring Keira Knightley. Yet her life story is much more compelling than just one famous relationship.
Spielrein overcame family and psychological abuse to become a profoundly original thinker in her own right. Sex vs. Survival is the first biography to put her life and ideas at the center of the story...
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This is the personal story of a psychologist living with an emotionally abusive partner and her struggles, both personal and institutional, in leaving. No Room to Breathe: A Memoir of Emotional Abuse, Motherhood, and Resilience is a cautionary tale that reveals the often publicly unseen and underestimated dynamics and patterns of emotionally-abusive relationships. It also highlights their potentially far-reaching consequences, particularly when attempts...
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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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The brilliant but turbulent life of a public intellectual who transformed the social sciences
Robert Bellah (1927–2013) was one of the most influential social scientists of the twentieth century. Trained as a sociologist, he crossed disciplinary boundaries in pursuit of a greater comprehension of religion as both a cultural phenomenon and a way to fathom the depths of the human condition. A Joyfully Serious Man is the definitive biography of this...
136) Some Really Personal, Yet Entertaining Stories From My Life That You Will Enjoy and May Even Find
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What is a "normal childhood?" Does it include almost being murdered by your sister with an ax? Speeding around town in the back of a station wagon because your mom is chasing an "alien spaceship"? Being busted by the police for intent to light a pond on fire? Tackling your mom to the ground and wrestling a knife out of her hand because she was trying to kill your dad? While my stories may be unique, readers will be able to relate to the broader themes...
137) Sigmund Freud
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Sigmund Freud is rightly called the godfather of psychoanalysis. He forever changed the way we view ourselves and developed our understanding of human nature. His concepts have become part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, conflict, the meaning of dreams, the sensuality of childhood. He dared to try new methods and treatments. Everyone knows the term Freudian slip and has a basic understanding of his theories, however,...
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Jacques Lacan es el teórico del psicoanálisis más destacado después de Freud. Revolucionando el estudio de las relaciones sociales, su obra ha ejercido una importante influencia sobre la teoría política, la filosofía, la literatura y las artes, pero hasta ahora este pensamiento se ha estudiado sin una seria investigación de sus fundamentos. ¿Cuáles son las influencias sobre su pensamiento, tan cruciales para su adecuada comprensión?
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139) Max Weber in America
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"Winner of the 2012 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, History of Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association" Lawrence A. Scaff is professor of political science and sociology at Wayne State University. He is the author of Fleeing the Iron Cage: Culture, Politics, and Modernity in the Thought of Max Weber.
Max Weber, widely considered a founder of sociology and the modern social sciences, visited the United States in 1904...
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Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma (1944) influenced the attitudes of a generation of Americans on the race issue and established Myrdal as a major critic of American politics and culture. Walter Jackson explores how the Swedish Social Democratic scholar, policymaker, and activist came to shape a consensus on one of America's most explosive public issues.
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