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White Matter: A Memoir of Family and Medicine is the story of a Bostonian close-knit Jewish working-class family of five sisters and one brother and the impact they and their next generation endured due to the popularization of lobotomy during the 20th century. When Janet Sternburg's grandfather abandoned his family, and her uncle, Bennie, became increasing mentally ill, Sternburg's mother and aunts had to bind together and make crucial decisions...
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Beginning in the summer of 2004, Scott Nadelson's life fell apart. His fiancée left him a month before their planned wedding for another woman who made her living performing as a drag king. He moved into a drafty attic. His car's brakes went out. He learned that his cat was dying. Over the next two years, he'd struggle, with equivocal and sometimes humiliating results, to get back on his feet, in the process re-examining his past to understand his...
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Partial Sanity: Stories from the Edge of Mental Health is a memoir about jumping feet-first into adulthood. Armed with a newly earned undergraduate degree in human services, Beth accepts the first full-time position she is offered to work as a psychiatric case manager in a community mental health program. Located in the economically depressed coal region of Pennsylvania in the late 1980's, the town of Houtzdale has an equal number of small bars, dingy...
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In the prequel to his current role as the most beloved educator in professional skin care, Peter T. Pugliese, MD shares his own true stories of his early family medical practice in historic (and often hysterical) Bernville, Pennsylvania, from 1958 to 1978. At age 88, this vibrant storyteller shares an intimate and fascinating look back at his own pathway of obstacles and miracles that led him from Catholic school to the seminary where he planned a...
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This riveting narrative describes centuries of misunderstanding and ignorance by the world's most highly educated professionals about the human experience of voice-hearing, affecting 300-400 million people worldwide. Describing his own 23-year searing experience, the author, for the first time in human history, reveals the phenomenon can be real predatory victimization rather than delusional hallucination as insistently maintained by science and medicine....
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The Creation of Dr. B, Richard Pollak's riveting biography of Bruno Bettelheim, reveals the world-renowned child psychologist as a dogmatic tyrant and compulsive liar who often terrorized his young patients and their parents, plagiarized his prize-winning work, made false claims about his concentration camp experiences, and grandly invented his own past.
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This is a love story, although not in the conventional sense of romantic love. This book explores the transformative power of suffering in a revealing narrative informed by spiritual practice. This book explores what it takes to keep your heart open in hell even if it is of your own making. The author relates her struggle in living life with a broken heart not as someone special, but rather as one of the billions of women who strive to live on through...
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Newly-independent Uganda seems like the perfect place for a primatologist to conduct ground-breaking fieldwork on wild baboons. But to his wife, trying to mother a young daughter while approaching the birth of her second child in the midst of elephants, wild buffalo and hippos, surely the relative safety of England or the U.S. is preferable. When Uganda erupts into civil war and her child is born in a hospital under siege, Jennifer Jolly must learn...
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Father and daughter provides a unique 'insider perspective' on two key figures in twentieth-century British social science. Ann Oakley, a highly respected sociologist and best-selling writer, draws on her own life and that of her father, Richard Titmuss, a well-known policy analyst and defender of the welfare state, to offer an absorbing view of the connections between private lives and public work. Using an innovative mix of biography, autobiography,...
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This book is a biography of University of California-Berkeley sociology professor Troy Duster. Troy Duster received an MA and PhD in sociology from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Duster is a black man who was born in South Chicago. His maternal grandmother is the famous Ida B. Wells. He initially had a research interest in the sociology of law and later in human genetics. He worked with approximately 100 graduate students at Berkeley, all...
91) Pensando Ulloa
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Pensando Ulloa es la colección de experiencias llevadas a la escritura de quienes intentamos dar cuenta de la aventura de pensar Ulloa sin traicionar ni la aventura, ni el pensamiento. ¿Cómo hacerlo? Debatir, acordar, ¿escribir? Conversamos mucho sobre la posibilidad o imposibilidad de transmitir el efecto Ulloa. Apostamos a la posibilidad.
Fueron convocados quienes sabíamos habían trabajado con él en algunos de los diversos campos en que...
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Domingo Felipe Cabred fue un hombre eminente de su época. Alienista y psiquiatra organicista, la magnitud de su obra contrasta con la inexistencia de una obra, una biografía, que recoja de manera ordenada los principales datos de su vida. Partiendo de esa carencia, este libro se propone reconstruir su vida, repasando su infancia, sus años formativos, sus maestros, sus padrinos políticos, su experiencia europea, su regreso, sus primeros fracasos,...
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Et si tout était déjà là ? En VOUS...
Dans ce livre, Myriam Elazim, soulève le voile de son cœur afin de se connecter âme à âme avec son lecteur pour lui raconter des bouts d'histoire tirés de sa vie et la manière dont elle est parvenue à retrouver sa propre lumière intérieure.
Le temps d'une lecture, vous serez invités à nager dans le même sens que la vie afin de retrouver l'équilibre, l'harmonie et la paix intérieure. Tout ceci...
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Spotlighting a woman who was strongly dedicated to improving the lives of the disadvantaged, this biography celebrates the accomplishments of Pat Giles. Her entrance into Parliament as a Labor politician is reviewed, acknowledging that she came on board not as a raw recruit but as an experienced trade unionist, policymaker, feminist campaigner, and grassroots activist. This account reveals a woman whose determination never faltered and whose work...
95) Sigmund Freud
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Born to Jewish parents in mid-19th-century Austria, Sigmund Freud is a controversial figure needing no introduction, yet his reputation owes as much to myth as to the facts of his life and his work. Here, David Carter uncovers the man buried beneath the mythology, tracing the life of this inimitable figure from his origins as the gifted first born of eight children, through his stellar academic career and his relationships and rifts with famous figures...
96) The ghost orchid
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Alex Delaware novels volume 39
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Psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis are faced with their most perplexing case yet when a double homicide investigation leads them to stolen identities and long-buried secrets worth killing for.
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New York Confidential volume 5
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"How do you confront a threat that is hiding in plain sight? FBI agent Craig Frasier and psychologist Kieran Finnegan hunt an escaped serial killer. It was one of Kieran's most chilling cases: her assessment of a murderer known as the Fireman. There was no doubt that the man needed to be locked away. Now Craig is called to a gruesome crime scene that matches the killer's methods, and news breaks that the Fireman has escaped prison. Amid a citywide...
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A highly personal and moving true story of friend-ship and remembrance from the New York Times bestselling author of Duty and Be True to Your School
Growing up in Bexley, Ohio, population 13,000, Bob Greene and his four best friends -- Allen, Chuck, Dan, and Jack -- were inseparable. Of the four, Jack was Bob's very best friend, a bond forged from the moment they met on the first day of kindergarten. They grew up together, got into trouble together,...
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"Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments in uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation,...
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Alex Delaware novels volume 29
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"Well-used to elevated emotions, psychologist Alex Delaware shrugs off a joking death threat from beautiful Beverly Hills physician Constance Sykes, whose attempt to secure legal custody of her baby niece is thwarted by Alex's forthright report to the court. Alex plays down the threat until LAPD's Milo Sturgis rushes to his side with the shocking word on the street that a hit's been taken out on him. But while Alex may be in grave danger, it won't...
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