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by James E. Campbell, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Anyone who teaches others, including parents, can benefit from reading this book. Teachers play a pivotal roll in the education of children and adults. There are basic principles of living that could be taught in the classroom that would not take much time from teachers; in fact, I expect that because...
Acts of Will
The Life and Work of Otto Rank
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Once Freud's most favoured student and associate, Otto Rank came to be reviled by the psychoanalytic establishment that formerly revered him. This biography exposes the hostile, at time libelious treatment of Rank in the standard histories of psychoanalysis and shows him to be a great analytic pioneer...
The Contemporary Printed Literature of the English Counter-Reformation between 1558 and 1640
Volume II: Works in English, with Addenda & Corrigenda to Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This is an annotated bibliography of Catholic books in English printed abroad or secretly in England at a time when Catholic printing was prohibited in England and such books, when discovered by the authorities, were seized and destroyed. It includes all the 930 items listed in the authors' A Catalogue...
by Dalai Lama, Howard Cutler, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Blending common sense and modern psychiatry, The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World applies Buddhist tradition to twenty-first-century struggles in a relevant way. The result is a wise approach to dealing with human problems that is both optimistic and realistic, even in the most challenging times.
How...
by Mark Epstein, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
A revolutionary reexamination of trauma’s role in the life journey, opening the door to growth and healing
Trauma does not just happen to a few unlucky people; it is the bedrock of our psychology. Death and illness touch us all, but even the everyday sufferings of loneliness and fear are...
Open to Desire
The Truth About What the Buddha Taught
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2006
“A masterpiece. . . . It teaches us how not to fear and repress, but to rechannel and harness the most powerful energies of life toward freedom and bliss.” —ROBERT THURMAN
It is common in both Buddhism and Freudian psychoanalysis to treat desire as if it is the root of all suffering and...
Going on Being
Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
Before he began training as a psychiatrist, Mark Epstein immersed himself in Buddhism through influential teachers such as Ram Dass, Joseph Goldstein, and Jack Kornfield. Buddhism's positive outlook and the meditative principle of living in the moment profoundly influenced his study and practice of...
by Dr. Mark Epstein, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Immersed in Buddhist psychology prior to studying Western psychiatry, Dr. Mark Epstein first viewed Western therapeutic approaches through the lens of the East. This posed something of a challenge. Although both systems promise liberation through self-awareness, the central tenet of Buddha's wisdom is...
by Dr. Carl A. Wickland M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Thirty Years Among the Dead, first published in 1924, details Swedish-American GP and psychiatrist Carl Wickland’s experiences as a psychical researcher.
After moving to California in 1918, Wickland began to turn away from conventional medical psychology and moved toward the belief that psychiatric...
by Zoya Schmuter M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Over the last 22 years in the New York Office of Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Schmuter performed thousands of autopsies and testified in courts hundreds of times. Many of these cases present interest for a general reader, especially given the attention to this profession in the last decade in movies,...
by Hugh L. Moffet M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
A Diffident Doctor tells one doctor's personal story, with all its ups and downs, from childhood to retirement. Beginning in a small Illinois town, to a Harvard College scholarship, to medical school at Yale, it describes his research in virology and the teaching and consulting in pediatric infectious...
Political Aspirations and Perils of Security
Unpacking the Military Strategy of the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
This book comprises of a range of case studies of military strategy, based on UN documents, observing and concluding the effectiveness of each individual case. Edstrom and Gyllensporre analyse the UN's military strategy, its consequences and its potential to fulfil political ambitions.
Achilles in Vietnam
Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
An original and groundbreaking book that examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
In this moving, dazzlingly creative book, Dr. Shay examines the psychological devastation...
Afghanistan’S Experiences
The History of the Most Horrifying Events Involving Politics, Religion, and Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Afghanistan's Experiences is a sweeping analysis of the historic events and interplay between politics, religion, and terrorism in Afghanistan, the southeastern region of the country, and beyond.
The author has vividly explained the origin and the rise of Taliban to powerone of the most important...