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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of 99 obsessions that have shaped us all, the rare and the familiar, from ablutophobia (a horror of washing) to syllogomania (a compulsion to hoard) to zoophobia (a fear of animals)."--Publisher's website.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Many of us are familiar with the tension between wanting to change a behavior pattern and the seeming impossibility of making that change. Whether you're trying to quit smoking, struggling over a diet, or attempting to abstain from another any number of bad habits or negative behavior patterns, we often feel a sense of failure when we don't succeed in making the shift to more positive ones. This often sets off a cascade of bad feelings and discouragement,...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Many schizophrenics experience their condition as one of radical incarceration, mind-altering medications, isolation, and dehumanization. At a time when the treatment of choice is anti-psychotic medication, world-renowned psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas asserts that schizophrenics can be helped by much more humane treatments, and that they have a chance to survive and even reverse the process if they have someone to talk to them regularly and for...
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 45
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the life and theories of early-twentieth-century psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, discussing his childhood, his marriage and family, his relationships with other pioneers in psychology, his work in such areas as infantile sexual development and the Oedipus complex, and his impact on Western thought.
Author
Publisher
Kōan
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
En promedio, pasamos alrededor de seis años de nuestra vida soñando. Sin embargo, sorprendentemente, pocos de nosotros entendemos el propósito de los sueños y aún menos reconocemos lo que nuestra mente soñadora puede decirnos sobre nosotros mismos y nuestro mundo. En The Hidden Lives of Dreams, Melinda Powell, psicoterapeuta y cofundadora del Dream Research Institute UK, revela cómo podemos comprender mejor nuestros sueños y cómo hacerlo...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A remarkable exploration of the therapeutic relationship, Dr. Mark Epstein reflects on one year's worth of therapy sessions during which he brought together his years of experience with Western psychotherapy and his equally long investigation into Buddhism to understand how the practices, in tandem, can lead to even greater awareness - for his patients, and for himself For years, Dr. Mark Epstein was careful not to let his spiritual leanings as a...
Author
Publisher
Shambhala
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"We spend so much time in pursuit of happiness-trying to purchase it, experience it, meditate our way towards it-but happiness is elusive and doesn't last. According to the teachings of the Buddha, this is not a problem! As Cuong Lu writes, "suffering is not a problem to be solved. It is a truth to be recognized." Happiness is Overrated invites us to look deeply at the truths in our lives-not glossing over or denying our suffering-and focus on the...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
An assessment of psychoanalysis and the views of its creator reveals Sigmund Freud's blunders with patients, his misunderstandings about the psychological controversies of his time, and how he advanced his career on the appropriated findings of others.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A captivating and atmospheric historical novel about a young girl in Nazi Germany, a psychoanalyst in fin-de-siécle Vienna, and the powerful mystery that links them together.
In 1899 Vienna, celebrated psychoanalyst Josef Breuer is about to encounter his strangest case yet: a mysterious, beautiful woman who claims to have no name, no feelings-- to be, in fact, a machine. Years later, in Nazi-controlled Germany, Krysta plays alone while her papa...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Focusing on some of the best known characters in all of literature - chosen to trace the arc from childhood to old age - a brilliant psychoanalyst and professor of literature shows how our inner lives become at once stranger and more familiar when seen through the prism of fiction. In supple and elegant prose, and with all the expertise and insight of his dual profession, Josh Cohen illuminates a new way to understand ourselves. He helps us see what...
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"In 1882, the young Lou Andreas-Salome, writer, psychoanalyst and femme fatale, appears with Friedrich Nietzche and another man in a bizarre photograph taken in Luzern, Switzerland. Over thirty years later, an intense art student in Freud's Vienna presents Lou Salome with his own drawing based on the infamous photograph. In the present day, Tess Berenson, a brilliant performance artist, moves into an art deco loft in downtown Oakland, California....
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