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"From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world--where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she)"--
"One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned...
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"Dr. Eric Parrish is the Chief of the Psychiatric Unit at Havemeyer General Hospital outside of Philadelphia. Recently separated from his wife Alice, he is doing his best as a single Dad to his seven-year-old daughter Hannah. His work seems to be going better than his home life, however. His unit at the hospital has just been named number two in the country and Eric has a devoted staff of doctors and nurses who are as caring as Eric is. But when he...
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Healing the Shame that Binds You is the most enduring work of family relationship expert and New York Times bestselling author John Bradshaw. In it, he shows how unhealthy toxic shame, often learned young and maintained into adulthood, is the core component in our compulsions, co-dependencies, addictions and drive to superachieve. While positive shame empowers us and sustains the fabric of our social system, inappropriate or misdirected shame results...
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Set in the north of England, Pat Barker's Border Crossing portrays a child psychiatrist who rescues a man from drowning one day while walking on a beach in Northumberland. Uncannily, he recognizes the man; it's Danny Miller, a child murderer at whose trial he once gave evidence. Since the trial, he has reconsidered that evidence and found it lacking. Now he confronts the man whose altered fate may be his responsibility.
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Money was invented about 5000 years ago and has proved essential to civilization. It has also become so charged with emotions that it dominates events throughout life and looms large in all interpersonal transactions. This book looks at all aspects of the money/mind relationship from the viewpoint of a psychiatrist who has dealt with the problems that money produces and the problems that it supposedly resolves. There are chapters dealing with important...
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Lily Bard mysteries volume 5
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Cleaning woman and karate expert Lily Bard is a woman with a complicated past. Trying her best to cope with her terrifying memories and horrible nightmares, she decides to join a weekly group therapy session in her hometown of Shakespeare, Arkansas. At first, Lily can hardly believe the number of her fellow Shakespeareans that share her life experiences.
As it turns out, the group members' feelings aren't the only things that need sorting out
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First published in 1899, "The Interpretation of Dreams" has come be regarded as Sigmund Freud's most significant work, one in which he would introduce his theory of the unconscious. According to Freud, dreams are forms of wish fulfillment, a sort of conflict resolution through subconscious processing of past and present troubles. Freud reasoned that the thoughts of the unconscious mind, being unruly and disturbing, were censored by the preconscious...
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Imagina un escenario donde las emociones cobran vida, donde los conflictos se desentrañan como hilos enredados y las relaciones se exploran como nunca antes. Este no es un escenario de una obra de teatro convencional, sino el fascinante mundo del psicodrama, una metodología terapéutica en la que te conviertes tanto en actor como en espectador de tu propia vida emocional. Bienvenidos a este viaje singular, donde las máscaras caen y los velos se...
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"A brilliant and brave investigation by Michael Pollan, author of five New York Times best sellers, into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions...
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Originally developed for the treatment of borderline personality disorder, dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, has rapidly become one of the most popular and most effective treatments for all mental health conditions rooted in out-of-control emotions. However, there are limited resources for psychologists seeking to use DBT skills with individual clients. In the tradition of ACT Made Simple, DBT Made Simple provides clinicians with everything they...
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"Psychoanalysis for Normal People" is a vintage book on personal psychology and psychoanalysis by Geraldine Coster. Within it, Coster explains the basic principles of psychoanalysis and offers the reader simple instructions on how psychology and psychoanalysis can help in their day-to-day life, from the little things to the seemingly big and insurmountable. This fantastic volume will appeal to those with an interest in self-improvement and psychology,...
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Humour in Therapy
Have you ever wondered why humour sometimes is not very humorous and, in fact, can inflict more damage than good?
Lansdown's research to date has shown that all therapists interviewed acknowledge that it's the relationship between the therapist and client that is one of the most important factors in the therapeutic process. The question Lansdown asked, "Could humour enhance this relationship?" He was amazed with their reactions...
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Un libro tramposo a través de una lectura con un viaje ameno es, al mismo tiempo, una bomba silenciosa ue comienza a detonar los sí y los no del acompañamiento terapéutico. Así, aparece un valor ético de referencia inigualable en nuestro quehacer, pero con la particularidad de no ser impositivo (como ha sido históricamente), sino propositivo, lo cual nos enfrenta a una nueva treta: la de decidir en autonomía lo que a nosotros, los acompañantes...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 The first few weeks after fertilization are a major hurdle for embryos, and many stop developing at some point during this time. Only about a third of fertilized embryos survive to become a baby.
#2 The most common type of chromosomal abnormality is the addition of a copy of chromosome 21, which is what causes Down syndrome. However, sometimes a missing chromosome...
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This book explores how different people have dealt with the issues related to getting on with their mothers. Psychotherapist Alyce-Faye Cleese interviewed a wide range of people to get an in-depth understanding of the different questions that arise in our relationships with our mother. From a New York taxi driver to her former husband John Cleese, and a computer consultant to General Colin Powell, the interviews show a remarkable similarity between...
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"Este texto nace como un homenaje en primer lugar a las horas que consultantes y estudiantes han dedicado a la intensa búsqueda de sí mismos. Y en segundo lugar, es un inmenso reconocimiento a los autores que a través de su palabra han influido en mi vida. Contiene muchos de los mensajes que han compartido maestros, amigos, compañeras y compañeros del camino, y que hoy intento plasmar dando continuidad a la tradición de la palabra... Contar...
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Este libro se propone a ofrecer tips y será de extrema utilidad. La autora aborda cuidadosamente el calentamiento y la dramatización; de forma perspicaz, busca la psicodinámica de los síntomas y conflictos. Rosa Cukier es una psicodramatista contemporánea que resalta la importancia de la psicoterapia individual, empleando la acción dramática sin dejar de tomar en cuenta los otros importantes avances de la psicología del pasado y presente siglo,...
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Hoy en día, la demanda de los pacientes por ser atendidos en psicoterapia breve de orientación psicoanalítica y la de los terapeutas por formarse en esta posibilidad de trabajo se mantiene y, más aún, crece. Por diversas razones, no todos los pacientes pueden tener la experiencia de una psicoterapia psicoanalítica de tiempo abierto o de largo aliento.
En este libro, Olinda Serrano de Dreifuss presenta un diseño original y una experiencia grupal...
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This book is a reflection of the author's clinical and human experience as a Clinical Psychologist and Somatic Psychoterapist for Couples, as well as of heart experience as a Woman.
The book is a divided in two parts. The firts part is shaped as a novel and tells us the story of the therapeutic sessions of several couples, their complaits, requests and suffering, as well as their psychoterapist
Laura. The second part is more clinical, with ideas,...
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