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The Courage to Raise Good Men: You Don't Have to Sever the Bond with Your Son to Help Him Become a Man
ISBN: 9780140175677 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Challenging and readable...will help mothers understand the implications of pushing boys out of the family before they're ready to go."--The Los Angeles Times Book Review.
"Challenging and readable...will help mothers understand the implications of pushing boys out of the family before they're ready to go."--The Los A...
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102,82 zł |
The Kama Sutra of Vatsayana: The Classic Hindu Treatise on Love and Social Conduct
ISBN: 9780140193602 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The 1964 publication of Sir Richard Burton's translation marked the first wide appearance in English of the Kama Sutra and was celebrated as a literary event of highest importance. As vital to an understanding of ancient Indian civilization as the works of Plato and Aristotle are to the West, the Kama Sutra has endured for 1,700 years as an indisputable classic of world literature.
Written with frankness and unassuming candor, the Kama Sutra remains one of the most readable and enjoyable of all the classics of antiquity. A work of philosophy, psychology,... The 1964 publication of Sir Richard Burton's translation marked the first wide appearance in English of the Kama Sutra and was celebrate...
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102,82 zł |
Religions, Values, and Peak-Experiences
ISBN: 9780140194876 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Written in the mid-1960s, this is Maslow's classic treatise on transcendent states of being and their essential value in human life.
Written in the mid-1960s, this is Maslow's classic treatise on transcendent states of being and their essential value in human life.
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102,82 zł |
Joy: The Surrender to the Body and to Life
ISBN: 9780140194937 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Surrender to your body and recover joy
Alexander Lowen, famous student of Wilhelm Reich and founder of Bioenergetics, reveals in this book how to reclaim a natural, childlike state of joy through exercises that revive the body's vitality and liberate the energy of suppressed feelings. Using examples from four decades of clinical practice, Lowen shows how painful emotional experiences--from sexual abuse and fear of dying to the anger and heartbreak all human beings experience in life--are manifested in bodily symptoms. He then instructs readers how to listen for and answer the... Surrender to your body and recover joy
Alexander Lowen, famous student of Wilhelm Reich and founder of Bioenergetics, reveals in this book... |
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102,82 zł |
The Support Group Manual: A Session-By-Session Guide
ISBN: 9780140237153 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For anyone coping with loss or life transition, here is a guide to the support group process. If you need help coping with loss--of a loved one, a marriage, or a way of life--Harriet Sarnoff Schiff offers wise, compassionate guidance in The Support Group Manual. Here is straightforward advice on finding participants, locating or becoming a facilitator, and establishing effective ground rules. Schiff also provides a flexible agenda for seven group sessions--focusing on the topics of denial, anger, religion, guilt, depression, powerlessness, and acceptance--designed to give...
For anyone coping with loss or life transition, here is a guide to the support group process. If you need help coping with loss--of a loved one, ...
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102,82 zł |
Mad House: Growing Up in the Shadow of Mentally Ill Siblings
ISBN: 9780140274349 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In classic books such as Girl, Interrupted and When Rabbit Howls, the mentally ill depict their own harrowing worlds. In Mad House we have an account of the devastating effects of mental illness on the lives of those who share their world?the healthy siblings of those afflicted. Clea Simon was shattered when her older brother, Daniel, a freshman at Harvard, began hearing voices, making it impossible for him to function. He later committed suicide. Schizophrenia next claimed her sister, Katherine, who has moved from one institution to another after refusing any help from...
In classic books such as Girl, Interrupted and When Rabbit Howls, the mentally ill depict their own harrowing worlds. In Mad House
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102,82 zł |
A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain
ISBN: 9780140280531 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Self-mutilation is a behavior so shocking that it is almost never discussed. Yet estimates are that upwards of eight million Americans are chronic self-injurers. They are people who use knives, razor blades, or broken glass to cut themselves. Their numbers include the actor Johnny Depp, Girl Interrupted author Susanna Kaysen, and the late Princess Diana.Mistakenly viewed as suicide attempts or senseless masochism--even by many health professionals--"cutting" is actually a complex means of coping with emotional pain. Marilee Strong explores this hidden epidemic...
Self-mutilation is a behavior so shocking that it is almost never discussed. Yet estimates are that upwards of eight million Americans are chronic sel...
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102,82 zł |
Laughter: A Scientific Investigation
ISBN: 9780141002255 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Do men and women laugh at the same things?
Is laughter contagious? Has anyone ever really died laughing? Is laughing good for your health? Drawing upon ten years of research into this most common-yet complex and often puzzling-human phenomenon, Dr. Robert Provine, the world's leading scientific expert on laughter, investigates such aspects of his subject as its evolution, its role in social relationships, its contagiousness, its neural mechanisms, and its health benefits. This is an erudite, wide-ranging, witty, and long-overdue exploration of a frequently surprising subject. Do men and women laugh at the same things? Is laughter contagious? Has anyone ever really died laughing? Is laughing good for your health? |
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102,82 zł |
The Myth of Sanity: Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness
ISBN: 9780142000557 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Why does a gifted psychiatrist suddenly begin to torment his own beloved wife? How can a ninety-pound woman carry a massive air conditioner to the second floor of her home, install it in a window unassisted, and then not remember how it got there? Why would a brilliant feminist law student ask her fiance to treat her like a helpless little girl? How can an ordinary, violence-fearing businessman once have been a gun-packing vigilante prowling the crime districts for a fight?
A startling new study in human consciousness, The Myth of Sanity is a landmark book about forgotten trauma,... Why does a gifted psychiatrist suddenly begin to torment his own beloved wife? How can a ninety-pound woman carry a massive air conditioner to the sec...
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102,82 zł |
Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are
ISBN: 9780142001783 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1996 Joseph LeDoux's The Emotional Brain presented a revelatory examination of the biological bases of our emotions and memories. Now, the world-renowned expert on the brain has produced with a groundbreaking work that tells a more profound story: how the little spaces between the neurons--the brain's synapses--are the channels through which we think, act, imagine, feel, and remember. Synapses encode the essence of personality, enabling each of us to function as a distinctive, integrated individual from moment to moment. Exploring the functioning of memory, the synaptic basis of...
In 1996 Joseph LeDoux's The Emotional Brain presented a revelatory examination of the biological bases of our emotions and memories. Now, the w...
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85,68 zł |
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
ISBN: 9780142003343 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature and the forthcoming Enlightenment Now "Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." -Time
Now updated with a new afterword One of the world's leading experts on language and the mind explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits-a doctrine held by many... A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature and the forthcoming Enlightenment...
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94,25 zł |
The Mood Cure: The 4-Step Program to Take Charge of Your Emotions--Today
ISBN: 9780142003640 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Are you a part of the bad mood epidemic? Here are the answers you've been looking for Julia Ross's plan provides a natural cure for your mood. Drawing on thirty years of experience, she presents breakthrough solutions to overcoming depression, anxiety, irritability, stress, and other negative emotional states that are diminishing the quality of our lives. Her comprehensive program is based on the use of four mood-building amino acids and other surprisingly potent nutrient supplements, plus a diet rich in good-mood foods such as protein, healthy fat, and certain key vegetables....
Are you a part of the bad mood epidemic? Here are the answers you've been looking for Julia Ross's plan provides a natural cure for your ...
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81,40 zł |
The Schreber Case
ISBN: 9780142437421 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Freud rarely treated psychotic patients or psychoanalyzed people just from their writings, but he had a powerful and imaginative understanding of their condition--revealed, most notably, in this analysis of a remarkable memoir. In 1903, Judge Daniel Schreber, a highly intelligent and cultured man, produced a vivid account of his nervous illness dominated by the desire to become a woman, terrifying delusions about his doctor, and a belief in his own special relationship with God. Eight years later, Freud's penetrating insight uncovered the impulses and feelings Schreber had about his father,...
Freud rarely treated psychotic patients or psychoanalyzed people just from their writings, but he had a powerful and imaginative understanding of thei...
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102,82 zł |
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
ISBN: 9780142437438 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The most trivial slips of the tongue or pen, Freud believed, can reveal our secret ambitions, worries, and fantasies. The Psychopathology of Everyday Liferanks among his most enjoyable works. Starting with the story of how he once forgot the name of an Italian painter and how a young acquaintance mangled a quotation from Virgil through fears that his girlfriend might be pregnant it brings together a treasure trove of muddled memories, inadvertent actions, and verbal tangles. Amusing, moving, and deeply revealing of the repressed, hypocritical Viennese society of his day, Freud's...
The most trivial slips of the tongue or pen, Freud believed, can reveal our secret ambitions, worries, and fantasies. The Psychopathology of Everyd...
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68,54 zł |
The Psychology of Love
ISBN: 9780142437469 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Freud's landmark writings on love and sexuality, including the famous case study of Dora newly translated and in one volume for the first time
This original collection brings together the most important writings on the psychology of love by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. Sigmund Freud's discussions of the ways in which sexuality is always psychosexuality that there is no sexuality without fantasy have changed social, cultural, and intellectual attitudes toward erotic life. Among the influential pieces included here are -On Female Sexuality, - -The Taboo... Freud's landmark writings on love and sexuality, including the famous case study of Dora newly translated and in one volume for the first time ...
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The Uncanny
ISBN: 9780142437476 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Freud was fascinated by the mysteries of creativity and the imagination. The groundbreaking works that comprise The Uncanny present some of his most influential explorations of the mind. In these pieces Freud investigates the vivid but seemingly trivial childhood memories that often "screen" deeply uncomfortable desires; the links between literature and daydreaming; and our intensely mixed feelings about things we experience as "uncanny." Also included is Freud's celebrated study of Leonardo Da Vinci-his first exercise in psychobiography.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has... Freud was fascinated by the mysteries of creativity and the imagination. The groundbreaking works that comprise The Uncanny present some of his...
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Studies in Hysteria
ISBN: 9780142437490 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Hysteria the tormenting of the body by the troubled mind is among the most pervasive of human disorders; yet, at the same time, it is the most elusive. Freud s recognition that hysteria stemmed from traumas in the patient s past transformed the way we think about sexuality. Studies in Hysteria is one of the founding texts of psychoanalysis, revolutionizing our understanding of love, desire, and the human psyche. As full of compassionate human interest as of scientific insight, these case histories are also remarkable, revelatory works of literature.
For more than seventy years, Penguin... Hysteria the tormenting of the body by the troubled mind is among the most pervasive of human disorders; yet, at the same time, it is the most elusive...
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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
ISBN: 9780143036227 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Since Descartes famously proclaimed, "I think, therefore I am," science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person's true being. Even modern neuroscience has tended, until recently, to concentrate on the cognitive aspects of brain function, disregarding emotions. This attitude began to change with the publication of Descartes' Error in 1995. Antonio Damasio--"one of the world's leading neurologists" (The New York Times)--challenged traditional ideas about the connection between emotions and rationality. In this wondrously engaging book, Damasio takes the reader on a...
Since Descartes famously proclaimed, "I think, therefore I am," science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person's true being. Even mod...
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81,40 zł |
Against Depression
ISBN: 9780143036968 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In his landmark bestseller Listening to Prozac, Peter Kramer revolutionized the way we think about antidepressants and the culture in which they are so widely used. Now Kramer offers a frank and unflinching look at the condition those medications treat: depression. Definitively refuting our notions of "heroic melancholy," he walks readers through groundbreaking new research studies that confirm depression's status as a devastating disease and suggest pathways toward resilience. Thought-provoking and enlightening, Against Depression provides a bold revision of our understanding...
In his landmark bestseller Listening to Prozac, Peter Kramer revolutionized the way we think about antidepressants and the culture in which the...
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102,82 zł |
Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Hearing Voices and the Borders of Sanity
ISBN: 9780143113157 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An inquiry into hearing voices-one of humanity's most profound phenomena
Auditory hallucination is one of the most awe-inspiring, terrifying, and ill- understood tricks of which the human psyche is capable. In the age of modern medical science, we have relegated this experience to nothing more than a biological glitch. Yet as Daniel B. Smith puts forth in Muses, Madmen, and Prophets, some of the greatest thinkers, leaders, and prophets in history heard, listened to, and had dialogues with voices inside their heads. In a fascinating quest for understanding, Smith examines... An inquiry into hearing voices-one of humanity's most profound phenomena
Auditory hallucination is one of the most awe-inspiring, terrifyi... |
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102,82 zł |