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Intimate passionate love has been the undying quest of human beings in western cultures and immortalised in movies, literature and the arts. The desire to be intimately related to another to whom one feels cherished, precious and unconditionally accepted and understood is at the heart of the dream. Once found we wake to the realities of intimacy with all the passion and pain of living in an intimate relationship. It becomes a furnace for the burnishing
of our minds and hearts evoking both aversion and desire, longing and avoidance, warmth and coldness,
intimacy and...

Introduces a Powerful New Brief Therapy Approach

This groundbreaking book is the first to provide a comprehensive model for effectively blending the two main postmodern brief therapy approaches: solution focused and narrative therapies. It harnesses the power of both models--the strengths-based, problem-solving approach of SFT and the value-honoring and re-descriptive approach of narrative therapy--to offer brief, effective help to clients that builds on their strengths and abilities to envision and craft preferred outcomes.

Authored by a leading trainer, teacher, and...

A therapist's worst nightmare is to get caught in the situation of not knowing how to help a client. However, counseling is the art of knowing how to respond to therapeutic situations and dilemmas and not a matter of having all the answers. This accessible and practical book, based on the author's 40 years of clinical experience, offers counselors from the student to the seasoned therapist ways to respond using over 100 unique strategies, interventions, and examples for overcoming therapeutic dilemmas, such as uncooperative clients, overwhelming problems, and damaged therapeutic...

Platons berUhmtes HOllengleichnis lehrt uns, dass die Philosophie unser Leben umwandeln und erheben kann. Sie kann uns helfen die enge "HOlle" zu verstehen, in der wir gefangen sind und uns inspirieren, zu grOeren Horizonten aufzubrechen. Das ist die Vision der Philosophischen Praxis, eine internationale Bewegung von Philosophen, die der Meinung sind, dass die Philosophie uns helfen kann unser Leben erfUllter und tiefgrUndiger zu leben. Ran Lahav, einer der Hauptakteure bei der Entwicklung dieses Feldes, stellt hier den Ansatz vor, den er mehr als 20 Jahre lang entwickelt hat. In diesem...

Il famoso mito della caverna di Platone ci insegna che la filosofia puO trasformare la nostra vita ed elevarla. PuO aiutarci a renderci conto della angusta "caverna" in cui siamo imprigionati e stimolarci e ispirarci ad uscirne per dirigere i nostri passi verso orizzonti piU vasti. Questa E la prospettiva della Pratica Filosofica, un movimento internazionale di filosofi che credono che la filosofia possa incoraggiarci a vivere la vita con maggiore pienezza e profonditA. Ran Lahav, uno dei principali teorici ad aver contribuito agli sviluppi in questo campo, presenta in questo libro il...

Arriving at a moment in history in which schools are increasing attention on students' social and emotional development, this book captures the innovative practices that some institutions are...

The purpose of this book is to provide graduate students, faculty, and student affairs professionals with a primary textbook and reference guide for conducting and applying research in student affairs. Currently, student affairs academic field does not have a separate text for methods instruction. This textbook is designed meet that need by teaching readers about the role of research in the field, how to interpret its various forms, how to be critical as a research consumer, and how to use research to inform practice. This book would help the students and current practitioners develop and...

A philosophical companionship is a group of people, philosophers or non-philosophers, who meet online or face-to-face and contemplate in togetherness on philosophical ideas. They resonate with each other and give voice to their inner depth, developing together profound insights. The companionship format has been developed in recent years by Ran Lahav and his colleagues from the Philosophical Practice movement.

This handbook is a practical and theoretical guide to philosophical companionships. It explains the general principles of the companionship and provides a detailed survey of...