Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Interpersonal Relations

The Tender Bud is the moving story of one woman's journey through breast cancer. The woman in question happens to be a senior psychiatrist of broad learning and deep clinical insight. Madeleine Meldin weathered the crisis of breast cancer without the support of an immediate family and in the context of ongoing professional burdens. This book is the journal that she wrote for herself as an aid to coping with the personal upheaval of diagnosis, mastectomy, and the aftermath of treatment. It was written while these events unfolded. With arresting candor, Meldin chronicles her...

Object relations, which emphasizes the importance of the preoedipal period and the infant-mother relationship, is considered by many analysts to be the major development in psychoanalytic theory since Freud. In this reinterpretation of its history Peter L. Rudnytsky focuses on two pivotal figures: Otto Rank, one of Freud's original and most brilliant disciples, who later broke away from psychoanalysis, and D. W. Winnicott, the leading representative of the Independent tradition in British psychoanalysis.

Rudnytsky begins with an overview arguing that object relations theory can...

Different women will do very different things when interested in a guy. An introverted woman may become even shyer and closed up around a guy she's attracted to while a more extroverted woman may become overly catty and mean-natured with her teasing towards the man she's smitten with.

Sadly, most guys have no idea that an interested woman may act this way unless they've had considerable experience with the opposite sex. So although different women act very differently when they're interested in a man, in...

If you pay close enough attention to what really attracts women, you'll find that what women want is a man with a backbone. Women want to be with a man who knows how to take the lead and make decisions; one who has strong personal boundaries and knows how to love her like...a man.

Unfortunately, a lot of men have difficulty accepting the truth that many women prefer to be with a man who isn't afraid to stand up to them, who challenges them, and who refuses to be pushed around by women (or anything else...

Joint Action: Essays in honour of John Shotter brings together a cross-disciplinary group of fifteen respected international scholars to explain the relevance of John Shotter s work to emerging concerns in twenty-first century social science.

Shotter s work extends over forty years and continues to challenge conventional scientific thinking across a range of topics. The disciplines and practices that Shotter s work has informed are well established throughout the English-speaking world. This is the first publication to examine the importance of his influence in contemporary social...

In Care of the Soul, Thomas Moore explored the importance of nurturing the soul and struck a chord nationwide--the book became a long-term bestseller, topping charts across the country.

Building on that book's wisdom, Soul Mates explores how relationships of all kinds enhance our lives and fulfill the needs of our souls. Moore emphasizes the difficulties that inevitably accompany many relationships and focuses on the need to work through these differences in order to experience the deep reward that comes with intimacy and unconfined love.

"I devoured Soul...