ilość książek w kategorii: 103457
Going Sane
ISBN: 9780007155361 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Being sane has long been defined simply as that bland and nebulous state of not being mentally ill. While writings on madness fill entire libraries, until now no one has thought to engage exclusively with the idea of sanity. In a society governed by indulgence and excess, madness is the state of mind we identify with most keenly. Though ultimately destructive, it is often credited as the wellspring of genius, individuality, and self-expression. Sanity, on the other hand, confounds us. One of the world's most respected psychoanalysts and original thinkers, Adam Phillips redresses this... Being sane has long been defined simply as that bland and nebulous state of not being mentally ill. While writings on madness fill entire libraries... |
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65,32 zł |
Forgiving the Unforgivable
ISBN: 9780020322306 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A clearheaded study of what life can do to us and possible ways to begin again. --Carl A. Whitaker, M.D., author of Midnight Musings of a Family Therapist and coauthor of The Family Crucible Women and men who have been deeply hurt by someone they love often experience a pain that spirals out to undermine their work, relationships, self-esteem, and even their sense of reality. In Forgiving the Unforgivable, author Beverly Flanigan, a leading authority on forgiveness, defines such unforgivable injuries, explains their poisonous effects, and then guides readers out of the paralyzing anger and...
A clearheaded study of what life can do to us and possible ways to begin again. --Carl A. Whitaker, M.D., author of Midnight Musings of a Family Thera...
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82,57 zł |
Forgiving Yourself: A Step-By-Step Guide to Making Peace with Your Mistakes and Getting on with Your Life
ISBN: 9780028619026 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Guilt and self-blame can be incapacitating feelings that only deliberate self-forgiveness will dispel. "Forgiving Yourself" identifies various types of actions that call for forgiveness, and offers a step-by-step program for eliminating self-defeating behavior so that we may learn to forgive our mistakes, heal our relationships, and get on with becoming our best selves.
Guilt and self-blame can be incapacitating feelings that only deliberate self-forgiveness will dispel. "Forgiving Yourself" identifies various types o...
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82,57 zł |
Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol & Addictive Behavior
ISBN: 9780028660646 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 4 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A follow-up to the 2001 award-winning second edition, the Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior, 3rd edition, will update and expand upon the social, medical, legal, and political issues related to drugs and alcohol and associated behaviors. The rapid pace of research in the fields of substance abuse and non-substance abuse addictions since publication of the 2nd edition warrants a new exploration of the field. In the MacMillan Reference USA tradition, a board of noted scholars in the fields of drugs, alcohol, and addiction bring new scholarship within the discipline to the...
A follow-up to the 2001 award-winning second edition, the Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior, 3rd edition, will update and expand ...
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3023,92 zł |
Wet Mind: The New Cognitive Neuroscience
ISBN: 9780028740850 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The last dizzying decade of work in neurobiology, artificial intelligence, cognitive science and medicine has begun to part the veil on the secrets of the brain's operation. Kosslyn and Koenig put these new developments in perspective in this accessible introduction to the mind/brain structure. Illustrated.
The last dizzying decade of work in neurobiology, artificial intelligence, cognitive science and medicine has begun to part the veil on the secrets of...
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136,41 zł |
Escape from Evil
ISBN: 9780029024508 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Denial of Death, a penetrating and insightful perspective on the source of evil in our world. "A profound, nourishing book...absolutely essential to the understanding of our troubled times." --Anais Nin "An urgent essay that bears all the marks of a final philosophical raging against the dying of the light." --Newsweek "Brilliant and challenging...adds another bit of reason to balance destruction...It is, in the best sense of the words, both scientific and philosophical...of the highest importance." --Los...
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Denial of Death, a penetrating and insightful perspective on the source of evil in our world.<...
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97,56 zł |
Empty Fortress
ISBN: 9780029031407 / Angielski / Miękka / 1972 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Synopsis coming soon.......
Synopsis coming soon.......
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121,77 zł |
The Young Adolescent: Clinical Studies
ISBN: 9780029043004 / Angielski / Miękka / 1974 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Through his extensive clnical experience with adolescents Dr. Blos has come to consider the early years of adolescence the most crucial ones because they lay the foundation for later adolescent development. Fixations in the early phases of adolescence give rise to deviant developments which the two case studies of this volume richly illustrate. Susan and Ben were both successfully treated, and these insightful analyses of their treatment form a major contribution to psychoanalytic theory and practice.
Through his extensive clnical experience with adolescents Dr. Blos has come to consider the early years of adolescence the most crucial ones because t...
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82,57 zł |
Some Do Care: Contemporary Lives of Moral Commitment
ISBN: 9780029063569 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Although many people believe that this is a barren time for moral leadership in this country, in Some Do Care, Anne Colby and William Damon show that moral heroes do exist. Drawing on in-depth interviews they offer a revealing look into the lives of twenty-three Americans who have provided exemplary moral leadership. Some Do Care traces the lives and goals of these dedicated people from their first moral awakening in childhood to the wisdom and enduring moral commitment of their later years. Drawing on these lives, the authors offer new insights into the role of faith and the importance of...
Although many people believe that this is a barren time for moral leadership in this country, in Some Do Care, Anne Colby and William Damon show that ...
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107,12 zł |
Freud, Dora, and Vienna 1900
ISBN: 9780029072127 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The psychoanalytic encounter of Sigmund Freud, at mid-life, and Dora, an emotionally troubled adolescent suffering from hysteria, provides a glimpse into the private lives of upper-middle-class Jews in fin-de-siecle Vienna - their professional concerns, familial relations, sexual undercurrents, and responses to the social forces of anti-semitism and the derogation of women. Decker places the treatment of Dora in a larger social and historical context and pursues the lives of the two protagonists before and after their meeting.
The psychoanalytic encounter of Sigmund Freud, at mid-life, and Dora, an emotionally troubled adolescent suffering from hysteria, provides a glimpse i...
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97,37 zł |
How We Know What Isn't So
ISBN: 9780029117064 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Thomas Gilovich offers a wise and readable guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life. When can we trust what we believe--that "teams and players have winning streaks," that "flattery works," or that "the more people who agree, the more likely they are to be right"--and when are such beliefs suspect? Thomas Gilovich offers a guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life. Illustrating his points with examples, and supporting them with the latest research findings, he documents the cognitive, social, and motivational processes that distort our thoughts, beliefs,...
Thomas Gilovich offers a wise and readable guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life. When can we trust what we believe--that "t...
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91,51 zł |
Individual Change Through Small Groups, 2nd Ed.
ISBN: 9780029117903 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Individual Change Through Small Groups brilliantly details The University of Michigan’s empirically based, problem-oriented approach to group work practice. This revised and expanded second edition of a modern classic provides practitioners and students with a systematic description of the various methods used to prevent and change dysfunctional and psychopathological behavior. Martin Sundel, Professor of Social work at The University of Texas at Arlington, joins original editors Paul Glasser, Rosemary Sarri, and Robert Vinter to present the findings of a wide range of social scientists...
Individual Change Through Small Groups brilliantly details The University of Michigan’s empirically based, problem-oriented approach to group work p...
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146,17 zł |
Passing Through Transitions: A Guide for Practitioners
ISBN: 9780029120804 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Synopsis coming soon.......
Synopsis coming soon.......
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100,04 zł |
Search for the Real Self: Unmasking the Personality Disorders of Our Age
ISBN: 9780029202920 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the authoritative expert in personality disorders, Search for the Real Self is a thorough dissection of how one's real self is developed, how it relates to the outer world, and how personality disorders are understood and treated in our modern society. Personality disorders--borderline, narcissistic, and schizoid--have become the classic psychological disorders of our age. Outwardly successful, charming and powerful, personality-disordered individuals have long confounded their colleagues, family, lovers and employees--as well as mental health professionals. The author helps...
From the authoritative expert in personality disorders, Search for the Real Self is a thorough dissection of how one's real self is developed, ...
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82,75 zł |
The Achieving Society
ISBN: 9780029205105 / Angielski / Miękka / 1967 / 532 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book provides a factual basis for evaluating economic, historical, and sociological theories that explain the rise and fall of civilizations.
This book provides a factual basis for evaluating economic, historical, and sociological theories that explain the rise and fall of civilizations.
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143,58 zł |
Selected Melanie Klein
ISBN: 9780029214817 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Gathers writings by the Viennese psychoanalyst concerning infant analysis, Oedipal conflicts, anxiety situations, symbol formation, and envy.
Gathers writings by the Viennese psychoanalyst concerning infant analysis, Oedipal conflicts, anxiety situations, symbol formation, and envy.
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87,60 zł |
Altruistic Personality: Rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe
ISBN: 9780029238295 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Why, during the Holocaust, did some ordinary people risk their lives and the lives of their families to help others--even total strangers--while others stood passively by? Samuel Oliner, a Holocaust survivor who has interviewed more than 700 European rescuers and nonrescuers, provides some surprising answers in this compelling work.
Why, during the Holocaust, did some ordinary people risk their lives and the lives of their families to help others--even total strangers--while other...
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126,15 zł |
When We Deal with Children: Selected Writings
ISBN: 9780029258804 / Angielski / Miękka / 1972 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Synopsis coming soon.......
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112,25 zł |
Science and Human Behavior
ISBN: 9780029290408 / Angielski / Miękka / 1965 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The psychology classic--a detailed study of scientific theories of human nature and the possible ways in which human behavior can be predicted and controlled--from one of the most influential behaviorists of the twentieth century and the author of Walden Two. "This is an important book, exceptionally well written, and logically consistent with the basic premise of the unitary nature of science. Many students of society and culture would take violent issue with most of the things that Skinner has to say, but even those who disagree most will find this a stimulating...
The psychology classic--a detailed study of scientific theories of human nature and the possible ways in which human behavior can be predicted and ...
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105,23 zł |
Passion: An Essay on Personality
ISBN: 9780029331804 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Examines the modern view of human nature and analyzes the desire to be accepted by other people.
Examines the modern view of human nature and analyzes the desire to be accepted by other people.
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112,00 zł |