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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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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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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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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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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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"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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This book is about a personal journey, an adventure that has the potential to change one's entire outlook. It is an introduction to psychotherapy that provides clear and direct answers to commonly asked questions about psychological treatment: How do I know when to enter therapy? How do I go about selecting a therapist? Does psychotherapy really work? Do I have to relive my past? Are my dreams important? When should I end psychotherapy? And much more....
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Following up on his first two books, The Heart is My Beat, and Therapy Confidential, Dr. Bernstein shares more "behind-the-curtain" stories and perspectives from the heart of his psychotherapy practice. If you've ever been curious what therapy is all about and what it's like to be a therapy patient, or even wondered whether personal growth and change are possible, this book will answer some of your questions. There are also more stories about the...
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The self-help book consist of 8 Steps to well-being, and is the first of its kind to offer alternative holistic ways to describe, interpret and treat all 170 mental and emotional diagnoses worldwide – telling sufferers "you're not sick – you're sacred!" The book includes 24 healing exercises, color illustrations, as well as a dozen aftercare practices and free online support directly with Dr. Kemp, who healed herself using many of the interventions...
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Nearly half of people at the end of life will receive hospice care, but few psychologists, nurses, physicians, chaplains, and hospice workers have been trained specifically to recognize and address the psychological, social, and emotional issues that may arise in patients who are dying. Patients in the midst of advanced terminal illness may experience a variety of distressing emotions, and may feel anxious, frightened, regretful, or desperate. This...
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Aquí hallará interpretaciones y aplicaciones de uno de los fenómenos más sugestivos y misteriosos que nos hace cuestionar nuestras certezas y nos pone en condiciones de poder superar límites considerados insuperables. Explicar en profundidad el estado hipnótico implicaría explicar qué es el alma, cómo funciona y cómo actúa. Como consecuencia de ello, cualquier análisis detallado del «momento hipnótico» es siempre restringido y puramente...
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Psychoanalysis as a long term modality is inaccessible to the average South African. In this book the authors describe how psychoanalytically orientated or psychodynamic psychotherapy can be practiced as a short-term endeavour and applied to contemporary issues facing the country. Psychodynamic work is currently undertaken by clinical psychologists, therapists, clinicians, trainers, teachers, clinical supervisors, consultants and researchers working...
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Los historiales clínicos de psicoterapia constituyen una de las herramientas esenciales para comprender las diferentes psicopatologías y entender el desarrollo de un proceso psicoterapéutico. Sin embargo, la publicación de este tipo de materiales es muy escasa en nuestro medio. Esta obra, primera en su género que se edita en Colombia, presenta el caso de Oscar, un niño de 13 años, excepcionalmente inteligente, y quien a comienzos de la década...
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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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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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