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El camino que nos une
By Suzanne Stabile. 2018
¿Cómo comprendemos las motivaciones y dinámicas de los diferentes tipos de personalidad que apreciamos en nuestros compañeros íntimos, amigos y…
e incluso en nuestra vida profesional? Este libro de Suzanne Stabile sobre los nueve tipos del Eneagrama y cómo cada uno vive las relaciones, guiará al lector hacia una revelación más profunda sobre ellos mismos, sus propios tipos y la personalidad de los demás, para poder mantener relaciones amorosas, maduras y compasivas. La mayoría de nosotros no tenemos la menor idea de cómo los otros aprecian o procesan sus experiencias. Y ese desconocimiento puede dificultar las relaciones, ya sea con compañeros íntimos, amigos o incluso en nuestra vida profesional. Entender las motivaciones y las dinámicas de los diferentes tipos de personalidad puede ser la llave para destrabar algunas veces una conducta desconcertante en los demás (y en nosotros también). Este libro de Suzanne Stabile sobre los nueve tipos del Eneagrama y cómo cada uno se comporta y vive las relaciones, guiará al lector hacia una revelación más profunda sobre ellos mismos, sus propios tipos y la personalidad de los demás, de manera que puedan tener relaciones más saludables y llenas de vida. Nadie está mejor preparada para compartir la sabiduría del Eneagrama que la coautora de El camino de regreso a ti, quien nos enseñará cómo -o cómo no-funcionan las relaciones interpersonales. ¿Por qué los Seis parecen tan intimidados y rechazados por los Ocho, quienes solo desean que los Seis dejen de dar vueltas y pongan manos a la acción? ¿Por qué los Cinco parecen tan poco predispuestos, aun para con sus familiares y amigos más cercanos, mientras que los Dos parecen sentir lo que sienten todos los demás y acaban irritando a las personas que no solicitan su ayuda? ¿Cómo rayos puede ser que los Cuatro sean tan abiertos y amorosos contigo un día, y mostrarse tan secos y distantes al día siguiente? El Eneagrama no solo responde estas preguntas sino que además nos brinda una solución a nuestra costumbre de señalar y juzgar a los demás, y de considerarlos siempre deficientes, desconcertantes o insufribles. El enfoque de Suzanne, generoso -a veces divertido- y siempre brillante, nos revela por qué cada uno de los tipos se comportan de la forma en que lo hacen. Este libro nos ayuda a incentivar relaciones más amorosas, maduras y compasivas con cada persona a nuestro alrededor. Introducción " Ocho: Vulnerabilidad no es lo mismo que debilidad " Nueve: Arriesgar el conflicto para tener conexión " Uno: Las cosas siempre pueden mejorar " Dos: ¿Tus sentimientos o los míos? " Tres: Ser solo yo " Cuatro: Máchate pero no me dejes " Cinco: Mis murallas tienen puertas " Seis: Cuestionarlo todo " Siete: Aprender de la oscuridadEnding Book Hunger: Access to Print Across Barriers of Class and Culture
By Lea Shaver. 2019
An eye-opening exploration of “book hunger”—the unmet need for books in underserved communities—and efforts to universalize access to print Worldwide,…
billions of people suffer from book hunger. For them, books are too few, too expensive, or do not even exist in their languages. Lea Shaver argues that this is an educational crisis: the most reliable predictor of children’s achievement is the size of their families’ book collections. This book highlights innovative nonprofit solutions to expand access to print. First Book, for example, offers diverse books to teachers at bargain prices. Imagination Library mails picture books to support early literacy in book deserts. Worldreader promotes mobile reading in developing countries by turning phones into digital libraries. Pratham Books creates open access stories that anyone may freely copy, adapt, and translate. Can such efforts expand to bring books to the next billion would-be readers? Shaver reveals the powerful roles of copyright law and licensing, and sounds the clarion call for readers to contribute their own talents to the fight against book hunger.Writing Talk: Interviews with Writers about the Creative Process
By Derek Neale. 2020
Writing Talk includes interviews with nineteen well-known contemporary writers, exploring the ways in which they research and find their original…
ideas. Working across genres such as fiction, scriptwriting, radio, life writing, biography and more, the writers offer insight into how they interpret, hone and develop these ideas. The conversations examine the roles of technique, craft, language, reading, memory, serendipity, habit and persistence. They offer technical detail about the creative process and give unique insights into the borderlands between genres as well as offering rich, personal insights and universal resonances. A wide-ranging introduction surveys the reasons why we are intrigued by the mysteries of individual writing practice and how these illuminate critical attitudes to literature and performance. Offering a rare glimpse into the creative process of some of this generation’s most eminent voices, Writing Talk is a must read for anyone interested in how stories are found and made. Interviewees: Alan Ayckbourn, Iain Banks, Helen Blakeman, Louis de Bernières, Sarah Butler, Andrew Cowan, Jenny Diski, Patricia Duncker, David Edgar, Tanika Gupta, Richard Holmes, Hanif Kureishi, Bryony Lavery, Toby Litt, Kareem Mortimer, Michèle Roberts, Jane Rogers, Willy Russell and Sally Wainwright.Critical Neuroscience and Philosophy: A Scientific Re-Examination of the Mind-Body Problem
By David Låg Tomasi. 2020
This book presents an analysis of the correlation between the mind and the body, a complex topic of study and…
discussion by scientists and philosophers. Drawing largely on neuroscience and philosophy, the author utilizes the scientific method and incorporates lessons learned from a vast array of sources. Based on the most recent cutting-edge scientific discoveries on the Mind-Body problem, Tomasi presents a full examination of multiple fields related to neuroscience. The volume offers a scientist-based and student-friendly journey into medicine, psychology, artificial intelligence, embodied cognition, and social, ecological and anthropological models of perception, to discover our truest self.The Blind Man and the Loon: The Story of a Tale
By Craig Mishler. 2013
The story of the Blind Man and the Loon is a living Native folktale about a blind man who is…
betrayed by his mother or wife but whose vision is magically restored by a kind loon. Variations of this tale are told by Native storytellers all across Alaska, arctic Canada, Greenland, the Northwest Coast, and even into the Great Basin and the Great Plains. As the story has traveled through cultures and ecosystems over many centuries, individual storytellers have added cultural and local ecological details to the tale, creating countless variations.In The Blind Man and the Loon: The Story of a Tale, folklorist Craig Mishler goes back to 1827, tracing the story&’s emergence across Greenland and North America in manuscripts, books, and in the visual arts and other media such as film, music, and dance theater. Examining and comparing the story&’s variants and permutations across cultures in detail, Mishler brings the individual storyteller into his analysis of how the tale changed over time, considering how storytellers and the oral tradition function within various societies. Two maps unequivocally demonstrate the routes the story has traveled. The result is a masterful compilation and analysis of Native oral traditions that sheds light on how folktales spread and are adapted by widely diverse cultures.Dirty Words in Deadwood: Literature and the Postwestern (Postwestern Horizons)
By Nicolas S. Witschi, Melody Graulich. 2013
Dirty Words in &“Deadwood&” showcases literary analyses of the Deadwood television series by leading western American literary critics. Whereas previous…
reaction to the series has largely addressed the question of historical accuracy rather than intertextuality or literary complexity, Melody Graulich and Nicolas S. Witschi&’s edited volume brings a much-needed perspective to Deadwood&’s representation of the frontier West.As Graulich observes in her introduction: &“With its emotional coherence, compelling characterizations, compressed structural brilliance, moral ambiguity, language experiments, interpretation of the past, relevance to the present, and engagement with its literary forebears, Deadwood is an aesthetic triumph as historical fiction and, like much great literature, makes a case for the humanistic value of storytelling.&” From previously unpublished interviews with series creator David Milch to explorations of sexuality, disability, cinematic technique, and western narrative, this collection focuses on Deadwood as a series ultimately about the imagination, as a verbal and visual construct, and as a literary masterpiece that richly rewards close analysis and interpretation.Contemporary Comics Storytelling (Frontiers of Narrative)
By Karin Kukkonen. 2013
What if fairy-tale characters lived in New York City? What if a superhero knew he was a fictional character? What…
if you could dispense your own justice with one hundred untraceable bullets? These are the questions asked and answered in the course of the challenging storytelling in Fables, Tom Strong, and 100 Bullets, the three twenty-first-century comics series that Karin Kukkonen considers in depth in her exploration of how and why the storytelling in comics is more than merely entertaining.Applying a cognitive approach to reading comics in all their narrative richness and intricacy, Contemporary Comics Storytelling opens an intriguing perspective on how these works engage the legacy of postmodernism—its subversion, self-reflexivity, and moral contingency. Its three case studies trace how contemporary comics tie into deep traditions of visual and verbal storytelling, how they reevaluate their own status as fiction, and how the fictional minds of their characters generate complex ethical thought experiments. At a time when the medium is taken more and more seriously as intricate and compelling literary art, this book lays the groundwork for an analysis of the ways in which comics challenge and engage readers&’ minds. It brings together comics studies with narratology and literary criticism and, in so doing, provides a new set of tools for evaluating the graphic novel as an emergent literary form.Error in Shakespeare: Shakespeare in Error (Palgrave Shakespeare Studies)
By Alice Leonard. 2020
The traditional view of Shakespeare’s mastery of the English language is alive and well today. This is an effect of…
the eighteenth-century canonisation of his works, and subsequently Shakespeare has come to be perceived as the owner of the vernacular. These entrenched attitudes prevent us from seeing the actual substance of the text, and the various types of error that it contains and even constitute it. This book argues that we need to attend to error to interpret Shakespeare’s disputed material text, political-dramatic interventions and famous literariness. The consequences of ignoring error are especially significant in the study of Shakespeare, as he mobilises the rebellious, marginal, and digressive potential of error in the creation of literary drama.This book situates the work of the Soviet psychologist and neurologist Alexander Luria (1902-1977) in its historical context and explores…
the 'romantic' approach to scientific writing developed in his case histories. Luria consistently asserted that human consciousness was formed by cultural and historical experience. He described psychology as the ‘science of social history’ and his ideas about subjectivity, cognition and mental health have a history of their own. Lines of mutual influence existed between Luria and his colleagues on the other side of the iron curtain, but Psychologies in Revolution also discusses Luria’s research in relation to Soviet history – from the October Revolution of 1917 through the collectivisation of agriculture and Stalinist purges of the 1930s to the Second World War and, finally, the relative stability of the Brezhnev era – foregrounding the often marginalised people with whom Luria’s clinical work brought him into contact. By historicising science and by focusing on a theoretical approach which itself emphasised the centrality of social and political factors for understanding human subjectivity, the book also seeks to contribute to current debates in the medical humanities.The Unconscious Domain (Springerbriefs In Psychology Ser.)
By Henry Kellerman. 2020
This book enumerates the components of the unconscious domain (or realm), and attempts to uncover the proposed communicational network of…
its operation — a communicational network that is able to link inherent participating components of this realm. It is often the case that theoreticians and clinical practitioners refer to the unconscious or unconscious material in a way that implies the sense of it all rather than a specific definition, broadly describing it as “material which is out of one’s awareness.” This volume therefore examines the complex existence of the entire unconscious realm embraced in an evolutionary historical context, defined here as the 'unconscious domain'.What is Literature?: A Critical Anthology
By Mark Robson. 2020
An essential guide to understanding literary theory and criticism in the European tradition What is Literature? A Critical Anthology explores…
the most fundamental question in literary studies. ‘What is literature?’ is the name of a problem that emerges with the idea of literature in European modernity. This volume offers a cross-section of modern literary theory and reflects on the history of thinking about literature as a specific form. What is Literature? reveals how ideas of the literary draw on the foundations of Western thought in ancient Greece and Rome, charting the emergence of modern literature in the eighteenth century, and including selections from the present state of the art. The anthology includes the work of leading writers and critics of the last two thousand years including Plato, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jacques Rancière, and many others. The book is an insightful examination of the nature of literature, its meanings and values, functions and forms, provocations and mysteries. What is Literature? brings together in one volume influential and intriguing essays that show our enduring fascination with the idea of literature. This important guide: Contains a broad selection of the most significant texts on the topic of literature Includes leading writers from ancient times to the most recent thinkers on literature and criticism Encourages readers to reflect on the varied meanings of “literature” What is Literature? A Critical Anthology is a unique collection of texts that will appeal to every student and scholar of literature and literary criticism in the European tradition.Sin and Filth in Medieval Culture: The Devil in the Latrine
By Martha Bayless. 2012
This important new contribution to the history of the body analyzes the role of filth as the material counterpart of…
sin in medieval thought. Using a wide range of texts, including theology, historical documents, and literature from Augustine to Chaucer, the book shows how filth was regarded as fundamental to an understanding of human history. This theological significance explains the prominence of filth and dung in all genres of medieval writing: there is more dung in theology than there is in Chaucer. The author also demonstrates the ways in which the religious understanding of filth and sin influenced the secular world, from town planning to the execution of traitors. As part of this investigation the book looks at the symbolic order of the body and the ways in which the different aspects of the body were assigned moral meanings. The book also lays out the realities of medieval sanitation, providing the first comprehensive view of real-life attempts to cope with filth. This book will be essential reading for those interested in medieval religious thought, literature, amd social history. Filled with a wealth of entertaining examples, it will also appeal to those who simply want to glimpse the medieval world as it really was.Kluwick breaks new ground in this book, moving away from Rushdie studies that focus on his status as postcolonial or…
postmodern, and instead considering the significance of magic realism in his fiction. Rushdie’s magic realism, in fact, lies at the heart of his engagement with the post/colonial. In a departure from conventional descriptions of magic realism—based primarily on the Latin-American tradition—Kluwick here proposes an alternative definition, allowing for a more accurate description of the form. She argues that it is disharmony, rather than harmony, that is decisive: that the incompatibility of the realist and the supernatural needs to be recognized as a driving force in Rushdie’s fiction. In its rigorous analysis of this Rushdian magic realism, this book considers the entire corpus—Midnight’s Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Shalimar the Clown, and The Enchantress of Florence. This study is the first of its kind to do so.Infant Observation and Research: Emotional Processes in Everyday Lives
By Cathy Urwin, Janine Sternberg. 2012
Psychoanalytic infant observation is frequently used in training psychoanalytic psychotherapists and allied professionals, but increasingly its value as a research…
method is being recognised, particularly in understanding developmental processes in vulnerable individuals and groups. This book explores the scope of this approach and discusses its strengths and limitations from a methodological and philosophical point of view. Infant Observation and Research uses detailed case studies to demonstrate the research potential of the infant observation method. Divided into three sections this book covers infant observation as part of the learning process how infant observation can inform understanding and influence practice psychoanalytic infant observation and other methodologies. Throughout the book, Cathy Urwin, Janine Sternberg and their contributors introduce the reader to the nature and value of psychoanalytic infant observation and its range of application. This book will therefore interest a range of mental health practitioners concerned with early development and infants' emotional relationships, as well as academics and researchers in the social sciences and humanities.Workplace Bullying: Symptoms and Solutions
By Noreen Tehrani. 2012
Is bullying really that bad? Why do some people just watch it happening? How do you know if it is…
bullying or strong management? What kind of leaders are able to create positive working environments? The effects of bullying on organisations and individuals can be devastating and can adversely affect both the workers themselves and the productivity of the organisation that they work for. This book explores the impact of bullying from the perspective of both the employee and the organisation in which they work. In addition to describing the negative outcome of bullying, Workplace Bullying also looks at ways to promote resilience and the opportunity for growth and learning to take place. Divided into four sections, this book covers: the impact and symptoms of workplace bullying individual interventions organisational interventions underlying causes and future considerations. Workplace Bullying is essential reading for anyone with responsibility to help and support workers involved in bullying as a victim, supporter, or investigator. It offers organisations a chance to create an environment that will not only build a more resilient workforce, providing appropriate and effective interventions, but also provides solutions that will lead to the possibility of individual and organisational growth and development.Psychotherapy and the Lonely Patient
By E Mark Stern, Samuel M Natale. 1986
Here is an important new book focusing on the contribution of the therapist s love and empathy to the therapeutic…
process Technique without dedication discipline and understanding will rarely benefit patients nor help resolve their conflicts Psychoanalytic Technique demonstrates how the therapist s countertransference feelings anxieties wishes and superego admonitions shape his or her therapeutic interventionsLosing the Fear to Women: 77 advices to increase your value
By Adrian Salama. 2020
Losing the fear to Women 77 advices to increase your value The best advices to overcome your fear when approaching…
a woman Are you tired of not knowing how to talk to a girl? Do you freeze up when you approach the woman of your dreams? Here's a book that doesn't have straw in it and goes straight to the point that interests you. This is a book to stop once and for all, losing the fear that men have of approaching women. With these tips you will be able to: - Talk to any woman - Increase your self-esteem - Grow your social network - Apply from day 1 There are no excuses anymore for not being able to be with her. There are no more excuses for being alone. Start reading this book now to apply the best advice from the world's greatest seducers, from day one.Creative Readings: Essays On Seminal Analytic Works (The New Library of Psychoanalysis)
By Thomas H Ogden. 2012
Thomas H. Ogden is the winner of the 2004 International Journal of Psychoanalysis Award for the Most Important Paper of…
the year and the 2010 Haskell Norman Prize – an international award for "outstanding achievement as a psychoanalytic clinician, teacher and theoretician". Thomas Ogden is internationally recognized as one of the most creative analytic thinkers writing today. In this book he brings his original analytic ideas to life by means of his own method of closely reading major analytic works. He reads watershed papers in a way that does not simply cast new and discerning light on the works he is discussing, but introduces his own thinking regarding the ideas being discussed in the texts. Ogden offers expanded understandings of some of the most fundamental concepts constituting psychoanalytic theory and practice. He does so by finding in each of the articles he discusses much that the author knew, but did not know that he or she knew. An example of this is how Freud, in his conception of the unconscious workings of mourning and melancholia, was providing the foundation of a theory of unconscious internal object relations. Ogden goes on to provide further re-readings of classic material from the following key contributors to contemporary psychoanalysis: W. R. D. Fairbairn Donald Winnicott Wilfred Bion Hans Loewald Harold Searles. This book is not simply a book of readings, it is a book about reading, about how to read in a way that readers actively rewrite what they are reading, and in so doing makes the ideas truly their own. The concepts that Ogden develops in his readings provide a significant step in the reader’s expansion of his or her understanding of many of the ideas that lie at the cutting edge of contemporary psychoanalysis. It will be of particular interest to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists who use a psychodynamic approach, as well as professionals and academics with an interest in contemporary psychoanalysis.Interactional Coaching is a powerful, one-to-one learning approach, used successfully for over fifteen years, that enables executives to make the choices…
that work for them. Drawing on existential philosophy, psychotherapy and business theory, interactional coaching uses innovative techniques to help clients identify their best possible choices and effectively put them into practice. Featuring numerous case studies, which integrate theoretical principles with practical tools, Interactional Coaching illustrates: coaching for vision and other time-related issues coaching in the personal dimension coaching interactional strategy and skills coaching conflicts and dilemmas coaching creativity and communication coaching leadership and managerial expertise. Interactional Coaching is essential reading for anyone interested in a new, comprehensive approach to helping coachees develop the self-knowledge and interpersonal skills necessary for achievement in today's workplace.A Social History of Maternity and Childbirth: Key Themes in Maternity Care
By Tania McIntosh. 2012
People are fascinated by stories of childbirth, and the sources to document maternity in Britain in the twentieth century are…
rich and varied. This book puts the history of maternity in England into its wider social context, highlighting areas of change and continuity, and charting the development of pregnancy and birth as it emerged from the shadows and became central to social debate. A Social History of Maternity and Childbirth considers the significance of the regulation and training of midwives and doctors, exploring important aspects of maternity care including efforts to tackle maternal deaths, the move of birth from home to hospital, and the rise of consumer groups. Using oral histories and women’s memoirs, as well as local health records and contemporary reports and papers, this book explores the experiences of women and families, and includes the voices of women, midwives and doctors. Key themes are discussed throughout, including: the work and status of the midwife the place of birth pain relief ante- and post- natal care women’s pressure groups high-tech versus low-tech political pressures. At a time when the midwifery profession, and the wider structure of maternity care, is a matter for popular and political debate, this book is a timely contribution. It will be an invaluable read for all those interested in maternity care in England.