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"I Had a Miscarriage is Dr. Jessica Zucker's account of her miscarriage that occurred sixteen weeks into her pregnancy, and her journey of recovery following it. Drawing from her psychological expertise and her work as the creator of the viral #IHadaMiscarriage campaign, this book uses Zucker's and other women's experiences to explore grief, healing, and the power of speaking one's truth" --
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A thought-provoking first collection of the selected papers and correspondence of the man who coined the phrase “turn on, tune in, drop out” reveals the ideas that inspired the counterculture of the 1960s and the fascination with LSD that continues to the present.
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Equipped with an encyclopedic knowledge of boxing, a young Joyce Brothers competed on The $64,000 Question and became the first woman to win the top prize money. That triumphant debut in 1955 was the initial step toward a career as a media pioneer. Through her own advice programs and perennial appearances on talk shows-as well as episodic television-Brothers became one of the most well-known figures of the 20th century. For more than four decades,...
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The Only Girl in the World describes the author's harrowing upbringing by fanatic parents, who raised her in isolation through traumatic disciplinary exercises designed to "eliminate weakness" and recounts how she eventually escaped with the help of an outsider.
"Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor--raising her in isolation and subjecting her to endless drills designed...
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"Raised by a child psychologist who was himself the author of numerous self-help books, as an adult Jessica Lamb-Shapiro found herself both repelled and fascinated by the industry: did all of these books, tapes, weekend seminars, groups, posters, t-shirts and trinkets really help anybody? Why do some people swear by the power of positive thinking, while others dismiss it as so many empty promises? Promise Land is an irreverent tour through the vast...
7) The Titan
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Trilogy of desire volume 2
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The sequel to Dreiser's The Financier, which continues the saga of the ups and downs in the life of Frank Cowperwood.
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Partial Sanity: Stories from the Edge of Mental Health is a memoir about jumping feet-first into adulthood. Armed with a newly earned undergraduate degree in human services, Beth accepts the first full-time position she is offered to work as a psychiatric case manager in a community mental health program. Located in the economically depressed coal region of Pennsylvania in the late 1980's, the town of Houtzdale has an equal number of small bars, dingy...
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Beginning in the summer of 2004, Scott Nadelson's life fell apart. His fiancée left him a month before their planned wedding for another woman who made her living performing as a drag king. He moved into a drafty attic. His car's brakes went out. He learned that his cat was dying. Over the next two years, he'd struggle, with equivocal and sometimes humiliating results, to get back on his feet, in the process re-examining his past to understand his...
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Written in simple and lucid language, these biographical sketches of great scientists have been put together for ready reference. History of the world is replete with such instances of such men and women who went against all the odds and achieved great heights and changed the shape of the world. In fact, reading about the life-sketch of a scientist and his achievements, has certainly great infotainment value. Besides, the lives of great men and women...
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This is a story by a father and his son to detail the son's issues with PTSD after returning from multiple overseas Naval deployments as a sniper that led to several suicide attempts, including a long, convoluted plan involving multiple foreign countries. This story is both heartwarming and disturbing. Family and friends worked together to save Mark, but the military seemed indifferent to the struggles that led to this situation. This is a powerful...
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This is a love story, although not in the conventional sense of romantic love. This book explores the transformative power of suffering in a revealing narrative informed by spiritual practice. This book explores what it takes to keep your heart open in hell even if it is of your own making. The author relates her struggle in living life with a broken heart not as someone special, but rather as one of the billions of women who strive to live on through...
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White Matter: A Memoir of Family and Medicine is the story of a Bostonian close-knit Jewish working-class family of five sisters and one brother and the impact they and their next generation endured due to the popularization of lobotomy during the 20th century. When Janet Sternburg's grandfather abandoned his family, and her uncle, Bennie, became increasing mentally ill, Sternburg's mother and aunts had to bind together and make crucial decisions...
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En una noche de vigilia en la que el alma está cerca de la razón, paralizada de manera obligada en confinamiento por la pandemia mundial de la Covid 19. Una de esas noches en la que te cuestionas todo: lo existencial y lo profesional, sentí la llamada caballeresca de quien sigue sus instintos y delirios más primogénitos de reflejar mi experiencia profesional después de 20 años de terminar la carrera de trabajo social en nuestra querida Salamanca...
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Amorçant la réflexion avec une question telle que «Dieu existe, alors qu'allons-nous faire de cette vérité?», Goswami en appelle à un plan d'action o les principes de l'activisme quantique seraient appliqués à un ensemble d'enjeux sociaux: il plaide pour une économie spirituelle qui met l'accent sur le bien-être plutt que sur les besoins matériels; une démocratie qui utilise le pouvoir pour servir les autres plutt que de les exploiter;...
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¿Cómo se enseña a los niños a manejar la rabia, los celos, la vergüenza, el miedo y la tristeza? ¿Y a desarrollar la empatía o a hacer caso cuando es necesario?
Este libro es una herramienta, sencilla y eficaz, para lograrlo, para que los nicños aprendan, con nuestra ayuda, a gestionar cada emoción. La metodología que se sigue en cada uno de los 10 capítulos es la siguiente: primero se facilita una descripción teórica simple de cada...
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“40 Years in the Psychotherapist's Chair" is addressed to readers who are interested in furthering personal growth, engaging in psychotherapy, or, perhaps, becoming a psychotherapist. The author aims to help readers gain the hope and courage to become their whole and best selves. Author Dr. Doug Favero writes from the perspective of a seeker and learner alongside the reader.
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The Creation of Dr. B, Richard Pollak's riveting biography of Bruno Bettelheim, reveals the world-renowned child psychologist as a dogmatic tyrant and compulsive liar who often terrorized his young patients and their parents, plagiarized his prize-winning work, made false claims about his concentration camp experiences, and grandly invented his own past.
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La sociedad moderna esta experimentando una serie de cambios que colocan en un tercer plano, o a lo mejor en ninguno, los valores eticos, morales y sociales dando como resultado individuos inseguros, depresivos y con unas series de conflictos emocionales que parecieran no tener solucion.
"Plenitud y vida" es una obra de fuente bibliografica escrita con un contenido enfocado en trabajar el cambio del "yo", desde una perspectiva cientifica, sociologica,...
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Esta edición revisitada de "Querida María. Cuando el psicoanálisis no es un sueño" se formó, en palabras de su autora Carmen González Táboas, "al modo de un tapiz artesanal cuyas formas o escenas se traman pasando la aguja una y otra vez sobre una urdimbre de hilos tensos de lado a lado. Me había sucedido descubrir que lo ya vivido podía ofrecer las guías firmes por donde pasar los hilos, también ciertos hitos de mi larga experiencia de...
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