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"Viktor E. Frankls Mans Search for Meaning is a classic work of Holocaust literature that has riveted generations of readers. Like Anne Franks Diary of a Young Girl and Elie Wiesels Night, Frankls masterpiece is a timeless examination of life in the Nazi death camps. At the same time, Frankls universal lessons for coping with suffering and finding ones purpose in life offer an unforgettable message for readers seeking solace and guidance. This young...
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English
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Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments in uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach...
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Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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The author draws on her experiences as a Holocaust survivor, as well as the lives of her patients, to offer practical, uplifting advice about how to recognize and stop destructive, self-sabotaging patterns to find freedom and greater life fulfillment.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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English
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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.
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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From the bestselling author of Women Rowing North and Reviving Ophelia--a memoir in essays reflecting on radiance, resilience, and the constantly changing nature of reality. In her luminous new memoir in essays, Mary Pipher taps into a cultural moment, to offer wisdom, hope, and insight into loss and change. Drawing from her own experiences and expertise as a psychologist specializing in women, trauma, and the effect of our culture on our mental health,...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 288 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"Internationally acclaimed psychologist Dr. Edith Eger--one of the few remaining Holocaust survivors--tells her unforgettable story in this moving testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of choice in our lives. At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger, a trained ballet dancer and gymnast, was sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, the 'Angel of Death,' Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele, forced Edie to dance for his amusement--and...
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Pub. Date
2009
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258 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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In this inspiring memoir, the author of Reviving Ophelia explores her personal search for understanding, tranquility, and respect through her work as a psychologist and seeker. "There are three kinds of secrets," Pipher says. "Those we keep from everyone, those we keep from certain people, and those we keep from ourselves. Writing this book forced me to deal with all three." After decades of exploring the lives of others through her writing and therapy,...
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Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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A haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss. Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison--who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with an elegance and passion--could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer. She looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist who battled dyslexia to become one of the foremost experts on schizophrenia. And with her characteristic candor,...
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The Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Feminist Press edition.
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xiii, 223 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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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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Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
ix, 580 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Élisabeth Roudinesco offers a bold and modern reinterpretation of the iconic founder of psychoanalysis. Based on new archival sources, this is Freud's biography for the twenty-first century--a critical appraisal, at once sympathetic and impartial, of a genius greatly admired and yet greatly misunderstood in his own time and in ours. Roudinesco traces Freuds life from his upbringing as the eldest of eight siblings in a prosperous Jewish-Austrian household...
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Pub. Date
2005
Lexile measure
1370L
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xiii, 202 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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This book is based on the premise that the theories on which the three dominant schools in psychology are based - psychodynamics, behavioral, and phenomenological - resulted in part from the personal experiences of the theorists who first originated them - Freud for psychodynamics, B.F. Skinner for behavioral, and Carl Rogers for phenomenological.
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Pub. Date
1957
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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Visionaries, crackpots, fanatics, dreamers, suffragettes, temperance workers, be-sloganned devotees of betterment in marriage, religion, sex, alcohol, labor relations, penal codes and the treatment of mental illness rub shoulders in a book, which encompasses the American dream of Utopia, sobriety and the pursuit of happiness.
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Pub. Date
2009
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xii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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This is the first biography of the last and greatest British idealist philosopher, R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943), a man who both thought and lived at full pitch. Best known today for his philosophies of history and art, Collingwood was also a historian, archaeologist, sailor, artist, and musician. A figure of enormous energy and ambition, he took as his subject nothing less than the whole of human endeavor, and he lived in the same way, seeking to...
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Michelle Stevens has a photo of the exact moment her childhood was stolen from her. In it, she's only eight years old and posing for her mother's beguiling boyfriend, Gary Lundquist--an elementary school teacher, neighborhood stalwart, and brutal pedophile. Later that night, Gary locks Michelle in a cage, tortures her repeatedly, and uses her to quench his voracious and deviant sexual whims. Michelle can also pinpoint the moment she reconstituted...