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  • How to Survive Without Psychotherapy

    by David Smail ...
    This book is directly aimed at sufferers of mental distress. The book's aim is to remove from sufferers the burden of 'fault' for their pain and to demystify some of the practices that surround the 'treatment' of mental illness. It is not exactly a self-help book because it is a false claim of any 'treatment' of mental illness that 'cure' can be brought about by exercise of will. Much of what ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Origins of Unhappiness

    A New Understanding of Personal Distress

    by David Smail ...
    It is the main argument of this book that emotional and psychological distress is often brought about through the operation of social-environmental powers which have their origin at a considerable distance from those ultimately subjected to them. On the whole, psychology has concerned itself very little with the field of power which stretches beyond our immediate relations with each other, and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Taking Care

    An Alternative to Therapy

    by David Smail ...
    Taking Care established the author as an important social and political analyst whose background happened to be in clinical psychology. In this work the author develops the analysis of mental illness, and psychology in general, in the contexts of society, power and interest. People's experience is embodied in the world in which they exist. Notwithstanding the claims of some, psychology cannot, in ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Illusion and Reality

    The Meaning of Anxiety

    by David Smail ...
    This work challenges the notion that anxiety and depression amount to a mental illness denoting that something is wrong with the individual sufferer. Instead, anxiety and depression are described as perfectly rational responses to difficulties in the sufferer's world, experienced subjectively by that person. An essential contrast is drawn between objective conceptions of normality (what reality ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    Wisdom for the Second Half of the Journey

    How do you define “growing up”? Does it mean you achieve certain cultural benchmarks—a steady income, paying taxes, marriage, and children? Or does it mean leaving behind the expectations of others and growing into the person you were meant to be? If you find yourself in a career, place, relationship, or crisis you never foresaw and that seems at odds with your beliefs about who you are, it means ... Read more

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  • The Life Cycle Completed

    "This book will last and last, because it contains the wisdom of two wonderfully knowing observers of our human destiny."—Robert ColesFor decades Erik H. Erikson's concept of the stages of human development has deeply influenced the field of contemporary psychology. Here, with new material by Joan M. Erikson, is an expanded edition of his final work. The Life Cycle Completed eloquently closes the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Birth and Death of Meaning

    by Ernest Becker ...
    Uses the disciplines of psychology, anthropology, sociology and psychiatry to explain what makes people act the way they do. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Going Sane

    by Adam Phillips ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Tact of Teaching

    The Meaning of Pedagogical Thoughtfulness

    by Max van Manen ...
    In The Tact of Teaching bestselling author Max van Manen offers teachers at every stage an original and inspiring interpretation of the notion of pedagogy, one that searches for its roots in the experience of in loco parentis. Using dozens of anecdotes and scenes taken directly from life in classrooms, including many from the often-neglected domain of high school, The Tact of Teaching explicates ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Our Inner Conflicts

    by Karen Horney ...
    Translated by Horatio Valentae ...
    In Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis, Karen Horney delves into the psychological conflicts that underlie neurotic behavior. Building on her critical reassessment of Freudian theories, Horney presents an innovative perspective that emphasizes the role of cultural and social factors alongside internal psychic dynamics. The book outlines three main neurotic orientations people ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • MAKING CONTACT

    by Leston Havens ...
    Since 1955, moving from early work in psychopharmacology to studies of clinical method and the psychiatric schools, Leston Havens has been working toward a general theory of therapy. It often seems that twentieth-century psychiatry, sect-ridden, is a Tower of Babel, as Havens once characterized it. This book is the distillation of long years of thought and practice, a bold yet modest attempt to ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • From the Radical Center

    The Heart of Gestalt Therapy

    This remarkable collection traces central themes in the work of Erving and Miriam Polster, two of the best-known and best loved Gestalt therapists in the world. The writings herein span 4 decades in the history of psychotherapy, bringing together practical, theoretical and aesthetic dimensions of the Polsters' work in a single book. Ranging across diverse subjects and distinct historical periods, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD