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Books > Social sciences > Psychology > The self, ego, identity, personality
A TIME magazine Must-Read Book of the Year Ever wonder what your
therapist is thinking? Now you can find out, as therapist and New
York Times bestselling author Lori Gottlieb takes us behind the
scenes of her practice - where her patients are looking for answers
(and so is she). When a personal crisis causes her world to come
crashing down, Lori Gottlieb - an experienced therapist with a
thriving practice in Los Angeles - is suddenly adrift. Enter
Wendell, himself a veteran therapist with an unconventional style,
whose sessions with Gottlieb will prove transformative for her. As
Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her own patients' lives - a
self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a
terminal illness, a senior citizen who feels she has nothing to
live for, and a self-destructive twenty-something who can't stop
hooking up with the wrong guys - she finds that the questions they
are struggling with are the very questions she is bringing to
Wendell. Taking place over one year, and beginning with the
devastating event that lands her in Wendell's office, Maybe You
Should Talk to Someone offers a rare and candid insight into a
profession that is conventionally bound with rules and secrecy.
Told with charm and compassion, vulnerability and humour, it's also
the story of an incredible relationship between two therapists, and
a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious
inner lives, as well as our power to transform them.
Creativity and Morality summarizes and integrates research on
creativity used to achieve bad or immoral ends. The book includes
the use of deception, novel ideas to commit wrongdoings across
contexts, including in organizations, the classroom and terrorism.
Morality is discussed from an individual perspective and relative
to broader sociocultural norms that allow people to believe actions
are justified. Chapters explore this research from an
interdisciplinary perspective, including from psychology,
philosophy, media studies, aesthetics and ethics.
'Maltz's work influenced nearly every major "self-help" professional from Zig Ziglar to Brian Tracy to Tony Robbins' James Clear, author of Atomic Habits The proven formula for a year of success. In 1960, Maxwell Maltz introduced his revolutionary theory of psycho-cybernetics: by taking control of your own thoughts, you can achieve greater peace of mind, success, and happiness. His work changed the lives of more than 30 million readers. Now Psycho-Cybernetics 365 distils Maltz's teachings into easy-to-digest daily entries, offering a short chapter of wisdom for every day of the year. Drawing on his techniques for improving and managing self-image, visualisation, mental rehearsal and relaxation, it is essential reading for anyone looking to live their most fulfilled life. Featuring commentary by Matt Furey, a Maltz scholar and president of the Psycho-Cybernetics Foundation, Psycho-Cybernetics 365 is an inspiring work of daily meditations that will create success and happiness in your everyday life.
Measuring and Modeling Persons and Situations presents major
innovations and contributions on the topic, promoting deeper
integration, cross-pollination of ideas across diverse academic
disciplines, and the facilitation of the development of practical
applications such as matching people to jobs, understanding
decision making, and predicting how a group of individuals will
interact with one another. The book is organized around two
overarching and interrelated themes, with the first focusing on
assessing the person and the situation, covering methodological
advances and techniques for inferring and measuring
characteristics, and showing how they can be instantiated for
measurement and predictive purposes. The book's second theme
presents theoretical models, conceptualizing how factors of the
person and situation can help us understand the psychological
dynamics which underlie behavior, the psychological experience of
fit or congruence with one's environment, and changes in
personality traits over time.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1986.
Human sexuality touches us all, pun intended. We all either enjoy
it, struggle with it, or may have been victims of it. Sexuality is
not just about sex, but about human sexual function, the physiology
of sex, the hormones involved and how they affect us, and the
cultural norms related to it. Sexual function and dysfunction are
closely tied to one's self-esteem, self-respect, and to
relationships with intimate partners. Human Sexuality: Function,
Dysfunction, Paraphilias, and Relationships, explores the interplay
of intimacy and sexuality; how it can enhance relationships, and
how it can negatively affect them, or be affected by them. When
individuals or partners encounter sexual problems or dysfunctions
it can have a long-lasting affect both biologically and
psychologically. Dr. Rokach explores the causes and the reasons
that these dysfunctions are maintained, and successful treatment
methods. Chapters on sexual offenses and paraphilias and what
treatment options are available to sexual offenders are also
included. This book is the first book to place sexuality where it
belongs, within the context of relationships demonstrating how
sexuality relates to intimacy by both enhancing and negatively
affecting it.
Today's workers spend upwards of 80% of their time collaborating
and teams have become the fundamental unit within organizations.
Creative Success in Teams summarizes for practitioners and
researchers what drives team creativity. Utilizing research from
psychology, organizational behavior/management, business, and
education, the book discusses how best to start, manage, and foster
creativity in team environments, how to encourage participation and
collaboration, what makes for the most creative team, and how best
to lead and evaluate creative teams.
Jonathan Mooney blends anecdote, expertise, and memoir to present a
new mode of thinking about how we live and learn - individually,
uniquely, and with advantages and upshots to every type of brain
and body. As a neuro-diverse kid diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD
who didn't learn to read until he was twelve, the realisation that
that he wasn't the problem - the system and the concept of normal
were - saved Mooney's life and fundamentally changed his outlook.
Here he explores the toll that being not normal takes on kids and
adults when they're trapped in environments that label them, shame
them, and tell them, even in subtle ways, that they are the
problem. But, he argues, if we can reorient the ways in which we
think about diversity, abilities, and disabilities, we can start a
revolution. A highly sought after public speaker, Mooney has been
inspiring audiences with his story and his message for nearly two
decades. Now he's ready to share what he's learned from parents,
educators, researchers, and kids in a book that is as much a
survival guide as it is a call to action. Whip-smart, insightful,
and utterly inspiring - and movingly framed as a letter to his own
young sons, as they work to find their ways in the world - this
book will upend what we call normal and empower us all.
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