Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era"Over the last two decades Oprah Winfrey's journey has taken her from talk show queen to-as Time Magazine has asserted-"one of the most important figures in popular culture." Throu...9999903081128Janice Peck
Editors Varis
jueves, 8 de febrero de 2024
Story of Sensitivity Training and the Encounter MovementSensitivity training, T-Groups, and encounter groups have become a way of life. Beyond Words traces the history of this movement, the background of its successes, its varieties, an...9999903079958Kurt W. Back
Editors Varis
martes, 6 de febrero de 2024
The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and DeathErasing Death: The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death reveals that death is not a moment in time. Death, rather, is a process ??a process that can be i...9999903077367Sam Parnia
HarperCollins
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside. ??America ??s funniest science writer...9999903077343Mary Roach
W. W. Norton & Company
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
Using Science to See Our Species as We Really areHuman beings have long seen themselves as the center of the universe, the apple of God's eye, specially-created creatures who are somehow above and beyond the natural world. This v...9999903077329David P. Barash
Oxford University Press
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
A Diary of Manic DepressionA stark, lyrical and personal account of the psyche in crisis from the bestselling author of Wild and Kith "I want to describe it for those who have never experienced it but who pe...9999903076841Jay Griffiths
Penguin
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
The Rise and Fall and Rise of a Radical PsychiatristFeatured in the new film Mad to be Normal, the radical psychiatrist R. D. Laing took the world by storm in the 1960s and 1970s with his ideas about madness, families and people's n...9999903076834David Boyle
Editors Varis
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
A Personal History of Depression and RecoveryA graceful and penetrating memoir interweaving the author ??s descent into depression with a medical and cultural history of this illness.At the age of twenty-seven, married, livin...9999903076810Mary Cregan
W. W. Norton & Company
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
Setting the Course of DevelopmentEva Rass, a leading expert on the work of Allan Schore, presents a collection that provides an overview of his core ideas and makes accessible the evolution of his thought. Includi...9999903076797Eva Rass
Editors Varis
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
Understanding Our AddictionCelebrity culture surrounds us. We are inundated with information about actors and actresses, athletes, musicians, and others who have become famous or infamous. Although we never ...9999903076773Michael S. Levy
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
George Scialabba is a prolific critic and essayist known for his incisive, wide-ranging commentary on literature, philosophy, religion, and politics. He is also, like millions of o...9999903076728George Scialabba
University of Pennsylvania Press
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing'Deeply moving, darkly funny and hugely powerful' Robert Macfarlane 'A brave, lit-up account of going mad and getting better' Jeanette Winterson After a lifetime of ups and downs, ...9999903076711Horatio Clare
Vintage
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
A Biography of Bruno BettelheimIn this shocking, demythologizing biography, Bruno Bettelheim (1903-1990), world-famous Vienna-born psychoanalyst, bestselling author and authority on troubled children, is portray...9999903076537Richard Pollak
Charles Scribner's Sons
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
Sex, Hysteria, and the Riddle of Mental IllnessA noted neurologist challenges the widespread misunderstanding of brain disease and mental illness. How the Brain Lost Its Mind tells the rich and compelling story of two confound...9999903076476Allan H. Ropper Brian Bur...
Prentice Hall Press
jueves, 1 de febrero de 2024
American News Media and the Psychedelic ExperienceNow synonymous with Sixties counterculture, LSD actually entered the American consciousness via the mainstream. Time and Life, messengers of lumpen-American respectability, trumpet...9999903076445Stephen Siff
University of Illinois Press
jueves, 1 de febrero de 2024
The Gentle Revolution in Music, Books, Television, Fashion, and FilmNew York Times, Spin, and Vanity Fair contributor Marc Spitz explores the first great cultural movement since Hip Hop: an old-fashioned and yet highly modern aesthetic that ??s emb...9999903074182Spitz, Marc
HarperCollins
viernes, 26 de enero de 2024
Putting Peer Pressure to WorkFrom New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, bold new ideas for creating environments that promise a brighter futurePsychologists have long understo...9999903073598Robert H. Frank
Princeton University Press
jueves, 25 de enero de 2024
Our History of AddictionAs a psychiatrist-in-training fresh from medical school, Carl Erik Fisher came face to face with his own addiction crisis, one that nearly cost him everything. Here, he investigate...9999903073451Carl Erik Fisher
Editors Varis
jueves, 25 de enero de 2024
The Science Behind RevulsionThere is a powerful subconscious reaction that influences a disturbingly wide range of our daily behaviour - our eating habits, our relationships, our values. The very same reactio...9999903068440Valerie Curtis
Oxford University Press
jueves, 18 de enero de 2024
In this book, Scott Meze describes a fictional species, only a little like the one in our own anthropology textbooks, that started taking drugs when it had barely come down from th...9999903068303Scott Meze
Editors Varis
jueves, 18 de enero de 2024
A direct challenge to politicians and others by a world expert on drugs. David Nutt regularly hit the headlines as the UK ??s forthright Drugs Czar (Chair of the Advisory Council o...9999903068181David Nutt
Editors Varis
jueves, 18 de enero de 2024
Exploring Dynamic Experience in Psychology, the Arts, Psychotherapy, and DevelopmentIn his new book, eminent psychologist - Daniel Stern, author of the classic 'The interpersonal world of the infant', explores the hitherto neglected topic of 'vitality' - that is, ...9780199586066Daniel N. Stern
Oxford University Press
miércoles, 17 de enero de 2024
The Life and Work of W.D.HamiltonHailed by Richard Dawkins as "the most distinguished Darwinian since Darwin," W. D. Hamilton was one of the truly innovative scientists of the 20th century, responsible for a sea c...9999903067955Ullica Christina Olofsdot...
Oxford University Press
miércoles, 17 de enero de 2024
The Lowest-Common-Denominator SocietyAs entertainers, corporations, and even the government pander to the lowest common denominator, American life becomes increasingly vicarious, prefabricated, and bereft of meaning. ...9999903067733John B. Arden
New York : Praeger, 1976, c1975.
martes, 16 de enero de 2024
The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and BrainsSubtitle in pre-publication: Inside the sugar-coated plot to confuse pleasure with happiness.9999903067450Robert H. Lustig
Anchor Books
martes, 16 de enero de 2024
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