Psychology

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Conversation with God: A Christian Experience of Depression

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Report copyright infringementby David C. Wilson (Author)David Wilson didn't know where to turn when his wife, Chris, was in the depths of clinical depression, brought on by chronic fatigue syndrome and anorexia. In despair he entered an empty church and said a simple prayer: "I have no power to affect anything in my life, but you have the power. If you help me, I will serve you." From then on, their lives began to change. A prayer group contacted them and through the power of prayer, Chris's ...

The Battle For Resilience: Undercover In The Army And Its Reflections In Our Everyday Psychological Wellbeing

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Report copyright infringementby Russell Sharp (Author)You are in the middle of a battle.We are all fighting to live the best and most resilient life we can.Unique circumstances create unique understandings about our lives. I went undercover in the British Army to investigate bullying for the BBC. This book follows the pre to post undercover story through experiences of being a soldier in training, working for a large media co-operation and being the face of a controversial prime time programm...

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Report copyright infringementby Domingo David Franco Assad (Author)Perceiving Severe Depression is a deeply introspective and thought-provoking journey into the mind of someone battling severe depression. Written by Domingo David Franco Assad, this book explores the relentless emotional turmoil, fears, and existential struggles that accompany the condition.Through raw and poetic storytelling, the author vividly illustrates the depths of despair, the weight of intrusive thoughts, and the const...

Growing Up Famous: The Psychological Complexity of Child Celebrities

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Report copyright infringementby Sophie Bradley (Author)Step Inside the Intricate World of Child CelebritiesAre you intrigued by the glitz and glamour of Hollywood? Do the tales of child stars navigating fame pique your curiosity? Then prepare to dive deep into an insightful exposé on the complex dynamics and psychological implications that childhood fame brings. Growing Up Famous: The Psychological Complexity of Child Celebrities illuminates the glamorous world of fame while delving deep int...

Circuitous: One Therapist's Unconventional Journey

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Report copyright infringementby Philip Grimes (Author)A graduate student in psychology never suspects falling in love would lead to an even steeper fall into despair. With a taste of depression previously known to him only in textbooks, Philip, heart-broken over a failed romance with a fellow graduate student, struggles to emerge from a deep abyss, and filled with disenchantment, considers walking away entirely from becoming a therapist. And so begins a long and capricious journey of self-dis...

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Report copyright infringementby Ioakim Eleftheros (Author)What if you were told that the way you saw the world was completely wrong? For years, Ioakim Eleftheros heard voices giving him instructions. He believed that all conversations and encounters he had were being broadcast to the entire world. He relied on coincidence to make his decisions for him, confident that the universe was preparing him to take up his role as a messiah. He could never have imagined that the rest of humanity was liv...

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Report copyright infringementby Katandra Shanel Jackson (Author)Every ex is like a dealer serving my favorite brand of drug. They know what I like & how I like it and each is all too willing to give me what I want! It may seem free, the parting of legs, but it comes with a heavy price to pay... In your hands I'm a mess. My body screams for sex. And you are all too willing to oblige. My knees your body pry. As you thrust into that sacred part of me. This desire, this need, this addiction i...

Shamefully Vanished: A Memoir of a Girl Out of Control

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Report copyright infringementby Lena Ma (Author)At birth, no child says they plan to devastate their lives, but as time, circumstances, and the stressors of life mount, the pressures can become overwhelming. For Lena, nowhere was that truer than in her life. What began as a seemingly innocuous effort to quiet the chaos and gain control of one tiny facet of her life, soon spiraled into something bigger, much more harmful. When the anorexia could no longer maintain control, bulimia became the n...

Being the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are: The Science of a Better You

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Report copyright infringementby Jim Davies (Author)A crisp and sparkling blend of cognitive science and human behavior that offers meaningful and attainable pathways towards becoming our best selves. Why do we feel like in order to be productive, happy, or good, we must sacrifice everything else? Is it possible to feel all three at once? Without even knowing it, we're doing things everyday to sabotage ourselves and our societies, habits that prevent us from optimizing long term happiness. Wh...

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Report copyright infringementby Lily O'Neil (Author)Lily O'Neil grew up in what she always thought was a loving, middle class family. The youngest of three, she worked hard to become a lawyer and then settled down to raise a family. On the surface, everything seemed perfect, but deep down something was wrong - and always had been.When dissociated memories of being abused as a child surface in her early thirties, Lily thinks she's gone crazy. Searching for clarity, she confronts her family and...

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Report copyright infringementby Nancy Pizzo Boucher (Author) Number of Pages: 150 Dimensions: 0.35 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 10, 2010

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Report copyright infringementby Tony Gallagher (Author)Beachside Como and South Perth in the 1950s and 60s - the time and place of my early life. Then, even more than now, Perth's remoteness gave its citizens a distinctive independent spirit.To guide you to that distant time and place, I write as wholeheartedly as I can - of Perth, the city of my youth, as well as the events, people, songs and movies that moulded me. That said, the biggest influence in the making of this Perth boy was my dad....

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Report copyright infringementby Joan Rachel Maydet (Author)"She had choices she had freedomShe had hope and so much moreAnd never will she returnTo the embers and ashes she was before"This book is my mental health recovery journey told in verse covering the years from 2019-2024. This is just the beginning of my journey, and as you will witness, the journey is far from linear. Number of Pages: 172 Dimensions: 0.37 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 17, ...

The Trauma Banquet: Eating Pain - Feasting on Life

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Report copyright infringementby Kenneth Pakenham (Author)The truth about how to overcome adversity, with a foreword by Professor Steven Hayes, author of The Liberated Mind and originator of acceptance and commitment therapy, The Trauma Banquet gives raw insights into how to build personal resilience in the face of lingering trauma.At the heart of this memoir is the liberating and inspirational message: eating pain is empowering. As a professor and educator of clinical psychology with 38 years...

A Dictionary of Symbols: Revised and Expanded Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Juan Eduardo Cirlot (Author), Jack Sage (Translator), Valerie Miles (Translator)A classic encyclopedia of symbols by Catalan polymath Joan Cirlot that illuminates the symbolic underpinnings of myth, modern psychology, literature, and art. Juan Eduardo Cirlot's A Dictionary of Symbols is a feat of scholarship, an act of the imagination, and a tool for contemplation, as well as a work of literature, a reference book that is as indispensable as it is brilliant and...

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Report copyright infringementby Sebastian Junger (Author)We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival. Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin lamented that English settlers were constantly fleeing over to the Indians-but Indians almost never did the same. Tribal society has been exerting a...

Summerlands: A Personal Journey around the Underworld of the Glastonbury Zodiac

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Report copyright infringementby Jenny Chapman (Author)In the ﬁnal instalment of her well-received Two White Feathers trilogy, Jenny Chapman describes a personal journey around the landscape of the Glastonbury Zodiac. Starting at the Girt Dog of Langport and reaching to Burrow Mump, she immerses herself in each of the astrological signs and their giant eﬃ gies imprinted on the Somerset landscape. The resulting story is a fascinating insight into how to heal childhood trauma and grief, and the ...

Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships

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Report copyright infringementby Sue Johnson (Author)The bestselling author of Hold Me Tight presents a revolutionary new understanding of why and how we love, based on cutting-edge research. Every day, we hear of relationships failing and questions of whether humans are meant to be monogamous. Love Sense presents new scientific evidence that tells us that humans are meant to mate for life. Dr. Johnson explains that romantic love is an attachment bond, just like that between mother and child, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Joanna Joustra (Author)The Thinking Room is an accessible, grounded exploration of how the mind, body, and inner world work together, especially under pressure. It explains why the mind loops, why the body tightens before you've had time to think, and why insight alone often doesn't change how things feel in the moment.Using the metaphor of an inner room, the book shows how sensation, prediction, memory, and meaning shape experience and how noticing offers a pr...

Wounded For My Destiny: A Wounded Warrior Overcomes Survivor's Guilt: Manifesting Love

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Report copyright infringementby Tiffany Denmark (Author), William J. Belle (Contribution by)A Military Veteran Story: Have you ever experienced Family Betrayal? Has money that rightfully belongs to you ever been wrongly taken away? Has the law of attraction worked in your life? Have you or a loved one suffered a serious injury and find it difficult to cope? Would you like to be inspired by a story on manifesting love and connecting with a soulmate? William J. Belle was a sergeant in the U.S. ...

Children Belong in Families, Second Edition: A Remarkable Journey Towards Global Change

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Report copyright infringementby Mick Pease (Author), Philip Williams (Author), Caroline Cox (Foreword by)For too long, the world's lonely and vulnerable children have been forgotten and ignored. Millions of children are abandoned for a life on the streets or live with unsafe families or in soulless institutions. Now the tide is turning. Pioneers like Mick Pease and his remarkable charity SFAC lead a global movement for change. This insightful and uplifting book takes us on a journey that span...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Hallsworth (Author), Elspeth Kirkman (Author)The definitive introduction to the behavioral insights approach, which applies evidence about human behavior to practical problems.Our behavior is strongly influenced by factors that lie outside our conscious awareness, although we tend to underestimate the power of this "automatic" side of our behavior. As a result, governments make ineffective policies, businesses create bad products, and individuals make u...

Reuniting with Mother: A Story of Tenacity

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Report copyright infringementby Grace Lajoy Henderson (Author)What happens when Grace LaJoy and her siblings come face-to-face with their estranged mother after 49 years? How does she receive them? Find out in Reuniting with Mother. Book 2 of 4 in the Finding Mother Series.Questions inspiring mental health discussion and Questions Teachers Can Ask to increase reading comprehension skills are included in the back of the book. Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.18 x 8.5...

A Gifted Child in Foster Care: Student Workbook - REVISED EDITION

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Report copyright infringementby Grace Lajoy Henderson (Author)The lessons in this workbook will improve reading comprehension for students, while changing attitudes and building character.Students will read the chapters in the nonfiction book, A Gifted Child in Foster Care: A Story of Resilience, individually or as a group. Then they will do the lessons from this workbook that coincides with each chapter. Number of Pages: 66 Dimensions: 0.14 x 11 x 8.5 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Thrall Chris (Author)Former commando Chris Thrall returned from a year in Hong Kong suffering severe psychosis from crystal meth addiction. The medical profession said recovery was unlikely and recommended admitting him to a psychiatric hospital.'There's nothing wrong with me!'Chris refused all intervention and his life descended into a chaotic cycle of drug use that almost killed him.Salvation came in a surprising form.***In this long-awaited follow-up to Eati...

Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence

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Report copyright infringementby Robin Karr-Morse (Author), Meredith S. Wiley (Author), T. Berry Brazelton (Introduction by)This new, revised edition incorporates significant advances in neurobiological research over the past decade, and includes a new introduction by Dr. Vincent J. Felitti, a leading researcher in the field. When Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence was published in 1997, it was lauded for providing scientific evidence that violence can originate in the womb...

The Mindful Way Workbook: An 8-Week Program to Free Yourself from Depression and Emotional Distress

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Report copyright infringementby John Teasdale (Author), Mark Williams (Author), Zindel Segal (Author)Imagine an 8-week program that can help you overcome depression, anxiety, and stress--by simply learning new ways to respond to your own thoughts and feelings. That program is mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), and it has been tested and proven effective in clinical trials throughout the world. Now you can get the benefits of MBCT any time, any place, by working through this carefully...

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Report copyright infringementby Robyn Wheeler (Author)Just Call Me Firebucket is a collection of my random thoughts. It contains some of the poems and blogs I have written during the years I struggled with depression, as well as some fun stories of things that have happened to me. It makes a great sequel to Born Mad; but if you haven't read Born Mad, you can still read Just Call Me Firebucket and it will make sense. You can also read Just Call Me Firebucket from any page. It does not have to ...

Befriend Your Brain: A Young Person's Guide to Dealing with Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers

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Report copyright infringementby Faith G. Harper (Author)Do you freak out at small things? Do you yell at people when you don't mean to? Do anxiety and depression sometimes get the better of you? Are you sad, angry, or grieving all the time? Our brains are doing their best to help us out, but sometimes we get hurt instead. With humor and patience, Dr. Faith shows you the science behind why your brain is acting up. You can train your brain to be your friend and help you live a happy, calm, and ...

Whose Coat is that Jacket Hanging on the Floor?: Stories of Welsh Mothers and their Lost Children

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Report copyright infringementby Lewis Thomas (Author)Whose Coat is that Jacket Hanging on the Floor? tells the stories of three Welsh mothers whose children were permanently removed from their care. In applying the term "maternal outcasts" to these mothers, Broadhurst and Mason (2013, p. 296) describe their situation as a "by-product of modern child protection systems that are adept at identifying and safeguarding many children, but less able to respond to the continuing needs of parents". "C...

Escaping God Through Oklahoma: Satan, the Exclusive Brethren and Surviving Excommunication

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Report copyright infringementby Stafford Ray (Author)This story is told through a series of sessions with a psychiatrist as an older man come to terms with damage to himself by others, and to others by himself as a co-dependent sex addict.Brought up in the Exclusive Brethren sect, frequently belted with a leather strap to exorcise Satan, where sex is only ever explained in terms of sin and damnation, the young child is exposed to sexual experiences and information that he had no tools to proc...

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Report copyright infringementby Tammy Casselson (Author), Anastasia Sagris-Desmond (Author)The Grimmest of Fairy Tales, a collaboration between Tammy Casselson and Anastasia Sagris-Desmond, combines lived experience and professional voices to elevate, amplify and legitimise Family Violence survivors' experience (in particular coercive control) so that it is seen and heard.Tammy shares a harrowing, and sadly too familiar, story of a promised fairy tale life that turned into a complete nightmar...