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A huge majority of people at the end of their lives want to die at home, but only a small number manage to do this. This vital book asks why. Many of us have experienced an elderly loved one coming to the end of their life in a hospital-over-treated, infantilized, and, worst of all, facing a death without dignity. Families are being herded into making decisions that are not to the benefit of the patient. Professor Ken Hillman has worked in intensive...
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Combining the analytical tools of cinema studies with insights from clinical practice focused on eating disorders, Body Shots offers a compelling case for widespread media literacy to combat the effects of the "eating disordered culture" represented in Hollywood productions and popular images of celebrity life.
How do movie star bodies and celebrity culture influence the way real girls and women feel about their own size and shape? What effect can...
9203) El romántico incurable
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Three friends learn that always trying to top each other's stories isn't the best way for a friendship to grow.
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"Anger Management" serves as your roadmap to understanding, addressing, and transforming the powerful emotion of anger into a constructive force in your life. This practical guide offers strategies and techniques for managing anger in various situations, providing insights into its root causes and empowering you to navigate challenging emotions effectively.
• Understanding Anger: Gain insights into the nature of anger, exploring its triggers and...
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This book explores the profound impact of sound and music on our well-being, cognitive function, and overall health. Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience, the authors delve into how auditory experiences can influence the brain and body.The book covers a range of topics, including the therapeutic use of music, the effects of sound on stress reduction, and the potential for harnessing the power of sound to enhance learning and cognitive abilities....
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COVID-19: Illness & Illumination, A Hypnotic Exploration recognizes the 2020 pandemic as a cultural, political, and ecological event whose implications go far beyond illness. The author is a physicist, researcher, psychotherapist, and hypnotherapist, who was, infected with the virus and is still, working to recover, six months later. He knows the virus from many angles.
The virus's most lethal aspect is through our own autoimmune reaction to it. The...
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Companionship for the lifelong journey of recovery
In Addiction and Recovery: A Spiritual Pilgrimage, Martha Postlethwaite, pastor and a person in recovery-reflects on her pilgrimage of healing through valleys of despair and vistas of resurrection.
Addiction and Recovery is not just Postlethwaite's story, though. She also draws on the wisdom of pilgrims who have walked other paths to explore themes such as surrender, truth telling, shame, powerlessness,...
9208) Escape Velocity
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Escape Velocity: Ignite Your Inner Drive and Propel Yourself to Greatness" is a transformative guide that empowers readers to tap into their untapped potential and achieve extraordinary success. Drawing on the principles of personal development, this book provides practical strategies, insightful advice, and inspiring stories to help individuals unleash their true potential and propel themselves towards greatness. Whether you're seeking professional...
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Sigmund Freud (1856-1938) emploie pour la première fois le terme de psychanalyse en 1896. Mais la naissance de la psychanalyse elle-même date de 1897, au moment du renoncement à la théorie traumatique, de la découverte du fantasme et du complexe d'Œdipe.
Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur L'Interprétation des rêves de Sigmund...
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In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a popular belief system known as Spiritualism took the world by storm. People sought other realms of existence through mediums, séances, and other parapsychological means. While many of popular figures in the Spiritualist world were proven to be frauds, their practices have left their mark-in entertainment, in popular culture, and on true believers. This comprehensive title dives into the spirit world to...
9211) The Gratitude Effect
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Would you like to go to the next quantum level beyond the world of simply "positive thinking?"
Are you ready to experience new levels of inspiration, creativity, and achievement?
Well, now you can!
Let The Gratitude Effect open your heart, inspire your mind, awaken your inner powers and hidden seeds of greatness. Allow it to help you break through any limiting beliefs and guide you to a more empowered life filled with deeper meaning and awareness.
One...
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Above all this volume is intended to be fun, instructive and motivating. Just like an anthology, this little book catalogues quotes from famous celebrities and successful entrepreneurs for you to read each day in order to stay motivated and proactive. Reading it as much as possible, sometimes several times a day, will allow you to stay focused on your goals and keep up your positive thinking. Pick it up when you have lost your motivation so you can...
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Life goes on, more or less as expected until, out of the blue, something happens that requires a change of course. In the early 1920's the famous psychologist Carl Gustav Jung became aware of the frequency of events in the lives of his clients in which he sensed an uncanny connection of the inner, unconscious world, with the outer, conscious world. In 1951, Jung formally introduced the word "synchronicity" to describe the phenomenon of a coincidence...
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Have you ever met someone and felt an instant sense of attraction or repulsion even though you do not know the person? In Depth Psychology this is an unconscious as well as alchemical reaction that is understood as part of psychic projective phenomena of affinity, where a constellated chemistry between two individuals is ignited. This phenomenon was understood by Jung mythically as the unio Mystica, or the union of opposites.This presentation will...
9215) Pensando Ulloa
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Pensando Ulloa es la colección de experiencias llevadas a la escritura de quienes intentamos dar cuenta de la aventura de pensar Ulloa sin traicionar ni la aventura, ni el pensamiento. ¿Cómo hacerlo? Debatir, acordar, ¿escribir? Conversamos mucho sobre la posibilidad o imposibilidad de transmitir el efecto Ulloa. Apostamos a la posibilidad.
Fueron convocados quienes sabíamos habían trabajado con él en algunos de los diversos campos en que...
9216) Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots: A History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
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In the first half of the nineteenth century, treatment of the mentally ill in Britain and Ireland underwent radical change. No longer manacled, chained and treated like wild animals, was patient care defined in law and medical understanding, and treatment of insanity developed.
Focusing on selected cases, this new study enables the reader to understand how progressively advancing attitudes and expectations affected decisions, leading to better legislation...
9217) How to Hypnotize People Easily and Effectively: Advanced Techniques for Hypnosis and Influence
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Do you have a good grasp of the basics of hypnosis but are unsure where to go from there? Do you want to polish your skills so that you have more success with your inductions? Have you ever wanted to be a better communicator? If the answer to any of those is a yes, then this is the book for you. If you want to learn advanced hypnosis techniques as well as conversational hypnosis for better influence and persuasion you have the right book. With this...
9218) L'amour de soi
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Peut-on aimer sans s'aimer?
Peut-on s'aimer sans être égoïste?
L'amour de soi, traité dans ce livre, se distingue nettement de l'égoïsme et de l'égocentrisme. En effet, vous aimer, ce n'est pas manquer d'attention, de considération, de compassion envers les autres, c'est tout simplement prendre soin de vous d'abord pour mieux prendre soin des autres ensuite.
Vous aimer, c'est apprendre à vous connaître, à vous respecter et à vous accorder...
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In exploring her father's own gambling addiction, the author uncovers a hidden history of gambling in the Jewish community.
Screening calls from her father's creditors, hiding his mail from her mother-being the child of a compulsive gambler wasn't easy, and Annette B. Dunlap thought for years that her experience was a singular one. In early adulthood, she was fortunate enough to learn that she was not unique, that other children had grown up with...
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Why do most of us enjoy being alive? Psychologist Dr. C A Soper argues that a zest for life evolved as a survival necessity, ultimately because our species and ours alone, has to live with the possibility of suicide. Suicide may have been our ancestors' most formative evolutionary problem, solutions to which have shaped the construction of the human mind and touch on almost every aspect of our day-to-day experience. The emergence of anti-suicide defenses...
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