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Anyone attempting to identify the thread that runs through the writings of the late Erich Fromm (1900-1980) will soon discover an unequivocally humanistic worldview. This was Fromm's guiding principle. From the 1930s on it signified his break with the Institute for Social Research, and marked his disputes with Marcuse, Horkheimer, and Adorno. Fromm himself frequently refers in his writings to the humanistic aspect of man: humanistic science, humanistic...
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This book is a continuation of my 'Motivation and Personality', published in 1954. It was, constructed in about the same way, that is, by doing one piece at a time of the larger theoretical structure. It is a predecessor to work yet to be done toward the construction of a comprehensive, systematic and empirically based general psychology and philosophy, which includes both the depths and the heights of human nature. The last chapter is to some extent...
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In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. But recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education has gone disturbingly awry in the United States and abroad. We increasingly...
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A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life--and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds. What is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this approach to education is all but extinct in American universities, replaced by flexible distribution requirements and ever-narrower academic specialization....
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The Story of Nothing is a collection of musings, epiphanies, and psychological breakthroughs gathered and compiled on a three-year journey. Across the cliffs of Ireland, along the coasts of France, amongst the fields of the American Midwest, and through the vast and awe-inspiring deserts of Saudi Arabia, these beautiful and varied landscapes were the very muses that inspired this author to take the journey inward into the complex and often shadowed...
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"... El libro está dirigido a quienes han estudiado psicología y quieren profundizar en cómo aprender a hacer de la psicoterapia una experiencia de sanación y crecimiento. El valor de su contenido lo irás descubriendo en la medida que te conectes con cada uno de los temas que se exponen. Si bien se basa en la teoría del Enfoque Humanista Experiencial es una obra que expresa, desde la propia experiencia del autor, cada elemento que es relevante...
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The present paper is an attempt to formulate a positive theory of motivation, which will satisfy these theoretical demands and at the same time conform to the known facts, clinical and observational as well as experimental. It derives most directly, however, from clinical experience. This theory is, I think, in the functionalist tradition of James and Dewey, and is, fused with the holism of Wertheimer, Goldstein, and Gestalt Psychology, and with the...
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Modern science has proved that the fundamental traits of every individual are indelibly stamped in the shape of his body, head, face and hands-an X-ray by which you can read the characteristics of any person on sight.
The most essential thing in the world to any individual is to understand himself. The next is to understand the other fellow. For life is largely a problem of running your own car as it was built to be run, plus getting along with...
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Die Wahrheit über die Lüge 'Das war ich nicht', 'Ich stand im Stau', 'Die Rente ist sicher' – bis zu 200-mal am Tag werden wir belogen, sind aber nicht in der Lage, Lügen auch als solche zu erkennen. Jack Nasher, Wirtschaftspsychologe und Mentalist, zeigt auf eindrucksvolle Weise, wie man in kürzester Zeit Lügen durchschauen und die Wahrheit herausfinden kann. Ungelogen! Die häufigste aller Lügen besteht aus nur zwei Worten: 'Danke, gut.'...
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Zwischen Wahn und Hoffnung Ein kämpferischer Text über den Zustand der Zeit. Und darüber, wie wir leben wollen. Wie wollen wir eigentlich leben? Nach zwei Jahren Pandemie, in zermürbten Gesellschaften, verformten Demokratien, polarisierten Debatten, erschöpfen Volkswirtschaften und eingeschränkten Freiheitsrechten, liegt diese Frage mitten auf dem europäischen Tisch! Ulrike Guérot hat ein wütendes Essay für all diejenigen geschrieben, die...
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Cutting edge volume devoted to optimal adult development.
Post conventional stages of personality development involve growth well beyond the average, and have become a rapidly growing subject of research not only in developmental psychology circles, but also in areas such as executive leadership development. The present work is the first to bring together many of the major researchers in the field, showcasing diverse perspectives ranging from the...
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American psychologist, Paul Vitz, was a pioneer critic of the 'me, me, me' generation and humanistic psychology which flourished alongside it. He stands out because of the cultural, psychological and spiritual depth of his critique. Mythbusters are rare and Vitz is a mythbuster par excellence, tearing apart several generations of selfism with insight, wisdom and wit. Other critiques came much later. He saw it all at the time.
This book takes the...
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The definitive overview of this transformative breathwork.
In this long awaited book, Stanislav Grof and Christina Grof describe their groundbreaking new form of self-exploration and psychotherapy: Holotropic Breathwork. Holotropic means 'moving toward wholeness,' from the Greek holos ( whole) and trepein (moving in the direction of). The breathwork utilizes the remarkable healing and transformative potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness....
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Este es un libro acerca de la cotidianeidad de la muerte, en su vertiente dramática y escandalosa, por un lado, y en su vertiente natural o "familiar", por el otro. El cuerpo, ese poderoso regidor de nuestro destino, emerge en estas páginas en primer plano. Desfilan los pacientes con sus temores y dan testimonio de sus sufrimientos e ideas. El mundo de las representaciones frente a la muerte, el campo de los afectos donde la angustia juega un rol...
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In Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, the bounds of reality are destroyed as Gregor Samsa awakens to a strange and unexplainable transformation into a grotesque beast. As he struggles with his new existence, Kafka goes into the depths of the human psyche, exploring the complexities of loneliness, duty, and isolation from society.
This fascinating story questions traditional conceptions of identification and belonging, drawing readers into a bizarre...
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Active Mind/Receptive Mind: The Journey of Mindfulness is designed to provide readers with a comprehensive introduction to mindfulness and its relationship to constructive action. It also provides readers with a systematic comparison between Eastern and Western models of mindfulness and in-depth instructions for "holding" and transcending negative psychological states. The book serves as a resource for academics, psychotherapists, and for those who...
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In a waking dream, we inhabit the dreamworld with an awareness of doing so-as sometimes happens upon waking from sleep when a dream continues to feel present alongside an awareness of lying in bed.
Taking perspectives from transpersonal psychology, ecotherapy, complexity theory, and fractal geometry, this book develops new possibilities within waking dream practice (also known as, "active imagination" and "guided imagery") to show:
• how the in-between...
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