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  1. Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind
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  2. Growing Up
    by Frank C. Strasburger
  3. Extreme Fear: The Science of Your Mind in Danger
    by Jeff Wise
  4. Weathering the Storms: Psychotherapy for Psychosis
    by Murray Jackson
  5. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
    by Nancy McWilliams

Psychology

  1. Schizophrenia

    Man has long searched For The cause and meaning of mental illness. This book attempts to answer those questions. The author/compiler has spent 36 years investigating these problems and his conclusion is that severe unconscious bisexual conflict and... (read more)

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  2. The Power of Habit

    A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally... (read more)

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  3. The Scientific American Healthy Aging Brain

    Praise for The Scientific American Healthy Aging Brain "Judith Horstman elegantly describes the well-aged brain and what the latest research suggests to preserve its power and its function."––Mehmet Oz, MD, professor of surgery, New York... (read more)

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  4. Ecotherapy

    In the 14 years since Sierra Club Books published Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes, and Allen D. Kanner's groundbreaking anthology, Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind, the editors of this new volume have often been asked: Where can I find... (read more)

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  5. Growing Up

    How do we become adults? Is it by moving out of our parents' house? Earning an independent income? Getting married? Having children? Buying a house? Those are the benchmarks most of us use, but Growing Up suggests that maturity is more about qualities of... (read more)

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  6. The Other Side of Normal

    In this enthralling work of popular science, respected Harvard psychiatrist Jordan Smoller addresses one of humankind's most enduring and perplexing questions: What does it mean to be normal? In The Other Side of Normal, Smoller explores the biological... (read more)

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  7. Perfect Chaos

    A dual memoir of a mother's and daughter's triumph over mental illness The Johnsons--mother, father, and two daughters--were a loving, and close Seattle family. Then the younger daughter Linea started experiencing crippling bouts of suicidal depression... (read more)

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  8. Quiet

    At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although... (read more)

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  9. The Invisible Partners

    Expounding on the Jungian concept that the human soul has both male and female dimensions, the author describes how male-female relationships are influenced by, and must take into account, the feminine part of a man and the masculine part of a... (read more)

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  10. How Children Become Violent

    Argues that children who are exposed to violence and are neglected and abused in their early years are more prone to commite violent acts.... (read more)

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  11. Extreme Fear

    Ever since the phrase fight or flight was coined in the 1920s, the common understanding has been that the mind respond to danger in one of two ways - either fleeing in blind panic, or fighting through it. But as scientists unlock the secrets of the human... (read more)

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  12. The Client's Guide to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

    Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is a very instructional approach to therapy. CBT gives the client the skills and confidence they need to continue doing well in their therapy program. For those participating in CBT, The Client's Guide to Cognitive... (read more)

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  13. Leaders, Fools and Impostors

    In this book of insightful essays, Kets de Vries explodes the myth that rationality is what governs the behavior of leaders and followers, and he provides a more realistic perspective on organizational functioning and the leader-follower relationship... (read more)

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  14. Psicoterapia de grupo

    Psicoterapia de grupo: ejercicios a la mano es una serie de tres vol menes que provee enfoques concisos, creativos y sistem ticos para principiantes y profesionales experimentados que practiquen sesiones de psicoterapia de grupo. Los modelos de sesi n de... (read more)

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  15. Bambini psico programmati

    Con l'avvento della televisione e la successiva diffusione del computer e dei videogiochi la realtA dei bambini e significativamente cambiata. Questo libro spiega come e cambiata. Oggi molti genitori, pedagogisti ed educatori esprimono preoccupazione per... (read more)

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  16. Human Error

    James Reason has produced a major theoretical integration of several previously isolated literatures in his new book Human Error. Much of the theoretical structure is new and original. Particularly important is the identification of cognitive processes... (read more)

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  17. Speaking the Unspeakable

    Are dual relationships always detrimental?Speaking the Unspeakableprovides an in-depth exploration of client-practitioner dual relationships, offering critical discussion and sustained narrative on thinking about and being in dual relationships. Lynne... (read more)

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  18. Make a Difference

    Do you want to achieve excellence? Would you enjoy having happier, healthier relationships with those around you? Do you want to make a difference in the lives of others? Are you ready to grow on a personal level? Achieving excellence requires a... (read more)

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  19. Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans

    A microcosm of exaggerated societal extremes-poverty and wealth, vice and virtue, elitism and equality-New Orleans is a tangled web of race, cultural mores, and sexual identities. Jennifer Spear's examination of the dialectical relationship between... (read more)

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  20. CONCEPTUAL TRANSFER IN THE BILINGUAL MENTAL LEXICON

    Combining theory, psychological tests, and corpus, this book is an interdisciplinary study of the conceptual transfer of abstract nouns in the bilingual mental lexicon of professional translators, a treatise in philosophical linguistics, and a challenger... (read more)

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