Geistige Gesundheit

We can shift our perspective and change our world.Life can be exceptionally gratifying when we realize that our thoughts create our interactions and our interactions create our relationships. To truly relate is what living is all about.This book is meant as a seed. Its message offers inspiration for living an authentic and transparent life. As a resource for life, it unites what is seen as separate and heals what is wounded.Readers will learn how to transform: Pain into purpose Conflict into confidence Fear into curiosityThese are the shifts we can make to build a better life and a better world in which to live.

Program your brain and mind for greater success.

The only book written by therapists directly focusing on the dilemma of parenting children so as to minimize the negative effects of a narcissistic or borderline parent-partner. It provides strength, encouragement, and reassurance, and teaches effective parenting methods, while keeping the focus on increasing compassion and resilience.

Why we learn the wrong things from narrative history, and how our love for stories is hard-wired.To understand something, you need to know its history. Right? Wrong, says Alex Rosenberg in How History Gets Things Wrong. Feeling especially well-informed after reading a book of popular history on the best-seller list? Don't. Narrative history is always, always wrong. It's not just incomplete or inaccurate but deeply wrong, as wrong as Ptolemaic astronomy. We no longer believe that the earth is the center of the universe. Why do we still believe in historical narrative? Our attachment to history as a vehicle for understanding has a long Darwinian pedigree and a genetic basis. Our love of stories is hard-wired. Neuroscience reveals that human evolution shaped a tool useful for survival into a defective theory of human nature. Stories historians tell, Rosenberg continues, are not only wrong but harmful. Israel and Palestine, for example, have dueling narratives of dispossession that prevent one side from compromising with the other. Henry Kissinger applied lessons drawn from the Congress of Vienna to American foreign policy with disastrous results. Human evolution improved primate mind reading—the ability to anticipate the behavior of others, whether predators, prey, or cooperators—to get us to the top of the African food chain. Now, however, this hard-wired capacity makes us think we can understand history—what the Kaiser was thinking in 1914, why Hitler declared war on the United States—by uncovering the narratives of what happened and why. In fact, Rosenberg argues, we will only understand history if we don't make it into a story.

Do you find it hard to start a conversation and even harder maintaining it? Or maybe you feel like speechless and run out of words each time you meet new people? What if tell you that there is nothing wrong with you? What if I tell you that mastering conversations is a skill and you can easily acquire it? Those people you see acting with confidence and smoothly leading conversations are not born with that. In fact, many of the famous conservationists were at one point dead loss in conversations. Look, If you feel like the questions above somehow relate to you, I'd like to warmly welcome you and congratulate you. Lucky you! You have just stumbled onto the best resource to master conversations. In this book, I will walk you through some of the best tips and tricks that helped me personally strike up any conversations with anyone, anytime and anywhere. Here is the deal, In the book, you won't find me talking about some rocket science stuff or very complicated advice. No. I will simply outline some of the techniques I personally used and had so much success with. I will show you how you can easily start a conversation and break that uncomfortable ice. I will then walk you through the best ways to successfully maintain it. And how to make people cling you you like crazy. And most importantly, I will show you how to do all of that, without doing much of the talking and at times, without uttering a single word. If you are ready to change your social life, I am here to help.

'A rich and powerful pathway to a fully human spiritual life… Excellent… please read it.'JOHN BRADSHAWCarl Gustav Jung described the addict's craving as a 'thirst for wholeness.' Christina Grof, a pioneer in the transpersonal p

The author explains how alcoholism can be diagnosed and understood by professionals and the lay person; by examining the detailed case histories of Jung, the author gives graphic examples of its psychological and behavioural manifestations.

"A Natural History of Human Morality" offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral psychology. Based on extensive experimental data comparing great apes and human children, Michael Tomasello reconstructs how early humans gradually became an ultra-cooperative and, eventually, a moral species. There were two key evolutionary steps, each founded on a new way that individuals could act together as a plural agent "we". The first step occurred as ecological challenges forced early humans to forage together collaboratively or die. To coordinate these collaborative activities, humans evolved cognitive skills of joint intentionality, ensuring that both partners knew together the normative standards governing each role. To reduce risk, individuals could make an explicit joint commitment that "we" forage together and share the spoils together as equally deserving partners, based on shared senses of trust, respect, and responsibility. The second step occurred as human populations grew and the division of labor became more complex. Distinct cultural groups emerged that demanded from members loyalty, conformity, and cultural identity. In becoming members of a new cultural "we", modern humans evolved cognitive skills of collective intentionality, resulting in culturally created and objectified norms of right and wrong that everyone in the group saw as legitimate morals for anyone who would be one of "us". As a result of this two-stage process, contemporary humans possess both a second-personal morality for face-to-face engagement with individuals and a group-minded "objective" morality that obliges them to the moral community as a whole.

Revision of: Understanding and treating sex addiction / Paul Hall. 2013.

Guddommelige Samtaler er en bog, der handler om samtaler mellem Lisbeth Munk Ralsted og hendes afdøde mor Aase Munk Ralsted. Aase Munk Ralsted døde i 2008 af kræft i hjernen. Den kræftsygdom som betegnes Glioblastom. Bogen fortæller om hendes liv som hun ser det nu fra den anden side, den fortæller om hendes tanker og følelser mens hun levede og om årsagen til hendes sygdom. Hun fotæller om det ansvar vi har hver især til hinanden mens vi lever og om hvor meget det betyder for at vi lytter godt efter os selv. Hun ønsker at viderebringe, oplysning om, at frygt, vrede og sorg er meget store følelser, som har en meget stor kraft i at få celler til at dele sig i en uhensigtsmæssig retning. Bogen skildrer at tanker har kraft, at tanker skaber følelser og disse følelser kan sætte sig til sygdom hvis de ikke bearbejdes, og at forskellige følelser knytter sig til bestemte områder i vores krop. Aase Munk Ralsted beskriver livet efter døden, at døden ikke eksisterer, men kun er en port til en anden verden. Bogen henvender sig til dig, der er interesseret i at vide mere om livet efter døden, den henvender sig til dig, der har mistet, til dig der ser at sygdom er noget vi selv skaber og med de rette betingelser og hjælp, kan vi også selv gøre noget ved den langt hen ad vejen. Den henvender sig til dig, der mærker at Gudommelige Samtaler er en bog, der taler til hjertet i dig. Bogen er en spirituel lærebog, der lægger op til kommende foredrag om kontakt til den anden verden, til spirituel sygdomslære, til psykisk vold og om efterlivet på mange planer.

Born in the projects of Spanish Harlem to a disabled mother and an abusive father, Steve DeMasco spent most of his childhood lost and angry. Drifting from one job to another, he stalked the streets as a troubled youth, barely surviving while all of his peers were either dead or in jail, until he found himself on the steps of the Shaolin Temple.Originating more than 1,500 years ago in ancient China, the Shaolin monks were simple farmers and worshippers of Buddhism who learned to protect themselves from the constant danger of bandits and overlords with a kind of "meditation in motion," a nonlethal form of self-defense that didn't violate their vows of peace. As their legend grew, they became known as the Shaolin Fighting Monks, revered across the land for their spiritual dedication, enlightened message, and amazing fighting skills.DeMasco entered the Shaolin Temple to battle the demons of his past. But he got more than he bargained for. Besides learning how to wield weapons and take on multiple attackers at once, he discovered an ancient philosophy that helped melt away preconceived notions of the world, and gave him a powerful platform on which to live and grow. In The Shaolin Way, he adapts these teachings for the modern world, singling out ten secrets of survival that can help anyone live a more fulfilled life.

According to many clinical psychologists, when the mind is forced to endure a horrifying experience, it has the ability to bury the entire memory of it so deeply within the unconscious that it can only be recalled in the form of a flashback triggered by a sight, a smell, or a sound. Indeed, therapists and lawyers have created an industry based on treating and litigating the cases of people who suddenly claim to have "recovered" memories of everything from child abuse to murder.This book reveals that despite decades of research, there is absolutely no controlled scientific support for the idea that memories of trauma are routinely banished into the unconscious and then reliably recovered years later. Since it is not actually a legitimate psychological phenomenon, the idea of "recovered memory"--and the movement that has developed alongside it--is thus closer to a dangerous fad or trendy witch hunt.

The Life of Dad, written by the renowned author Anna Machin, is a captivating book that takes you on a journey through fatherhood like never before. Published by Simon & Schuster Ltd in 2018, this book falls under the genre of non-fiction and explores the biological, psychological, and sociological aspects of fatherhood. Machin's insightful writing style and in-depth research make this book a must-read for all dads and dads-to-be. The Life of Dad is not just a book, but a celebration of fatherhood, beautifully penned down by Anna Machin and brought to life by Simon & Schuster Ltd.

Compelling memoir of a young man who emerged from the darkness of being locked into his body after doctors had given up on him

Offers an exploration of athletic success. This book shows why some skills that we imagine are innate are not - like the bullet-fast reactions of a baseball player - and why other characteristics that we assume are entirely voluntary, like the motivation to practice, might in fact have important genetic components.

This is the sourcebook for one of the most significant movements in twentieth-century psychology.

Alicia Juarrero argues that a mistaken, 350-year-old model of cause and explanation--one that takes all causes to be of the push-pull, efficient cause sort, and all explanation to be prooflike--underlies contemporary theories of action.

A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind-our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions-and how mind and brain relate to art. At the turn of the century, Vienna was the cultural capital of Europe. Artists and scientists met in glittering salons, where they freely exchanged ideas that led to revolutionary breakthroughs in psychology, brain science, literature, and art. Kandel takes us into the world of Vienna to trace, in rich and rewarding detail, the ideas and advances made then, and their enduring influence today. The Vienna School of Medicine led the way with its realization that truth lies hidden beneath the surface. That principle infused Viennese culture and strongly influenced the other pioneers of Vienna 1900. Sigmund Freud shocked the world with his insights into how our everyday unconscious aggressive and erotic desires are repressed and disguised in symbols, dreams, and behavior. Arthur Schnitzler revealed women's unconscious sexuality in his novels through his innovative use of the interior monologue. Gustav Klimt, Oscar Kokoschka, and Egon Schiele created startlingly evocative and honest portraits that expressed unconscious lust, desire, anxiety, and the fear of death. Kandel tells the story of how these pioneers-Freud, Schnitzler, Klimt, Kokoschka, and Schiele-inspired by the Vienna School of Medicine, in turn influenced the founders of the Vienna School of Art History to ask pivotal questions such as What does the viewer bring to a work of art? How does the beholder respond to it? These questions prompted new and ongoing discoveries in psychology and brain biology, leading to revelations about how we see and perceive, how we think and feel, and how we respond to and create works of art. Kandel, one of the leading scientific thinkers of our time, places these five innovators in the context of today's cutting-edge science and gives us a new understanding of the modernist art of Klimt, Kokoschka, and Schiele, as well as the school of thought of Freud and Schnitzler. Reinvigorating the intellectual enquiry that began in Vienna 1900, The Age of Insight is a wonderfully written, superbly researched, and beautifully illustrated book that also provides a foundation for future work in neuroscience and the humanities. It is an extraordinary book from an international leader in neuroscience and intellectual history.