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Chris Lewis

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Book reviews by Chris Lewis

How to Be an Adult

How to Be an Adult

by David Richo

Using the metaphor of the heroic journey, the author shows readers the way to psychological and spiritual health.

Genre: Psychology | publisher: Paulist Press | Pages: 144
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The Wounded Heart

The Wounded Heart

by Dan B. Allender

A non-discriminating guide for friends of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse offers specific insights into the trauma form's intensely personal aspects and how to offer faith-based support, sharing additional coverage of related false-memory issues.

Genre: Family & Relationships | publisher: Navpress Publishing Group | Pages: 271
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The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

by John Mordechai Gottman, Nan Silver,

Drawing on research into the dynamics of healthy relationships, a study of the basic principles that make up a long-lasting marriage shares advice on how to cope with such issues as work, children, money, sex, and stress.

Genre: Family & Relationships | publisher: Harmony Books | Pages: 271
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Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child

Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child

by John Mordechai Gottman, Joan Declaire,

With a foreword by the author of Emotional Intelligence, a guide based on the principles of the best-seller offers parents an easy, effective five-step program to raising emotionally healthy children. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Genre: Family & Relationships | publisher: Simon and Schuster | Pages: 240
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Practicing Resurrection

Practicing Resurrection

by Nora Gallagher

The author of Things Seen and Unseen describes how the death of her beloved brother, Kit, prompted a spiritual crisis and the redemptive, harrowing, and unsettling process of discovery as she reexamined her marriage, work as a writer, the natural world, vocation, and a call to a deeper purpose. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Genre: Religion | publisher: Vintage Books | Pages: 240
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Motherless Daughters

Motherless Daughters

by Hope Edelman

The author joins with other women whose mothers died when they were young to discuss the lasting effects of this loss on their identity, family, relationships with others, and decisions in life. 60,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Genre: Family & Relationships | publisher: Da Capo Press | Pages: 390
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Everything Belongs

Everything Belongs

by Richard Rohr

Using Zen parables and personal experiences, Rohr leads readers beyond the techniques of prayer to a place where they can receive the gift of contemplation--and know that everything belongs.

Genre: Religion | publisher: Crossroad 8 Avenue | Pages: 186
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The Sky Is Falling!?!

The Sky Is Falling!?!

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A proposal for leadership communities to take new risks for the reign of God.

Genre: Leadership | publisher:  | Pages: 192
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How to Be an Adult in Relationships

How to Be an Adult in Relationships

by David Richo

"Most people think of love as a feeling," says David Richo, "but love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present." In this book, Richo offers a fresh perspective on love and relationships—one that focuses not on finding an ideal mate, but on becoming a more loving and realistic person. Drawing on the Buddhist concept of mindfulness, How to Be an Adult in Relationships explores five hallmarks of mindful loving and how they play a key role in our relationships throughout life: Attention to the present moment; observing, listening, and noticing all the feelings at play in our relationships. Acceptance of ourselves and others just as we are. Appreciation of all our gifts, our limits, our longings, and our poignant human predicament. Affection shown through holding and touching in respectful ways. Allowing life and love to be just as they are, with all their ecstasy and ache, without trying to take control. When deeply understood and applied, these five simple concepts—what Richo calls the five A's—form the basis of mature love. They help us to move away from judgment, fear, and blame to a position of openness, compassion, and realism about life and relationships. By giving and receiving these five A's, relationships become deeper and more meaningful, and they become a ground for personal transformation.

Genre: Psychology | publisher: Shambhala Publications | Pages: 243
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Addiction and Grace

Addiction and Grace

by Gerald G. May

Addiction and Grace offers an inspiring and hope–filled vision for those who desire to explore the mystery of who and what they really are. May examines the "processes of attachment" that lead to addiction and describes the relationship between addiction and spiritual awareness. He also details the various addictions from which we can suffer, not only to substances like alcohol and drugs, but to work, sex, performance, responsibility, and intimacy. Drawing on his experience as a psychiatrist working with the chemically dependent, May emphasizes that addiction represents an attempt to assert complete control over our lives. Addiction and Grace is a compassionate and wise treatment of a topic of major concern in these most addictive of times, one that can provide a critical yet hopeful guide to a place of freedom based on contemplative spirituality.

Genre: Self-Help | publisher: HarperOne | Pages: 240
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I Hate You-- Don't Leave Me

I Hate You-- Don't Leave Me

by Jerold Jay Kreisman, Hal Straus,

Revised and updated, the classic guide to understanding borderline personality disorder includes the latest research on the neurobiological, genetic and developmental roots of the disorder as well as connections with substance abuse, PTSD, ADHD and eating disorders. Original.

Genre: Psychology | publisher: Perigee Trade | Pages: 271
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A Shining Affliction

A Shining Affliction

by Annie G. Rogers

In the midst of her work with Ben, a severely disturbed five-year-old, Annie is hospitalized with her own breakdown and must finally uncover where her history of childhood terror overlaps with Ben's and learn how her work in the field of psychotherapy involves great risks and great gifts.

Genre: Psychology | publisher: Penguin | Pages: 322
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Intimacy & Desire

Intimacy & Desire

by David Schnarch

Many couples begin marital counseling with Dr. David Schnarch with their sex lives in shambles, wondering what's wrong with them, considering divorce. One partner will complain that the other doesn't desire him, the other complains that she's married to a sex maniac. During his 30 years in practice as a marriage and family therapist, Dr. Schnarch has discovered that sexual desire problems are normal and even healthy, in committed relationships.In Intimacy and Desire: Awaken the Passion in Your Relationship, Dr. Schnarch explains why couples in long term relationships have sexual desire problems, regardless of how much they love each other or how well they communicate. Through case studies of couples he worked with, Dr. Schnarch shows why normal marital conflict can be the cause of desire problems and creates a roadmap for how couples can transform marital conflict into a stronger relationship and a font of new and powerful desire for each other. He takes it a step further, giving readers simple but effective exercises that will help them reconnect with each other.

Genre: Family & Relationships | publisher: Beaufort Books | Pages: 428
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Passionate Marriage

Passionate Marriage

by David Morris Schnarch

Explains how to achieve emotional, sexual, and personal fulfillment and intimacy while in a committed relationship.

Genre: Family & Relationships | publisher: W. W. Norton | Pages: 444
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Intimate Allies

Intimate Allies

by Dan B. Allender, Tremper Longman, III,

Allendar has produced a book that looks at the deep underlying reasons for the unhappiness many people feel in marriage.

Genre: Family & Relationships | publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. | Pages: 364
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Hold Me Tight

Hold Me Tight

by Sue Johnson

Introduces the author's Emotionally Focused Therapy technique, explaining how to assist couples by treating their relationship as a love-based, attachment bond that can be healed through a reestablishment of safe emotional connections.

Genre: Family & Relationships | publisher: Little Brown & Company | Pages: 320
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Family Ties That Bind

Family Ties That Bind

by Ronald W. Richardson

Most people's lives are complicated by family relationships. Birth order, our parents' relationship, and the rules we were brought up with can affect our self-esteem and relationships with spouses, children, and other family members. Family of Origin therapy and techniques can help you create better relationships.

Genre: Family & Relationships | publisher: Self Counsel Press | Pages: 142
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Parenting from the Inside Out

Parenting from the Inside Out

by Daniel J. Siegel, Mary Hartzell,

Explores the extent to which childhood experiences shape the way people parent, and offers parents guidelines on how to raise compassionate and resilient children.

Genre: Family & Relationships | publisher: Penguin | Pages: 258
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How Children Raise Parents

How Children Raise Parents

by Dan B. Allender

A biblical approach to parenting allows readers to become better parents and better people who know God more fully and grow into spiritual maturity by listening to their children. Original.

Genre: Family & Relationships | publisher: WaterBrook Press | Pages: 223
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Our Babies, Ourselves

Our Babies, Ourselves

by Meredith F. Small

Contrasts Western child-rearing practices to those of other cultures, discussing the advantages of non-traditional feeding, sleeping, and adult interaction customs.

Genre: Family & Relationships | publisher: Anchor | Pages: 292
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Crossing the Unknown Sea

Crossing the Unknown Sea

by David Whyte

The best-selling author of The Heart Aroused assesses the workplace in terms of opportunity for rediscovering, shaping, and nurturing our personal lives, as he applies the stages of a holy pilgrimage to the process of seeking one's identity through work. Reprint.

Genre: Business & Economics | publisher: Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks) | Pages: 257
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Let your life speak

Let your life speak

by Parker J. Palmer

"Is the life I am living the same as the life that wants to live in me?" With this searching question, Parker Palmer begins an insightful and moving meditation on finding one's true calling. Let Your Life Speak is an openhearted gift to anyone who seeks to live authentically.The book's title is a time-honored Quaker admonition, usually taken to mean "Let the highest truths and values guide everything you do." But Palmer reinterprets those words, drawing on his own search for selfhood. "Before you tell your life what you intAnd to do with it," he writes, "listen for what it intAnds to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent."Vocation does not come from willfulness, no matter how noble one's intentions. It comes from listening to and accepting "true self" with its limits as well as its potentials. Sharing stories of frailty and strength, of darkness and light, Palmer shows that vocation is not a goal to be achieved but a gift to be received.As we live more deeply into the selfhood that is our birthright gift, we find not only personal fulfillment. We find communion with others and ways of serving the world's deepest needs.A Compassionate and Compelling Meditation on Discovering Your Path in LifeWith wisdom, compassion, and gentle humor, Parker J. Palmer invites us to listen to the inner teacher and follow its leadings toward a sense of meaning and purpose. Telling stories from his own life and the lives of others who have made a difference, he shares insights gained from darkness and depression as well as fulfillment and joy, illuminating a pathway toward vocation for all who seek the true calling of their lives."Parker Palmer's writing is like a high country stream-clear, vital, honest. If your life seems to be passing you by, or you cannot see the way ahead, immerse yourself in the wisdom of these pages and allow it

Genre: Education | publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub | Pages: 117
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Leading with a Limp

Leading with a Limp

by Dan B. Allender

Allender discusses what makes flawed leaders so successful. He asserts that God chooses leaders who arent deceived by the myths of power and control, but who realize that God s power is found in brokenness.

Genre: Religion | publisher:  | Pages: 206
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The Wounded Healer

The Wounded Healer

by Henri J. M. Nouwen

Defines the relevance and effectiveness of contemporary clergymen, and surveys methods for responding to the hedonism, and aimlessness of modern society.

Genre: Religion | publisher: Image | Pages: 100
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A Hidden Wholeness

A Hidden Wholeness

by Parker J. Palmer

In A Hidden Wholeness, Parker Palmer reveals the same compassionate intelligence and informed heart that shaped his best-selling books Let Your Life Speak and The Courage to Teach. Here he speaks to our yearning to live undivided lives—lives that are congruent with our inner truth—in a world filled with the forces of fragmentation. Mapping an inner journey that we take in solitude and in the company of others, Palmer describes a form of community that fits the limits of our active lives. Defining a “circle of trust” as “a space between us that honors the soul,” he shows how people in settings ranging from friendship to organizational life can support each other on the journey toward living “divided no more.” This paperback edition includes two new and useful features. Circles of Trust is a DVD containing interviews with Parker J. Palmer and footage from retreats he facilitated for the Center for Courage & Renewal (www.CourageRenewal.org). Bringing the Book to Life, by Caryl Hurtig Casbon and Sally Z. Hare, is a reader's and leader's guide to exploring the themes in A Hidden Wholeness. The DVD illuminates and illustrates the principles and practices behind circles of trust. The guide includes questions that connect the DVD to the book, offering "a conversation with the author" as well as an engagement with the text. Together, these features give readers new ways to internalize the themes of A Hidden Wholeness and share with others this approach to sustaining identity and integrity in all the venues of our lives. Inspired by Palmer’s writing and speaking—and challenged by the conditions of twenty-first century life—people across the country, from many walks of life, have been coming together in circles of trust to reclaim their integrity and help foster wholeness in their workplaces and their world. For over a decade, the principles and practices in this book have been proven on the ground—by parents and educators, clergy and politicians, community organizers and corporate executives, physicians and attorneys, and many others who seek to rejoin soul and role in their private and public lives. A Hidden Wholeness weaves together four themes that its author has pursued for forty years: the shape of an integral life, the meaning of community, teaching and learning for transformation, and nonviolent social change. The hundreds of thousands of people who know Parker Palmer’s books will be glad to find the journey continued

Genre: Religion | publisher: John Wiley & Sons | Pages: 272
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Holy Listening

Holy Listening

by Margaret Guenther

Margaret Guenther shares with the reader a loving and evocative meditation on the experience of spiritual direction from the perspective of a wise and hospitable spiritual director, who is also a woman, wife, mother, teacher, and priest.

Genre: Religion | publisher: Rowman & Littlefield | Pages: 146
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When the Heart Waits

When the Heart Waits

by Sue Monk Kidd

From the Bestselling Author of The Secret Life of Bees, an Inspiring Autobiographical Account of Personal Pain, Spiritual Awakening, and Divine Grace Blending her own experiences with an intimate grasp of spirituality, Sue Monk Kidd relates the passionate and moving tale of her spiritual crisis, when life seemed to have lost meaning and her longing for a hasty escape from the pain yielded to a discipline of "active waiting." This PLUS edition includes a reader's guide.

Genre: Religion | publisher: Harper Collins | Pages: 240
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Passion for Pilgrimage

Passion for Pilgrimage

by Alan Jones

Explore the themes of passion, pilgrimage, and our longing for home in this classic spiritual study.

Genre: Religion | publisher: Morehouse Publishing | Pages: 208
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Primary Speech

Primary Speech

by Ann Belford Ulanov

Prayer is our basic expression of religious belief. It is our personal and most private act of devotion. Words cannot do justice to the feelings, wishes, terrors, pains, or pleasures that we exchange with God. This book sets out to define prayer as both a means of drawing nearer to God everyday and as a coping tool that people can use in order to achieve harmony, balance, and satisfaction in their in their lives.

Genre: Religion | publisher: Westminster John Knox Press | Pages: 178
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Shadows of the Heart

Shadows of the Heart

by Evelyn Eaton Whitehead, James D. Whitehead,

Drawing from a wealth of psychological and spiritual sources, the authors help us gain a new perspective on how we handle the painful emotions of anger, shame, guilt, and depression

Genre: Psychology | publisher: iUniverse | Pages: 220
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Listening for the Heartbeat of God

Listening for the Heartbeat of God

by J. Philip Newell

Listening for the Heartbeat of God presents a spirituality for today, modeled on the vital characteristics of Celtic spirituality throughout the centuries. The emphasis is on the goodness of creation and of humanity made in the image of God.

Genre: Religion | publisher: Paulist Press | Pages: 112
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The Holy Longing

The Holy Longing

by Ronald Rolheiser

Examines what true spirituality is, using personal anecdotes and examples to demonstrate the role spirituality plays in everyday life and its importance to personal fulfillment.

Genre: Religion | publisher: Image | Pages: 282
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The Cloister Walk

The Cloister Walk

by Kathleen Norris

A reverent study of the monastic world assesses the meaning of the cloistered life in modern times, journeying through a liturgical year to capture the relevance and spiritual significance of the religious life. Reprint. Tour.

Genre: Religion | publisher: Penguin | Pages: 385
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A New Kind of Christian

A New Kind of Christian

by Brian D. McLaren

A Leadership Network Publication A New Kind of Christian's conversation between a pastor and his daughter's high school science teacher reveals that wisdom for life's most pressing spiritual questions can come from the most unlikely sources. This stirring fable captures a new spirit of Christianity--where personal, daily interaction with God is more important than institutional church structures, where faith is more about a way of life than a system of belief, where being authentically good is more important than being doctrinally "right," and where one's direction is more important than one's present location. Brian McLaren's delightful account offers a wise and wondrous approach for revitalizing Christian spiritual life and Christian congregations. If you are interested in joining a discussion group devoted to a A New Kind of Christian please visit groups.yahoo.com/group/NKOC.

Genre: Religion | publisher: John Wiley & Sons | Pages: 320
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The Great Divorce

The Great Divorce

by C. S. Lewis

A symbolic fantasy which finds a busload of condemned ghosts faced with the choice of giving up their cherished sins to enter the gates of Paradise.

Genre: Fiction | publisher: Zondervan | Pages: 146
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The Journey of Desire

The Journey of Desire

by John Eldredge

In this groundbreaking book, now being offered in trade paper, Eldredge invites readers to acknowledge the significance of desire, abandon resignation, and embark on an adventure he calls "our heart's most important journey".

Genre: Religion | publisher: Thomas Nelson | Pages: 224
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Abba's Child

Abba's Child

by Brennan Manning

Identifying the consequences of hiding broken and angry emotions from other people and God, a guide for Christians shares advice for overcoming feelings of shame in order to accept oneself and live a more honest life of faith and character.

Genre: Psychology | publisher: NavPress Publishing Group | Pages: 191
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The Enneagram

The Enneagram

by Richard Rohr, Andreas Ebert,

In this new, general introduction to the Enneagram, Rohr and Ebert show that the Enneagram was developed in Egypt by the Desert Fathers and rediscoverd by a Francisican missionary to the Moslems at the turn of the 14th century.

Genre: Religion | publisher: Crossroad Publishing Company | Pages: 293
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Toward Mutual Recognition

Toward Mutual Recognition

by Marie T. Hoffman

Ever since its nascent days, psychoanalysis has enjoyed an uneasy coexistence with religion. However, in recent decades, many analysts have been more interested in the healing potential of both psychoanalytic and religious experience and have explored how their respective narrative underpinnings may be remarkably similar. In Toward Mutual Recognition, Marie T. Hoffman takes just such an approach. Coming from a Christian perspective, she suggests that the current relational turn in psychoanalysis has been influenced by numerous theorists - analysts and philosophers alike - who were themselves shaped by an embedded Christian narrative. As a result, the redemptive concepts of incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection - central to the tenets of Christianity - can be traced to relational theories, emerging analogously in the transformative process of mutual recognition in the concepts of identification, surrender, and gratitude, a trilogy which she develops as forming the "path of recognition." Each movement on this path of recognition is given thought-provoking, in-depth attention. Chapters dedicated to theoretical perspectives utilize the thinking of Benjamin, Hegel, and Ricoeur. In her historical perspectives, she explores the personal and professional histories of analysts such as Sullivan, Fairbairn, Winnicott, Erikson, Kohut, and Ferenczi, among others, who were influenced by the Christian narrative. Uniting it all together is the clinical perspective offered in the compelling extended case history of Mandy, a young lady whose treatment embodies and exemplifies each of the steps along the path of growth in both the psychoanalytic and Christian senses. Throughout, a relational sensibility is deployed as a cooperative counterpart to the Christian narrative, working both as a consilient dialogue and a vehicle for further integrative exploration. As a result, the specter of psychoanalysis and religion as mutually exclusive gives way to the hope and redemption offered by their mutual recognition.

Genre: Psychology | publisher:  | Pages: 256
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Treating The Adult Survivor Of Childhood Sexual Abuse

Treating The Adult Survivor Of Childhood Sexual Abuse

by Jody Messler Davies, Mary Gail Frawley,

The first model for treatment of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse that takes advantage of a relational approach and that integrates psychoanalytic thinking with the latest findings from the literature on psychological trauma and sexual abuse.

Genre: Psychology | publisher: Basic Books | Pages: 272
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A General Theory of Love

A General Theory of Love

by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard Lannon,

Debunking Freudian theory, the authors of this groundbreaking analysis of the biological underpinnings of love offer a new paradigm for understanding the human "heart", redefining family ties, community, and romance in the process. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Genre: Psychology | publisher: Vintage | Pages: 274
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A Fruitful Harvest

A Fruitful Harvest

by Jeffrey L. Eaton

"A superb exploration of the importance of emotional pain--how we deal with it, how we can deal with it. Eaton weds psychoanalysis and Buddhism to give birth to new ways of experiencing ourselves and working with our experience. He has a special talent for the autistic spectrum of children in therapy, but has something to give all of us that speaks to our difficulties in living. This is a book not only for mental health workers, but for all who want to benefit from fruitful reflections on the human condition." Michael Eigen, PhD, author of "Contact with the Depths, Feeling Matters, " and "The Sensitive Self."

Genre: Psychology | publisher:  | Pages: 172
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The Power of Countertransference

The Power of Countertransference

by Karen J. Maroda

A signpost of the relational turn in contemporary psychoanalysis, Karen Maroda's The Power of Countertransference, published in 1991, is perhaps the first systematic effort to integrate the need for mutual emotional exchanges, which may include the analyst's own self-disclosures, into an interactive model of psychoanalytic practice. Maroda's call for emotional honesty and affective self-disclosure had an immediate impact on the field and led Harold Searles to comment, "If we follow the example set by Maroda, we shall be minimally likely to 'act in' our emotions in our sessions with our patients. They will benefit greatly as a result; we practitioners shall benefit; and the profession of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy will become healthier and stronger than it is at present." This revised edition includes a new Foreword by Lewis Aron and an Afterword in which Maroda clarifies her own position and comments on the evolution of psychoanalytic technique since the publication of The Power of Countertransference.

Genre: Psychology | publisher: Routledge | Pages: 201
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Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis

Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis

by Stephen A. Mitchell

The love affair that psychoanalysis has had with its own founder has obscured just how different the field is today from what it was a century ago, when Freud was writing. Now Stephen A. Mitchell, a central figure in the modernization of psychoanlalysis, shows how the field is moving beyond the confines of Freudian drive theory to encompass the concerns of contemporary life.

Genre: Psychology | publisher: Basic Books (AZ) | Pages: 304
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Healing Moments in Psychotherapy (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

Healing Moments in Psychotherapy (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

by Daniel J. Siegel, Marion Solomon,

Healing moments in psychotherapy uses practical examples and empowering research data to demonstrate the centrality of therapeutic relationships in the psychotherapeutic healing process. Luminaries in the field offer readers a powerful journey through mindful awareness, neural integration, affective neuroscience, and therapeutic presence to reveal the transformational nature of therapy. Each chapter of this book provides a unique view into the healing process, and reinforces the therapist's key role in assisting the client toward the integration necessary for lasting change.

Genre: Psychology | publisher: W. W. Norton & Company | Pages: 304
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Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, Fifth Edition

Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, Fifth Edition

by Irvin D. Yalom, Molyn Leszcz,

The fifth edition of the best-selling text?completely revised to reflect the latest developments in the field

Genre: Psychology | publisher: Basic Books | Pages: 688
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The Psychological Birth of the Human Infant

The Psychological Birth of the Human Infant

by Margaret S. Mahler, Fred Pine, Anni Bergman,

The pioneering contribution to infant psychology that gave us separation and individuation documents with standard-setting care the intrapsychic process of a child's emergence from symbiotic fusion with the mother toward affirmation of his own psychological birth. Available for the first time in paperback to a new generation of students and clinicians on the twenty-fifth anniversary of its original publication.

Genre: Psychology | publisher: Basic Books | Pages: 309
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Extraordinary Relationships

Extraordinary Relationships

by Roberta M. Gilbert

Turn any Relationship into an Extraordinary Relationship "A refreshing alternative to common self-help approaches." --Michael E. Kerr, M.D., Director, Georgetown Family Center, Washington, D.C. and coauthor with Dr. Murray Bowen of Family Evaluation After food, water, and shelter, relationships are the most important factors in determining your quality of life. At work, productivity and efficiency depend on relationships. At home, relationships with your spouse, children, and friends are keys to success and happiness. And among nations, relationships start and stop wars. This invaluable guide shows that only by further developing yourself can you further develop your relationships. Based on the innovative family systems theory pioneered by the late Dr. Murray Bowen, this important and penetrating book offers practical and authoritative family therapy advice that has helped thousands of people throughout the last three decades. It's a blueprint to better relationships that tells how the principles of family systems theory can be used in all arenas of your life, including intimate relationships, friendships, family relationships, single life, workplace relationships, international relationships, and your relationship with yourself. "A perfect and unpretentious primer of family relationships . a relief to read." --Dr. Walter Toman, Professor Emeritus, Erlangen-Nurnberg University, Germany, and author of Family Constellation

Genre: Family & Relationships | publisher: Wiley | Pages: 240
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Attachment in Psychotherapy

Attachment in Psychotherapy

by David J. Wallin

This eloquent book translates attachment theory and research into an innovative framework that grounds adult psychotherapy in the facts of childhood development. Advancing a model of treatment as transformation through relationship, the author integrates attachment theory with neuroscience, trauma studies, relational psychotherapy, and the psychology of mindfulness. Vivid case material illustrates how therapists can tailor interventions to fit the attachment needs of their patients, thus helping them to generate the internalized secure base for which their early relationships provided no foundation. Demonstrating the clinical uses of a focus on nonverbal interaction, the book describes powerful techniques for working with the emotional responses and bodily experiences of patient and therapist alike

Genre:  | publisher: The Guilford Press | Pages: 366
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Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

by Kekuni Minton, Pat Ogden, Clare Pain,

The body, for a host of reasons, has been left out of the "talking cure." Psychotherapists who have been trained in models of psychodynamic, psychoanalytic, or cognitive therapeutic approaches are skilled at listening to the language and affect of the client. They track the clients' associations, fantasies, and signs of psychic conflict, distress, and defenses. Yet while the majority of therapists are trained to notice the appearance and even the movements of the client's body, thoughtful engagement with the client's embodied experience has remained peripheral to traditional therapeutic interventions. Trauma and the Body is a detailed review of research in neuroscience, trauma, dissociation, and attachment theory that points to the need for an integrative mind-body approach to trauma. The premise of this book is that, by adding body-oriented interventions to their repertoire, traditionally trained therapists can increase the depth and efficacy of their clinical work. Sensorimotor psychotherapy is an approach that builds on traditional psychotherapeutic understanding but includes the body as central in the therapeutic field of awareness, using observational skills, theories, and interventions not usually practiced in psychodynamic psychotherapy. By synthesizing bottom-up and top down interventions, the authors combine the best of both worlds to help chronically traumatized clients find resolution and meaning in their lives and develop a new, somatically integrated sense of self. Topics addressed include: Cognitive, emotional, and sensorimotor dimensions of information processing • modulating arousal • dyadic regulation and the body • the orienting response • defensive subsystems • adaptation and action systems • treatment principles • skills for working with the body in present time • developing somatic resources for stabilization • processing

Genre: Psychology | publisher: W. W. Norton & Company | Pages: 384
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Inner Compass – An Invitation to Ignatian Spirituality

Inner Compass – An Invitation to Ignatian Spirituality

by Margaret Silf

Inner Compass offers a practical guide to greater self-knowledge and spiritual awareness through the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Close to the Heart opens up a world of imaginative yet simple ways to approach individual prayer. Going on Retreat is a valuable resource for anyone considering a retreat experience.

Genre: Religion | publisher: Loyola Press | Pages: 196
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The Celtic Way of Prayer

The Celtic Way of Prayer

by Esther De Waal

Esther de Waal, one of Celtic Christianity's preeminent scholars, shows how this tradition of worship draws on both the pre-Christian past and on the fullness of the Gospel. It is also an enlightening glimpse at the history, folklore, and liturgy of the Celtic people. Esther de Waal introduces readers to monastic prayer and praise (the foundation stone of Celtic Christianity), early Irish litanies, medieval Welsh praise poems, and the wealth of blessings derived from an oral tradition that made prayer a part of daily life. Through this invigorating book, readers enter a world in which ritual and rhythm, nature and seasons, images and symbols play an essential role. A welcome contrast to modern worship, Celtic prayer is liberating and, like a living spring, forever fresh. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Genre: Religion | publisher: Image | Pages: 256
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Sleeping with Bread

Sleeping with Bread

by Dennis Linn, Sheila F. Linn, Matthew Linn,

"For what am I most grateful? For what am I least grateful?" These questions help us identify moments of consolation and desolation. Discovered what they should do more of and less of in order to resolve their problem.

Genre: Religion | publisher: Paulist Press | Pages: 74
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Naming the Shadows

Naming the Shadows

by Susan L. Roth, Ronald Batson,
Genre: Psychology | publisher: Simon and Schuster | Pages: 240
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