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Pioneers of Human Behaviour: Leta Stetter Hollingworth A Gateway to Her Life, Theories, and Legacy Leta Stetter Hollingworth was one of psychology’s quiet revolutionaries. At a time when women were excluded from academia, she dismantled the myths used to keep them there. She pioneered the scientific study of gifted children, reframed intelligence as potential rather than destiny, and argued that education must adapt to the child, not the other way around. Though her career was tragically cut short in 1939, her work helped transform psychology into a force for equity and reform. This ...

Un retrato distinto de Milton Friedman: no el profesor solemne, sino el mago que convirtió pizarras y cámaras en armas de libertad. Este libro muestra al hombre que enseñó a millones a desconfiar de las promesas fáciles, a pensar con cabeza propia y a descubrir que la economía, en el fondo, es una forma de dignidad. Entre anécdotas, controversias y humor, El mago de Chicago revive la historia de quien logró que la claridad fuera una forma de rebeldía. Un viaje por sus ideas, sus contradicciones y su legado.

La vida es, esencialmente, variabilidad y cambio; nuestra biografía –el viaje- se va construyendo sin mapa, brújula ni itinerario previo, momento a momento, a lo largo de una insistente búsqueda de felicidad y plenitud, por selváticos senderos, superpobladas ciudades y, a veces –demasiadas veces-, por desoladas carreteras. Esta es la historia de un viaje. El viaje a través de la vida de un psicólogo en busca de la serenidad.

Referred to as "the father of psychoanalysis", Sigmund Freud is credited with championing the "talking cure" and charting the human unconscious. Both revered and reviled, he was a brilliant innovator but also a man of troubling contradictions, sometimes tyrannical, often misrepresenting the course and outcome of his treatments to make the "facts" match his theories.

Este no es un retrato académico de Ludwig von Mises, sino una biografía escrita como si fuera una crónica subterránea. El libro muestra al pensador austríaco no como un profesor distante, sino como un fugitivo con una maleta de manuscritos, siempre en huida frente a nazis, comunistas y burócratas indiferentes. Se narra su vida como la de un exiliado eterno, un conspirador de ideas que sembró en silencio a los discípulos que incendiarían el pensamiento del siglo XX. Entre cafés vieneses, trenes nocturnos y aulas vacías en Nueva York, el lector se encuentra con un hombre que ...

Some regrets don’t hit you all at once. They seep in at the corners of your life, at night or on a long drive, until they become a refrain. Those are the worst regrets of all.

Have you ever felt your pain was too much to bear? Have you experienced the heaviness of sorrow, and asked, "Why me?" Are you ready to discover a hidden purpose in your suffering? In Pain and Purpose, Cristi Bundukamara fearlessly shares her remarkable journey of resilience and transformation. This book will show you how to find purpose after loss.

Letters for My Father explores grieving and making sense of a relationship between a father and son while also being so much more. Written by the influential existential psychologist Louis Hoffman, who has worked extensively with grieving throughout his career as a psychotherapist, this is also a book of love, self-exploration, relational depth, and the world and realities that shaped his relationship with his father. As Hoffman journeys into grieving, he journeys into himself and into existence.

We've all seen the prettied-up image of mental illness. That movie-perfect, 'single artful tear', 'gazing wistfully out of the window' situation that conveniently disappears when you need to do the laundry. Well, life with a personality disorder isn't like that. At all. Katja Pavlovna and Kay...

This is the first volume of the memoir of Rick L. Scifres, relating his early life and the first half of a twenty-year Naval career during the Cold War. The author was born in Texas, raised in New Mexico, and eventually reached maturity while serving in the U. S. Navy. He attained the rank of Senior Chief Petty Officer before retiring as a CTOCS (NAC). He specialized in the field of Cryptologic Technician (Communications) and was qualified as a Naval Aircrewman. This volume chronicles part of his childhood and the first eleven and a half years of his career serving with the Naval Security ...

As a therapist, author, and former radio talk show host and hospital director, C.K. has nearly forty years of sobriety from mind and mood-altering substances. Miraculously, he survived years of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse which led to alcohol, prescription drugs, gambling, sexual addiction, nicotine, and other debilitating addictions to escape his pain.

Der weltbekannte Psychotherapeut und Bestsellerautor Irvin D. Yalom war 93, als er sich nach dem Verlust seiner langjährigen Ehefrau Marilyn Yalom, mitten in der Pandemie, mit einem zunehmenden Gedächtnisverlust konfrontiert sah. Die inneren wie äußeren Beschränkungen zwangen ihn dazu, die Form seiner Sitzungen mit seinen Klienten grundlegend zu überdenken und einen radikalen Ansatz zu wählen: Würden einstündige, einmalige Sitzungen ebenfalls einschneidende Veränderungen herbeiführen können und eine ebenso tragfähige Arzt-Patienten-Beziehung ermöglichen?

Skinny ist wieder in – und mit ihm der Wahnsinn. Die Rückkehr des Magerwahns ist überall: auf Social Media, in der Mode, in den Köpfen. Was früher "Size Zero" hieß, ist heute ein gefährlicher Mix aus Filtern, Fitnesszwang und Selbstoptimierung. Ich kenne diesen Druck. Ich habe ihn jahrelang gespürt – und ihm geglaubt. Ich habe diesen Schönheitswahn gelebt. Und überlebt. Ja, ich habe beide Welten erlebt: Ich bin durch dick und dünn gegangen – und war nie glücklicher als an dem Tag, an dem ich zu mir selbst wurde. In diesem Hörbuch erzähle ich offen, wie ich mich aus dieser Zeit befreit habe.

Psychology Confidential chronicles Dr. John’s journey through the world of psychology as student, teacher, researcher, and therapist. Along the way, he offers candid reflections on his work with veterans, their trauma, as well as the journey of faith he took to heal his own. Unlike other books about psychology, Psychology Confidential is a deeply personal and applied exploration of how psychology shows up and shapes our own lives. Dr. John’s stories give a unique perspective on the development of the field he studied and contributed to for so many years.

A través de grabaciones que Lola Hoffmann dejó antes de morir, su nieta Leonora Calderón escribió el libro Mi abuela Lola Hoffmann, que publicó el año 1993 y que agotó cuatro ediciones. Lola Hoffmann. La revolución interior es una reedición de este libro, que constituye la principal biografía de esta influyente psiquiatra y terapeuta espiritual, pionera en Chile en prácticas como la Ancestrología y creadora del Antroprograma, un mapa enfocado en orientar a las personas en sus diferentes etapas de crecimiento.

Sarah Forbes was in graduate school when she stumbled upon a museum dedicated to...sex. The anthropology student hesitated when her boyfriend suggested that she apply for a job, but apply she did, and it wasn't long before a part-time position at New York's Museum of Sex led to a gig as the museum's curator. That was over 12 years ago. Now Sarah - a married mother of two - proudly sports her title as Curator of Sex.

The Right to Be Human is the award-winning, definitive biography of Abraham Maslow, perhaps the most important American psychological thinker of the 20th century. In many ways, Maslow remains more relevant than ever in impacting such diverse fields around the world as psychology, counseling, social work, education, health care, management, marketing, and even theology. Written by psychologist Edward Hoffman, this book has been widely praised for its lucidity in placing Maslow' s influential life in its cultural-historical context.

For readers of Room and The Glass Castle, an astonishing memoir of one woman's rise above an unimaginable childhood. Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor--raising her in isolation, tyrannizing her childhood and...

No es la biografía solemne de un economista. Es la crónica subterránea de un agitador que convirtió la sátira en dinamita contra el poder. Frédéric Bastiat aparece aquí no como académico de biblioteca, sino como conspirador clandestino, panfletista que incendiaba París con ironías que ridiculizaban al Estado. Desde la parábola de la ventana rota hasta las fábulas que desenmascararon al proteccionismo, este libro narra su vida como la de un rebelde que eligió la risa como arma.

In Dreamwalker: The Life and Mind of Carl Jung, James Johnson takes listeners on a journey through the life of one of history’s most enigmatic thinkers — from his mystical childhood in Switzerland to his groundbreaking exploration of the unconscious. But this isn’t just a biography. It’s a map of the psyche. As Jung walks deeper into dreams, myth, and madness, the listener is pulled along — discovering archetypes, shadows, and the strange mirror world within every human being. By the end, you’re not just learning about Jung.