Psychology

With Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams (Jung Extracts)
With Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams (Jung Extracts)

Review:I read this volume while preparing to teach a summer General Psychology course and was absolutely blown away by how relevant Jung's thinking is to today's world.

This powerful book is so far removed from the Gen Psy textbook blather about Jung, (basically blowing him off in a paragraph or two as "a former disciple of Freud who focused on dreams and Christianity and had a falling out with the great master..."),that I found myself marvelling over it and reading passages out loud to my long-... Read more

A True Story of Passion and Murder - Small Sacrifices
A True Story of Passion and Murder - Small Sacrifices

Review:A fabulous read, writer Ann Rule takes us from crime to resolution in a fast-paced story that is almost impossible to put down. If you enjoy non fiction crime stories, "Small Sacrifices" is the gold standard of this genre. It is definitely a must-read. Read more

An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World
An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

Review:I wanted to practice mindfulness and this was one of two books I purchased in Kindle version. It came with a set of audio meditations to take the beginner through beginning mindful practices. I use this book as an ongoing tool. Read more

25th anniversary edition (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
25th anniversary edition (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)

Review:This book is more for the psychiatric professional and not for a person who is trying to become more mindful. The first half of the book focused on mindlessness. The second half of the book focused on experiments done with various groups of people and how those experiments helped those people become more mindful. Read more

Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain - Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole
Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain - Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole

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"The extraordinary way in which the disordered human brain spins its tale of woe reveals how the organ works, how it creates the primal human experience of illness.

Over the years I have been privileged to listen to countless such narratives, to translate them not just into syndromes [like multiple sclerosis] but into rarer categorizations of a patient's plight (confused mind, difficult family, impossible case, threatening crisis, irreconcilable opinion, slow death, tale of h... Read more

Bright Children Who Talk Late - The Einstein Syndrome
Bright Children Who Talk Late - The Einstein Syndrome

Review:I found the subject of late talking children very interesting and intriging. I have a 21 month old grandson who has not begun to talk at all....not even Mama, DaDa, Bye Bye. He constantly babbles. He has been checked for hearing as well as an overall analysis of his motor skills, social interests, etc., and has come out with an above average rate. We are just interested in how he progresses over the next year or so to see if he has above intelligence. He enjoys working on puzzles that are f... Read more

Deeply Moving Story of an Emotionally Lost Child Who Found His Way Back
Deeply Moving Story of an Emotionally Lost Child Who Found His Way Back

Review:An excellent example by Virginia Axline of how Pay Therapy can successfully be used in children. A book that can be read and enjoyed not only by those in therapeutic profession but also by parents and teachers. Read more

Twin Tragedies at Fairchild Air Force Base - Warnings Unheeded
Twin Tragedies at Fairchild Air Force Base - Warnings Unheeded

Review:It is surprising that a book about which you already know the outcome can still be so intriguing, but Warnings Unheeded is extremely so. The book was well written, highly detailed and extremely thoroughly researched. He brings to life stories that I had read about in the past, but never felt from the victim's point of view. I cannot imagine just how the author was able to organize all the different angles from so many that were affected, but he succeeded in doing so. I hope that the lessons wit... Read more

100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter)
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter)

Review:This is a really interesting book and it opened my eyes to a lot of new ideas that I hadn't really considered before.
It's of those sort of books you pick up now and again when you have 10 mins here and there or great on a long plane ride when you actually want to learn something rather than just get lost in fiction. Good read. Read more

Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

Review:Hard "story" to follow! Friends say it's not the format but the storyline itself, with all it's various angles. I'm on the fence... but not liking either, honestly. I felt like it was a distracted, disjunctive experience. Read more

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