Personality category: 1900 books
by Alfred Binet
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Ce qui fait l’intérêt des phénomènes psychologiques spontanés, c’est qu’ils ont subi une influence très minime des personnes qui les observent ; ils n’ont pas été préparés de longue main et d’une manière inconsciente...
by Alfred Binet
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Depuis une quinzaine d’années la psychologie est entrée dans une ère nouvelle. Cette ère date approximativement de 1878, époque doublement importante pour la psychologie, puisque c’est celle où, en Allemagne, M. Wundt a ouvert le premier laboratoire de psychologie expérimentale, celle aussi...
The Unfolding Now
Realizing Your True Nature through the Practice of Presence
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
The keys to self-knowledge and deep contentment are right here before us in this very moment—if we can simply learn to live with open awareness. In The Unfolding Now, A. H. Almaas presents a marvelously effective practice for developing the transformative quality of presence. Through a particular...
The Diamond Approach
An Introduction to the Teachings of A. H. Almaas
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1999
The Diamond Approach has been developed and taught over the last twenty-five years by Hameed Ali (known chiefly by his pen name, A. H. Almaas), who is widely recognized as a leader in the integration of spirituality and psychology. This is the first book to introduce the complete spectrum of his teachings to a general audience.
Diamond Heart: Book Three
Being and the Meaning of Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2000
We live in a world of mystery, wonder, and beauty. But most of us seldom participate in this real world, being focused rather on the part that is mostly strife, suffering, or meaninglessness. This situation is basically due to our not realizing and living our full human potential. This potential can...
Facets of Unity
The Enneagram of Holy Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2000
Facets of Unity presents the Enneagram of Holy Ideas as a crystal clear window on the true reality experienced in enlightened consciousness. Here we are not directed toward the psychological types but the higher spiritual realities they reflect. We discover how the disconnection from each Holy Idea...
The Inner Journey Home
The Soul's Realization of the Unity of Reality
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2004
What is the soul, and how do we come to know it? What is its journey in life, and what stages and obstacles are encountered along the way? These questions are explored here in detail according to the Diamond Approach, a spiritual path that combines systematic inquiry into personal experience, the...
Runaway Realization
Living a Life of Ceaseless Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
The teaching in this book is off the map—because reality itself cannot be captured in a map. In fact, reality is far more alive, far more mysterious than anything we can conceive of. It is always revealing itself by knowing itself; and knowing reality and living it becomes the fulfillment of our...
by Irma Colon
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Lies may come in all shapes and sizes and sometimes have a plethora of reasons behind them, from avoiding personal harm, wishing to avoid hurting someone or to protect them, to actively seeking to get some form of gain from someone (material, social, or emotional). The ethical nature of lying is...
Italian American Women, Food, and Identity
Stories at the Table
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
This book is about Italian American women, food, identity, and our stories at the table. This mother-daughter research team explores how Italian American working-class women from Syracuse, New York use food as a symbol and vehicle which carries multiple meanings. In these narratives, food represents...
What Freud Really Meant
A Chronological Reconstruction of his Theory of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Through an exacting yet accessible reconstruction of eleven of Freud's essential theoretical writings, Susan Sugarman demonstrates that the traditionally received Freud is the diametric opposite of the one evident in the pages of his own works. Whereas Freud's theory of the mind is typically conceived...
The Other Side of Normal
How Biology Is Providing the Clues to Unlock the Secrets of Normal and Abnormal Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
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 component of normalcy, revealing the...
by Ellen J. Langer
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
The revolutionary book that showed how mindfulness can be applied to every aspect of our lives
The highly innovative findings of social psychologist Dr. Ellen J. Langer and her team of researchers at Harvard introduced a unique concept of mindfulness, adapted to contemporary life in the West....
by Rollo May
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 1994
Rollo May draws on the insights of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, and other great thinkers to offer a helpful roadmap of the ideas and techniques of existential psychotherapy.
He pays particular attention to the causes of loneliness and isolation, and to our search for stability in an age of anxiety.