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Healing the Mind through the Power of Story
The Promise of Narrative Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
Psychiatry that recognizes the essential role of community in creating a new story of mental health
• Provides a critique of conventional psychiatry and a look at what mental health care could be
• Includes stories used in the author’s healing practice that draw from traditional...
by Lauren Van Scoy, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
As a doctor at the end of a 24-hour shift in the intensive care unit, it’s usually easy for me to fall asleep. Exhaustion hits me like a rock and it doesn’t matter that the morning sun is pouring into my bedroom. After so many long hours of fighting for life and pushing back death, when I finally...
Depression
Causes and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
More than forty years ago, Dr. Aaron T. Beck's pioneering Depression: Causes and Treatment presented the first comprehensive account of all aspects of depression and introduced cognitive therapy to health care providers and patients struggling with one of the most common and devastating diseases of...
Your Emotional Type
Key to the Therapies That Will Work for You
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Your emotional type as the means to finding the right treatment for your chronic illness or pain
• Provides an easy questionnaire to find your emotional type
• Identifies the connections between emotional type and 12 common chronic ailments: asthma, allergies, chronic fatigue, depression,...
by Fred D. Hofeldt M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Storm clouds are on the horizon and are hovering over the Judeo-Christian community. Returning to God’s Word is our only hope for these troubled times. On the cusp of these changing times, a remnant is being identified and “called out” by the Holy Spirit to return to the foundational roots of Christianity....
The Ramayana
A New Retelling of Valmiki's Ancient Epic--Complete and Comprehensive
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
A delightfully straightforward and lyrical retelling of the ancient Indian epic of loyalty, betrayal, redemption, and insight into the true nature of life -- one of history's most sacred ethical works, rendered with completeness and sterling accuracy for the modern reader.
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Coyote Healing
Miracles in Native Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2003
Distills the basic principles used by Native American healers to create miracles.
• Explores the power of miracles in both traditional Native American healing and modern scientific medicine.
• Cites numerous cases in which people whose conditions were deemed hopeless were miraculously...
Narrative Medicine
The Use of History and Story in the Healing Process
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Seeks to restore the pivotal role of the patient’s own story in the healing process
• Shows how conventional medicine tends to ignore the account of the patient
• Presents case histories where disease is addressed and healed through the narrative process
• Proposes a reinvention...
by Jonathan M. Berkowitz, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Covering a wide range of popular alternative medicine and health issues, User's Guides are written by leading experts and science writers and are designed to answer the consumer's basic questions about disease, conventional and alternative therapies, and individual dietary supplements.
How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-So Stories
Evolutionary Enigmas
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
So how did women get their curves? Why do they have breasts, while other mammals only develop breast tissue while lactating, and why do women menstruate, when virtually no other beings do so? What are the reasons for female orgasm? Why are human females kept in the dark about their own time of ovulation...
Generation X Presidents Leading Community Colleges
New Challenges, New Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) reports over 900 presidential transitions in the last five years. It also estimated that nearly 50% of presidents will retire in the next 5 years. The flood of imminent retirements of sitting presidents and other senior leaders from community colleges...
by Suzanne L. Groah, M.D., M.S.P.H.
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Managing Spinal Cord Injury begins with “spinal cord injury 101,” unraveling the complexities of our nervous system and explaining how spinal cord injury affects physical functioning. It then examines the impact of injury on the emotional and social lives of affected people—and provides the...
by M. D. Dharamdasani
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2005
Japan and Nepal have emerged as nations of considerable importance in the politics of Asia. Nepal being a buffer state is playing a crucial role in foreign policy of both the neighbours India and China. Recently due to the Mao’s insurgency, it has become the centre of terrorist activities as such,...
Dyslexic and Un-Stoppable
How Dyslexia Helps Us Create the Life of Our Dreams and How You Can Do It Too
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Does your child have difficulty with reading? Is your child's teacher complaining about behavior or attention issues? Is writing a chore for your child? Could your child be dyslexic? You are in luck. "Dyslexic AND UN-Stoppable" is not just another book about dyslexia. It is uniquely designed for...