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The Truth About What the Buddha Taught
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2006
“A masterpiece. . . . It teaches us how not to fear and repress, but to rechannel and harness the most powerful energies of life toward freedom and bliss.” —ROBERT THURMAN
It is common in both Buddhism and Freudian psychoanalysis to treat desire as if it is the root of all suffering and...
Going on Being
Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
Before he began training as a psychiatrist, Mark Epstein immersed himself in Buddhism through influential teachers such as Ram Dass, Joseph Goldstein, and Jack Kornfield. Buddhism's positive outlook and the meditative principle of living in the moment profoundly influenced his study and practice of...
by Dr. Mark Epstein, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Immersed in Buddhist psychology prior to studying Western psychiatry, Dr. Mark Epstein first viewed Western therapeutic approaches through the lens of the East. This posed something of a challenge. Although both systems promise liberation through self-awareness, the central tenet of Buddha's wisdom is...
by Dr. Carl A. Wickland M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Thirty Years Among the Dead, first published in 1924, details Swedish-American GP and psychiatrist Carl Wickland’s experiences as a psychical researcher.
After moving to California in 1918, Wickland began to turn away from conventional medical psychology and moved toward the belief that psychiatric...
by Zoya Schmuter M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Over the last 22 years in the New York Office of Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Schmuter performed thousands of autopsies and testified in courts hundreds of times. Many of these cases present interest for a general reader, especially given the attention to this profession in the last decade in movies,...
by Hugh L. Moffet M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
A Diffident Doctor tells one doctor's personal story, with all its ups and downs, from childhood to retirement. Beginning in a small Illinois town, to a Harvard College scholarship, to medical school at Yale, it describes his research in virology and the teaching and consulting in pediatric infectious...
Political Aspirations and Perils of Security
Unpacking the Military Strategy of the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
This book comprises of a range of case studies of military strategy, based on UN documents, observing and concluding the effectiveness of each individual case. Edstrom and Gyllensporre analyse the UN's military strategy, its consequences and its potential to fulfil political ambitions.
Achilles in Vietnam
Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
An original and groundbreaking book that examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
In this moving, dazzlingly creative book, Dr. Shay examines the psychological devastation...
Afghanistan’S Experiences
The History of the Most Horrifying Events Involving Politics, Religion, and Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Afghanistan's Experiences is a sweeping analysis of the historic events and interplay between politics, religion, and terrorism in Afghanistan, the southeastern region of the country, and beyond.
The author has vividly explained the origin and the rise of Taliban to powerone of the most important...
by Melissa Yuan-Innes, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Are women ruining medicine? Nah.
Real life in the emergency lane, zeroing on body parts and chicks in scrubs.
Just like Grey’s Anatomy, medicine with a little bit of sex. And, like Fifty Shades of Grey, a tiny bit of torture.
The Heart Speaks
A Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of Healing
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2006
WEAVING MEDICAL NARRATIVE AND CUTTING-EDGE SCIENCE, DR. MIMI GUARNERI EXPLORES THE FRONTIERS BEYOND THE PHYSICAL HEART.
Every day, 2,600 Americans die of cardiovascular disease -- one person every thirty-three seconds. Ten times more women die of heart disease than breast cancer. Despite remarkable...
Extreme Measures
Finding a Better Path to the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
For readers of Being Mortal and Modern Death, an ICU and Palliative Care specialist offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest level
In medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die.
Jessica Zitter became a doctor...
After the Diagnosis
Transcending Chronic Illness
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
After the Diagnosis is a heartfelt and moving lesson on the art of living well through serious illness.
Dr. Julian Seifter understands the difficulty of managing a chronic condition in our health-obsessed, take-life-by-the-horns, live-forever world. When he found out he was suffering from diabetes,...
HEALING THE WOUNDS
A Physician Looks at His Work
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Healing the Wounds is the most revealing book ever written by a doctor about his own profession. In it, David Hilfiker breaks the code of silence surrounding the everyday practice of medicine and gives is a dramatically different personal account of how the family doctors gets by in a world of spiraling...