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Language, Sex and Social Structure

by Jodie Clark

This book offers an innovative way of doing critical discourse analysis that focuses on the performatively produced concepts and social structures that support oppressive attitudes in a community. It draws upon ethnographic data from a women's field hockey club to examine players' homophobic attitudes towards lesbians on the team.

Language, Symbolization, and Psychosis: Essays In Honour Of Jacqueline Amati Mehler

by Giovanna Ambrosio Simona Argentieri Jorge Canestri

In this book, the authors compare different psychoanalytic thinking and models – all of a rigorously Freudian stamp – on three concepts of great theoretical and clinical importance: language, symbolization, and psychosis.

Language Teacher Leadership: Insights from Research and Practice (New Language Learning and Teaching Environments)

by Hayo Reinders

This edited book brings together an international cast of contributors and chapters which recognise the complexity of teacher leadership and its situated and dynamic nature. Chapters in this book are research-driven, and each reports on findings from (teacher-led and otherwise) research, synthesising the current state-of-the-art in each area. Each chapter uses illustrations of relevant practices from which lessons can be drawn. The aim is to come to a broad understanding of what best practices have emerged over the years, and where gaps still remain. Each of the chapters contributes to our understanding of how the different elements that make up teacher leadership are interconnected, with the concluding chapter synthesising these into a framework of language teacher leadership. This book will be of interest to pre-service and in-service teachers in the context of a professional learning community, as well as students and scholars of Applied Linguistics, Language Teaching and Learning, and Teacher Education.

Language Teacher Psychology in the Online Teaching Context: An Ecological Perspective

by Honggang Liu

Employing a mixed-method approach, the book investigates the psychology of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers in the online teaching environment in China during the COVID-19 pandemic.Specifically, questionnaires were conducted on Chinese EFL teachers to explore the profiles of EFL teachers’ anxiety, self-efficacy, buoyancy and engagement. Additionally, semi-structured interviews were used to demystify their psychological growth in the dynamic interaction with ecological environments, thus constructing an ecological model of EFL teacher psychology in online teaching. The book provides new insights into EFL teacher psychology and theoretical references for building a functional ecosystem for the professional development of EFL teachers.The book will be of interest to researchers in teacher psychology, language teachers and practitioners, especially those working in the complex technology-based educational environment, and policy makers in foreign language education.

Language, Truth, and Logic (Second Edition)

by Alfred Jules Ayer

Mr. Ayer sets up specific tests by which you can easily evaluate statements of ideas. You will also learn how to distinguish ideas that cannot be verified by experience--those expressing religious, moral, or aesthetic experience, those expounding theological or metaphysical doctrine, and those dealing with a priori truth. The basic thesis of this work is that philosophy should not squander its energies upon the unknowable, but should perform its proper function in criticism and analysis

Language vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists

by N.J. Enfield

A fascinating examination of how we are both played by language and made by language: the science underlying the bugs and features of humankind&’s greatest invention.Language is said to be humankind&’s greatest accomplishment. But what is language actually good for? It performs poorly at representing reality. It is a constant source of distraction, misdirection, and overshadowing. In fact, N. J. Enfield notes, language is far better at persuasion than it is at objectively capturing the facts of experience. Language cannot create or change physical reality, but it can do the next best thing: reframe and invert our view of the world. In Language vs. Reality, Enfield explains why language is bad for scientists (who are bound by reality) but good for lawyers (who want to win their cases), why it can be dangerous when it falls into the wrong hands, and why it deserves our deepest respect. Enfield offers a lively exploration of the science underlying the bugs and features of language. He examines the tenuous relationship between language and reality; details the array of effects language has on our memory, attention, and reasoning; and describes how these varied effects power narratives and storytelling as well as political spin and conspiracy theories. Why should we care what language is good for? Enfield, who has spent twenty years at the cutting edge of language research, argues that understanding how language works is crucial to tackling our most pressing challenges, including human cognitive bias, media spin, the &“post-truth&” problem, persuasion, the role of words in our thinking, and much more.

Language, Youth and Identity in the 21st Century

by Jacomine Nortier Bente A. Svendsen

The language of young people is central in sociolinguistic research, as it is seen to be innovative and a primary source of knowledge about linguistic change and the role of language. This volume brings together a team of leading scholars to explore and compare linguistic practices of young people in multilingual urban spaces, with analyses ranging from grammar to ideology. It includes fascinating examples from cities in Europe, Africa, Canada and the US to demonstrate how young people express their identities through language, for example in hip-hop lyrics and new social media. This is the first book to cover the topic from a globally diverse perspective, and it investigates how linguistic practices across different communities intersect with age, ethnicity, gender and class. In doing so it shows commonalities and differences in how young people experience, act and relate to the contemporary social, cultural and linguistic complexity of the twenty-first century.

Languages of Care in Narrative Medicine: Words, Space and Time in the Healthcare Ecosystem

by Maria Giulia Marini

This book explains how narrative medicine can improve evidence based medicine (EBM), making it more effective and efficient, giving patients better quality of life and offering more satisfaction to all health care providers. It discusses not only the disease experienced by the person who is ill, but also focuses on the context and the culture, and investigates how narrative medicine can make other disciplines around the globe more applicable, less manipulative, and more “scientific”. Only by integrating the narrative aspects, can EBM become more effective and efficient, with fewer uncured patients, more satisfied patients with a better quality of life, and satisfaction for all health care providers. Every chapter is divided into two main sections: the first presents the latest research in the field, with comments and interviews with experts, while the second section provides a list of practical exercises and tasks. The book is intended for anyone with an interest in caring for and curing patients: all care providers of care, physicians, general practitioners, specialists nurses, psychotherapists, counselors, social workers, providers of aid, healthcare managers, scientific societies, academics and researchers.

Languages of Loss: A psychotherapist's journey through grief (Languages of Loss)

by Sasha Bates

'This is the most startlingly honest book about grief I have ever read. Its immediacy hits you on the first page and takes you on an unforgettable journey. No one has set out so clearly the stages we go through as we try to come to terms with facing the enormity of death.' - Dame Penelope Wilton, DBE'Sasha writes exquisitely and honestly, the sheer rawness of what she has gone through and is still going through, sitting in balance with the calm and clear-sighted objectivity of the therapist, who is also her.' - Hugh BonnevilleOne person, two perspectives on grief. Plunged unexpectedly into widowhood at just 49 years old, psychotherapist Sasha Bates describes in searing honesty the agonisingly raw feelings unleashed by the loss of her husband and best friend, Bill. At the same time, she attempts to keep her therapist hat in place and create some perspective from psycho-analytic theory. From the depths of her confusion she gropes for ways to manage and bear the pain - by looking back at all that she has learnt from psychotherapeutic research, and from accepted grief theories, to help her make sense of her altered reality.Languages of Loss starts a necessary and overdue conversation about death and loss. It breaks down taboos and tries to find humour and light amidst the depressing, bewildering reality. It is an essential companion to help support readers through the agony of those early months, giving permission for all the feelings, and offering various methods of living with them.This book's overriding message is that everyone's experience of grief is different, but knowing more about the theory, and learning a new vocabulary, while not necessarily easing the grief, can help you feel less alone, and at some point enable you to reflect back and see how far you have come.'This is a useful as well as a moving book. The writing is energetic, down-to-earth and bracingly honest, and many readers will feel consoled and enlightened by Bates's take on her experience.' - Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Times'Bates's skill as a psychotherapist is married to her deft ability to use language and metaphor to create this vital treatise on loss. As much as Languages of Loss is an essential text on grief, it is also a story of love.' - Sunday Business Post Review'This book will give anyone grieving the death of their partner an insight into their experience, and help those around them understand the difficult and painful process of grief.' - Julia Samuel, author of This Too Shall Pass and Grief Works

Languages of Loss: A psychotherapist's journey through grief

by Sasha Bates

'This is the most startlingly honest book about grief I have ever read. Its immediacy hits you on the first page and takes you on an unforgettable journey. No one has set out so clearly the stages we go through as we try to come to terms with facing the enormity of death.' - Dame Penelope Wilton, DBE'Sasha writes exquisitely and honestly, the sheer rawness of what she has gone through and is still going through, sitting in balance with the calm and clear-sighted objectivity of the therapist, who is also her.' - Hugh BonnevilleOne person, two perspectives on grief. Plunged unexpectedly into widowhood at just 49 years old, psychotherapist Sasha Bates describes in searing honesty the agonisingly raw feelings unleashed by the loss of her husband and best friend, Bill. At the same time, she attempts to keep her therapist hat in place and create some perspective from psycho-analytic theory. From the depths of her confusion she gropes for ways to manage and bear the pain - by looking back at all that she has learnt from psychotherapeutic research, and from accepted grief theories, to help her make sense of her altered reality.Languages of Loss starts a necessary and overdue conversation about death and loss. It breaks down taboos and tries to find humour and light amidst the depressing, bewildering reality. It is an essential companion to help support readers through the agony of those early months, giving permission for all the feelings, and offering various methods of living with them.This book's overriding message is that everyone's experience of grief is different, but knowing more about the theory, and learning a new vocabulary, while not necessarily easing the grief, can help you feel less alone, and at some point enable you to reflect back and see how far you have come.'This is a useful as well as a moving book. The writing is energetic, down-to-earth and bracingly honest, and many readers will feel consoled and enlightened by Bates's take on her experience.' - Cathy Rentzenbrink,The Times'Bates's skill as a psychotherapist is married to her deft ability to use language and metaphor to create this vital treatise on loss. As much as Languages of Loss is an essential text on grief, it is also a story of love.' - Sunday Business Post Review'This book will give anyone grieving the death of their partner an insight into their experience, and help those around them understand the difficult and painful process of grief.' - Julia Samuel, author of This Too Shall Pass and Grief Works

Languages of Loss: A psychotherapist's journey through grief (Languages of Loss)

by Sasha Bates

One person, two perspectives on grief. Plunged unexpectedly into widowhood at just 49 years old, psychotherapist Sasha Bates describes in searing honesty the agonisingly raw feelings unleashed by the loss of her husband and best friend, Bill. At the same time, she attempts to keep her therapist hat in place and create some perspective from psycho-analytic theory. From the depths of her confusion she gropes for ways to manage and bear the pain - by looking back at all that she has learnt from psychotherapeutic research, and from accepted grief theories, to help her make sense of her altered reality. Languages of Loss starts a necessary and overdue conversation about death and loss. It breaks down taboos and tries to find humour and light amidst the depressing, bewildering reality. It is an essential companion to help support readers through the agony of those early months, giving permission for all the feelings, and offering various methods of living with them.This book's overriding message is that everyone's experience of grief is different, but knowing more about the theory, and learning a new vocabulary, while not necessarily easing the grief, can help you feel less alone, and at some point enable you to reflect back and see how far you have come.(P) 2020 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

The Languages of Psychoanalysis

by John E. Gedo

In this remarkable survey of "the communicative repertory of humans," John Gedo demonstrates the central importance to theory and therapeutics of the communication of information. He begins by surveying those modes of communication encountered in psychoanalysis that go beyond the lexical meaning of verbal dialogue, including "the music of speech," various protolinguistic phenomena, and the language of the body. Then, turning to the analytic dialogue, Gedo explores the implications of these alternative modes of communication for psychoanalytic technique. Individual chapters focus, in turn, on the creation of a "shared language" between analyst and analysand, the consequences of the analytic setting, the form in which the analyst casts particular interventions, the curative limits of empathy, the analyst's affectivity and its communication to the patient, and the semiotic significance of countertransference and projective identification. Gedo does not proffer semiotics as a substitute for metapsychology. He is explicit that communicative skill is always dependdent on somatic events within the central nervous system. Indeed, it is because Gedo's hierarchical approach to communication builds on our current understanding of a hierarchically organized central nervous system that his clincal observations become insights into basic psychobiological functioning. Grounded in Gedo's four decades of clinical experience, The Languages of Psychoanalysis points to a new venue of clinical research and conceptualization, one in which attentiveness to issues of communication will not only foster linkages with contemporary neuroscience, but also clarify and enlarge the therapeutic possibilities of psychoanalytic treatment.

Languages of Trauma: History, Memory, and Media (G - Reference,information And Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.)

by Peter Leese Julia Barbara Köhne Jason Crouthamel

This volume traces the distinct cultural languages in which individual and collective forms of trauma are expressed in diverse variations, including oral and written narratives, literature, comic strips, photography, theatre, and cinematic images. The central argument is that traumatic memories are frequently beyond the sphere of medical, legal, or state intervention. To address these different, often intertwined modes of language, the contributors provide a variety of disciplinary approaches to foster innovative debates and provoke new insights. Prevailing definitions of trauma can best be understood according to the cultural and historical conditions within which they exist. Languages of Trauma explores what this means in practice by scrutinizing varied historical moments from the First World War onwards and particular cultural contexts from across Europe, the United States, Asia, and Africa – striving to help decolonize the traditional Western-centred history of trauma, dissolving it into multifaceted transnational histories of trauma cultures.

Languishing: How to Feel Alive Again in a World That Wears Us Down

by Corey Keyes

&“With his pioneering research, Corey Keyes put languishing on the map. In this powerful book, he brings it to life. Get ready to rethink your understanding of mental health, update your views on happiness, and come closer to realizing your potential.&”—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden PotentialIf you&’re muddling through the day in a fog, often forgetting why you walked into a room . . . If you feel emotionally flattened, lacking the energy to socialize or feel joy in the small things . . . If you feel an inner void—like something is missing, but you aren&’t sure what . . . Then this book is for you.Languishing—the state of mental weariness that erodes our self-esteem, motivation, and sense of meaning—can be easy to brush off as the new normal, especially since indifference is one of its symptoms. It is not a synonym for depression and its attendant state of prolonged sadness. Languishers are more likely to feel out of control of their lives, uncertain about what they want from the future, and paralyzed when faced with decisions. Left unchecked, languishing not only impedes our daily functioning but is a gateway to serious mental illness and early mortality.Emory University sociologist Corey Keyes has spent his career studying the causes and costs of languishing—the neglected middle child of mental health. Now Keyes has written the first definitive book on the subject, examining the ripple effect of languishing on our lives before deftly diagnosing the larger forces behind its rise: the false promises of the self-help industrial complex, a global moment of intense fear and loss, and a failing healthcare system focused on treating rather than preventing illness.Ultimately, Keyes presents a counterintuitive approach to breaking the cycles keeping us stuck and finding a path to true flourishing. Unlike self-improvement systems offering quick-fix mood boosts, his framework focuses on functioning well: taking simple but powerful steps to hold our emotions loosely, becoming more accepting of ourselves and others, and carving out daily moments for the activities that create cycles of meaning, connection, and personal growth.Languishing is a must-read for anyone tempted to downplay feelings of demotivation and emptiness as they struggle to haul themselves through the day, and for those eager to build a higher tolerance for adversity and the pressures of modern life. We can expand our vocabulary for describing our inner experiences and deepest needs—and, with it, our potential to flourish.

L’ansia e il giardino dentro di me: Vincendo l’ansia e tornando alle origini

by Danilo H. Gomes

Se soffri ancora di ansia, è perché non hai capito come funziona il tuo giardino dell'anima. C'è un mostro apparentemente invincibile che, in questo momento, perseguita la vita di persone in tutto il mondo. Questo mostro si chiama ansia e devasta le anime come un uragano. Conoscere il Giardiniere Perfetto e il giardino dell'anima, è una luce per gli ansiosi. L’ANSIA E IL GIARDINO DENTRO DI ME è un'opera cristiana che promuove principalmente la conoscenza filosofica di sé lavorando sulla fede nel Creatore. Un libro breve ma profondo. Supera l'ansia mentre conosci meglio il tuo giardino interiore. •Informazioni come: Risolvi il caos interno, prenditi cura dell'interno, affronta il nuovo, la fede, il riposo, tra altre questioni. • Cosa dicono i lettori: "Ha aggiunto cose buone alla mia vita." "Questo libro è stato perfetto per il momento che stavo attraversando. Consiglio questo libro a tutti coloro che sentono di non vivere, ma semplicemente di esistere, senza alcun piacere nella vita e in cerca di successo."

L’Anxiété dans les Relations: Surmontez vos peurs pour créer un attachement émotionnel stable et fort avec votre entourage

by Nicholas Holtz

Reprenez le contrôle de vos peurs et de vos angoisses pour devenir une meilleure version de vous-même ! Vivre dans le déni, remettre en question chacune de vos actions, penser négativement à votre avenir, vivre dans la peur de l’inconnu… Voilà de quoi gâcher votre vie et générer une anxiété constante. Si l’un de vos proches ou vous-même êtes en proie à l’anxiété, vous avez probablement déjà vécu des crises de panique, des remontrances négatives, des phobies, et vous vous sentez peut-être honteux de votre "maladie." Au quotidien, l’anxiété rend fou, même si on ne l’est pas, en fait. Comme pour tout le monde, certains jours sont meilleurs que d’autres, mais ceux qui ressentent des symptômes d’anxiété vivent généralement plus de mauvaises journées que de bonnes. Dans "Votre Entourage vous Trouve Génial", vous découvrirez : ✓ Comment l’anxiété gâche la vie quotidienne ✓ Ce qu’est l’anxiété et quelles en sont les causes ✓ Les signes et les symptômes des troubles de l’anxiété ✓ Les symptômes de l’anxiété sociale ✓ Les causes profondes de vote anxiété ✓ Pourquoi un discours intérieur négatif vous nuit ✓ Les traumas de l’enfance et la senbilité à l’anxiété ✓ Comment bien gérer vos émotions ✓ La responsabilisation face à l’anxiété ✓ L’Etat d’esprit ‘’Je peux’’ à la place de ‘’Je dois’’ ✓ Comment tenir un journal de gratitude ✓ Pourquoi utiliser la visualisation ✓ Les aspects des pratiques de visualisation réussie ✓ Comment l’estime de soi affecte votre état d’esprit, vos schemas de pensée, et votre vie en général ✓ Des étapes spécifiques, des stratégies et des techniques pour vous aider à améliorer votre estime de vous en recâblant vos voies cérébrales e

L'anxiété et le jardin en moi: Surmonter l'anxiété en revenant aux origines

by Danilo H. Gomes

Si vous souffrez encore d'anxiété, c'est que vous n'avez pas encore compris comment fonctionne votre jardin de l'âme. Il existe un monstre apparemment invincible qui, en ce moment même, tourmente la vie d'innombrables personnes dans le monde entier. Ce monstre appelé anxiété a dévasté les âmes comme un ouragan qui détruit tout ce qu'il touche. Connaissant le Jardinier Parfait et le jardin de l'âme, nous voyons une lumière au bout du tunnel pour les anxieux. « L'anxiété et le jardin en moi » est un ouvrage chrétien qui favorise avant tout la connaissance philosophique de soi tout en développant la foi dans le Créateur. Un livre court mais profond. Surmontez l'anxiété tout en apprenant à mieux connaître votre jardin intérieur.

The Large Dam Dilemma

by Pu Wang Shikui Dong James P. Lassoie

Large dam construction has significant environmental and social impacts at different scales. As the largest developing country in the world, China has built about half of the world's large dams, and more are expected to be built over the next two decades to meet the country's rapidly growing demand for energy. This book summarizes and updates information about the history, distribution, functions, and impacts of large dams, both globally and at China's national level. It then addresses the environmental and social-economic impacts of large dams in China with particular emphasis on the impacts of large dams on relocated people and associated compensation policies. Lastly, it introduces an integrated ecological and socio-economic study conducted in areas affected by dams along the Upper Mekong River, China. This book has the following three goals. The first goal is to summarize and update information on large dams globally and at China's national level (Ch. 2). We examine large dam problems from different perspectives, ranging from their spatial and temporal distributions and their environmental and social impacts, to discussions and debates centered on them. We also incorporate the results of an empirical investigation of the environmental and socio-economic impacts of large dams on the Upper Mekong River, China, and draw conclusions out of the analysis (Chs. 3 & 4). Our second goal is to provide an analysis framework to help understand the environmental and social-economic impacts of dam construction and the resulting environmental degradations and social inequities at different scales (Chs. 3 & 4), as well as to offer recommendations for mitigating these impacts within China's socio-political context (Ch. 5). The significant environmental effects resulting from dam construction include damage to ecological integrity and loss of biological diversity. The most significant social consequences brought by dam projects are their negative impacts on relocated people. Our analysis framework provides approaches to help comprehensively understand these impacts. Our third goal is to provide clues and suggestions for further studies of large dam problems both globally and in China (Ch. 5). The construction of large dams is proceeding rapidly in different parts of the world despite the heated debates on whether they should be built at all. The decision-making process related to building large dams involves considerations of economic viability, environmental sustainability, and social equity. Therefore, interdisciplinary collaborations are required in large dam research and development projects in order to reconcile the interests of different stakeholders and avoid harming ecosystems, biodiversity, and human welfare. Overall, we hope our book facilitates future examinations of large dams by providing summaries of existing data and research related to large dams, and offering a framework for better understanding and analyzing their environmental and social impacts.

The Large Group: Dynamics and Therapy

by Lionel Kreeger

This important, pioneering book collates our knowledge of large groups, both at a theoretical and practical level. Thirteen distinguished contributors offer experiences from a wide range of disciplines and settings. Roughly half the chapters are psychoanalytic in their orientation; other contributions derive from general psychiatry, sociology, anthropology and industrial psychology.The place of large-group therapy is still to be defined, but it is hoped that this book will contribute to the careful and detailed assessment that is necessary to fulfill its evaluation.

Large-Scale Brain Systems and Neuropsychological Testing

by Leonard F. Koziol Paul Beljan Kate Bree John Mather Lauren Barker

This leading-edge volume offers a new framework forneuropsychological testing rooted in the current evidence base on large-scalebrain system interactions. Expert coverage brings traditional discrete areas ofcognitive functioning (e. g. , attention, memory) in line with highly nuancedrelationships between cortical and subcortical processing. The new findingspoint to more accurate and targeted testing, as authors expand on the judiciousaddition of nonstandardized methods to core diagnostic tools and the underusedcapacity of neuropsychological testing to assess social behavior andpersonality. The book's emphasis on cognition in context gives practitioners betterunderstanding of assessment and evaluation, leading to improved diagnosis,treatment, and outcomes for individuals as well as significant improvements inthe field. This innovative reference: Reframes cognitive functioning in light of current data on brain interconnectivity. Critiques current methods of neuropsychological test interpretation. Reviews known, useful interpretive methodologies within a new context. Features instructive case examples emphasizing accurate historical and test data. Revisits the strengths and limitations of the bell curve construct. Examines the interpretive significance of pathognomonic signs. Details strategies for making neuropsychological evaluations more clinically relevant. Large-Scale Brain Systems and NeuropsychologicalTesting combines current findings, clinicalsense, and common sense to ground neuropsychologists, school psychologists,child psychologists, and clinical social workers in the effective assessment ofreal-world functioning.

Larger than Life: Six Women and their Battle with Obesity as seen through the Eyes of a Dramatherapist

by Katerina Couroucli-Robertson

Larger than Life is aimed at anyone interested in obesity and its treatment. It follows a dramatherapy group attended by six women, all struggling with their weight, using vignettes, transcriptions of the sessions attended, and commentary on the progress made by the participants. A final interview concludes each of the women's therapy, where they talk about their experiences within the group, followed by the therapist's summation of their treatment. The book concludes with brief telephone conversations with all six women three years after their treatment ended, giving a clear picture of the value of dramatherapy to the individual. As well as looking at these specific case studies, the authors also discuss the causes and effects of obesity, the dramatherapy group process, and why dramatherapy is an effective means of treating eating disorders. This is a must-read book for anyone interested in the subject of obesity or dramatherapy.

L'arte di relazionarsi: Impara a relazionarti in modo sano

by Danilo H. Gomes

Dal tanto più relazionarsi con le macchine piuttosto che con persone, gli esseri umani hanno apparentemente perso le abilità sociali necessarie per mantenere buoni i loro rapporti. Ci sono quelli che hanno rinunciato a relazionarsi ed oggi vivono chiusi in pochi metri cubi cercando di vivere in solitudine. Come relazionarsi? Come mantenere una relazione? Con chi relazionarsi? Questi e tanti altri sono i dubbi che solitamente invadono la mente delle persone di tutto il mondo. Ciò è facilmente comprensibile prendendo in considerazione la situazione in cui le generazioni di questo secolo si trovano. Stiate disposti a cambiare le vostre abitudini e preparatevi per sfruttare dei vostri rapporti in modo immensamente piacevoli, oltre che a mantenerli solidi e sani.

Lass uns miteinander sprechen: Psychologie der erfolgreichen Gesprächsführung (Psychologie für Studium und Beruf)

by Ulf Lubienetzki Heidrun Schüler-Lubienetzki

Durch dieses kompakte Lehrbuch lernen Sie auf unterhaltsame Weise die wichtigste Form menschlicher Kommunikation – das persönliche Gespräch – in seinen wesentlichen Facetten kennen. Es fokussiert sich vorrangig auf die Kommunikation im beruflichen Kontext, doch können die Prinzipien natürlich auch auf andere Lebensbereiche angewendet werden: Lernen Sie, wie wir neben dem gesprochenen Wort auch mit unserem Körper kommunizieren, wie wir Kontakt zu unseren Gesprächspartnern aufbauen und wie wir erreichen, dass andere Menschen Lust und Interesse haben, mit uns zu sprechen.

Last Acts

by David J. Casarett

Last Actsdraws on the author's experiences to help terminally ill patients and families make careful decisions about end-of-life care.

The Last Addiction: Own Your Desire, Live Beyond Recovery, Find Lasting Freedom

by Sharon Hersh

In an age of tell-all addiction memoirs and reality television programs, we gulp down the stories of others in the hope that we, too, can be overcomers-even as we continue to love a person, substance, activity, or ideology too much. As Sharon Hersh writes, "We all suffer from the same condition." In The Last Addiction, she explores why we are prone to addiction-to make one thing in our lives more central than it should be-and how we can break free of our compulsions.This is not a book of "self-help" answers or "how-to" steps. It is a book about falling down and getting up again, about realizing that we need more than ourselves to be saved. The truth is, we're not as bad as we think we are-and we are worse than we ever dreamed. When we live between those two realities, we are ready to let go of the last idol: the belief that we can save ourselves.The Last Addiction invites you to see your own story more clearly as you better understand your longing for intimacy. It invites you to love boldly and receive love in return. It invites you to the freedom of redemption.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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