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Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor - raising her in isolation and subjecting her to endless drills designed to "eliminate weakness." She endured a life without heat, hot water, adequate food, friendship, or any kind of affectionate treatment. But Maude's parents could not rule her inner life. Befriending the animals on the lonely estate as well as the characters in the novels she read in secret, young Maude nurtured in herself the compassion and love that her parents forbid as weak.

Referred to as "the father of psychoanalysis", Sigmund Freud is credited with championing the "talking cure" and charting the human unconscious. Both revered and reviled, he was a brilliant innovator but also a man of troubling contradictions, sometimes tyrannical, often misrepresenting the course and outcome of his treatments to make the "facts" match his theories.

Sigmund Freud is the father of psychoanalysis, a clinical method of treatment through dialogue. Modern thought owes him his theoretical description of the structure and functioning of the unconscious, through the discovery of the essential role of transference in the analytic process, the redefinition of sexuality including its infantile forms, the analysis of dreams, symptom formation and the mechanisms of repression.

It is impossible to overstate the cultural significance of the four men described in Don Lattin's The Harvard Psychedelic Club. Huston Smith, tirelessly working to promote cross-cultural religious and spiritual tolerance. Richard Alpert, aka Ram Dass, inspiring generations with his mantra "be here now". Andrew Weil, undisputed leader of the holistic medicine revolution. And, of course, Timothy Leary, the charismatic, rebellious counterculture icon and LSD guru.

Many people grapple with destructive thought processes or a "critical inner voice" that directs their behavior and, to varying degrees, limits their lives. Using deeply personal and very human stories based on his own clinical practice, noted psychologist Robert W. Firestone illustrates the struggles of his clients to give words to this "enemy within", and in the process overcome its damaging influence.

In 1954, a group of boys attended a remote summer camp in Oklahoma. There they were split into two groups and encouraged to bully, harass and demonise each other. The results would make history as one of social psychology’s classic studies: the Robbers Cave experiment. Conducted at the height of the Cold War, the experiment officially had a happy ending: the boys reconciled, and psychologist Muzafer Sherif demonstrated that while hatred and violence are powerful forces, so, too, are cooperation and harmony.

In 1917, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe the human mind: a set of 10 carefully designed inkblots. For years he had grappled with the theories of Freud and Jung while also absorbing the aesthetic movements of the day, from futurism to dadaism. A visual artist himself, Rorschach had come to believe that who we are is less a matter of what we say, as Freud thought, than what we see.

Uncovering the details of the experiments leads her to question the validity of that 65 percent statistic and the claims that it revealed something essential about human nature. Fleshed out with dramatic transcripts of the tests themselves, the book puts a human face on the unwitting people who faced the moral test of the shock machine and offers a gripping, unforgettable tale of one man’s ambition and an experiment that defined a generation.

Dr. Helen Morrison has profiled more than 80 serial killers around the world. What she has learned about them will shatter every assumption you've ever had about the most notorious killers known to man.

The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics. Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatest managed to gain entree into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic establishment.

To many in the age of Obama, America had succeeded in "going beyond race", putting the divisions of the past behind us. And then 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot by a wannabe cop in Florida; and then 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; and then Baltimore blew up; and then gunfire shattered a prayer meeting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. Suddenly the entire country awakened to a stark fact: Young Black men are an endangered species.

Europe's wealth essentially originates in Asia. And this is where Europe's wealth is now migrating back to. Understanding Asia's greatest entrepreneurs may allow you to join the party to come.

Eine spannende Reise in 100 Biografien: Menschen, die die Welt verändert haben. So lebendig kann Geschichte klingen: Manfred Mai erzählt von Entdeckern, Erfindern, religiösen und politischen Anführern, von Philosophen und Künstlern, die mit ihrer Fantasie und ihrem Mut, mit ihren Ideen und Taten die Welt veränderten. Wie haben sie damals gelebt? Was hat sie bewegt? Welche Bedeutung haben sie für uns heute noch?

The Big Three in Economics reveals the battle of ideas among the three most influential economists in world history: Adam Smith, representing laissez faire; Karl Marx, reflecting the radical socialist model; and John Maynard Keynes, symbolizing big government and the welfare state. History comes alive in this fascinating story of opposing views that continue to play a fundamental role in today's politics and economics.

Der Lebensrückblick eines außergewöhnlichen Mannes: Ralf Dahrendorf, den viele durch seine öffentlichen Gespräche mit Rudi Dutschke 1968 erinnern werden, lässt sein Leben Revue passieren - von seiner Kindheit im Nazi-Deutschland als Sohn eines sozialdemokratischen Widerstandskämpfers über sein Studium bis zum Beginn seiner Karriere als Wissenschaftler, Politiker und Journalist. Dieses "Patchwork", wie er das, was er dem Leser damit bot, nannte, bietet ungewöhnliche Einblicke in das Leben einer großen Persönlichkeit.

Von den Anfängen, über "Wallenstein", bis zum Nachlass - Die Geschichte Deutschlands aus der Sicht eines aufmerksamen Beobachters. Seit Jahrzehnten bereits gilt Golo Mann als eine der wahren Größen innerhalb des Kreises deutscher Historiker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sein 1971 erschienenes Werk "Wallenstein" macht heute noch Teil des Grundgesteins der modernen deutschen Geschichtswissenschaft aus. Nun veröffentlicht der Schweizer Historiker Urs Bitterli die erste umfassende Biografie dieses bedeutenden Historikers und politischen Publizisten.

Ciencia para la consciencia es un manual de instrucciones sobre el Ser que eres y el traje humano que habitas. Este audiolibro explica cómo utilizar de manera inteligente el cerebro a tu favor para mantener activos los mecanismos biológicos de salud y bienestar. Te muestra las formas de controlar el estrés, el dolor, la enfermedad... Utilizando correctamente tu Consciencia y tus pensamientos para controlar un órgano de potencia atómica como es tu cerebro.

They call themselves "sensitives". Over 50 million Americans endure a mysterious environmental illness that renders them allergic to chemicals. Innocuous staples from deodorant to garbage bags wreak havoc on sensitives. For them, the enemy is modernity itself. No one is born with EI. It often starts with a single toxic exposure. Then, the symptoms hit: extreme fatigue, brain fog, muscle aches, inability to tolerate certain foods. With over 85,000 chemicals in the environment, danger lurks around every corner.

In A Human's Guide to the Future, Dr Jordan takes us on a journey through the big innovations being developed around the world, along the fun and amazing rollercoaster of his own adventures and to envisage where our collective future is headed. Written by one of this generation's most exciting voices, this is a book that will deepen your understanding of new and emerging technologies and fuel your imagination at the dawn of what will be the most transformative era in human history.

Fue un extraordinario filósofo, psicólogo y pedagogo estadounidense. Junto con Charles Sanders Peirce y William James, a Dewey se le conoce por ser uno de los fundadores de la filosofía del pragmatismo. Asimismo, fue, durante la primera mitad del Siglo XX, la figura más representativa de la pedagogía progresista en EE.UU.