Jung and the Story of Our Time

Saturday, August 14th, 2010 at 1:22 pm  
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Jung and the Story of Our Time
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Laurens van der Post’s book, Jung and the Story of Our Time, presents Jung as he knew him, not psychologist but man, discoverer and explorer of the human spirit. That Laurens van der Post should have chosen to write about Jung will come as no surprise to the millions of people who saw the three television programmes that he devoted to the story of Jung’s life and work. Indeed, part of the compulsion for putting the experience of his extraordinarily fruitful friendship with Jung into book form was precisely that the limitations of a single film sequence left him with[Read More]

Learned Optimism: Martin Seligman

Monday, August 2nd, 2010 at 5:39 am  
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Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
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Martin Seligman, a renowned psychologist and clinical researcher, has been studying optimists and pessimists for 25 years. Pessimists believe that bad events are their fault, will last a long time, and undermine everything. They feel helpless and may sink into depression, which is epidemic today, especially among youths. Optimists, on the other hand, believe that defeat is a temporary setback or a challenge–it doesn’t knock them down. “Pessimism is escapable,” asserts Seligman, by learning a new set of cognitive skills that will enable you to take charge, resist depression, and make[Read More]

Bridge the Communication Gap with Elders

Sunday, July 4th, 2010 at 9:25 pm  
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How To Say It (R) to Seniors: Closing the Communication Gap with Our Elders
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A practical guide to bridging the generation gap.

In How to Say It(r) to Seniors, geriatric psychology expert David Solie offers help in removing the typical communication blocks many experience with the elderly. By sharing his insights into the later stages of life, Solie helps in understanding the unique perspective of seniors, and provides the tools to relate to them.

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Friday, July 2nd, 2010 at 4:45 am  
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
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You have heard about how a musician loses herself in her music, how a painter becomes one with the process of painting. In work, sport, conversation or hobby, you have experienced, yourself, the suspension of time, the freedom of complete absorption in activity. This is “flow,” an experience that is at once demanding and rewarding–an experience that Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates is one of the most enjoyable and valuable experiences a person can have. The exhaustive case studies, controlled experiments and innumerable references to historical figures, philosophers and scientists through the ages[Read More]

Handbook of Personality Assessment 2

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 at 5:47 pm  
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Comprehensive Handbook of Psychological Assessment, Personality Assessment (Volume 2)
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Comprehensive Handbook of Psychological Assessment, Volume 2 presents the most up-to-date coverage on personality assessment from leading experts.
* Contains contributions from leading researchers in this area.
* Provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date information on personality assessment.
* Presents conceptual information about the tests.

Choice Theory: Glasser

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 at 7:08 am  
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Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom
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Southern California psychiatrist William Glasser, the author of Reality Therapy, believes that almost all human misery is caused by people trying to control others. In fact, he says, the only behavior we can control is our own; by the same token, no one can make us do anything we don’t want to. It’s only when we give up spending our energy trying to force others to conform to our ideas or to keep them from doing the same to us that we are able to live the way we want to. Glasser makes[Read More]
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