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A directory of more than 800 entries covering ideas, terms, remedies and therapies in alternative medicine and psychology. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Detailed, Opinionated, and Full of Illustrations
"In the lordly brain and mobile face are found the basis of character and expression."

Sizer and Drayton hold forth in great detail about how head and facial characteristics reveal human psychology. Machine-tooled, 3-color cloth over hardback boards. 204 pages and over 175 illustrations.

Detailed, Opinionated, and Full of Illustrations
"In the lordly brain and mobile face are found the basis of character and expression."

Sizer and Drayton hold forth in great detail about how head and facial characteristics reveal human psychology. Machine-tooled, 3-color cloth over hardback boards. 204 pages and over 175 illustrations.

Detailed, Opinionated, and Full of Illustrations
"In the lordly brain and mobile face are found the basis of character and expression."

Sizer and Drayton hold forth in great detail about how head and facial characteristics reveal human psychology. Machine-tooled, 3-color cloth over hardback boards. 204 pages and over 175 illustrations. ... Read more

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You have within you unlimited capacities for love, for joy, for communion with life, and for unshakable freedom—and here is how to awaken them. In The Wise Heart, one of the leading spiritual teachers of our time offers the most accessible and illuminating guide to Buddhism’s transformational psychology ever published in the West.

Trained as a monk in Thailand, Burma, and India, Jack Kornfield experienced at first hand the life-changing power of Buddhist teachings: the emphasis on the nobility and sacredness of the human spirit, the fine-grained analysis of emotion and thought, the precise techniques for healing, training, and transforming the mind and heart. In contrast to the medical orientation of most Western psychology and psychiatry, here is a vision of radiant human dignity, and a practical path for realizing it in our own lives.

The Wise Heart is the fruit of a life’s work that includes such classics as A Path with Heart and After the Ecstasy, the Laundry. Filled with stories from Kornfield’s Buddhist psychotherapy practice and portraits of remarkable teachers, it also includes a moving account of his own recovery from a violence-filled childhood. For meditators and mental health professionals, Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike, The Wise Heart offers an extraordinary journey from the roots of consciousness to the highest expression of human possibility.


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A Wise Heart
Rarely do you encounter a book that transcends culture, religion or opinion. This book offers a guide to understand the self, the world and provides you with simple everyday practices to help you achieve happiness from within. Beautifully written.

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This is a beautiful book, full of wisdom, warmth and insights. It is an easy read yet dense and rich with insight and information.It is a book you want to have on your shelf and where every time you pick it up, you will find something unnoticed, a new way of seeing something or a reminder of what gives us a sound mind and a pure heart. Overall a very valuable contribution to moving today's consciousness to a healthier place for all.

The Wise Heart
More stories than needed, but Jack's wisdom continues to shine through.His writings are always great teachings in the Buddhist tradition and have immense practical value for all readers.The book is a library requirement for any of us
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I use this book personally and professionally (I'm a psychologist.) and recommend it to friends and patients.It's a great introduction to the practice of mindfulness.Even though I've been meditating for decades, this book introduced new ideas and reaffirmed old ones.
Jack is a teacher, a student, and a guide.

Kornfield
Beautifully written and compassionately revealing.Kornfield has helped me up another rung of evolution in my journey towards loving self and others. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Conragtulations ifyou desire is to earn absolutely eveything there is to know about all areas of Hypnotherapy - NLP - impromtu conversational Hypnotic Psychology and Comedy Stage Hypnotism as well as effective Street Hypnosis and so called Hypno-Tricks then this is the only resource you will ever need.

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Psychotherapy is profoundly indebted to Carl Jung, who among others, discovered the mappings of soul psychology. Carl Jung and Soul Psychology is a fascinating exploration of the identity and unifying work of soul psychology. The editors have met a monumental challenge in enlisting the scope of wisdom represented in this unique book. ... Read more

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A Rich Collection of Essays
This collection of writings by some renowned psychotherapists, includingJean Houston and James Hillman, integrates the spiritual, creative, andpsychological aspects of psychotherapy in the tradition of C.G. Jung. Theauthors skillfully draw upon the perennial spiritual traditions, as well ascreative arts, mythology, and mysticism and integrate them withintelligence and grace into a psychology of the soul. ... Read more

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This book provides a description of the change processes that occur in psychotherapy when it is viewed from a personal construct perspective. This perspective assumes both therapist and client to be active construers, making sense of themselves and one another. The ideas about people in general, which are basic to the constructivist approach, are introduced and followed by those which are specifically about psychotherapy. The construing of therapists and clients about themselves and psychotherapy is explored. Then the central role of reconstruing is considered. The reconstructive process is dealt with in some depth, including the goals of personal construct therapy, the process of reconstruing and the sharing of it between therapist and client. The main strategies of individual and group personal construct therapy are described, together with the self-monitoring that is involved in becoming an effective therapist using these ideas. ... Read more

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There was a dire need for a book on psychology that can quench the thirst of aspiring students to understand this subject of human psychology. This is a basic book to understand the subject of Psychology - the science of human behaviour. The author has covered the subject very well, beginning with basic functionality of different parts of brain, subtly she enters the arena of human behaviour and covers aspect like learning, memory, intelligence and emotions while maintaining the link from one chapter to another. The last chapter on Dreams and Dreaming is unique. The book would be of great help to teachers, trainers and a broad spectrum of colleges teaching psychology as a part of curriculum. ... Read more

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1911. Essays and Addresses, Volume 1. This volume contains a collection of essays entitled: a word on man, his nature and his powers; proofs of the existence of the soul; individuality; emotion, intellect and spirituality; on mood; hypnotism; memory; nature of memory; and clairvoyance and mental healing. ... Read more

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The gay and lesbian community is experiencing a baby boom. Advances in gay rights coupled with increased availability of alternative reproduction techniques have led to an unprecedented number of openly gay and lesbian parents. Estimates are that between 6 and 14 million children in the United States are being raised by at least one parent who is gay. Yet, very little is known about how gay or lesbian headed families function, or whether they differ in any relevant ways from families headed by straight parents.

Written by two developmental psychologists, The Gay Baby Boom reports the findings of The Gay and Lesbian Family Study, the largest national assessment of gay and lesbian headed families. By asking participants detailed questions about the way they parent, the authors are able to describe for the first time exactly what takes place within gay and lesbian headed families across the county. Traditional research has tended to assume that there is something uniquely different and potentially psychologically damaging about children being raised by gays. The authors draw on their data to show these fears unfounded. ... Read more

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Last review is not accurate
Now to be fair I did not read the book The Gay Baby Boom, I have only read reviews both from this sight and from others. The review from Reader claimed that the statistic from The Gay Baby Boom book was bogus.

While I have only a BA in Psychology that I got in 1980, I have been following Homosexuality and the myths that are commonly perpetuated about it. In regards to the statistic of how many children are being raised by homosexual parent(s) I have heard a similar statistic from another source.

In May 4, 2004 my local newspaper The Idaho Statesman was covering a child custidy case that was going to the Idaho Supreme Court. Theron McGriff believed that he lost custody because he is gay and living with a male lover. In the paper was this estimate."There are approximately 4 million gay and lesbian parents raising 8 million to 10 million children in the United States, according to the American Bar Association's Family Law Section. The American Civil Liberties Union estimates that the number of children in gay households could be as high as 13 million."

While the Gay Baby Boom does not appear to get into it, there is another path that leads to homosexuals becoming parents. As reported in The Other Side of the Closet by Dr Amity Pierce Buxton 20% of homosexuals try to go straight and marry a member of the opposite sex. In these marriages they do have children and they have them the old fashion way, through heterosexual sex. These marriages often do not last long, averages about five years, they can last 20 or 30 years.

Some of these marriages end in divorce like McGriff and the homosexual returns to his old lifestyle. Others will go from one failed marriage and try again. An example of this is former New Jersey Governor McGreevey who was in his second marriage when he had to resign as Governor because he had an affair with another man. He choice to admit that he is gay rather then submit to blackmail.

I personally know someone who had a lesbian wife that resulted in three children. Most of the time the heterosexual spouse is clueless about the sexual orientation of the other spouse. Besides Buxton's book there are about a half dozen books on this subject like Is He Straight by Bonnie Kaye M Ed. or Husbands who like Men by Dr Jean Schaar Gochros.

Excellent treatment of subject � minor flaws forgivable
Johnson and O�Connor are to be congratulated on providing such an accessible summary of the psychological research on gay and lesbian parenting. Included is both a reasonably reliable summary of the work done by their predecessors, but more importantly, they provide a report on their own recent research, The National Study of Gay and Lesbian Parents.

Readers not familiar with the psychological literature on gay and lesbian parenting may not realize the magnitude of Johnson and O�Connor�s work. Gay and lesbian parents have ample social incentive to remain hidden. In order to come out, they must be willing to endure the social criticism that is inevitable in our society, and they must be willing to expose their children to this same criticism. They are a twice-hidden population.

For Johnson and O�Connor to collect data from a sample of 415 gay and lesbian parents is without precedent. The participants represented 256 families with 56% of the gay and 57% of the lesbian families originating within a gay or lesbian context.

Over half of the book provides the written responses of the gay and lesbian parents to open ended questions. One cannot help but be impressed at the intentionality of the decision to become a parent. The communication, soul-searching, and commitment reflected in this decision are a far cry from the post-wedding hots that produced my first child!

This pattern of intentionality does not seem to be incidental. The social climate has yet to become fully accepting of gays and lesbians, and these parents express great concern to protect their children from the worst of these social storms. While few parents capriciously select a pediatrician, day care, or public school, these gay and lesbians parents report a degree of thoughtfulness in the parenting role that is easy to admire.

In a sense, these parents are charting a new course. The assumption of heterosexual roles in the family simply does not apply, and they have an opportunity to create a more egalitarian homelife. In addition to the directions for future research discussed by the authors, I would suggest that new patterns of parenting may emerge from the gay and lesbian population that could prove useful in evaluating new ways of being and becoming family.

As noted by other reviewers, there are a few minor errors in the book. For the best discussion of gay and lesbian demographics, I refer readers to an article by Black, Gates, Sanders, and Taylor in Demography (2000, vol. 37, issue 2, pp. 137-154). They conclude from their careful analysis of available data sources that there are 2 million gay men and 1.2 million lesbians in the United States. Children are living in 14% of the gay households, and in 28% of the lesbian households. While this is significantly less than the 6 to 14 million children suggested by Johnson and O�Connor, Black et al. provide solid evidence to conclude that there are more than 300,000 households with children and gay or lesbian parents in the United States. It certainly sounds �booming� to me.

Another minor error is the conclusion that �scientists have not found any sign that such children are more likely to be gay or lesbian than are children of heterosexual parents� (p. 50). Stacy and Bibliarz in the American Sociological Review (2001, vol. 66, pp. 159-183) discuss this issue at length and tend to disagree with the view expressed by Johnson and O�Connor.

The striking down of the Texas sodomy statute has recently focused national attention on gay and lesbian rights. This book is an excellent summary of what we do know about families headed by gays and lesbians. Read this book, especially if you do not currently support full civil rights for gays and lesbians. Listen to what these parents have to say for themselves. I doubt that you will find anything to fear.

OK except for the Big Lie on page one and the Title.
Psychologists Susanne Johnson and Elizabeth O'Conner, a lesbian couple with parenting experience, provide an easy-to-read, supportive book to promote good parenting by those gays and lesbians who find themselves to be parents or who wish to be parents.

The book's major drawback is that page one states, "Estimates are that between six and 14 million children in the United States are being raised by at least one parent who is gay or lesbian."The US 2000 Census shows only 72 million children (i.e., under age 18) in the United States.What knowledgeable person with integrity could support, believe, or report that 14 million US kids, one of every five US kids, are being raised by a gay or lesbian? The more I sought support for the statement, the more I came to realize that it was absurd and unsupportable and that even an estimate of 3 million was unreasonably high. Cutting the numbers by 90% to a range of 600,000 to 1.4 million is not unreasonable.The cut would be consistent with the 2000 US Census and the authors' "largest ever" study of gay parenting that consisted of 256 G/L families of which over 200 were same-sex couples including 172 lesbian couples. It would be consistent with the authors' finding of no prior studies of children raised by gay fathers because, per the authors, such households are relatively rare.

A 2003 Census report shows just under 170,000 "same-sex couples with personal relationships" raising kids when the US averages 2 kids per married household, slightly less for unmarried households.There are reasons to believe the count is overstated or understated. In line with Census staff cautions, many of the 170,000 may be heterosexual couples due to a very small percentage of the millions of heterosexual married couples completing the forms improperly or a small percent being misread by the Census optical scanners.A report that read "married" and same sex was treated by the Census as an unmarried same-sex couple. Despite overwhelming media support today for G/L couples and pre-census efforts by GLT support groups to encourage G/L couples to report themselves as same-sex couples in the confidential census, there are anecdotal reports of G/L couples failing to do so.All things considered, and allowing for G/L parents not coupled or in the closet in a heterosexual marriage, I just can't reasonably justify an estimate of 3 million or more.The 6 to 14 range is so absurd that foisting it on the public is unethical and akin to Enron cooking its books.The range certainly damages the credibility of the book.Outrageous lies will not foster respect for the gay and lesbian community and may promote homophobia or at least "Hexophobia" which is the fear of homosexual "experts" deliberately lying to portray the gay/lesbian market and voting block to be bigger than they really are.

The book does not cite a source for the statement, but a similar statement is found in a 1996 published paper, co-authored by psychologist, lesbian, and G/L parenting advocate Charlotte Patterson.The book, p. 49, calls Dr. Patterson "the leading authority in gay and lesbian parenting."The 1996 Patterson paper incorrectly cites as the estimates' source "Editors of the Harvard Law Review (1990)" which I did not find to mention or support a 14 million estimate and only weakly supporting a six million estimate by referring to a BNA report of an earlier ABA annual meeting in San Francisco.The source for 14 million appears to be an April 1984 issue of USA Today - hardly authoritative to be cited in a professional journal.(I could not confirm the source, as the major local library had the issue in a jammed, unopenable filing cabinet.Sorry.)A 1992 Patterson paper, which cited the USA Today 1984 issue, attempted to mathematically support six million by using the now-discredited Kinsey 10% and by overstating (inadvertently I hope) the US adult population by some 60 million. But at least she tried.As a rule, the professional papers, books, and media reports over the past ten years just keep giving the quote or a "one to nine" million range with no real mathematical support.

There may be today a Gay Baby Boom but to see it we first have to acknowledge that the numbers of gay and lesbians parenting kids five and ten years ago were rather small to begin with and is still rather small for the US.But it beats Canada where the number of G/L couples with kids under age 18 is reported by the 2001 Canadian Census to be just under 3,000 in all of Canada.

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If your a student of tcm this book is a must, it is thorough, clear explanation of how the elements present in psyche of man.

Psychology and Chinese Medicine
Very interesting book but it is not a "light" book for beginners. The reader needs to master first the philosophy of the 5 Elements and their subtleties and then enjoy Dr. Hammer journey through psycho and soma.

This dragon flies!
"Dragon Rises, Red Bird Flies" demystifies the Chinese Five Element Theory and other Eastern energy medicine basics in a readable format.As a practitioner of one of the Oriental modalities, I'm finding my understanding and teaching enhanced, as I enjoy Leon Hammer's expressive style.

A Wonderfully rich and palatable sketch..........
I have read this book a few times, and in each reading, I find concepts and "observations", that are profoundly rich in their effort to put the reader in touch with some of the most difficult to grasp ideas about non-Traditional Chinese Medicine.Dr. Hammers background is much deeper and wider than what is taught in the schools here and in China.(If you don't know what I mean by that, explore what happened to the practice of indigenous Chinese Medicine during the cultural revolution.)

This is not a book for folks who are unfamiliar with the basic "tenets" of Chinese Medicine.It is a bit more "esoteric" in it's reach, and really tries to conceptualize "in the minds eye" relationships and interactions, energetically or "psychologically" if you prefer, that the TCM model attempts to form poorly, or not at all.

I must, respectfully, take the reviewer from Seattle to task about it being "dark".I certainly know what he means, but the only way to find fault in the extremes of the book, is if you didn't happen to read Dr. Hammers admission within the book, that he has exaggerated the conditions he describes, and that the patients are not real people.Rather, they are constructs of clients, created for the sake of fleshing out the concepts presented in the book.Though sometimes portions need a re-read, I just can't find fault with Dr. Hammer for doing what he suggests I should be aware he is going to do.

As another reviewer has said, this is one you'll return to over and over.A most wonderful book!!

Five Elements and Psychology
I bought this book as a first year acupuncture student and have referred to it many times.As the other reviewer says, it is quite dark and does discuss extremes, but then mental illness is about extremes. It is really useful to look at the extreme yin or yang aspect of an Element and its Officals to fully understand how the Element can manifest when out of balance.I don't know of any other book which provides such an in depth picture of each of the 5 Element types.Sounds heavy, but is in fact relatively easy to read if you have a reasonable understanding of psychology.Definately one of my top 5 Chinese Medicine books, this is a book that you read again and again. ... Read more