The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Taleb delivers a groundbreaking look at the role played by the unexpected in life and history, and a fascinating examination of why we know less than we think we do--and what to do about it. # Hardcover: 400 pages # Publisher: Random House (April 17, 2007) # Language: English # ISBN-10...

What are the consequences of prolonged exposure to the mental and emotional sufferings of others? In what ways can the practice of psychotherapy impede a person's ability to form healthy, fulfilling personal relationships? Is it true that psychotherapists are unusually prone to mental illness, drug and alcohol abuse, sexual acting out, workaholi...

As a step-by-step guide through the healing process, this workbook will touch a deep nerve and provide the same directional support as its companion bestseller Courage to Heal. The workbook is a combination of checklists, open-ended questions, writing exercises, art projects, and activities.

This brief exploration of the essentials of abnormal psychology offers readers an engaging, innovative systems approach by integrating the biological, psychological and social perspectives in an interesting and concurrent story. Readable, reader-friendly research methods are mainstreamed throughout the text. Detailed case studies and briefer cas...

In this unusual and beautiful book, Quindlen reflects on what it takes to get a life --to live deeply and uniquely rather than to merely get through our days. Beautifully designed with evocative photos, the handbook offers guidance on how to live with awareness. 25 photos. From the Publisher"Life is made of moments, small pieces of silver a...

Using the therapeutic techniques of Iyengar-style yoga, Dr. Schatz demonstrates how to deal with periods of acute discomfort, how to rebuild the body to prevent recurrences, and how to move on to a full and nourishing yoga practice. 200 200 photos & illustrations.

A young girl befriends a special man with the mind of a child during one memorable summer in the south.

A black boy and an emotionally troubled white boy in North Carolina form a precarious friendship.

One summer day Toad was unhappy. He had lost the white, four-holed, big, round, thick button from his jacket. Who helped him look for it? His best friend, Frog. Another day, Frog was unhappy. He was sick in bed and looking green. Who gave him some tea and told him a story? His best friend, Toad.From the first enchanting story to the last, these ...

The Handbook of Psychiatric Measures describes how to choose and use mental health/psychiatric assessment tools and evaluate available measures. These measures cover a range of assessment domains including: symptoms, function, and outcomes. Each measure is evaluated for its components, reliability, validity, and clinical utility, including its s...

From the day he is born, Little Gorilla grows and grows and grows. On each of his birthdays, everyone in the jungle comes by to express their affection for him, even as he gets bigger and bigger. Full-color illustrations.

The last 6 years has seen many advances in our knowledge of psychiatric illnesses. The DSM-IV Text Revision spans the bridge between DSM-IV TM and DSM-IV TM to ensure that the most relevant new information since the DSM-IV literature review in 1992 was incorporated and to enhance the educational value. Specifically, new information on associated...

After contracting meningitis, a fifteen-year-old girl becomes deaf and must struggle with accepting her hearing loss and being accepted by her friends and family.

Your Drug May Be Your Problem provides an up-to-date, uncensored description of dangers involved in taking psychiatric medication, and is the only book to explain how to coordinate a safe withdrawal from these medications. From the Publisher Psychiatric drugs are prescribed to more than twenty million Americans but can these drugs do more harm ...

Two young girls--one black and one Jewish--are caught up in the turmoil of prejudice in a small Vermont town in 1924.

Chrysanthemum: Chrysanthemum thinks her name is absolutely perfect-until the kids at school make fun of her. It takes a special friend to change her classmates' mind. Owen: Owen isn't happy when his parents won't let him bring Fuzzy, his beloved yellow blanket, to school. Luckily, Owen's mother has the perfect solution. A Weekend With Wendell: S...

For the more than 20 million people in North America suffering from depression, Philip Martin reveals a new path of healing to ease the pain and mend the spirit. A sufferer himself, Martin suggests that depression is a spiritual issue. Showing how Zen practices and wisdom can be used effectively as an instrument of healing in an easy-to-follow f...

Inspired by a true story, this is a book about roots, the need to be loved and discovering one's true self as a group of girls bond one fateful summer.

Maisy and Tallulah play hospital. Poor Panda is sick but feels much better with Doctor Maisy in charge. When it's Maisy's turn to need help, Nurse Tallulah comes to the rescue! Full color.

STARTING TODAY, YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIVE IN PAINThat is the revolutionary message of this breakthrough system for eliminating chronic pain without drugs, surgery, or expensive physical therapy. Developed by Pete Egoscue, a nationally renowned physiologist and sports injury consultant to some of today's top athletes, the Egoscue Method has an astou...