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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
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William Styron
The novelist William Styron realized during the summer of 1984, when he was 60 years old, that the joylessness, insomnia, and suicidal thoughts he had been experiencing were not simply part of an episode of harmless melancholy, but the marks of a severe and terrifying depression (he calls it "madness") that had become debilitating. As he ...
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Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life with Autism
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Temple Grandin, Oliver W Sacks (Foreword by)
The animal scientist describes how she and other victims of autism perceive the world, and relates the ways in which she has been able to adapt and have a successful career.
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Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
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Elyn Saks
Saks managed to achieve both professional and personal success in spite of being diagnosed as schizophrenic and given a "grave" prognosis. In this memoir, she frankly and movingly discusses the disease, and the treatments that helped her to cope and thrive.
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The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life
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Lynne Twist, Teresa Barker
Exploring the connection between money and leading a fulfilling life, this book shows us how earning, spending and giving money away can offer us a valuable insight into our lives, values and the essence of prosperity. Through personal stories and practical advice, Lynne Twist how we can replace feelings of scarcity, guilt and burden with ...
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Walk Across America
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Peter Jenkins
In this classic account, Jenkins describes how his disillusionment with society in the 1970s drove him out onto the road on a walk across America, and shares the lessons he learned about his country and himself that resonate to this day.
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Freud: A Life for Our Time
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Professor Peter Gay
This biography of Freud provides an overview of his life and of the academic life of other early psychoanalysts. It also discusses his Jewishness - the way it influenced his life and the anti-Semitism in Vienna - while emphasizing his bourgeois aspirations.
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The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, renowned for her work on death and dying, writes about her life, from her idyllic childhood in Switzerland, through her marriage and motherhood, to her achievements in medicine and psychiatry. She ends with a contemplation of her own death, and her belief that at the end of life one must be able to feel that one has made a ...
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Thinking in Pictures
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Temple Grandin
The captivating subject of Oliver Sacks' An Anthropologist on Mars gives her personal account of living with autism, and tells how her extraordinary gift of animal empathy has transformed her world. of photos & line drawings.
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Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love
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Thomas Maier
The definitive biography of the famous sex research team who dramatically transformed American sexuality yet whose private relationship was just as complex and dysfunctional as any of their patients
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Somebody Somewhere: Breaking Free from the World of Autism
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Donna Williams
In this sequel to "Nobody Nowhere," Donna Williams explores the four years since being diagnosed with autism and her attempts to leave her "world under glass" and live normally.
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Prozac Diary
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Lauren Slater
In this true account, author Lauren Slater reveals how the antidepressant drug Prozac helped her cope with clinical depression and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Although little was known about the effectiveness and possible side effects of Prozac in 1988--the FDA had approved it in December 1987--Slater was desperate to avoid an unproductive ...
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Two Lucky People: Memoirs
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Milton Friedman, Rose D Friedman
This is an autobiographical account of the lives and influence of economist Milton Friedman and his wife Rose, who sought to change intellectual opinion in the USA by their belief in personal freedom. It covers their involvement with world leaders and important public policy issues. Through their books and television programmes, and Milton's ...
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Timothy Leary: A Biography
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Robert Greenfield
To a generation in full revolt against any form of authority, "Tune in, turn on, drop out" became a mantra, and its populariser, Dr. Timothy Leary, a guru. A charismatic and brilliant psychologist, Leary became first intrigued and then obsessed by the effects of psychedelic drugs in the 1960s while teaching at Harvard, where he not only encouraged ...
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Jung: A Biography
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Deirdre Bair
Deirdre Bair's well-researched and thorough biography of Carl Jung does not neglect the more controversial aspects of his career, including his quarrel with Freud in 1913; his acceptance of the presidency of the General Medical Society for Psychotherapy in 1933 in Germany after the Nazi takeover; and persistent accusations of anti-Semitism.
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William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
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Robert D Richardson
Prize-winning biographer Richardson has written the definitive work on the fascinating William James, whose life and writing put an indelible stamp on psychology, philosophy, teaching, and religion--and on modernism itself.
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Life and Work of Sigmund Freud
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Ernest Jones
Ernest Jones's biography of Freud is the one others are measured against. It is often cited as one of the best examples of biography in the 20th century.
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Tribute to Freud
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Hilda Doolittle, Norman Holmes Pearson (Foreword by)
Bringing together "Writing on the Wall," composed some ten years after H.D's stay in Vienna, and "Advent," a journal she kept at the time of her analysis there, Tribute to Freud offers a rare glimpse into the consulting room of the father of psychoanalysis. It may also be the most intimate of H.D.'s works.
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Karen Horney: A Psychoanalysts Search for Self-Understanding
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Professor Bernard J Paris
Karen Horney (1885-1952) is regarded by many as one of the most important psychoanalytic thinkers of the 20th century. Her early work, in which she quarrelled with Freud's views on female psychology, established her as the first great psychoanalytic feminist. In her later years, she developed a sophisticated theory of her own which provided ...
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Creeker: A Woman's Journey
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Linda Scott Derosier
Born in 1941 in Appalachia, this memoirist celebrates the environs of her upbringing, where every neighbor was a friend.
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Acts of Will: The Life and Work of Otto Rank
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E James Lieberman, M.D.
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Final Analysis: The Making and Unmaking of a Psychoanalyst
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, PH.D.
Jeffrey Masson, once the protege of Anna Freud and Kurt Eissler, here exposes the workings of the psychoanalyst's training. Describing his experiences in the Freud Archives he tells how he discovered, in Freud's work, the flaw that empowers the analyst to distort another person's reality.
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The Body Silent: The Different World of the Disabled
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Robert F Murphy
Robert Murphy was a professor of anthropology at Columbia before he developed a spinal tumour that progressed into quadriplegia. Here, he explores society's fears, myths and misunderstanding about disability, and the effect they have on the disabled person's identity and social standing.
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Goodbye Jumbo: Hello Cruel World
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Louie Anderson (Performed by)
The author of the blockbuster bestseller Dear Dad has some inspiring new things to say about weight loss, addiction, recovery, and the healing medicine of humor. While dealing with one of today's most prevalent and baffling diseases, Anderson confronts isuses of family and self-worth that all readers can relate to. Anderson says, "If you heal the ...
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Identity's Architect: A Biography of Erik H. Erikson
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Lawrence Jacob Friedman
A biography of Erik H. Erikson, the Harvard psychologist and author of influential theories on child development and identity.
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The Freud/Jung Letters: The Correspondence Between Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung
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Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung, William McGuire (Editor)
This is the unabridged version of the correspondence between the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, and his designated heir, C. G. Jung. This edition includes the critical apparatus missing from the abridged version.
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