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Onto the Stage - ‘Slighted Souls’ and other stage and radio plays
A compendium of the author’s stage and radio plays: "Slighted Souls" is a poignant love story set in rural Telangana, beset with feudal exploitation of the downtrodden dalits. Besides forcing the dalits to toil in the fields as bonded labor without impunity, the land owning doras had no qualms in reducing the womenfolk of this ilk as sex slaves in the gadis, which leads to an armed rebellion. "Men at work on Women at work" is a tragic-comic episode depicting the fallout of sexual harassment at the workplace in the Indian urban setting with its traditional cultural underpinnings. "Castle of Despair", built on the slippery ground of man's innate urge for one-upmanship, portrays its facade of falsity on the grand stage of human tragedy. The radio play, "Love on Hold", lends voice to the felt anxieties of a man and a woman as their old flame gets rekindled and the dilemmas of possession faced by the couple in a conservative cultural background.
Depressive Realism
Depressive Realism argues that people with mild-to-moderate depression have a more accurate perception of reality than non-depressives. Depressive realism is a worldview of human existence that is essentially negative, and which challenges assumptions about the value of life and the institutions claiming to answer life’s problems. Drawing from central observations from various disciplines, this book argues that a radical honesty about human suffering might initiate wholly new ways of thinking, in everyday life and in clinical practice for mental health, as well as in academia. Divided into sections that reflect depressive realism as a worldview spanning all academic disciplines, chapters p...
Respect-Focused Therapy
Therapists have a unique opportunity and responsibility to provide a respectful environment for their clients, yet respect has not received adequate attention in the psychotherapy community and related research. Respect-Focused Therapy: Honoring Clients Through the Therapeutic Relationship and Process sets forth the formulation of respect-focused therapy (RFT), a new approach to psychotherapy that addresses the quality of the client–therapist relationship and therapeutic process. This volume treats respect as a combination of action, attitude and open-mindedness, urging therapists to recognize their own biases and beliefs and be willing to suspend them for the benefit of their clients. Using Martin Buber’s "I-Thou" relationship as a conceptual model, Slay-Westbrook provides core principles of respect and demonstrates how to incorporate these into the therapeutic relationship to best foster a healing environment.
Families Bereaved by Alcohol or Drugs
Individuals bereaved by the drug- or alcohol-related death of a family member represent a sizeable group worldwide. Families Bereaved by Alcohol or Drugs is the long-awaited result of an important and ambitious research project into the experiences commonly encountered by members of this stigmatized and vulnerable group. Based on focus groups with the practitioners and service personnel who support grieving relatives following the loss of a loved one to alcohol or drugs, as well as interviews with the largest qualitative sample of adults bereaved by substance use that has been reported to date, this much-needed contribution to research on addiction and bereavement identifies four major reaso...
Time Warp
This is a collection of short stories which is truly pan-Indian. It deals with many sub cultures that exist in India. The various stories have been written between 1986 and now. The book is, in a sense, a peep into middle India through this time period with its strengths, weaknesses, frailties, idiosyncrasies and eccentricities. All of it is true to life and readers can relate to the stories easily.
Neurobiology and Treatment of Traumatic Dissociation
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The Trodden Life
The story revolves around a small town boy, a resident of the city of waterfalls Ranchi, Ansh, exceptionally brilliant in academics and a child with a crystal clear future and a life with no complains. But certainly at the age of 16, he decides to take drugs as his destiny and life as a joke, finally he ends up slashing his wrist and allowing himself rest in peace with a piece of paper describing his apathy. The biggest dilemma contrary to the situation was that fate had rejected his application for rejection of his life and life had some other plans for him. His parents who believed that he was their love of life started misunderstanding him and ended up sending him far away from his home t...
Working with the Developmental Trauma of Childhood Neglect
This book provides psychotherapists with a multidimensional view of childhood neglect and a practical roadmap for facilitating survivors’ healing. Working from a strong base in attachment theory, esteemed clinician Ruth Cohn explores ways therapists can recognize the signs of childhood neglect, provides recommendations for understanding lasting effects that can persist into adulthood, and lays out strategies for helping clients maximize therapeutic outcomes. Along with extensive clinical material, chapters introduce skills that therapists can develop and hone, such as the ability to recognize and discern non-verbal attempts at communication. They also provide an array of resources and evidence-based treatment modalities that therapists can use in session. Working with the Developmental Trauma of Childhood Neglect is an essential book for any mental health professional working with survivors of childhood trauma.
The Comprehensive Resource Model
Traditional methods employed in psychotherapy have limited effectiveness when it comes to healing the psychological effects of trauma, in particular, complex trauma. While a client may seem to make significant breakthroughs in understanding their feelings and experiences on a rational level by talking with a therapist, this will make no difference to their post-traumatic symptoms if the midbrain is unable to modulate its activity in response. The Comprehensive Resource Model argues for a novel therapeutic approach, which uniquely bridges neuroscience and spirituality through a combination of somatic therapy, traditional psychotherapy, and indigenous healing concepts to provide effective reli...
Romancing the woods
It is a story of a boy named Ravi, an ardent badminton player and a brilliant student. Ravi finds love on the badminton court. What starts as an infatuation later turns into long lasting love, enduring pain and misery together. By a stroke of bad luck and an adventure expedition gone awry, Ravi and his friends witness something so sinister that leaves them entangled and embroiled with a terrorist organisation that takes orders from the enemy across the border. The terrorist organisation takes assignment to bomb cities of the Indian Republic and kill innocent citizens helping the enemy nation to avenge the accession of Kashmir in 1947. Sensing danger to its existence, the terrorist outfit makes all out efforts to intimidate and exterminate Ravi. Amidst abduction and brave counter offensive, he weathers it all to survive and bring to books the evil forces. It is a saga of courage and wherewithal on part of Ravi, fighting the terrorists by his extraordinary will power and intelligent thinking to outsmart them. He spins a web to get the terrorists apprehended, winning yet another freedom for the country and its citizens.
