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Minding What Matters interweaves beautifully written expositions of Buddhist topics and compelling fictional dialogues between a patient and psychotherapist. With vivid immediacy and a sense of playfulness, Langan shows how any one of us can intimately explore the full possibilities of our own minds. This unique book offers, in Robert Coles' words, "an entrancing vision of what it is possible to do and to be." Book jacket.
"Psychoanalysis and Buddhism" pairs Buddhist psychotherapists together with leading figures in psychoanalysis who have a general interest in the role of spirituality in psychology. The resulting essays present an illuminating discourse on these two disciplines and how they intersect. This landmark book challenges traditional thoughts on psychoanalysis and Buddhism and propels them to a higher level of understanding.
This pioneering Handbook surveys the research landscape of strategic leadership in what is referred to as the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’: a fusion of technologies and systems which blurs the boundaries between the digital, physical and biological spheres.
Offering an inspiring balance of useful insights, subtle spiritual teachings, and compassionate encouragement, More Daily Wisdom will become a trusted companion to casual readers and committed seekers alike. Every selection is drawn from Wisdom Publications' uncommonly broad and deep collection of Buddhist titles, presenting timeless guidance in many distinctive voices and in powerful harmony. Within these pages, you'll hear the heartening words and quiet counsel of ancient and modern masters-in both shining poetry and crisp, clear prose-on love and living wisely, mindfulness and generosity, working with fear and finding joy in every moment just as it is. Whether you're looking for morning inspiration or a few words to help keep a difficult day in perspective, this collection will help you light a path into your own daily wisdom. Book jacket.
Psychoanalytic Geographies is a unique, path-breaking volume and a core text for anyone seeking to grasp how psychoanalysis helps us understand fundamental geographical questions, and how geographical understandings can offer new ways of thinking psychoanalytically. Elaborating on a variety of psychoanalytic approaches that embrace geographical imaginations and a commitment toward spatial thinking, this book demonstrates the breadth, depth, and vitality of cutting-edge work in psychoanalytic geographies and presents readers with as wide a set of options as possible for taking psychoanalysis forward in their own work.
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Before European settlers arrived in North America, more than 300 distinct languages were being spoken among the continent's Indigenous peoples. But the Euro-American emphasis on alphabetic literacy has historically hidden the power and influence of Indigenous verbal and nonverbal language diversity on encounters between Indigenous North Americans and settlers. In this pathbreaking work, Phillip H. Round reveals how Native North Americans sparked a communications revolution in their adaptation and resistance to settlers' modes of speaking and writing. Round especially focuses on communication through inscription—the physical act of making a mark, the tools involved, and the social and cultu...
Identity as a concept does not appear in psychoanalysis until the work of Erik Erikson in the 1950s, but today it is considered a key factor in understanding individuals and groups. It is a concept of enormous complexity, encompassing biological aspects, internalised object representations that determine the inner world of the subject, and relational aspects in the real world. Answering the question, 'Who am I really?' is a task that can span a lifetime. Constructing one's own identity involves social, cognitive-rational, and unconscious processes. These elements underpin the answer to this question and its corollary, 'What is my value?' As we move from looking at individuals in isolation to...