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by Ronald L. Eisenberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
For millions of people throughout the world, the Hebrew Bible functions as the foundation of their faith. For millions more, the same book functions as the subject of their studies. For both groups, the characters discussed in the Bible lend key insight to the lessons found there. However, sifting...
by Yonasson Gershom
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2000
Scattered throughout many kabbalistic and hasidic texts are numerous teaching stories with reincarnation as their central theme. Now, for the first time, you can read 70 of these fascinating tales in a single volume, collected and retold by master storyteller, Yonassan Gershom.
The author begins...
Hungry for Ecstasy
Trauma, the Brain, and the Influence of the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Hungry for Ecstasy: Trauma, The Brain, and the Influence of the Sixties by Sharon Klayman Farber explores the hunger for ecstatic experience that can lead people down the road to self-destruction. In an attempt to help mental health professionals and concerned individuals understand and identify the...
Taming Aggression in Your Child: How to Avoid Raising Bullies, Delinquents, or Trouble-Makers
How to Avoid Raising Bullies, Delinquents, or Trouble-Makers
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
Taming Aggression in Your Child: How to Avoid Raising Bullies, Delinquents, or Trouble-Makers is a guide to preventing children from developing aggressive behaviors from birth through adolescence. Hostile destructive kids become hostile destructive adults and often create serious problems for society,...
Conversations with Anorexics
Compassionate and Hopeful Journey through the Therapeutic Process
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1994
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This posthumous collection of case material illustrates the treatment modality successfully employed by psychiatrist Bruch with patients suffering from the eating disorder of anorexia. Two of her associates at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston have edited this final work,...
Service of the Heart
A Guide to the Jewish Prayer Book
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1977
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Removing the Mask of Kindness
Diagnosis and Treatment of the Caretaker Personality Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2006
Character traits may be used as defenses, or, 'coping mechanisms' that may be developed by individuals in an exaggerated fashion in order to conceal psychological conflicts. When these mechanisms break down, previously repressed trauma erupts into consciousness. One such trait is selflessness. Les...
The Children's Bill of Emotional Rights
A Guide to the Needs of Children
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2011
There are approximately 7 billion people in the world, and 2 billion of them are children. Children are the last unheard minority, a group whose voice is seldom listened to, and whose rights are seldom acknowledged. Children are dependent on adults for their survival and wellbeing, and as such are...
Treating the Disruptive Adolescent
Finding the Real Self Behind Oppositional Defiant Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2000
This book offers clinicians an effective method of diagnosing, managing, and treating oppositional, resistant, and disruptive older children and adolescents. Dr. Bustamante understands oppositional states as an expression of the teenager's uncertainty about his own identity and alienation from his...
by Robert M. Haralick
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1995
This book-length meditation on the Hebrew alphabet offers profound insights into many important ideas found in Jewish thought.
From time immemorial, the Hebrew alphabet has been considered to be more than a collection of individual letters. Indeed, the essence of each letter of the Hebrew alphabet...
by Ronald L. Eisenberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Despite the fact that scholars of the post-Talmudic era have been of great importance to the continued interpretation of religious texts for more than a millennium, they are typically not given as much attention as their Talmudic-era predecessors. Essential Figures in Jewish Scholarship compiles thorough...
Stories within Stories
From the Jewish Oral Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
The stories presented in Peninnah Schram's highly anticipated Stories within Stories: From the Jewish Oral Tradition are drawn primarily from talmudic and midrashic sources, medieval texts, and the Israel Folktale Archives. Each enchanting story-within-a-story is part of the Jewish oral tradition...
Theraplay
Innovations in Attachment-Enhancing Play Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Theraplay is a form of structured play therapy designed to strengthen the attachment between parents and their child. Dr. Evangeline Munns, a Theraplay therapist and trainer, introduces this treatment method in its traditional format of individual child and parent sessions. Its simple, action-oriented,...
Redecision Therapy
A Brief, Action-Oriented Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1997
Editor Carolyn Lennox characterizes the redecision therapist as a director in an improvisational theater. Guided by the client's personal contract for change, the therapist helps the client select and rewrite old scripts in which he or she was cast as victim. By keeping the dialogue moving and assisting...