Mindfulness

Langer offers the reader the essence of her 15 years of research in social psychology. She demonstrates the grave and pervasive consequences of mindlessness and the startling benefits of mindfulness.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Ellen J. Langer

Psychology & Counseling

Harvill / HarperCollins

This up-to-date survey of contemporary behaviour therapy synthesises the clinical, research, theoretical and ethical facets of behaviour therapy.Part I: BASIC PRINCIPLES. 1. What is Behavior Therapy? 2. Antecedents of Contemporary Behavior Therapy. 3. The Behavioral Model. 4. The Process of Behavior Therapy. 5. Behavioral Assessment. Part II: BEHAVIOR THERAPY. 6. Stimulus Control and Reinforcement Therapy. 7. Deceleration Behavior Therapy. 8. Token Economy, Contingency Contract, and Behavioral Child Management Training. 9. Brief/Graduated Exposure Therapy. 10. Prolonged/Intense Exposure Therapy. 11. Modeling Therapy and Skills Training. 12. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Cognitive Restructuring. 13. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Coping Skills. Part III: BROADER APPLICATIONS AND ISSUES. 14. Applications to Behavioral Medicine. 15. Applications to Psychological Disorders with Primary Physical Characteristics. 16. Contemporary Behavior Therapy in Perspective: Strengths, Challenges, and Controversies. Appendix. Glossary of Behavior Therapy Terms. Glossary of Disorders and Psychological Problems. Name Index. Subject Index.This respected up-to-date survey of contemporary behavior therapy synthesizes the clinical, research, theoretical, and ethical facets of behavior therapy. It is simultaneously an introduction for beginning students and a scholarly review and resource for advanced students. The book is comprehensive, covering all the major behavior therapies. The wealth of case studies illustrate the application of behavior therapy techniques to a wide array of problems and clinical populations. The text's multidisciplinary approach includes applications to diverse fields, including psychology, education, social work, nursing, and rehabilitation.

Contemporary Behavior Therapy - Textbook Only

Science & Math

Spiegler, Michael

Behavioral Sciences

Thomson/Wadsworth

The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing: Experience and Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Rapoport, Judith L.

Harpercollins

A collection of essays from one of England's distinguished psychiatrists. Its theme is creativity. What internal dynamic forces artists, scientists and politicians to devote so much time and energy to creative invention? It examines the impulses which drove such figures as Churchill and Newton.

Churchill's Black Dog

Self-Help

Storr,Anthony

Personal Transformation

Fontana Harpercollins

The transformation of the corporate world is one of the most extraordinary events of the 20th century. How and why this transformation happened is the subject of this brilliant social history of business, which provides an intriguing look at how "the company man" has responded to the successive shocks of the past 20 years.

Company Man: Rise and Fall of Corporate Life

Sampson, Anthony

HarperCollins Business

The Force of Fantasy: Its Roles, Its Benefits and What it Reveals About Our Lives

Person, Ethel S.

Motivational

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Jung, C.G.

recorded and edited by Aniela Jaffe

translated by Richard and Clara Winston

Fontana Press

In The Quantum Self, Danah Zohar argues that the insights of modem physics can illuminate our understanding of everyday life -- our relationships to ourselves, to others, and to the world at large. Guiding us through the strange and fascinating workings of the subatomic realm to create a new model of human consciousness, the author addresses enduring philosophical questions. Does the new physics provide a basis by which our consciousness might continue beyond death? How does the material world (for instance, ugly inner cities) impinge upon our sense of self? Is there a subatomic wellspring from which our creativity, our empathy with others, and our feelings of unity with the inanimate world originate?Most important, Zohar shows how the vitality of the new physics combats the alienation and fragmentation of twentieth-century life, and replaces it with a model of reality in which the universe itself may possess a type of consciousness, of which human consciousness is one expression.

The Quantum Self

Politics & Social Sciences

Zohar, Danah

Philosophy

HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited

Selected writings from the author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception on the role of psychedelics in society. • Includes letters and lectures by Huxley never published elsewhere. In May 1953 Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram of mescaline. The mystical and transcendent experience that followed set him off on an exploration that was to produce a revolutionary body of work about the inner reaches of the human mind. Huxley was decades ahead of his time in his anticipation of the dangers modern culture was creating through explosive population increase, headlong technological advance, and militant nationalism, and he saw psychedelics as the greatest means at our disposal to "remind adults that the real world is very different from the misshapen universe they have created for themselves by means of their culture-conditioned prejudices." Much of Huxley's writings following his 1953 mescaline experiment can be seen as his attempt to reveal the power of these substances to awaken a sense of the sacred in people living in a technological society hostile to mystical revelations. Moksha, a Sanskrit word meaning "liberation," is a collection of the prophetic and visionary writings of Aldous Huxley. It includes selections from his acclaimed novels Brave New World and Island, both of which envision societies centered around the use of psychedelics as stabilizing forces, as well as pieces from The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, his famous works on consciousness expansion.

Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience, 1931-63 (Flamingo Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

HUXLEY, ALDOUS

Essays & Correspondence

Flamingo

‘A masterpiece of popularization’ Times Literary Supplement
‘A fascinating account, based on objective scientific research, of the ways in which mental states affect the individual’s liability to disease… Martin is a highly civilised scientist, who seasons his text with witty parentheses. He also provides many examples from literature, ranging widely from Shakespeare, Goethe and Hardy to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Kafka… Interesting, informative and a pleasure to read.’ ANTHONY STORR, Sunday Times
‘Excellent’ JON TURNEY, Financial Times
‘This most accessible account of a difficult subject blows away some prejudices and pleasingly justifies others… Martin is a biologist whose style is considerate of the layman…and it is a tribute to his own benignly infectious enthusiasm for his subject that his closing thoughts are encouraging… Remarkable.’ ALAN JUDD, Daily Telegraph
‘Compelling… Balanced and impressively up to date… The tone of voice, the open-minded but critical intelligence should uplift the quality of the debate… Martin’s lucid account of possible mechanisms of the connections between mental states and personality traits and illnesses is a notable triumph of his book… Excellent.’ RAYMOND TALLIS, Times Literary Supplement

The Sickening Mind: Brain, Behaviour, Immunity and Disease

MARTIN, PAUL

Mental Health

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