The Symbiotic Character

Download or read book The Symbiotic Character written by Stephen M. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1991-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dr. Johnson's contribution is a most impressive and unusual work. It represents a 'post-modernist' attempt to organize and unify some of the disparate theoretical and clinical trends in current psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, infant development research, and family therapy. As the cursor of attention has begun to fall of late on the narcissistic and 'borderline' personality disorders, the whole field of personality and character seems to be overdue for reconsideration. This is exactly what Dr. Johnson has innovatively accomplished in this work." --James S. Grotstein, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California--Los Angeles School of Medicine Training and Supervising Analyst, Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute

Download or read book This Symbiotic Fascination written by Charlee Jacob and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2022-07-02 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a terrible thing loneliness is. Tawne Delaney: A woman filled with the hatred of herself and what she's not... Never touched by a man, never loved, until one night in the woods... Tawne watches as a woman's body is crammed into a drain pipe... A crooked and broken beast beckons to Tawne and passes on his gift to her. Is it the ultimate power or the cruelest joke? Arcan Tyler: A man tormented by the memories of an insane mother and haunted by the ghosts of a dozen women not yet dead... Struggling with the rage of three beasts, controlled, for now... Once friends and co-workers, Tawne and Arcan now unite as lovers... Along with each other's body, they share each other's secrets: Arcan, his beasts; Tawne, her power... Is it the love of dreams or the sheer terror of a nightmare come to life?

Download or read book Words Were Originally Magic written by Steve De Shazer and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1994 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the role of language in psychotherapy, discusses the work of Lacan, Bateson, Ackerman, and Weakland, and examines the client-therapist conversation

Download or read book Escaping Exodus written by Nicky Drayden and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Don't be alarmed - that dizzy pleasurable sensation you're experiencing is just your brain slowly exploding from all the wild magnificent worldbuilding in Nicky Drayden's Escaping Exodus. I loved these characters and this story, and so will you." - Sam J. Miller, Nebula-Award-winning author of The Art of Starving and Blackfish City The Compton Crook award–winning author of The Prey of Gods and Temper returns with a dazzling stand-alone novel, set in deep space, in which the fate of humanity rests on the slender shoulders of an idealistic and untested young woman—a blend of science fiction, dark humor, and magical realism that will appeal to fans of Charlie Jane Anders, Jeff VanderMeer, and Nnedi Okorafor. Earth is a distant memory. Habitable extrasolar planets are still out of reach. For generations, humanity has been clinging to survival by establishing colonies within enormous vacuum-breathing space beasts and mining their resources to the point of depletion. Rash, dreamy, and unconventional, Seske Kaleigh should be preparing for her future role as clan leader, but her people have just culled their latest beast, and she’s eager to find the cause of the violent tremors plaguing their new home. Defying social barriers, Seske teams up with her best friend, a beast worker, and ventures into restricted areas for answers to end the mounting fear and rumors. Instead, they discover grim truths about the price of life in the void. Then, Seske is unexpectedly thrust into the role of clan matriarch, responsible for thousands of lives in a harsh universe where a single mistake can be fatal. Her claim to the throne is challenged by a rival determined to overthrow her and take control—her intelligent, cunning, and confident sister. Seske may not be a born leader like her sister, yet her unorthodox outlook and incorruptible idealism may be what the clan needs to save themselves and their world.

Download or read book Lighter as We Go written by Mindy Greenstein and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fears of aging have been one long cascading domino effect through the years: twenty year-olds dread thirty; forty year-olds fear fifty; sixty fears seventy, and so it goes. And there is something to worry about, though it isn't what you'd expect: research shows that having a bad attitude toward aging when we're young is associated with poorer health when we're older. These worries tend to peak in midlife; but in Lighter as We Go, Mindy Greenstein and Jimmie Holland show us that, contrary to common wisdom, our sense of well-being actually increases with our age--often even in the presence of illness or disability. For the first time, Greenstein and Holland--on a joint venture between an 85 year-old and a fifty year-old--explore positive psychology concepts of character strengths and virtues to unveil how and why, through the course of a lifetime, we learn who we are as we go. Drawing from the authors' own personal, intergenerational friendship, as well as a broad array of research from many different areas--including social psychology, anthropology, neuroscience, humanities, psychiatry, and gerontology--Lighter as We Go introduces compassion, justice, community, and culture to help calm our cascading fears of aging.

Download or read book Finding Mighty written by Sheela Chari and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along the train lines north of New York City, twelve-year-old neighbors Myla and Peter search for the link between Myla’s necklace and the disappearance of Peter’s brother, Randall. Thrown into a world of parkour, graffiti, and diamond-smuggling, Myla and Peter encounter a band of thugs who are after the same thing as Randall. Can Myla and Peter find Randall before it’s too late, and their shared family secrets threaten to destroy them all? Drawing on urban art forms and local history, Finding Mighty is a mystery that explores the nature of art and the unbreakable bonds of family.

Download or read book The Symbiotic Character written by Stephen M. Johnson and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnson advocates "psychotherapy as a post-modern art form"--a form shaped by the classic and modern forms that predate it but distinctive in its integration, freedom from dogma, and encouragement of creative self-expression. His integrative theory is designed to "hold" this form in all its various expressions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR