A Population Of Selves

Author : Erving Polster
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Population of Selves written by Erving Polster and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1995-04-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erving Polster--coauthor of the landmark work Gestalt Therapy Integrated--greatly expands the knowledge and thinking on the development of self. A Population of Selves offers therapists new ways of thinking about the self as well as specific procedures to help patients realize a powerful and healthy sense of self: a goal at the very heart of the therapeutic process.In an innovative expansion of therapeutic theory, Polster shows how the human reflex to summarize and animate experiences serves as a natural springboard for the formation of selves. He enlarges the therapeutic aim of synthesizing alienated aspects of a person by offering a construct of heterogeneous characters within, each with its own place and voice. Every person is host to a population of selves: the infantile, the cunning, the rebellious, the tAnder.Using case examples from his own therapeutic practice, Polster illustrates eight major pathways for therapists to elicit new selves and to help their patients renew neglected or misunderstood selves. His approach ties self theory more closely than ever to actual therapeutic practice. He shows how to evoke selves through the use of stofy, and he explains how to tighten up therapy sessions to encourage the emergence of selves. Polster also suggests techniques aimed at improving contact among various selves, as well as between therapist and patient, and then augmenting strong contact with the powerful complementary use of empathy. Finally, he demonstrates how to guide patients through their alienated selves and, without robbing each of its identity, link these selves to create a greater sense of personal identity.

Author : Agota Szende
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9400775962
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self-Reported Population Health: An International Perspective based on EQ-5D written by Agota Szende and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The EQ-5D instrument, as a standardized, cross-culturally validated measure of self-assessed health has a hugely important role in understanding population health within and across countries. Over the past two decades a wealth of international population health survey data have been accumulated by the EuroQol Group from research conducted in many countries across four continents. One of the success factors of the EQ-5D instruments has been the easy availability of national or international sets of EQ-5D data, as well as clear explanations and guidance for users. There is an unmet need to produce a comprehensive book that captures up-to-date and expanded information of EQ-5D self-reported health and index values. EQ-5D population norms and cross-country analyses are provided from representative national surveys of 20 countries and additional regional surveys. This book will be a must for those who believe that how people report and value health is very important.

Author : Marian L. Tupy
Publisher : Cato Institute
ISBN 13 : 1952223407
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Superabundance written by Marian L. Tupy and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generations of people have been taught that population growth makes resources scarcer. In 2021, for example, one widely publicized report argued that “The world's rapidly growing population is consuming the planet's natural resources at an alarming rate . . . the world currently needs 1.6 Earths to satisfy the demand for natural resources ... [a figure that] could rise to 2 planets by 2030.” But is that true? After analyzing the prices of hundreds of commodities, goods, and services spanning two centuries, Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley found that resources became more abundant as the population grew. That was especially true when they looked at “time prices,” which represent the length of time that people must work to buy something. To their surprise, the authors also found that resource abundance increased faster than the population―a relationship that they call superabundance. On average, every additional human being created more value than he or she consumed. This relationship between population growth and abundance is deeply counterintuitive, yet it is true. Why? More people produce more ideas, which lead to more inventions. People then test those inventions in the marketplace to separate the useful from the useless. At the end of that process of discovery, people are left with innovations that overcome shortages, spur economic growth, and raise standards of living. But large populations are not enough to sustain superabundance―just think of the poverty in China and India before their respective economic reforms. To innovate, people must be allowed to think, speak, publish, associate, and disagree. They must be allowed to save, invest, trade, and profit. In a word, they must be free.

Author : Paul Morland
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1541788389
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Human Tide written by Paul Morland and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling new history of the irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations that have made and unmade nations, continents, and empires The rise and fall of the British Empire; the emergence of America as a superpower; the ebb and flow of global challenges from Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Soviet Russia. These are the headlines of history, but they cannot be properly grasped without understanding the role that population has played. The Human Tide shows how periods of rapid population transition--a phenomenon that first emerged in the British Isles but gradually spread across the globe--shaped the course of world history. Demography--the study of population--is the key to unlocking an understanding of the world we live in and how we got here. Demographic changes explain why the Arab Spring came and went, how China rose so meteorically, and why Britain voted for Brexit and America for Donald Trump. Sweeping from Europe to the Americas, China, East Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa, The Human Tide is a panoramic view of the sheer power of numbers.

Author : Elizabeth G. Williams
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401716692
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genetic control of self-incompatibility and reproductive development in flowering plants written by Elizabeth G. Williams and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plant reproductive biology has undergone a revolution during the past five years, with the cloning, sequencing and localization of the genes important in reproduction. These advantages in plant molecular biology have led to exciting applications in plant biotechnology, including the genetic engineering of male sterility and other reproductive processes. This book presents an interesting and contemporary account of these new developments from the scientists in whose laboratories they have been made. The chapters focus on two areas: the molecular biology of self-incompatibility, which is the system of self-recognition controlled by the S-gene and related genes; and the cellular and molecular biology of pollen development and genetic dissection of male sterility. Some chapters feature Arabidopsis, with its unique genetic system. Reproduction is vital for seed production in crop plants, and this book presents new approaches to manipulate plant breeding systems for the 21st century.

Author : Greg Graffin
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250017629
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Population Wars written by Greg Graffin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new perspective on the biological roots of competition from the author of Anarchy Evolution and Cornell lecturer

Author : Ricard Solé
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140084293X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self-Organization in Complex Ecosystems. (MPB-42) written by Ricard Solé and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can physics be an appropriate framework for the understanding of ecological science? Most ecologists would probably agree that there is little relation between the complexity of natural ecosystems and the simplicity of any example derived from Newtonian physics. Though ecologists have long been interested in concepts originally developed by statistical physicists and later applied to explain everything from why stock markets crash to why rivers develop particular branching patterns, applying such concepts to ecosystems has remained a challenge. Self-Organization in Complex Ecosystems is the first book to clearly synthesize what we have learned about the usefulness of tools from statistical physics in ecology. Ricard Solé and Jordi Bascompte provide a comprehensive introduction to complex systems theory, and ask: do universal laws shape the structure of ecosystems, at least at some scales? They offer the most compelling array of theoretical evidence to date of the potential of nonlinear ecological interactions to generate nonrandom, self-organized patterns at all levels. Tackling classic ecological questions--from population dynamics to biodiversity to macroevolution--the book's novel presentation of theories and data shows the power of statistical physics and complexity in ecology. Self-Organization in Complex Ecosystems will be a staple resource for years to come for ecologists interested in complex systems theory as well as mathematicians and physicists interested in ecology.

Author : Nico Stollenwerk
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1908978406
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Population Biology and Criticality written by Nico Stollenwerk and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010-11-25 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book describes novel theories of mutation pathogen systems showing critical fluctuations, as a paradigmatic example of an application of the mathematics of critical phenomena to the life sciences. It will enable the reader to understand the implications and future impact of these findings, yet at same time allow him to actively follow the mathematical tools and scientific origins of critical phenomena. This book also seeks to pave the way to further fruitful applications of the mathematics of critical phenomena in other fields of the life sciences. Contents:From Deterministic to Stochastic DynamicsSpatial Stochastic Birth–Death Process or SIS-EpidemicsCriticality in Equilibrium SystemsPartial Immunization ModelsRenormalization and Series Expansion: Techniques to Study CriticalityCriticality in Measles Under VaccinationEvolution to Criticality in Meningococcal Disease Readership: Academics in the field of biology, medicine and physics (cross-disciplinary) interested in stochasticity in biological and medical systems, in relation to public health, evolutionary biology and microbiology. Keywords:Critical Phenomena;Stochastic Dynamics;Absorbing Phase Transition;Pair Approximation;Moment Closure;Epidemiology;Ecology;Birth and Death Processes;Accidental Pathogens;Multi-Strain Dynamics;Meningitis;Large FluctuationsKey Features:No competing book existing yetThe treatment of some topics included is scattered in the literature of various fieldsSome topics have never been published in detailed book form beforeExplicit calculations are preferred over results statements

Author : Mary Pipher, PhD
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110107776X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reviving Ophelia written by Mary Pipher, PhD and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller The groundbreaking work that poses one of the most provocative questions of a generation: what is happening to the selves of adolescent girls? As a therapist, Mary Pipher was becoming frustrated with the growing problems among adolescent girls. Why were so many of them turning to therapy in the first place? Why had these lovely and promising human beings fallen prey to depression, eating disorders, suicide attempts, and crushingly low self-esteem? The answer hit a nerve with Pipher, with parents, and with the girls themselves. Crashing and burning in a “developmental Bermuda Triangle,” they were coming of age in a media-saturated culture preoccupied with unrealistic ideals of beauty and images of dehumanized sex, a culture rife with addictions and sexually transmitted diseases. They were losing their resiliency and optimism in a “girl-poisoning” culture that propagated values at odds with those necessary to survive. Told in the brave, fearless, and honest voices of the girls themselves who are emerging from the chaos of adolescence, Reviving Ophelia is a call to arms, offering important tactics, empathy, and strength, and urging a change where young hearts can flourish again, and rediscover and reengage their sense of self.

Author : Paul R. Ehrlich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781568495873
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Population Bomb written by Paul R. Ehrlich and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: