Freeing The Imprisoned Self

Author : George Eastman Ed.D., Ph.D.
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1457526247
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freeing the Imprisoned Self written by George Eastman Ed.D., Ph.D. and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Eastman offers himself as a case study, returning to the sudden loss of his mother at just twenty-two months, and his upbringing as the last of six children parented by a hardworking but rigid and emotionally vacant father. In the context of depression-era poverty and emotional deprivation, he developed what is called a schizoid personality disorder. He sought safety and refuge in a self-made prison of both grandiose and painfully lonely imaginings. Obsessively intellectual, he developed his mental processes to avoid feeling and any true intimacy. The preoccupation with abstract technical and philosophical issues shut him away from people. He became addicted to risk and to sex; professional rules that interfered did not apply to him. He repeatedly reconfigured his life — careers and relationships — to protect his schizoid “cylinder” of isolation. Others suffered; so did Eastman. Yet buried deep within lay an unquenchable thirst for connection and a heroic determination to understand and to heal. Eastman’s relentlessly honest story unfolds with commentary at the end of each chapter to clarify the clinical picture of the schizoid personality, which is still not well understood. Unlike schizophrenia, in which the split exists between the real world and a distorted inner world, the schizoid protects a private inner self that is experienced as rich and special. The stilted outer self is often mistaken for disinterest, detachment, or even hostility. Unlike the psychopath who presents a convincingly normal outer persona, the schizoid may appear socially awkward, tightly controlled, eccentric, and often intellectually superior. The schizoid’s pathological focus on self is a recognizable human quality — writ very large, indeed. George Eastman’s memoir and his meticulous analysis of the disorder is a gift, and proof that that although we may be our own jailers and prisoners, we have the power to set both free.

Author : Jeanne Magagna
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000452697
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Psychotherapeutic Understanding of Eating Disorders in Children and Young People written by Jeanne Magagna and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book shows how psychotherapy can address severe eating disorders in children and young people, illustrating the ways an imprisoned self can be released from suffering. The book features a range of case studies while addressing core issues such as self-harm, hallucinations and the threat of suicide, as well as related topics such as depression and psychosis. Illustrating the psychological roots to eating disorders, it places therapy within hospital, clinical and multi-disciplinary contexts, as well as displaying how psychoanalytic theory can be applied across various settings and in different teams. Written by an eminent author in the field, this will be a key text for anyone wishing to understand eating disorders in children from a psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic dimension.

Author : Jason Jd Rutherford
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781729796689
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Imprisoned Mind written by Jason Jd Rutherford and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is possible to break free from our self-made prison. The power we possess is already within us just waiting to be unleashed. An imprisoned mind is the limited existence of our lives. It really doesn't matter if you are physically behind bars or not, everyone is a prisoner to something. A limited mindset tells us we cannot break free from our negative situations. We are hostages to the departure from rational thought, a condition created by a series of failures and abuses from others. A total lack of understanding of how our thinking is shaped from childhood until we are adults can cause us many problems throughout our lives. This book contains life lessons from one who was incarcerated for many years, not only physically, but mentally as well. With an easy to follow guide outside of complicated jargon and terms, JD Rutherford brings this deep knowledge of inner understanding and puts it into a language all can understand.

Author : Fred Antonelli
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1622952022
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free to Be You written by Fred Antonelli and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come and experience just who you were originally meant to be (the greater YOU!) How temperament, learned behavior, and even past/present abuse tend to shape as well as define you in life either positively or negatively.

Author : Elliot Studt
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610444981
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book C-Unit written by Elliot Studt and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1968-12-31 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most detailed reports ever made on an effort to establish a therapeutic community within a California prison. This work describes how the program was launched, gives a number of examples of its operation, and outlines the new problems and prospects created for inmates, staff, and the broader prison administration by this attempt to redefine the roles within the prison.

Author : Katherine Augusta Westcott Tingley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theosophical Path written by Katherine Augusta Westcott Tingley and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lynne Huffer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231149190
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mad for Foucault written by Lynne Huffer and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary critiques of sexuality have their origins in the work of Michel Foucault. While Foucault's seminal arguments helped to establish the foundations of queer theory and greatly advance feminist critique, Lynne Huffer argues that our interpretation of the theorist's powerful ideas remains flawed.

Author : Harinder Singh Mehboob
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1503546616
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sikh Scripture written by Harinder Singh Mehboob and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the history of world religions, as a Sikh it is my belief that there is no other book on world religions that clarifies the areas of revelations and also their limitations in their manifestation on the variety of life and how they justify to establish a real history according to the new concepts of the writer. The fear of death, jealousy, and prejudice are very natural to such religions that lack the blessings of a prophet. With comparison to a complete revelation upon this globe as the Sikh Gurus and their continuous manifestations in life with unselfish kindness and sublimity of martyrdom in variety of horrible trials through our Gurus and Khalsa, which is illumined by the word in book and word in flesh of Gurus, no other religion can compete with it. The greater holy wars of Sikh Gurus and Khalsa are unsurpassable in holy wrath and immeasurable mercy in the history of world religions with comparison to especially the greater holy wars of Islam. Dr. Gurtarn Singh Sidhu

Author : Hubert J. M. Hermans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108844405
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberation in the Face of Uncertainty written by Hubert J. M. Hermans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses Dialogical Self Theory to respond to the challenges of climate change, well-being, and disenchantment of the world.

Author : Cyntoia Brown-Long
Publisher : Atria Books
ISBN 13 : 1982141115
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free Cyntoia written by Cyntoia Brown-Long and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAACP Image Award nominee for Outstanding Biography/Autobiography In her own words, Cyntoia Brown-Long shares the riveting and redemptive story of how she changed her life for the better while in prison, finding hope through faith after a traumatic adolescence of drug addiction, rape, and sex trafficking led to a murder conviction. “Those...years in prison hadn’t just turned me into woman. They transformed me. The girl who desperately wanted to belong, who felt powerless, who clawed, and scratched her way out of every corner she was backed into, was gone.” At the age of sixteen, Cyntoia Brown, a survivor of human trafficking, was arrested for killing a man who had picked her up for sex. Two years later, she was sentenced to life in prison. Brown reflects on the isolation, low self-esteem, and sense of alienation that drove her straight into the hands of a predator. Once in prison, she attempts to build a positive path and honor the values her beloved adoptive mother, Ellenette, taught her, but Cyntoia succumbs to harmful influences that drive her to a cycle of progress and setbacks. Then, a fateful meeting with a prison educator turned mentor offers Cyntoia the opportunity to make the pivotal decision to strive for a better future, even if she’s never freed. In these pages, Cyntoia shares the details of her transformation, including a profound encounter with God, an unlikely romance, an unprecedented outpouring of support from social media advocates and A-list celebrities, and her release from prison. A coming-of-age memoir set against the shocking backdrop of a life behind bars, Free Cyntoia takes you on a spiritual journey as Cyntoia struggles to overcome a lifetime of feeling ostracized and abandoned by society.