The Seed Of Madness

Author : Salman Akhtar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429922140
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seed of Madness written by Salman Akhtar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More and more individuals with ego defects, severe object relations conflicts, affective turbulence, and unassimilated contradictions are seeking help from psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. Contributors to this book explore hereditary and constitutional factors, environmental influences and unconscious fantasies in the development of the psychotic core in such patients and provide guidance for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists to hear and therapeutically respond to these patients' uncanny ways of describing their internal worlds. This volume includes contributions by experienced clinicians from Europe and the United States, as well as case histories illustrating the transformation of the psychotic core and how these patients can develop healthier internal structures. The editors' introductory and closing summaries integrate knowledge dealing with especially difficult patients. By reading this book, psychoanalysts and therapists will be prepared to gain insights as newer neurobiological and psychological research findings become available and, hopefully, enthusiasm about working with individuals with "the seed of madness."

Author : Seth Farber
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594777039
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spiritual Gift of Madness written by Seth Farber and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold call for the “insane” to reclaim their rightful role as prophets of spiritual and cultural transformation • Explains how many of those diagnosed as schizophrenic, bipolar, and other forms of “madness” are not ill but experiencing a spiritual awakening • Explores the rise of Mad Pride and the mental patients’ liberation movement • Reveals how those seen as “mad” must embrace their spiritual gifts to help the coming global spiritual transition Many of the great prophets of the past experienced madness--a breakdown followed by a breakthrough, spiritual death followed by rebirth. With the advent of modern psychiatry, the budding prophets of today are captured and transformed into chronic mental patients before they can flower into the visionaries and mystics they were intended to become. As we approach the tipping point between extinction and global spiritual awakening, there is a deep need for these prophets to embrace their spiritual gifts. To make this happen, we must learn to respect the sanctity of madness. We need to cultivate Mad Pride. Exploring the rise of Mad Pride and the mental patients’ liberation movement as well as building upon psychiatrist R. D. Laing’s revolutionary theories, Seth Farber, Ph.D., explains that diagnosing people as mad has more to do with social control than therapy. Many of those labeled as schizophrenic, bipolar, and other kinds of “mad” are not ill but simply experiencing different forms of spiritual awakening: they are seeing and feeling what is wrong with society and what needs to be done to change it. Farber shares his interviews with former schizophrenics who now lead successful and inspiring lives. He shows that it is impossible for society to change as long as the mad are suppressed because they are our catalysts of social change. By reclaiming their rightful role as prophets of spiritual and cultural revitalization, the mad--by seeding new visions for our future--can help humanity overcome the spiritual crisis that endangers our survival and lead us to a higher and long-awaited stage of spiritual development.

Author : Jocelyn Pedersen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998763958
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeds OF Hope: A Journey Through Medication and Madness Toward Meaning written by Jocelyn Pedersen and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Jocelyn Pedersen takes the reader through the ups and downs of loss, love, and recovery in this harrowing and heartfelt memoir. Jocelyn had faith and a positive outlook when she is faced with a terror so insidious it threatens to extinguish everything she believes in.

Author : H.P. Lovecraft
Publisher : Namaskar Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book "At The Mountains Of Madness " written by H.P. Lovecraft and published by Namaskar Books. This book was released on with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samara Linton
Publisher : Skiddaw Books
ISBN 13 : 9780992651442
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Colour of Madness written by Samara Linton and published by Skiddaw Books. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Colour of Madness is a seminal BAME led & curated anthology, comprised of poetry, fiction, essays, memoirs and art submitted by BAME writers, academics, mental health workers, artists and those still navigating life with mental health problems. Exploring the BAME mental health experience in the UK

Author : Alejandra Pizarnik
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811216438
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972 written by Alejandra Pizarnik and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length collection in English by one of Latin America’s most significant twentieth-century poets. Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolano, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasure in the U.S. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962–1972 comprises all of her middle to late work, as well as a selection of posthumously published verse. Obsessed with themes of solitude, childhood, madness and death, Pizarnik explored the shifting valences of the self and the border between speech and silence. In her own words, she was drawn to "the suffering of Baudelaire, the suicide of Nerval, the premature silence of Rimbaud, the mysterious and fleeting presence of Lautréamont,” as well as to the “unparalleled intensity” of Artaud’s “physical and moral suffering.”

Author : Jj Acolyte
Publisher : Booktango
ISBN 13 : 1468909983
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebirth & Madness: Diseases of Consciousness written by Jj Acolyte and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Adeline van Waning
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782796576
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Less Dust the More Trust written by Adeline van Waning and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Less Dust, the More Trust presents the story of the author’s participation in the Shamatha Project, addressing Buddhism, shamatha mindfulness practices (concentration-calm), and meditation-research. With diary excerpts, dream log, and audio transcripts she gives the reader a feel for her personal experiences. The current research outcomes of this unique ongoing project are reported, focusing on the effects of the various practices in attention and emotion regulation, and on health. They include groundbreaking findings of effects down to the chromosome level. The practice ‘Settling the mind in its natural state’ invites wonder: what is this natural state? Each chapter includes a guided meditation. The book is structured in a way that it can provide the reader with various threads. It can be read as an overview of the Shamatha Project, meditation and science. Additionally, it can be read as an exploration into Buddhist studies, with a focus on psychological and scientific understanding of meditation. Most importantly: the book can support a personal journey for the reader in practicing shamatha meditations, and experiencing increasing well-being. ,

Author : Francis J. Kaklauskas
Publisher : University of Rockies Press
ISBN 13 : 0976463849
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brilliant Sanity written by Francis J. Kaklauskas and published by University of Rockies Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliant Sanity is a rare feat. This engaging and informative book is sure to become essential for psychotherapy scholars, acceptance and mindfulness researchers, and clinicians alike. This is one not to be missed.--Doug Mennin, Ph.D., Yale University.

Author : Taghreed Najjar
Publisher : Crackboom! Books
ISBN 13 : 9782924786222
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Watermelon Madness written by Taghreed Najjar and published by Crackboom! Books. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noura is crazy about watermelon. She wants to eat nothing else, every day, at every meal. In fact, Noura thinks there is no such thing as too much watermelon. Until one night, when the watermelon she has hidden in her room to eat all by herself begins to grow and Noura get taken on a wild watermelon adventure! A story that can be the springboard for a discussion on favorite foods, eating a balanced diet, sharing with others and trying new foods.