Showing results by publisher "Random House Audio" in Psychotherapy

From the author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos comes a provocative hypothesis that explores the connection between what modern neuropsychology tells us about the brain and what rituals, myths, and religious stories have long narrated. A cutting-edge work that brings together neuropsychology, cognitive science, and Freudian and Jungian approaches to mythology and narrative, Maps of Meaning presents a rich theory that makes the wisdom and meaning of myth accessible to the critical modern mind.

Here is an extraordinary new approach to healing by an extraordinary physician-writer - a book filled with the mystery, wonder, and hope of people who have experienced seemingly miraculous recoveries from cancer and other serious illnesses.

Mindfulness - the quality of attention that combines full awareness with acceptance of each moment, just as it is - is gaining broad acceptance among mental health professionals as an adjunct to treatment. This little audiobook is a very appealing introduction to mindfulness meditation for children and their parents. In a simple and accessible way, it describes what mindfulness is and how mindfulness-based practices can help children calm down, become more focused, fall asleep more easily, alleviate worry, manage anger, and generally become more patient and aware.

Renegade thinkers are crashing the gates of a venerable American institution, shoving aside its so-called wise men and replacing them with a radical new data-driven order. We’ve seen it in sports, and now in The Victory Lab, journalist Sasha Issenberg tells the hidden story of the analytical revolution upending the way political campaigns are run in the 21st century.

“To treat, even to cure, is not always to heal.” In this expansive cultural history of the treatment and healing of mental suffering, Kay Jamison writes about psychotherapy, what makes a great healer, and the role of imagination and memory in regenerating the mind. From the trauma of the battlefields of the twentieth century, to those who are grieving, depressed, or with otherwise unquiet minds, to her own experience with bipolar illness, Jamison demonstrates how remarkable psychotherapy and other treatments can be when done well.

‘Why am I like this?’ If you’ve asked this question to yourself quietly time and again… get ready to unpack and process like never before. Embark on a textured journey that will illuminate the hidden, unspoken and often unconscious experiences of the traumatized self. Chapter by chapter, you’ll make sense of your emotions, body, nervous system and relationships.

Thomas Hannas Übungen "Hanna Somatics" bauen auf der Feldenkrais-Methode auf und werden von Körpertherapeuten und allen, die etwas für ihre Gesundheit tun möchten, hoch geschätzt. Sie ermöglichen einen bewussteren Umgang mit dem Körper sowie neue, gesündere Bewegungsmuster.

In Bless This Mess, listeners will gain constructive tools as they learn how to talk to their children about social justice, money, God, ethics, bullying, disabilities, sexuality, and their bodies. Parents will also glean insights on how to serve others with joy, give generously and gratefully, and - perhaps most important - learn how to stop being so afraid all the damn time, even while raising kids in an increasingly chaotic and often scary world.

In more than a decade as a psychotherapist to some of Asia’s most powerful couples and businesspeople, expat New Yorker Allison Heiliczer has seen it all. In Rethink The Couch: Into the Bedrooms and Boardrooms of Asia with an Expat Therapist, Heiliczer brings listeners into her therapy room and engagements with such clients: the Singaporean maneater with a portfolio comparing the endowments—physical and financial—of her expat lovers; the wealthy Chinese litigator in thrall to a feng shui master; the entrepreneur trying to treat his own ADHD, and many others.

Der praktische Erste-Hilfe-Kasten für die Seele: 111 Psychohacks gegen den Alltagswahnsinn. Wo Menschen zusammenleben, knirscht es. Missverständnisse, Missstimmungen, Missmut – kurz: Psychokram. Dass es dabei um Krankheiten wie Ängste oder Depressionen geht, ist trotz steigender Zahlen eher die Ausnahme. Die meisten Psycho-Probleme im Alltag kann man ohne lange Ursachenforschung, Couch und Therapie lösen. Mit Rolf Schmiels Psychohacks geht es oft schneller und besser.

Gelassenheit ist wie ein Fels in der Brandung, auf dem wir inmitten von Erfolg und Misserfolg, von Glück und Schmerz, von Angst und Hoffnung Zuflucht und Ruhe finden und die Welt um uns mit mehr Heiterkeit betrachten. Jessica Wilker zeigt, wie wir diesen Felsen entdecken und erklimmen können. Sind wir nicht oft unsere eigenen gnadenlosen Richter, begegnen wir nicht anderen mit weit mehr Akzeptanz als uns selbst? Die Psychotherapeutin Jessica Wilker zeigt auf humorvolle und persönliche Weise, wie wir einen freundschaftlicheren Umgang mit uns selbst entwickeln und tagtäglich pflegen können.