Examines the history of behavioral economics, discussing the theory of Israeli psychologists who wrote the original studies undoing assumptions about the decision-making process and the influence it has had on evidence-based regulation. Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in...

"A powerful, moving memoir--and a practical guide to healing--written by Dr. Edith Eva Eger, an eminent psychologist whose own experiences as a Holocaust survivor help her treat patients and allow them to escape the prisons of their own minds. Edith Eger was sixteen years old when the Nazis came to her hometown in Hungary and took her Jewish family to an internment center and then to Auschwitz. Her parents were sent to the gas chamber by Joseph Mengele...

Much complementary and additional matter has been inserted in this edition in the part dealing with "Perception of the Higher Worlds." The endeavour has been made to represent in a graphic way the kind of inner soul-processes by which the power of cognition liberates itself from the limits which confine it in the world of sense and thereby becomes qualified for experiencing the supersensible world. The attempt has been made to show that these experiences,...

Man's Search for Meaning is the chilling yet inspirational story of Viktor Frankl's struggle to hold on to hope during the unspeakable horrors of his years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of those he treated in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot

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A prominent Viennese psychiatrist recounts his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp that led to the development of his existentialist approach to psychotherapy.

Offers a guide to creativity composed of creative philosophies, stories, inspiration, and advice from the author's own life and the numerous creative mentors and collaborators that he has encountered throughout his career.

Đi t?m l? s?ng c?a Viktor Frankl l? m?t trong nh?ng quy?n s?ch kinh đi?n c?a th?i đ?i. Th?ng thư?ng, n?u m?t quy?n s?ch ch? c? m?t đo?n v?n, m?t ? tư?ng c? s?c m?nh thay đ?i cu?c s?ng c?a m?t ngư?i, th? ch? ri?ng đi?u đ? c?ng đ? đ? đ? ch?ng ta đ?c đi đ?c l?i v? d?nh cho n? m?t ch? tr?n k? s?ch c?a m?nh. Quy?n s?ch n?y c? nhi?u đo?n v?n như th?. Trư?c h?t, đ?y l? quy?n s?ch vi?t v? s? sinh t?n. Gi?ng như nhi?u ngư?i Do Th?i sinh...

"This biography tells the story of Evelyn Hooker, the woman behind the research, advocacy, and allyship that led to the removal of the "homosexuality" diagnosis from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders"-- Evelyn Hooker was the woman behind the research, advocacy, and allyship that led to the removal of the "homosexuality" diagnosis from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. She was also a poet, and an influential...

The Only Girl in the World describes the author's harrowing upbringing by fanatic parents, who raised her in isolation through traumatic disciplinary exercises designed to "eliminate weakness" and recounts how she eventually escaped with the help of an outsider.

"Peppered with pop-culture fun-facts about Superman's kryptonite, the human-machine relationships in the cult TV show Firefly, and the sexual and moral implications of the film Ex Machina, [this book] explores how the techno-triumphs and resulting anxieties of reality bleed into the fantasies of our collective culture ... By looking back at the future she once imagined, analyzing the plugged-in present, and speculating on what is on the horizon, Terri...