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Book SynopsisIn a world dominated by half-truths, illogic, and intellectual laziness, Think Better helps readers understand what reason is and how to use it well. Reason is a powerful tool not only for finding our way in an increasingly complex world but also for growing intellectually and emotionally. This short, accessible volume unlocks the dynamics of human reason, helping readers to think critically and to use reason confidently to solve problems. It enables readers to think more clearly and precisely about the world, and it tackles a number of profound philosophical questions without getting bogged down with jargon. Topics include knowledge, identity, leadership, creativity, and empathy. Written in an accessible style that integrates philosophy, illustrations, personal anecdotes, and statistical data, this book is well suited for use in undergraduate, classical school, and home school contexts. It is an invaluable guide for anyone interested in gaining better reasoning skills and a more rational approach to life.Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Empowering Minds1. Knowledge Is the Basis of Good ReasoningKnowledge Is ConversationalHow to Train Your Will, or When It Is Better to Shut Up2. Have Realistic Goals and HumilityKnowing Always Desires TruthKnowledge and IncompetenceKnowledge Is Not Piecemeal but Holistic3. The Power of Reason and EternityWhere Do We Find Natural Laws?Laws Are Ghosts from Another World4. Knowing Yourself Is the Key to Logical ThinkingThe Principle of IdentityBecoming Mindful of Your SurroundingsObjects Teach Us about RealityFinding Relationships between ObjectsNothingness Is Your Invention5. Good Thinking Is Always FocusedMy Thinking Is Not Identical with Brain EventsThinking Is Not FeelingThinking Abstract ThingsOrder for Our Thinking: Genus and SpeciesOur Mind Is Not Inventing "Justice"The Tools of Thinking Are Analysis and SynthesisBeware of Bad Comparisons and Analogies6. Critical ThinkingBe Active and Not PassiveCutting through NonsenseYou Know What Is Good EvidenceTrust Is Not UncriticalDistrust and Illiteracy Are the Problems!Overcoming Confirmation Bias7. Without Order There Is No Good ReasoningA Grid Brings OrderThinking Coherently Takes Effort8. Ignorance Is Not BlissIgnorance as a Moral WeaknessBetter Thinking Can Save Our Failing SocietyOvercoming Ignorance Drives Innovation9. Real Thinking Sets You FreeFreedom and Reason Need Each OtherIs My Experience of Freedom Reliable?Save Your Freedom by ThinkingFreedom Is More Than ChoiceThe Pinnacle of Freedom Is Forgiveness10. Thinking Happens in a Soul, Not a ComputerDon't Get Robbed of Your First-Person ExperienceYour Brain Is Not a ComputerImmaterial Matter and the SoulCan Matter Produce Mind?Personal Identity and Soul11. Majority Rules Don't "Make" TruthThe Principle of NoncontradictionCan I Be a Skeptic?How Many Does It Take?12. Real Thinking Discovers CausesThe Classic Four CausesDo Things Just Pop into Existence?Coming into Existence Needs a CauseDo Things Pop out of Existence?Potency and Change13. Thinking about Goods, Values, and MoralityEmotions Are Not about TruthThe Rational Foundation of Morality14. Thinking Saves LivesIntentional PerceptionDisputing Irrational Beliefs15. Empathy Is Achieved by Hard ThinkingWalking in Somebody Else's ShoesSelf-Awareness Is Needed for EmpathyThinking about Emotions16. Leadership, Values, and Your ThoughtsCharacteristics of LeadershipUbuntu as a Key to Moral LeadershipRecognizing and Hearing the Other17. Creative Thinking Is Not a MysteryDivergence, Convergence, and Lateral ThinkingOvercoming Mental BlocksHow to Become Creative18. Reasoning Helps Us Find Unity in a Divided WorldConnectedness and PersonhoodGiving All a "Home"Unity in DiversityIndex

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Book SynopsisOur ability to think about the future is one of the most powerful tools at our disposal. In The Invention of Tomorrow, cognitive scientists Thomas Suddendorf, Jonathan Redshaw, and Adam Bulley argue that its emergence transformed humans from unremarkable primates to creatures that hold the destiny of the planet in their hands. Drawing on their own cutting-edge research, the authors break down the science of foresight, showing us where it comes from, how it works, and how it made our world. Journeying through biology, psychology, history, and culture, they show that thinking ahead is at the heart of human nature-even if we often get it terribly wrong. Incisive and expansive, The Invention of Tomorrow offers a fresh perspective on the human tale that shows how our species clawed its way to control the future.

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Book SynopsisIn previous books, Leslie S. Greenberg has demonstrated the importance of integrating emotional work into therapy and has laid out a compelling model of therapeutic change. Building on these foundations, WORKING WITH EMOTIONS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY sheds new light on the process and technique of intervention with specific emotions. Filled with illustrative case examples, the book shows clinicians how to identify a given emotion, discern its role in a client's self-understanding, and understand how its expression is furthering or inhibiting the client's progress. Of vital importance, the authors help readers think more differentially about emotions; to distinguish, for example, between avoided emotional pain and chronic dysfunctional bad feelings, between adaptive sadness and maladaptive depression, and between overcontrolled anger and underregulated rage. A conceptual overview and framework for intervention are delineated, and special attention is given throughout to the integration of emotion and cognition in therapeutic work.Trade ReviewThe authors of this book beautifully describe the hierarchical order of emotions, how to identify specific emotions, and ultimately how to work and restructure the client's relationship to powerful and damaging maladaptive emotions. For people who are interested in cognitive and experiential work with emotions, this book is invaluable. - The Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and ResearchFor any therapist who believes that it is important to address the powerful emotions that clients bring to therapy, this is an important and seminal book. - Canadian PsychologyThere is no doubt that Greenberg is both a pioneer and the field's premier investigator in the important work of applying the basic research on emotions to the process of psychotherapy. The focus on primary emotions and their change is what distinguishes this book. It is a fabulous compendium of strategies for working with emotions and draws from both behavioral and experiential therapies. A 'must read.' - Marsha M. Linehan, PhDTable of Contents1.The Centrality of Emotion in Psychotherapy I.Theoretical Framework 2.What Is Emotion? 3.Emotion Assessment 4.Sources of Emotional DisorderII.Intervention Framework 5.The Process of Change 6.The Phases of Emotionally Focused InterventionsIII.Differential Work with the Emotions 7.Anger 8.Sadness and Distress 9.Fear and Anxiety10.Shame11.The Pleasant Emotions12.Research, Training, and Supervision

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Book SynopsisSolution-focused therapy is often misunderstood to be no more than the techniques it is famous for—pragmatic, future-oriented questions that encourage clients to reconceptualize their problems and build on their strengths. Yet when applied in a "one-size-fits-all" manner, these techniques may produce disappointing results and leave clinicians wondering where they have gone wrong. This volume adds a vital dimension to the SFT literature, providing a rich theoretical framework to facilitate nonformulaic clinical decision making. The focus is on how attention to emotional issues, traditionally not emphasized in brief, strengths-based interventions, can help "unstick" difficult situations and pave the way to successful solutions.Trade ReviewAt last, someone has written a book that integrates the practical simplicity of solution-focused work with the crucial presence of emotion and relationship. Eve Lipchik liberates our understanding of feelings from cumbersome theoretical frameworks, and shows how they are a basic currency in the therapeutic exchange. This book is eminently practical and theoretically illuminating. I highly recommend it.--Stephen Gilligan, PhD, Private Practice; Author of Therapeutic Trances and The Courage to LoveRarely does a book convey its message so well or so strongly. Eve Lipchik's mantra, 'I cannot change clients, they can only change themselves,' gently recontextualizes solution-focused work. This book shows that when therapists listen to and talk about struggle and emotion--as well as strengths and hope--clients make their own changes. Eve Lipchik writes like she works, sensitively weaving her ideas through many case examples and applications, from the emotionally overwhelmed individual to violent couples, crisis situations, and long-term situations. Treat yourself to the richness and practical wisdom of her experience and perspective.--John Walter, LCSW, and Jane Peller, LCSW, authors of Recreating Brief TherapyIn this clear yet clinically and theoretically sophisticated volume, Eve Lipchik dispels all the stereotypes of solution-focused therapy (SFT), so that even SFT skeptics will want to give the model a second look. Her version cherishes the uniqueness of clients, is nonformulaic, emotion-focused, and privileges the client-therapist relationship over technique. For Lipchik, SFT goes slowly; clients, not therapists, determine when they want to talk about solutions. Replete with rich case illustrations (which heretofore I would have assumed to be 'too complex' for SFT), the volume has left me with the imprint of a master teacher and clinician and has greatly enriched my practice. With warmth and wisdom, Lipchik shows that SFT is a living, breathing, sensitive, and evolving model.--Douglas H. Sprenkle, PhD, Marriage and Family Therapy Program, Purdue UniversityIn this inclusive, simply written book, studded with clinical stories like raisins in a cake, Lipchik walks the reader through a deeply unusual approach to solution-focused therapy. She has broadened the theoretical base to include the idea of love as a biological given, and adds concern for emotions to the clinician's repertory. Links are made to Sullivanian theory and to practical humanism, creating a user-friendly path to guide more traditionally trained psychotherapists. This book is a gift for therapists of all stripes and a 'must-have' for training programs and libraries.--Lynn Hoffman, ACSW, Adjunct Lecturer, St. Joseph College, West Hartford; Author of Foundations of Family Therapy and Family Therapy: An Intimate History - An ideal introduction to SFT and it has already had an impact on the way I work with clients....A useful and enlightening read which widened my view of SFT. I see now that SFT can be empowering for clients and a flexible framework for counsellors of many orientations. --Private Practice, 6/17/2011Table of ContentsI. Theory and Practice 1. A Theory of Solution-Focused Therapy 2. The Therapist–Client Relationship 3. Understanding Clients 4. Emotions in Solution-Focused Therapy 5. The Process of Clarifying Goals 6. The Team behind the Mirror and the Consultation Break 7. The Summation Message and the Suggestion II. Applications 8. Couple Therapy 9. Family Therapy 10. Working with Involuntary Clients 11. Long-Term Cases 12. The Solution-Focused Approach to Crisis

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Book SynopsisA revolutionary guide to flourishing in times of flux and angst by harnessing the overlooked power of our uncertainty.In an era of terrifying unpredictability, we race to address complex crises with quick, sure algorithms, bullet points, and tweets. How could we find the clarity and vision so urgently needed today by being unsure? Uncertain is about the triumph of doing just that. A scientific adventure tale set on the front lines of a volatile era, this epiphany of a book by award-winning author Maggie Jackson shows us how to skillfully confront the unexpected and the unknown, and how to harness not-knowing in the service of wisdom, invention, mutual understanding, and resilience.Long neglected as a topic of study and widely treated as a shameful flaw, uncertainty is revealed to be a crucial gadfly of the mind, jolting us from the routine and the assumed into a space for exploring unseen meaning. Far from luring us into inertia, uncertainty is the mindset most needed in times of flux and a remarkable antidote to the narrow-mindedness of our day.In laboratories, political campaigns, and on the frontiers of artificial intelligence, Jackson meets the pioneers decoding the surprising gifts of being unsure. Each chapter examines a mode of uncertainty-in-action, from creative reverie to the dissent that spurs team success. Step by step, the art and science of uncertainty reveal being unsure as a skill set for incisive thinking and day-to-day flourishing.

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Book SynopsisVenturing out of the laboratory into the wild of natural settings, it becomes untenable to locate memory strictly in the head. Instead, memory appears as a materially extended and socially distributed process, embedded within culture and history. This book explores the complex relations between practices of remembering and the settings in which they are enacted. It advances a novel set of concepts developed from ecological, cognitive, cultural and narrative currents in psychology and further afield to analyze (1) trajectories of autobiographical remembering, (2) the relation between individual and collective memory, (3) memory and cultural transmission, as well as (4) various methodological techniques to investigate memory in the wild.

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Book SynopsisA practical guide to everyday mindfulness techniques that really work.Written by an expert teacher with over 35 years' experience, and supported by online meditations and downloadable worksheets, The Little Mindfulness Workbook is a uniquely practicalpocket guide that will help you: Combat stress, anxiety and depression Learn the value of acceptance Choose how to respond to unwanted experiences Improve your happiness and well-being The meditations and practices contained in The Little Mindfulness Workbook can be used to complement a mindfulness course you are already following, or independently as a step-by-step eight-week course that will help you heal your lifeGary Hennessey is one of the country's most experienced mindfulness teachers. Follow his advice. It will serve you well. Dr Danny Penman, co-author of Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World."Although this book is short, it is pithy. Although it is small, it is weighty. Although it contains alot of common sense, it also hints at profound truths that can change your lifeforever." Vidyamala Burch, from her Foreword

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Book SynopsisThis book places two key notions up against each other to imagine a new way of conceptualizing historical time. How do the experience of déjà vu and the idea 'End of History' relate to one another? Through thinkers like Bergson, Kojève and Nietzsche, Virno explores these constructs of memory and the passage of time. In showing how the experience of time becomes historical, Virno considers two fundamental concepts from Western philosophy: Power and The Act, reinterpreting these with respect to time. Through these, he elegantly constructs a radical new theory of historical temporality.Trade ReviewPaulo Virno is one of the most radical and lucid thinkers of the postoperaist political tradition * Meditations Journal *

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Book SynopsisWhy are ignorant people so confident? How do politicians utilize conflation to influence groups? Why do scientists fall for similar mistakes? How is complexity managed? Why does culture effortlessly shape what we can do? This book argues: Because of approximations! Incompleteness pervades our interactions with the world. Its effects on individual and group behaviors can foster creativity or create invisible prisons. We navigate incompleteness with approximations and, too often, end up on the ‘dark side’. This book resembles a tourist’s trip much more than a scientist’s expedition, and is for anyone interested in a broader understanding of an individual’s mental life and how identities, incompletenesses, and social contexts shape it. As we examine approximations and think about their origins and the problems they can create, the reader will encounter glimpses from physics, biology, philosophy of science, management, marketing, politics, systems theory, fuzzy logic, geometry, design and creativity, culture, and neuro-science and more... Fuzzy on the Dark Side is a book about incompleteness, creativity, thinking, identities, and systems. Roughly - it is an approximation of the 'Approximate Thinking' super idea.

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Book SynopsisPerfect Brain Training is essential reading for anyone who wants to improve their mental agility. Containing a series of fun interactive workouts, it helps you develop every aspect of your thinking skills, from logical deduction and creative problem solving to memory power and verbal dexterity. With advice on choosing the right training programme and tests to help you track your progress, Perfect Brain Training has everything you need to make the most of your potential. The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing your baby's name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time.

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Book SynopsisSmell and taste are our most misunderstood senses. Given a choice between losing our sense of smell and taste, or our senses of sight and hearing, most people nominate the former, rather than the latter. Yet our sense of smell and taste has the power to stir up memories, alter our mood and even influence our behaviour. In The Neuropsychology of Smell and Taste, Neil Martin provides a comprehensive, critical analysis of the role of the brain in gustation and olfaction. In his accessible and characteristic style he shows why our sense of smell and taste do not simply perform basic and intermittent functions, but lie at the very centre of our perception of the world around us. Through an exploration of the physiology, anatomy and neuropsychology of the senses; the neurophysiological causes of smell and taste disorders, and their function in physical and mental illness, Neil Martin provides an accessible and up-to-date overview of the processes of gustation and olfaction.The Neuropsychology of Smell and Taste provides a state-of-the-art overview of current research in olfactory and gustatory perception. With sections describing the effect of odour and taste on our behaviour, and evaluating the contribution current neuroimaging technology has made to our understanding of the senses, the book will be of interest to researchers and students of neuropsychology and neuroscience, and anybody with an interest in olfaction and gustation. Table of Contents1. Smell and taste: an introduction to the psychology of chemosensation. 2. Individual differences in smell and taste: Age, sex, personality and culture. 3. Smell and taste: Anatomy, development, neuroanatomy and neurophysiology. 4. Psychophysiological and neuroimaging studies of smell and taste. 5. Disorders of smell and taste, and diseases associated with chemosensory impairment. 6. The neuro-psychology of flavour: multi-sensory interaction at the behavioural and neural level.

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Book SynopsisCognitive neuropsychology seeks to understand impairments of specific cognitive functions in relation to a model of normal cognitive processing. The conclusions drawn from the study of abnormal processes are in turn used in the development and testing of theories of normal cognition. First published in 1988, this seminal book represented an attempt to synthesize and systematize progress in the study of cognitive neuropsychology and therefore provides an important snapshot of the field at the time. In addition to reviewing different forms of impairment and discussing their implications for theories of normal function, this book also examines the empirical and theoretical foundations of the subject including the use of single-case studies and the assumptions that must be made about the mind and brain.This classic edition marks 25 years in print, and includes a brand new introduction written by the authors, Ellis and Young. The Augmented Edition of Human Cognitive Neuropsychology published in 1997 is also still available. This classic edition will be important reading for students of cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Classic Edition. Preface to the 1988 Edition. What is Cognitive Neuropsychology? Object Recognition. Visual and Spatial Abilities. Face Processing. Producing Spoken Words. Recognising and Understanding Spoken Words. Reading: And a Compostie Model for Word Recognition and Production. Further Language and Communication Processes. Memory.

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Book SynopsisStuttering and Cluttering provides a clear, accessible and wide-ranging overview of both the theoretical and clinical aspects of two disorders of fluency: stuttering and cluttering. This edition remains loyal to the idea that stuttering and cluttering can best be understood by first considering various overarching frameworks which can then be expanded upon, and provides a clear position from which to disentangle the often complex interrelationships of these frameworks.The book is divided into two parts, the first of which mainly deals with theory and aetiology, while the second focuses on clinical aspects of assessment, diagnosis and treatment. The book also provides frequent references across Parts I and II to help link the various areas of investigation together.This revised edition of Stuttering and Cluttering reflects the major changes in thinking regarding both theory and therapy that have taken place since the publication of the first edition. As well as those who stutter and clutter, the book will be invaluable for speech language therapy/speech language pathology students, practicing clinicians, psychologists and linguists around the world.Trade ReviewPraise for the first edition:"This is a remarkably comprehensive coverage of a subject which has an extensive theoretical literature and where there are hotly contended issues about therapy. This volume does not flinch from these discussions and covers a wide range of topics which will be of interest to students, researchers and to therapists. David's grasp of the range of his subject is impressive and he leaves relatively few stones unturned or without a considered comment." - Martin Duckworth, Director of Forensic Speech Analysis, The College of St. Mark and St. John"David Ward gives us up to date, comprehensive coverage of stuttering theories and therapies and also covers the often overlooked areas of cluttering and acquired stuttering. It is a magnificent achievement and will be a valuable resource for both students and practising clinicians." - Carolyn Cheasman, Specialist Speech & Language Therapist, City Lit, London"This book provides a refreshing UK perspective on disorders of fluency. The breadth of material makes it an invaluable resource for undergraduates and experienced clinicians. I particularly recommend the sections on cluttering as a practical guide to the diagnosis and management of this often neglected disorder." - Louise Wright, Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, RCSLT Advisor and Trustee of the British Stammering AssociationTable of ContentsPart 1: The Aetiology of Stuttering and Cluttering. Introduction - What is Stuttering? Normal Disfluency and Stuttering. Primary and Secondary Stuttering. Definitions of Stuttering. Prevalence and Incidence. Who is at Risk of Stuttering. The Development of Stuttering. Phenomena Associated with Stuttering. The Causes of Stuttering. Spontaneous Recovery. Making Sense of the Data: Stuttering as Balance between Capacity and Demand. Summary. Key Points. Suggestions for Further Reading. Part 2: The Treatment of Stuttering and Cluttering. The Measurement and Assessment of Stuttering. Treating Early Stuttering. Therapy for School Age Children. The Treatment of Stuttering in Adults. Counseling Approaches. Alternative Approaches to the Treatment of Stuttering. The Efficacy of Stuttering Therapy. Acquired Stuttering. The Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment of Cluttering.

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Book SynopsisThis book reviews the considerable body of research that has been done to evaluate the touch skills of blind people. With an emphasis on cognitive and neuroscientific approaches, it encompasses a wide-ranging discussion of the theoretical issues in the field of touch perception and blindness.The volume includes chapters on sensory aspects of touch, perception in blind individuals, multimodal relations and their implications for instruction and development, and new technology, including sensory aids and virtual touch. A distinctive feature of the book is the inclusion of the practical applications of research in this area.A significant characteristic of research on touch and imagery in congenitally blind individuals is that it speaks to the basic nature of spatial imagery and the importance and necessity -- or lack thereof -- of specific visual sensory experience for the acquisition of knowledge about space, spatial layout, and picture perception. As such, the book will not only appeal to researchers and professionals with an interest in touch and blindness, but also to a wider audience of cognitive psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists working in the field of perception.Trade Review"Written in a clear and to-the-point style, this book brings together the literature on touch, haptics, and blindness. The book will prove to be valuable to people interested in learning about these topics and to people who are interested in the connections among these topics." --James C. Craig, Ph.D., Indiana University "The complexities of touch and blindness are tackled with rigor in this valuable book, including the historical and philosophical roots of touch, its neural bases and other neuroscience issues, the relations between touch and other perceptual modalities, and the development of haptic perception from childhood to the old age. There is not doubt that the book will attract the interest of a broad readership." -- Soledad Ballesteros, Ph.D., Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain"This unique book authoritatively integrates what is known about the psychology of both touch and blindness. Heller and Gentaz, leading experts in the field, present a logical progression of key research papers on each of a series of topics, such as perceptual illusions and tactile interfaces. Despite its scope and rigor, the book is written in an accessible, engaging style that will make readers feel as if they are having an extended conversation with two very knowledgeable friends." --Mark Hollins, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel HillTable of Contents1. Introduction: Historical and Philosophical Background. 2. Cognitive Neuroscience of Touch. 3 The Haptic Perception of Objects and their Properties. 4. Illusions. 5. Intermodal Relations. 6. Development of Haptic Perception over the Life-Span. 7. Blindness: General Introduction Pattern Perception, Imagery, Spatial Orientation, and Mobility. 8. Picture Perception and Blind People. 9. Braille and New Technology. 10. Haptics in Learning Reading, Handwriting and Mathematics. 11. Tactile Interfaces and Applications. 12. General Conclusions: Implications of Current Research for Theory and Applications.

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Book SynopsisThe Art and Science of Making Up Your Mind presents basic decision-making principles and tools to help the reader respond efficiently and wisely to everyday dilemmas. Although most decisions are made informally (whether intuitively without deliberate thought, or based on careful reflection), over the centuries people have tried to develop systematic, scientific and structured ways in which to make decisions. Using qualitative counterparts to quantitative models, Rex Brown takes the reader through the basics, like ‘what is a decision’ and then considers a wide variety of real-life decisions, explaining how the best judgments can be made using logical principles. Combining multiple evaluations of the same judgment ("hybrid judgment") and exploring innovative analytical concepts (such as "ideal judgment"), this book explores and analyzes the skills needed to master the basics of non-mathematical decision making, and what should be done, using real world illustrations of decision methods. The book is an ideal companion for students of Thinking, Reasoning and Decision-Making, and also for anyone wanting to understand how to make better judgments in their everyday lives.Trade Review"This highly readable book aims to teach the reader to obtain a superior second opinion – from herself. A wealth of often provocative examples reveals the wisdom of a master of applied decision theory." - Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize Winner, Author of "Thinking, Fast and Slow," Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Princeton University, USA"A trailblazing pioneer in decision education, Rex Brown has provided us with invaluable examples, tools, evidence and arguments for everyone to invest in their decision skills." - Chris Spetzler, Executive Director, Decision Education Foundation, USA"Rex Brown spent all his working life thinking about how to make decisions well. This book is the culmination of his thought. He concentrates on the essential ideas, illustrated with many practical examples, and avoiding most of the mathematics that surrounded the subject when originally formed. This excellent text is to be recommended to all who want a readable and straightforward introduction to the analysis of any decision." - Professor Stephen Watson, Life Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, UK"Did you ever think hard about a decision and later feel like it had been a bad mistake? After decades advising others and trying to avoid making more mistakes myself, I urge you to read this book now. No psychology or statistics, just lots of pithy, how-to-do-it, real examples. You'll make better decisions easily, and you'll have fewer regrets."- Andrew Kahr, Founder: First Deposit Corporation, formerly Assoc. Prof. of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, USA"Rex Brown’s The Art and Science of Making Up Your Mind is a non-technical textbook and guidebook for how to understand and use basic principles and tools of applied decision theory to deal effectively with everyday decisions and difficult dilemmas. Rex Brown is a wise mentor and reliable companion. He guides the reader through basic questions such as 'what is a decision' and 'what is an ideal judgement.' He then draws on personal, family and friends’ decisions in professional life, health, illness, and voting to elucidate how quantitative decision aids and qualitative considerations help clarify problems and lead to sound decisions. An indispensable resource for students and all decision makers." - Professor Leon Mann AO, Professorial Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia "This gem of a book synthesizes the life’s work of one of decision science’s seminal thinkers. Rex Brown’s passion was making the tools and thought processes of applied decision theory accessible to ordinary people. This clear and entertaining how-to manual uses examples from his own life and the lives of his family to help readers grasp how we can realize our potential for better everyday decision-making and, ultimately, greater satisfaction in our lives."- Kathryn Blackmond Laskey, Professor of Systems Engineering and Operations Research, George Mason University, USATable of ContentsChapter 1 - IntroductionChapter 2 - Decision makingChapter 3 - Term project: Evaluating a policy proposalChapter 4 - Qualitative decision aidsChapter 5 - Hip surgery caseChapter 6 - Quantitative ADT modelingChapter 7 - Family case study: C-section vs. "natural" child-birth?Chapter 8 - Using ADT modelsChapter 9 - A civic case: Voting for president Chapter 10 - Information value case: Life-saving diagnosisChapter 11 - Expanded view: Should we teach decision making in school?Chapter 12 - Epilogue — What next?BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Table of ContentsB. Rapp, M. Miozzo, Introduction to Papers From the 5th Workshop on Language Production: The Neural Bases of Language Production. K. Emmorey, S. McCullough, S.Mehta, L.L.B. Ponto, T.J. Grabowski, Sign language and Pantomime Production Differentially Engage Frontal and Parietal Cortices. J. Hanulova, D. J. Davidson, P.Indefrey, Where Does the Delay in L2 Picture Naming Come From? Psycholinguistic and Neurocognitive Evidence on Second Language Word Production. D. Poeppel, P.J.Monahan, Feedforward and Feedback in Speech Perception: Revisiting Analysis-by-synthesis.

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Book SynopsisThe CBT Handbook is the most comprehensive text of its kind and an essential resource for trainees and practitioners alike. Comprising 26 accessible chapters from leading experts in the field, the book covers CBT theory, practice and research. Chapters include: - CBT Theory - CBT Skills - Assessment and Case Formulation in CBT - The Therapeutic Relationship in CBT - Values and Ethics in CBT - Reflective and Self-Evaluative Practice in CBT - Supervision of CBT Therapists - Multi-disciplinary working in CBT Practice This engaging book will prove an indispensible resource for CBT trainees and practitioners. Trade Review′This is an essential resource both for students of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and qualified cognitive behavioural therapists. The book is organised in five parts that (logically) cover theory, practice. common challenges, specific populations, settings and core professional issues. Student CBT practitioners will find the first three sections invaluable. More seasoned practitioners might dip into parts four and five to explore the use of CBT in different settings and with different client groups, from children to private practice to self-care and reflective practice. For practitioners working in other modalities, the book is a well-referenced and substantial introduction. The handbook is better than similar publications that attempt to provide this comprehensive resource. It is clearly written and jargon-free; the contributors demonstrate considerable knowledge and experience in their respective specialist fields. It was also very refreshing to find chapters on ethics and supervision, which are often left out of books of this kind. I really enjoyed the book, gained new knowledge of benefit to my own practice, and would recommend it as a first point of reference for practitioners on CBT theory and its many applications′ - Therapy Today Table of ContentsEditor′s Introduction PART ONE: CBT THEORY What Is CBT and What Isn′t CBT? - Warren Mansell and John L. Taylor CBT Theory - Peter Trower CBT: Past, Present and Future - Stirling Moorey Common Myths and Misconceptions about CBT - Michael Neenan PART TWO: CBT PRACTICE The Therapeutic Relationship in CBT - Windy Dryden Assessment and Formulation in CBT - Frank Wills CBT Skills - Frank Wills Working with Comorbidity in CBT - Warren Mansell Working with ′Diversity′ in CBT - Margot Levinson Levels of Therapist Involvement in CBT - Chris Williams Multidisciplinary Working in CBT Practice - Gillian Waldron and Rob Willson Adapting CBT to a Broad Clientele - Windy Dryden PART THREE: CBT: COMMON CHALLENGES Challenges in the CBT Client-Therapist Relationship - Rhena Branch Challenges with Homework in CBT - Rhena Branch Challenges with Maintenance and Change in CBT - Wendy Wood PART FOUR: CBT: SPECIFIC POPULATIONS AND SETTINGS CBT with Children and Adolescents - Trevor Withers CBT with Older People - Dichelle Wong and Ken Laidlaw CBT with People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities - John L. Taylor and William R. Lindsay CBT in Health and Social Care Settings - Michael J. Scott CBT in Criminal Justice Settings - Kevin Gourney CBT in Private Practice - Gladeana MacMahon PART FIVE: CBT: PROFESSIONAL ISSUES Ethical Principles for CBT Practitioners - Tim Bond and Windy Dryden Therapist Development and Self-care in CBT - Rhena Branch Supervision of CBT Therapists - Rhena Branch and Windy Dryden Getting the Most from Your CBT Training - Geoff Baxter Reflective and Self-Evaluative Practice in CBT - Beverley Haarhoff and Paul Farrand

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Book SynopsisAs featured in Grazia's 21 of the Best Parenting Books in 2020'Joanna's books give you every answer to every question you have as a parent with practical methods to tackle every obstacle and connect with your child and help them flourish.' Madeleine Shaw 'When I tried Joanna's approach during the first lockdown, I was both comforted and excited by how such a small change could have such a big impact.' Dr. Suzanne McCleanA mindful and practical parenting roadmap for busy, time-poor parents. Based on a simple and effective formula, it will transform family life in just fifteen minutes of daily play, resulting in less tears and more laughter. Middle childhood, the period for those aged 8-12 years old, is often the most overlooked phase of a child's development but it's the age where play continue to serve an important role in their emotional growth. It's also an age where we are most likely to stop playing with our children.With over twenty years of clinical expertise and neuroscientific research, psychotherapist and parenting expert Joanna Fortune shares her proven techniques that will enable you to better understand your relationship with your children as they grow and ensure that your parenting is developing with them.Packed with 15-minute games and activities that you can easily incorporate into your daily routine, Joanna also explores the neurological, physical and emotional development of 8-12 year olds and offers parents hands-on advice on how to deal with:Friendships and bullyingSibling relationships Difficult conversations (the ones that catch you off guard!)Risk-taking behaviourBuilding independence, self-esteem and emotional resilience Resistance15-Minute Parenting 8-12 years will show you how to keep play alive with your child, foster great communication and help to secure strong foundations for adolescence.Praise for the 15-Minute Parenting series:'Now that we have to be teachers and coaches as well as parents - and feel guilty and overburdened - it's the perfect time for psychotherapist Joanna Fortune's new book.' Sunday Independent'In an "Age of Anxiety" for parents, Joanna was able to dispense reassuring advice and practical tips from her 15 Minute Parenting Model for time-pressed parents who want the very best for their children's development and well-being.' Marena Duffy, Chairperson of Cuidiu (the National Parent to Parent Voluntary support network) Dublin North West'Absolutely love this! I've read multiple parenting books as a daddy blogger and this is BY FAR one of my favorites!' Amazon Reviewer'A must read for all parents! Absolutely loving this book. Joanna has a no frills, relaxed attitude towards parenting & brings fun into it. She made me realise that we don't need to question ourselves as much as we do.' Amazon Reviewer'All of my friends love this. It's expert advice but... accessible and smart and actually kind of fun. All the exercises are easily implemented and kids respond to them immediately... this book is well broken down so that whatever crisis you're dealing with today you can check the chapter outline and jump straight to the few pages (and solutions) about that issue...' Amazon Reviewer'Simple and effective reading. Totally love this book... Fabulous chapter on relationships covering how to stay connected to your partner which I feel gets left out from other books I've read... my friend already has her hands on it so I will definitely be passing on.' Amazon Reviewer'A well thought out and written book to nudge you and guide you to better parenting without any self-flagellation... a gentle and kind written piece of work...Certainly think it can help parents that feel they can't find their own way back.' Goodreads Reviewer

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an analysis of experimental psychology that is embedded in a general understanding of human behavior. It provides methodological self-awareness for researchers who study and use the experimental method in psychology. The book critically reviews key research areas (e.g., rule-breaking, sense of agency, free choice, task switching, task sharing, and mind wandering), examining their scope, limits, ambiguities, and implicit theoretical commitments. Topics featured in this text include: Methods of critique in experimental research Goal hierarchies and organization of a task Rule-following and rule-breaking behavior Sense of agency Free-choice tasks Mind wandering Experimental Psychology and Human Agency will be of interest to researchers and undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of experimental psychology, cognitive psychology, theoretical psychology, and critical psychology, as well as various philosophical disciplines. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Shifting Focus.- Chapter 2: Experience and Reality.- Chapter 3: Hierarchies of Purpose.- Chapter 4: Rules of a Task.- Chapter 5: What is a Task?.- Chapter 6: Free Choice.- Chapter 7: Sense of Agency.- Chapter 8: Varieties of Disengagement.- Chapter 9: A Reflective Science.

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Book SynopsisBy uniting key concepts and methods from education, psychology, statistics, econometrics, medicine, language, and forensic science, this textbook provides an interdisciplinary methodological approach to study human learning processes longitudinally. This longitudinal approach can help to acquire a better understanding of learning processes, can inform both future learning and the revision of educational content and formats, and may help to foster self-regulated learning skills. The initial section of this textbook focuses on different types of research questions as well as practice-driven questions that may refer to groups or to individual learners. This is followed by a discussion of different types of outcome variables in educational research and practice, such as pass/fail and other dichotomies, multi-category nominal choices, ordered performance categories, and different types of quantifiable (i.e., interval or ratio level of measurement) variables. For each of these types of outcome variables, single-measurement and repeated-measurements scenarios are offered with clear examples. The book then introduces cross-sectional and longitudinal interdependence of learning-related variables through emerging network-analytic methods and in the final part the learned concepts are applied to different types of studies involving time series. The book concludes with some general guidelines to give direction to future (united) educational research and practice. This textbook is a must-have for all applied researchers, teachers and practitioners interested in (the teaching of) human learning, instructional design, assessment, life-long learning or applications of concepts and methods commonly encountered in fields such as econometrics, psychology, and sociology to educational research and practice.Table of ContentsPart I – Common Questions.- Chapter 1: Learning Processes.- Chapter 2: Study Designs.- Chapter 3: Statistical Learning.- Chapter 4: Anchoring Narratives.- Part II – Variable Types.- Chapter 5 – Pass/Fail and Other Dichotomies.- Chapter 6 – Multicategory Nominal Choices.- Chapter 7 – Ordered Performance Categories.- Chapter 8 – Quantifiable Learning Outcomes.- Part III – Variable Networks.- Chapter 9 – Instrument Structures.- Chapter 10 – Cross-Instrument Communication.- Chapter 11 – Temporal Structures.- Chapter 12 – Longitudinal Assessment Networks.- Part IV – Time Series.- Chapter 13 – Randomised Controlled Experiments.- Chapter 14 – Static and Dynamic Group Structures.- Chapter 15 – Progress Testing in Large Cohorts.- Chapter 16 – Small Samples and Case Studies.- Part V – Conclusion.- Chapter 17: General Recommendations.

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Book SynopsisThis book reports on cutting-edge concepts related to Bourbaki’s notion of structures mères. It merges perspectives from logic, philosophy, linguistics and cognitive science, suggesting how they can be combined with Bourbaki’s mathematical structuralism in order to solve foundational, ontological and epistemological problems using a novel category-theoretic approach. By offering a comprehensive account of Bourbaki’s structuralism and answers to several important questions that have arisen in connection with it, the book provides readers with a unique source of information and inspiration for future research on this topic.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Reflections on Bourbaki's Notion of "Structure" and Categories.- Chapter 2: Bourbaki and Foundations.- Chapter 3: Forms of Structuralism: Bourbaki and the Philosophers.- Chapter 4: Ladders of sets and isomorphisms The shortcomings of Bourbaki’s notion of “structure”.- Chapter 5: The difficulty of neutrality A graph-theoretical solution.- Chapter 6: The wrapped dimension of Bourbaki’s structures mères.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book will examine the implications of digitalization for the understanding of humanity, conceived as a community of intelligent agency. It addresses important topics across a range of social and behavioral theories and identifies a range of novel mechanisms and their social behavioral effects. Across the book, the author highlights the expansion of intelligent processing capability brought about by digitalization and the challenges this exposes for integrating artificial and human capabilities. It includes the altered effects of bounded rationality in problem solving and decision making; related changes in the perception of rationality, plus novel myopias and biases. It also seeks to address cognitive intersubjectivity, learning from performance and agentic self-generation; and the novel methods and patterns of reasoned thought which emerge in a digitalized world; and how these mechanisms will combine in making and remaking the world of human experience and understanding. This book examines the problematics and prospects for digitally augmented humanity. In doing so, it maps the terrain for a future science of augmented agency. It will have cross-disciplinary appeal to students and scholars of applied psychology, cognitive and behavioral science, organizational psychology and management, business, finance, and digital cultures and humanities.Trade Review“This book provides an insightful introduction to the social and behavioral implications of human-computer integration, aimed at a wide audience from both human and computer sciences. The proposed conceptualization of augmented agency can provide a structural basis for exploring intelligence augmentation and promote further research in the field.” (Evangelia Kavakli, Computing Reviews, October 5, 2022)Table of ContentsChapter 1: Modeling Augmented HumanityChapter 2: Historical Metamodels of AgencyChapter 3: Agentic ModalityChapter 4: Problem SolvingChapter 5: Cognitive EmpathyChapter 6: Self-RegulationChapter 7: Evaluation of PerformanceChapter 8: LearningChapter 9: Self-GenerationChapter 10: Toward a Science of Augmented Agency

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Book SynopsisCraftsmanship provides an insight into an inherently human dimension of work resulting from our immersion in an occupation or profession. The present book illustrates and defines the vital, social, aesthetic, and ethical dimensions involved in craftsmanship, which rejects a dissociation between handwork and wit, or between action and thought. This also contrasts with the neglect contemporary psychology has shown toward craftsmanship and its reduction to mere ‘human factors.’ Drawing on artistry as an emblem, the present account conveys that skilful action can only be renewed in a cycle involving both the personal and the transgenerational. There is little doubt in psychological and anthropological literature that the current global crises cannot be separated from social predicaments; namely, from the commodification of craftsmanship. In this book, the development of skilful action attests to a fundamental involvement required to sustainably perpetuate human endeavours. The role of expressivity in reappropriating technical activity is key in showing the continuous revaluation of our ethics and aesthetics of work, practice, and creation. The overall arc of the volume shows a movement from responsivity to responsibility. In short, if we are to reformulate our relationship to work and craft, we need to see through our responsibility in technique. The particularities of craftsmanship described here aim to contribute to such reformulation.Table of Contents1 The vitality of skill1.1 Skill as sprezzatura 1.2 When did skilfull action lose its way in psychology? 1.3 Skill and expressivity 1.4 A note on the developmental character of skill 1.5 The path to follow References 2 Physiognomy in motion 2.1 Form, repetition and variation 2.2 Motifs as promoters of cohesion in variation 2.3 The physiognomic character of perception 2.4 The intermodal organization of perception 2.5 The chiasma between affect and form-giving 2.6 From kinetics to kineasthetics References 3 Expressivity and skill motifs 3.1 Expressivity 3.2 Stylistics 3.3 Reprises in skill 3.4 Apprenticeship motifs References 4 Technical rhythms and harmonies 4.1 Eurhythmy in technique 4.2 Reprises in the study of techniques 4.3 The expressivity of musical instruments and luthiery 4.4 Eurythmic reticulates 4.5 The limits of expressivity and the lifecycle of techniques References 5 Sprezzatura. Craftsmanship at work 5.1 Sprezzatura 5.2 Mistakes, play and leisure 5.3 The craftsperson and the community 5.4 Workmanship in light of craftmanship 5.5 Back to psychological issues References

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Book SynopsisThe study of the brain-mind complex has been hampered by the dichotomy between objective biological neuroscience and subjective psychological science. This book presents a new theoretical model for how to "translate" between the two, using a third language: nonlinear physics and mathematics. It illustrates how the simultaneous use of these two approaches enriches the understanding of the neural and mental realms.Table of ContentsContents Forewords: Danatella Marazziti................................................................................................ ix Alwyn Scott........................................................................................................... xi Nick Mansfield..................................................................................................... xiii David R. Hawkins............................................................................................... xvii Introduction............................................................................................................. xxi The Puzzle............................................................................................................... xxv Part I: Learning the Languages.................................................................................... 1 1. Humanity’s Search for Mind and the Subject: A Brief Review of the Evolution of Neuropsychobiology.................................................................. 3 2. An “Ideographic,” Suprapersonal Language of Rules and Universal Symbols: Alwyn Scott and Nonlinear Dynamics................................................... 15 3. A “Demotic,” First-Person Language of the Individual and the Social System: Apuleius and the Myth of Psyche................................................... 27 4. The Language of the Objective Observer: Gerald Edelman and Neurodarwinism: Antonio Damasio and the Feeling of Knowing................................................................... 33 Gerald Edelman and Neurodarwinism................................................................................................ 35 Antonio Damasio and the Feeling of Knowing................................................................................. 39 Part II: Seeking the Understanding............................................................................ 45 5. Consciousness......................................................................................................... 47 6. The Unconscious..................................................................................................... 59 7. The Database........................................................................................................... 71 8. Affectivity............................................................................................................... 79 9. The Neural/Mental Gap: Intuition, Self and Ego, a Trilingual Map........................ 91 Part III: Applying the Knowledge............................................................................. 101 10. The Three Languages and Science: A New Scientific Paradigm?........................ 103 11. The Three Languages and Treatment.................................................................... 115 12. The Psychotherapeutic Dialogue: Intersubjectivity............................................... 127 13. The Role of a New Science for Psyche Upon Society and Culture...................... 135 References........................................................................................................... 147 Name Index......................................................................................................... 151 Subject Index 153

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Book SynopsisFor thousands of years, music has acted as a powerful medium for evoking emotions, facilitating communication, and nurturing overall well-being. With the advent of new sophisticated neuroimaging technology, human responses to music and music therapy are being viewed through a new lens. As a consequence, new knowledge is being obtained about how music can produce significant improvements in cognitive, social, overt and agitated behaviours. The aim of this book is to provide an overview of neurocognitive music therapy, its impact and implications in the practice of evidence-based music interventions. The book seeks to provide researchers, psychologists, music therapists, musicians and physicians interested in the therapeutic applications of music, with a source of information about current techniques and novel music interventions. It is structured into several chapters, each of them presenting peer-reviewed research and evidence-based procedures carried out in a specific clinical context. Topics covered in the book include: Musical engagement for individuals with motor disabilities Enhancing emotional processing in autism through music Stroke rehabilitation via musical interventions Musical neurofeedback for emotional disorders Emotional modulation with music therapy in palliative care AI-driven personalisation in music interventions The book highlights the profound capacity of music-based interventions to facilitate cognitive and emotional processing, enhance communication, and promote motor rehabilitation. At the same time, the book demonstrates how modern technologies offer new opportunities to evaluate, validate, and potentiate music-based interventions, allowing new and innovative possibilities and more personalised interventions. This book aims to contribute to the growing body of knowledge in this field and inspire further research and innovation in the practice of music therapy.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Accessible Digital Music Instruments for Motor Disability Chapter 3 Music as a Tool for Improving Emotion Identification in Autistic Children Chapter 4 Music and Stroke Rehabilitation Chapter 5 Musical Neurofeedback for emotional disorders Chapter 6 Emotions and Music in Palliative Care Chapter 7 Personalising Music Interventions

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Book SynopsisWINNER of the 2023 Association for Women in Psychology Distinguished Publication AwardThrough an intersectional and inclusive lens, this book provides mental health professionals with a detailed overview of the mental health issues that Black women face as well as the best approach to culturally competent psychological practice.This handbook provides a historical context of how the lived experiences of Black women contribute to mental wellness, identifies effective psychological practices, and challenges readers to advance their cultural competence while providing culturally affirming care. With an eye toward inclusivity of sexual orientation and gender identity, it honors the diversity within Black women''s identities, relationships, roles, and families.Written by an expert team of Black women clinicians, researchers, and medical professionals, A Handbook on Counseling African American Women addresses current sociopolitical events as well as hi

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Book SynopsisA profound and profoundly important book that, using the most up-to-date revolutionary discoveries in neuroscience, shows us how to understand the brain; how it allows us to think, feel, experience and perceive, written by an acclaimed Harvard-trained neurosurgeon.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a great introductory handbook detailing acute stroke care for those not as familiar with neurology or stroke, or for those who are not up to date with the most recent evidence. The numerous tables and figures summarize the information efficiently and make it a handy reference, yet its size and portability make it convenient to store in a white coat pocket. Given that stroke care is evolving rapidly, the references to tenecteplase, extended time windows, and CT perfusion help in keeping these practitioners aware of the latest guidelines. The book is especially valuable to those in the emergency room, internal medicine trainees, and medical students starting their neurology rotations. It is a worthwhile purchase for these non-neurologists and, given its accessibility and conciseness, it can be easily read quickly." --DoodyTable of Contents1. History Taking 2. Stroke Mimics 3. NIH Stroke Scale and Neurological Examination 4. Stroke Syndromes 5. Stroke Imaging: Noncontrast Head CT 6. Stroke Imaging: CT Angiography 7. Stroke Imaging: CT Perfusion 8. Acute Ischemic Stroke Treatment: Alteplase 9. Acute Ischemic Stroke Treatment: Endovascular Therapy 10. Basilar Artery Occlusion 11. Acute Stroke Treatment: Acute Blood Pressure Management and Anticoagulation Reversal 12. Acute Ischemic Stroke Treatment: Acute Antiplatelet Therapy

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Book SynopsisAn accessible and gratifying introduction to the world of paranormal beliefs and bizarre experiences.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents innovative tools for helping patients to understand their emotional schemas--such as the conviction that painful feelings are unbearable, shameful, or will last indefinitely--and develop new ways of accepting and coping with affective experience. Therapists can integrate emotional schema therapy into the treatment approaches they already use to add a vital new dimension to their work. Rich case material illustrates applications for a wide range of clinical problems; assessment guidelines and sample worksheets and forms further enhance the book's utility.Trade Review"This important book illuminates how an individual's theory of emotion, emotion-regulation strategies, and meta-emotions influence well-being and experience. The contribution Leahy makes could be quite profound, as his ideas and clinical experience bridge the areas of emotional intelligence, cognition, self-regulation, and the practice of psychological therapies. Clinicians working in all orientations will find this volume a source of invaluable ideas."--Adrian Wells, PhD, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, United Kingdom "Highly accessible and filled with illustrative clinical case examples, this book is a valuable resource for any modern psychotherapist. The volume provides practical guidance to target emotional schemas in therapy. It is a masterful contribution by one of the leading experts in CBT. Every clinician should be familiar with the techniques outlined in this excellent work."--Stefan G. Hofmann, PhD, Department of Psychology, Boston University "Leahy offers a version of cognitive therapy that richly embraces emotion and addresses it with nuance and respect. This is not your grandmother’s cognitive therapy. I learned much from this book and am confident that other readers from outside the cognitive therapy world will as well."--Paul L. Wachtel, PhD, Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, The City College of New York, and Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York "Although primarily focusing on thoughts and behaviors--as we are trained to do in CBT--is appropriate and effective for many clients, others present for treatment with problematic responses to their own and others' emotions. This wonderful book clearly outlines the role that emotion plays in psychological disorders and shows how to work with emotions throughout the course of therapy to help patients improve their relationships, learn how to make important decisions, and cope with life’s inevitable challenges. Helpful case examples, scripts, and assessment guidelines make the book even more user friendly. I am already using what I learned from this book in my daily work. That rarely happens!"--Deborah Roth Ledley, PhD, private practice, Plymouth Meeting and Narberth, Pennsylvania "This book extends the practice of cognitive therapy to include a most important and clinically relevant focus on the role of emotion in the change process. Drawing on empirical evidence and clinical experience, Leahy has captured a truly evidence-based approach to treatment. The book is unlike many others in presenting clinical guidelines that not only draw on different theoretical orientations, but also integrate research and practice. Vividly illustrated with clinical vignettes and transcripts, this volume offers insights for any and all therapists looking to increase their clinical effectiveness."--Marvin R. Goldfried, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Stony Brook University "This straightforward book is highly informative and compelling. Leahy has a unique ability to convey the phenomena of the human condition. He suggests practical and useful techniques to help clients identify, validate, and respond effectively to their emotions. A particular strength is the focus on specific emotional contexts and experiences that clients typically bring to therapy. An essential text for teaching diverse groups of trainees about the importance of working with emotions in therapy and how best to do so."--Douglas S. Mennin, PhD, Department of Psychology, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York -This book is quite novel and highly recommended for clinicians who are seeking to expand their clinical armamentarium to include greater facility with complex emotional experiences.--PsycCRITIQUES, 06/13/2016ƒƒEmotional Schema Therapy is an important book with implications for theory and practice that deserves a wide reading by cognitive-behavioral therapists as well as clinicians of other orientations….What is unique about Leahy's model is the detailed examination of patients' beliefs about their emotions and the use of a variety of techniques to modify those beliefs….One of the most important contributions of Leahy's model is the way he links patients' emotions with values and virtues….Leahy's work is integrative in the best sense of the word: wide ranging in its influences, explicit in acknowledging its commonalities and differences with other therapies, firmly grounded in cognitive-behavioral theory and empiricism, and yet ultimately original in its contributions….As I read this book I found myself repeatedly reflecting on some of my own challenging cases and thinking about how emotional schema therapy could sharpen my conceptualizations and provide new ways to intervene. I suspect this is a book that I will return to again and again. It is also my belief that therapists from all theoretical orientations, whether psychoanalytic, traditional cognitive-behavioral, third wave, or humanistic, will find much of value in this excellent book.--Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Book Reviews, 01/01/2016Table of ContentsI. Emotional Schema Theory 1. The Social Construction of Emotion 2. Emotional Schema Therapy: General Considerations 3. A Model of Emotional SchemasII. Beginning Treatment 4. Initial Assessment and Interview 5. Socialization to the Emotional Schema ModelIII. Specific Interventions for Emotional Schemas 6. The Centrality of Validation 7. Comprehensibility, Duration, Control, Guilt/Shame, and Acceptance 8. Coping with Ambivalence 9. Linking Emotions to Values (and Virtues)IV. Social Emotions and Relationships 10. Jealousy 11. Envy 12. Emotional Schemas in Couple Relationships 13.Emotional Schemas andthe Therapeutic Relationship Conclusions

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finalist for the PROSE Award in Biomedicine, Association of American Publishers""[A] vivid tale." * New Scientist *"Humphries has woven together strands of experimental results and theoretical insights to compose a book that is engrossing, excites the imagination, beautifully encapsulates contemporary neuroscience in a light and breezy package, and points the way to future discovery."---Sean Noah, Knowing Neurons"A thorough and interesting description of what we know and don't know about neural spikes, as well as why they matter."---R. Forbes-Lorman, Choice

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Book SynopsisAs Jones shows, it can often pay to take an absurd idea seriously.Trade ReviewThe Aha! Moment is not bogged down with scientific detail and tech talk; in fact, it asks a multitude of absurd questions meant to promote innovative and logical brainstorming. Jones gives dozens of examples from his own body of work... While his examples dominate more than half of the book, they are intriguing and stimulating, acting as a means to promote creativity in fellow scientists and artists. -- Aimee Jodoin Foreword Reviews A top pick not to be limited to science holdings, this will reach many a general-interest reader with its fascinating, readable and lively insights. Midwest Book Review David Jones sees himself as the court jester of science and, as with jesters of old, he is allowed to say things that other mortals might think but dare not speak... Most of the book is an eclectic blend of Jones the chemist and Daedalus the mad scientist and together they make entertaining reading. You'd be mad not to buy it -- John Emsley Chemistry World A practical blueprint to bolster one's own creative process, a treasure map to innovative insights. -- Bob Grant The Scientist A fascinating insight into one man's never-ending search for ideas. -- Jessica Griggs New ScientistTable of ContentsPreface: Creativity in My Career1. A Theory of Creativity2. The Creative Environment3. Thoughts on the Random Ideas Generator4. Intuition and Odd Notions5. Creativity in Scientific Papers6. Heat and Gravity7. Astronomical Musings8. Rotating Things9. Explosions and Fuses10. Tricks with Optics11. Properties of Materials12. Physical Phenomena I Have Noticed13. Odd Notions I Have Played With14. Literary Information15. Inventions We Need but Don't Have16. A List of Silly Questions17. A Short Guide to Being CreativeNotesIndex

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Book Synopsis 2019 Outstanding Academic Title What mental process occurs when a person does something she knows is unhealthy? When an honest person tells a 'white lie,' what happens to his or her sense of integrity? If we must choose between two equally attractive options, why does our value judgement of the options change after the choice has been made? In 1954 Dr. Leon Festinger first posited a theory of cognitive dissonance to describe the psychological phenomenon that occurs in these situations. In the years since, cognitive dissonance has become a central pillar of psychological theory, as was documented in the first edition of this book. In this new and fully-updated edition, editor Eddie Harmon-Jones brings the study of cognitive dissonance into the twenty-first century. Contributors survey recent discoveries about the role dissonance plays in a variety of information processes, as well as connections between dissonance processes and other motivational procTrade Review2019 Outstanding Academic Title “Cognitive Dissonance is a must-read for anyone studying social psychology. Now in its second edition, this work continues to show the utility of Festinger’s seminal theory but also modernizes it and, perhaps, expands on it…. Highly recommended.” —ChoiceCognitive Dissonance is a must-read for anyone studying social psychology. Now in its second edition, this work continues to show the utility of Festinger's seminal theory but also modernizes it and, perhaps, expands on it...Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsContributors Foreword to the First Edition Foreword to the Second Edition Preface Chapter 1: An Introduction to Cognitive Dissonance Theory and an Overview of Current Perspectives on the TheoryEddie Harmon-Jones and Judson MillsPart I: Perspectives Employing the Original Version of the Theory Chapter 2: Improving the 1957 Version of Dissonance TheoryJudson Mills Chapter 3: A Radical Point of View on Dissonance TheoryJean-Leon Beauvois and Robert-Vincent Joule Chapter 4: Understanding the Motivation Underlying Dissonance Effects: The Action-Based ModelEddie Harmon-Jones and Cindy Harmon-Jones Chapter 5: What Is Cognitive Consistency, and Why Does It Matter?Bertram Gawronski and Skylar M. Brannon Chapter 6: Dissonance Now: How Accessible Discrepancies Moderate Distress and Diverse DefensesIan McGregor, Ian R. Newby-Clark, and Mark P. ZannaPart II: The Role of the Self in Dissonance Chapter 7: Dissonance, Hypocrisy, and the Self-ConceptElliot Aronson Chapter 8: Self-Affirmation Theory: An Update and AppraisalJoshua Aronson, Geoffrey Cohen, and Paul R. Nail Chapter 9: In Search of the Motivation for Dissonance Reduction: The Drive to Lessen Aversive ConsequencesJoel CooperPart III: Mathematical Models, Neural Activations, and Affective Responses Chapter 10: Modeling Cognitive Dissonance as a Parallel Constraint Satisfaction Network With LearningStephen J. Read and Brian M. Monroe Chapter 11: Neural Basis of Cognitive DissonanceKeise Izuma and Kou Murayama Chapter 12: Moving Beyond Attitude Change in the Study of Dissonance-Related Processes: An Update on the Role of DiscomfortPatricia G. Devine, John M. Tauer, Kenneth E. Barron, Andrew J. Elliot, Kristen M. Vance, and Eddie Harmon-Jones Appendix A: Social Communication and Cognition: A Very Preliminary and Highly Tentative DraftLeon Festinger (1954) Appendix B: Reflections on Cognitive Dissonance: 30 Years LaterLeon Festinger (1987) Appendix C: Historical Note on Festinger’s Tests of Dissonance TheoryJudson Mills Index About the Editor

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Book SynopsisA revelatory look at how poet Allen Ginsberg transformed experiences of mental illness and madness into some of the most powerful and widely read poems of the twentieth century. Allen Ginsberg’s 1956 poem “Howl” opens with one of the most resonant phrases in modern poetry: “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.” Thirty years later, Ginsberg entrusted a Columbia University medical student with materials not shared with anyone else, including psychiatric records that documented how he and his mother, Naomi Ginsberg, struggled with mental illness. In Best Minds, psychiatrist, researcher, and scholar Stevan M. Weine, M.D., who was that medical student, examines how Allen Ginsberg took his visions and psychiatric hospitalization, his mother’s devastating illness, confinement, and lobotomy, and the social upheavals of the postwar world and imaginatively transformed them. Though madness is often linked with hardship and suffering, Ginsberg’s showed how it could also lead to profound and redemptive aesthetic, spiritual, and social changes. Through his revolutionary poetry and social advocacy, Ginsberg dedicated himself to leading others toward new ways of being human and easing pain. Throughout his celebrated career Ginsberg made us feel as though we knew everything there was to know about him. However, much has been left out about his experiences growing up with a mentally ill mother, his visions, and his psychiatric hospitalization. In Best Minds, with a forty-year career studying and addressing trauma, Weine provides a groundbreaking exploration of the poet and his creative process especially in relation to madness. Best Minds examines the complex relationships between mental illness, psychiatry, trauma, poetry, and prophecy—using the access Ginsberg generously shared to offer new, lively, and indispensable insights into an American icon. Weine also provides new understandings of the paternalism, treatment failures, ethical lapses, and limitations of American psychiatry in the 1940s and 1950s. In light of these new discoveries, the challenges Ginsberg faced appear starker and his achievements, both as a poet and an advocate, even more remarkable.Table of ContentsPrologue | vii 1 Death and Madness, 1997–1998 | 1 2 An Unspeakable Act, 1986–1987 | 14 3 Refrain of the Hospitals and the New Vision, 1943–1948 | 32 4 The Actuality of Prophecy, 1948–1949 | 63 5 The Psychiatric Institute, 1949–1950 | 89 6 Mental Muse-eries, 1950–1955 | 135 7 Gold Blast of Light, 1956–1959 | 163 8 A Light Raying through Society, 1959–1965 | 204 9 White and Black Shrouds, 1987 | 227 Epilogue | 237 Acknowledgments | 251 Notes | 253 Index | 271

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Book SynopsisThe author demonstrates that there exist many human intelligences, common to all cultures - each with its own patterns of development and brain activity, and each different in kind from the others.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on diverse intellectual traditions, including those rooted in economics, psychology, sociology, and political science, Kuran provides a unified theory of how preference falsification shapes collective decisions, orients structural change, sustains social stability, distorts human knowledge, and conceals political possibilities.Trade ReviewHow can societies experience such dramatic reversals [as the end of apartheid in South Africa, widespread smoking bans and Republican control of Congress] in such short periods? In his inventive and sometimes astonishing book, Timur Kuran offers an answer--one that bears not just on revolutionary movements, but also on feminism, conformity, cognitive dissonance, the moral majority, 'outing' homosexuals, rationality, hate speech codes, Gorbachev, hippies and the caste system (all of which make prominent appearances in these pages)...Much of the interest of Kuran's book is owed to his insistence, unusual and refreshing among economists (of whom he is one), that people's choices, and even their desires, are not given and fixed, but are a function of social and psychological conditions, above all pressures imposed by other people...Kuran's book is a terrific success. -- Cass R. Sunstein * New Republic *A splendid book. It tackles a long list of interesting and important questions that have been discussed at length, and largely unsuccessfully, by scholars from each of the social sciences. The narrow rational choice model simply cannot answer many of these questions. Psychological theories by themselves cannot even address many of them. And sociological theories that take the group as the unit of analysis have made little progress. Kuran patiently and intelligently blends the insights of these disciplines into a behavioral model that moves the discussion forward on many fronts. -- Robert H. Frank * Journal of Economic Literature *From the caste system of India, to communism's rise and fall, to the continuing controversy over affirmative action, Timur Kuran's new theory of social evolution is as provocative as it is ambitious. Merging insights from many disciplines, Private Truths, Public Lies seeks to show how 'preference falsification' shapes social action, biases knowledge, inhibits change, and (from time to time) unleashes revolution...An excellent book that can be read by scholars of all disciplines. Its interdisciplinary insights illuminate a raft of social, political, and economic phenomena. -- Laurence R. Iannaccone * Journal of Economic History *Economist Timur Kuran has written a fascinating study of how even formally 'free' citizens can be socially pressured into 'living a lie,' publicly justifying beliefs and practices that they privately reject, even abhor. -- Frederick R. Lynch * National Review *The core idea of this stimulating book is simple to grasp: Social factors, the nature of which is variable with the circumstances, can have the effect that people falsify their private preferences when they have to express them publicly. -- Raymond Boudon * Contemporary Sociology *[Kuran's] arguments are elegantly made and the lengthy discussions of the applications of the basic ideas are well researched and suffiently detailed to be of considerable interest in their own right...This is a thoughtful, imaginative, and stimulating book which deserves a wide audience. -- Alan Hamlin * Economic Journal *Timur Kuran takes us on a grand journey through world history, from the creation of the Indian caste system to present-day racial quotas in the United States. The journey is guided by the search for the social consequences of a phenomenon that Kuran argues is all-pervasive: preference falsification...Kuran's book opens important new perspectives for the analysis of both individual choice and social change. -- Felix Oberholzer-Gee * Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (Tübingen, Germany) *Few recent contributions to the literature of social science open so many windows. This engagingly written book carries its learning and sophistication lightly. -- Loren E. Lomasky * Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy *A fascinating study in social and political psychology and public opinion...For those who stress that war, violence and peace start in the minds of men, this is certainly an important work. -- Gernot Kohler * Peace Research *A compelling theoretical analysis of how contextual structures of power influence an individual to conform to public sentiment. Combining perspectives of economics, psychology, and sociology, the author provides countless insights into the process whereby individuals repress their true opinions because of possible censure or admonition from those representing the prevailing sentiment...Kuran's argument has crucial implications for social theory...Highly recommended for its thorough and insightful analysis. * Choice *[E]normously subtle...[Kuran's] exposition of 'preference falsification' is the most original work of social science I have read for many a long year. The term and concept have innumerable applications and deserve to enter the language...The conclusion Kuran reaches is a powerful one which is at odds with most social science and indeed everyday thought about our ability to understand or forecast social change...The text is entirely lucid and the theme is of the utmost importance. -- Eric Jones * Quadrant (Australian Review of Ideas) *Kuran argues that agents choose 'public preferences' which are contrary to their 'private preferences' in order to attain 'reputational utility.' Such 'preference falsification' pushes, in turn, ideas away from private consciousness, originating 'knowledge falsification' (i.e., indoctrination). Kuran's book is well-argued, never dull, and studded with diverse anecdotes. It is destined to become a classic, providing a methodological individualistic alternative to Karl Marx's theory of ideology...Academics as well as educated persons will come back after reading the book more enriched on how to understand our complex world. -- Elias L. Khalil * Southern Economic Journal *Kuran is the leading pioneer in examining the harsh and the subtle ways in which we are induced to deceive our public, our acquaintances, and eventyally ourselves about the issues that matter most in our lives or in our careers. His insight is always persuasive, sometimes stunning. A very careful book. -- Thomas C. Schelling, University of Maryland at College ParkThis fascinating book analyzes a topic almost never considered by economists, how social pressures modify choices among publicly visible actions. In particular, expressed "public opinion" may be unrepresentative of actual private beliefs, so a minor shock can easily set a bandwagon in motion. Thus political and social equilibria are far more fragile than is usually believed. In fact, almost all great revolutions have been more or less total surprises. The author's applications of the model--to the caste system in India, to the downfall of communism, and (unexpectedly!) to the affirmative action juggernaut in the United States--are gripping, insightful, and (with regard to the last issue) courageous. -- Jack Hirshleifer, University of California, Los AngelesTimur Kuran explores the devastating consequences to political discourses that derive from the simple unwillingness of intelligent individuals to say publicly what they believe privately. The United States may have constitutional guarantees for freedom of speech that were nowhere to be found in communist societies. But the eerie parallels that Kuran draws between the persistence of communism in Eastern Europe and the persistence of affirmative action at home should give even skeptical readers pause about the ability of our legal institutions to promote candid discussion of the major political issues of our times. -- Richard A. Epstein, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsPreface Living a Lie The Significance of Preference Falsification Private and Public Preferences Private Opinion, Public Opinion The Dynamics of Public Opinion Institutional Sources of Preference Falsification Inhibiting Change Collective Conservatism The Obstinacy of Communism The Ominous Perseverance of the Caste System The Unwanted Spread of Affirmative Action Distorting Knowledge Public Discourse and Private Knowledge The Unthinkable and the Unthought The Caste Ethic of Submission The Blind Spots of Communism The Unfading Specter of White Racism Generating Surprise Unforeseen Political Revolutions The Fall of Communism and Other Sudden Overturns The Hidden Complexities of Social Evolution From Slavery to Affirmative Action Preference Falsification and Social Analysis Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA simple and accessible exploration of the best-selling author of Letting Go and Power vs. Force David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. most famous work, The Map of Consciousness, that will help you to experience healing and transcendence.World-renowned author, psychiatrist, clinician, spiritual teacher, and researcher of consciousness David R. Hawkins shares that we are all born with an energetic frequency within the vast field of consciousness. And with The Map of Consciousness, we can truly understand the total spectrum of human emotions and consciousness.Using a unique muscle-testing method, Dr. David R. Hawkins conducted more than 250,000 calibrations during 20 years of research to define a range of values, attitudes, and emotions that correspond to levels of consciousness. This range of values-along with a logarithmic scale of 1 to 1,000-became the Map of Consciousness, which Dr. David R. Hawkins first wrote about in his best-selling book, Power vs. Force.With the Map, Dr. David R. Hawkins laid out the entire spectrum of consciousness, from the lower levels of Shame, Guilt, Apathy, Fear, Anger, and Pride; to Courage, Acceptance, and Reason; all the way up to the more expanded levels of Love, Ecstasy, Peace, and Enlightenment. These higher energy fields are a carrier wave of immense life energy.An essential primer on the late Dr. David R. Hawkins's teachings on human consciousness and their associated energy fields, The Map of Consciousness Explained offers an introduction and deeper understanding of the Map, with visual charts and practical applications to help you heal, recover, and evolve to higher levels of consciousness and energy.This enlightening book transcends the boundaries of conventional wisdom, integrating the realms of psychology, philosophy, and spirituality in a powerful exploration of human consciousness and human potential to help you be more effective in every area of your life.Some highlights include:· A thoughtful fusion of psychology, philosophy, and spirituality.· A comprehensive interpretation of the law of attraction and its intrinsic link with consciousness and personal evolution.· A scientifically grounded guide to harness the power of positive thinking and its practical applications.· An insightful perspective on the 'power vs force' dynamic, offering fresh insights into personal and professional relationships.· An enriching collection of practical exercises and affirmations designed to awaken and energize your consciousness.Dr. David R. Hawkins has a remarkable ability to simplify complex concepts. Whether you're in search of motivational books for women, leadership books for aspiring entrepreneurs, or behavior books to comprehend the nuances of human interaction, this book can revolutionize how you perceive and interact with the world, inspiring profound transformation and positive change.That which weakens life energy is to be avoided: shame, guilt, confusion, fear, hatred, pride, hopelessness, and falsehood. That which uplifts life is to be realized: truth, courage, acceptance, reason, love, beauty, joy, and peace. –David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.Whether you're a scholar, a personal growth enthusiast, or simply on a path of self-discovery, this book will help you live with more awareness and lead a more conscious and fulfilling life.Trade Review“I recommend this book for every spiritual aspirant for climbing the unseen ladder of real spiritual progress.”— Swami Chidatmananda, Hindu spiritual monk at Chinmaya Mission, Bharat India

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Book SynopsisPractical brain-aware facilitation tailored to the adult brain Facilitating Learning with the Adult Brain in Mind explains how the brain works, and how to help adults learn, develop, and perform more effectively in various settings.Table of ContentsPreface ix PART I: Brain: Then and Now 1 Chapter 1: Brain Basics–changes in the brain over eons 3 Chapter 2: The Learning, Changing Adult Brain–experience, memory, and emotions 33 Chapter 3: Metaphors, Embodiment, and Hemispheres–foundations of brain-aware approaches 59 PART II: PracticesThat Enhance Adult Learning–featuring the Theatre of Knowing 81 Chapter 4: Setting the Stage for Learning–lowering anxiety, engaging curiosity 91 Chapter 5: Enter Stage Left–starting with verbal-theoretical conceptual approaches in mind 115 Chapter 6: Enter Stage Right–starting with embodied and metaphorical approaches in mind 135 Chapter 7: Center Stage–interweaving multifaceted approaches 175 Chapter 8: Spotlight on Meaning Making–scaffolding reflection and feedback 215 PART III: Reflecting on Practice 245 Chapter 9: Enhancing Brain-Aware Practice with Theory–foundational theories of learning and development 247 Chapter 10: Toward Complexity and Commitment–learning that promotes courageous informed action 287 Epilogue 311 References 315 Acknowledgments 331 About the Authors and Contributors 333 Name Index 345 Subject Index 349

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Book SynopsisTwo New York Times–bestselling authors unveil new research showing what meditation can really do for the brain.   In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to your achievement level. Unveiling here the kind of cutting-edge research that has made them giants in their fields, Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson show us the truth about what meditation can really do for us, as well as exactly how to get the most out of it.             Sweeping away common misconceptions and neuromythology to open readers’ eyes to the ways data has been distorted to sell mind-training methods, the authors demonstrate that beyond the pleasant states mental exercises can produce, the real payoffs are the lasting personality traits that can result. But short

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