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The Psychic Handbook: Discover and Enhance Your Hidden Psychic Powers
by Craig Hamilton-ParkerMost of us have had psychic experiences at one time or another; we may find a new place strangely familiar, finish other people's sentences or sense a definite positive or negative feeling about a house. Almost everyone has some latent psychic ability. The Psychic Handbook provides a fun, entertaining way to develop your psychic power. Craig Hamilton-Parker takes you step-by-step through skills such as mediumship, prophesy, psychometry, dream analysis, dowsing, numerology and clairvoyance. He also shows how you can learn to meditate in order to liberate the intuition that is the basis of all psychic ability, and find out about crystals and how they can have a beneficial effect on your life.Packed with information, experiments and games, including special cards developed by scientists to test your telepathic skills, The Psychic Handbook will show how you can explore an undiscovered part of your personality and unlock your psychic potential.
The Psychic Hold of Slavery: Legacies in American Expressive Culture
by Margo Natalie Crawford Brandon J. Manning Aida Levy-Hussen Régine Michelle Jean-Charles Calvin Warren Soyica Diggs Colbert Michael Chaney Douglas A. Jones Jr. Gershun Avilez Robert J. PattersonWhat would it mean to "get over slavery"? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the psychic hold of slavery be understood as a tool, helping us get a grip on the systemic racial inequalities and restricted liberties that persist in the present day? Featuring original essays from an array of established and emerging scholars in the interdisciplinary field of African American studies, The Psychic Hold of Slavery offers a nuanced dialogue upon these questions. With a painful awareness that our understanding of the past informs our understanding of the present--and vice versa--the contributors place slavery's historical legacies in conversation with twenty-first-century manifestations of antiblack violence, dehumanization, and social death. Through an exploration of film, drama, fiction, performance art, graphic novels, and philosophical discourse, this volume considers how artists grapple with questions of representation, as they ask whether slavery can ever be accurately depicted, trace the scars that slavery has left on a traumatized body politic, or debate how to best convey that black lives matter. The Psychic Hold of Slavery thus raises provocative questions about how we behold the historically distinct event of African diasporic enslavement and how we might hold off the transhistorical force of antiblack domination.
The Psychic Home: Psychoanalysis, consciousness and the human soul
by Roger KennedyThe Psychic Home: Psychoanalysis of Consciousness and the Human Soul develops, from a number of different viewpoints, the significance of home in our lives. Roger Kennedy puts forward the central role of what he has termed a ‘psychic home’ as a vital psychic structure, which gathers together a number of different human functions. Kennedy questions what we mean by the powerfully evocative notion of the human soul, which has important links to the notion of home and he suggests that what makes us human is that we allow a home for the soul. As an illustration of this concept he explores how it can help to understand a vital element of William Wordsworth’s development as a poet. The word soul is both abstract and yet also powerfully emotive. Kennedy shows that it can be approached from a number of different angles, from psychoanalysis, philosophy, religion, sociology, literature and neuroscience. The Psychic Home, discusses the mysteries and complexities of the soul, and aims to evoke some restoration of its place in our thinking. It illustrates how the word soul and similar key words, such as spirit and inwardness, express so much that is essential for humans, even if we cannot be too precise about their meanings. Insightful, enlightening and broad reaching, The Psychic Home brings the concept of the soul centre stage as an entity that is elemental, an essence, irreducible, and what makes us human as subjects of experience. It will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, neuroscientists, philosophers and those interested in spirituality and religion.
Psychic Hooks and Bolts: Psychoanalytic Work with Children Under Five and their Families
by Maria Pozzi Monzo'In this book it is made plain that complex and powerful understanding can take place in brief work. The baby's development is carried forward, the family re-groups differently, and understanding brings a change in behaviour.'- Lisa Miller, from the Foreword. 'This book focuses on young children as old as five and the parents and siblings who live with them. It wants to explore deep, unconscious connections between children and parents, especially in those cases where symptomatic behaviours develop and turn a potentially pleasant and satisfying family life into hell.' - This fascinating and comprehensive work is divided into two parts. The first gives the theoretical background to the subject, outlining the main theories of the pioneering Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion and Donald Winnicott. The second part deals with the clinical cases that illustrate issues such as post-natal depression, separation difficulties, eating problems, bereavement and loss, learning disabilities and hyperactivity.
The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection
by Judith ButlerAs a form of power, subjection is paradoxical. <P><P>To be dominated by a power external to oneself is a familiar and agonizing form power takes. To find, however, that what "one" is, one's very formation as a subject, is dependent upon that very power is quite another. <P><P>If, following Foucault, we understand power as forming the subject as well, it provides the very condition of its existence and the trajectory of its desire. <P><P>Power is not simply what we depend on for our existence but that which forms reflexivity as well. Drawing upon Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault, and Althusser, this challenging and lucid work offers a theory of subject formation that illuminates as ambivalent the psychic effects of social power.
The Psychic Power of Animals
by Bill D. SchulDiscover the incredible psychic abilities of cats, dogs, horses, canaries, and more in this revelatory book from an expert of interspecies communication. Pets are more than companions. The animals we share our lives with are channels to another world. Documentation exists that proves animals do indeed possess a sixth sense. Discover the mysterious and fantastic revelations about dogs who trace their masters across vast distances; dogs who read minds; dolphins as super beings; conversations between people and animals; the strange friendship between Native Americans and rattlesnakes; animals who reside in pyramids; the German shepherd who taught meditation; the amazing ability of animals to think and reason; and much more that will forever change the way you look at animals.
The Psychic Psychologist: Heal Your Past, Find Peace in the Present, Transform Your Future
by Amanda CharlesDo you feel like your life looks perfect from the outside, but on the inside you&’re falling apart? Have you gone from one practitioner to the next desperately seeking solutions and yet still suffer? If the answer&’s &‘yes&’, then you need The Psychic Psychologist®.Combining traditional psychology, energy work and quantum theory, as well as professional and life experience, The Psychic Psychologist offers a completely unique perspective on healing.With evidence-backed psychological interventions alongside spiritual and intuitive practices, The Psychic Psychologist will help you break free from suffering, transform your pain and go beyond all limitations to create the life you desire. It&’s a book that will help you tap more deeply into your higher power and follow your inner voice, so you can embrace a new reality and consciously construct positive change in your present and for your future.So, no matter how many times life has kicked you when you&’re down, this book will show you that when you&’re fully connected to all the layers of your existence – body, heart, mind and soul – you can turn your pain into purpose and live a life you love.&‘I always hoped that someone would bring a totally new perspective to the way we view human consciousness. Amanda has absolutely done that with this wonderful book.&’Gordon Smith, internationally renowned medium, spiritual teacher and bestselling author.
Psychic Reality and Psychoanalytic Knowing (Routledge Library Editions: Psychoanalysis #3)
by Barnaby B. BarrattHow do we know our mental life, and how is our mental life altered by our efforts to know it better? Originally published in 1984, this title attempts an epistemological and ontological discourse concerning the understanding of human mental processes, and it aims toward a definitive thesis on the dialectics of knowing and being in this work of psychological understanding. What this work reconfronts are questions pertaining to all psychology and to all human sciences. Yet much of its focus is on the understanding of unconscious mental contents, on the question of knowing and being in Freud’s psychology.
Psychic Reality in Context: Perspectives on Psychoanalysis, Personal History, and Trauma (The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series)
by Marion Michel OlinerThis book skillfully combines autobiographical stories with clear psychoanalytical theories. During her childhood, the author experienced the Holocaust and was left understandly traumatised by it. It was her desire to confront this trauma that led her to psychoanalysis. For decades, the coherence of psychoanalysis seemed to be threatened by the conflicting thinking of many psychoanalytical colleagues about trauma and trauma affect, and also about the influence of external reality on the psychic reality discovered by Freud. However, the author counters this potential conflict with her innovative theoretical integration, combined with remarkable conceptual outcomes and treatment techniques. This book spans the author's work over the last fifteen years on the impact of external reality on psychic reality. During this period many analysts, especially in the English-speaking countries and Germany, where historic events loomed large in the lives of their patients, have turned from the exclusive emphasis on psychic reality to greater attention to the traumatic impact of external reality.
Psychic Retreats: Pathological Organizations in Psychotic, Neurotic and Borderline Patients (The New Library of Psychoanalysis #No.19)
by John SteinerEssentially clinical in its approach, Psychic Retreats discusses the problem of patients who are 'stuck' and with whom it is difficult to make meaningful contact. John Steiner, an experienced psychoanalyst, uses new developments in Kleinian theory to explain how this happens. He examines the way object relationships and defences can be organized into complex structures which lead to a personality and an analysis becoming rigid and stuck, with little opportunity for development or change. These systems of defences are pathological organisations of the personality: John Steiner describes them as 'psychic retreats', into which the patient can withdraw to avoid contact both with the analyst and with reality. To provide a background to these original and controversial concepts, the author builds on more established ideas such as Klein's distinction between the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions, and briefly reviews previous work on pathological organizations of the personality. He illustrates his discussion with detailed clinical material, with examples of the way psychic retreats operate to provide a respite from both paranoid-schizoid and depressive anxieties. He looks at the way such organizations function as a defence against unbearable guilt and describes the mechanism by which fragmentation of the personality can be reversed so the lost parts of the self can be regained and reintegrated in to the personality. Psychic Retreats is written with the practising psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in mind. The emphasis is therefore clinical throughout the book, which concludes with a chapter on the technical problems which arise in the treatment of such severely ill patients.
Psychic Suffering: From Pain to Growth
by Gemma Corradi FiumaraThis book creates an awareness of our 'excessive' fear of mental pain: the ubiquitous abhorrence of inner distress functions as a gravitational force that may ultimately impede both maturation and creativity, as if we were facing a choice between utilising our inner suffering, or else being overwhelmed by our fear of its inertial power. Psychoanalytic interpretation is the effort to render pain more approachable, and bearable enough for us to move forward, to avoid the escapes of pathology and somatisation. This exploration is in fact an urgent concern, both clinically and socially. At the centre of psychoanalytic culture, and of the humanities in general, the question of inner pain propels us to refocus research on the psychic transition towards agency, as contrasted to acquiescing in an outlook of passivity and recourse to innumerable anaesthetics. We believe that in psychoanalysis we can gain a microscopic view of inner phenomena and also a back-stage perspective of our vicissitudes.
Psychic Threats and Somatic Shelters: Attuning to the body in contemporary psychoanalytic dialogue
by Nitza YaromThere is increasing recognition within psychoanalysis and related therapies that awareness of the body is important in understanding and treating patients. Psychic Threats and Somatic Shelters explores the ways in which adults and children become acquainted with the range of physical issues that arise within their psychoanalytic or psychological treatments. Nitza Yarom discusses in a practical and clinically focused way the large variety of physical outlets which today’s person uses to shelter from the many troubles and restrictions that are placed on everyday life. Her book is divided into two main sections: Somatic shelters, which explores the variety of physical symptoms encountered by patients, including problems with weight and eating; with sensation through sight, sound, smell and taste; in movement through hyper activity or rigidity and through the communication of physical pain. Embodied dialogue, in which the author updates the use of the basic technical principles of psychoanalysis to involve the body in the treatment including transference and counter-transference between analyst and patient. In Psychic Threats and Somatic Shelters the emotional communication of these body narratives are vividly demonstrated in the treatments presented, here the interaction in the consulting room is revealed in bodily resonance and its therapeutic effects. This book is written for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, psychologists, body therapists, family therapists, social workers and art/movement therapists.
Psychische Auffälligkeiten im Säuglings- und Kleinkindalter: Praxis-Manual für pädagogische Berufsgruppen
by Simon M. RankDieses Praxis-Manual leistet Hilfestellung, psychische Auffälligkeiten im Säuglings- und Kleinkindalter im pädagogischen Alltag von Reifungsphänomenen zu unterscheiden, die eigenen pädagogischen Handlungs- und Beratungsmöglichkeiten zu erkennen, weiteren Hilfebedarf einzuschätzen, diesen gut zu kommunizieren und manifesten Störungen vorzubeugen. Es versteht sich als Handbuch mit wichtigen Schwerpunkten für die Praxis, in dem auch kurzfristig nachgeschlagen werden kann. Es richtet sich in erster Linie an Personen, die Säuglinge und Kleinkinder betreuen, kann jedoch auch für behandelnde Berufsgruppen und interessierte Laien hilfreich sein.Ihr Wegweiser für den pädagogischen Alltag, der Sie einlädt, Ihr Wissen anzuwenden.
Psychische Erkrankungen als gesellschaftliche Aufgabe: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf aktuelle Herausforderungen (Schriften zu Gesundheit und Gesellschaft - Studies on Health and Society #5)
by Pauline Mantell Carolin Schwegler Christiane WoopenPsychische Erkrankungen sind eine gesamtgesellschaftliche Herausforderung mit vielen Facetten und müssen als solche auch interdisziplinär betrachtet werden. Der vorliegende Sammelband setzt genau hier an und hat das Ziel, ein differenziertes Bild über die Bedeutung psychischer Erkrankungen und den gesellschaftlichen Umgang mit ihnen zu zeichnen. Die vielfältigen Fragen, die sich dabei stellen, werden durch Vertreter*innen aus den Gesundheits-, Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften erörtert. Dies beinhaltet theoretische sowie praktische Perspektiven mit historischen, aktuellen und zukunftsperspektivischen Schwerpunkten, die sich insgesamt dem Ziel widmen, aktuelle Herausforderungen aufzuzeigen und einen Beitrag zur Verbesserung der psychischen Gesundheitsversorgung in den Bereichen der Krankheitsbehandlung, Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung zu leisten.
Psychische Gefährdungsbeurteilung: Herausforderungen, Chancen und Pflichten (BestMasters)
by Daniela SchickIm aktuellen Diskurs erhöhter Krankenstände durch psychische Belastung und Beanspruchung am Arbeitsplatz bietet dieses Buch eine umfangreiche theoretische und praktische Handlungsempfehlung bei der Einführung psychischer Gefährdungsbeurteilungen in Organisationen. Zusammenfassend wird zum Ausdruck gebracht, dass die Implementation der psychischen Gefährdungsbeurteilung auf den Ebenen Individuum, Team, Führungskräfte und Organisation ein bisher wenig genutztes, jedoch durchaus zukunftsorientiertes und nachhaltiges Potenzial für alle Organisationsmitglieder beinhaltet. Es veranschaulicht, welche konkreten Herausforderungen, Widerstände und Handlungsfelder allein durch die Bezugnahme auf die Gefährdungsbeurteilung innerhalb einer Organisation herausgearbeitet werden können. Das Buch nimmt übersichtlich und detailliert die Perspektiven des Arbeitsrechts, der Betriebswirtschaft, des Gesundheitsmanagements und der Organisationsentwicklung ein. Es steht somit als wichtiger Beitrag und ganzheitliche Orientierungshilfe für eine erfolgreiche und nachhaltige Mitarbeiterbindung sowie ein gesundes Unternehmen.
Psychische Gesundheit bei der Arbeit: Gefährdungsbeurteilung und gesunde Organisationsentwicklung
by Ralf NeunerDas Buch schlägt die Brücke zwischen Theorie und Praxis. Es klärt die wichtigsten Begriffe rund um das Thema psychische Belastung und geht auf die bestehenden gesetzlichen Verpflichtungen und Aufgabenverteilung ein. Kommentare zu Normen und relevante Gesetze wurden aktualisiert. Die vierte, umfassend überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage beleuchtet Arbeitskonzepte, die unter den Begriff New Work fallen.Im Hauptteil werden Methoden und Verfahren zur Messung und Dokumentation von psychischen Belastungen erläutert. Dazu hat der Autor einen Darstellungs- und Kriterienkatalog erarbeitet, mit dem sich der Leser die spezifischen Vor- und Nachteile einschlägigen Verfahren zur Ermittlung psychischer Belastung erschließen kann. Die Ergebnisse der Analyse sind Handlungsgrundlage für die gesunde Organisationsentwicklung. Anhand zahlreicher Praxisbeispiele werden Maßnahmen und deren Nutzen zur Verbesserung der Qualität der Arbeitsgestaltung für die Beschäftigten und das Unternehmen aufgezeigt.Das Buch wendet sich an alle Interessierten, die wissen möchten, wie man psychische Belastung bei der Arbeit effektiv erfassen und in der Folge verringern kann. Dazu gehören Fachkräfte für Arbeitssicherheit genauso wie Arbeitsmediziner, Betriebsräte, Personalverantwortlich und alle, deren Anliegen die Verbesserung der Qualität der Arbeitsbedingungen ist.
Psychische Störungen bei Jugendlichen: Ausgewählte Phänomene und Determinanten (Meet the Expert: Wissen aus erster Hand)
by Wolfgang LenhardVerfolgt man die mediale Berichterstattung, so verdichtet sich schnell der Eindruck, dass die Bedingungen, unter denen Jugendliche aufwachsen, fortlaufend ungünstiger werden. Ziel dieses Buches ist es, diese Hypothesen einem Realitätscheck zu unterziehen und sie auf ihren Wahrheitsgehalt zu überprüfen:Machen digitale Medien einsam und aggressiv, wann werden Jugendliche zu Gewalttätern und nehmen psychische Störungen wie ADHS immer mehr zu? Ist Rauschtrinken unter Jugendlichen tatsächlich ein immer ernster werdendes Problem und welchen Einfluss haben sexuelle und aggressive Medieninhalte auf die Entwicklung Jugendlicher? Welche Entwicklungen sind tatsächlich ungünstig oder sogar gefährlich, welche Aussagen sind nicht haltbar und an welcher Stelle haben sich Bedingungen sogar verbessert? Zu Wort kommen Expertinnen und Experten aus den Bereichen Psychologie, Psychiatrie, und Soziologie, die ihre Forschungsergebnisse im Interview-Stil klar, unterhaltsam und verständlich auf den Punkt bringen und gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen aufzeigen. Nicht nur lehrreich für Masterstudierende, sondern besonders geeignet für Professionals aus Bildung und Erziehung, Psychologie, Psychiatrie, Pädagogik, sowie für alle an dieser Thematik Interessierten.
Psychische Störungen verstehen: Orientierungshilfe für Angehörige
by Elisabeth WagnerDieses Sachbuch hilft Angehörigen und anderen Nahestehenden, psychische Störungen besser zu verstehen. Die häufigsten Krankheitsbilder werden beschrieben, Entstehungsbedingungen verständlich dargestellt. Es informiert über adäquate Behandlungsansätze und Beratungsangebote, vermittelt einen Überblick über die Wirkung von Psychopharmaka und Psychotherapie bei den einzelnen Störungen. Alle, die rund um Betroffene beteiligt sind, werden dabei unterstützt, einen möglichst konstruktiven Umgang mit den auftretenden Belastungen und die richtige Balance zwischen Unterstützung und Abgrenzung zu finden. Zum Kontext: 25 % der Menschen in Westeuropa erleiden einmal in ihrem Leben eine behandlungsbedürftige psychische Störung. Daher ist davon auszugehen, dass jeder Mensch in seinem nahen Umfeld zumindest mit einem/einer psychisch Kranken zu tun hat. Viele fragen sich: Wie kann ich diese Krankheit/Störung verstehen? Wie ist die Prognose? Wie soll ich mit dem/der Betroffenen umgehen? Wie kann ich helfen? Wer kann helfen? Wann sind Psychopharmaka nötig und wie gefährlich sind sie wirklich? Dieses Buch gibt Antworten. Über die Autorin: Dr. Elisabeth Wagner, Fachärztin für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapeutische Medizin, Lehrtherapeutin für systemische Familientherapie, betreut viele Betroffene, aber auch deren soziales Umfeld. Dieses zu unterstützen, ist ihr ein Anliegen.
Psychische StörungsBILDER
by Andrea Prölß Thomas Schnell Leona Julie KochDieses Buch widmet sich den vielfältigen psychischen Störungen und wendet sich an alle Interessierte, von Betroffenen und Angehörigen bis zu therapeutisch und pflegend tätigem Fachpersonal. Im Mittelpunkt steht eine künstlerische Annäherung an die einzelnen psychischen Störungen, indem jede Diagnose mittels einer schwarz-weiß skizzierten Darstellung interpretiert wird. Ergänzt werden die bildlichen Darstellungen durch jeweils kurze und prägnante Beschreibungen. Diese stellen die wichtigsten Symptome der Störungsbilder vor, Informationen zur Häufigkeit ihres Auftretens, Kenntnisse über mögliche Entstehungsbedingungen, ihren Verlauf, sowie therapeutische Optionen und einen prognostischen Ausblick. Während teils erhebliche Fehlinformationen über psychiatrische Störungsbilder kursieren, enthält dieses Werk ausschließlich Informationen, die nach heutigem Wissensstand allgemein anerkannt sind. So ist es bestens geeignet für Betroffene und Angehörige. Psychiatrische oder wissenschaftliche Vorkenntnisse sind zum Verständnis nicht erforderlich. Die Autoren habe eine leicht verständliche Sprache gewählt, sodass das Werk für jeden Interessierten eine ebenso originelle, wie interessante und bereichernde Reise in die Welt der psychiatrischen Phänomene bietet.
Psycho-Academic Holocaust: The Special Education and ADHD Wars Against Black Boys
by Umar JohnsonPsycho-Academic Holocaust has been written for laypersons with everyday language, and should be read by all adults who care about the future of young Black males in America, England, Canada and the Caribbean. An entire chapter has been dedicated to teaching parents and teachers how to eliminate challenging and disruptive behaviors without medication.
Psycho-Analysis: A Brief Account of the Freudian Theory (Routledge Library Editions: Freud)
by Barbara LowOriginally published in 1920, this book was intended as a brief outline of psychoanalysis for those interested in the subject, but without the time to study the work of Freud and his followers first hand.
Psycho-Analysis and Social Psychology (Psychology Library Editions: Social Psychology)
by William McDougallFrom the Preface: ‘In these few lectures delivered in the University of London (May 1935) I have returned to the always interesting, but generally quite futile, task of criticizing the teachings of Professor Sigmund Freud and his school. On the present occasion my criticisms are made with ruthless frankness, in accordance with the policy I have recently adopted. I have realized too late that I might have done more for my chosen science, had I from the first spoken with a less modest voice.’ Originally published in 1936, two years before the author’s death, this title is a critique of the teachings of Freud and his school from a social psychology standpoint. It has several appendices which include the examining of ‘Totem and Taboo’ and the Oedipus complex.
The Psycho-Analysis Of Artistic Vision And Hearing: An Introduction to a Theory of Unconscious Perception (International Library Of Psychology Ser. #Vol. 38)
by Ehrenzweig, AntonThis book deals with the inarticulate form elements hidden in the unconscious structure of a work of art or—what comes to the same thing — with the unconscious structure of the perception processes by which we actively create or passively enjoy these unconscious form elements. In order to become aware of inarticulate forms we have to adopt a mental attitude not dissimilar to that which the psycho-analyst must adopt when dealing with unconscious material, namely some kind of diffuse attention.
The Psycho-Analysis of Children: The Conduct Of The Psycho-analysis Of Children As Seen In The Treatment Of A Ten Year Old Boy
by Melanie KleinThe Psycho-Analysis of Children, first published in 1932, is a classic in its subject, and revolutionised child analysis. Melanie Klein had already proved, by the special technique she devised, that she was a pioneer in that branch of analysis. She made possible the extension of psycho-analysis to the field of early childhood, and in this way not only made the treatment of young children possible but also threw new light on psychological development in childhood and on the roots of adult neuroses and psychoses.
The Psycho-Analysis of the Nursery: Analysis Of The Nursery (Routledge Library Editions: Psychoanalysis)
by Alice BalintOriginally published in English in 1953, this title was first printed in Hungarian in 1931. Already translated into German, French and Spanish, Alice Balint (the first wife of Michael Balint) had intended to translate the title into English herself, but died suddenly at the beginning of the Second World War. Eventually their son, by this time a qualified doctor, was instrumental in bringing this edition about.