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Pleasure Activism: The Politics Of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Ser.)
by Adrienne Maree Brown Favianna Rodriguez Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaHow do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Author and editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls "pleasure activism," a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form of work. Drawing on the black feminist tradition, she challenges us to rethink the ground rules of activism. Her mindset-altering essays are interwoven with conversations and insights from other feminist thinkers, including Audre Lorde, Joan Morgan, Cara Page, Sonya Renee Taylor, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Together they cover a wide array of subjects--from sex work to climate change, from race and gender to sex and drugs--building new narratives about how politics can feel good and how what feels good always has a complex politics of its own.
Pleasure from the Mister: Sex Secrets for Unbridled Passion Inspired by the Bestselling Novel
by Marisa BennettLet the mister take the lead. Move your passionate fantasies off the page and into the bedroom with Pleasure from the Mister: Sex Secrets for Unbridled Passion. This bedside companion is perfect for any E. L. James devotee or Fifty Shades of Grey madam or mister, complete with how-tos and inspiration for couples on how to recreate the passion and spice of beloved books. Open a door to a world of pleasure with hot erotic tips to fulfill your deepest desires, from sweet nothings for your sensual side to domination and submission. Explore all the ways a commanding approach can bring your bliss to its brim, discover the spiciest ways to wield your tantalizing touch, and surrender yourself to dangerously powerful passion. In Marisa Bennett’s signature style, this playful guide will ease you into the hot, the naughty, and the irresistible methods of giving your love sessions a lesson. Crack a whip, test your knot knowledge, tease with feather ticklers, and rope together some orgasmic love lessons in your own fiery romance. Make your move with sex secrets for the quick, the lengthy, and the electric ways to love. Whether you fancy a bit of force or fantasize giving favors, Pleasure from the Mister will take you over the edge and having you coming back for more!
Plurality and the Poetics of Self
by Bruce BondPlurality and the Poetics of Self investigates the words “I” and “self” as suggestive of eight territories of meaning. Via poetry’s lens into language and its limits, Bruce Bond explores the notion of self as identity, volitional agent, ego, existential monad, subjectivity, ontological origin, soul, and transpersonal psyche. Taking poetic meaning as our common currency, the book emphasizes the critical role of the un-representable and how embattled and confused assumptions threaten ever deeper alienation from one another and ourselves.
Pocket Guide Psychopharmaka von A bis Z: Von A Bis Z
by Otto Benkert Ion-George Anghelescu Gerhard Gründer Philip Heiser Christoph Hiemke Hubertus Himmerich Falk Kiefer Christian Lange-Asschenfeldt Matthias J. Müller Michael Paulzen Francesca Regen Axel Steiger Frank WeberDieses komprimierte Pocket-Buch ist bestens geeignet, um es in die Kitteltasche zu packen.Die Informationen im Buch sind sehr knapp und präzise gehalten; ganz bewusst wurde hier auf eine ausführliche Darstellung der Störungen verzichtet.Im Pocket Guide finden Sie von A bis Z schnell und übersichtlich die "Erste-Hilfe"-Information rund um alle Psychopharmaka, die Sie auf Station und im Praxisalltag brauchen.
Pocket Prescriber Psychiatry (Pocket Prescriber Series)
by Jonathan P. Rogers; Cheryl C.Y. Leung; Timothy R.J. NicholsonPocket Prescriber Psychiatry is a concise, up-to-date prescribing guide containing all the "must-have" information that psychiatrists and mental health professionals need to know. This book provides the key essential information for all mental health professionals prescribing drugs and is essential for psychiatrists, mental health nurses, primary care physicians, psychologists, psychotherapists, and counsellors and anyone caring for people with mental health issues.
A Pocket Style Manual
by Diana Hacker Nancy SommersBecoming a college writer means becoming a college researcher, and it can be a challenge for students to keep all of the guidelines and best practices straight for each class. Enter A Pocket Style Manual, APA Version. The eighth edition—with its emphasis on step-by-step how-to instruction that helps students apply writing, research , and citation advice in practical, transferable ways—is a powerful companion for writing in all disciplines. What’s more, it covers all aspects of writing in APA style, including over 100 APA documentation models and 11 sample student papers in diverse genres, from a literature review to a laboratory report to a professional memo. With Pocket’s new research help, tested and trusted grammar and style advice, and digital tools that make practice, tracking, and grading simple, you’ve got the most powerful pocket guide for college writing and research.
A Pocket Style Manual, APA Version
by Diana Hacker Nancy SommersBecoming a college writer means becoming a college researcher, and it can be a challenge for students to keep all of the guidelines and best practices straight for each class. Enter A Pocket Style Manual, APA Version. The eighth edition—with its emphasis on step-by-step how-to instruction that helps students apply writing, research , and citation advice in practical, transferable ways—is a powerful companion for writing in all disciplines. What’s more, it covers all aspects of writing in APA style, including over 100 APA documentation models and 11 sample student papers in diverse genres, from a literature review to a laboratory report to a professional memo. With Pocket’s new research help, tested and trusted grammar and style advice, and digital tools that make practice, tracking, and grading simple, you’ve got the most powerful pocket guide for college writing and research.
El poder de los hábitos: Por qué hacemos lo que hacemos en la vida y los negocios
by Charles Duhigg“Hay pocos libros que se convierten en manuales esenciales de vida. Este es uno de ellos”. — Financial Times En El poder de los hábitos, el premiado periodista Charles Duhigg nos lleva al límite de los descubrimientos científicos que explican por qué existen los hábitos, cómo nos condicionan y cómo cambiarlos. Duhigg ofrece una gran cantidad de información en una fascinante narrativa que nos lleva a las salas de reuniones de Procter & Gamble, a las gradas de la NFL, y hasta al movimiento por los derechos civiles, y presenta una manera completamente nueva de entender la naturaleza humana y su potencial. En esencia, El poder de los hábitos contiene un mensaje estimulante: la clave para hacer ejercicio con regularidad, perder peso, ser más productivo y conseguir el éxito consiste en entender el modo en que funcionan los hábitos. Como demuestra Duhigg, si somos capaces de sacar partido a este nuevo método, conseguiremos transformar nuestra vida laboral, social y personal.
El poder de los hábitos
by Charles DuhiggHay pocos libros que se convierten en manuales esenciales de vida. Este es uno de ellos. Financial Times En El poder de los hábitos, el premiado periodista Charles Duhigg nos lleva al límite de los descubrimientos científicos que explican por qué existen los hábitos, cómo nos condicionan y cómo cambiarlos. Duhigg ofrece una gran cantidad de información en una fascinante narrativa que nos lleva a las salas de reuniones de Procter & Gamble, a las gradas de la NFL, y hasta al movimiento por los derechos civiles, y presenta una manera completamente nueva de entender la naturaleza humana y su potencial. En esencia, El poder de los hábitos contiene un mensaje estimulante: la clave para hacer ejercicio con regularidad, perder peso, ser más productivo y conseguir el éxito consiste en entender el modo en que funcionan los hábitos. Como demuestra Duhigg, si somos capaces de sacar partido a este nuevo método, conseguiremos transformar nuestra vida laboral, social y personal.
Point of View: A Novel
by Patrick BardPowerful and unfiltered, this fictional account of a teenage boy's addiction to online pornography is equal parts heartbreaking and hopeful.The first time a link to a porn video pops up on his computer screen, Lucas is startled. He was simply trying to stream a superhero movie. Transfixed by the scene that unfolds, he experiences his first stirrings of arousal. Lucas soon realizes that he wants to recapture that same excitement, and it's not long before he starts down a path that takes hold of his every thought--day and night. Only when his secret is revealed and everything comes crashing down around him can Lucas confront his compulsions. But even as feelings of shame overwhelm him, his urges seem impossible to ignore, and interacting with real people is difficult. As Lucas gets help, it becomes clear to him and those around him that he can recover and find a new direction for his life despite this addiction. With a naive and confused protagonist and multilayered storytelling, this is a no-holds-barred look at a teenage boy falling prey to the world of cybersex, the perils of porn addiction, and the difficult road to recovery for addicts and their loved ones.
Political Identity in Discourse: The Voices of New Zealand Voters
by Jay M. WoodhamsThis book takes an innovative view of language and politics, charting the terrain of political identities and discourses in New Zealand through detailed linguistic analysis of interactions with its voters. The author first sets out the geographical and sociopolitical context, examining how the constraints of a small and isolated country interact with widespread social values such as egalitarianism. He then delves into the multiple nature of identities and explores how Kiwis form their political selves through informal talk with others and in engagement with their physical and discursive surroundings. In doing so, the author provides an in-depth exploration of New Zealand political culture, identity and discourse, and sheds light on how we use language to become political people. This book will be of interest to linguists, political scientists and sociologists working with discourse analysis.
Politics and Emotions in Romantic Periodicals
by Jock Macleod William Christie Peter DenneyThis book comprises eleven essays by leading scholars of early nineteenth-century British literature and periodical culture. The collection addresses the many and varied links between politics and the emotions in Romantic periodicals, from the revolutionary decade of the 1790s, to the 1832 Reform Bill. In so doing, it deepens our understanding of the often conflicted relations between politics and feelings, and raises questions relevant to contemporary debates on affect studies and their relation to political criticism. The respective chapters explore both the politics of emotion and the emotional register of political discussion in radical, reformist and conservative periodicals. They are arranged chronologically, covering periodicals from Pigs’ Meat to Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine and the Spectator. Recurring themes include the contested place of emotion in radical political discourse; the role of the periodical in mediating action and performance; the changing affective frameworks of cultural politics (especially concerning gender and nation), and the shifting terrain of what constitutes appropriate emotion in public political discourse.
The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice
by Staci HainesAn essential tool for healers, therapists, activists, and survivors of trauma who are interested in a justice-centered approach to somatic transformationThe Politics of Trauma offers somatics with a social analysis. This book is for therapists and social activists who understand that trauma healing is not just for individuals--and that social change is not just for movement builders. Just as health practitioners need to consider the societal factors underlying trauma, so too must activists understand the physical and mental impacts of trauma on their own lives and the lives of the communities with whom they organize. Trauma healing and social change are, at their best, interdependent. Somatics has proven to be particularly effective in addressing trauma, but in practice it typically focuses solely on the individual, failing to integrate the social conditions that create trauma in the first place. Staci K. Haines, somatic innovator and cofounder of generative somatics, invites readers to look beyond individual experiences of body and mind to examine the social, political, and economic roots of trauma--including racism, environmental degradation, sexism, and poverty. Haines helps readers identify, understand, and address these sources of trauma to help us bridge individual healing with social transformation.
Polygamy, Women, and Higher Education: Life After Mormon Fundamentalism
by Laura ParsonThis volume explores the life stories of women who were former members of Mormon fundamentalist polygamous societies, from their own perspectives, to seek insight into their readiness for higher education settings. In order to support all learners in higher education, it is important to understand the unique needs of women students who have non-traditional formal schooling experiences and/or have come from restrictive or patriarchal cultures. This book helps further the discourse by providing recommendations for inclusive programs that consider how to develop elements of self-concept, empowerment, and motivation necessary for higher education success—academically and beyond.
Positive Aging and Precarity: Theory, Policy, and Social Reality within a Comparative German Context (International Perspectives on Aging #21)
by Irina Catrinel CrăciunThis book explores positive aging through the lens of precarity, aiming to ground positive aging theories in current social contexts. In recent years, research on aging has been branded by growing disagreements between supporters of the successful aging model and critical gerontologists who highlight the widening inequalities, disadvantages and precarity that characterize old age. This book comes to fill a gap in knowledge by offering an alternative view on positive aging, informed by precarity and its impact on projections concerning aging.The first part of the book places aging in broader theoretical and empirical context, exploring the complex links between views on aging, successful aging theories, policy and social reality. The second part uses results from a qualitative research conducted in Germany to illustrate the dissonance between successful aging ideals and both negative and positive views on aging as well as aging preparation strategies inspired by precarity. Findings from this section provide a solid starting point for comparisons with countries that are both similar and different from Germany in terms of welfare regimes and aging policies. The final part of the book discusses the psychological implications of these findings within and beyond the German case study and outlines potential solutions for practice. This book provides health psychologists, gerontologists, sociologists, social workers, health professionals as well as students and aging individuals themselves with better understanding of the meaning of aging in precarious times and builds confidence about aging well despite precarity.
Positive Discipline for Preschoolers, Revised 4th Edition: For Their Early Years -- Raising Children Who Are Responsible, Respectful, and Resourceful
by Jane Nelsen Cheryl Erwin Roslyn Ann DuffyCompletely updated with the latest research in child development and learning, Positive Discipline for Preschoolers will help parents understand their preschooler and provide early methods to raise a child who is responsible, respectful, and resourceful.Caring for young children is one of the most challenging tasks an adult will ever face. No matter how much you love your child, there will be moments filled with frustration, anger, and even desperation. There will also be questions: Why does my four-year-old deliberately lie to me? Why is everything a struggle with my three-year-old? Should I ever spank my preschooler when she is disobedient? Over the years, millions of parents have come to trust the Positive Discipline series and its common-sense approach to child-rearing.This revised and updated fourth edition includes a new chapter on the importance of play and outdoor experiences on child development, along with new information on school readiness, childhood brain growth, and social/emotional learning. You'll also find practical solutions for how to:- Teach appropriate social skills at an early age- Avoid the power struggles that often come with mastering sleeping, eating, and potty training- See misbehavior as an opportunity to teach nonpunitive discipline--not punishment
Positive Psychological Intervention Design and Protocols for Multi-Cultural Contexts
by Llewellyn Ellardus Van Zyl Sebastiaan RothmannThis volume presents innovative and contemporary methodologies and intervention protocols for the enhancement of positive psychological attributes in multicultural professional and organizational contexts. Most methods, models and approaches that underpin positive psychological interventions are confined to clinical samples, closed systems or monocultural contexts, which restrict their applicability to particular contexts. Extensive practical intervention protocols, designs and methods which usually accompany first draft intervention papers are condensed into brief paragraphs in final manuscripts or removed in their entirety. This, in turn, reduces their potential for replicability or adoption by consumers, practitioners, or industry. This volume develops guidelines for enhancing positive psychological attributes, such as positive moods (e.g. positive affect; life satisfaction), strengths (e.g. gratitude; humour), cognitions (e.g. hope; optimism) and behaviours (e.g. emotional regulation; positive relationship building) within various multicultural contexts. Thereby, it shows how positive psychology interventions can be replicated to a wide-range of contexts beyond those in which they were developed.
Positive Psychologie und organisationale Resilienz: Stürmische Zeiten besser meistern (Positive Psychologie kompakt)
by Mirjam RolfeDieses Buch zeigt auf, wie organisationale Resilienz dazu beiträgt, Gesundheit, Leistungsfähigkeit und Wirksamkeit trotz Digitalisierungs- und Veränderungsdrucks zu erhalten. Es bietet Unternehmern, HR-Managern, Fach- und Führungskräften Expertenwissen, um auf organisationaler, individueller und Team-Ebene nachhaltig leistungsfähig und kraftvoll zu bleiben. Basierend auf Konzepten und Handwerkszeug aus der Positiven Psychologie finden Leser Antworten auf folgende Fragen: Wie können Organisationen auch bei hoher Komplexität und Unsicherheit krisenfest und achtsam bleiben? Wie lassen sich Fehler- und Lernkultur im Unternehmen entwickeln, Stärken konsequent nutzen und organisationale Energie fördern? Wie gelingt es Menschen, auch in Veränderungen und unter Stress, ihre innere Kraft zu stärken, lebendig und engagiert zu sein? Wie können Führungskräfte in Zeiten des Wandels und der Unvorhersehbarkeit Vertrauen und Orientierung stiften und sich von Rückschlägen besser erholen? Wie schaffen es Teams, Diversität als Stärke zu erkennen, auch unter Druck kreativ zusammenzuarbeiten und gemeinsam Ziele zu erreichen? Lernen Sie, eine resiliente Unternehmenskultur zu entwickeln, Veränderungen als Chance zu nutzen – und sogar gestärkt daraus hervorzugehen.
Positive Psychology: The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths (Praeger Perspectives Ser. #7)
by Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti Dr Shane J. Lopez Charles Richard SnyderPositive Psychology: The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths comprehensively covers the science and application of positive psychology. Authors Shane J. Lopez, Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti, and C. R. Snyder bring positive psychology to life by illustrating issues such as how psychological strength can help increase positive outcomes in school and the workplace and promote cooperative relationships among people. Furthermore, the book encourages readers to engage with concepts in order to understand positive emotions and strengths, such as empathy, altruism, gratitude, attachment, and love. Over 50 case studies grounded in practice, research, and the authors’ teaching experience reveal how positive psychological phenomena operate in the lives of real people.
Positive Psychology: The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths (Praeger Perspectives Ser. #7)
by Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti Dr Shane J. Lopez Charles Richard SnyderPositive Psychology: The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths comprehensively covers the science and application of positive psychology. Authors Shane J. Lopez, Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti, and C. R. Snyder bring positive psychology to life by illustrating issues such as how psychological strength can help increase positive outcomes in school and the workplace and promote cooperative relationships among people. Furthermore, the book encourages readers to engage with concepts in order to understand positive emotions and strengths, such as empathy, altruism, gratitude, attachment, and love. Over 50 case studies grounded in practice, research, and the authors’ teaching experience reveal how positive psychological phenomena operate in the lives of real people.
Positive Psychology Coaching in Practice (Coaching Psychology)
by Suzy Green Stephen PalmerPositive Psychology Coaching in Practice provides a comprehensive overview of positive psychology coaching, bringing together the best of science and practice, highlighting current research, and emphasising the applicability of each element to coaching. With an international range of contributors, this book is a unique resource for those seeking to integrate positive psychology into their evidence-based coaching practice. Beginning with an overview of positive psychology coaching, the book includes an assessment of theories of wellbeing, an examination of mindfulness research, a guide to relevant neuroscience, and a review of a strengths-based approach. It also contains chapters which explore the application of ACT, the role of positive psychology in wellness and resilience coaching, positive leadership theory, and developmental psychological theories as they relate to coaching through significant life transitions. In each chapter, theory and research is thoroughly explored and applied directly to coaching practice, and supported with a list of relevant resources and a case study. The book concludes with the editors’ views on the future directions of positive psychology coaching. Positive Psychology Coaching in Practice will be essential reading for professional coaches in practice and in training seeking to enhance their evidence-based practice, coaching psychologists, practitioners of positive psychology, and academics and students of coaching, coaching psychology and positive psychology.
Positive Psychology in the Middle East/North Africa: Research, Policy, and Practise
by Louise Lambert Nausheen Pasha-ZaidiThis volume looks at positive psychology from a culturally-responsive, empirically-driven perspective to avoid a descent into pseudoscience. Through evidence-based, regionally relevant topics in the field of well-being, this volume shows how increasing levels of excellence in the GCC region enhance upon business, education, research, and social innovations. Grounded in the empirical research literature, each chapter applies psychological concepts to locally relevant considerations, such as culture, religion, and socio-political contexts, making this book an essential tool for understanding positive psychology and well-being in the GCC nations and beyond.
The Positive Shift: Mastering Mindset to Improve Happiness, Health, and Longevity
by Catherine A. SandersonIt's the reason why spending time on Facebook makes us feel sad and lonely. Why expensive name-brand medicines provide better pain relief than the generic stuff, even if they share the same ingredients. And why a hospital room with a good view speeds up recovery from surgery. The truth is, the way we think about ourselves and the world around us dramatically impacts our happiness, health, how fast or slow we age, and even how long we live. In fact, people with a positive mindset about aging live on average 7.5 years longer than those without. That might sound alarming to those of us who struggle to see the bright side, but the good news is we can make surprisingly simple changes or small shifts to how we think, feel, and act that will really pay off. In The Positive Shift: Mastering Mindset to Improve Happiness, Health, and Longevity, Dr. Catherine Sanderson breaks down the science of thought and shows how our mindset—or thought pattern—exerts a substantial influence on our psychological and physical health. Most important, this book demonstrates how, no matter what our natural tendency, with practice we can make minor tweaks in our mindset that will improve the quality—and longevity—of our life. Combining cutting-edge research from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, as well as vivid real-world examples of the power of mindset, The Positive Shift gives readers practical and easy strategies for changing maladaptive thought patterns and behaviors so they can live longer, happier lives. These behaviors include: • Appreciating nature, with actions as simple as eating lunch outside • Giving to others, like volunteering • Spending money on experiences, not possessions Living your best life is truly mind over matter. Believe in yourself and rethink your way to a happier reality.
Postfeminism and Health: Critical Psychology and Media Perspectives (Critical Approaches to Health)
by Sarah Riley Adrienne Evans Martine RobsonWinner of the 2021 BPS Book Award: Academic Text category, this groundbreaking book employs a transdisciplinary and poststructuralist methodology to develop the concept of ‘postfeminist healthism,’ a twenty-first-century understanding of women’s physical and mental health formed at the intersections of postfeminist sensibilities, neoliberal constructs of citizenship and the notion of health as an individual responsibility managed through consumption. Postfeminist healthism is used in this book to explore seven topics where postfeminist sensibility has the most impact on women’s health: self-help, weight, surgical technologies, sex, pregnancy, responsibilities for others’ health and pro-anorexia communities. The book explores the ways in which the desire to be normal and live a good life is tied to expectations of ‘normal-perfection’ circulated across interpersonal interactions, media representations and expert discourses. It diagnoses postfeminist healthism as unhealthy for both those women who participate in it and those whom it excludes and considers how more positive directions may emerge. By exploring the under-researched intersection of postfeminism and health studies, this book will be invaluable to researchers and students in psychology, gender and women’s studies, health research, media studies and sociology.
Posttraumatic Stress and Substance Use Disorders: A Comprehensive Clinical Handbook
by Anka A. Vujanovic Sudie E. BackPosttraumatic Stress and Substance Use Disorders summarizes the state of the field from a biopsychosocial perspective, addressing key domains of interest to clinicians, students, instructors, and researchers. This book is a valuable resource and reference guide for multidisciplinary practitioners and scientists interested in the evidence-based assessment and treatment of posttraumatic stress and substance use disorders. Chapters written by leaders in the field cover the latest research on assessment, diagnosis, evidence-based treatments, future directions, and much more.