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A Full Life in Science and Medicine In turn quirky, hilarious, and serious, Magner's entertaining and memorable anecdotes have done for training in biology and medicine what Richard Feynman did for physics in his best-selling book, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Learn how a boy from small-town America is inspired by nature, finds ways to do well in college, takes baby-steps in scientific research, and navigates medical school and stressful training. He soon learns the pleasures and challenges of an academic career followed by two decades of designing international clinical trials in two pharmaceutical companies. Along the way he falls in love, and he and Glenda raise two daughters. Career and family issues are difficult at times, but humor abounds. No matter the roadblocks, Magner always finds a path forward. The book is thoughtfully structured with technical scientific information (to satisfy rigorous readers) sequestered to appendices so that the main body of the book remains easy and fun to read. This second edition has been re-edited, updated and expanded. For variety, three short chess games are discussed, and a chapter on poker strategy can be enjoyed or skipped (Magner has more than $470,000 in poker tournament winnings). Of the first edition, a key reviewer offered high praise: "...Brimming with charming anecdotes... Magner lived a very full life with no shortage of either triumph or tragedy, and the wisdom that resulted is a pleasure to read." - Kirkus Reviews
Individuation and its Contemporary Clinical Applications
This insightful book identifies key points of reference for the delivery of ethical treatment to patients with extreme and entrenched pathologies. Readers are offered an invitation to the intensity and complexity of individuation. Written by a Jungian analyst with three decades of clinical experience, ranging from maximum-security correctional institutions to private practice, the therapeutic encounter is relayed in detail, describing case examples of patients who would not traditionally be considered natural candidates for the process of individuation. Suggestions and considerations are provided to enable therapists to support their own patients to find a point of entry into their individuation process. It also encourages readers to reflect on themselves professionally and personally, with the ultimate purpose of being more clinically informed.Presented in an accessible way and featuring stories told that are touching and, in some instances, downright chilling, this is an essential resource for therapists and mental health practitioners, as well as anyone with an interest in this field of psychology.
Paranormal Parks 12-Month 2026 Monthly/Weekly Planner Calendar
Dive into the spooky side of nature with this Paranormal Parks 12-Month 2026 Monthly/Weekly Planner, featuring the imaginative designs of popular Instagram artist Sam Larson (@samlarson). With an eye-catching, sticker-patch-style collage of national park and paranormal imagery, this 2026 planner is guaranteed to entertain and amuse outdoor enthusiasts with its humorous and tongue-in-cheek approach to the haunted lore that has long surrounded campfires. Hauntings! Ghost stories! Big Foot! Alien sightings! Embrace the weird and wonderful each week of 2026, with this funny and absurd planner, that combines the nerdy fun of retro futurism with a truly surreal splash of whimsy. Features include: 7" x 9" (14" x 9" open) Spiral bound Sturdy softcover Printed on FSC certified paper with soy-based ink Calendar lays flat when open 12-month planner: January-December 2025 Generous grid space for notes, appointments, and reminders Extra pages at back for notes, goals, and more Year-at-a-glance pages for 2024, 2025, and 2026 Convenient storage pocket Official major world holidays and observances Moon phases, based on Universal Time Monthly artwork and haunted lore designed to showcase the spooky side of nature
Meeting the Messiah
What if the Messiah we've been waiting for wasn't a person at all, but coherence itself? Meeting the Messiah: The Theory of Everything & the Holy Grail is a deeply personal and visionary yet grounded journey that weaves memory, myth, and science into a vision of the world, both ancient and urgently new. From dreamscapes in Ireland to artefacts in London, this hybrid work draws on archaeology, physics, philosophy, and spiritual resonance to chart a path toward meaning in an incoherent age. At its heart lies a bold, coherent Theory of Everything. Not just a unifying model of the cosmos, but a gravitational resonance that ties together atoms, galaxies, and the architecture of consciousness. Through lyrical storytelling and sharp reflection, the book invites us to rethink science, faith, and history. Not to reject them, but to realign them. The Messiah, here, is not a figure to be worshipped, but a consequence of alignment. Part pilgrimage. Part revelation. Part quiet revolution. This is a book for those who feel the world breaking, and still believe something deeper can hold.
Space, Time, and Memory
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations Memories are not organized by a single arbitrary dimension, such as mere association. Instead, manydimensions have been taken to be part of the structure of memory. Of these, space and time stand out: all personal experience can in principle be indexed by where and when specific events occurred, andboth scientific evidence and common sense suggest that the way we relate different events together inmemory draws on these dimensions. For instance, to remember what one ate for lunch last Thursday, one might call up a memory of where one was, or retrace the events of the day leading up to lunch. Some nuts-and-bolts questions arise immediately, starting with whether the spatial or the temporaldimension is primary. Or rather, do we rely on both equally? Do we represent them separately orjointly? But there are bigger questions with broad implications: What makes space and time such centralstructures in our cognitive world, and what is the conceptual nature of these structures? Thesequestions are deeply related to one another, though they span multiple fields and methodologies, touching on philosophy, psychology and neuroscience. Space, Time, and Memory explores three key questions: first, the role of space and time as structures that organize memory, second, theories of the nature of memory itself that draw on space and time, and finally applications of questions about the structure of memory to debates about perception, decision-making, and artifical intelligence.
The Palgrave Handbook of Positive Psychology and Health
This handbook brings together the two rapidly growing subfields of psychology, Positive Psychology and Health Psychology. It provides evidence-based and theory-driven perspectives on the potential benefits of focusing on and cultivating character strengths, positive states and traits for optimizing physical health and related outcomes in both general and medical populations. The handbook is divided into four sections, with the first three covering classic Western positive psychological domains and their relations to physical health: Hedonic well-being (Positive Emotions), Eudaimonc well-being (Meaning, Purpose and Values), and Character Strengths. The fourth section takes a novel Eastern perspective to positive states and traits by examining the role of mindfulness and self-compassion in health-related pathways and outcomes. This handbook provides an overview of how positive psychological concepts and interventions can be integrated into research and practice aimed at improving people's health. It offers a valuable resource for students and scholars of psychology, and mental and behavioural health; as well as for physicians and allied health professionals.
Airless Worlds and the Restoration of Psychic Breathing
This book focuses on the recognition and psychoanalytic treatment of a debilitating form of early relational trauma poignantly described by Steven Stern as airless world syndrome. A patient can be said to be living in an airless world when one or both parents have failed to recognize, or worse, actively negated their child's subjective experience and needs, instead imposing their subjective reality on the child such that the child had no choice but to adopt the parents' reality as their own. When a child's mind is captured in this way--what Stern calls identification with negation--the result is an unconscious bondage to the internalized negating other which can be disabling to the senses of self, personal agency, and realness. With extended clinical examples in every chapter, Stern brings the reader into the depths of each patient's airless world and the co-created needed relationship that ultimately, fitfully transforms it.Written in a detailed yet accessible style, this book is invaluable to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in practice and in training.
Neuroscientific Methods in Practice
This book presents an in-depth exploration of the convergence of neuroscience with clinical psychology, clinical neuropsychology and forensic psychology, examining advanced methodologies, practical applications and real-world case studies.K. Jayasankara Reddy provides a thorough examination of state-of-the-art neuroscientific methods and the revolutionary effects on both diagnosis and forensic inquiry. Reddy highlights the transformative impact of neuroimaging, neurophysiology, neuroelectrophysiology, and genetic analysis on our comprehension of brain function and behaviour, using compelling case examples and empirical evidence. The book not only discusses methods, but also critically examines ethical difficulties, merits and challenges of the techniques, as well as the legal ramifications that may arise from the use of neuroscientific evidence in clinical and forensic settings. The book also highlights the need for a sophisticated comprehension of privacy issues, patient self-governance, and the use of neurobiological information within legal structures.Overall, it provides readers with the tools to negotiate complicated ethical landscapes while responsibly utilising neuroscientific discoveries, advocating for a balanced approach that combines scientific rigour and ethical responsibility. This volume is an important resource for students, researchers and practitioners of clinical neuropsychology, forensic psychology and neuroscience.
The Sun - The Tool of God
This book is a journey into the fundamental questions of existence: How does matter arise? What is information? What role does the Sun play as an interface between the galactic spirit and the visible world? Through a compelling blend of modern physics (quantum field theory, black holes, photons, quarks) and spiritual concepts such as creation, consciousness, and transcendence, this work builds a holistic model that unites scientific insight with philosophical depth and poetic language.
Otto Rank and the Creation of Modern Psychotherapy
Once considered Sigmund Freud's designated heir, Otto Rank was an interdisciplinary thinker and prodigious author of twenty-two books. After being expelled from Freud's inner circle in 1926--due to Freud's opposition to the pre-Oedipal thesis of The Trauma of Birth (1924)--Rank had a highly productive life as a teacher, psychotherapist, and writer. In this book, noted Rank scholar Robert Kramer argues that Rank, not Freud, created modern psychotherapy, which focuses on the therapist-client relationship. Rank's "will therapy" and his teaching on relationship and the creative will impacted not only modern psychotherapy but also social work and existential psychology. His influence can particularly be seen in the work of Carl Rogers (Psychotherapy), Jessie Taft and Virginia Robinson (Social Work), and Rollo May and Irvin Yallom (Existential Psychology). A dazzling thinker, Rank influenced many artists and writers, including Samuel Beckett, Salvador Dal穩, Ana簿s Nin, Henry Miller, Betty Friedan, D. W. Winnicott, and, most significantly, Ernest Becker, Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Denial of Death (1973). Kramer argues that if the 20th century was the century of Freud, the 21st century is shaping up to be the century of Rank as no other psychoanalyst's theories have ever been tested with as much empirical rigor, and across so many different cultures, as those of Rank. This book translates Rank's complex thought into language any reader can grasp easily.
Fighting for Love
Fighting for Love: Journal of a Training Analysis is a unique account of an eight-year psychoanalysis, journaled and retrospectively annotated from the patient's perspective in the aftermath of a traumatic dissociation. This book tells the story of that analysis in two parts.Part One, The Awakening, places the analysis in its dynamic and historical context and sets the stage for the analysis. A survivor of a Japanese concentration camp in Indonesia in WWII, parental loss and recurrent abandonments as a child, it takes the reader deep into the pain the author repressed and dissociated and incorporates important components of the analysis, such as its 'signal dream', within the narrative. Part Two, The Analysis, is an edited version of Goldsmith's original journal with retrospective and expository comments inserted, documenting the evolution of the transference and the relationship with her analyst. With the help and love of her analyst, the author was able to find the words she did not have as a child and feel the feelings she could not feel before.This book will resonate with anyone who has experienced trauma and offers insight to those who treat its aftermath. Psychoanalytic professionals in practice and training, including psychotherapists and counselors, will find this book compelling, as will readers interested in the psychoanalytic process.
Integrating Human and Artificial Intelligence
This timely book captures recent developments in AI and their far-reaching implications across education, cognition, business, healthcare, and environmental sectors.Drawing from current academic research, government reports, and industry insights, Integrating Human and Artificial Intelligence provides a comprehensive yet accessible overview of the rapid evolution of AI. It helps readers understand in non-technical terms what AI is, what it is capable of achieving, and how to combine the best skills of artificial and human intelligence to develop a human-centered AI. This will be vital to overcome challenges to protect data privacy, promote fairness, minimize bias, and be culturally responsive. The book's broad scope and contemporary focus make it a welcome addition to the field, especially as an educational resource introducing students and practitioners to the practical applications and societal impact of AI.Well-grounded in recent scholarship, this book will be particularly valuable for students and researchers of cognitive psychology, AI and technology.
Astrology Unveiled
There are moments in life when time itself seems to pause-when a strange wind stirs across the soul, and one senses the presence of something ancient, immense, and invisible. Astrology Unveiled is born from that silence. It is not merely a book to be read, but a sacred invitation to remember what the soul already knows.Long before telescopes measured distance and algorithms tracked orbits, the sky was humanity's first scripture. The stars were not just lights in the night, but living intelligences-celestial beings whispering truths, offering guidance, and reflecting the evolution of consciousness. The ancients looked to the heavens not only to observe, but to listen deeply. This book seeks to revive that listening.Through the Introduction to Planet and The Arrival of Wisdom, readers are gently guided into an experience that blends myth, spirit, and science. Here, the planets are not simply astronomical objects but archetypal forces-mirrors of the soul and catalysts of inner transformation.Part One: The Celestial Cabinet invites you into a cosmic sanctuary, where planetary energies dwell like timeless ministers in the great court of the universe. Their mystical attributes are revealed not as textbook facts, but as poetic reflections-subtle energies that shape both heaven and heart.Part Two: The Celestial Order goes further, unveiling the sacred architecture of the cosmos-the rhythms, geometries, and correspondences that connect the visible with the invisible. From The Mask and the Mirror to The Symphony of Subtle Forces and The Language of Light, this section explores the deeper patterns that govern the soul's unfolding journey.Chapters such as Shadows of the Sky and The Dance of Shadows illuminate the Upagrahas-subtle, often overlooked planetary points that shape karmic life patterns. The journey concludes with sacred geometries, Yantras, and ancient Temples-symbols of the union between stone and spirit, form and formlessness.This is not a guidebook. It is not merely about astrology. It is a walk through a sacred grove, where each tree is a planet, every breeze a cosmic message, and every shadow a teacher.Whether you are a curious beginner or a seasoned seeker, Astrology Unveiled opens the door to an ancient wisdom that is both cosmic and deeply personal. Enter not with the mind of a scholar, but with the heart of a seeker-and prepare to see the sky, and yourself, anew.
