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In this thoughtful treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African-American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, New Yorker writer Gladwell (The Tipping Point) aims to figure out the strategies people use to assess strangers-to "analyze, critique them, figure out where they came from, figure out how to fix them," in other words: to understand how to balance trust and safety. He uses a variety of examples from history and recent headlines...
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Are you really 'living', or just existing? Do you want to improve yourself or just continue to muddle through? Do you use the time given you each day, or just throw most of it away? These questions Bennett asks each of us and for those who want to really live and learn, offers very valuable advice. Time is the most precious of commodities, states Bennett in this book. Many books have been written on how to live on a certain amount of money each day....
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Freud comenta que, en un diálogo publicado en un semanario humorístico de Múnich, un hombre se quejaba del carácter de las mujeres, que las convierte en complicadas y difíciles, y que su interlocutor le responde: "Sí, pero es lo mejor que tenemos en ese tipo de cosas". Freud utiliza el comentario para afirmar, a continuación, que, para formar psicoanalistas, lo mejor que tenemos son los médicos.
Lo que el personaje del semanario decía de...
5) Everyday Evolution: Practical Perspectives on Personal Growth, Permanent Changes, and Progress in
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If You're Expecting a Revolution, Expect Disappointment
The world wants to sell us the idea that all we need to succeed is one lucky event. One lucky event and your dreams come true, your problems are forever solved, and everything is perfect. But life doesn't work that way. Those who expect an overnight revolution in their lives end up right back where they started-bitter and angry at the merciless world that placed so many obstacles on their path...
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Different institutions, theories and psychological systems have focused their endeavors in different areas, existing from the focuses that are centered solely in the observable behavior. (behaviorism), by passing through those which occupy internal processes such as the thought, the reasoning, the memory, etc.
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¿Estás cansado de que te desilusionen, de que se aprovechen de ti y te pisoteen? ¿Estás harto de ser siempre el que no tienes el control de la situación? Si es así, sigue leyendo. Cuando eres un pez pequeño en un mar lleno de peces grandes, tienes pocas opciones: Ser comido, vivir con miedo o adaptarte. La adaptación te permitirá vivir sin miedo y este libro te enseñará cómo hacerlo. Cuando luchas en entornos sociales, puede que te sientas...
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Este libro excepcional ofrece una imagen de vanguardia sobre el Trastorno de Ansiedad Generalizada (TAG). Sus editores han reunido un grupo de expertos internacionales quienes, desde puntos de vista diferentes, discuten modelos conceptuales, pautas de evaluación y estrategias de tratamiento basados en la evidencia.
"El libro contiene capítulos con una variedad de temas incluyendo la evolución histórica del diagnóstico y de los modelos conceptuales...
9) Daily Self-Discipline: Everyday Habits and Exercises to Build Self-Discipline and Achieve Your Goals
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These Habits and Exercises Will Help You Build Iron-Like Resolve and Self-Discipline
Do you make goals, yet get discouraged when your plans don't work? We all know that person who seemingly was born to succeed. Fitness, health, business, they achieve all their goals. You want that success, and know you can get it... but how?
Everywhere you turn, there are obstacles that block your path. Being successful doesn't mean avoiding them, it means meeting...
10) Self-Discipline for Entrepreneurs: How to Develop and Maintain Self-Discipline as an Entrepreneur
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How to Develop the Self-Discipline Essential to Become and Remain a Successful Entrepreneur
If you are an entrepreneur or want to become one, self-discipline is one of the most important skills you need to develop to achieve success.
Entrepreneurship is a wild rollercoaster. It will test your willpower and persistence time after time, like nothing else. Get yourself ready for that ride by reading Self-Discipline for Entrepreneurs.
Learn how to...
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Based on findings from the neurosciences and evolutionary and behavioral biology, Bernd Hufnagl explains exactly how our instincts, our reward systems, and even our declining willingness to change are affected as a consequence of working in an environment that is in opposition to brain-friendly conditions. All too often, stress and burnout are dealt with in an indiscriminate manner, without taking the specific risk scenario into account— in the...
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A lo largo de la vida de un ser humano, cientos de imprevistos acontecen y devienen todo un reto, más cuando este cambio es impuesto. Situaciones adversas, como la del confinamiento ante una pandemia, pueden resultar difíciles de aceptar.
Nunca hubiéramos pensado tener la posibilidad de vivir un experimento natural en el que gran parte de la humanidad estuviese confinada en su hogar. Este tipo de crisis ofrece un espacio para auscultarse a uno...
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Shy children are not destined to be shy adults. Shyness does not equal low self-esteem. Shyness is not a "disease," personality deficit, or character flaw. Humans aren't the only species to experience shyness. Scientists have been studying shy cattle as well as shy cats, shy fish, and shy dogs. Some of the world's most famous, richest, smartest and bravest people are shy.
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Each of us has a tribal ancestry. We carry within us an ancient identity. Most of us took the technological path from this source: logical, analytical, exclusive, specialized, centralized. A very small minority has remained on the path of their ancestors: holistic, intuitive, inclusive, diversified, and generalized. Their lives are organized along simpler lines, simpler living. While critically endangered in most parts of the world, and disappearing...
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El Dr. Luis Chiozza es sin duda un referente en el campo de los estudios psicosomáticos, cuyo prestigio ha trascendido los límites de nuestro país. Medicina y psicoanálisis es el tomo inaugural de sus Obras completas, a la vez que una guía y manual de uso de las mismas, cuyos quince tomos se presentan completos en un CD incluido en este libro.
Este volumen está pensado con el objetivo de facilitar el acceso al fruto de la labor profesional y...
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In this cross-disciplinary study, a group of researchers critically examine the ways in which narrative-that is, written and told stories and legends-might aid in coping with traumatic or stressful life situations and with the emotions that these situations engender. Starting with an introduction of basic narrative theories and the therapeutic effects of storytelling, the book moves on to a series of lucid case studies. The contributors present a...
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Este es un libro sobre la psicología del músico de rock. Sobre la dinámica de funcionamiento de una banda y sobre los mitos que hay alrededor del ambiente rockero. Porque, a pesar de que el rock no tiene cura, algunos rockeros van al psicólogo. Estar en banda nos sumergue en las bambalinas del rock de una forma profunda y respetuosa indagando en sus propios protagonistas con músicos de la talla de Juanchi Baleiron (Los Pericos),. Daniel Melingo,...
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Aunque es sabido que la felicidad en gran medida está vinculada a nuestra capacidad para gestionar las emociones, en muchos aspectos, nuestra cultura social parece estar enfocada al desarrollo del intelecto, sin tener en cuenta la importancia del desarrollo de la Inteligencia Emocional, debido a ello, tenemos una sociedad con unos niveles de estrés, frustración, y ansiedad muy elevados, en gran medida provocados por no tener herramientas para gestionar...
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Con el libro Cómo analizar a las personas: lectura rápida de personas y análisis del lenguaje corporal y de la personalidad conocerás las técnicas para descifrar el lenguaje corporal, además de aprender cómo los ojos pueden ofrecernos una perspectiva de la comunicación no verbal. Este libro también explora cómo entenderse a sí mismo y la importancia del contexto.
El objetivo de aprender a analizar a las personas de forma efectiva es ayudarte...
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Jean-Marie Delacroix recopila en esta obra las experiencias, vivencias y aprendizajes de su interacción con tradiciones terapéuticas de América Latina y de otras latitudes del mundo; sin duda alguna, uno de los primeros textos de índole clínico que explica cómo podemos utilizar el enfoque de la plena consciencia (mindfulness ) en el proceso terapéutico. En este nuevo libro, Delacroix desarrolla las nociones de postura meditativa...
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