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The Nightmare Encyclopedia
Click Here To Purchase The Nightmare Encyclopedia Author: Jeff BelangerISBN: 1-56414-762-2 Publisher: Chartwell Books Jeff Belanger
(No rating) 4-7-2008 Views: 3387

A Tour Through Clinical Psychology
Author: Gerald RosenbaumISBN 1-59800-398-4This memoir is a family that begins in Coney Island, New York and ends up in Rancho Santa Fe -- the trip involves many.Rosenbaum first writes about the family's background -- immigrants from many lands. They married immigrants and even changed the Russian surname to Rosenbaum. It's quite a beginning and almost reads like the Bible -- so-and-so begot so-and-so. However, if you can keep up with who married who and who gave birth to what son or daughter,...
(No rating) 1-27-2007 Views: 4888

Angry Men and the Women Who Love Them
Author|: Paul Hegstrom, PhD. ISBN: 083-412-1522 Paul Hegstrom writes about anger from the voice of experience. He was a violent, angry man and an abuser. It wasn’t until he entered a treatment program in order to avoid an attempted murder charge that Hegstrom began to admit that he had a problem.Since that time, Paul Hegstrom has taken responsibility for his behavior and changed it. He has reconciled with and remarried his wife, Judy, and they have reparented their children, preventing...
(No rating) 6-12-2007 Views: 7409

Broken Children, Grown-Up Pain: Understanding the Effects of Your Wounded Past
Author: Paul Hegstrom, PhD. ISBN: 10: 0-8341-2251-0 ISBN 13: 978-0-8341-2251-2 Paul Hegstrom was a violent, abusive man. He abused his wife, Judy, for 17 years, then abandoned and divorced her and their children. He continued his escalating pattern of abuse with successive relationships until he had beaten a woman so badly that he was forced to get help. The alternative was to face prosecution for attempted murder.Recovery and counseling helped Hegstrom see
(No rating) 6-12-2007 Views: 9296

Bullets:Growing Up in the Crossfire (Bridgeway Books, Texas, 2007)
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Bullets:Growing Up in the Crossfire Author: Kat HibbardISBN: 978-1-933538-82-2 Physical and emotional traumas inhibit the normal psychological development of many victims. However, some people emerge more confident and beautiful after the hardest of physical and emotional crises; the latter include individuals like Kat Hibbard, author of the recent autobiographical book Bullets: Growing Up in the Crossfire (Bridgeway Books, Texas, 2007). In her short but...
(No rating) 11-8-2007 Views: 4342

Change Your Mind: A Neurologist's Guide to Happiness by D. Pasupuleti
Author: D. PasupuletiISBN: 1933538295 The following review was contributed by: Manuela Pop, To read Manuela's reviews CLICK HEREA guide to finding self happiness and peace of mind D. Pasupuleti is the director of neurology at a teaching hospital in US and he believes that it takes “Five Golden Rules” to find eternal happiness. These five rules are explained in detailed in his book “Change Your Mind.” D. Pasupuleti gives plenty of examples from his day-to-day life, from his experience or from...
(No rating) 7-24-2006 Views: 6598

Daffodil Dancing
Author: Jean Jardine MillerPublished by Jardine Miller PublishingISBN: 097313764-9The following review was contributed by: Mary Simmons: Click Here To Read Mary's Reviews In 'Daffodil Dancing,' Jean Jardine Miller delves into the world of someone living with social phobia, exploring not only how it affects the afflicted person, but also her friends and family.Beginning in 1987 and taking us into the present, the author follows the progression of not only the disease suffered by the character...
(No rating) 4-20-2006 Views: 7070

Diary of a Palm Reader
Author: Myrna Lou GoldbaumPublisher: Infinity Publishing (January 15, 2004) ISBN: 0741418568 The following review was contributed by: Jennifer Murray Somerset. Click HERE to view more of Jennifer's ReviewsMyrna Lou Goldbaum’s book is an encapsulated version of some of her palm readingsessions that span from the year 1956 to 2003. These reading take place invarious venues, from a quiet corner in her high school to the familiarsurroundings of her parked car but they all have the same need for...
(No rating) 9-22-2005 Views: 6072

Dying to Be Free: A Healing Guide for Families after a Suicide
Author: Beverly Cobain ISBN: 1592853293The following review has been contributed by: Ernest Dempsey pen name of Karim Khan. To read more of Karim's Review CLICK HERE Mental health nurse Beverly Cobain and crisis intervention specialist Jean Larch have authored a short but inspiring paperback book Dying to Be Free (Hazelden Foundation, Minnesota, 2006) that will serve as a healing guide for suicide surviving families and friends. Dying to Be Free is a book written in the ink of humanistic...
(No rating) 8-4-2006 Views: 8487

Fate, Chance or Divine Design
Author: Joyce DunnISBN: 1-59800-205-8The following review was contributed by: Sue Vogan:To read more of Sue's reviews Click HereJoyce Dunn is a registered nurse and licensed massage therapist. She shares her 13-years of working as an alcoholism/chemical dependency nurse. This book is sometimes funny, sometimes, sad, but always entertaining. If you don't complete this read and walk away renewed, you need to reread it. We all have demons and most of us are in denial -- keeping our personal...
(No rating) 7-23-2006 Views: 6691

Herr Schnoodle & McBee
Author: P. K. ParanyaISBN: 1594144125The following review was contributed by: Manuela Pop, To read Manuela's reviews CLICK HERETo read Manuela's Interview with P.K. Paranya CLICK HEREAn amusing story of a private investigator and his dogAlexander McBee is a New York private investigator who doesn’t have much flair or luck in solving his cases. One day, Her Schnoodle, a very unattractive dog, appears by the pier next to McBee who was quietly contemplating on his unhappy life. Alexander rescues...
(No rating) 8-15-2006 Views: 6156

How We Reason
Author: Philip N. Johnson-Laird Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-8569769Removing the Brackets from Context and Advanced Cognitive ProcessesWorld shaking intellectual projects have been rarely contained within the boundary lines of any solitary academic field. Nor did they all happen near the turn of the seventeenth century. From Copernicus, to Kant, to Leibniz, to Husserl, and to Einstein, some of these ideas and their originators were overlooked in their first published editions....
(No rating) 5-22-2007 Views: 6625

Humanizing Madness
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Humanizing Madness Author: Dr. Niall McLarenISBN:1932690395 The 21st century is frequently experiencing intellectual challenges to several established theories in science. Lately, seasoned Australian psychiatrist Dr. Niall McLaren has put the practice of psychiatry to a hard challenge by showing its lack of any sound theory of mind. In his book Humanizing Madness (Future Psychiatry Press, Michigan, 2007), Dr. McLaren criticizes the arbitrariness of...
(No rating) 3-12-2008 Views: 3761

I Am Your Disease: The Many Faces of Addiction
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon I Am Your Disease: The Many Faces of Addiction Author: Sheryl Letzgus McGinnis with Heiko Ganzer, LCSW, CASACISBN: 1-59800-699-1Publisher: Outskirts Press How would you cope with the news your son or daughter is dead due to drug addiction? It is a thing that is hard to imagine but as more and more young adults are dying due to addiction now is the time to realise it could happen to someone you know. You may think it won’t happen to your sons or daughters...
(No rating) 2-23-2008 Views: 5977

Parenting the Ephraim's Child: Characteristics, Capabilities, and Challenges of Children who are Intensely MORE
AUTHORS: Deborah Talmadge and Jaime Theler Publisher: Horizon imprint Cedar Fort IncISBN: 0-88290-773-5The following review was contributed by: Molly Martin & CLICK TO VIEW Molly Martin's ReviewsParenting the Ephraim's Child: Characteristics, Capabilities, and Challenges of Children who are Intensely MORE Is not a story book, this is 279 page work filled with parenting tips explaining why ANOTHER parenting book is needed as well as explaining just what the Ephraim’s Child...
(No rating) 4-19-2005 Views: 5528

Psychic Scotland
Click Here To Purchase Psychic ScotlandAuthor: Tom Rannachan Publisher: Black and White publishingISBN: 978-1-84502182-5 Do you dare to believe? Author and psychic medium Tom Rannachan does and intends to show
(No rating) 10-3-2008 Views: 3765

Secrets from the Sofa: A Psychologist’s Guide to Achieving Personal Peace
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Secrets from the Sofa: A Psychologist’s Guide to Achieving Personal Peace Author: Dr. Kenneth HermanPublisher: iUniverseISBN: 9780595414321‘Secrets from the Sofa’ is an attempt by a board certified clinical psychologist to share the lessons that he learned from nearly 50 years of practice. In his long career, Dr. Kenneth Herman had the opportunity to listen to the problems of many people and thus gained a deep understanding of human nature and he shares with...
(No rating) 11-23-2007 Views: 4745

Secrets from the Sofa:A Psychologist's Guide to Achieving Personal Peace
Click Here Yo Purchase From Amazon Secrets from the Sofa:A Psychologist's Guide to Achieving Personal PeaceAuthor: Dr. Kenneth HermanPublisher: iUniverseISBN: 9780595414321Secrets from the Sofa is an attempt by a board certified clinical psychologist to share the lessons that he learned from nearly 50 years of practice. In his long career, Dr. Kenneth Herman had the opportunity to listen to the problems of many people and thus gained a deep understanding of human nature and he shares with us...
(No rating) 2-8-2008 Views: 4408

Shadow People: Spectators or Participants?
Author: Louis PoesselPublisher: Publish AmericaISBN: 1-4137-5443-0The following review was contributed by Tami Brady & CLICK TO VIEW Tami Brady's ReviewsHave you ever seen something move just out of your normal line of sight? Have you ever thought you saw a shadow of someone but no one was around? Dr. John Blakely has seen these Shadow People since he was a young boy. His Dad told him it was his imagination. His Mom told him it was a just a trick of the light. Those explanations sufficed...
(No rating) 4-13-2005 Views: 5904

Sharing the Journey
Author: Judith A. Goren, PhDISBN: 0-595-32494-0The following review was contributed by: Jim Curtiss. Click Here To Read More Of Jim’s ReviewsBecause they work in the mysterious environment of the mind,psychotherapists who write memoirs frequently provide us with engagingreading, and Sharing the Journey, a collection of essays written byJudith Goren, is a good example of this genre. Equal parts reflection onher long career as a humanistic psychologist and primer on the dailypracticalities of...
(No rating) 10-24-2005 Views: 5656

Taming The Family Zoo – Six Weeks to Raising a Well-Mannered Child
Author: Donna Jones ISBN: 0-8007-5948-6The following review was contributed by: Helen Kaut: To read more of Helen Kaut’s Reviews Click HEREConceiving children is fairly easy- raising them to become decent and friendly citizens is a more complicated matter. Modern parents often struggle, overwhelmed by the advice they are given. In Britain, more and more children and teenagers are being issued with Anti-Social-Behavior-Orders (ASBOS) as their parents are either unable or indifferent to...
(No rating) 12-4-2005 Views: 7530

The Truth Behind Ghosts, Mediums & Psychic Phenomena
Author: Ron RhodesISBN: 0-7369-1907-4 Rhodes reveals that 32% of Americans believe in some sort of paranormal activity and 38% believe ghosts or spirits can come back and visit us. There are 28% of Americans who think people can communicate with the dead and 14 television networks produced pilots with supernatural themes for 2005-2006 television season. What's even more astounding is that "the United States -- during the years of America's cold war with the Soviet Union -- spent a...
(No rating) 12-11-2006 Views: 7690

Train of Thought
Author: Elisabetta BenedettiISBN: 9781430308744Italy is remembered for many historically significant points, most notably perhaps for the renaissance revival of arts and humanities in Europe. Now we have this new voice from Italy, an authoress named Elisabetta Benedetti, who has embarked on a writing career with her groundbreaking debutant work Train of Thought (Lulu Press, October 2006). It is a short book that offers a radically different and unique literary experience when weighed against...
(No rating) 1-12-2007 Views: 5858

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