We can experience our life as a metaphor, one in which time flows as a continuous stream, and all of us, in our boat of life, fl owing down the stream toward an unknown destination. We are often unaware of the effect our mental model of reality has on our everyday perceptions and behavior. Embracing a positive metaphor can move our lives forward in a conscious direction. In this book, I will present information that can be used to stay on our natural flow; information that can help us avoid the sandbars of depression and disappointment, navigate the rapids of sudden change, and avoid getting dashed against the rocks of failure or success that we will all inevitably encounter on the stream of time.

Product Description: Art Healing: Visual Art for Emotional Insight and Well-Being reveals a method psychiatrist and art lover Jeremy Spiegel, MD, devised over many years to unlock our more elusive thoughts and feelings, leading to an enhanced understanding of the inner self, catharsis, a sense of comfort and happiness, and personal transformation for a more productive life...read more

Product Description: Four years in medical school are not only demanding and competitive in a strictly academic sense, but they may bring students face-to-face with perfectionism, anxiety, obsessions, power plays, difficult patients, ethical dilemmas, identity crises, sleep deprivation, financial strain, and—perhaps for the first time in their lives—confrontations with disease, suffering, and death...read more

Product Description: In today’s fast-paced world, gastroenterology & hepatology residents and fellows struggle to find the time to study for the board exams, prepare for teaching rounds, or just plain read. What is the best way to effectively prepare and study if reading multiple resources can’t seem to fit into your daily schedule? The answer to your study questions (and study time!) can be found inside: Acing the GI Board Exam: The Ultimate Crunch-Time Resource Traditional textbooks usually feature long and detailed discussions that are not directly relevant to board and re-certification exams...read more

Based in part on the author's landmark study which demonstrated the benefits of group therapy for cancer patients, this study explores the interaction of mind and body in the healing process

Product Description: Despite the efforts of Katie Couric to draw attention to the importance of colonoscopy screening for the detection of colon cancer, this cancer still does not receive the publicity devoted to breast, lung, and prostate cancer. Yet colorectal cancer is the third most common malignancy in the world and is the second leading cause of death from cancer next to lung cancer...read more

Product Description: What is hypnosis? Despite widespread misconceptions, hypnosis is not a treatment in itself; instead, it is a facilitator -- a useful diagnostic tool that can help the practitioner choose an appropriate treatment modality and accelerate various primary treatment strategies...read more

Product Description: This extraordinary resource celebrates and expands on Dr. David Spiegel's discovery that a shared intimacy with mortality creates very different concerns in the patient from those that apply in conventional settings. Spiegel and Classen introduce mental health professionals to the awareness as well as the tools they will need to facilitate groups coping with existential crises...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This study of repressed memories includes essays on: the effects of trauma on the memory; the repression of memory after experiencing abuse, and subsequent recovered memory and confident reporting of the personal past; intentional forgetting and voluntary thought suppression - two potential methods for coping with childhood trauma; a research review of perspectives on adult memories of childhood sexual abuse; and repressed memories in patients with dissociative disorder...read more

A pioneer in the world of mind-body healing, the author provides support and guidance for those living with life-threatening illness, showing how, with the help of support groups, people can live longer and fuller lives. Reprint.

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