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Essays discuss courage, leadership, the roles of the group and the individual, narcissism, psychological aspects of history, ethics, civilization, and culture

German Psychological Warfare is a critical survey and bibliography of German methods of military psychology and propaganda both in warfare and in molding a citizenry ripe for manipulation. The seeds for the rise of the Nazi Party and German aggression during World War II were sown at the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. Immediately recognizing the importance of national morale for what was to come, plans were drawn for the psychological guidance of the German people toward a life dedicated to the philosophy of Total War, where civilians and military alike support the Leader in creating a dominant Germany. This book, published in America during World War II, extensively surveyed German publications to determine the psychological underpinnings of Germany's aggression and tactics. It quickly becomes clear that the Nazi Party and German military officials, though not always in lockstep with each other, both relied heavily on psychological profiling, extensive testing, and a philosophical justification for their actions. This reprint should provide plenty of food for thought for readers of military history, world politics, and psychological warfare. For additional military and psychological warfare history titles, visit CoachwhipBooks.com.

From Library Journal "What is the meaning of the infant having to build a distorted symbolic world that in the end has to be discarded and repressed?" The present work seeks to provide a "Freudian-Piagetian synthesis" that shows how this symbol-bound world of free libidinal impulses and object relations is not discarded, but becomes a precondition, a symbolic investment, for interpersonal drives and knowledge acquisition. To Furth (Psychology, Catholic Univ. of America), "the objects of knowledge are objects of intense desire," as shown in the theories of Piaget and in the metapsychology of Freud. This clearly written synthesis will be cited in future references to theories of a knowledge-id connection, and the biological drive theory of human sociability and morality. For academic collections. William Abrams, Portland State Univ. Lib., Ore.Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

In Pleasure: A Creative Approach to Life , Alexander Lowen shows how the experience of pleasure or pain determines our emotions, thinking, and behavior. Examining the psychology and the biology of pleasure, Alexander Lowen explores its roots in the nature of the body and shows that emotional health means that we are in a state of pleasure - that is, we feel good in our bodies.

Intimate Strangers is a book for every man and woman who has ever yearned for an intimate relationship and wondered why it seemed so elusive. Drawing on years of research, writing, and counseling about marriage and the family, interviews with more than two hundred couples, and her own experiences, Lillian Rubin explains not just how the differences between women and men arise but how they affect such critical issues as intimacy, sexuality, dependency, work, and parenting. Candid, compassionate, and insightful, Rubin's lucid examination should aid each of us in our struggle for greater personal and emotional satisfaction.

The Golden Years? You've got to be kidding . . . Part serious, part comic, these words reflect our ambivalence about aging in the twenty-first century. Is it a blessing or a curse? With refreshing candor and characteristic wit, best-selling author Lillian Rubin looks deeply into the issues of our graying nation, the triumph of our new longevity, and the pain, both emotional and physical, that lies right alongside it. Through thought-provoking interviews, research, and unflinching analysis of her own life experience, Dr. Rubin offers us a much-needed road map for the uncharted territory that lies ahead. In a country where 78 million baby boomers are moving into their sixties and economists worry that they are "the monster at the door" that will break the Social Security bank and trash the economy; where 40 percent of sixty-five-year-olds are in the "sandwich generation," taking care of their parents while often still supporting their children; and where Americans eighty-five and older represent the fastest-growing segment of the population, we cannot afford to pretend that our expanded old age is just a walk on the sunny side of the street, that "sixty is the new forty," "eighty is the new sixty," or that we'll all live happily ever after. In this wide-ranging book, Dr. Rubin examines how the new longevity ricochets around our social and emotional lives, affecting us all, for good and ill, from adolescence into senescence. How, she asks, do sixty-somethings fill another twenty, thirty, or more years post retirement without a "useful" identity or obvious purpose? What happens to sex as we move through the decades after sixty? What happens to long-cherished friendships as life takes unexpected turns? What happens when, at seventy, instead of living the life of freedom we've dreamed about, we find ourselves having to take care of Mom and Dad? What happens to the inheritances boomers have come to expect when their parents routinely live into their eighties and beyond and the cost of their care soars? In tackling the subject of aging over a broad swath of the population, cutting across race, class, gender, and physical and cognitive ability, Lillian Rubin gives us a powerful and long-overdue reminder that all of us will be touched by the problems arising from our new longevity. Our best hope is to understand thoroughly the realities we face and to prepare-as individuals and as a society-for a long life from sixty on up.

For the second time, celebrated crime-fiction writer Howard Engel turns his hand to nonfiction. Setting out in the nineteenth century, Engel travels from France and England to Canada and the United States, with engaging detours along the way. As he discovers, le crime passionel, a concept originating in France, has a special place in many legal codes around the world. Engel explores more than twenty-five classic, infamous and still unresolved cases.

It is often suggested that the incidence of cancer and coronary heart disease could be much reduced or even eliminated if only people would stop smoking cigarettes and eat fewer high-cholesterol foods. The evidence, however, shows that such views are simplistic and unrealistic and that, instead, cancer and CHD are the product of many risk factors acting synergistically. Psychosocial factors (stress, personality) are six times as predictive as smoking, cholesterol level or blood pressure and much more responsive to prophylactic treatment. This book admits that, while smoking is a risk factor for cancer and CHD, its effects have been exaggerated. A more realistic appraisal of a very complex chain of events incorporating many diverse factors is given, and appropriate action to prevent cancer and coronary heart disease is discussed.

This book on psychology is about the rehabilitation of emotionally disturbed children. Case histories of 4 disturbed children.

This principal work by a leading authority presents, in the light of gestalt theory, a systematic survey of psychology. The author not only utilizes this theory to integrate the great complexity of facts discovered by modern experimental work, but at the same time employs it to connect psychology with the other sciences and with human life.

Dr. Branden has created a series of lectures which substantially updates and expands upon the materials in "The Psycology of Self-Esteem, Breaking Free," and "The Disowned Self." Here are some of the highlights of this comprehensive presentation of Biocentric The need, the motivating power of self-esteem, its relationship to love, work, and personal relationships, man-woman relationships, emotions, disowning the self, alienation, anxiety, depression, and more. 30 audio CDs (26 hrs.) Product no. AFNB01D

Dr. Branden has created a series of lectures which substantially updates and expands upon the materials in "The Psycology of Self-Esteem, Breaking Free," and "The Disowned Self." Here are some of the highlights of this comprehensive presentation of Biocentric Psycology: The need, the motivating power of self-esteem, its relationship to love, work, and personal relationships, man-woman relationships, emotions, disowning the self, alienation, anxiety, depression, and more. 30 audio CDs (26 hrs.) Product no. AFNB01D