A master of family therapy, Salvador Minuchin, traces for the first time the minute operations of day-to-day practice. Dr. Minuchin has achieved renown for his theoretical breakthroughs and his success at treatment. Now he explains in close detail those precise and difficult maneuvers that constitute his art. The book thus codifies the method of one of the country’s most successful practitioners.

Can we download our consciousness, and if so where should the backup be stored? Why is it that we can drive tired, but not drunk (when sleepiness has caused many more accidents)? What senses would we want to add if we could expand our perception? What types of crimes might we face in an era of neural implants? What would learning look like if humans could transmit thoughts across brains? How can we improve (/ruin) relationships, sex, and intimacy using cross-brain communication? And what can the business world do as it prepares for a world of mind reading? Those and other issues that are at the forefront of current neuroscience research are addressed in a sequence of comical and thought-provoking illustrations by Moran Cerf, professor of neuroscience and business. This graphical visualization of our future makes readers of all ages - kids and adults alike - laugh, and then think.

Fourteen of Erna Furman's seminal papers on being and having a mother are collected here, presenting the central body of her ideas on parenting. Like all her writings they derive from her work as a child analyst at the Hanna Perkins Center in Cleveland, Ohio, where she has directed the Toddler Group since 1984. As she notes in her Introduction, the chapters combine data, insight, and understanding gained from her experience at the Center, from the treatment of patients in the associated psychoanalytic clinic, and from consultation with professionals. Some topics she addresses are: parenthood as a developmental phase; how parents who lost a newborn can be helped; difficulties for the mother left by a growing child; self-care through encouragement; death of a parent; work with hospitalized children; problems of children of divorce; one-parent family; and early steps in gender development.

A combination text with teaching notes and student guide incorporates math skills and concepts with historical perspective.