Psychology
Uncommon Therapy: The Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D.
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Milton H. Erickson, M.D. is generally acknowledged to have been the world's leading practitioner of medical hypnosis. His "strategic therapy," using hypnotic techniques with or without actually inducing trance, allows him to get directly to the core of a problem and prescribe a course of action that can lead to rapid recovery.
The Language of Change: Elements of Therapeutic Communication
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In this groundbreaking book, a world authority on human communication and communication therapy points out a basic contradiction in the way therapists use language.
The Situation Is Hopeless But Not Serious
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Calling upon metaphors, vignettes, jokes, innuendos, and certain other "right-hemispheric" language games, Paul Watzlawick shows how we can (and do) make everyday life miserable.
Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History
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In this psychobiography, Erik H. Erikson brings his insights on human development and the identity crisis to bear on the prominent figure of the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther.
Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence
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In this study of Mahatma Gandhi, psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson explores how Gandhi succeeded in mobilizing the Indian people both spiritually and politically as he became the revolutionary innovator of militant non-violence and India became the motherland of large-scale civil disobedience.