Random House New Releases - Psychology and Psychiatry - Between November 28, 2008 and December 28, 2009.

Stop Obsessing! by David H. Barlow

2009-11-04T00:30:00-05:00

Stop Obsessing! How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions
Written by Edna B. Foa and Reid Wilson
Foreword by David H. Barlow

Newly Revised and Updated!

Are you tormented by extremely distressing thoughts or persistent worries?

Compelled to wash your hands repeatedly?

Driven to repeat or check certain numbers, words, or actions?

If you or someone you love suffers from these symptoms, you may be one of the millions of Americans who suffer from some form of obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD.

Once considered almost untreatable, OCD is now known to be a highly treatable disorder using behavior therapy. In this newly revised edition of Stop Obsessing! Drs. Foa and Wilson, internationally renowned authorities on the treatment of anxiety disorders, share their scientifically based and clinically proven self-help program that has already allowed thousands of men and women with OCD to enjoy a life free from excessive worries and rituals.

You will discover:
• Step-by-step programs for both mild and severe cases of OCD
• The most effective ways to help you let go of your obsessions and gain control over your compulsions
• New charts and fill-in guides to track progress and make exercises easier
• Questionnaires for self-evaluation and in-depth understanding of your symptoms
• Expert guidance for finding the best professional help
• The latest information about medications prescribed for OCD

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Type Talk at Work (Revised) by Hile Rutledge

2009-10-21T00:30:00-05:00

Type Talk at Work (Revised) How the 16 Personality Types Determine Your Success on the Job
Written by Otto Kroeger, Janet M. Thuesen and Hile Rutledge

Calling the Circle by Christina Baldwin

2009-10-14T00:30:00-05:00

Calling the Circle The First and Future Culture
Written by Christina Baldwin

The original small-press edition of Calling the Circle has become one of the key resources for the rapidly-growing "circle" movement. This newly revised edition brings Christina Baldwin's groundbreaking work to an even broader audience ranging from women's spirituality groups to corporate development teams.

50,000 years ago, women and men gathered around campfires to decide the key issues in their lives. Today, groups everywhere are discovering a new form of this ancient ritual for communication, mutual support, teamwork, and social change. Now, in a book as consciousness-changing as Riane Eisler's The Chalice and the Blade or Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline, Christina Baldwin offers this powerful new tool to everyone who longs for a community based on honesty, equality, and spiritual integrity.

In this simple, profound practice, participants sit in a circle, pass a talking piece from person to person, and speak and listen from the heart. Christina Baldwin gives detailed instructions and suggestions for getting started, setting goals, and solving disagreements safely and respectfully. She also offers inspiring examples of circles in action: a women's spirituality group, a father and son in crisis, a PTA group that averts a school strike and a work project team that accesses a new level of creativity and caring.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Listening Hand by Joan Borysenko

2009-10-14T00:30:00-05:00

The Listening Hand Self-Healing Through The Rubenfeld Synergy Method of Talk and Touch
Written by Ilana Rubenfeld
Foreword by Joan Borysenko

The Rubenfeld Synergy Method is an elegant, powerful system that integrates bodywork, intuition, and psychotherapy. Memories and emotions stored in our bodies can result in energy blocks and imbalances. Rubenfeld Synergy utilizes talk, movement, awareness, imagination, humor, and compassionate touch as gateways — contacting and melting frozen tensions and emotions, freeing the body from pain and the mind from suffering.

The Listening Hand includes:

• Body-mind exercises designed to awaken awareness, free breathing, and reveal the body metaphors that tell your life story

• Guided steps that break through inner barriers and lead to concrete improvements in your daily life and relationships

• Energy explorations for contacting the energy field in yourself and others — and how you can use it to heal

• Experiments for couples that gently increase communication, intimacy, and sexual openness

• Practices that enable helpers to avoid physical, emotional, and spiritual burnout

• A complete 7-day Mind Your Muscles program for tension release, body alignment, and enhanced flexibility

From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Five Ways We Grieve by Susan A. Berger

2009-10-13T00:30:00-05:00

The Five Ways We Grieve Finding Your Personal Path to Healing after the Loss of a Loved One
Written by Susan A. Berger

In this new approach to understanding the impact of grief, Susan Berger goes beyond the commonly held theory of stages of grief with a new typology for self-awareness and self-transformation.

Susan Berger offers practical advice for healing from a major loss in this presentation of five basic styles of grieving. Going beyond Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s system describing the stages of grief, Berger presents a new model: types of grievers. These five types describe how people fall into behavior patterns in their response to a loss–and how by identifying their patterns, they can find their way to healing and self-transformation. The five types are the Nomad, the Memorialist, the Normalizer, the Activist, and the Seeker.

Using research from her work with the bereaved for the past twenty-five years, Berger examines how a person’s worldview is changed after a major loss: their sense of mortality, their values and priorities, and how they fit into society. She has found that adults who lost a family member in childhood often experience long-term obstacles as a result. By identifying their grieving type, readers whose lives are shaped by loss find ways of understanding the impact of the loss and living more fully. Also of interest to professionals working with bereaved clients, the five types provide a useful model for evaluating clients’ perspectives on their own experiences.

Conquering Fear by Harold S. Kushner

2009-10-06T00:30:00-05:00

Conquering Fear Living Boldly in an Uncertain World
Written by Harold S. Kushner

From the best-selling author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, an illuminating book about fear—and what we can do to overcome it.

An inescapable component of our lives, fear comes in many guises: fear of unemployment; fear of aging, illness, losing beauty; fear of a terrorist attack or natural disaster. In uncertain times, coping with these fears can be especially challenging, but in this indispensable, hopeful book, Harold S. Kushner teaches us to confront, master, and even embrace fear for a more fulfilling life.

Drawing on the teachings of religious and secular literature and on the true stories of people who have faced their fears, Kushner helps us to see that fear can present us with extraordinary opportunities—to connect with our emotions, rethink our values, and change our lives, and the world, for the better. For those who fear helplessness, he suggests empowerment: through prayer, service, and education. For those who fear for mankind’s future, he insists on hope and pragmatic measures, such as working to protect the environment. For those who fear death, he proposes life—lived boldly and purposefully.

In Conquering Fear, we are again inspired by Harold S. Kushner’s wisdom, at once deeply spiritual and eminently practical.

Conquering Fear by Harold S. Kushner

2009-10-06T00:30:00-05:00

Conquering Fear
Written by Harold S. Kushner

Your Many Faces by Virginia Satir

2009-10-06T00:30:00-05:00

Your Many Faces The First Step to Being Loved
Written by Virginia Satir

Each one of us has a medley of "faces" that composes our individual personality: intelligence, anger, love, jealousy, helplessness, courage, and many more. We're often quick to judge these characteristics as either positive or negative, without recognizing that we need each of them in order to become fuller, more balanced human beings. Originally written in 1978 by renowned psychotherapist Virginia Satir, the timeless classic Your Many Faces has been updated and reissued—and is as relevant today as ever. In a refreshingly candid style, Satir takes us on a lively and insightful journey of self-discovery and transformation. We learn how to acknowledge, understand, and manage our many faces—and in doing so, open up a world of possibilities for ourselves. This new edition also features a compelling foreword by Mary Ann Norfleet, PhD, which explores Satir's pioneering approaches to psychology and her enduring legacy in the field of family therapy.

How to Discipline Your 6-12 by Jerry Wyckoff

2009-09-30T00:30:00-05:00

How to Discipline Your 6-12
Written by Barbara C. and Jerry Wyckoff

Discipline Without Shouting Or Spanking became a best-seller by proving practical, effective advice on common behavioral problems to parents of children under six. Here the authors adapt their winning formula for older youngsters.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes? by Jena Pincott

2009-09-29T00:30:00-05:00

Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes? Bodies, Behavior, and Brains--The Science Behind Sex, Love, & Attraction
Written by Jena Pincott

How do the seasons affect your sex life? Is your lover more likely to get you pregnant than your husband? Are good dancers also good in bed?
If you’ve ever wondered how scientists measure love—or whether men really prefer blondes—this smart, sexy book provides real answers to these and many other questions about our most baffling dating and mating behaviors. Based on the latest research in biology, evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science, Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes? dares to explain the science behind sex—and opens a fascinating window on the intriguing phenomenon of love and attraction. Did you know…

•When a couple first fall in love, their brains are indistinguishable from those of the clinically insane
•You can tell a lot about a person’s sexual chemistry just by looking at his or her hands
•Your genes influence whose body odors you prefer

Viewed through the lens of science and instinct, your love life might be seen in a completely different way. This book provides both an in-depth exploration into our sexual psyches—and fresh advice for men and women who want to discover the secrets of successful relationships.

Family Constellations by Joy Manne

2009-09-22T00:30:00-05:00

Family Constellations A Practical Guide to Uncovering the Origins of Family Conflict
Written by Joy Manne

Mapping out a “family constellation,” explains Dr. Joy Manné, encompasses exploring previous powerful life events from accidents to adoptions and accessing the deepest dynamics in that family system. This process helps us recognize and then resolve deeply seated family patterns. For example, in order to understand a person’s inability to trust, the family history of betrayal must be uncovered and released. These insights replace resentment with respect, pain with understanding.

Dr. Manné uses the knowledge gained from her own practice as well as her educational experiences with Bert Hellinger, the founder of Family Constellations therapy, to clearly describe this technique. Most family constellation sessions are carried out in a group setting, with the facilitator first seeking clarity regarding the issue or problem the client has come to work out. Representatives are then chosen from among the group and the constellation is set up and worked in until it comes to resolution. This may be followed by a closing ritual and advice about how to integrate what the constellation has revealed. Through the use of real-life examples of family constellations, Dr. Manné makes this increasingly popular practice understandable and relatable.

The Story of Psychology by Morton Hunt

2009-09-16T00:30:00-05:00

The Story of Psychology
Written by Morton Hunt

The engrossing, definitive saga of the great thinkers and scientists who for twenty-five hundred years have been investigating the mysteries of the human mind and human behavior.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Nothing Was the Same by Kay Redfield Jamison

2009-09-15T00:30:00-05:00

Nothing Was the Same
Written by Kay Redfield Jamison

From the internationally acclaimed author of An Unquiet Mind, an exquisite, haunting meditation on mortality, grief, and loss.

Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison—who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with a writerly elegance and passion—could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer. In direct, straightforward, and at times strikingly lyrical prose, Jamison looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist who battled debilitating dyslexia to become one of the foremost experts on schizophrenia. And with her characteristic honesty, candor, wit, and simplicity, she describes his death, her own long, difficult struggle with grief, and her efforts to distinguish grief from depression.

But she also recalls the great joy that Richard brought her during the nearly twenty years they had together. Wryly humorous anecdotes mingle with bittersweet memories of a relationship that was passionate and loving—if troubled on occasion by her manic-depressive (bipolar) illness—as Jamison reveals the ways in which her husband encouraged her to write openly about her mental illness and, through his courage and grace taught her to live fully.

A penetrating psychological study of grief viewed from deep inside the experience itself, Nothing Was the Same is also a deeply moving memoir by a superb writer.

Nothing Was the Same by Kay Redfield Jamison

2009-09-15T00:30:00-05:00

Nothing Was the Same
Written by Kay Redfield Jamison

Lacan For Beginners by David Leach

2009-08-25T00:30:00-05:00

Lacan For Beginners
Written by Philip Hill
Illustrated by David Leach

Jacques Lacan is probably the most influential psychoanalyst since Freud (of the roughly 20,000 psychoanalysts in the world, about half are ‘Lacanians’) yet most people know nothing about him. The 10,000 analysts who use Lacan’s ideas, work mostly in France, Spain, Italy, and South America. To the rest of the world, including England and America, Lacan is a genius-in-waiting, due to be ‘discovered’ any day now.
Despite (or because of) his brilliance, Lacan is incredibly difficult to understand. He wrote with an obscure, almost impenetrable style that casually refers to philosophy, linguistics, mathematics, etc.–and to make matters worse, his ideas changed over the years. (At this point, any rational person must be wondering, ‘What good is Lacan’s brilliance if I can’t understand his ideas?’)
Lacan For Beginners by Philip Hill addresses that question with great clarity without oversimplifying Lacan’s ideas. Hill introduces the reader to Lacan’s theories and their relation to clinical practice in twelve elegantly structured chapters, designed around tantalizing questions that serve to clarify Lacan’s ideas.
Lacan For Beginners is written with clarity, insight, and wit and illustrated with examples from popular culture and cinema. The artwork is humorous and informative, and works with the text. So don’t you think it is about time you become familiar with his work?

The Secret Life of Families by Evan Imber-Black

2009-08-19T00:30:00-05:00

The Secret Life of Families Making Decisions About Secrets: When Keeping Secrets Can Harm You, When Keeping Secrets Can Heal You-And How to Know the Difference
Written by Evan Imber-Black

The Courage to Be Present by Karen Kissel Wegela

2009-08-11T00:30:00-05:00

The Courage to Be Present Buddhism, Psychotherapy, and the Awakening of Natural Wisdom
Written by Karen Kissel Wegela

An in-depth guide to integrating Buddhist insights and practices into the work of psychotherapy.

For the growing number of professional counselors interested in meditation and Buddhist concepts, this book integrates the ideal of the bodhisattva—one who serves others selflessly with generosity, patience, and diligence—with the principles and ethics of the professional therapist. Her focus is on how counselors and psychotherapists can understand these inspiring qualities and attitudes—and how they can apply them in counseling and therapy.
Bringing together years of teaching psychology at the master’s level and practicing psychotherapy with clients, along with thirty years of meditation experience, Dr. Wegela presents inspiring counsel on how to cultivate these qualities and bring them both into one’s personal experience and into relationships with clients.

Raising Cain by Michael Thompson, Ph.D.

2009-08-05T00:30:00-05:00

Raising Cain Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys
Written by Dan Kindlon, Ph.D. and Michael Thompson, Ph.D.

The stunning success of Reviving Ophelia, Mary Pipher's landmark book, showed a true and pressing need to address the emotional lives of girls. Now, finally, here is the book that answers our equally timely and critical need to understand our boys.

In Raising Cain, Dan Kindlon, Ph.D., and Michael Thompson, Ph.D., two of the country's leading child psychologists, share what they have learned in more than thirty-five years of combined experience working with boys and their families. They reveal a nation of boys who are hurting--sad, afraid, angry, and silent. Statistics point to an alarming number of young boys at high risk for suicide, alcohol and drug abuse, violence and loneliness. Kindlon and Thompson set out to answer this basic, crucial question: What do boys need that they're not getting? They illuminate the forces that threaten our boys, teaching them to believe that "cool" equals macho strength and stoicism. Cutting through outdated theories of "mother blame," "boy biology," and "testosterone," Kindlon and Thompson shed light on the destructive emotional training our boys receive--the emotional miseducation of boys.

Through moving case studies and cutting-edge research, Raising Cain paints a portrait of boys systematically steered away from their emotional lives by adults and the peer "culture of cruelty"--boys who receive little encouragement to develop qualities such as compassion, sensitivity, and warmth. The good news is that this doesn't have to happen. There is much we can do to prevent it.

Kindlon and Thompson make a compelling case that emotional literacy is the most valuable gift we can offer our sons, urging parents to recognize the price boys pay when we hold them to an impossible standard of manhood. They identify the social and emotional challenges that boys encounter in school and show how parents can help boys cultivate emotional awareness and empathy--giving them the vital connections and support they need to navigate the social pressures of youth.

Powerfully written and deeply felt, Raising Cain will forever change the way we see our sons and will transform the way we help them to become happy and fulfilled young men.

From the Hardcover edition.

Reset by Tom Brokaw

2009-07-28T00:30:00-05:00

Reset How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America
Written by Kurt Andersen
Foreword by Tom Brokaw

“This is the end of the world as we’ve known it,” Kurt Andersen writes in Reset. “But it isn’t the end of the world.” In this smart and refreshingly hopeful book, Andersen–a brilliant analyst and synthesizer of historical and cultural trends, as well as a bestselling novelist and host of public radio’s Studio 360–shows us why the current economic crisis is actually a moment of great opportunity to get ourselves and our nation back on track.

Historically, America has always shifted between wild, exuberant speculation and steady, sober hard work, as well as back and forth between economic booms and busts, and between right and left politically. This is one of the rare moments when all these cycles shift dramatically and simultaneously–a moment when complacency ends, ossified structures loosen up, and enormous positive change is possible.

The shock to the system can enable each of us to rethink certain habits and focus more on the things that make us authentically happy. The present flux can enable us as a society to consolidate the enormous gains of the last several decades in areas such as technology, crime prevention, women’s and civil rights, and the democratization of the planet. We can reap the fruits of a revival of realism and pragmatism at home and abroad. As we enter a new era of post-party-line common sense, we can start to reinvent hopelessly broken systems–in health care, education, climate change, and more–and rediscover some of the old-fashioned American values of which we’ve lost sight.

In Reset, Andersen explains how we’ve done it before and why we are about to do it again–and better than ever.

Reset by Tom Brokaw

2009-07-28T00:30:00-05:00

Reset How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America
Written by Kurt Andersen
Foreword by Tom Brokaw

Random House New Releases - Psychology and Psychiatry - Between November 28, 2008 and December 28, 2009.

Stop Obsessing! by David H. Barlow

Stop Obsessing! How to Overcome Your Obsessions and CompulsionsWritten by Edna B. Foa and Reid Wilson Foreword by David H. Barlow

Type Talk at Work (Revised) by Hile Rutledge

Type Talk at Work (Revised) How the 16 Personality Types Determine Your Success on the JobWritten by Otto Kroeger, Janet M. Thuesen and Hile Rutledge

Calling the Circle by Christina Baldwin

Calling the Circle The First and Future CultureWritten by Christina Baldwin

The Listening Hand by Joan Borysenko

The Listening Hand Self-Healing Through The Rubenfeld Synergy Method of Talk and TouchWritten by Ilana Rubenfeld Foreword by Joan Borysenko

The Five Ways We Grieve by Susan A. Berger

The Five Ways We Grieve Finding Your Personal Path to Healing after the Loss of a Loved OneWritten by Susan A. Berger

Conquering Fear by Harold S. Kushner

Conquering Fear Living Boldly in an Uncertain WorldWritten by Harold S. Kushner

Conquering Fear by Harold S. Kushner

Conquering Fear Written by Harold S. Kushner

Your Many Faces by Virginia Satir

Your Many Faces The First Step to Being LovedWritten by Virginia Satir

How to Discipline Your 6-12 by Jerry Wyckoff

How to Discipline Your 6-12 Written by Barbara C. and Jerry Wyckoff

Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes? by Jena Pincott

Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes? Bodies, Behavior, and Brains--The Science Behind Sex, Love, & AttractionWritten by Jena Pincott

Family Constellations by Joy Manne

Family Constellations A Practical Guide to Uncovering the Origins of Family ConflictWritten by Joy Manne

The Story of Psychology by Morton Hunt

The Story of Psychology Written by Morton Hunt

Nothing Was the Same by Kay Redfield Jamison

Nothing Was the Same Written by Kay Redfield Jamison

Nothing Was the Same by Kay Redfield Jamison

Nothing Was the Same Written by Kay Redfield Jamison

Lacan For Beginners by David Leach

Lacan For Beginners Written by Philip Hill Illustrated by David Leach

The Secret Life of Families by Evan Imber-Black

The Secret Life of Families Making Decisions About Secrets: When Keeping Secrets Can Harm You, When Keeping Secrets Can Heal You-And How to Know the DifferenceWritten by Evan Imber-Black

The Courage to Be Present by Karen Kissel Wegela

The Courage to Be Present Buddhism, Psychotherapy, and the Awakening of Natural WisdomWritten by Karen Kissel Wegela

Raising Cain by Michael Thompson, Ph.D.

Raising Cain Protecting the Emotional Life of BoysWritten by Dan Kindlon, Ph.D. and Michael Thompson, Ph.D.

Reset by Tom Brokaw

Reset How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew AmericaWritten by Kurt Andersen Foreword by Tom Brokaw

Reset by Tom Brokaw

Reset How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew AmericaWritten by Kurt Andersen Foreword by Tom Brokaw

Stop Obsessing! How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions
Written by Edna B. Foa and Reid Wilson
Foreword by David H. Barlow

Type Talk at Work (Revised) How the 16 Personality Types Determine Your Success on the Job
Written by Otto Kroeger, Janet M. Thuesen and Hile Rutledge

Calling the Circle The First and Future Culture
Written by Christina Baldwin

The Listening Hand Self-Healing Through The Rubenfeld Synergy Method of Talk and Touch
Written by Ilana Rubenfeld
Foreword by Joan Borysenko

The Five Ways We Grieve Finding Your Personal Path to Healing after the Loss of a Loved One
Written by Susan A. Berger

Conquering Fear Living Boldly in an Uncertain World
Written by Harold S. Kushner

Conquering Fear
Written by Harold S. Kushner

Your Many Faces The First Step to Being Loved
Written by Virginia Satir

How to Discipline Your 6-12
Written by Barbara C. and Jerry Wyckoff

Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes? Bodies, Behavior, and Brains--The Science Behind Sex, Love, & Attraction
Written by Jena Pincott

Family Constellations A Practical Guide to Uncovering the Origins of Family Conflict
Written by Joy Manne

The Story of Psychology
Written by Morton Hunt

Nothing Was the Same
Written by Kay Redfield Jamison

Nothing Was the Same
Written by Kay Redfield Jamison

Lacan For Beginners
Written by Philip Hill
Illustrated by David Leach

The Secret Life of Families Making Decisions About Secrets: When Keeping Secrets Can Harm You, When Keeping Secrets Can Heal You-And How to Know the Difference
Written by Evan Imber-Black

The Courage to Be Present Buddhism, Psychotherapy, and the Awakening of Natural Wisdom
Written by Karen Kissel Wegela

Raising Cain Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys
Written by Dan Kindlon, Ph.D. and Michael Thompson, Ph.D.

Reset How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America
Written by Kurt Andersen
Foreword by Tom Brokaw

Reset How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America
Written by Kurt Andersen
Foreword by Tom Brokaw