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Strangers To Ourselves
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Author : Rachel Aviv
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2022-10-20
Strangers To Ourselves written by Rachel Aviv and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-20 with Psychology categories.
New York Times Book Review Top 10 Books of the Year ‘Captures with subtlety and empathy the honest reality of mental illness’ The Times There are stories that save us, and stories that trap us, and in the midst of an illness it can be very hard to know which is which... Strangers to Ourselves shares the experiences of five people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are. It asks, do the stories we tell around mental illness affect its course, its outcomes, even our identities? Drawing on in-depth reporting, written testimonies and formative events in her own childhood, award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv offers a subtle, compassionate, revelatory account of how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress. ‘Aviv finds language for the most ineffable registers of human experience’ Wall Street Journal ‘Profoundly intelligent... superbly written portraits’ Guardian A best book of the year in the Los Angeles Times, Time, Washington Post, New Yorker, and Vogue
Strangers To Ourselves
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Author : Timothy D. Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2004-05-15
Strangers To Ourselves written by Timothy D. Wilson and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-15 with Psychology categories.
"Know thyself," a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? Wilson makes the case for better ways of discovering our unconscious selves. If you want to know who you are or what you feel or what you're like, Wilson advises, pay attention to what you actually do and what other people think about you. Showing us an unconscious more powerful than Freud's, and even more pervasive in our daily life, Strangers to Ourselves marks a revolution in how we know ourselves.
Strangers To Ourselves
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Author : Julia Kristeva
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 1991
Strangers To Ourselves written by Julia Kristeva and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Literary Criticism categories.
Kristeva begins with the personal and moves outward by examining world literature and philosophy. She discusses the foreigner in Greek tragedy, in the Bible, and in the literature of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Enlightenment, and the twentieth century.
Strangers To Ourselves
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Author : Julia Kristeva
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2024-02-20
Strangers To Ourselves written by Julia Kristeva and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-20 with Psychology categories.
This book is concerned with the notion of the stranger—the foreigner, outsider, or alien in a country and society not their own—as well as the notion of strangeness within the self, a person’s deep sense of being, as distinct from outside appearance and their conscious idea of self. Julia Kristeva begins with the personal and moves outward by examining world literature and philosophy. She discusses the foreigner in Greek tragedy, in the Bible, and in the literature of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Enlightenment, and the twentieth century. By considering the legal status of foreigners throughout history, Kristeva offers a different perspective on our own civilization.
Redirect
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Author : Timothy Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-09-01
Redirect written by Timothy Wilson and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-01 with Psychology categories.
A problem shared is a problem halved? Not necessarily... Talking about our problems isn't always a good idea. World-renowned psychologist Timothy Wilson reveals how this, and many other conventional therapies and interventions, can often do us more harm than good. Presenting the very latest research, Wilson argues that the key to transforming our lives lies simply in learning to redirect the stories we tell ourselves. His revolutionary approach reveals how reshaping our internal narratives can increase our personal well-being and transform our understanding of human behaviour - our narratives can change surprisingly quickly if tweaked in the right way. How can we best recover from trauma? Why might some sex education result in more teen pregnancies? Why will most self-help books leave you worse off? Redirect proposes a radical new view of the world. It also offers a range of practical advice - that has, crucially, been tested scientifically and found to have real results - that can show us the way to social progress.
Strangers I Know
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Author : Claudia Durastanti
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2022-01-25
Strangers I Know written by Claudia Durastanti and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-25 with Fiction categories.
"Durastanti casts the universal drama of the family as the sieve through which the self—woman, artist, daughter—is filtered and known." —Ocean Vuong A work of fiction about being a stranger in your own family and life. Every family has its own mythology, but in this family none of the myths match up. Claudia’s mother says she met her husband when she stopped him from jumping off a bridge. Her father says it happened when he saved her from an attempted robbery. Both parents are deaf but couldn’t be more different; they can’t even agree on how they met, much less who needed saving. Into this unlikely yet somehow inevitable union, our narrator is born. She comes of age with her brother in this strange, and increasingly estranged, household split between a small village in southern Italy and New York City. Without even sign language in common – their parents have not bothered to teach them – family communications are chaotic and rife with misinterpretations, by turns hilarious and devastating. An outsider in every way, she longs for a freedom she’s not even sure exists. Only books and punk rock—and a tumultuous relationship—begin to show her the way to create her own mythology, to construct her own version of the story of her life. Kinetic, formally dazzling, and spectacularly original, this book is a funny and profound portrait of an unconventional family that makes us look anew at how language shapes our understanding of ourselves.
Strangers To Ourselves
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Author : Shashi Deshpande
language : en
Publisher: India Penguin
Release Date : 2024-02-27
Strangers To Ourselves written by Shashi Deshpande and has been published by India Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-27 with Fiction categories.
She-- an oncologist whose days are driven by the desire to alleviate pain. He-- a rising star in the musical world, whose life is governed by his art. Yet, all it takes is one meeting for everything to change. Set in Mumbai, Strangers to Ourselves tells the story of an unlikely love between two unusual people. Tender and tempestuous by turns, it draws you into the conflicts, languid pleasures and sharp sorrows of falling in love with a stranger who can never entirely be yours.
Strangers To Themselves
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Author : RACHEL. AVIV
language : en
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Release Date : 2022-10-20
Strangers To Themselves written by RACHEL. AVIV and has been published by Harvill Secker this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-20 with categories.
Consequential Strangers Turning Everyday Encounters Into Life Changing Moments
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Author : Melinda Blau
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2009-08-24
Consequential Strangers Turning Everyday Encounters Into Life Changing Moments written by Melinda Blau and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-24 with Self-Help categories.
“A mind-expanding and heart-opening book” (Daniel Goleman, author of Social Intelligence) that reveals the value of everyday interactions with people in our communities – and what we lose without them. Our barista, our mechanic, our coworker—they populate our days, but we often take them for granted. Yet these are the people who bring novelty and information into our lives, allow us to exercise different parts of ourselves, and open us up to new opportunities. In their unprecedented examination of people on the periphery, psychologist Karen Fingerman, who coined the term “consequential strangers,” collaborates with journalist Melinda Blau to expand on and make her own groundbreaking research come alive. Drawing as well from Blau’s more than two hundred interviews with specialists in psychology, sociology, marketing, and communication, the book presents compelling stories of individuals and institutions, past and present. A rich portrait of our social landscape—on and off the Internet—it presents the science of casual connection and chronicles the surprising impact that consequential strangers have on business, creativity, the work environment, our physical and mental health, and the strength of our communities.
Talking To Strangers
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Author : Malcolm Gladwell
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2019-09-10
Talking To Strangers written by Malcolm Gladwell and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-10 with Self-Help categories.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Compelling, haunting, tragic stories . . . resonate long after you put the book down' James McConnachie, Sunday Times Book of the Year The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives? Using stories of deceit and fatal errors to cast doubt on our strategies for dealing with the unknown, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual adventure into the darker side of human nature, where strangers are never simple and misreading them can have disastrous consequences.