La terapia del Self

Individuals with borderline personality disorder are the psychological equivalent of patients with third-degree burns. They are emotionally in living flesh; even the slightest friction or movement can create immense suffering. Marsha Linehan, University of Washington. In the areas of psychiatry and psychology, when we determine a diagnosis or coin a term, it is inevitable that we will fall into generalizations and lose sight of the human and the particular. This leads to treatment errors that can cause irreparable damage. In this exciting book -- which includes real testimonies of both...

In the present book, a repository of more than twenty-five years of dedication to the study and practice o«When I was a child, I used to go often to Luxembourg. I could recapitulate my existence by speaking only of this garden and the images it awakens in me. Winters of war... the mornings when it was getting late and I was running to the Lycée Montaigne... Fixed moment: the same eternal old man in the worn-out suit throwing bread to the pigeons. An elegant young woman watches out of the corner of her eye as her son washes his hands in the dirt...». Can an ethnologist observe the customs...

Wray Herbert descubre el funcionamiento de los mecanismos mentales que nos llevan a emitir un juicio automático o a concretar una acción determinada. El concepto que revisa, el de la heurística, es fundamental para entender por qué los atajos intelectuales no siempre producen las mejores decisiones. Desde cómo elegimos una marca de jabón hasta cómo influye el miedo en la percepción de las distancias, el autor ofrece un interesante abanico de conocimientos sobre neurología básica.