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Both psychoanalysis and spirituality delve into a sacred space: the interior of the human being. In these pages, Roberto Longhi shares his psychoanalytic experience and points out suggestive affinities between psychoanalysis sessions and meditation, integrating different polarities: two subjects (me and not-me), two mediations...

Byung-Chul Han continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault’s biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche. Han elaborates a framework that provides an original theory of Big Data and a lucid phenomenology...

Through a narrative supported by therapeutic dialogues of six representative clinical cases, the reader will be able to enter the process of short long-term psychotherapy and understand how therapeutic change can occur even in seemingly intractable patients.

Existential therapy is practiced throughout the world. But until now, it has lacked a coherent structure. Irvin Yalom finds its essence in this text, organized around what Yalom identifies as the four "ultimate concerns of life.” The fundamental concerns of therapy and the central...

This technique of psychoanalysis was created more than 70 years ago and is gaining relevance. Therapists and researchers delve into the complex motivations of choosing a partner, and present a new classification of couple psychopathology and explain in a practical way how to diagnose...

What is the voice at the time of reading, writing, and thinking? How to locate it in the text, incarnate it in the body, or suffer it in madness? In this book different dimensions of the voice are explored beyond the philosophical logo that...

In I Want You to Be, Halík examines the connection between faith and love and its importance for contemporary Christian practice. Halík suggests that love for God must be expressed through love of human beings. He calls for Christians to avoid isolating themselves from secular...

There are forms of anger that intensify inequality and others that fight it. And in this duplicity understandings of life, identity, and its relationship with the odd are at stake. In different daily attitudes and in various political decisions, forms of fear, hatred and...

Winnicott demonstrates how, in the playful encounter between the child and the caregiver, a transitional space is created — an intermediate area where reality and fantasy intertwine, facilitating the passage from non-integration toward healthy psychic integration. This seminal work of 20th-century psychology illuminates the...

This volume is a record of journalist Gabriele ten Hovel's probing interview with Bert Hellinger. In it Hellinger sheds new light on his unique use of family constellations to reveal hidden, often destructive family dynamics and to activate healing resources. / Este volumen es...

We are all addicted in some way. When we learn to identify our addiction and surrender to God, we begin to bring healing to ourselves and our world. Richard Rohr shows how the gospel principles in the Twelve Steps can free anyone from any...

Montgomery, Alabama, December 1, 1955: At the end of the workday, Rosa Parks, 42, a dressmaker worker, took the 2857 bus and headed home. She sat in a middle row, but when a white passenger got on, the driver asked her to get up...

This work tries to bring us closer to understanding what is happening to us on a psychological level as protagonists of a crisis derived from the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond fear, the emotions that move in a crisis like this span a broader spectrum. What...

The great advances in medicine and surgery offer the possibility of saving lives and considerably improving the quality thanks to organ transplantation. Today, there are many more patients waiting for a transplant than there are donors. This means that, in many societies, each deceased...

Svenja Flasspöhler sets out to clarify one of the hottest current conflicts: the progressive individual and social awareness and what the limit is of what is tolerable. Sensitivity is not a new phenomenon; It occupies an important role in the history of our society...

Two homilies of Pope Benedict XVI that will help the reader to better understand the nature of the Church and celebrate its faith. This edition has selected two homilies from Pope Benedict XVI's preaching work for each of the seven sacraments, and they are...

This book brings together theoretical and practical insights gained from the authors' experience as clinical psychologists and from the practice of mindfulness and meditation. It proposes a transitional approach between a psychology based on the model of individual change and another oriented towards self-acceptance,...

Committed to the political causes of her time, intellectually brilliant and a pioneer in the fight for women's rights and freedom, Simone de Beauvoir is one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century. This wonderfully illustrated book traces the life of Simone...

Among the various forms of panic attacks associated with the fear of dying, the most common is the sensation of running out of breath — to the point of near-total asphyxiation. Both mechanisms — that of breathing and that of fear — mutually influence...