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This stimulating collection of lectures by the late Judith Shklar on political obligation is paired with a scholarly introduction that offers an overview of her life, illuminates the connections among her teaching, research, and publications, and explains why her lectures still resonate with us...

This book not only formulates a critique of contemporary psychiatry, but also points out possible ways out of the alley in which she is trapped. Benedetto Saraceno has compiled ten essays written over the years, which share the same deep conviction that psychiatry is...

How can we help our children solve their problems? How to offer a safe but not intrusive parental presence? What can we do when we have already tried everything? This book is intended to help parents who are having difficulty raising their children. Karin...

Socrates was not only one of the most famous and influential philosophers in human history, but also the first martyr for his ideas. The trial that condemned him exposes how the largest democracy of the time could push its best citizens to death. Athens,...

The essential cannot be said, and yet everything we say is in search of it. Using poetic words, Javier Melloni tries to express the ever-growing religious perception of our time: the inseparability between God, ourselves and the world around us. In this intimate and...

There are children who insist on their right to self-determination. They are children with dependency aspirations that go far beyond the usual, and demand the right to make their own decisions. They are the so-called autonomous or self-determined children. The parents of these children...

The author argues that the concept of "family" is undergoing an exciting transformation. The traditional hierarchical family structure is being replaced by a new structure, which advocates reciprocity between parent and child, and believes children are born competent to express their feelings and eager...

After describing the territory of trauma and reviewing the state of the art of its psychotherapeutic approach, this book offers various action strategies and a large number of intervention techniques designed to empower clients and help them take back the reins of their lives....

The Way that can be clearly described is not the Immutable Way. The name that can be pronounced aloud is not the Immutable Name. With your mouth shut, leaving things undefined, you find yourself at the beginning of the universe. The Tao Te Ching...

 This book, a dialogue between communication and psychological sciences, is now regarded as one of the fundamental works within the study of interpersonal relationships. From a systemic perspective the authors set out the general theoretical aspects of human communication, and on behavioral disorders, represented...

This set of essays introduces the reader to brief therapy, a therapeutic working model developed at the end of the sixties of the last century by a group of researchers from the Mental Research Institute of California, known internationally as the Palo Alto group;...

Hundreds of thousands of clinicians and graduate students have relied on this text to learn the fundamentals of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT). Leading expert Judith S. Beck demonstrates how to engage patients, develop a sound case conceptualization, plan individualized treatment, structure sessions, and implement...

This book demonstrates the role of parents in child and adolescent therapy. The Novicks suggest that restoring the parent-child relationship contributes to long-lasting therapeutic change in children and adolescents. The authors provide a guide for integrating parents work with child and adolescent treatment.

Transhumanism is one of the philosophical and cultural movements that has attracted the most attention in recent years. The technologies used are genetic engineering and the development of intelligent machines. According to the advocates of transhumanism, with the help of these technologies we can...

Mentalization--based treatment (MBT) promotes clients’ ability to interpret the meaning of others’ behavior by considering their underlying mental states and intentions, as well as clients’ capacity to understand the impact of their own behaviors on others. Written by an international team of clinician--researchers who are...

With this work M. Raymond begins the trilogy entitled The Saga of Citeaux. In Three Rebel Monks, Raymond begins the narration of the legend of the Cisterure with the departure of a group of monks from the Benedictine monastery of Molesme, in search of...

Between urban legends and biographical data, this book is the story of the human, artistic and social parable that made Tupac one of the most important and beloved figures in black culture. Tupac Amaru Shakur was a controversial character full of contradictions: rapper, political...

Fina Birules investigates Arendt's exercises in thought, which are evidence of a stubborn and lucid search for the ways of thinking and organizing politics that our times need, once the thread of tradition has been irreversibly broken. Her legacy is presented to us here...

This book tells the story of this feeling of own and alien at the same time, from its first figures, Daimon and Genius, through their progressive loss of substance and disappearance of the experience. And also look for ways to make that tension fertile...

An essential book to look directly at a suffering that gives us back the image of a society that hasn’t managed to avoid it, and from which we can learn without justifying it. What do we mean by victim? Who has led it to...