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In this groundbreaking book, a world authority on communication therapy points out a basic contradiction in the way therapists use language. Drawing on the work of Milton H. Erickson, he supports his findings with many (and often amusing) examples. This book, then, is a...

The Language of the Body, originally published in 1958 as Physical Dynamics of Character Structure, remains one of the most influential books in psychology. In this groundbreaking work, Alexander Lowen outlines the foundations of character structure and describes how personality is expressed in the...

This book puts forward a novel interpretation of Judith Shklar’s liberalism of fear. This book argues that the most important factor shaping her mature work is not her scepticism but rather a value monist approach to both moral conflict and freedom, which represents a...

Fear, the primary emotion directly related to survival, is a natural gift that we must perceive as an ally. But what happens when fear becomes pathological, and transforms into anxiety, panic, phobia, making a person's life a living hell? In this book, after presenting...

What do we mean when we talk about citizenship? Who can be a citizen? What fate awaits those not in the country where they reside? Many times simple questions contain very complex topics. In this book, Irene Ortiz deploys an archaeological investigation into the...

Adolescence is a stage of intense emotional transformation. The awakening of love, the need to feel seen and accepted, or the gradual distancing from one’s family can be experienced with an overwhelming intensity — one that, in many cases, reactivates deep wounds rooted in...

Rovelli restores Anaximander to his place in the history of science by reconstructing his theories from what is known to us and examining them in their historical and philosophical contexts. He concludes that scientific thinking—the legacy of Anaximander—is only reliable when it constantly tests...

Communication with others begins, practically, at the same time as life. Babies have a wide range of needs and signals to pass on to their parents. These signals will evolve from the crying of the newborn to gestures and, later, to words. However, there...

In the digital age, is artificial intelligence the new god? In this profound essay, Claudia Paganini develops a highly controversial philosophical thesis: for the first time, human beings — rather than merely imagining a god — have created one. Artificial intelligence is increasingly assuming...

Alejandra Azuero Quijano proposes to think of the strike as an epistemic outbreak, an event that articulates stories and rhythms of time that allow us to rethink the past in order to understand and update the present. Based on repertoires of resistance and interruption,...

Communicating correctly is a fundamental element when relating to others: the first impression is in fact decisive for the evolution of the interpersonal relationship. But how important is it to know and master the components that come into play in the first meeting? In...

What consequences does the use of new technologies and social networks have on people's intimate lives? New digital tools have facilitated the use of cybersex, a practice in which more and more people are attracted. However, online pornography or virtual dating chats rarely give...

Understanding anguish as the anguish of birth and not as the power of the end, nor as the anguish of death, is the key to this untimely book that formulates a true principle of hope for our time of crisis, Anxiety has always accompanied...

The present volume brings together two earlier books by Joseph Ratzinger that appropriately complement each other: Suchen contains meditations primarily from the author's time as archbishop of Munich, and Bilder der Hoffnung [Images of Hope] (1997), which was composed when Joseph Ratzinger was cardinal...

This book contains two dissertations that Watzlawick delivered at the 1989 and 1991 Vienna Conferences. With the help of some brilliant and timely quotes, the author makes us aware of how "reality" is nothing other than the meaning or nonsense that things and events...

Relational networks pose an inescapable challenge for professionals and institutions involved in addressing human suffering, for they constitute the arena where distress takes shape — but also where change can be catalyzed. In this book, social networks — far removed from the trivialization to...

This book is at the beginning of the contemporary dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity, an issue that continues to have the same relevance as when it was first published five decades ago, as Javier Melloni states in his introduction. The Jesuit Hugo Lassalle lived...

There is nothing to fear because everything is dangerous. Only this learning can perhaps reconcile us with the prodigious breadth of the act of thought. Danger surrounds us, inhabits our daily activities and distresses us when it escapes us. In the face of this,...

Born into a family in which political commitment was intertwined with everyday life, Emmeline Pankhurst always breathed activism. Even as a child, she understood that women had to commit to changing their living conditions and the firm beliefs rooted in Victorian society about what...

It is necessary to "tame" emotions and then recognize them, transforming boundaries into extremely powerful resources and building an alliance between intelligence and instinct, reason and feeling, calculation and emotion. Nardone proposes that we address them as an exploration of the complexity of the...