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Needles, Herbs, Gods...
This monumental work weaves together erudite scholarship and enticing travelogue. Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts uncovers an entirely neglected story of how the West encountered China's religion, medicine, and healing practices. It challenges the reader to see how human beings encounter difference through the structure of their own thoughts and experiences. This informative, reflective...
Flying star Feng shui...
The third edition of David Twicken's best-selling Flying Star Feng Shui Made Easygracefully explains seven Water Dragon methods of Feng Shui. Flying Star Feng Shui is one of the most popular and powerful forms of Feng Shui practiced throughout Asia. Flying Star Feng Shui Made Easy includes beginning and advanced methods designed specifically to assist in creating healthier, happier and ...
A FLOURISHING YIN....
This book brings the study of gender to Chinese medicine and in so doing it contextualizes Chinese medicine in history. It examines the rich but neglected tradition of fuke, or medicine for women, ove ...
The Feng Shui of Love
T. Raphael Simons, America's leading feng shui expert, teaches readers how to transform their homes to attract, enhance, and enrich romantic love in their lives. Based on ancient Taoist secrets that join feng shui and Chinese astrology, Simons' method is personalized through questionnaires and individualized charts. Readers will learn how to use their own personal styles of relating, rel...
Becoming A Master...
Becoming a Master Manager is an effective tool for stimulating thinking and building management skills. The book takes you through some of the social and intellectual challenges that managers encoun ...
Dynamics of Character...
In his first new book in ten years, David Shapiro extends the stubbornly intuitive clinical vision that informed his phenomenally successful Neurotic Styles to probe the psychopathological. Emphasizing self-regulatory process over biological event, Shapiro's philosophy of mind goes against the current - but with authority...not to mention a built-in audience
Psychotherapy of...
Shapiro's keenness of observation and profound clinical wisdom are once again in evidence, as he brings to bear his brilliant ideas about neurotic character on the actual conduct of psychotherapy. The therapeutic material, argues Shapiro, consists not merely of what the patient provides but of the patient. Pay attention not only to the words, Shapiro says, but also to the speaker.Shapiro...
Traditional Chinese...
The authors tell how Chinese medicine evolved, how it works, and why it is attracting such attention in the Western world. The book also includes a detailed discussion of Qi Gong, the system of mental and physical discipline that underlies the traditional methods, explanations of nutritional balance and herbal lore (including preparation techniques), and a brief summary of acupuncture me...
Autonomy and Rigid...
Beginning with a discussion of the problem of autonomy in dynamic psychiatry and a review of its development from infancy to adolescence, the author of Neurotic Styles explores, with numerous clinical examples, the distortion of the development of autonomy in obsessive-compulsive conditions, in sadism and masochism, and, finally, in paranoia.
Reshaping Herbal...
This is the first definitive book to draw on unique, unpublished, professional expertise about the reshaping of herbal medicine in the UK. This book outlines the outcomes of recent examinations, and poses challenging questions about the direction of future herbal medicine policy within the UK.