More and more leaders and their organizations are becoming convinced in the business case for creating a "coaching culture". This book provides the tools for leaders and teams to develop a common language and shared protocol and a learning and development orientation towards people. These critical dynamics support the entire culture becoming a "feedback-rich, high-performance" organizati...

Mind Matters is a textbook of mind-body medicine written for students, practitioners and aficionados of alternative medicine. It brings together in one coherent volume practical techniques in psychological medicine - what Plato called "healing with words" - for those wishing to work more deeply with the emotional and mental aspects of illness. Mind Matters weaves a fine balance between ...

This is the first major textbook to offer a truly comprehensive review of cognitive science in its fullest sense. Ranging from artificial intelligence models of neural processes and cognitive psychology to recent discursive and cultural theories, Rom Harré offers an original yet accessible integration of the field.

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 encounter everyday, the most prominent being pulled by competing demands and having to play many roles simultaneously. This book uses the Competing Values Framework, a comprehensive map on which com...

A History of Psychiatry from Antiquity to the Present

Gracie hasn't left her house in thirty years out of fear she'll be contaminated. Jerry spent hours each day picking up debris on the subway platform. Norm's bridge phobia led him into alcoholism messed up his marriage and alienated his children. David - bright, young, ambitious - feared he'd lose his job because he so dreaded giving sales presentations. These are some of the people examp...

Le terme "coaching" est issu du monde sportif. Un coach va permettre à une personne douée d'un potentiel exceptionnel de devenir la meilleure dans une discipline. Il exploite des dons et un talent pour les amener à atteindre un niveau maximal. Le "coaching" est destiné, a priori, à des êtres d'exception, à une élite. Le terme "skilling" est associé au développement d'une habileté, d'une ...

In Religion and Nothingness the leading representative of the Kyoto School of Philosophy lays the foundations of thought for a world in the making, for a world united beyond the differences of East and West. Keiji Nishitani notes the irreversible trend of Western civilization to nihism, and singles out the conquest of nihilism as the task for contemporary philosophy.