Sulle orme di Viktor Frankl, autore di Uno psicologo nei lagerViktor Frankl, il celebre autore di Uno psicologo nei lager, considerava l’alpinismo un’attività per rafforzare le proprie risorse interiori: contro la paura del vuoto, contro i fantasmi del passato e contro il nazismo. Un’attività il cui ricordo gli ha consentito di sopravvivere in quattro campi di concentramento e, quando è potuto tornare ad arrampicare, la montagna è stata la...

Fehldiagnose »psychisch bedingt«?Hilfe in Klinik und Praxis: Alle Krankheitsbilder mit typischen KasuistikenÜberblick: Strukturiertes und kompaktes Wissen zur AusschlussdiagnostikSchließt Lücke: Ergänzt die einschlägigen Lehrbücher zur psychotherapeutischen Versorgung, Aus- und WeiterbildungBei seltenen, primär somatischen Krankheitsbildern werden Symptome oft vorschnell als psychisch bedingt ...

Sich selbst finden in den Bergen: Klettern mit Viktor FranklKlettern als Parabel für das Leben: Wir werden mit unseren Ängsten konfrontiert, überwinden äußere und innere Hindernisse, trainieren unseren Körper und unseren Willen und lernen, absolut zu vertrauen – unseren eigenen Fähigkeiten, aber auch unserem Seilpartner.Der weltberühmte Psychiater Viktor Frankl stärkte über das Klettern seine innere Ressource, die er »Trotzmacht des Geistes« nannte. Gegen s...

Sich selbst finden in den Bergen: Klettern mit Viktor FranklKlettern als Parabel für das Leben: Wir werden mit unseren Ängsten konfrontiert, überwinden äußere und innere Hindernisse, trainieren unseren Körper und unseren Willen und lernen, absolut zu vertrauen – unseren eigenen Fähigkeiten, aber auch unserem Seilpartner.Der weltberühmte Psychiater Viktor Frankl stärkte über das Klettern seine innere Ressource, die er »Trotzmacht des Geistes« nannte. Gegen seine eigene Höhenangst. Gegen die...

An " engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles" from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more ( Publishers Weekly).Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the tens of millions of Americans living in "near poverty"? In this book, some of the country's most prominent scholars, businesspeople, and community activists answ...

This one-of-a-kind collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative practices from classrooms, schools, districts, communities, and faraway places in the world. Each of the chapters-organized under six headings-tells an authentic, compelling story of a pioneering and successful initiative that breaks the traditional mold of instructional delivery and time-honored school organization. Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization guides readers thr...

Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any image and interpret it in personal and scholarly terms. The result is a remarkable set of essays by twenty-seven scholars whose numerous volumes on the Civil War have explored military, cultural, political, African American, women’s, and environmental history.The essays describe a wide array of photographs and present an eclecti...

Diverse perspectives on Lincoln's assassination, its aftermath, and its place in national memory from some of today's leading Lincoln scholars.The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most significant events in US history. It continues to attract the interest of scholars, writers, and armchair historians, ranging from painstaking new research to wild-eyed speculation. Now leading scholars of Lincoln and his murder offer in one volume their ...

In 1865 Americans faced some of the most important issues in the nation’s history: the final battles of the Civil War, the struggle to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, the peace process, reconstruction, the role of freed slaves, the tragedy of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, and the trials of the conspirators. In this illuminating collection, prominent historians of nineteenth-century America offer insightful overviews of the individuals, events, and issues on 1865 that shaped the future of...