Author: George Eastman Ed.D., Ph.D. Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing ISBN: 1457526247 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 248
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Dr. Eastman offers himself as a case study, returning to the sudden loss of his mother at just twenty-two months, and his upbringing as the last of six children parented by a hardworking but rigid and emotionally vacant father. In the context of depression-era poverty and emotional deprivation, he developed what is called a schizoid personality disorder. He sought safety and refuge in a self-made prison of both grandiose and painfully lonely imaginings. Obsessively intellectual, he developed his mental processes to avoid feeling and any true intimacy. The preoccupation with abstract technical and philosophical issues shut him away from people. He became addicted to risk and to sex; professional rules that interfered did not apply to him. He repeatedly reconfigured his life — careers and relationships — to protect his schizoid “cylinder” of isolation. Others suffered; so did Eastman. Yet buried deep within lay an unquenchable thirst for connection and a heroic determination to understand and to heal. Eastman’s relentlessly honest story unfolds with commentary at the end of each chapter to clarify the clinical picture of the schizoid personality, which is still not well understood. Unlike schizophrenia, in which the split exists between the real world and a distorted inner world, the schizoid protects a private inner self that is experienced as rich and special. The stilted outer self is often mistaken for disinterest, detachment, or even hostility. Unlike the psychopath who presents a convincingly normal outer persona, the schizoid may appear socially awkward, tightly controlled, eccentric, and often intellectually superior. The schizoid’s pathological focus on self is a recognizable human quality — writ very large, indeed. George Eastman’s memoir and his meticulous analysis of the disorder is a gift, and proof that that although we may be our own jailers and prisoners, we have the power to set both free.
Author: Jeanne Magagna Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000452697 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 229
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This important book shows how psychotherapy can address severe eating disorders in children and young people, illustrating the ways an imprisoned self can be released from suffering. The book features a range of case studies while addressing core issues such as self-harm, hallucinations and the threat of suicide, as well as related topics such as depression and psychosis. Illustrating the psychological roots to eating disorders, it places therapy within hospital, clinical and multi-disciplinary contexts, as well as displaying how psychoanalytic theory can be applied across various settings and in different teams. Written by an eminent author in the field, this will be a key text for anyone wishing to understand eating disorders in children from a psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic dimension.
Author: Jason Jd Rutherford Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781729796689 Category : Languages : en Pages : 214
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It is possible to break free from our self-made prison. The power we possess is already within us just waiting to be unleashed. An imprisoned mind is the limited existence of our lives. It really doesn't matter if you are physically behind bars or not, everyone is a prisoner to something. A limited mindset tells us we cannot break free from our negative situations. We are hostages to the departure from rational thought, a condition created by a series of failures and abuses from others. A total lack of understanding of how our thinking is shaped from childhood until we are adults can cause us many problems throughout our lives. This book contains life lessons from one who was incarcerated for many years, not only physically, but mentally as well. With an easy to follow guide outside of complicated jargon and terms, JD Rutherford brings this deep knowledge of inner understanding and puts it into a language all can understand.
Author: Navahcia L Edwards Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 102
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Navahcia is my name, and I have been where you are. Maybe not the same circumstances, but imprisoned nonetheless! It was a challenging but much-needed journey.Over time I realize who I wanted to become and what I yearn to acquire after being imprisoned. I knew it would be challenging and that it may even seem impossible, but it's not. It just seems that way for the moment. Nothing worth having in life will be easy to obtain. Every single day of our lives will be judge based on the good and the bad. Judgment will come from those near and far, from people that know us and people that don't know us at all. However, this time around, I will be the author of my own story.I vowed to free myself from being imprisoned in any form of the word!So here I am sharing a piece of my journey with you, hoping that it finds those who feel abandoned, alone, or imprisoned physically or mentally. You are not alone! Being physically imprisoned doesn't mean your mind has to be. This self-help activity journal will help assist with your transition before, during, and after imprisonment. These are some of the steps I learned and followed.Not Just Five Steps will be your guide to create, write, and express yourself through your journey. This journal will remind you of how far you have come. You are uniquely different, and good things come to those who believe. Always put the higher power first because without faith, where would we be?
Author: Cyntoia Brown-Long Publisher: Atria Books ISBN: 1982141115 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 320
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NAACP Image Award nominee for Outstanding Biography/Autobiography In her own words, Cyntoia Brown-Long shares the riveting and redemptive story of how she changed her life for the better while in prison, finding hope through faith after a traumatic adolescence of drug addiction, rape, and sex trafficking led to a murder conviction. “Those...years in prison hadn’t just turned me into woman. They transformed me. The girl who desperately wanted to belong, who felt powerless, who clawed, and scratched her way out of every corner she was backed into, was gone.” At the age of sixteen, Cyntoia Brown, a survivor of human trafficking, was arrested for killing a man who had picked her up for sex. Two years later, she was sentenced to life in prison. Brown reflects on the isolation, low self-esteem, and sense of alienation that drove her straight into the hands of a predator. Once in prison, she attempts to build a positive path and honor the values her beloved adoptive mother, Ellenette, taught her, but Cyntoia succumbs to harmful influences that drive her to a cycle of progress and setbacks. Then, a fateful meeting with a prison educator turned mentor offers Cyntoia the opportunity to make the pivotal decision to strive for a better future, even if she’s never freed. In these pages, Cyntoia shares the details of her transformation, including a profound encounter with God, an unlikely romance, an unprecedented outpouring of support from social media advocates and A-list celebrities, and her release from prison. A coming-of-age memoir set against the shocking backdrop of a life behind bars, Free Cyntoia takes you on a spiritual journey as Cyntoia struggles to overcome a lifetime of feeling ostracized and abandoned by society.
Author: Fred Antonelli Publisher: Tate Publishing ISBN: 1622952022 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 140
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Come and experience just who you were originally meant to be (the greater YOU!) How temperament, learned behavior, and even past/present abuse tend to shape as well as define you in life either positively or negatively.
Author: Publisher: Basic Books ISBN: 0786743611 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 144
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This “rare and compelling” (New York Magazine) bestseller examines childhood trauma and the enduring effects it has on an individual's management of repressed anger and pain. Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided millions of readers with an answer--and has helped them to apply it to their own lives. Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide our own feelings, needs, and memories skillfully in order to meet our parents' expectations and win their "love." Alice Miller writes, "When I used the word 'gifted' in the title, I had in mind neither children who receive high grades in school nor children talented in a special way. I simply meant all of us who have survived an abusive childhood thanks to an ability to adapt even to unspeakable cruelty by becoming numb.... Without this 'gift' offered us by nature, we would not have survived." But merely surviving is not enough. The Drama of the Gifted Child helps us to reclaim our life by discovering our own crucial needs and our own truth.
Author: Raychelle Meyers Publisher: Archway Publishing ISBN: 1480813907 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 141
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Negative people suck the energy and life right out of you, and if you don't stop allowing their control, you'll pay the consequences. Fortunately, there are steps you can take to identify and eliminate them from your life--starting today. It begins with this self-help guide to becoming the CEO of your mind and taking charge of your future. Get the tools you need to: pursue your own vision--not the vision of others; identify your weaknesses and work to correct them; win back the dreams you thought you'd lost. The author also shares the personal obstacles she's overcome to become a successful entrepreneur as well as true stories from others who have overcome negative people, personal tragedies, and criminal acts. Bullet points at the end of each chapter summarize important lessons for easy review. Instead of living in turmoil, it's time to declare ownership over your life and show everyone that you are fabulously beautiful. There's no reason to be limited by #CONFINED MINDS.
Author: Elliot Studt Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation ISBN: 1610444981 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 381
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One of the most detailed reports ever made on an effort to establish a therapeutic community within a California prison. This work describes how the program was launched, gives a number of examples of its operation, and outlines the new problems and prospects created for inmates, staff, and the broader prison administration by this attempt to redefine the roles within the prison.
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