Psychology

Achieving Success with Impossible Children
How to Win the Battle of Wills
By Dave Ziegler, Ph.D.

From the Author of Raising Children Who Refuse to Be Raised and Traumatic Experience and the Brain comes this third book in the difficult children trilogy. For more than 30 years, Dr. Dave Ziegler has been a psychologist, therapist, and foster parent to hundreds of the most challenging children. His methods have helped these "impossible" children — and their parents, teachers, and caregivers — to get back on the right track. He has done what many therapists don't know how to do: help to raise troubled youths, who are the exceptions to all the usual rules, into healthy, successful human beings. This book emphasizes an important element of being successful with difficult children — hope. The repeated message is not only that success is possible, but also that it is realistically achievable. However, success comes only with the right type of hard work combined with a deep understanding of what troubled children need. If success with your child is escaping your grasp, you'll find some help in these pages.

• Item# 7292
• 370 pgs., softcover, 0-9666572-9-2
• $24.95

We are chaotic, aggressive, manipulative, and angry at the world. But look inside the soul of a borderline (if you can get there) and you will find something very different. Fear. Desperation. Abandonment. Incredible sensitivity.

For the millions of adults who suffer from borderline personality disorder, life is a self-destructive cycle of impulsive, often addictive behavior that keeps them trapped in a zone of mental agony

This unique self-help guide combines professional expertise with the words and experiences of Samuel, a young man who is struggling to stay on the path of his own healing journey. Offering poignant and often painful insights into how borderline and addictive behaviors come about, each chapter includes challenging recovery exercises designed to provide the skills and emotional support needed to change.

The companion web site www.slshealth.com provides Angry Heart readers with interactive support and additional recovery tips. After visiting the authors web site don't forget to come back to Book Clearing House to Order this book.

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• Item# 0806
• 253 pgs., softcover, 1-57224-080-6
• $14.95

By Kylea Taylor, Hanford Mead Publishers
Using examples from actual breathwork experiences in participants' own words, this book documents the power of the breath to catalyze self-exploration and inner healing. The pages take you inside a breathwork session to see and feel what happens in the workshop, both from the standpoint of an observer looking in on a session, and of an experiencing participant. The Breathwork Experience outlines the human history of using non-ordinary states to seek healing and wisdom. It also discusses the theories of Stanislav Grof, M.D. and describes the sensory, biographical, prenatal, and transpersonal types of possible human experiences in non-ordinary states.
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• Item# 716-2
• 192 pp., softcover
• $16.95

Considering Psychotherapy & God
A New Dimension
By Richard G. Johnson, MD., Ph.D.

In Considering Psychotherapy & God, psychotherapy and religion come together in an attempt to treat a variety of emotional issues. The author is a certified psychiatrist and neurologist with an MD and a PhD in psychoanalysis. Dr. Johnson observes the role that religion plays in finding one's true identity, determining one's politics, and achieving genuine maturity in life. He examines the behavioral aspects of religion to answer the question, "what can the science of psychoanalysis and the practice of religion offer each other?" In so doing, he not only manages to reconcile the opposites of science and religion, but also offers new insights into how people can use these tools to better themselves.

• Item# 2442
• 141 pgs., softcover, 0-9762224-4-2
• $14.95

Emotional Freedom   Revised Edition
Techniques for dealing with psychological, emotional and physical distress
By Garry A. Flint, Ph.D.

Dr. Garry Flint is an experienced clinician who has integrated a broad spectrum of processes from the emerging discipline of energy medicine.

*Review*
"Dr. Garry Flint has written a clear description of the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) developed by Gary Craig and Adrienne Fowlie.  This book can be valuable as a self-help tool or an adjunct in therapy.  The illustrations help explain EFT in simple terms and offer many examples.  Emotional Freedom encourages experimentation and persistence as you face specific aspects of troublesome issues.  Therapists and others seeking to learn The Method will find this thorough book a boon for their work or their recovery."
- David V. Baldwin, Ph.D., Author/Editor of the award-winning Trauma Information Pages web site.

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• Item# 9512
• 101 pgs., softcover, 0-9685195-1-2
• $14.95

The Ethics of Caring
Honoring the Web of Life in the Professional Caring Relationship
By Kylea Taylor, Hanford Mead Publishers
Foreword by Jack Kornfield

Provides unique help to volunteer and professional caregivers who want to sort out confusing and ethical dilemmas in seven categories, including love, truth, insight, and oneness, as well as the more well-known ethical issues of money, sex, and power. Powerful shared experiences in the context of therapeutic relationships can bring to the surface compelling fears, needs, and longings in both the client and the therapist, minister, massage practitioner, or hospice worker. Rather than imposing another set of external rules, this book provides a new model emphasizing self-awareness.

• Item# 716-1
• 261 pp., softcover
• $20.95

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Join Dr. Allison on his continuing journey into the bipartite human mind, where demons frolic and angels do not fear to tread. In the first edition of this book (1980), Dr. Allison told astonishing stories about his dissociated patients' parading alter-personalities and other psychic beings before him. Now, in this 15-year follow-up, he answers many of the questions that intrigued him then. In doing so, he opens up new vistas for students of the human psyche.

Dr. Allison's discovery of the Inner Self Helper, or ISH, has illuminated the spiritual aspect of the human mind - an aspect feared and thus ignored by others in the field. In fact, guided by his multiple-personality patients' Inner Self Helpers, the author successfully "exorcized" thought- forms masquerading as evil demons. This permitted him to get back to doing the essential hypnotherapy. Only by understanding parapsychological forces as well as his patients' deepest fears and hatreds did he shepherd many of them back to psychological wholeness. This book describes the inner Self Helpers and tells how they operate - and how their protective energy can be tapped in an alliance beneficial to the patient.

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• Item# 4901M
• 208 pgs., softcover, 0-9668949-0-1
• $29.95

Nostalgic Postmodernism
Postmodern Therapy Vol. 1
By Lois Shawver, Ph.D.

Here's a book on postmodernism that is written in plain English. Whereas many books on postmodernism are so obscure that the Flesch index of readability goes off the chart (see Fredric Jameson's books, for example), Shawver's book is of average readability. That's excellent for a book on postmodernism. Her reviewers, too, seem inevitably to comment on the book's clear style.

In this readable book, Shawver tells us the story of how therapy became postmodern. When therapy was "modern", she tells us, therapists did therapy within the guidelines of specific schools. The postmodern therapist, however, works like a fine chef, highly trained, but invariably changing the recipe and spicing the food with her own salsa. Nostalgic postmodernism is just an early guilt-ridden phase in this postmodernism, but the postmodern therapist soon morphs out of nostalgia and recognizes and appreciates her postmodern shift.

This story of the postmodernization of the therapists is cast, in this book, in the context of the history of therapy, and, to some extent, in the context of the author's own experience of her own postmodernization.

• Item# 3808
• 137 pgs., softcover, 0-9773838-08
• $29.95

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• Item# 4608
• Updated & Revised
• 190 pgs., softcover, 0-9668546-0-8
• $13.95

Raising Children Who Refuse To Be Raised
Parenting Skills and Therapy Interventions for the most Difficult Children
By Dave Ziegler, Ph.D.

In his new book, Raising Children Who Refuse to be Raised, psychologist Dave Ziegler offers insight gained over 30 years working with difficult children and 16 years spent as a foster parent to hundreds of severely disturbed children. With empathy and humor, he delivers more than 300 pages of valuable information in a style as accessible to parents as to professionals. Unlike books that address individual categories of special needs children, Ziegler's is a handbook for parents (and the therapists who coach them) of children with multiple problems.

*About the Author
Dr. Dave Ziegler is Executive Director of SCAR/Jasper Mountain, a treatment program for some of our society's most damaged children. A psychologist, trainer, therapist, and most importantly, foster parent to hundreds of challenging children, Dr. Ziegler is quick to point out that he has been privileged to have had the finest education and training available. His principal teachers have not been in graduate school, but rather the children discussed in the pages of this book.

Also see Dr. Ziegler's book "Traumatic Experience and the Brain." 

• Item# 8727
• 310 plus pgs., softcover, 0-9671187-2-7
• $24.95

72 Hour Hold   
A Novel
By Bebe Moore Campbell

In this novel of family and redemption, a mother struggles to save her eighteen-year-old daughter from the devastating consequences of mental illness by forcing her to deal with her bipolar disorder. New York Times best-selling author Bebe Moore Campbell draws on her own powerful emotions and African-American roots, showcasing her best writing yet.

Trina suffers from bipolar disorder, making her paranoid, wild, and violent. Watching her child turn into a bizarre stranger, Keri searches for assistance through normal channels. She quickly learns that a seventy-two hour hold is the only help you can get when an adult child starts to spiral out of control. After three days, Trina can sign herself out of any program.

Fed up with the bureaucracy of the mental health community and determined to save her daughter by any means necessary, Keri signs on for an illegal intervention. The Program is a group of radicals who eschew the psychiatric system and model themselves after the Underground Railroad. When Keri puts her daughter’s fate in their hands, she begins a journey that has her calling on the spirit of Harriet Tubman for courage. In the upheaval that follows, she is forced to confront a past that refuses to stay buried, even as she battles to secure a future for her child.

Bebe Moore Campbell’s moving story is for anyone who has ever faced insurmountable obstacles and prayed for a happy ending, only to discover she’d have to reach deep within herself to fight for it.

About the Author

Bebe Moore Campbell is the author of three New York Times best sellers: Brothers and Sisters, Singing in the Comeback Choir, and What You Owe Me, which was also a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001. Her other works include the novel Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and the winner of the NAACP Image Award for literature.

• Item# 0744
• 319 pp., hardcover, 1-4000-4074-4
• $24.95

Traumatic Experience and the Brain
A Handbook for Understanding and Treating Those Traumatized as Children
By Dave Ziegler, Ph.D.

Dr. Dave Ziegler has seen, first-hand, the effects of traumatic experiences during infancy and early childhood on the brain.  As a result of is research and extensive experience with traumatized children he describes in understandable terms the complex neural functioning of a very young brain.  His work with trauma victims has exposed the formation of triggers that are so resistant to change.  His career is focused on ways to help traumatized individuals, and professionals who help them, learn new methods to heal deeply ingrained trauma.  Dr. Ziegler is Executive Director of SCAR/Jasper Mountain, an organization based in Oregon that treats some of the most damaged children.

Also see Dr. Ziegler's book "Raising Children Who Refuse to be Raised." 

• Item# 8751
• 174 pgs., softcover, 0-9671187-5-1
• $19.95

When Wittgenstein and Lyotard Talked with Jack & Jill
An Introduction to Postmodern Philosophy - DVD
Directed by Ludo Gielen, scripted by Luis Shawver

This movie is a dramatic portrayal of two famous and influential philosophers magically brought back to life by Jack, a philosophy student, so that they might explain their ideas to his friend Jill. While Jill is a little dismayed by the magic, soon everyone is sitting around a picnic table having tea in a garden where Jill, a counseling student, manages to ask all the right questions. She wants to understand their philosophy but feels intimidated by any form of philosophy, afraid it will be over her head So, the philosophers, appreciating her situation, take all her questions seriously and answer them in ordinary language.

The two key philosophers talking in the garden are Ludwig Wittgenstein (1891-1951) and Jean-Francois Lyotard (1924-1998). Wittgenstein is the common denominator in today's postmodern therapy circles. Lyotard is the author who popularized the term "postmodern" and he took his major inspiration from Wittgenstein.

This lively 54 minute movie was directed by Ludo Gielen, and scripted and narrated by Lois Shawver. The explanations are clear and the film is suitable for educational purposes or for anyone interested in postmodernism.

• Item# 3814W
• 34 min., DVD, 0-9773838-1-4
• $34.00