The Creative Transformation of Despair, Hate, and Violence

The Creative Transformation of Despair, Hate, and Violence
Author: Rainer Matthias Holm-Hadulla
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2023-04-19
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3031273842

A creative lifestyle is not a luxury, but a necessary elixir of life. Only with creativity can we overcome despair, hatred and violence, in the world and in ourselves. Using selected examples of exceptionally creative people, Rainer M. Holm-Hadulla encourages us to unleash our own creative and social potential. Readers become acquainted with Madonna and Amy Winehouse, John Lennon, Jim Morrison, and Mick Jagger. Before wandering through their lives and work in the interplay of constructive and destructive forces, they encounter the "Big Five of Creativity": talent, ability, motivation, resilience, favorable environments. The author has theoretically researched their interaction over decades, tested them in practice and drawn the conclusion: The creative transformation of human destructiveness is our chance to lead a fulfilled life in social responsibility.

Risking Intimacy and Creative Transformation in Psychoanalysis

Risking Intimacy and Creative Transformation in Psychoanalysis
Author: Lauren Levine
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2023-04-05
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1000860515

In this compelling book, Lauren Levine explores the transformative power of stories and storytelling in psychoanalysis to heal psychic wounds and create shared symbolic meaning and coherence out of ungrieved loss and trauma. Through evocative clinical stories, Levine considers the impact of trauma and creativity on the challenge of creating one’s own story, resonant with personal authenticity and a shared sense of culture and history. Levine sees creativity as an essential aspect of aliveness, and as transformative, emergent in the clinical process. She utilizes film, dance, poetry, literature, and dreams as creative frames to explore diverse aspects of psychoanalytic process. As a psychoanalyst and writer, Levine is interested in the stories we tell, individually and collectively, as well as what gets disavowed and dissociated by experiences of relational, intergenerational, and sociopolitical trauma. She is concerned too with whose stories get told and whose get erased, silenced, and marginalized. This crucial question, what gets left out of the narrative, and the potential for an intimate psychoanalytic process to help patients reclaim what has been lost, is at the heart of this volume. Attentive to the work of helping patients reclaim their memory and creative agency, his book will prove invaluable for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in practice and in training.

The Messy Middle

The Messy Middle
Author: Scott Belsky
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2018-10-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0735218080

NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INSPIRING BOOKS OF 2018 BY INC. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST STARTUP BOOKS OF ALL TIME BY BOOKAUTHORITY The Messy Middle is the indispensable guide to navigating the volatility of new ventures and leading bold creative projects by Scott Belsky, bestselling author, entrepreneur, Chief Product Officer at Adobe, and product advisor to many of today's top start-ups. Creating something from nothing is an unpredictable journey. The first mile births a new idea into existence, and the final mile is all about letting go. We love talking about starts and finishes, even though the middle stretch is the most important and often the most ignored and misunderstood. Broken into three sections with 100+ lessons, this no-nonsense book will help you: • Endure the roller coaster of successes and failures by strengthening your resolve, embracing the long-game, and short-circuiting your reward system to get to the finish line. • Optimize what’s working so you can improve the way you hire, better manage your team, and meet your customers’ needs. • Finish strong and avoid the pitfalls many entrepreneurs make, so you can overcome resistance, exit gracefully, and continue onto your next creative endeavor with ease. With insightful interviews from today’s leading entrepreneurs, artists, writers, and executives, as well as Belsky’s own experience working with companies like Airbnb, Pinterest, Uber, and sweetgreen, The Messy Middle will outfit you to find your way through the hardest parts of any bold project or new venture.

Wisdom for the Soul

Wisdom for the Soul
Author: Larry Chang
Publisher: Gnosophia Publishers
Total Pages: 826
Release: 2006
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0977339106

Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing

Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde

Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde
Author: John Roberts
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1781689148

Why the avant-garde of art needs to be rehabilitated today Since the decidedly bleak beginning of the twenty-first century, art practice has become increasingly politicized. Yet few have put forward a sustained defence of this development. Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde is the first book to look at the legacy of the avant-garde in relation to the deepening crisis of contemporary capitalism. An invigorating revitalization of the Frankfurt School legacy, Roberts’s book defines and validates the avant-garde idea with an erudite acuity, providing a refined conceptual set of tools to engage critically with the most advanced art theorists of our day, such as Hal Foster, Andrew Benjamin, Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière, Paolo Virno, Claire Bishop, Michael Hardt, and Toni Negri.

Awakening to Spirit

Awakening to Spirit
Author: Lee Irwin
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 1999-07-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780791442227

Explores the concept of Spirit in the postmodern age.

The Cure for Hate

The Cure for Hate
Author: Tony McAleer
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2019-11-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1551527707

How does an affluent, middle-class, private-school-attending son of a doctor end up at the Aryan Nations compound in Idaho, falling in with and then recruiting for some of the most notorious neo-Nazi groups in Canada and the United States? The Cure for Hate paints a very human picture of a young man who craved attention, acceptance, and approval and the dark place he would go to get it. Tony McAleer found an outlet for his teenage rage in the street violence of the skinhead scene. He then grew deeply involved in the White Aryan Resistance (WAR), rising through the ranks to become a leader, and embraced technology and the budding internet to bring white nationalist propaganda into the digital age. After fifteen years in the movement, it was the outpouring of love he felt at the birth of his children that inspired him to start questioning his hateful beliefs. Thus began the spiritual journey of personal transformation that enabled him to disengage from the highest levels of the white power movement. This incisive book breaks commonly held stereotypes and delivers valuable insights into how regular people are drawn to violent extremism, how the ideology takes hold, and the best ways to help someone leave hate behind. In his candid and introspective memoir, Tony shares his perspective gleaned from over a thousand hours of therapy, group work, and facilitating change in others that reveals the deeper psychological causes behind racism. At a period in history when instances of racial violence are on the upswing, The Cure for Hate demonstrates that in a society frighteningly divided by hate and in need of healing, perhaps atonement, forgiveness, and most importantly, radical compassion is the cure. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.

Healing Resistance

Healing Resistance
Author: Kazu Haga
Publisher: Parallax Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2020-01-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1946764442

An expert in the field offers a mindfulness-based approach to nonviolent action, demonstrating how nonviolence is a powerful tool for personal and social transformation Nonviolence was once considered the highest form of activism and radical change. And yet its basic truth, its restorative power, has been forgotten. In Healing Resistance, leading trainer Kazu Haga blazingly reclaims the energy and assertiveness of nonviolent practice and shows that a principled approach to nonviolence is the way to transform not only unjust systems but broken relationships. With over 20 years of experience practicing and teaching Kingian Nonviolence, Haga offers us a practical approach to societal conflict first begun by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement, which has been developed into a fully workable, step-by-step training and deeply transformative philosophy (as utilized by the Women’s March and Black Lives Matter movements). Kingian Nonviolence takes on the timely issues of endless protest and activist burnout, and presents tried-and-tested strategies for staying resilient, creating equity, and restoring peace. An accessible and thorough introduction to the principles of nonviolence, Healing Resistance is an indispensable resource for activists and change agents, restorative justice practitioners, faith leaders, and anyone engaged in social process.

The Politics of Cultural Despair

The Politics of Cultural Despair
Author: Fritz R. Stern
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2023-09-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520342690

This is a study in the pathology of cultural criticism. By analyzing the thought and influence of three leading critics of modern Germany, this study will demonstrate the dangers and dilemmas of a particular type of cultural despair. Lagarde, Langbehn, and Moeller van den Bruck-their active lives spanning the years from the middle of the past century to the threshold of Hitler's Third Reich-attacked, often incisively and justly, the deficiencies of German culture and the German spirit. But they were more than the critics of Germany's cultural crisis; they were its symptoms and victims as well. Unable to endure the ills which they diagnosed and which they had experienced in their own lives, they sought to become prophets who would point the way to a national rebirth. Hence, they propounded all manner of reforms, ruthless and idealistic, nationalistic and utopian. It was this leap from despair to utopia across all existing reality that gave their thought its fantastic quality.

The Creative Use of Imagination

The Creative Use of Imagination
Author: Neville Goddard
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2024-11-04
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN:

The Creative Use of Imagination (Illustrated) by Neville Goddard is a profound exploration into the boundless power of the human mind. Neville Goddard, a revered figure in the realm of metaphysics and personal development, unveils the transformative potential of imagination in shaping our reality. In this illustrated masterpiece, Goddard's timeless teachings are brought to life through captivating visuals, enhancing the understanding and application of his profound insights. Through eloquent prose and vivid imagery, he reveals the secrets to unlocking the creative force within each of us. From manifesting dreams into reality to rewriting the script of our lives, each page of The Creative Use of Imagination is a revelation in the art of conscious creation. Goddard's lucid explanations and compelling illustrations make complex concepts accessible to all, empowering readers to harness the power of their imagination for personal transformation. Whether you seek to achieve your goals, overcome obstacles, or cultivate a deeper understanding of yourself, The Creative Use of Imagination serves as your indispensable guide. Dive into its pages and unleash the limitless potential of your mind. Embark on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment with The Creative Use of Imagination by Neville Goddard. Let its illustrated pages inspire you to awaken your creative genius and manifest the life of your dreams.