The Passionless People

The Passionless People
Author: Gordon McLauchlan
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2014
Genre: New Zealand wit and humor
ISBN:

New Zealanders' foibles exposed by a fourth generation New Zealander. Recognition and enjoyment of the status quo depends on the reader's sense of humour.

The Passionless People Revisited

The Passionless People Revisited
Author: Gordon McLauchlan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2012-04-20
Genre: National characteristics, New Zealand
ISBN: 9781869537906

"In 1976, journalist Gordon McLauchlan wrote his most famous work, The passionless people, a best-selling social commentary on New Zealand, where he probed the murky recesses of our national psyche. In the passionless people revisited he looks back at how New Zealanders have changed, or otherwise, over the last four decades in a book that promises to be as thought-provoking and controversial as the original"--Back cover.

Cardboard Gods

Cardboard Gods
Author: Josh Wilker
Publisher: Seven Footer Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2010
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9781934734162

Wilker marks the stages of his life through the baseball cards he collected as a child. He captures the experience of growing up obsessed with baseball cards and explores what it means to be a fan of the game.

Justine

Justine
Author: Lawrence Durrell
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2011-05-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0143119249

"Demands comparison with the very best books of our century . . . A truly important writer . . . His people, his places are masterly."― New York Times Book Review Durrell's masterpiece is onne of the world's greatest romances, rich in political and sexual intrigue. This seductive tale of four tangled lovers in wartime Egypt is set in the city of Alexandria once home to the world's greatest library, attracting scholars dedicated solely to the pursuit of knowledge. But on the eve of World War II, the obsessed characters in this mesmerizing novel find that their pursuits lead only to bedrooms in which each seeks to know-and possess-the other.

O. H. Mowrer's Theory of Integrity Therapy Revisited

O. H. Mowrer's Theory of Integrity Therapy Revisited
Author: V. Edwin Bixenstine
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2014-03-21
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 131795064X

In the mid 20th century, O. Hobart Mowrer was a celebrated academic psychologist, owing largely to his experiments with animals and humans that led to breakthrough theories on how we learn. His numerous publications in this arena propelled him to the post of President of the American Psychological Association in 1954. His own battles with depression led him to develop a new theory of psychotherapy, which he called Integrity Therapy. The premise of this modality is that the client’s deception with people they care about is the source of conscience pangs, but the client resists or represses the prompting of the conscience and this causes his or her psychological symptoms. Treatment, therefore, consists of urging the client to acknowledge his or her hidden behaviors to themselves and to significant others that they might both gain restored community with intimates and the fruits of personal integrity and inner peace ( to come clean about their deceptions and rewarding the confession with approval.) This book explores the conceptual underpinnings of Integrity Therapy and Mowrer’s unique treatment approach, detailing his methods for setting conditions for therapy, assessing clinical data, rules of engagement for transference and countertransference, and handling client resistance. Case examples and transcripts are included to demonstrate key points of this technique. Mental health professionals interested in Mowrer’s ideas or the history of psychotherapy will find this book to be a valuable and interesting resource.

The Past in the Present

The Past in the Present
Author: David Mann
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2008-07-21
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1134080603

The Past in the Present brings together, for the first time, contemporary ideas from both the psychoanalytic and humanistic therapy traditions, looking at how trauma and enactments affect therapeutic practice. Enactments are often experienced as a crisis in therapy and are understood as symbolic interactions between the client and therapist, where personal issues of both parties become unconsciously entwined. This is arguably especially true if the client has undergone some form of trauma. This trauma becomes enacted in the therapy and becomes a turning point that significantly influences the course of therapy, sometimes with creative or even destructive effect. Using a wealth of clinical material throughout, the contributors show how therapists from different therapeutic orientations are thinking about and working with enactments in therapy, how trauma enactment can affect the therapeutic relationship and how both therapist and client can use it to positive effect. The Past in the Present will be invaluable to practitioners and students of analytic and humanistic psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, analytic psychology and counselling.

The Man in the Wooden Hat

The Man in the Wooden Hat
Author: Jane Gardam
Publisher: Europa Editions
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2009-10-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1609450337

Second in the Old Filth trilogy. “An astute, subtle depiction of marriage . . . absolutely wonderful” (The Washington Post). Acclaimed as Jane Gardam’s masterpiece, Old Filth is a lyrical novel that recalls the fully lived life of Sir Edward Feathers. The Man in the Wooden Hat is the history of his marriage told from the perspective of his wife, Betty, a character as vivid and enchanting as Filth himself. They met in Hong Kong after the war. Betty had spent the duration in a Japanese internment camp. Filth was already a successful barrister, handsome, fast becoming rich, in need of a wife but unaccustomed to romance. A perfect English couple of the late 1940s. As a portrait of a marriage, with all the bittersweet secrets and surprising fulfillment of the fifty-year union of two remarkable people, The Man in the Wooden Hat is a triumph. Fiction of a very high order from a great novelist working at the pinnacle of her considerable power, it will be read and loved and recommended by all the many thousands of readers who found its predecessor, Old Filth, so compelling and thoroughly satisfying. “Funny and affecting . . . It’s remarkable.” —The New York Times Book Review “The latest occasion to celebrate Gardam . . . [a] superb novel.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR “Told with quintessentially British humor . . . Gardam’s prose is witty and precise.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “It’s magnificent. . . . Funny, intelligent and immensely moving.” —Kirkus Reviews

A Short History of the New Zealand Wars

A Short History of the New Zealand Wars
Author: Gordon McLauchlan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2017-10-09
Genre: Maori (New Zealand people)
ISBN: 9781869539627

Insightful and accessible book of interest to New Zealanders wanting to find out more about the New Zealand wars and their consequences for our country.