The Titan (1914) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser. The second installment of Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire, The Financier has endured as a classic of naturalist fiction and remains a powerful example of social critique over a century after its publication. Preceded by The Financier (1914) and followed by The Stoic (1947), The Titan captures the greed at the heart of the Gilded Age, a time when tycoons rose with total impunity to take over swaths of American...

"One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose of­fice she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but. As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients' lives--a self-absorbed...

"Untangling Lives: A Psychiatrist Remembers" is a memoir that focuses on how a psychiatrist separates his own personal history and experiences from the narratives of his patients in psychotherapy, particularly around the issues of loss and recovery. Dr. Nathan Billig, a psychiatrist, provides autobiographical material, patient therapy descriptions (identities and circumstances disguised), and remembered excerpts from his own personal psychoanalysis...

Beginning in the summer of 2004, Scott Nadelson's life fell apart. His fiancée left him a month before their planned wedding for another woman who made her living performing as a drag king. He moved into a drafty attic. His car's brakes went out. He learned that his cat was dying. Over the next two years, he'd struggle, with equivocal and sometimes humiliating results, to get back on his feet, in the process re-examining his past to understand his...

Partial Sanity: Stories from the Edge of Mental Health is a memoir about jumping feet-first into adulthood. Armed with a newly earned undergraduate degree in human services, Beth accepts the first full-time position she is offered to work as a psychiatric case manager in a community mental health program. Located in the economically depressed coal region of Pennsylvania in the late 1980's, the town of Houtzdale has an equal number of small bars, dingy...

En una noche de vigilia en la que el alma está cerca de la razón, paralizada de manera obligada en confinamiento por la pandemia mundial de la Covid 19. Una de esas noches en la que te cuestionas todo: lo existencial y lo profesional, sentí la llamada caballeresca de quien sigue sus instintos y delirios más primogénitos de reflejar mi experiencia profesional después de 20 años de terminar la carrera de trabajo social en nuestra querida Salamanca...

Widely acclaimed for giving "an understanding of the connection between Nietzsche's personal experience and his most famous ideas" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times) in her biography of Nietzsche, Nietzsche in Turin, Chamberlain now renders a similar service to readers of Freud. In this book, part biography, part literary criticism, she takes the reader into the mind of Freud, toward a better understanding of the thinker, his work, and art...

This is a love story, although not in the conventional sense of romantic love. This book explores the transformative power of suffering in a revealing narrative informed by spiritual practice. This book explores what it takes to keep your heart open in hell even if it is of your own making. The author relates her struggle in living life with a broken heart not as someone special, but rather as one of the billions of women who strive to live on through...

La sociedad moderna esta experimentando una serie de cambios que colocan en un tercer plano, o a lo mejor en ninguno, los valores eticos, morales y sociales dando como resultado individuos inseguros, depresivos y con unas series de conflictos emocionales que parecieran no tener solucion. "Plenitud y vida" es una obra de fuente bibliografica escrita con un contenido enfocado en trabajar el cambio del "yo", desde una perspectiva cientifica, sociologica,...

God, The Devil And I is a memoir/biography of Jack Jones. A Christian book at its heart. God inspired. An epic journey and extraordinarily incomprehensible life alchemy experiences. Born an orphaned runt, mute, and into poverty. Unaided and lacking in support. Left abandoned. An underdog in every social situation. Has been called by God to fight as a warrior, as David did with Goliath. But appointed by the Devil for death and destruction. A journey...