Young lovers from California make the trek to Chicago via the Trans-Canadian Highway. Upon arrival, they encounter a wonderful and diverse landscape filled with an abundance of warm, genuine, caring, and strange characters whose customs entertain and mystify. The years from 1966 to 1969 were a tumultuous period that witnessed the winter of deepest snowfall, the Democratic National Convention/police riot of 1968, and the aftermath of the death of Martin Luther King Jr. Reader beware: this is no straightforward history, more aptly described as a metaphorical journal. As seen through the eyes of graduate student and fledgling psychotherapist Jim Henson, Satisfaction Guaranteed: In Chicago will take you on a seriously humorous trip all around the town.

With an early 1970s setting in Oregon's Umpqua River valley, this book shares the courage, wisdom, humor, and folly of ordinary people through the extraordinary lens of a youthful mental health professional. Author Jim Henson draws upon 40 years of professional experience as a clinical social worker in the process of illuminating the lives of clinic employees and the individuals and families they served. The readers of this book will enjoy this unique opportunity to be observers inside the community, inside the clinic, and inside the personal connections between client and clinician. Think Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon or James Herriot's Yorkshire countryside and you are almost there.

This book features the story of identical twins, born in Spain's Canary Islands, who were switched at birth. One twin grew up in the wrong family with the wrong parents, the other was raised in the right family, but with the wrong twin. The psychological and legal consequences of this case, which made headlines around the word, are discussed, as is the science of how mothers know who their babies are.

This book summarizes the psychological and biological aspects of human twinning. It includes specialty chapters on legal cases involving twins, noteworthy twins, athletics, and artificial reproductive technology.

This book does for twins what Oliver Saks did for clinical patients. The book provides the science and humanity behind twelve extraordinary twin, triplet, and quadruplet sets.

This book is a festschrift for the late human development professor Daniel G. Freedman. The event was held at the University of Chicago.

A new frontier of self revolves around a groundbreaking discovery. A doctor and his patients find an inner voice of wisdom--it is literally a voice--responding to all questions when asked. Breakthroughs are presented as they occur. These 24 astonishing stories are funneled into one book. Its format vividly facilitates the reader's involvement at each stage of development. The discovery challenges basic notions of who we are; the inquiry expands personal boundaries and awareness. Dwelling in the midst of each person is a presence, the most quiet and powerful voice. This consciousness is integrated, thinking and feeling, strength and wisdom, and a guide.

Journey to the inner core.

With an early 1970s setting in Oregon's Umpqua River valley, this book shares the courage, wisdom, humor, and folly of ordinary people through the extraordinary lens of a youthful mental health professional. Author Jim Henson draws upon 40 years of professional experience as a clinical social worker in the process of illuminating the lives of clinic employees and the individuals and families they served. The readers of this book will enjoy this unique opportunity to be observers inside the community, inside the clinic, and inside the personal connections between client and clinician. Think Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon or James Herriot's Yorkshire countryside and you are almost there.

Americans donate more than $300 billion a year to charity, but the psychological factors that govern whether to give, and how much to give, are still not well understood. Our understanding of charitable giving is based primarily upon the intuitions of fundraisers or correlational data that cannot establish causal relationships. By contrast, the chapters in this book study charity using experimental methods in which the variables of interest are experimentally manipulated. As a result, it becomes possible to identify the causal factors that underlie giving, and to design effective intervention programs that can help increase the likelihood and amount that people contribute to a cause.

For charitable organizations, this book examines the efficacy of fundraising strategies commonly used by nonprofits and makes concrete recommendations about how to make capital campaigns more efficient and effective. Moreover, a number of novel factors that influence giving are identified and explored, opening the door to exciting new avenues in fundraising.

For researchers, this book breaks novel theoretical ground in our understanding of how charitable decisions are made. While the chapters focus on applications to charity, the emotional, social, and cognitive mechanisms explored herein all have more general implications for the study of psychology and behavioral economics.

This book highlights some of the most intriguing, surprising, and enlightening experimental studies on the topic of donation behavior, opening up exciting pathways to cross-cutting the divide between theory and practice.

Doing What Works is the first book of its kind to offer novice and veteran practitioners a coherent and sequential system for approaching, treating, and effectively managing complex eating-disorder cases, from start to finish. Highlighting the unique qualities that set eating-disorder treatment apart from generalist practice, Natenshon synthesizes evidence-based eating-disorder research and best-practice treatment protocols into innovative and practicable clinical applications "that work," offering a fully integrative approach to eating-disorder care. Bringing the field into the 21st century, Natenshon cites recent neurobiological research to underscore the significance of a unique and versatile use of the therapist's self within the treatment relationship. Her work is also pioneering in explicating the power and significance of mindfulness in psychotherapy practice, as well as the role of interpersonal neuropsychology and brain plasticity in enhancing healing.

In the seasoned voice of an expert who has specialized in the treatment of eating disorders for close to four decades, Natenshon's book speaks to the entire multidisciplinary treatment team--including nutritionists, physicians, school personnel, and families, filling in extensive gaps in professional education. The book offers clarity, vision, intention, and optimism to practitioners striving to meet the rigors and challenges of managing diagnostic ambiguity, complex transference issues, persistent patient resistance, and daunting co-occurring conditions within a highly counterintuitive recovery process. Aside from honing treatment skills, this reader-friendly treatment guide provides clinicians the opportunity and confidence they need to become self-starters within a demanding treatment process--while helping their patients do the same.