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In this comprehensive, new work the author applies a unified psychological point of view to the African American situation.The discussion focuses on how the African American community has strived for competence in the face of societal hostility.This approach to the psychological situation of African Americans looks at people as proactive, potentially competent beings who are able to make a difference in the situations that confront them.From his opening introduction to the humanistic psychological view and his discussions of self-concept, cognition and school performance, and speech and language processes in children, to his discussions of assertion and identity development in young adults and the issues related to mental health among Blacks, Jenkins develops a one-of-its-kind look at the aspects of traditional psychology that can make a contribution to the understanding of the Black experience in America.A Longwood Professional BookAlso available in casebound: ISBN: 0-205-16488-9Title Code: H64884.

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psychology and african americans
After many psychology courses and countless books and articles,by both black and white authors, this is the first study of our racial problem that seems to me to be thorough, relatively impartial, understandable, and up todate.I have ordered a copy as I want one to mark up and to which I willrepeatedly refer.(graduate student) ... Read more

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Robert D. Nye's THREE PSYCHOLOGIES clearly and succinctly presents the essential ideas of Freud, Skinner, and Rogers, three of the most important contributors to contemporary psychological thought. A brief introductory chapter gives an overview of each perspective and points out some basic differences among the theories.Chapters Two, Three, and Four discuss the basic ideas of the three psychologists, including practical examples, real-world applications, and commentaries. Chapter Five compares the theories on specific topics, also offering critical evaluations, and Nye's personal comments. An Epilogue includes concise information about cognitive psychology and Albert Ellis's rational-emotive behavior therapy, so that readers can compare these currently popular approaches with those of Freud, Skinner, and Rogers. ... Read more

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I got this book fast! I was completely ready and i had my book just in time for the first day of school!

Brand new Psychology text
The book arrived in new condition and just in time for my Advanced Psychology class!

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Very helpful!Psychology for the layperson
This was a succinct overview of the way three psychologists interprethuman personality and behavior.Freud, Skinner, and Rogers are all leadersand representatives of schools of thought in psychology, and this book tookthe mystery away. ... Read more

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Combining the principles of scientific psychology with applications, this text helps your students examine their ways of thinking and behaving. It allows a student to analyze the interaction within self, others, and work. Each section of the test introduces students to the psychological concepts governing behavior, drawing from clinical, social, experimental, developmental, applied, and ecological psychology from empirical foundations. And each section then offers self-change techniques which enable them to apply this information to their own lives. ... Read more

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Interviews with fourteen pioneers in psychedelic research. ... Read more

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Great interviewbook with mindexpanded pioneers
This thoughtprovoking and beautiful book presents interviews with some of the people who were pioneers in the (at that time legal) research into psychedelics. Most of them holding academic degrees and the finest credentials. And almost all of them having experienced a profound and lasting change in their outlook on the world, towards an appreciation of our basic spiritual nature.

Amongst the interviewed are giants like Stanislav Grof,Ram Dass and Albert Hofman, and as always it's a great treat to read their words of wisdom. But there is certainly also very fine entries by perhaps lesser known figures like the fine Gary Fisher, who talks at lenght about the importance of sustaining your druginspired insights with regular spiritual practice.

Interestingly enough the two with the greatest mainstream credentials: the anthropologist Peter Furst and the scholar of Religion Huston Smith seem two be the ones with least to contribute. Smith obviously not realizing that he didn't have the courage (and grace) to take the final jump when he came close to the abyss of the Beyond. A jump most of the others seem to have taken.

All 14 come across as healthy, strong, integrated individuals, in themselves good arguments for the lasting benefit of controlled and sincere use of mindexpanding substances.

The great villain is of course the notorious Timothy Leary, the 'hero' of my youth, but today it's easy to see how much damage his immature messianic attitude caused. Not least to a lot of unprepared young people.
But he also gave the authorities the perfect excuse to treat psychedelics like any other drug, an attitude the medias unfortunately has adopted ever since, making it very hard to hope that the religious/spiritual possibilities of these drugs will be recognized and utilized in a positive way. Although they could actually make the world a whole lot better and point people towards true and spiritual values.

All in all a well produced and presented book and a joyous, uplifting read , sad though that ignorance prevales the way it does concerning this subject.

This book certainly lives up to it's title as a source of "Higher Wisdom".

How it all began
Roger Walsh and Charles Grob have edited a fine text concerning the impact of psychedelics.It is a very important and interesting book in this field.It is a book detailing how psychedelics became an intensely studied topic in psychiatry and psychology.Beginning with the synthesis of LSD by Albert Hofmann, its intial use was to enable psychiatrists to experience a temporary psychosis first hand.This would let them have greater understanding of the phenomenological experience of their patients.Yet LSD and other psychedelics were soon discovered to be valuable treatment modalities in psychotherapy by themselves, particularly in deconstructing certain defense mechanisms.The elders who participated in this book, were very sincere and responsible in their use of psychedelics.They did their work under controlled conditions that would be therapeutic to those ingesting the drug.This is not a book about the recreational use fo psychedelics but their therapeutic, even spiritual use.

This is a must read book for all individuals interested in learning about the value of these drugs beyond recreational use. I had no idea concerning this topic other than a dislike for 'hippies' who used the drugs and termed me and my friends baby killers for going to Vietnam.The book greatly expanded my understanding of the time and the real benefits surrounding psychedelics.The editors do a fine job of condensing the interviews to make the book extremely readable.I give it 5 stars.

A Psychedelic Resource for Every Library
If I were to teach a course about psychedelics, the first book I would have my students read is Higher Wisdom. Edited by Roger Walsh and Charles Grob, this gem of a book provides in-depth interviews with 14 psychedelic luminaries. Collectively, their published books, papers, lectures, and research reports would take up a significant amount of shelf space.

Fortunately for those of us who don't have the time to read through such a treasure trove of information, Grob and Walsh have distilled the pure essence of the work of these elders into a series of remarkable interviews. To be honest, I wasn't expecting to be carried away by this book, because I thought I already knew a lot about almost everyone the editors interviewed. I was wrong. Before I knew it, I lost track of time and was transported back to the days when incredible breakthroughs were being made by these pioneers of consciousness exploration.

Although the interviews are arranged under the general categories of research, psychotherapy, culture & consciousness, and religious implications, I didn't read it front to back. Instead, I began by first reading the interviews of people I knew the best. As I read, I quickly became aware of what a valuable resource I was holding in my hands. Here in a single volume were the "headlines" and best stories of some people whose work will one day be seen as the bedrock of all future psychedelic studies.

Higher Wisdom works on several levels. Psychedelic researchers and explorers may find in it clues to puzzles they have yet to solve. Additionally, it is a work of history that pulls together the stories of a small group of people, largely unknown to most of the world, who made breakthroughs in consciousness research that are for the most part unparalleled today. In addition to the interviews, the editors, along with Gary Bravo, have written several short essays that pull these disparate stories together, placing the work of these eminent elders into a focused historical context. Another useful feature the editors included is an index split in two parts, a Name Index and a Subject Index. While this may seem like a trivial matter, it is a nice touch that many will appreciate.

The split index reveals the interconnections among this small band of researchers, as well as illuminates the influence of a few pioneers who had died before these interviews took place. I like to think of them as ghosts who continue to look over the shoulders of these early explorers. Interestingly, some of the ghosts have more index entries than the subjects of the interviews, and they don't all come across in the most positive light, as these very candid conversations reveal.

As to the appropriateness of the title, Higher Wisdom, consider this thought from Myron Stolaroff: "Ultimately, true liberation in the Buddhist sense is reaching wholeness, where you are totally at peace and intimate with everything that exists. If you leave out EVEN ONE person, you've left out part of yourself; you can't be really whole until you've absolutely accepted EVERY living creature."

The emphasis in that quote was added by me . . . and for me. It is something I am still struggling to put into practice. My bet is that you will also find a great deal of wisdom in this fine little book. I highly recommend it. ... Read more

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Broad Reader
This book presents "emerging" approaches to research.Yes, during the mid-1970's back when Nixon was president.It completely misses massive changes in the past half century from post-structuralism, deconstruction, boarderlands theory, neuro-mapping, structural equation modeling, evolutionary psychology, post-positivism, as well as many other theoretical developments.Forty years of journals cannot be ignored without consequences.It also predates massive changes in social life including the ubiquitous spread of cable television (which was only beginning to gain penetration in the late 70's), as well as cellular telephones, home video players, the PC, statistical and qualitative software packages, and the Internet.When this book came out people were still using punch cards, mainframe computers, and rotary dial landline telephones.It also misses several advances in statistical and qualitative approahes to social science research. Given this context, that is addressing the question of whether one should purchase this book today, I would give it a zero. Even in its time, like all textbooks, it skims entire schools of thought, over-simplifying and distorting sub-fields.But one would know this only if the reader has read the primary texts in the various sub-fields.In this sense, it may have once been okay to introduce some areas to undergraduates but certainly not a book for doctoral level reading.One might read it as a way to see historically how social science has changed over the decades.Any other use would be a great disservice, especially for advanced undergrads who should not be reading such summaries.Interestingly Polkinghorne's second book when he was a more mature thinker that came about a decade after this one and which focuses on qualitiative methods was better.The one thing this older book does adequately, if compared to introductory level undergraduate textbooks in sociology or psychology, is present a cursory view of the now long faded structural-functionalism made famous by Talcott Parsons.Otherwise it presents a very sketchy version of the philosophy of science made popular by the Vienna Circle prior to World War II. I would recommend reading primary sources written since then (in the last half century).

Solid, informative, and what you want in a good textbook
The aim of this book is to provide the reader with a comprehensive textbook that surveys the emerging body of research literature, and clearly describes procedures and methods for carrying out new research. (From the back cover) This book does that and more.While most historical overviews will cover the major personages and movements, Polkinghorn does so with easy-to-understand and adequate descriptions so you get a good idea how of the field of science, and its methods have shifted through the years.His work served me like a tour guide, and filled in the gaps in my thinking about the historical unfolding drama in science, and their seminal figures.What I got out of the book was the courage and freedom to explore new areas of qualitative research, and not worry about conforming my research to some illusionary image of what I thought science what to be about all about. The book is a dense read, but will serve as a good foundational text in and out of the classroom for those who want to understand research in the human sciences. ... Read more

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DeCarvalho narrates the institutionalization of the humanistic current in American psychology and places the thinking of five of its founders in the context of 20th century psychology. This intellectual history includes chronological bibliographies of the five founders: Gordon Allport, Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Rollo May, and James Bugental. The book examines their revolt against behaviorism and psychoanalysis, and explains the impact that the neo-Freudians, existentialism, Kurt Goldstein, personality, and Gestalt psychologies had on the conceptualization of their humanistic psychologies. ... Read more

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Celebrates and instructs in the healing power of breath. ... Read more

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This book features essays by the major supporters of the narrative metaphor. They approach the subject from philosophical, religious, anthropological, and historical perspectives as well as from the psychological point of view. Psychologists, psychiatrists, and literary theorists will find the book provocative and a convenient reference source to the narrative approach. ... Read more

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This mediation how-to manual brings together the collective wisdom of two of the field's most renowned founders, John Michael Haynes and Larry Sun Fong. The book not only covers a range of mediation cases, but also uniquely provides feedback from the clients as they reflect on the sessions and report on what worked best for them. Beginning with a review of the theoretical underpinnings of the Haynes model of mediation, the book then presents six case studies with each demonstrating one or more of the organizing principles of mediation. The sessions examined reflect the different mediation areas currently being practiced-business, employment, neighborhood, adoption, education, and family. The book goes beyond simply reporting what mediators experience as it shares the insights and motivations of Fong and Haynes. This well-rounded approach includes the exploration of the clients' thoughts, helping readers to incorporate successful organizing principles into their own mediation practices. ... Read more

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A thoroughly revised and updated edition of what is generally acknowledged as the best introduction to humanistic psychology. ... Read more

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This study explores how the development of humanistic psychology paralleled the evolution of modern dance, and what the connections were between the fields as they grew. This is a study of three fields developing within the 20th century. It demonstrates the relevance of the arts to humanistic psychology, and the ways in which the psychologists and dancers influenced each other. ... Read more