Patsy and William

An encyclopedia of current psychological thinking

Revisado: 01-16-25 El oyente recibió este título gratis

This book is about developing the courage to be true to our authentic selves and live a life in which the world makes sense and has purpose. Very easy and pleasant to listen to. The book allows you to skip around to find the interesting parts that speak to your own journey. From the 32 rules of energy in Chapter 7, to the challenges of Grief Work in Chapter 14, to Love's Shadow (falling in love and going "crazy") in Chapter 15, to Working with Dreams in Chapter 11 (which includes Waking Sleeping Beauty and the Wizard of Oz), to the Stages and Goals of Therapy in Chapter 10, plus how trauma works, how personality is built and transformed. Tons of information about psychological process. It includes the theories and insights of Carl Jung, Gestalt Therapy, Strategic Therapy, Mindfulness, Psychodynamics (psychological energy) and Object Relations (the importance of childhood relationships). An encyclopedia of current psychological thinking.

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General Custer the Psychopath

Revisado: 12-10-22

This book is a marvel. The author not only examines Custer's life, accomplishments, and failures, his research and narrative about cultural dynamics, economic, political, and social illustrate the complexity of America at this critical juncture in time. With Custer at the center of the narrative, his widely diverse interests segue neatly between the civil war, political war, Indian war, and moral war. The research seems impeccable. The information, although widely diverse, makes the narrative flow. However, I have one issue with the research. I don't see any evidence that the author consulted a mental health specialist for insight into Custer's personality. Stiles, in my opinion, is attempting to maintain neutrality about his main subject and doesn’t judge Custer’s character, but relies on reports about Custer’s behavior to illustrate Custer’s character. Let the reader decide. As a result, truly horrific behavior is treated with the same matter-of-factness and the same emotional weight as a financial transaction. I’m not sure this style of writing effectively alerts the reader to the serious lack of core morality Custer demonstrated. Custer is fascinating and complex, and this disguises his predatory nature. His charm is his strategy for cultivating potential alliances. There is no mutuality with Custer…he is his own beneficiary. All risk is assumed by others. When Custer’s behaviors are examined diagnostically, he presents as a predatory psychopath with either a charming or resentful persona. All appearances of anxiety, internal conflict, mixed loyalties, ethical and moral struggles, are not from a core value system that he seems to repeatedly abandon. Instead these symptoms are all associated with his creating, cultivating, manipulating, threatening, and seducing perceived opportunities and resources from which he could benefit personally. Resource management, not moral conflict. This combined with an immunity to the suffering of others as well as complete lack of regard for their rights, whether enemy, friend, family, or fellow soldier is alarming. There is strong evidence in this biography that Custer committed rapes, murders, and thefts. He was a compulsive liar, a racist and a bully, impulsive, deceitful, stunningly vain, and lacked loyalty to others except when beneficial to himself. He is not in conflict with his own behavior and is often greatly insulted by a lack of agreement or submission to his point of view. These are the hallmarks of a psychopath. He really did not try to hide his beliefs or character, except when it interfered with an opportunity to advance his power, position, or finances, in which case he used deceit combined with moral and political flexibility. His complete lack of empathy for the suffering of others is repeatedly illustrated in his brazen sexual infidelity, treatment of the soldiers and captives in his command, and use of captives as a sexual convenience. He insinuated his sexual conquests in his letters to his wife, simultaneously declaring his love for her. He violently punished soldiers under his command through neglect of basic needs, by capricious rules that he himself ignored, and by harsh and cruel punishments. He treated female Native American captives as concubines. Finally, being a psychopath doesn’t mean being stupid: Custer was in many ways talented and brilliant. But his ambition had no room for ethics or morals, and people were simply a means to an end. Killing people was his most expedient route to fame and fortune and eventually, ruin.

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The weakest of all his books

Revisado: 12-17-19

60% of the content is re-telling news stories that are public knowledge. Many of the stories are shocking and not particularly helpful. The back stories in some cases were interesting but not particularly helpful to the topic. Essentially his point seems to be that you never know what's going on in someone else's life, and that self-destructive behavior, or denial of facts could be related to cultural bias or personal suffering. This not the level of insight I expect from Malcolm. He provides one section that was truly up to the level of brilliance I expect from him......a section on the association of crime and location....brilliant. But even then he wove another story into that section was was simply distracting. Not his best work.

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Know Thyself

Revisado: 11-24-19

I am a psychotherapist with over 40 years of clinical experience. I have conducted over 50,000 hours of psychological therapy with people of all ages. This is one of about 6 books I recommend to my clients and my colleagues. The proposition that we we filter our intuitive wisdom, and replace it with confusion, doubt, and hesitation, is brilliant. Our personality structure redacts reality to the phenomena we have been taught to perceive. We then respond in a manner acceptable to social approval. Abandoning the desire for social approval is the first step in appreciating the greater capacity of our awareness. Higher conscious is always attempting to break through the limits of our fear. Underneath all the compromise that we suffer surviving our childhood, there is an ocean of wisdom available to awareness that comes in a BLINK.

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Biography, Intimacy, Insight, and Great Humor

Revisado: 01-09-19

When an author reads his own work/words, the reader can get a much more intimate feel for the emotional investment he has in the material. These are well crafted stories from Jon's life and are read with humor, embarrassment, confession, and celebration. These stories are intimate revelations of friends, family, and cohorts, clumsy romances, great loyalties, dare-devil missions of questionable import, birding expeditions (of course), but mostly beautiful illustrations of the struggle of the heart and mind to find meaning, purpose and intimacy. Where Jon's colossal novels challenge the reader, these stories embrace the reader. This book is a gem of humanity.

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History, identification and treatment of autism

Revisado: 06-18-16

Would you listen to NeuroTribes again? Why?

Absolutely: this is one of most densely assembled resources concerning the history, identification, and treatment of the Autistic spectrum personality.

What was one of the most memorable moments of NeuroTribes?

The shameful history of American medical intervention with autistic children. The debunking of a connection between autism and vaccinations.

What about William Hughes’s performance did you like?

He delivered the information so seamlessly as to be invisible. I was never distracted by his presentation.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Over and over and over.

Any additional comments?

This book is a stunning achievement.

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If you love torture you'll love this

Revisado: 06-09-12

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

The series is highly ranked but volumes 4 and 5 are simply lost and wandering without purpose.

What could George R. R. Martin have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Less detail, fewer characters, less psychopathic torturing, MOVE THE STORY FORWARD, please!

Have you listened to any of Roy Dotrice’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

love roy.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

BORING!

Any additional comments?

I loved volumes 1-3....but the author has substituted action and plot movement with gobs of boring details, and gruesome repeated torture....what's the point? What's the point of having living dead, dragons, white walkers, and wonderful characters from the Stark clan if you're simply going to ignore them? C'mon.

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Where is the action? Where is the drama?

Revisado: 06-02-12

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

If you love page after page, hour after hour of details and description, with only suggestions of action, go for it.

What was most disappointing about George R. R. Martin’s story?

obsessive details, boring details, and no advancement of the action. Good grief!

What does Roy Dotrice bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Love Roy Dotrice. He forgot how girls sound in this book, but he has the adults and 90% of the characters leaping forward. A wonderful reader.

What character would you cut from A Dance with Dragons?

I would cut all the details out! move forward. give me some drama.

Any additional comments?

Books 4 and 5 are REALLY slow!

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