Michael Levin

A powerful and compassionate guide to help you find lasting freedom from hoarding. If you hoard--or have a loved one who hoards--you may feel helpless, hopeless, or ashamed. The thought of letting go of belongings may fill you with anxiety, dread, or grief. And you may wonder if you'll ever experience the freedom of living without the weight of this debilitating behavior. It's important to know you are not alone, and that hoarding isn't your fault. This book will help you find your way out of the clutter and chaos, and into the life you truly want. Written by a team of mental health professionals and grounded in evidence-based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), this book offers a values-based approach to finding lasting freedom from hoarding. Based on cutting-edge research, this book will help you unravel the stories your mind has created about you and your belongings. You'll also discover how emotions and thoughts play a role in hoarding behaviors, and how you can declutter to live a life more closely aligned with your deepest values. Most importantly, you'll learn to move beyond feelings of shame and guilt that are associated with hoarding, and cultivate the self-compassion, self-awareness, and self-understanding needed to make real, lasting changes.

Here I’m Alive explores the musical foundation of being human from a psychoanalytic perspective. Writing in collaboration, three psychoanalytic clinicians develop a fresh vision of the essential role of music in psychical life. Through an interdisciplinary exploration, Here I’m Alive shows how music is fundamental to becoming human, establishing our embodied sense of membership and participation in a shared world through the fabric of culture. With one authorial voice, these pages resonate with the musical forms of living that make possible any individual style of conduct or shape of desire and without which we are forever lost in the noise.

Here I’m Alive explores the musical foundation of being human from a psychoanalytic perspective. Writing in collaboration, three psychoanalytic clinicians develop a fresh vision of the essential role of music in psychical life. Through an interdisciplinary exploration, Here I’m Alive shows how music is fundamental to becoming human, establishing our embodied sense of membership and participation in a shared world through the fabric of culture. With one authorial voice, these pages resonate with the musical forms of living that make possible any individual style of conduct or shape of desire and without which we are forever lost in the noise.

Congenital anorectal malformations (ARM) in children are still a big challenge for a pediatric surgeon and create serious problems for patients throughout their lives. In recent decades, in parallel with the development of general medicine, mortality has significantly decreased after ARM correction, but chronic constipation, fecal incontinence, urinary incontinence and sexual problems worsen the quality of life of these patients, as before. Over the past 30 years, new research has emerged on the normal physiology of the anorectal and urinary system. They help to understand the pathological physiology of the ARM and give a chance to preserve those elements of the pelvic floor that were originally in these children. In other words, it became possible to preserve all the sphincters and all the reflexes that provide the functions of retaining feces and defecation, as in healthy individuals. This book is intended to systematize the knowledge needed to improve treatment for patients with ARM. The book provides a theoretical justification for new methods of examination and treatment of children with ARM.

Discover the latest innovations in ACT research and clinical practice-all in one comprehensive, edited volume. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a powerful and proven-effective treatment model for alleviating several mental health conditions, ranging from depression and anxiety to addiction and eating disorders. And because ACT is an ever-evolving modality that relies on processes, rather than fixed protocols, it is primed for substantial clinical innovations as researchers and clinicians develop new strategies for increasing psychological flexibility. Innovations in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy combines the latest, cutting-edge ACT research with a wealth of "in-the-trenches" experience from leading clinicians in the field, including Steven C. Hayes, Matthieu Villatte, Benjamin Schoendorff, and more. In this volume, you'll find an overview of innovations spanning the last decade, how to translate these innovations into everyday interventions, and a summary of future directions for researching and refining ACT in practice. The book also includes:·New research on clinical behavior analysis, relational frame theory (RFT), and evolution science·Innovative methods for applying basic RFT principles in clinical practice·Implications for developing process-based assessments and interventions·Tips for integrating ACT in applied behavior analysisAs ACT continues to evolve, you need up-to-date resources to inform and improve your work with clients. Whether you're a clinician, researcher, or student, this book is a must-have for your professional library.

Este curso est dise ado para hacer que las matem ticas sean divertidas para su hijo peque o. Al igual que durante aprendizaje de la lectura, los ni os necesitan desarrollar un vocabulario b sico para la fluidez, los problemas verbales en este curso tambi n construyen un vocabulario matem tico b sico que su hijo necesita para progresar m s. Al igual que nuestro programa de lectura paso a paso, "La lecci n de lectura", La lecci n de matem tica verbal fortalece la capacidad de resolver problemas r pidamente. Las matem ticas escritas hacen que la aritm tica simple sea tediosa para los ni os peque os, particularmente para aquellos que no les gusta escribir. A menudo, si escribir requiere m s trabajo que completar las operaciones, puede ocasionar desinter s por las matem ticas en los ni os. Queremos que a su hijo le gusten las matem ticas, y aprender matem ticas como un juego ayuda a este proceso. Este libro est destinado a ni os en los grados K-1. Los problemas de estas lecciones se deben leer al ni o, por lo que todos los c lculos se realizan mentalmente y sin el uso de l piz o papel. Qu tan preciso y r pido debe ser su hijo? La respuesta es dif cil de dar. El cerebro humano, particularmente el cerebro de un ni o no es una m quina precisa y la memoria no es perfecta. Los ni os difieren en su capacidad para desarrollar un recuerdo preciso y r pido. Una gu a general de cuatro segundos se puede utilizar para la mayor a de los problemas como un indicador de habilidad. Su hijo debe ser capaz de hacer la mayor a de estos problemas correctamente la primera vez. Si no es as , repite la lecci n al d a siguiente. Antes de pasar a una nueva lecci n, aseg rese de que su hijo pueda hacer la mayor a de los problemas de la lecci n actual de manera f cil y r pida. La mayor a de los ni os pueden f cilmente hacer de 20 a 30 problemas al d a, pero los per odos cortos de pr ctica son mejores en el desarrollo de habilidades y mantener el inter s. Repite cada lecci n hasta que el ni o tenga casi todos los problemas resueltos. La mejor manera de hacer estos problemas es leyendo el problema al ni o y esperar la respuesta. Si tu hijo tiene dificultad para entender el problema, puedes volver a leer el problema una o m s veces hasta que se entienda bien. Puedes leer las explicaciones al principio de las lecciones en voz alta o leerlas y luego explicar los conceptos en sus propias palabras. Subordina la velocidad a la precisi n, pero no la descuides. La capacidad de responder a estos problemas simples r pidamente significa dominio. El tiempo excesivo en cada problema es un indicador de que el ni o no est listo para seguir adelante y que la lecci n podr a necesitar ser repetida. S creativo Comp n los problemas a lo largo del tema de la lecci n utilizando episodios divertidos de su vida diaria. P dele a su hijo que haga sus propios problemas para que los resuelvas.

These 30 mostly short poems capture the liquid music of dreamed free association and suggest paths from that enchanted music to a better state, traversing love lost and found, family tensions, international politics, and 20th-century history. Several of them have won freestanding awards or been reprinted in anthologies. They 'stick a shiny fork deep into earth's volcanic heart, balancing repetition and internal rhyme -- the compass to plot our course and bring us back alive' says one reviewer. Another reviewer remarks that the author's 'pen is a painter's brush, creating transparency with unexpected depth. His work transports us to the essence of moments in different times and places with unusual clarity. Following him we walk through landscapes and moods, sharp-edged forms and fading contours. We breathe new air -- and smell it. We sense vividly the spaces he conjures.' The author's 'poems are a captivating collection of dramatic slices of life netted over decades. Rhythmic, accessible passages read like colorful murals, describing tastes, sounds, and visions in sensual tones and longings, connecting to intimate relationships with people and places he has known or imagined. This book was like an elixir. It soothed during a time of great stress, ' concludes a third. The ancients believed that humans require poetry to live fully as well as orient their lives. 'Levin's fresh descriptors and flowing line will carry you to a moment -- a moment of acknowledgement, different in each poem but similar in their power to strike sparks, ' another reviewer noted. They resonate with that tradition.

These 30 mostly short poems capture the liquid music of dreamed free association and suggest paths from that enchanted music to a better state, traversing love lost and found, family tensions, international politics, and 20th-century history. Several of them have won freestanding awards or been reprinted in anthologies. They 'stick a shiny fork deep into earth's volcanic heart, balancing repetition and internal rhyme -- the compass to plot our course and bring us back alive' says one reviewer. Another reviewer remarks that the author's 'pen is a painter's brush, creating transparency with unexpected depth. His work transports us to the essence of moments in different times and places with unusual clarity. Following him we walk through landscapes and moods, sharp-edged forms and fading contours. We breathe new air -- and smell it. We sense vividly the spaces he conjures.' The author's 'poems are a captivating collection of dramatic slices of life netted over decades. Rhythmic, accessible passages read like colorful murals, describing tastes, sounds, and visions in sensual tones and longings, connecting to intimate relationships with people and places he has known or imagined. This book was like an elixir. It soothed during a time of great stress, ' concludes a third. The ancients believed that humans require poetry to live fully as well as orient their lives. 'Levin's fresh descriptors and flowing line will carry you to a moment -- a moment of acknowledgement, different in each poem but similar in their power to strike sparks, ' another reviewer noted. They resonate with that tradition.

When the urban neighborhood where William Lunch Money Barnes lives becomes too rough, his mother moves his family in the middle of the school year to an all-white suburb 50 miles away. The good-natured Barnes runs into one problem: everyone, including the middle school’s basketball coach, assumes that since he is African American and from the inner city, he must be great at basketball and can save the school team’s season. Unfortunately, Barnes is not an athlete, and contrary to assumptions about black kids, he’s terrible at basketball! Trouble arises when the school discovers that Lunch Money Can’t Shoot!

When the urban neighborhood where William Lunch Money Barnes lives becomes too rough, his mother moves his family in the middle of the school year to an all-white suburb 50 miles away. The good-natured Barnes runs into one problem: everyone, including the middle school’s basketball coach, assumes that since he is African American and from the inner city, he must be great at basketball and can save the school team’s season. Unfortunately, Barnes is not an athlete, and contrary to assumptions about black kids, he’s terrible at basketball! Trouble arises when the school discovers that Lunch Money Can’t Shoot!

In this collection of New York Times best-selling author Michael Levin's journalism and blog pieces, he's funny, angry, delighted, outraged, frustrated, and relieved, sometimes all at the same time. If you read only one book this year, maybe you should read something more useful. But with Levin, you'll have fun on every page.

How to Scale-Up a Wet Granulation End Point Scientifically provides a single-source devoted to all relevant information on the scale-up of a wet granulation end point. Contents include a general description, problem identification, and theoretical background with supporting literature, case studies, potential solutions, and more. By outlining issues related to scale-up and end-point determination, and then using practical examples and advice to address these issues, How to Scale-Up a Wet Granulation End Point Scientifically is a valuable and essential resource for all those pharmaceutical scientists and technologists engaged in the granulation process.