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This book is a must for any serious student of intelligence, intelligence tests, and intelligence research.

The book is easy reading and gets to the core of the complicated topic of business Ethics. Many examples are given where total business failures resulted, due to intentional or accidental disregard of conflicting issues regarding business ethics. The book should be required reading for students as well as business professionals and would be a useful pocket reference, especially where ethical issues are not clear.

The book is easy reading and gets to the core of the complicated topic of business Ethics. Many examples are given where total business failures resulted, due to intentional or accidental disregard of conflicting issues regarding business ethics.

The book should be required reading for students as well as business professionals and would be a useful pocket reference, especially where ethical issues are not clear.

Whether you treat people with Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) or you have been diagnosed with FMS, Leon Chaitow's "Fibromyalgia Syndrome: A Practioner's Guide to Treatment" may be exactly what you have been seeking. As a person living with FMS--who has read MUCH about this topic--I can tell you that this book is the best thing going. This practioner's guide is especially good for those familiar with "medicalese." But, even if you're a "beginner" with FMS who simply wants to help educate those on your health care team (physicians, massage therapists, chiropractors, etc.), owning this book will allow you to lend it to your practioners. I have no doubt that, after they have seen your copy, they will want to purchase their own.

In "Fibromyalgia Syndrome: A Practioner's Guide to Treatment," Chaitow briefly describes a number of theories about FMS, discusses the validity of these, and explains the treatments that flow from the theories. Some of the treatments can be accomplished by persons with FMS; others require the cooperation of practioners on the health care team. Treatments are described in detail, supplemented with illustrations.

Kudos to Leon Chaitow for this fine work!

The information in this book from Leon Chaitow alone is worth the price. In addition to his fine writing, he brings together many authors who are blazing trails in fibromyalgia research. They offer many treatment options and perceptions.

As Dr. Chaitow explains, it is now recognized by many researchers and practitioners that fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS)is often perpetuated by myofascial trigger points (TrPs). Most patients with FMS have TrPs as well, and treating the TrPs can significantly reduce the symptom load. Fibromyalgia and myofascial pain from TrPs are not the same. Many people have TrPs but do not have FMS. Knowing that the central sensitization of FMS is present in patients with both conditions will enable the practitioner to adjust TrP therapies accordingly. Dr. Chaitow is very clear about this.

Fibromyalgia is not yet curable, but it can be treated, and many of the components that add to the patient's burden can be minimized or eliminated with adequate treatment. This book is a toolbox full of ways to accomplish that task.

Take notice that the author, Stancil Johnson, will soon be updating this disc classic and having it published for it's second printing. More news to follow. Shortly, it won't be so hard to get your hands on this bible.

This book is amazing, although it has not yet been re-released as is claimed here. If it were, the world of frisbee would be so pleased, though. Packed full of historical and technical information, this cyclopedia of all things frisbee is an absolute neccesity for the frisbee-obsessed. And the pictures are worth the price, not to mention the iconistic rhetoric.

Lacan is a fascinating thinker but famously difficult to read. I've been reading Lacan and Lacanian commentators on and off for 20 years. Only in the past few years have I felt as if I'm getting a handle on Lacan, and Bruce Fink's two decades of work deserve most of the credit.

Fink's "Fundamentals" discusses the basics of clinical interaction from a Lacanian perspective, covering everything from the art of interpretation, to how the Lacanian approach differs in practice from other psychoanalytic approaches, to discussion of often misunderstood details such as variable-length sessions. All of these are discussed in a straightforward way: with a minimum of Lacanian jargon and theoretical complexity, a large dose of actual case excerpts, and extensive citation and analysis of dominant ego psychology and other psychoanalytic approaches.

Fink provides scathing critiques of several psychoanalytic concepts that are prevalent in mainstream ego psychology and object relations approaches. He dissects the concepts of "projective identification", which he argues is little more than ego aggrandizement and power politics by the analyst, and "unconscious affect", which he argues is a terribly confused notion. Both critiques are compelling; even if one does not agree, they demonstrate the need for a return to solid clinical reality and coherent theory rather than acceptance of prevailing dogma.

Fink makes a strong case for returning to the details of clinical interaction: how to listen carefully, the importance of attending to literal words from patients, and how clinicians should be humble enough to attend to patients' own experiences rather than immediately assuming that everything is about the therapist (i.e., transference).

Despite years of studying and practicing ego psychology and object relations approaches, I've often felt uncomfortable with them and sensed that the earlier, structural notions of Freud contained truths that had been jettisoned (or even repressed) too completely in modern theories. Fink provided a framework to help me think about this. I'm not convinced that his is the only answer, as clearly there are good clinicians working on all sides of psychoanalytic theory. But his perspective is worth hearing and makes a substantial contribution to the field and to individual clinical work.

In terms of how this relates to other books on Lacanian approaches, this text has the best mixture of readability and applicability for practitioners. Fink's own "Clinical Introduction" is more comprehensive, but is also more difficult, with a larger dose of Lacanian theory, and less focused on immediate application and case-based examples. His "Lacanian Subject" is a good exposition of theory, but with less specific clinical focus. My suggestion would be for practitioners to read Fink backwards in time: start with "Fundamentals", then either "Clinical Introduction" (for the most applied clinical text) or "Lacan to the Letter" (if starting to read Lacan), and then "Subject".

For interested Lacan readers who are not clinicians, a better sequence might be Joel Dor's "Introduction", which is a brilliant exposition of Lacan's theory of the unconscious, followed by Fink's "Lacanian Subject", and then "Lacan to the Letter" or one of the clinical works, if interested. Besides reading commentaries, the sooner that one experiences Lacan directly, the better; Fink's Ecrits is a brilliant translation.

In "Fundamentals", Fink refers a few times to other clinical works in progress. I'm eagerly awaiting them. Enjoy -- and may Fink's letters continue to reach their destination.

Farthest from what may be in the consciousness of American
psychoanalysts concerning Lacan is the idea of him as someone
logical. His larger-than-life personality, theatrics, provocative
language verging on a kind of surrealism, and the often vicious
rumors surrounding his clinical practice do not readily lend
themselves to a view of him as a sober, stoic analyst. Rarely do
you hear about the fact that Lacan's seminars had a strong
bearing on psychoanalytic ideas of technique through a
perspective that stressed, above all else, a sense of ethics. The
Lacanian community has done little to confront this mythology,
seemingly content to keep the bar in place that radically separates
relational psychoanalysis, Kleinians, and ego psychology from their
equally growing and yet little known communities in Europe and
South America.

At times it seems merely a matter of semantics that
prevents any thriving discourse--what is the maternal imago in
one domain is the desire of the M(Other) in another. At others,
one gets the sense that deeply diverging views on what constitutes
a psychoanalytic idea of the psyche is clearly at stake. No doubt a
way of sorting out the difference between the two would be a step
in the right direction, and yet there has been little available to
create such a bridge.

For the practicing clinician schooled for years in another
language and other models of mind and world, having to enter the
complicated, at times jargonistic, world of Lacanian psychoanalysis
would be like having to begin all over again. This sets aside for the
moment having to traverse the immense hostility that still exists in
so many analytic circles against Lacan. This is for reasons that
remain strongly veiled despite so many oft-repeated cliche
rationalizations. Although we like to believe, as with any new
patient, that we are apt and ready for such a task as starting
afresh, I do not think this is easily done. Our theories, built up
over years of schooling, analysis, supervision, are too precious to
each of us. Is it too much to ask? I have of late, with great weight
in my heart, begun to think so. For this reason, Bruce Fink's
Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach
for Practitioners is a welcome relief that a burgeoning discourse
between two worlds that have remained radically separate may be
possible.

What he shows in this book, chapter by chapter, is the
unfolding logic of the Lacanian clinical stance and the theoretical
constructs that support it. It is clear and cogent work. Along the
way, with another sigh of relief, he is able to orient us American
folk with some names in common--Klein, Segal, Bollas, Ogden,
Winnicot, Bion, Gill, Casement, Greenson, Brenner, Glover,
Macalpine, Little, Ferenczi, Kernberg, Racker, Reik, and Renik.
Fink, having trained in France but working in America, is able to
ready the ground for those from the other side to make their
approach to a radically discordant (to the main) picture of
psychoanalytic work.

Interestingly, readiness was one of those characteristics
Lacan held up as the ideal for the analyst. The next question
should be "readiness for what?" As a first answer, let me say that
it is readiness for the kind of logic that Lacan set up as
fundamental to the ethical position of the analyst. Lacan said that
we must be free of what seems to be insinuated by all this blather
about the primitive mind, the cauldron of seething excitations, that
try to link man to some fearsome animal nature, extended as far
as a notion of the reptile part of the brain. What we may then find
is that what analysis aims at is the underdevelopment of logic,
which in fact distinguishes man from animals that are readily able
to make use of signs in the service of self-preservation (think here
of signs in mating rituals that guide animals in the location and
selection of mates, which in humans is what leads us astray most
often, love problems being what brings many patients into
therapy). The logic of the unconscious (famously structured like a
language) is the logic to be followed, a logic we are separated from
as humans.

This is, of course, a no doubt dirty Lacanian trick, putting
animals above man and turning psychological ideas on their head.
But what one may not notice is that within these kinds of
provocations there is a deeper set of technical and clinical
questions that Lacan was aiming at, first by dispelling, indeed
collapsing certain forms of knowledge often held as "common,"
and then charting an alternate path. To think of patients as
primitive and to seek to expel, normalize, or evolve these parts of
them is probably a far dirtier trick. Lacan is challenging our
proclivity for insidious morality. It is precisely in this spirit of
clearing ground and pointing toward a more logical and ethical
opening that Fink's work is carried out.

This is the most informative series on Goju Ryu in print. Absolutely a must for all goju-ryu karate-ka.

It was a very good book. It explains in full detail the history of Goju-ryu karate. It also has step by step instructions for katas with black and white pictures. Almost every page has a picture. This book also has a glossary with the Japanese terms translated from Japanese to English and English to Japanese with the phoenetic pronunciation. Motoo Yamakura is a very good martial arts writer.

I have found Sproull's book to be of great help in understanding and following the steps in the research process. I use it as a reference against other manuals of the social science research nature. I recommend this book to everyone who does reseach, of any nature, or who is studying the research process.

A classic guide to research, which I've found useful for both work and graduate school. For those of us who like our information neatly and logically ordered in tables and flow-charts, this book entirely fits the bill. Comprehensive and, given the subject matter, quite accessible.

This is the best book out there for both medical and legal professionals. It is easy to read and and a great resource for all law and medical issues.

Liang's book is the first comprehensive AND comprehensible book on the health care system out there! As a physician who went to medical school decades ago, i never realized how much would change in the practice environment. No one has been able to give a thorough review of all the topics that we need to know now; not my specialty society, certainly not the AMA, and not my state med society. But this book does; it has everything from a great overview of the law, the standard stuff (e.g., med mal, informed consent) AND gives clear and complete explanations of the huge and legalese laden areas of fraud and abuse, antitrust, etc. I found the material on physician contracting really helpful in understanding what I should look for in my contracts. And the stuff on death and dying (e.g., advanced directives) was very helpful for my patients (I copied it for them). I heard of this book from the general counsel's office at our hospital and she uses it a lot too. I tell all the med students and residents who rotate with me about this book. And the web page addresses are really great!

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This book is a very wise investment for anyone seeking knowledge about RPA/RA programs. It takes you from the start of the programs, walks you through the decision process in choosing the correct program for you, as well as walking you through the first semesters of schooling. The most helpful part of all was being able to be walked through the proposals; knowing what exactly the hospital, radiologist and the universities are looking for. As for anyone looking into this field, this is the best book to help answer all those questions. Very, very wise investment!

Marcelene

This book was an invaluable tool to passing the CSDP exam. Anyone thinking of taking the exam should pick it up. It will expose you to new concepts and prepare you for the mindset required to pass the IEEE exam.

Pros: contains answers to the sample questions on the IEEE website

Cons: sometimes the answers are visible while reading the question (on the corresponding page, rather than hidden away from view)

Don't take the CSDP without it. I bought the IEEE online course and was not prepared. This book makes it a breeze.