Posted by dj on February 22, 2000, at 10:09:40
Dr. Bob, amazing job on the book page and this entire site!
Where do you get the time and energy? This a.m. I was checking them out because I e-mailed the book page and psych. links to some friends whom I studied with last year, who are going through some difficult times. Great resources you provide!!
I was, of course, also gratified to see a number of books I'd referenced recently on your list. One which was not there but I highly recommend, as you can judge from my recent postings, as the outlined theory and practices have helped me and many others considerably, is the following:
The (New) Manual For Life
Bennet Wong and Jock McKeenThis is a completely revised new edition based on the original book A Manual For Life; for those familiar with the previous volume, you will find this book more readable, and much expanded to include considerable amounts of new information.
This book is a carefully written synthesis of idea systems and perspectives that provide humanistic approaches to personal and professional development. Practical and thought provoking, this book challenges the reader to assess, ponder, consider, and arrive at more thoroughly established personal beliefs. A partial list of topics includes: boundaries, anger, anxiety, guilt and shame, strength and power, self-esteem, entitlement, transference, objectification, morality, sexuality, intimacy, relationships, loving, energy, western and eastern medicine, the helping relationship, allergies, therapy and education, and creation-centered spirituality.
FROM THE FORWARD: "In the work of their own lives, Wong and McKeen have simply moved beyond the tedious debates that have separated the various schools of thought. Through their courage to confront the 'isness' of their own experience they have detached themselves from the closed world views of philosophical prescriptions and, in their commitment to the integrity of their own truth, they have avoided the 'rightness' and 'wrongness' of academic psychologizing.
Above all, within their own relationship, they have created a living experimental laboratory with standards of discipline and rigor capable of intimidating even the most zealous scientist-practitioner." Gerry Fewster, Ph.D. - Editor, Journal of Child and Youth Care
348 pages, 6"x9" soft cover ISBN# 0-9696755-4-2 $22 Canadian (plus taxes)
http://www.pdseminars.com/PD_Publishing/pdpub.html#A Manual For Life
Bennet Wong, M.D., F.R.C.P.(c) received his psychiatric training at the Menninger School of Psychiatry. Jock McKeen, M.D., Lic.Ac.(UK) studied at the College of Chinese Acupuncture, Oxford, England. Since retiring from medical practice, Ben and Jock together have blended an in-depth approach to self-development aimed at integration of the individual in body, mind and spirit, emphasizing responsibility for the self in health, relationships and lifestyle. They are the founders and co-Directors of PD Seminars at Haven By-the-Sea, a licensed residential educational center in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia, on the west coast of Canada.
In their 25 years of professional association together, they have been feature presenters at conferences and workshops around the world. They have travelled and taught extensively in Asia, and bring an ease with cross-cultural approaches to their work. In recent years, they have begun to lecture in Eastern Europe. Consultants to many agencies, corporations and groups, they have a wide experience in working with people in a variety of contexts. They have both served on the boards of major corporations.
Most of their approach has been derived from their intense investigation of their own relationship, as well as their experiences with their clients. In their unique, personable way, they create an atmosphere of intimacy and trust in which each person is able to transform in his or her own fashion.
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