Psychology - Psychology

Millions of children each year are misdiagnosed as suffering from ADD. They do not have Attention Deficit Disorder. In fact, no such condition exists!. Those 5 million children exhibit what Martha Burge describes as “Five Intense Personality Types.”

ADHD coach, Martha Burge, proposes that those suffering from what is commonly understood as ADHD are not sick or impaired. They are just different and with the appropriate therapy, can become exceptional human beings.

THE ADD MYTH explains:
· The five intense personality traits: sensual, psychomotor,
intellectual, creative and emotional
· Where intense people fit on the spectrum of personality types
· Why the medical profession should seek alternative explanations
for ADHD

Included are stories, practical steps and daily practices for developing one's intense nature with the least amount of suffering. Burge, also, includes her own story of having both of her children diagnosed with ADHD, the serious reactions they had to drug treatment and how she began her search for an alternative approach to help them.

THE ADD MYTH will raise awareness of the underlying condition of intensity and help people who previously thought of themselves as broken develop more fulfilling lives.


“Burge provides wise advice, practical tips, and useful techniques. Her style is lively, accessible, vivid, and intimate. Readers will feel engaged, understood, and inspired as she transforms problematic symptoms into opportunities for growth and self-discovery.”
—Allen Frances, MD, professor emeritus and former chair, Department of Psychiatry, Duke University

About 10% of American children (and 5% of adults) have been diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD), and a multibillion-dollar industry has grown up around the diagnosis, with potentially dangerous stimulants, writes “ADD coach” Burge. In her sure-to-be controversial book debunking the disorder, she asserts that those branded with ADHD experience stimuli—physical, sensory, emotional—more intensely than others. There is no such thing as ADD, she asserts. Instead, the problem for those who are distracted, disorganized, fidgety, and impulsive is to learn how to turn their intensity into a strength. Burge bashes the forthcoming edition of the psychiatric bible, the DSM-V, with its broader ADHD criteria, as well as a drug industry profiting from the label. She then offers “practices”—many based on meditation techniques—to calm, soothe, and sharpen the mind. Hers is a bold stand, and Burge is partly backed by Frances, who was task force chairman for the current DSM-IV. Still, Burge's guidance is more suited for adults who understand their difficulties than struggling school kids. Still, her assertions should at least spur scrutiny of an “epidemic” that continues to stymie its sufferers and their families.
- Publishers Weekly

From her early 30's until her early 60's, Barbara Hawkins lived cloistered in her family home in suburban Chicago, a prisoner of undiagnosed mental illness. Hearing voices and paralysed with fear, she was never evaluated, never treated and refused to leave the house.

AFTER SCHIZOPHRENIA is the story of Barb's descent into severe mental illness and the healing that has come only in recent years: after her parents' death when her sister Margaret became her guardian. With uncanny grace and humour, Margaret chronicles her family's struggle with Barb's mental illness, the love that carried them through and the virtual army of healthcare angels willing to come to Barb's aid. This is an extraordinary story of severe mental illness and the healing that is possible with prompt diagnosis, good drugs, good care and a fierce belief in the power to get well.

This book is for: 1. friends of family members of those afflicted with this particular kind of mental illness. 2. Mental health professionals and care-givers. 3. Readers of harrowing and inspirational memoirs

Originally published in hardcover as How We Got Barb Back (9781573244770, 2010) by Conari Press

THE ANIMUS, in two volumes, presents Barbara Hannah's psychological analysis of the animus, gleaned from handwritten notes, typed manuscripts, previously published articles, her own drafts of her lectures and notes taken by those present. She tackled the theme of the animus with a comprehensiveness unsurpassed in Jungian literature. Her insights and vigour stem from personally grappling with her own animus, while integrating the experience and reflections of many psychotherapists who worked directly with C. G. Jung.

Authenticity and comprehensiveness were priorities in editing this work, as well as the preservation of the excellence and comprehensiveness of her work on the animus - a most complex and vexing topic - while retaining the wonderfully natural spirit of Barbara Hannah herself.

Themes include: the case of the sixteenth-century nun, Jeanne Fery; the animus in the Book of Tobit (or Tobias); literature generally (the Brontës in particular) and the meaning of the animus for modern women.

THE ANIMUS, in two volumes, presents Barbara Hannah's psychological analysis of the animus, gleaned from handwritten notes, typed manuscripts, previously published articles, her own drafts of her lectures and notes taken by those present. She tackled the theme of the animus with a comprehensiveness unsurpassed in Jungian literature. Her insights and vigour stem from personally grappling with her own animus, while integrating the experience and reflections of many psychotherapists who worked directly with C. G. Jung.

Authenticity and comprehensiveness were priorities in editing this work, as well as the preservation of the excellence and comprehensiveness of her work on the animus - a most complex and vexing topic - while retaining the wonderfully natural spirit of Barbara Hannah herself.

Themes include: the case of the sixteenth-century nun, Jeanne Fery; the animus in the Book of Tobit (or Tobias); literature generally (the Brontës in particular) and the meaning of the animus for modern women.

We live in an increasingly “virtual” world in which it can be tempting to skip making that true, human connection with someone in pain. Even though our thoughts might be with a person we know is suffering, we lack the confidence to reach out, worrying that we will say or do the “wrong” thing.

In this practical, step-by-step guide to what she calls “the art of comforting,” Val Walker draws on numerous interviews with “Master Comforters” to guide readers in gently and gracefully breaking through the walls that those who are suffering often erect around themselves. Interviewees include inspiring individuals such as Alicia Rain, who, as a victim's advocate for the city of Richmond, Virginia, has devoted her life to comforting grieving families devastated by homicide, gang violence and other traumatic experiences. Or Patricia Ellen, who, as a grief counsellor and outreach director at the Centre for Grieving Children in Portland, Maine, appears on site to support and comfort children, staff and parents when a school is facing a death, violence or other crises.

Adolescence can be a challenging period for youths, especially in today's world, where the ancient rites of passage that societies once used to turn their boys into men have disappeared.

In an in-depth analysis of the Grimm Brothers' fairytale "The Devil's Sooty Brother," therapists and teachers, Brad Fern and Tom Lutz, provide a practical and mythic outline for the journey from adolescence to maturity for young men.

"The perfect healing story for one of the most troubling and intransigent social dilemmas of our time, that of juvenile delinquents, or 'lost boys.' ASHES TO GOLD reminds us that there's nothing so powerful and transformative as a good story well told." --Eric Utne, founder, Utne Reader

Filled with true life anecdotes, mythic images and hard won experience, ASHES TO GOLD is essential reading for anyone in the business of working with youth." --Martin Shaw, author, A Branch from the Lightning Tree: Ecstatic Myth and the Grace in Wildness

Brad Fern and Tom Lutz uncover the real human beings who lie hidden behind intimidating disguises of toughness and contempt. Here is the story of why and how 'agents of the Dark Man' mentor troubled adolescents. There are young people all over the world crying out for you to read this book and understand its message." --Bob Roberts, author, My Soul Said to Me: An Unlikely Journey Behind the Walls of Justice

Jungian analyst Ann Ulanov's latest book springs from a question posed to her by an analysand curious about the author's repetitive bouts of poison ivy. Himself an analyst she writes he wondered if I had ever asked myself what my attacks of poison ivy meant. His question struck me like a wooden mallet on my forehead. I was stunned. Thus begins this insightful and beautifully written account of the author's decade-long journey to uncover the origin of and find meaning and healing from fifty years of suffering from chronic poison ivy allergy. By raising the possibility that poison ivy a noisome contact allergy can also be located within psychosomatic phenomena the author's premise is straightforward: the psyche will often make use of the body in the form of such repetitive poison ivy outbreaks to communicate dissociated emotional experiences. Piecing together a poignant narrative of familial and personal neglect - coupled with growing awareness of her own kinship with the poison ivy plant itself a plant that blooms in neglect that is never cared for except to exterminate it - Ann Ulanov renders bare her own process of discovering and integrating the dissociated unmirrored experiences of her life that had lived itself over and again through painful bodily paroxysms. Those familiar with Ulanov's other books will immediately recognize and appreciate her clarity and ease of expression. There is much to chew on here especially that which concerns the psychological meaning of physical symptoms. Following her own example this book is a call to enter into conversation with the deeper parts of ourselves which like poison ivy are often untended and rejected. This is work initiated by analysis and continued through our own dialoguing with dreams and imagination in a way that is profoundly spiritual. We do this the author writes in order to build up a sturdiness to receive in ourselves what has been there from the beginning.

Each of us inhabits an energy body whose interactions are the principal determinant of all we see, feel, think or otherwise perceive. Even as modern science is establishing the uncertainty of physical matter, it is asserting the reality of our existence as interconnecting quantum energy fields. For over 5,000 years, shamans of the Toltec tradition have studied and worked with the energy body, learning to recognise and understand its structure and perceptual capacities as well as mapping it as an objective, measurable part of our anatomy. In AWAKENING THE ENERGY BODY, Kenneth Smith's thorough grounding in the Toltec tradition allows him to bring forth an instructive overview for non-Toltec adherents of the latent possibilities available to the energy body and how to bring awareness and objective form to it. Using evidence from the emerging scientific discipline of bioenergetics, which studies the flow and exchange of energy, Smith shows that conscious awareness not only creates our reality but enhances the functionality of the human energy body, allowing it to navigate the myriad realities of our world. He offers a specific set of strategies to manage the energy body in ways that are beneficial to both material existence and spiritual development. He also discusses the ethical considerations of developing consciousness and how one can quicken personal evolution in order to live a full and complete life, while revealing where the worlds of ancient tradition and modern science meet.

When we lose a loved one the experience is simultaneously mythical and personal. Grubbs anchors the mythical aspect of loss in the story of Gilgamesh and the loss of his beloved Enkidu which sets him on a quest for his beloved and the meaning of life. The personal aspect arises in the particular path we take in recovery from loss. Both realms blend in the dream space where we often encounter our lost beloved. Detailing the grieving process and the types of dreams that manifest during its various stages Grubbs reveals the enormous positive potential for our individual soul-growth. We also learn how our lost beloved grows with us in his or her own soul process. She presents several personal stories of people who have worked through their grief through their dreams and provides practices for readers to catch their dreams honour them and their departed loved ones and grow in a healthy direction from the experience. Her description of The Day of the Dead celebrated in Mexico provides an insightful example of how other cultures accept death as part of the life process. In 1984 while studying for her master's degree in social work Dr. Grubbs suddenly lost her son Michael to a freak accident. While in the throes of grief she religiously recorded her dreams which became the precursor to BEREAVEMENT DREAMING AND THE INDIVIDUATING SOUL. Dr. Grubbs studied at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich has been practicing depth psychology since 1987 and is an experienced workshop and seminar leader.