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Mental Health BooksMental Health BooksI have been reading mental health and self-help and novels and mythological books, among others since I was a kid. One of the gifts my mother gave to me early on was a trip to the library in Mankato, Minnesota where we lived at the time, and she attempted to get me to read Alice in Wonderland. I did not take to Alice, until the Jefferson Airplane reminded me of her in the 1960's, but I did pick out a book from a series of novels chronicaling one story of a family caught up in the Civil War and I read all of them, and we also had the Reader's Digest condensed versions of novels sent to our house monthly and I read many of them. I did read some self-help books in college, Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill, I believe. Hope I have the authors name correctly. However, my interest in mental health books did not become really strong until my 30's when I became involved in the addictions field, and my how that field has changed. Technology has increased the rate of discovery to a dizzying speed, and now Amazon has the Kindle out, which you can use to read e-books. Well, as far as reading goes, I still like to sit down with the hard cover version and a good cup of coffee for some enjoyment, just like on the front porch of our Mankato home, when I was a kid engrossed the the latest WWII novel. At any rate, I rank the work of William James and Carl Jung to be the most important mental health books for me, but there are so many others. Check out the link to Abe Books below.
Recently, I have read several works and interpretations of brain fitness work, including Brainfit for Life, by Simon Evans, Ph.D. and Paul Burghardt, Ph.D. which discusses the very recent discoveries of neurogenesis and neuroplasticity in the human brain. Oh yeah, that book is an e-book. While you can get a hard cover, you can order it online and have it delivered to your computer online. A very different kind of library. Here are two other resouces for your online reading.
Audio Books on Stress Management and So Much More
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Did You See That Recent Reference to the Self-Healing Brain?
Brain Fitness and Neuroplasticity Exercises
Stretch Your Axons and Flex Your Dendrites?
There are something like 450 different models of counseling and/or psychotherapy. Of that number, perhaps 10-15 models enjoy any professional support or research credibility.
However, every one of those models involves your brain.
Want to make your brain more effective?
Brainfit for Life, by Simon Evans, Ph.D. and Paul Burghardt, Ph.D.
Mind Sparke Brain Fitness Pro Impulse Control
For your New Years Day Resolutions! Warning-has a side effect of increased IQ.
How is Your Attention? Try Your Hand at the Stroop Test.
To test your attention using the stroop test, read the color the word is printed in rather than the text of the word. So the text could be the word red, but if the word red is printed in blue, then the correct response if blue.
Ultimate Brain Fitness Program
Neurogenesis and Neuroplasticity
Replacement Parts for Your Brain?
Neurogenesis is the term used to describe the recently discovered capacity of the human brain to grow new neurons.
That is right, our brain is not physically fixed, it is constantly changing, losing some neurons, growing some neurons, making or deleting connections, and we can encourage that growth by attending to the Pillars Of Brain Fitness.
Those pillars are;
Physical Exercise
Nutrition
Sleep
Stress Management
Novel Learning Experience
Ultimate Brain Fitness Program
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Chocolate is a Wonderful Counseling Tool, Don't You Think?
Looking for Information On the Grieving Process?
Many of the visitors to this site are looking for information about grief and grieving, and many have utilized the information found in
Back to Life! A Personal Grief Guidebook to plot their progress through the grieving process. Jennie's work has been a gift to many.
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Mike