Novedades del último mes en ebooks de psicología y pedagogía

"Beyond 10,000 Hours Why practice does not make perfect" corrects the most misunderstood statistic in self-help. Malcolm Gladwell popularized the idea that 10,000 hours of practice makes you an expert. But the original researcher, Anders Ericsson, hated this simplification.Education expert David Wise explains the nuance: Its not about the quantity of hours; its about the quality. Driving a car for 10,000 hours doesnt make you a Formula 1 driver; it just makes you a habitual driver. To improve, you need "Deliberate Practice"painful, focused effort with immediate feedback.This book is a guide to stopping "autopilot" practice. It teaches students and professionals how to break through plateaus by focusing on their weaknesses rather than just repeating what they are already good at.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. "Echoes of Anger" is a profound exploration of our most destructive emotion. In a high-stress world, many of us are walking pressure cookers, one minor inconvenience away from an explosion. But repressing anger is just as dangerous as unleashing it.This book offers a third way: transmutation. Drawing on the ancient wisdom of Stoicism and modern cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), it teaches you how to deconstruct the triggers that set you off. Why does the traffic jam feel like a personal insult? Why does a comment from a colleague linger for days? The answer lies not in the external event, but in your internal narrative.You will learn the "pause technique" to insert a gap between stimulus and response. We explore the somatic roots of ragehow to release the physical tension before it becomes a mental obsession. The goal is not to become a robot, but to become the master of your own emotional climate.Dont let a moment of madness destroy years of building. Learn to hear the echo before the shout, and find the power in silence. This guide is essential for anyone who has ever regretted words spoken in heat.

We all wear masks. The "Perfect Employee," the "Happy Parent," the "Cool Friend." We polish these personas until they shine, hoping they will bring us love and acceptance. But deep down, we know the truth: If they love the mask, they dont love you. "The Mask We Wear" is a call to drop the act.This book explores the psychology of the "False Self" and the exhaustion of constantly performing. We discuss Impostor Syndrome not as a defect, but as a symptom of living inauthentically. Using principles from Adlerian psychology, we explore the terrifying freedom of being disliked for who you are, rather than admired for who you are not.True connection requires vulnerability. It requires showing the cracks in the porcelain. This guide helps you peel back the layers of expectation to find the person underneath. Its scary to be naked, but its the only way to be free.

Your brain is wired to keep you safe, comfortable, and alive. In the stone age, this was great. In the modern world, it is a disaster. "The Comfort Trap" exposes the biological conspiracy that keeps you stuck in a life of mediocrity. We love the couch, the steady paycheck, and the familiar routine. But biology doesnt care about your happiness or your potential; it only cares about your survival.This book is a declaration of war against the path of least resistance. It combines evolutionary psychology with modern behavioral science to explain why doing hard things feels so wrong, yet is so necessary. You will learn about the "hedonic adaptation" that makes even the most luxurious life feel stale, and why humans biologically need struggle to feel a sense of meaning.We explore the stories of people who voluntarily walked away from safetyentrepreneurs, explorers, and artistsand found that the air is sweeter on the edge of the cliff. The book provides a framework for "micro-adversities": small, self-imposed challenges that retrain your brain to tolerate discomfort. From cold showers to public speaking, you will learn to build a callus over your fear response.Stop waiting for the "right time." Safety is an illusion, and comfort is a slow death. Break the cage you built for yourself.

The university degree is losing its value. The internet contains the sum of human knowledge, accessible for free. "The Autodidacts Manifesto" is a call to arms for the self-learner. Why go into debt to learn from a syllabus that is ten years old?This book argues that in the 21st century, curiosity is the only credential that matters. We look at historys greatest self-taught mindsda Vinci, Tesla, Jobsand find the common thread: They didnt wait to be taught; they took knowledge.We provide a roadmap for structuring your own curriculum. How to find mentors, how to filter information, and how to build a portfolio that proves your skills better than any certificate. Stop asking for permission to learn. The library is open.

Its the economy. Its my parents. Its my bad luck. We have a million excuses for why we arent where we want to be. "Radical Responsibility" takes those excuses and burns them. This book posits a terrifying but liberating truth: You are responsible for everything in your life.Not for what happens to you, but for how you respond. Drawing on existential philosophy and Navy SEAL discipline, this guide challenges the victim mentality that permeates modern society. When you blame others, you give them power over you. When you take responsibility, you take the power back.We discuss the "Ownership Mindset"how to look at a failure and ask "What did I do to cause this?" rather than "Why me?" It is a painful shift, but it is the only path to true freedom. Stop waiting for a savior. Look in the mirror. There is your rescue team.

Echoes of Childhood: The Foundational Role of Child Analysis in Adult Analytic Work explores how techniques developed in child psychoanalysis open new depth and flexibility in the treatment of adults. Far from being a specialized niche, child analytic work reveals the earliest layers of psychic life. It offers tools that sharpen listening, expand tolerance of intense affect, and illuminate the hidden child within every patient. Editor Caroline Sehon brings together leading figures Ana Maria Barroso, Mary T. Brady, Talia Hatzor, Theodore Jacobs, Jeanne Magagna, Rex McGehee, Jack Novick, Kerry Kelly Novick, Daniel W. Prezant, Justine Kalas Reeves, Jill Savege Scharff, David E. Scharff, and Virginia Ungar to add their groundbreaking and engaging contributions on this vital component for adult analysis to her own. Drawing on richly detailed child cases, each chapter is followed by expert commentary, creating a dialogue that bridges the worlds of child and adult analysis. The reader is guided through clinical encounters that highlight how attention to play, gesture, nonverbal communication, and the management of overwhelming feelings - skills honed in child work - translate directly into more effective adult treatment. Organized in developmental sequence, the book traces psychic life from infancy through childhood and adolescence into adulthood. Along the way, contributors show how early trauma, attachment, and the internalization of parental figures reverberate across the life span, and how psychoanalysis informed by child work can help transform these dynamics. Echoes of Childhood demonstrates that there is one psychoanalytic process manifesting across different stages of life. This must-read book is of particular value to graduate psychotherapists, analysts-in-training, and candidates in integrated child analytic programs, while also serving as a rich resource for practicing child and adult analysts seeking to deepen their clinical repertoire. More broadly, it will engage mental health professionals and all readers interested in how childhood experience continues to shape the adult mind.

Echoes of Childhood: The Foundational Role of Child Analysis in Adult Analytic Work explores how techniques developed in child psychoanalysis open new depth and flexibility in the treatment of adults. Far from being a specialized niche, child analytic work reveals the earliest layers of psychic life. It offers tools that sharpen listening, expand tolerance of intense affect, and illuminate the hidden child within every patient. Editor Caroline Sehon brings together leading figures Ana Maria Barroso, Mary T. Brady, Talia Hatzor, Theodore Jacobs, Jeanne Magagna, Rex McGehee, Jack Novick, Kerry Kelly Novick, Daniel W. Prezant, Justine Kalas Reeves, Jill Savege Scharff, David E. Scharff, and Virginia Ungar to add their groundbreaking and engaging contributions on this vital component for adult analysis to her own. Drawing on richly detailed child cases, each chapter is followed by expert commentary, creating a dialogue that bridges the worlds of child and adult analysis. The reader is guided through clinical encounters that highlight how attention to play, gesture, nonverbal communication, and the management of overwhelming feelings - skills honed in child work - translate directly into more effective adult treatment. Organized in developmental sequence, the book traces psychic life from infancy through childhood and adolescence into adulthood. Along the way, contributors show how early trauma, attachment, and the internalization of parental figures reverberate across the life span, and how psychoanalysis informed by child work can help transform these dynamics. Echoes of Childhood demonstrates that there is one psychoanalytic process manifesting across different stages of life. This must-read book is of particular value to graduate psychotherapists, analysts-in-training, and candidates in integrated child analytic programs, while also serving as a rich resource for practicing child and adult analysts seeking to deepen their clinical repertoire. More broadly, it will engage mental health professionals and all readers interested in how childhood experience continues to shape the adult mind.

You have a work personality. A family personality. A social media personality. Maybe more. Each version is polished for its audience, edges smoothed, flaws hidden. But somewhere underneath, there is a person nobody sees. The gap between performance and reality grows wider every year.This book examines the cost of living in disguise. You will learn why we develop social masks, how they serve us initially, and when they become prisons. The research is clear: chronic inauthenticity correlates with depression, anxiety, and relationship breakdown. The mask protects, but it also suffocates.The Performance Gap does not demand radical honesty with everyone. That is a different kind of performance. Instead, it offers a framework for identifying which masks serve you and which have overstayed their usefulness. The goal is not to become unfiltered. It is to reduce the exhausting distance between the character you play and the person you could finally become.

Discover Research as a Spiritually Formative Journey In counseling and psychology programs, students and educators alike often approach research with feelings of apprehension. Educators and researchers Kristen Kansiewicz and Paul Loosemore offer a different perspective. In Engaging in Counseling Research with Curiosity and Wisdom, they reveal how research is not only an essential element of mental health work but a unique invitation to curiosity, wisdom, and personal growth.Kansiewicz and Loosemore provide an integrative connection between Christian faith and the process of research. They unpack such topics as: how to engage ones whole self as a researcher different perspectives on knowledge and truth the importance of diversity in research applying research insights to the clinical setting Designed to accompany and enhance the primary curriculum in a research course, Engaging in Counseling Research with Curiosity and Wisdom: offers a Christian formation perspective of the research process. shows how to look at Scripture through a research lens and research through a biblical lens. includes discussion questions and classroom learning activities. contains inspiring ideas for teaching research courses. compliments CACREP curriculum. God created us to be explorers, filled with awe as we uncover truths all around. Everyone in the mental health professions can benefit from understanding what good research is and how they can engage their natural curiosity wisely in every phase of their work. Whether you are an educator, student, or professional in psychology, counseling, social work, or a similar profession, this resource empowers you to engage with research in a meaningful and faithful way.

"The Classroom Experiment Teaching prejudice to third graders in one day" details the groundbreaking exercise by teacher Jane Elliott. On the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, she decided to show her all-white third-grade class what racism felt like.Psychologist Margaret Sterling analyzes the method: Elliott declared that blue-eyed children were superior and brown-eyed children were inferior. Within minutes, the "superior" kids became arrogant bullies, and the "inferior" kids test scores dropped. The next day, she flipped the roles.This book explores the lasting impact on those students and the global controversy that followed. It is a powerful lesson on how easily hate can be taught and how arbitrary the rules of status really are.

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Why do we say "Yes"? Influence is not magic; it is science. We like to think we are in control of our choices, but we are constantly nudged by psychological triggers. "The Science of Influence" (inspired by Robert Cialdini) uncovers the six universal principles of persuasion: Reciprocity, Scarcity, Authority, Consistency, Liking, and Social Proof.Learn why free samples make us buy (Reciprocity), why "limited time offers" make us panic (Scarcity), and why we trust people in uniforms (Authority). These are the hidden scripts that run our social interactions.This book is a manual for two groups: those who want to become more persuasive (marketers, leaders, parents) and those who want to defend themselves against manipulation. Learn to use these tools ethically to get your ideas heard and your requests granted. Understand the machinery of compliance. Master the invisible forces that move human behavior.

Our relationship with home includes many psychosomatic realms: perception, imagination, fantasy, projection, separateness, boundaries, smells, and sounds. Our very first home is our mothers womb; our very last, an urn or coffin. In between, we have our childhood home, deeply incorporated into our psyche, which persists, throughout life, as (hopefully) a fond prototype, an object of nostalgia, and a source of ego-replenishment, college dorms, shared housing, apartments, marital and family homes, downsized residences of late middle age, retirement homes, nursing homes, and hospices. Far apart from a world of linear progression are traumatizing homes, foster homes, and orphanages where searingly painful as well as defiantly triumphant scenarios of growth and development may unfold. Also, monasteries, which embody the human desire for detachment, silence, and contemplation, away from earthly relations to seek spirituality and transcendence. The contributions from Aisha Abbasi, Salman Akhtar, Rajiv Gulati, M. Nasir Ilahi, Gurmeet S. Kanwal, Murad Khan, Milan Patel, Sarita Singh, and Nidhi Tewari seek to demonstrate that at each step in the life span, our dwellings both impact upon and reflect our intrapsychic goings-on. As well as examinations of the kinds of home mentioned above, the abstract nature of home is also explored, looking at its function, the search for a sense of home, homesickness, absence, nostalgia, and the development of a stable internalized home. Theres no place like home and Attics and Basements shows us why.

Our relationship with home includes many psychosomatic realms: perception, imagination, fantasy, projection, separateness, boundaries, smells, and sounds. Our very first home is our mothers womb; our very last, an urn or coffin. In between, we have our childhood home, deeply incorporated into our psyche, which persists, throughout life, as (hopefully) a fond prototype, an object of nostalgia, and a source of ego-replenishment, college dorms, shared housing, apartments, marital and family homes, downsized residences of late middle age, retirement homes, nursing homes, and hospices. Far apart from a world of linear progression are traumatizing homes, foster homes, and orphanages where searingly painful as well as defiantly triumphant scenarios of growth and development may unfold. Also, monasteries, which embody the human desire for detachment, silence, and contemplation, away from earthly relations to seek spirituality and transcendence. The contributions from Aisha Abbasi, Salman Akhtar, Rajiv Gulati, M. Nasir Ilahi, Gurmeet S. Kanwal, Murad Khan, Milan Patel, Sarita Singh, and Nidhi Tewari seek to demonstrate that at each step in the life span, our dwellings both impact upon and reflect our intrapsychic goings-on. As well as examinations of the kinds of home mentioned above, the abstract nature of home is also explored, looking at its function, the search for a sense of home, homesickness, absence, nostalgia, and the development of a stable internalized home. Theres no place like home and Attics and Basements shows us why.

June and Jennifer Gibbons were identical twins born in Wales who made a solemn pact as children: they would speak to no one but each other. They developed a secret language, mirrored each others movements, and created a rich, disturbing fantasy world in their diaries. But their isolation turned toxic. "The Silent Pact" investigates the strange case of the "Silent Twins."As they grew older, their bond became a trap. They committed petty crimes just to get a reaction from the world, leading to their indefinite incarceration in Broadmoor high-security psychiatric hospital. There, they decided that one of them had to die so the other could live a normal life.This book explores the psychology of their intense "folie a deux" (shared psychosis). It culminates in the chilling mystery of Jennifers sudden death moments after their releasea death she had predicted in her diary as a necessary sacrifice. It is a haunting look at the destructive power of love when it becomes an obsession.

Your mind is being pulled by a thousand digital currents every second. Without a solid foundation, you are simply drifting. The Attention Anchor is the engineering manual for your focus. We move beyond soft mindfulness and into the hard architecture of cognitive control.Learn how to build mental bulkheads that shut out the noise of social media, emails, and notifications. We analyze the neurochemistry of distraction and show you how to forge a focus that is as immovable as a battleships anchor. This book is for those who feel their life is slipping away in 15-second fragments.Reclaim your depth. Strengthen your resolve. Become the heavy object that the internet cannot move. Your attention is your most valuable assetlock it down before its stolen forever. We provide the technical blueprints for a resilient mind that can withstand the constant barrage of digital interruptions. Discover how to create an environment that supports deep work and meaningful connection. In an economy that profits from your distraction, your focus is a revolutionary act. Secure your mind and start producing the results that matter. The anchor is ready; its time to drop it and stay steady in the storm.

Their vacation looks better. Their house looks cleaner. Their children look happier. Social media has weaponized comparison, turning every scroll into an unfavorable audit of your own life. But even before the algorithm, humans were hardwired to measure themselves against their neighbors. The grass has always looked greener elsewhere.This book dissects the psychology of comparison. You will learn why the brain compares automatically, why upward comparisons feel so bad, and why the information we compare is almost always incomplete. The Instagram version of a life is not the kitchen-at-midnight version, but your brain ignores that distinction.The Neighbors Lawn offers practical techniques for interrupting the comparison loop. You will not become indifferent to others, that is neither possible nor desirable. But you will learn to compare more accurately, more selectively, and more kindly. The goal is not to win the comparison game. It is to stop playing.

Your brain is being hijacked. We live in a world of instant gratification. Social media likes, sugary foods, video games, and pornography have fried our dopamine receptors. We are overstimulated, yet bored; anxious, yet paralyzed. "The Dopamine Detox" explains the neuroscience of addiction and why we can no longer focus on hard, meaningful tasks.When your brain is used to high levels of cheap dopamine, reading a book or working on a project feels painfully dull. Its time for a reset. This book provides a practical protocol for a 24-hour (or longer) detox. By eliminating all high-stimulation activities, you reset your baseline. Suddenly, the simple thingsa walk, a conversation, a blank pagebecome interesting again.Learn to embrace boredom. It is the birthplace of creativity. Understand the difference between "cheap fun" and "hard fun." Reclaim your attention span, your motivation, and your life from the algorithms designed to keep you scrolling. Stop consuming. Start creating.

In a world that cant stop talking, there is enormous power in silence. Our society celebrates the extrovertthe loud, the charismatic, the networker. But "The Power of Quiet" (inspired by Susan Cain) argues that introverts bring unique and vital gifts to the world. From Einstein to Rosa Parks, many of historys great leaders and creators were quiet people.Introverts are not anti-social; they are differently social. They recharge in solitude. This book explores the biology of temperament and debunks the "Extrovert Ideal" that dominates our schools and workplaces. Introverts are often better listeners, deeper thinkers, and more prudent risk-takers.Learn to harness your quiet power. You dont have to shout to be heard. Soft power is often the most enduring power. Whether you are an introvert trying to navigate a loud world, or an extrovert trying to understand your quiet colleagues, this book is a revelation. Stop apologizing for who you are. The world needs your depth.