How then do the mind & the body communicate? Could the mind cause diseases? The aim in this book is to answer these questions & to propose a comprehensive approach for doctors & psychotherapists those who are treating somatic patients whether in hospitals or private practice. It also sets out to raise awareness among readers with an interest in new developments & fresh approaches to diseases & patients. The work seeks to demonstrate the interrelations between mind & body with reference to various scientific disciplines. ...

When the Body Speaks applies Jungian concepts & and theories to infant development to demonstrate how archetypal imagery formed in early life can permanently affect a persons psychology. Drawing from Mara Sidolis rich clinical observations the book shows how psychosomatic disturbances originate in the early stages of life through unregulated affects. It links Jungs concepts of the self & the archetypes to the concepts of the primary self as conceptualized by Fordham as well as incorporating the work of other psychoanalysts such as Bion & Klein. Lucidly written When the Body Speaks is an important book for professionals & students in the fields of child & adult psychoanalysis & psychotherapy. ...

Seven-year-old Melody Quinn is the only witness of a horrific double murder but she cant or wont talk about what she saw. Child psychologist Alex Delaware is brought in to try & get through to her & to the truth of what happened that night. But it soon becomes clear that Melody isnt just traumatised by the murders. Alex is only too aware that LA is a city which spawns ugliness. But is he prepared for the seemingly bottomless pit of perversion & violence that hes about to uncover? ...

On 1 September 1939 Operation Pied Piper bgan to place the children of Britains industrial cities beyond the reach of the Luftwaffe. 1.5 million children pregnant women & schoolteachers were evacuated in 3 days. A further 2 million children were evacuated privately; the largest mass evacuation of children in British history. Some children went abroad others were sent to institutions but the majority were billeted with foster families. Some were away for weeks or months others for years. Homecoming was not always easy & a few described it as more difficult than going away in the first place. In When the Children Came Home Julie Summers tells us what happened when these children returned to their families. She looks at the different waves of British evacuation during WWII & explores how they coped both in the immediate aftermath of the war & in later life. For some it was a wonderful experience that enriched their whole lives for others it cast a long shadow for a few it changed things for ever. Using interviews written accounts & memoirs When the Children Came Home weaves together a collection of personal stories to create a warm & compelling portrait of wartime Britain from the childrens perspective. ...

When Clara O' Toole & her grandmother Bernie attend a meeting held by a medium they hope to be able to get in touch with Clara's father who was killed at the Front. Whilst they remain doubtful about the existence of a spirit world the experience does inspire Bernie to trace her one surviving child
- Gertie. Clara's search for her missing aunt brings her into contact with a whole new extended family. She is over the moon to find she has a cousin but is she ready to be drawn into the tragedies & secrets of family's past?
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Is the devil merely the name we give the worst in ourselves? When private investigator Jasmine Sharp is hired to find Tessa Garrion a young woman who has vanished without trace it becomes increasingly clear that there are those who want her to stay that way. What begins as a simple search awakens a malevolence that has lain dormant for three decades putting Jasmine in the crosshairs of those who would stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried. Uncovering a hidden history of sex drugs ritualism & murder Jasmine realises she may need a little help from dark places herself if she's going to get to the truth. But then needs must... ...

When a family-load of boisterous bumbling dragons burst into peaceful Poppledown Town theres sure to be trouble! Before long the whole town is thrown into chaos. The local market is turned upside down the library is louder than ever & the local playgroup has never experienced such disruptive pupils! Will Poppledown Town EVER be the same again? ...

For the Duke of Cosway it was a marriage of convenience. For his bride it was anything but... Isidore has waited for many long frustrating years for her mysterious husband to return from exploring the world. They were married by proxy when she was just a child but now shes fully grown & yearns for nothing more than for her Duke to return. Until he does come back. & he is not what she expected. At all. Not only does he refuse to conform to any of societys norms: he wont powder his hair has little regard for cravats & seems frighteningly keen on running around the countryside in nothing but short trousers. But
- more shocking than any other revelation
- he reveals that he is a virgin. There is an undeniable attraction though & while Isidore tries to establish whether this Duke was actually worth waiting for Cosway himself begins to discover that there may be more adventures in marriage than in all of the rest of the world...

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The third novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Roman series. After a series of bloody battles Camulodunum (modern-day Colchester) has fallen to the invading Roman army. The Emperor has returned to Rome leaving the fearless Centurion Macro & his young Optio Cato to rest & regroup along with the rest of the Second Legion. As their leader General Plautius plans the next phase of their campaign word arrives that the ship carrying his family to join him was wrecked in a storm off the south coast. His wife & children have fallen into the hands of a dark sect of Druids who now demand the return of those of their brotherhood taken prisoner by the Romans. Unless their demands are met within one month Plautius's family will be burned alive. Will Cato & Macro discover where the Druids are hiding their hostages? & can they find some way to rescue them before time runs out? ...

Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction When the Emperor Was Divine" is the critically acclaimed debut novel by bestselling writer Julie Otsuka
- author of " The Buddha in the Attic"
- in which she explores the lives of Japanese immigrants living in America during the Second World War. It is four months after Pearl Harbour & overnight signs appear all over the United States instructing Japanese Americans to report to internment camps for the duration of the war. For one family it proves to be a nightmare of oppression & alienation. Explored from varying points of view
- the mother receiving the order to evacuate; the daughter on the long train journey; the son in the desert encampment; the family's return home; & the bitter release of their father after four years in captivity
- it tells of an incarceration that will alter their lives for ever. Based on a true story Julie Otsuka's powerful deeply humane novel tells of an unjustly forgotten episode in America's wartime history. " Honest & gloriously written will haunt you long after you've turned the final page. Brilliant". (" Elle"). " An intense jewel of a book written with clarity & beauty". (" Marie Claire"). " Vindicates the suffering of the Japanese in America...a blistering first novel". (" The Times Literary Supplement"). "A compelling powerful portrait of a terrible endurance. Terrific". (" The Times"). Julie Otsuka was born & raised in California. She is the author of the novel " When the Emperor Was Divine" & a recipient of the Asian American Literary Award the American Library Association Alex Award & a Guggenheim fellowship. Her second novel " The Buddha in the Attic" was nominated for the 2011 National Book Award. She lives in New York City."



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