The Abyss of the Mind
The Abyss of the Mind

Author: Alan J. Lifchitz

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2013-12-27

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9781493524396

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Among professionals in the medical field, psychiatrists have proven to be the least religious. But is it possible for mental health care and spirituality to coexist? According to Alan J. Lifchitz, MD, the two have more in common than it may seem. After becoming more religious later in life, the long-time psychiatrist began to take a look back at his extensive career, this time viewing his patients through the spiritual insight he had adopted-through the prism of the soul, rather than through their tangible physicality. Inspired by his Hasidic Jewish philosophy, Lifchitz set out to combine his deep spiritual beliefs with his experience as a clinician in his inspirational nonfiction autobiography The Abyss of the Mind. This candid memoir follows the author through medical school in South Africa, focuses on some of the most interesting case studies of his career, and reveals his journey to seeing things from a newly religious perspective. From professionals trying to meld religion and career to individuals suffering from mental illness, this book has something for anyone who is looking to take a more spiritual approach to life and reap the healing benefits of nurturing the soul as well as the body and mind.

Into the Abyss
Into the Abyss

Author: Anthony David

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2020-02-06

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 178607706X

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‘Highly eloquent, fascinating and deeply compassionate’ Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm We cannot know how to fix a problem until we understand its causes. But even for some of the most common mental health problems, specialists argue over whether the answers lie in the person’s biology, their psychology or their circumstances. As a cognitive neuropsychiatrist, Anthony David brings together many fields of enquiry, from social and cognitive psychology to neurology. The key for each patient might be anything from a traumatic memory to a chemical imbalance, an unhealthy way of thinking or a hidden tumour. Patrick believes he is dead. Jennifer's schizophrenia medication helped with her voices but did it cause Parkinson’s? Emma is in a coma – or is she just refusing to respond? Drawing from Professor David’s career as a clinician and academic, these fascinating case studies reveal the unique complexity of the human mind, stretching the limits of our understanding.

Deep Into The Abyss Of The Mind 2
Deep Into The Abyss Of The Mind 2

Author: Lee Hodge

Publisher:

Published: 2020-07-16

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13:

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This book is about checking yourself, it is about looking truly Deep Into The Abyss Of The Mind. Readers will learn, that while others may use the term "object of comfort" it is still an attachment and attachment time and time again will cause you pain. This book will teach you the positives as well as the negatives of reading self-help books. This book will put you at ease when facing the day to day stressors in life and you will get a deep x-ray vision into the "fright" of reading self-help books. You will learn the difference between your reality and ultimate reality. You will also learn that the unspecified occurs in the inflexible. This book will escort your mind through an evolution phase to bring forth a dissimilar viewpoint far from what you have ever contemplated prior. Let repetition act as the fertilizer you will need to grow and blossom into a whole new person. Peace!

The Surface and the Abyss
The Surface and the Abyss

Author: Peter Bornedal

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 3110223414

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Peter Bornedal provides an interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy as a whole in the context of 19th century philosophy of mind and cognition. The study explains Nietzsche's notion of truth; his epistemology; his notions of the split and fragmented subject, of master, slave, and priest; furthermore, it offers a new interpretation of the enigmatic "eternal recurrence". It also suggests how important aspects of Nietzsche's thinking can be read as a sophisticated critique of ideology. From studies in Nietzsche's work as a whole, not least in his so-called Nachgelassene Fragmente, thebook reconstructs aspects of Nietzsche's thinking that have largely been under-described in especially the Anglo-Saxon Nietzsche-reception. The study makes the case that Nietzsche in his epistemology, his psychology, and his cognitive theory is responding to several scientific discoveries occuring during the 19th century. Read within the context of contemporary cognitive-psychological-evolutionary debates, Nietzsche's philosophy is seen as far more scientistic, and far less poetical-metaphysical, than it has in recent reception-history been received.

The Book of Minds
The Book of Minds

Author: Philip Ball

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2022-06-28

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 022679587X

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Minds and where to find them -- The space of possible minds -- All the things you are -- Waking up to the world -- Solomon's secret -- Aliens on the doorstep -- Machine minds -- Out of this world -- Free to choose -- How to know it all.

My Bright Abyss
My Bright Abyss

Author: Christian Wiman

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2013-04-02

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0374216789

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A passionate meditation on the consolations and disappointments of religion and poetry

How We Learn
How We Learn

Author: Stanislas Dehaene

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2021-02-02

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0525559906

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“There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and ‘learning’ is such a word. It seems so ordinary, everyone does it. Actually it’s more of a black box, which Dehaene cracks open to reveal the awesome secrets within.”--The New York Times Book Review An illuminating dive into the latest science on our brain's remarkable learning abilities and the potential of the machines we program to imitate them The human brain is an extraordinary learning machine. Its ability to reprogram itself is unparalleled, and it remains the best source of inspiration for recent developments in artificial intelligence. But how do we learn? What innate biological foundations underlie our ability to acquire new information, and what principles modulate their efficiency? In How We Learn, Stanislas Dehaene finds the boundary of computer science, neurobiology, and cognitive psychology to explain how learning really works and how to make the best use of the brain’s learning algorithms in our schools and universities, as well as in everyday life and at any age.

The Edge of the Abyss
The Edge of the Abyss

Author: Emily Skrutskie

Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.

Published: 2017-04-18

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 163583001X

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Eighteen-year-old Cas Leung struggles with her morality and her romantic relationship with fellow pirate Swift as she and the Minnow crew work to take down wild sea monsters, dubbed Hellbeasts, who are attacking ships and destroying the ocean ecosystem.

The Abyss
The Abyss

Author: Orson Scott Card

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780671676254

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The sea holds many mysteries . . . but one is truly out of this world! When divers attempt to retrieve a sunken U.S. submarine, they discover a powerful force lurking deep beneath the sea, ready to unleash war, chaos and destruction! Ties in to the sensational summer movie.

The Life of the Mind
The Life of the Mind

Author: Christine Smallwood

Publisher: Hogarth

Published: 2022-03-15

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0593229916

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ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR, The Atlantic, Electric Lit, Thrillist, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews • A witty, intelligent novel of an American woman on the edge, by a brilliant new voice in fiction—“the glorious love child of Ottessa Moshfegh and Sally Rooney” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) “[A] jewel of a debut . . . abundantly satisfying.”—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker As an adjunct professor of English in New York City with little hope of finding a permanent position, Dorothy feels “like a janitor in the temple who continued to sweep because she had nowhere else to be but who had lost her belief in the essential sanctity of the enterprise.” No one but her boyfriend knows that she’s just had a miscarriage—not her mother, her best friend, or her therapists (Dorothy has two of them). She wasn’t even sure she wanted to be a mother. So why does Dorothy feel like a failure? The Life of the Mind is a book about endings—of youth, of ambition, of possibility, but also of the meaning that an inquiring mind can find in the mess of daily experience. Mordant and remorselessly wise, this jewel of a debut cuts incisively into life as we live it, and how we think of it.