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“[Don Lattin] has created a stimulating and thoroughly engrossing read.” —Dennis McNally, author of A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead, and Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America It is impossible to...

When Luis de Molina died in Madrid in 1600, he had every reason to believe he was about to be anathametized by Pope Clement VIII. The Protestant Reformation was splitting Europe, tribunals of the Inquisition met regularly in a dozen Spanish cities, and...

‘I can understand myself only in the light of inner happenings. It is these that make up the singularity of my life, and with these my autobiography deals’ Carl Jung An eye-opening biography of one of the most influential psychiatrists of the modern...

With the rise of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist Party in Germany, Erich Neumann, who had just finished his medical studies, was forbidden, as were all his Jewish colleagues, from completing his final practicum year and obtaining his medical...

A Cold War biography based on Friedrich Nietzsche's fable of self-realisation - his story of the self. A TRANSCENDENT CAREERIt is the journey to enlightenment of a thinking man's spirit. He wants passionately to end the Cold War, in which arsenals...

Glenn shares threads of his life in this searching memoir. It includes glimpses into his doomed relationships, his experiences as a teacher - despite this not being his chosen career, and his experiences in other roles. He has been a manager, a magazine...

A great luminary of modern Thomistic studies was Bernard J. Lonergan, S.J. (1904-1984). One of his brightest disciples was William Murnion. Murnion was powerfully drawn to Lonergan’s interpretations of the thought of Thomas Aquinas and began to...

 Rolling in Ditches with Shamans charts American anthropology in the 1920s through the life and work of one of the amateur scholars of the time, Jaime de Angulo (1887–1950). Although he earned a medical degree, de Angulo chose to live on an...

Ancient Greek philosophy was a tradition of philosophical inquiry that began in the 6th century BCE and continued throughout the Hellenistic period. It was characterized by the use of reason and critical thinking to examine fundamental questions about...

Have you ever wondered about ANYTHING to do with psychology?Sure you have.Psychology Confidential is an opportunity to plunge deep into the world of psychology through the intimate, humorous and uniquely informed perspective of Dr. John Martin. In...