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Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brainwashing

19 reviews
William Sargant

Malor Books, 1997

Conversion - religious and political
This is an important book for what it reveals about the nature of interrogation. Interrogation, as it is practiced' is not about finding the truth but about creating a set of new beliefs in the prisoner. As the author, Sargent, points out this may be entirely unintentional on the part of the questioner. However the techniques they use to overcome their subject's resistance act to put him/her in a ...

The Healing Brain: Breakthrough Discoveries About How the Brain Keeps Us Healthy

3 reviews
Robert Ornstein, David Sobel

Malor Books, 1999

First Rate;Speculative,Positive, and Reflective:
I bought this book for the sake of research without a referal.Not only was it a wealth of facts, its operational premise, which could be stated as "the brain studying the brain" has to be both medicinal and evolutionary. I have had great insight and fun with the observations of lizard brain versus mammalian brain. Neural, social, enviromental,anthropological,modern, ancient,philosophic, ...

The Manipulated Mind: Brainwashing, Conditioning and Indoctrination

11 reviews
Denise Winn

Malor Books, 2000

Man as a species is creative because `no man is an island'
This book is concerned with brainwashing. However instead of concentrating on the specifics of the techniques used, it presents and analyzes why brainwashing and other forms of conversion are possible. The book extensively quotes from Sargent's seminal studies reported in "Battle for the Mind". Sargent showed how brainwashing and conversion can be traced to a physiological strategy used by the ...

Unmasking the Face

5 reviews
Paul Ekman, Wallace V. Friesen

Malor Books, 2003

A Must-Have Primer for Learning to Recognize Facial Expressions
Ekman is a leading authority on the study of the facial expressions and their relation to emotion, and this book is a methodical and thorough (for the layperson, at least) introduction to the field, with special focus on recognizing what he calls the six basic universally expressed emotions: happiness, fear, anger, surprise, disgust/contempt, and sadness. Ekman provides clear, well-detailed ...

Burnout: The Cost of Caring

1 review
Christina Maslach

Malor Books, 2003

Even more relevant today
I'm sorry to see that this book is out of print, because it's even more pertinent today than when it was first written. The author describes the problem of "burnout" common in people in the helping professions, and points out that its causes come from the work environment rather than the individual. This is in contrast to most other studies of burnout, which view it as strictly the individual's ...

MindReal: How the Mind Creates its Own Virtual Reality

3 reviews
Robert Ornstein

Malor Books, 2008

Virtually four thumbs up!!!!
Dr. Ornstein's books such as The Healing Brain are always mind blowing. The Evolution of Consciousness is probably the one I talk to people the most about, and in a way MindReal is the ultimate sequel. It gives example after example of how our mind can generate perceptual distortions, how in many ways it can be ill suited for the modern world, and then several solutions and hope filled ...

Darwin and Facial Expression: A Century of Research in Review

Malor Books, 2006

Awakening Young Minds: Perspectives on Education

2 reviews

Malor Books, 1997

Wake Up and Think
My name is Matt. I am an education major planning to graduate and enter the field in 2003. I read Awakening Young Minds to better prepare for a class presentation. My first impression of the book before I began my journay throung it was at it would be a book based upon awakening the young minds of students. It is in a sense,how to do just that, however, it is more centered around awaking the ...

New World New Mind: Moving Toward Conscious Evolution

3 reviews
Robert E. Ornstein, Paul Ehrlich

Malor Books, 2000

From 1989, Not Updated, Superb Never-the-Less
EDIT 20 Dec 07 to add links. This superb book was published in 1989 and is being reissued, and I am very glad it has come out again. I bought it because it was recommended by Tom Atlee, seer of the Co-Intelligence Institute, and I found it very worthwhile. As I reflect on the book, I appreciate two key points from the book: 1) The evolution of our brains and our ability to sense ...

Meditation and Modern Psychology
Robert Ornstein

Malor Books, 2008

The Teaching Story, The Dermis Probe and Evenings with Idries Shah
Idries Shah

Malor Books, 1998

Selections from Idries Shah?s bestseller The Dermis Probe, read by members of The London College of Storytellers, plus Evenings with Idries Shah - Sufi discussions Collected by R. Easterling and Kamil Hanifi, read by David Wade The Sufis have been using carefully constructed stories for teaching purposes for thousands of years. Though on the surface these often appear to be little more than entertaining fairytales or folktales, they ...

The Teachers of Gurdjieff

21 reviews
Rafael Lefort

Malor Books, 1998

Excellent Book, very beneficial!
This is a very good book for those people who are interested in the teachings of Gurdjieff. It is a story about a young man from Paris who is studying in a Gurdjieff group. After being in the group and realizing that he is making little progress and that some of the group's main principles contradict much of what Gurdjieff himself taught, he becomes disillusioned. Selling everything he decides to ...

Origins of Mental Illness : Temperament, Deviance and Disorder
Gordon Claridge

Malor Books, 1996

What determines the form of mental illness from which particular people suffer? Professor Claridge's central theme is that "psychiatric" disorders--even in their most severe forms--are abnormal manifestations of temperamental and personality characteristics we all possess to a greater or lesser degree. Examining the major forms of abnormality from this point of view, the author puts particular emphasis on the continuity between schizophrenia and ...

The Golden Door: International Migration, Mexico, and the United States
Paul R. Ehrlich, Loy Bilderback, ...

Malor Books, 2008

The Mind Field : A Personal Essay

1 review
Robert Ornstein

Malor Books, 1996

Ok but dated
Mind Field is part essay and part exposition of Idries Shah's non-Islamic Sufism. The first half of the book is a overview of psychology as it stood back in 1975 when it was written. It covers subjects like parapsychology and altered states, the effects of meditation. Overall the first half is a good read. The second half is a rather indirect introduction to Idries Shah's version of Sufism via a ...

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