Minding the Body: The body in psychoanalysis and beyond (Repost)

Alessandra Lemma, “Minding the Body: The body in psychoanalysis and beyond”
English | ISBN: 0415718600, 0415718597 | 2014 | 210 pages | PDF | 1 MB

Minding the Body: The Body in Psychoanalysis and Beyond outlines the value of a psychoanalytic approach to understanding the body and its vicissitudes and for addressing these in the context of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. The chapters cover a broad but esoteric range of subjects that are not often discussed within psychoanalysis such as the function of breast augmentation surgery, the psychic origins of hair, the use made of the analyst’s toilet, transsexuality and the connection between dermatological conditions and necrophilic fantasies. The book also reaches ‘beyond the couch’ to consider the nature of reality television makeover show.

The book is based on the Alessandra Lemma’s extensive clinical experience as a psychoanalyst and psychologist working in a range of public and private health care settings with patients for whom the body is the primary presenting problem or who have made unconscious use of the body to communicate their psychic pain. Minding the Body draws on detailed clinical examples that vividly illustrate how the author approaches these clinical presentations in the consulting room and, as such, provides insights to the practicing clinician that will support their attempts at formulating patients’ difficulties psychoanalytically and for how to helps such patients. It will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychologists, psychiatrists, mental health workers, academics and literary readers interested in the body, sexuality and gender.

Pilates: Body in Motion

Alycea Ungaro, “Pilates: Body in Motion”
2014 | EPUB | 176 pages | ISBN: 0789484005, ASIN: B00IPT0GWU | English | 22 MB

The most authoritative, step-by-step guide to Pilates available on the market. Popular for decades with dancers, athletes, and celebrities, Pilates is the perfect equipment-free workout for a stronger, leaner, fitter body. With great emphasis on precision and awareness, not only is Pilates great for the body, but for the mind as well. Using step-by-step mat-work exercises and a wide range of programs, from beginner to advanced, Pilates: Body in Motion is the only practical guide that shows you all of the proper steps to follow and how to avoid common mistakes in your conditioning.

Published authority on fitness and wellness and a pioneer of the Pilates method, Alycea Ungaro brought some of the very first mat Pilates classes to New York City. Both the method and Alycea built a devoted following as people flocked to her classes. Alycea’s clientele includes some of today’s most high profile celebrities ranging from Madonna, Uma Thurman, Kyra Sedgewick, Christy Turlington, Claire Danes, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Molly Sims, among others.

Alycea has expanded her popular Pilates classes into a fitness media empire. Her first multi-media project was the innovative Portable Pilates™, an easy-to-use at-home mat workout. Best selling titles followed including; Pilates: Body in Motion, published in 2002, The Pilates Promise published in 2004, and The Pilates Practice Companion. Now, for the first time since its release, Pilates: Body In Motion is available in eBook edition sold exclusively though Amazon.

In addition to serving on the advisory board of Fitness Magazine and as About.com’s resident Pilates expert, Alycea travels widely as a guest teacher hosting retreats at world-famous locations such as Amangani in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Together with long-time client Christy Turlington, Alycea collaborated on a “Pilates Booty” shoe for Puma. The booty was aptly named “The Alycea.” Alycea is also the creator of SpringTone®, the ideal resistance training class utilizing various weighted springs to strengthen and sculpt, launching nationwide.

Alycea was early to the digital game by partnering with Mobile Mind, Inc. to launch a cell phone version of Portable Pilates™. This go-anywhere mini-workout, was designed to broaden Pilates accessibility. 15 Minute Everyday Pilates has also been converted into a series of Vooks (video books) that are available for iPhones and iPads as well as the Amazon Kindle and the Android platform. The New York Times has hailed these Pilates Apps as the best on the market. She also created the “15 Minute Everyday Pilates” DVD and the patented Real Alignment Mat for the home exerciser.

In addition to her Pilates expertise, Alycea is a licensed physical therapist having graduated from New York University’s prestigious program. She is also a certified Perinatal specialist making her uniquely qualified to work with all levels of disability and with clients during any phase of their pregnancy. When she is not traveling, Alycea spends her days working with students and teachers and growing the Pilates industry.

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Felon Fitness: How to Get a Hard Body Without Doing Hard Time

William S. Kroger and Trey Teufel, “Felon Fitness: How to Get a Hard Body Without Doing Hard Time”
2011 | EPUB | 224 pages | ISBN: 1440526591 | English | 3.3 MB

Forget the fancy equipment, friendly trainers, and cushy gym. This is a workout courtesy of the Department of Corrections. With jacked inmates as your motivation, certified trainer Teufel and counselor Kroger have locked down an exercise regimen that’s guaranteed to show real results.

If you’re a workout lifer, this book provides a new way to approach your routine, working in cherry pickers and butterflies to extend your range of motion and informing you which less effective exercises to cease and desist. If you’re fresh meat looking to tone up, the squats, push-ups, and burpies will get you yard-ready in less than a three-month stint.

This program’s legit. Each exercise comes straight from the cellblock and the routines are those of real inmates. It’s the workout of a lifetime–from guys serving twenty-five to life.

Food Full of Life: Nourishing Body, Soul, and Spirit

Food Full of Life: Nourishing Body, Soul, and Spirit by Gill Bacchus
English | 2012 | ISBN: 086315915X | 144 pages | EPUB | 3,7 MB

Is organic and biodynamic food worth the higher price consumers often pay?

Which aspects of us are nourished by the food we eat?

How can different methods of growing and cooking food best preserve the life energies in our food?

In recent years there has been a growing awareness of the quality of the food we eat, allied to a mistrust of many aspects of large-scale agribusiness, industrial farming, and monoculture. In response to these concerns, many consumers have turned to buying and consuming mostly organic or biodynamic produce.

Our current financial climate makes those buying decisions difficult for many people. Organic food is often more expensive, and tests by conventional scientists claim to show that is has no extra nutritional value. This book questions whether these claims have any basis.

Gill Bacchus concludes that modern scientific methods simply cannot reveal or measure the true life processes that give quality to our food. Exploring ideas from organics and Rudolf Steiner’s biodynamics, the author discusses how the Earth’s formative energies, especially sunlight, are essential to the healthy life of plants and animals. The living energy in our food is either enhanced or destroyed by our chosen methods of farming, processing and cooking. The author states that the health not only of our bodies, but also of our consciousness, thinking, and emotions depends on nourishing ourselves wisely and offers advice on how we can learn to find and choose food that is “full of life and light.”

The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better

The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better by Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee
English | 2007 | ISBN: 1400064694, 0812975278 | 240 pages | EPUB | 1,3 MB

In this compelling, cutting-edge book, two generations of science writers explore the exciting science of “body maps” in the brain–and how startling new discoveries about the mind-body connection can change and improve our lives. Why do you still feel fat after losing weight? What makes video games so addictive? How can “practicing” your favorite sport in your imagination improve your game? The answers can be found in body maps.

Just as road maps represent interconnections across the landscape, your many body maps represent all aspects of your bodily self, inside and out. In concert, they create your physical and emotional awareness and your sense of being a whole, feeling self in a larger social world.

Moreover, your body maps are profoundly elastic. Your self doesn’t begin and end with your physical body but extends into the space around you. This space morphs every time you put on or take off clothes, ride a bike, or wield a tool. When you drive a car, your personal body space grows to envelop it. When you play a video game, your body maps automatically track and emulate the actions of your character onscreen. When you watch a scary movie, your body maps put dread in your stomach and send chills down your spine. If your body maps fall out of sync, you may have an out-of-body experience or see auras around other people.

The Body Has a Mind of Its Own explains how you can tap into the power of body maps to do almost anything better–whether it is playing tennis, strumming a guitar, riding a horse, dancing a waltz, empathizing with a friend, raising children, or coping with stress.

The story of body maps goes even further, providing a fresh look at the causes of anorexia, bulimia, obsessive plastic surgery, and the notorious golfer’s curse “the yips.” It lends insights into culture, language, music, parenting, emotions, chronic pain, and more.

Filled with illustrations, wonderful anecdotes, and even parlor tricks that you can use to reconfigure your body sense, The Body Has a Mind of Its Own will change the way you think–about the way you think.

“The Blakeslees have taken the latest and most exciting finds from brain research and have made them accessible. This is how science writing should always be.”

–Michael S. Gazzaniga, Ph.D., author of The Ethical Brain

“Through a stream of fascinating and entertaining examples, Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee illustrate how our perception of ourselves, and indeed the world, is not fixed but is surprisingly fluid and easily modified. They have created the best book ever written about how our sense of ‘self’ emerges from the motley collection of neurons we call the brain.”

–Jeff Hawkins, co-author of On Intelligence

“The Blakeslees have taken the latest and most exciting finds from brain research and have made them accessible. This is how science writing should always be.”

–Michael S. Gazzaniga, Ph.D., author of The Ethical Brain

“A marvelous book. In the last ten years there has been a paradigm shift in understanding the brain and how its various specialized regions respond to environmental challenges. In addition to providing a brilliant overview of recent revolutionary discoveries on body image and brain plasticity, the book is sprinkled with numerous insights.”

–V. S. Ramachandran, M.D., director, Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego

The Yoga-Body Cleanse: A 7-Day Ayurvedic Detox to Rejuvenate Your Body and Calm Your Mind

The Yoga-Body Cleanse: A 7-Day Ayurvedic Detox to Rejuvenate Your Body and Calm Your Mind by Robin Westen
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1612432794 | 224 pages | EPUB | 1,2 MB

ENHANCE YOUR PRACTICE

Yoga brings us into balance by opening the heart, clearing the mind and increasing flexibility while strengthening muscles, bones and internal organs. These amazing benefits are boosted to the max in The Yoga-Body Cleanse, which uses traditional Ayurvedic principles to rid your body of toxins and leave you fully rejuvenated. The simple day-by-day program in this book offers a complete diet of smart, delicious foods with super-healing powers that strengthen you instead of leaving you hungry. By following this holistic program you will:

• Feel Energized

• Flush Contaminants

• Lose 5 to 8 Pounds

• Relieve Stress

• Look Younger

• Increase Mental Clarity

Peter Paulson - Upgrade Your Body & Mind

Peter Paulson, “Upgrade Your Body & Mind: Simple Secrets & Strategies to Burn Fat Fast as Hell, Build Muscle, Get Lean, Upgrade Your Health & Improve Your Brain With Memory Tips & Tricks”
2014 | EPUB | 26 pages | ASIN: B00L5P26K6 | English | 0.1 MB

This book is like a step by step blueprint to improving your body and life! James Irwin

Do you want to lose fat, improve your health, increase your brain power and sleep better?

Or maybe you want to build muscle, unleash your inner creativity and banish your stress?

Well, whatever you want from life there are some simple body hacks you can use to achieve it.

And this book contains the simplest strategies and hacks you can implement today to upgrade your life.

I’ve been compiling the best academic research to come up with the ultimate collection of tips and tricks to help you improve every area of your life.

Whether you want to lose fat, build muscle, upgrade your brain or protect your body this book has you covered.

If you want to perform at a peak level day-to-day you need a few factors in your life to be aligned.

You need a good night’s sleep, you need to eat the right foods and you need to take control of your fitness.

With all that in mind this book has be written to allow you to easily achieve each of these factors in your everyday life, without making massive, unsustainable changes.

All the tips, tricks, hacks and strategies are presented in a super simple way and organized so you can pick and choose what area of your life you want to improve.

Pick what changes you want to make to your body and mind then adopt a few simple strategies to upgrade yourself.

– Want to build lean muscle?

– Want to lose fat?

– Want clearer skin?

– Want to upgrade your memory?

– Want to increase concentration?

– Want to increase your testosterone levels?

– Want to decrease stress and increase happiness?

Well, this book has all that and more.

Menopause Reset!: Reverse Weight Gain, Speed Fat Loss, and Get Your Body Back in 3 Simple Steps

Menopause Reset!: Reverse Weight Gain, Speed Fat Loss, and Get Your Body Back in 3 Simple Steps by Dr. Mickey Harpaz PhD and Robert Wolff
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1605291773, 160961447X | 224 pages | EPUB | 1 MB

Menopause Reset! is the revolutionary, scientifically-proven program that helps women control the physiological effects of perimenopause and menopause with mind, diet, and exercise solutions that keep blood sugar levels stable and bodies in the fat-burning zone all day long. In the past, controversial hormonal replacement therapy was the only method by which women could positively affect menopausal symptoms. But Menopause Reset! changes all of that. The program specifically regulates blood glucose with food, exercise, and highly effective stress reduction techniques, allowing women to stop and reverse menopausal weight and fat gain. Based on the successful treatment of tens of thousands of women whose life-changing results are included in the book, Dr. Harpaz has put together an easy, 3-step solution that targets the triggers of menopause and its symptoms. Menopause Reset! teaches women all about their metabolic mechanisms: what they are, how they work, and, most importantly, how to manipulate them to achieve sustainable weight loss and get their bodies back!

Detox for Women: An All New Approach for a Sleek Body and Radiant Health in 4 Weeks

Detox for Women: An All New Approach for a Sleek Body and Radiant Health in 4 Weeks by Natalia Rose
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks | 2010 | ISBN: 0061749745 | 240 pages | PDF | 12,8 MB

In her ten years of working privately with celebrity clients at leading Manhattan spas, Natalia Rose has discovered that traditional detox plans don’t work for adult women. In fact, doing the wrong kind of detox can make their symptoms even worse!

With Detox 4 Women, Rose has formulated a very specific detox prescription that is easy to follow and gentle on the system, yet yields fantastic results that are both immediate and lasting. Here is her powerful step-by-step plan that will help you shed weight, look years younger, and radiate energy in only 28 days—during which time you will enjoy:

Cooked foods that are easy to digest

Treats like dark chocolate and wine

Recipes reminiscent of favorite foods like pumpkin pie and guacamole

Sunshine for Breakfast! Rose’s own elixir for health and beauty

Great restaurants—this plan can even be tailored for eating out!

You will also luxuriate in relaxing baths, get plenty of fresh air, and enjoy meals that are simple to prepare, beautiful to look at, and delicious to eat. With inspiring stories from real women, Natalia Rose gives you much more than a detox program—this is a prescription for finally achieving the kind of personal transformation you have always dreamed about!