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This is an award-winning biography of Alfred Adler, one of the major psychological thinkers of the 20th century. It presents his entire life against the backdrop of tumultuous world events, including turn-of-the century Vienna, World War I, the roaring '20s in the United States, and the rise of fascism and Stalinism in 1930s Europe.

Alone among modern psychologists, Carl Jung ranks as a visionary. His ground-breaking approach to personality theory and psychotherapy was matched by pioneering work in the fields of inner growth, wholeness, and mystical experiences, and his ideas continue to influence every aspect of our lives, from education and business to popular culture. This book distills Jung's wisdom into an essential volume that allows listeners to contemplate his fascinating ideas as he would have liked them understood: in his own words.

The Right to Be Human is the award-winning, definitive biography of Abraham Maslow, perhaps the most important American psychological thinker of the 20th century. In many ways, Maslow remains more relevant than ever in impacting such diverse fields around the world as psychology, counseling, social work, education, health care, management, marketing, and even theology. Written by psychologist Edward Hoffman, this book has been widely praised for its lucidity in placing Maslow' s influential life in its cultural-historical context.

Highlights the tradition of the Lamed Vav—36 hidden righteous individuals in every generation who sustain the world with acts of kindness Relates the Lamed Vav mythos to topics of positive psychology such as meditation, peak-experiences, synchronicity, and higher consciousness ...

In this powerful, far-reaching collection, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eric Freedman and psychologist-biographer Edward Hoffman bring John F. Kennedy to vibrant life through his own words, examining the broad range of his thinking on such topics as racism, religion and faith, peace, war and terrorism, partisan politics, business and employment, welfare, education, celebrities and world leaders, technology, the futures, and his vision for the United States.

As a psychologist, biographer, and parent, I have long been interested in children's spirituality. My book Visions of Innocence is based on reports of childhood mystical or spiritual experiences provided by more than 200 men and women in North America and abroad.