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Individuals with borderline personality disorder are the psychological equivalent of patients with third-degree burns. They are emotionally in living flesh; even the slightest friction or movement can create immense suffering. Marsha Linehan, University of Washington. In the areas of psychiatry and psychology, when we determine a diagnosis or coin a term, it is inevitable that we will fall into generalizations and lose sight of the human and the particular. This leads to treatment errors that can cause irreparable damage. In this exciting book -- which includes real testimonies of both...

Una de las cuestiones mas problematicas a las que nos enfrentamos hoy en dia es quien debe determinar cuando y como morimos. Libertad fatal es una elocuente defensa del derecho de cada individuo a elegir una muerte voluntaria. Thomas Szasz, un celebre psiquiatra, piensa que podemos hablar acerca del suicidio tranquila y racionalmente, tal como el hace en este libro, y que, en ultima instancia, podemos aceptarlo como un aspecto mas de la condicion humana. Mediante el mantenimiento de normas que determinan que la muerte voluntaria no es legal, nuestra sociedad esta enajenando una de sus...

Michel Jouvet examina la fisiolog a del sue o y de los sue os Para llegar a la descripci n de los tres estados del cerebro: la vigilia, el sue o y el sue o parad jico, confrontando la explicaci n freudiana de los sue os con las actuales teor as neurobiol gicas. Por sus distintos enfoques, esta obra est dirigida a los especialistas del tema y a los interesados en estudios cient ficos del sue o y los sue os.

In the present book, a repository of more than twenty-five years of dedication to the study and practice o«When I was a child, I used to go often to Luxembourg. I could recapitulate my existence by speaking only of this garden and the images it awakens in me. Winters of war... the mornings when it was getting late and I was running to the Lycée Montaigne... Fixed moment: the same eternal old man in the worn-out suit throwing bread to the pigeons. An elegant young woman watches out of the corner of her eye as her son washes his hands in the dirt...». Can an ethnologist observe the customs...