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There Is No Blue

By (author) Martha Baillie
Categories: Abnormal psychology

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Martha Baillie’s richly layered response to her mother’s passing, ...

Letters with Smokie

Leave it to a dog to put the “human” back in “humanities”

In September 2020, Rod Michalko wrote to friend and colleague Dan Goodley, congratulating him on the release of his latest book, Disability ...

Doing Harm

By (author) Roy J. Eidelson
Categories: Psychology

Doing Harm pries open the black box on a critical chapter in the recent history of psychology: the field’s enmeshment in the so-called war on terror and the ensuing reckoning over do-no-harm ethics during ...

Childhood Unplugged

Ditch the devices and bring back the magic of being a kid

Screens are everywhere. Children spend an average of 7.5 hours on digital devices every day with profoundly negative consequences. While some ...

I Want a Better Catastrophe

By (author) Andrew Boyd
Categories: Climate change

An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers

WITH GLOBAL WARMING projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd is thrown into a crisis ...

Shop Class Hall Pass

By (author) Karin Martel
Categories: Abnormal psychology

Karin Martel had never considered what happened to her in ninth grade shop class as sexual abuse. So when she is in a regularly scheduled, routine session with the department therapist to talk through ...

Something within Me

The late Honourable Michael Wilson was a Canadian politician and business professional. As Minister of Finance under Brian Mulroney, Wilson was one of the key negotiators of the Canada-United States Free ...

Damaged

Through an honest retelling of interactions between a dedicated psychiatrist and his most challenging patient, Isaac, Damaged makes the inspiring case that health care would be both more compassionate ...

Enlightened Gardener Revisited, The

Author and philosopher Sydney Banks once again brings to life his wise and simple gardener as a voice through which Banks presents more implications of the Three Principles that create human reality, ...

Falling Into Flight

By (author) Kaija Pepper
Categories: Psychotherapy: counselling

Falling into Flight offers insight into a life experienced through the arts: first as a young enthusiastic dancer, then as a thoughtful dance critic. After her parents die, Kaija starts psychotherapy ...