Dr Kirk Schneider talks with Thom Hartmann about why extremism is on the rise. We often talk about right-wing extremists trying to take over the Republican Party - but in reality - there are extremists in all branches of our society. What leads someone to resort to extremism - and how can we combat polarization of the mind?
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How can we not be afraid of Alzheimer's Disease? How can we not dread aging? by posing these questions we are invited alternate ways of seeing Alzheimer's disease as well as aging. In so doing we do not want to minimize the suffering that people may experience watching a loved one become forgetful. Nor do we want to minimize that becoming forgetful and growing old can be pain processes. Rather, Conversations with Ed wants to create a positive cultural space for people with dementia, for those who accompany them on their journey and for those who fear being afflicted with it.
Read more aboutConversations with Ed and the authors Ed Voris, Nader Shabahangi, and Patrick Fox in this article, "Consensus Smiles" by Dr. Sally Gelardin posted in the "We are AgeSong" May 2013 AgeSong Communities Newsletter.[PDF] In this featured article Dr. Gelardin talks about Conversations With Ed, her meeting Ed Voris, and some backstory about how Ed Voris and Nadar Shabahangi met and how Conversations with Ed evolved. Dr Sally Gelardin is current Enrichment Director at AgeSong Elder & Assisted Living Communities and Editor of AgeSongToday.com
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Saybrook University and the University Professors Press invite you to a Book Release and Signing Celebration for The Polarized Mind: Why It’s Killing Us and What We Can Do About It by Kirk Schneider, PhD on Wednesday, May 22, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at Saybrook University’s Campus at 747 First Street, 3rd Floor, in San Francisco, CA. Please join us to celebrate the publication of this important new book.
RSVP with Louis Hoffman at University Professors Press.
More information on the event is available at Saybrook University’s events page.
What do a school shooter, a corporate swindler, and a bullheaded ideologue have in common? They all converge on what Dr. Kirk Schneider terms “the polarized mind.” The polarized mind, which is the fixation on one point of view to the utter exclusion of competing points of view, is killing us—personally, politically, and environmentally. Drawing from the standpoint of existential psychology, this book details the basis for the polarized mind, how it has ravaged leaders and their cultures throughout history (up to and including our own time), and steps we urgently need to take to address the problem. These steps combine contemporary insights with centuries of cross-cultural, awe-inspired wisdom.
"....one of the great reflections on humanity."
~ Alfried Langle, MD, President of the International Society for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis, Vienna, Austria
“The Polarized Mind is excellent. In my estimation it is a 21st century extension of Rollo May’s Cry for Myth. I mean this as the highest compliment.”
~ Sheldon Solomon, PhD, Social Psychologist, Skidmore College, co-founder of Terror Management Theory and co-author of In the Wake of 9/11
“Enormously important...[The Polarized Mind] will be of great appeal to students, trainees, practitioners, and academics...as well as to educated readers concerned about the perils of human life in the 21st century.”
~ Robert D. Stolorow, PhD, Author, World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis, Founding faculty member, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis
"The Polarized Mind is not only very timely, it is also very moving."
~ Sonja Saltman, PhD, co-founder of the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV) Boyd School of Law
The Polarized Mind:Why It's Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
Kirk Schneider, PhD
University Professors Press, Spring 2013
Price: 19.95
ISBN: 978-1-939686-00-8
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Author Kirk J. Schneider, Ph.D., is a leading spokesperson for contemporary existential-humanistic psychology. Dr. Schneider is current editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, vice-president of the Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI), and adjunct faculty at Saybrook University, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and Teachers College, Columbia University. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), Dr. Schneider has published over 100 articles and chapters and has authored or edited ten books. Follow Dr. Schneider's blog Awakening to Awe on PyschologyToday.
This book is a practical guide for people who work and live with relatives or residents with symptoms of forgetfulness.
In Deeper into the Soul: Beyond Dementia and Alzheimer's Toward Forgetfulness Care, the authors invite us to shift our attitude toward dementia, or Forgetfulness, as they call it. Accompanying us are four characters—a sage, a psychologist, a physician, and an intern—who each sees Forgetfulness from a different viewpoint. The goal is to develop a perspective which includes the basic ingredients of openness, curiosity and acceptance.
Deeper into the Soul reminds us that each stage of forgetfulness is a meaningful part of the life journey, during which people experience important emotional and spiritual experiences. The authors remind us that with each effort to understand others, we expand our view of the world.
Read more about Deeper into the Soul and authors Nader Robert Shabahangi and Bogna Szymkiewicz here.
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Gloria Steinem became a spokesperson for issues about aging quite accidentally after declaring to a reporter on the occasion of her fortieth birthday, "This is what forty looks like. We've been lying for so long, who would know?" Because of this casual comment about her age and about the collective societal pressure to lie about our age she received an avalanche of thanks and support from other women facing age discrimination. This caused her to realize the far reaching dimensions of age oppression.
In her inspiring essay, Doing Sixty and Seventy, Steinem shares her views on age stereotyping, the unexpected liberation that comes with growing older, and defines what she perceives as the fact that women become more radical as they age. The essay also sheds light on the forces that shaped her life and for readers who have only heard bits and pieces about her the essay offers a primer on her bold and logical theories.
Elders Academy Press is proud to publish Ms. Steinem's enlightening and thought-provoking essay — thus allowing it to appear for the first time as an independent volume.
Read more about Doing Sixty and Seventy and author Gloria Steinem here.
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Growing old is not an option. But how we age is a choice. At least we like to think so. AgeSong gives us a pleasurable nudge and a little inspiration to take charge of our aging. None of us knows how many years this final life-phase will last, but it's a pretty good bet that it will last at least as long as our adolescence.
AgeSong can be taken in small doses to direct our thinking toward the possibilities ahead of us rather than the life we've left behind. It offers us a look into a world that, for many of us, has always been available, but which we may not have had the physical or mental luxury of enjoying. It provides us a simple, yet profound, breathing space to take in the richness within our reach that could fill our last days with wonder and gratitude.
Read more about AgeSong and author Elizabeth Bugental here.
This book and all Elders Academy Press books are currently available 4 for the price of 3 during our Celebrate Eldership! book offer.
Buy 3 and get 4th book FREE! enter this coupon code: ELDERSHIP2013 during checkout at the Pacific Institute online store or place your order by fax 415-431-1012 or by phone 415-861-3455.
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The AgeSong Institute Gero-Wellness training emphasizes that we need to ‘see’ and care for the whole human being. It teaches that symptoms are meaningful and important signals for a deeper understanding of each person, that these symptoms need to be met with curiosity and respect, with an attitude of wonder and love.
This is not an easy journey. Interns face the complexity of the question of human identity and the fear and anxiety of disability and dying. They begin to understand the difference between being-with and doing-to and learn the art of unfolding a person’s process. They experience the many forms of forgetfulness and states of awareness, the many ways of communication, verbal and non-verbal. They begin to appreciate the quality and subjective nature of time, of slowing down, of being present and of listening deeply. They learn to establish a trusting relationship and experience the richness and challenge of hospice work. They learn about mindfulness, about focused attention, building community, and the meaning of isolation and loneliness. They learn to be with coma, trauma, and the many other forms and meanings of dependencies. They learn about the finitude of life, about what really matters – to them and others. Interns begin to grasp the difference between information and knowledge, between knowledge and wisdom.
Hearing an elder speak about life, sitting quietly next to a forgetful elder holding hands, walking slowly with an elder noticing one’s breath, the breeze on one’s face - these are encounters of the real kind. They present us with an inkling of the dimension of the human soul and spirit. These encounters change your life.
Read more about Encounters of the Real Kind and author Nader Shabahangi here.
This book and all Elders Academy Press books are currently available 4 for the price of 3 during our Celebrate Eldership! book offer.
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Outside of the United States? please phone 001-415-861-3455 ext. 3 or fax 001-415-431-1012 or email info@pacificinstitute.org.
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Featured Book: AgeSong: Meditations for Our Later Years by Elizabeth Bugental, PhD
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