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Libérez-vous d'une relation toxique étouffante et reconstruisez votre estime de soi étape par étape. Si vous doutez constamment de vos perceptions et vous sentez épuisé par une dynamique égocentrique, cette écoute est votre point d'ancrage. Plongez dans une analyse bienveillante des...

目に見えない精神的虐待やガスライティングに静かに心を削られているあなたが、自己愛的な支配から抜け出し、自分らしさと心の平穏を取り戻すための実践的な道標です。一見穏やかな関係の裏に潜む「なぜか苦しい」...

Befreie dich aus toxischen Mustern und heile emotionale Erschöpfung mit diesem psychologischen Beziehungsratgeber. Schluss mit wiederkehrenden Dramen und Partnern, die sich innerlich erschreckend ähnlich anfühlen. Lerne, schädliche Dynamiken von normalen Konflikten zu unterscheiden, ohne...

Rompez enfin le lien traumatique de l'emprise psychologique et reprenez le contrôle de votre santé mentale. Si vous avez l'impression d'être prisonnier d'une relation toxique alternant maltraitance et faux réconfort, cet accompagnement bienveillant vous offre une véritable bouée de...

人がなぜ「わかっていながら」他者を傷つけるのか——職場や家庭に潜む意図的な虐待とモラルハラスメントの心理的メカニズムを解き明かし、人間関係の悩みに向き合う通勤時間や静かな夜に深い洞察をもたらす心理分...

A DAUGHTER GROOMED, A FATHER POWERLESS TO STOP IT "I was doing everything I could to try and keep my daughter at home because she had pretty much obliterated her bedroom. She was lashing out against everything and everyone because she had been utterly traumatised." Marlon West works as a...

A groundbreaking investigative account of the life of the mogul who brought hip-hop to the mainstream, offering readers a riveting look at the empire he built and the destructive power of celebrity If not for Sean “Diddy” Combs’ ability to harness the voice of hip-hop and package it via...

Shahbaz Taseer’s memoir of his five-year-long captivity at the hands of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. In late August 2011, Shahbaz Taseer was driving to his office in Lahore when he was dragged from his car at gunpoint and kidnapped by members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)...

The first in a high-adrenaline psychological crime series from bestselling author Diane Saxon, introducing Detective Sergeant Jenna Morgan. Responding to reports of deadly screams in the Ironbridge Gorge, Detective Sergeant Jenna Morgan is first on the scene to investigate. As the search...

From the time she was a little girl, Maryam rebelled against the terrible second-class existence that was her destiny as an Afghan woman. She had witnessed the miserable fate of her grandmother and three aunts, and wished she had been born a boy. As a feisty teenager in Kabul, she was outraged when the Russians invaded her country. After she made a public show of defiance, she had to flee the country for her life. A new life of freedom seemed within her grasp, but her father arranged a traditional marriage to a fellow Afghan, who turned out to be a violent man....

One ordinary spring morning in Reykjavik, Iceland, Thordis Elva kisses her son and partner good-bye before boarding a plane to do a remarkable thing: fly 7,000 miles to South Africa to confront the man who raped her when she was just 16. Meanwhile, in Sydney, Australia, Tom Stranger nervously embarks on an equally life-changing journey to meet Thordis, wondering whether he is worthy of this milestone.

When a mixed martial arts (MMA) gym moves in across the street from his office, Jonathan Gottschall sees a challenge and an opportunity. Pushing 40, out of shape, and disenchanted with his job as an adjunct English professor, part of him yearns to cross the street and join up. The other part is terrified.

Han framstår som den perfekta partnern, känslig, lyssnande och djupt förstående. Genom en mästerlig spegling av dina innersta drömmar skapar han en illusion av oändlig kärlek och total sårbarhet. Men när det emotionella bandet väl är knutet, förändras allt. Kärleksbombningen byts...

Como duas jornalistas conquistaram a confiança de dezenas de mulheres, expuseram os casos de assédio de Harvey Weinstein e deram um dos maiores furos jornalísticos da década em uma reportagem que alçou o movimento #MeToo à escala global. Com narração de Paula Picarelli. Em 5 de outubro...

A child’s mind is hungry for knowledge, stimulation, and the excitement of learning which school should provide—yet most American schools fall far short. From kindergarten through high school, our public educational system is among the worst in the developed world. In disdaining...

Baltimore, 2015. Riots are erupting across the city as citizens demand justice for Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old Black man who has died under suspicious circumstances while in police custody. Drug and violent crime are surging and Baltimore will reach its highest murder count in more than two decades: 342 homicides in a single year, in a city of just 600,000 people.

Now in its third edition, It's My Life Now is a guide for survivors who have left an abusive relationship. It addresses - in clear, non-threatening language - various issues associated with abuse and violence, including post-relationship emotions, psychological impact, dealing with children, personal safety, legal problems, and financial security. Each chapter dismantles common myths about being in and leaving an abusive relationship and contains activities for self-exploration that survivors can complete as they navigate a new life free from abuse.  

To his neighbors, Wayne Nance, a furniture mover from Missoula, Montana, appeared to be an affable, considerate, and trustworthy guy. No one knew that Nance was the "Missoula Mauler," a psychopath responsible for a series of sadistic sex slayings that rocked the idyllic town between 1974 and 1986. Nance's only requirement for murder was accessibility - a preacher's wife, a teenage runaway, a female acquaintance, a married couple. Putting on a friendly façade, he could easily gain his victims' trust. Then, one September night, thirty-year-old Nance pushed his luck.

From Georgia to Colombia to Ghana and Italy - crime exists in every democratic nation on earth, but in some places, it runs rampant, shaping all aspects of civic life. A Savage Order investigates why and how some places, riddled by inept government and states, are able to recover. Drawing on fifteen years of both academic and firsthand field research, Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld documents the unambiguous measures that societies have taken to empower the strong civic movements, governments, and institutions that protect countries and mitigate atrocities that damage people's lives.

The debate over sexual violence on campus is reaching fever pitch, from headlines about out-of-control fraternities to the "mattress protests" by female students at Columbia University and other colleges. The Hunting Ground, the new documentary by award-winning filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering, has taken this debate to a new level, becoming a galvanizing catalyst for discussion at the hundreds of campuses where the documentary is being screened each month.