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"Smart as hell and funny as fuck, this book explains why we can't stop swearing and what it tells us about our language and brains. Everyone swears. Only the rare individual can avoid ever letting slip an expletive. And yet, we ban the words from television and insist that polite people excise them from their vocabularies. That's a fucking shame. Not only is swearing colorful, fun, and often powerfully apt, as linguist and cognitive scientist...
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Reproduces the secret report on Hitler's psychological state written by Langer in 1943 for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, with the collaboration of Henry A. Murr, Ernst Kris, and Bertram D. Lewin, with the title: A psychological analysis of Adolph Hitler. It was based on sources compiled by Langer in a companion volume: The Hitler source-book. The preface of the original report has been omitted, and there are some revisions in language.
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"In A Guide to the World of Dreams, Ole Vedfelt presents an in-depth look at dreams in psychotherapy, counselling and self-help, and offers an overview of current clinical knowledge and scientific research, including contemporary neuroscience. This book describes essential aspects of Jungian, psychoanalytic, existential, experiential and cognitive approaches to dreams and dreaming, and explores dreams in sleep laboratories, neuroscience and contemporary...