Audiobooks&Books Recommendations » Mental Health

Zen: Ancient and Modern-The Way to the Heart-Mind – Ama Samy

Bernard Fruga — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:41:04 +0000

Our comment:
Collection of talks and articles by Ama Samy – a Jesuit priest and a Zen Master.

Rated by eServus: 5/5

Girls on the Edge: The Four Factors Driving the New Crisis for Girls-Sexual Identity, the Cyberbubble, Obsessions, Environmental Toxins – Leonard Sax

Bernard Fruga — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:05:23 +0000

Our comment:
Surprising conclusion at the end of the book: teenage girls need first of all some spiritual development.

Rated by eServus: 5/5

Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men – Leonard Sax

Bernard Fruga — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:23:37 +0000

Our comment:
Video games keep boys in the virtual world; less practical and more abstract school teaching made learning unattractive; ADHD drugs changes the brains ares responsible for motivation; environmental estrogens from PET bottles might modify various functions of the boys’ organisms; male role model radically changed.

Rated by eServus: 5/5

Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation – Daniel J. Siegel

Bernard Fruga — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:15:40 +0000

Our comment:
Step back and analyze your thought processes.

Rated by eServus: 5/5

Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl

Bernard Fruga — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:07:33 +0000

eServus Comments:
I used to say the most important is how we relate to any situation we face. Our attitude is very important. “Man’s Search for Meaning” gives me more power to invite others to pursue own life sense and practicing its fulfillment. Viktor Frankl shows that practicing freedom of choice and dignity was possible even in conditions of Auschwitz where Frankl spent many long months of 1940s.

The book gently combines the camp’s stories of the author with his introduction of Logotherapy. Re the latter, the following list of tenets represents Frankl’s basic principles of Logotherapy:
Life has meaning under all circumstances, even the most miserable ones.
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
We have inalienable freedom to find meaning.

We can find meaning in life in three different ways, by:
Creating a work or doing a deed;
Experiencing something or encountering someone;
The attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering.

Rated by eServus: 5/5

Audiobook’s Time: 4h47

Author’s Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Frankl
Website: http://www.viktorfrankl.org/
Audible.com: http://www.audible.com/…000839
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Mans-Search-Meaning-Viktor-Frankl/dp/0807014273/

Publisher’s Summary:

Internationally renowned psychiatrist, Viktor E. Frankl, endured years of unspeakable horror in Nazi death camps. During, and partly because of, his suffering, Dr. Frankl developed a revolutionary approach to psychotherapy known as logotherapy. At the core of his theory is the belief that man’s primary motivational force is his search for meaning.

Man’s Search for Meaning is more than a story of Viktor E. Frankl’s triumph: it is a remarkable blend of science and humanism and an introduction to the most significant psychological movement of our day.