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Filled with stories and brimming with humor, empathy and depth, a psychotherapist, in this love letter to her ambitious, high-achieving, full-of-life clients who changed her life, shows you how to embrace and even enjoy your perfectionism by exchanging superficial control for real power.
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English
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Argues that focused persistence is more important than talent in enabling high achievement, drawing on the author's pioneering research and experience to counsel caregivers, educators, athletes, students, and businesspeople on how to promote optimal performance through perseverance.
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Sounds True
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Dr. Schwartz is the creator of Internal Family Systems (IFS), a paradigm-changing model of consciousness that has been transforming psychology for decades. Here, you'll learn why IFS has been so effective in areas such as trauma recovery, addiction therapy, depression, and more. IFS overturns the idea that we have one "true" identity and recognizes that having multiple parts is a normal and healthy function of the human mind. Dr. Schwartz shares...
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English
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We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and the amount of ground that we can gain. Hidden Potential offers a new framework for reaching aspirations and exceeding expectations. It's not about being a genius-growth depends more on developing character skills than cognitive...
8) Sybil
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Tells the true story of a woman who coped with a horrific childhood by developing sixteen personalities and the doctor who was determined to help her.
10) The personality brokers: the strange history of Myers-Briggs and the birth of personality testing
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Publisher
Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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A history of the century-old personality test conceived by a mother-and-daughter fiction-writing duo with no formal psychology training argues that their Myers-Briggs Type Indicator has been widely adopted in spite of a pervasive inability to validate its results.
11) I will try
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Holiday House
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A young girl beginning to learn gymnastics is tempted to quit because she cannot spin and jump like her friend Jan, but Jan persuades her to keep trying.
12) Frankie & Alice
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A go-go dancer with multiple personalities struggles to remain her true self.
13) Elfie unperfect
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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After a series of spectacular-and at times, hilarious-disasters, including being expelled from school, perfectionist Elfie Oster discovers what truly matters as she tries to make sense of everything that is happening to her.
16) Waking Madison
Publisher
eOne
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A young New Orleans woman suffering from a multiple personality disorder locks herself in her apartment for thirty days in an attempt to regain her sanity.
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Publisher
Viking Adult
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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The style expert and co-host of "What Not to Wear" examines the emotional obstacles that prevent women from achieving positive self-esteem and personal goals, sharing the story of her own battles with a scarring skin disorder and anorexia.
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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The Narcissist in You and Everyone Else introduces readers to the notion of narcissism as a spectrum-based model of increasing loss of empathy (due to a variety of factors including genetics, trauma, abuse, conditioning and environment) that can give way to a propensity toward narcissism. Through studies and examples, Sterlin Mosley defines the 27 subtypes of narcissism and how these variations differ from the limited description of the narcissistic...
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