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Play Therapy and Expressive Arts in a Complex and Dynamic World
This book offers cutting-edge expertise and knowledge in new and developing play therapy, therapeutic play, and expressive arts for families and children in crisis and challenging situations. The book focuses on the use of play therapies in complex and dynamic situations such as pandemics, post-disaster conditions, crisis, migration, poverty, and deprivation. Evidence in the book is rooted in theory and contains examples of direct clinical experiences of play therapy approaches by the authors from across six continents, offering innovative methods to apply expressive arts modalities across different situations. It highlights the need to understand the context and needs of the children and families in their particular situations and provides examples of application of therapeutic principles and techniques in individual and group settings and within schools and communities. With reflections and guidance on how to support children in reaching their potential in a variety of difficult contexts, the book will be key reading for scholars and researchers in the fields of play therapy, expressive arts therapies, and creative psychotherapy, as well as professionals in these areas.
The Oxford Handbook of Happiness
A text for researchers and practitioners interested in human happiness. Its editors and chapter contributors are world leaders in the investigation of happiness across the fields of psychology, education, philosophy, social policy and economics.
The Secret to Liberation from Suffering
This new translation, with extensive commentary of the Sāṃkhya Kārikā (“Verses on Sāṃkhya”) is one of the foundational text of the six Āstika schools of Hindu philosophy. It is intended to provide readers with a literal, unadorned English-language version of Sāṃkhya philosophy of Sage Kapila. The book has an introductory essay on the key ideas and aims of Sāṃkhya with explanatory notes on each verse. Not only designed for general audience, it can also be used as a study manual by Yoga instructors. Both the translation and the analysis aim to convey the true substance and depth of the Sāṃkhya philosophy from a practical, actionable point of view using the vernacular of common experience. The supreme object of desire of every human being is the cessation of duḥkha, pain and suffering. Sāṃkhya is that secret to liberate an individual from suffering. In Sāṃkhya, pleasure, delight, joy, enjoyment, and bliss reside in the absence of pain as Sattva quality of lightness. Duḥkha is a duality in Sāṃkhya, and it nests in the qualities of Tamas as inertia and heaviness. Through Rajas of taking action, an individual can transform from the state of suffering to the state of lithe. Sāṃkhya inspired Patañjali’s Yoga system. Both these systems are adhyātma-vidyā, to acquire knowledge and learn about the internal Self and its manifestations. Sāṃkhya is a samīkṣaḥ, a complete investigation to maturely deliberate and reflect in order to acquire knowledge about the Self. By discerning the causes and effects of suffering, insights are gleaned. An individual feels lighter by taking recourse. This is Kaivalyam, a perfectly isolated state of Mind. Empowered with such knowledge, Buddhi, the Intellect, is transformed and with that enlightenment, the individual feels liberated. The essential simplicity of this profound yet simple philosophy of liberation and universal love was committed into a written format in the third to fourth century CE by Īśvara Kṛṣṇa. The “Verses on Sāṃkhya” formalize and codify centuries of earlier philosophical thinking on liberation from suffering and the means to achieve it in a plain-spoken manner. In other translations and commentaries, its insights have often been shrouded in inaccessible language and words. The meticulous attention to the literal trail-of-meaning Saṃskṛt words maintains the integrity of this ancient text to generate an unembellished interpretation of the verses to convey the essence of Sāṃkhya in its true “ungarnished” beauty.