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The playbook : how to deny science, sell lies, and make a killing in the corporate world / by Jacquet, Jennifer,author.(CARDINAL)407898;
"Science is so powerful that the powerful want to control it. From the author of Is Shame Necessary?, comes a biting satire of the techniques used by the corporate world to obfuscate and deny scientific truths. Taking the form of a corporate meeting agenda, The Playbook highlights the tactics used by the business elite to contradict climate change, ignore health risks, and undermine worker safety. The Playbook is a caustic handbook for tobacco, oil, and pharmaceutical company executives-epistolary non-fiction-advising whom to hire, how to recruit experts, how to obfuscate, and how to relentlessly and effectively challenge the threat of science, policy, reporters, and activists. Jacquet likens the machinery of deception and delays to a casino, with its deliberative architecture and design-the dimmed chandeliers, the comfortable furniture, the dealers, the drinks-to keep the customers inside comfortable and gambling as long as possible. The Playbook will help any business buy time if it is threatened by science, the most reliable form of knowledge the world has ever known. Part strategy, part social history, part resistance, part lampoonery, The Playbook illuminates the methods and motives of many successful scientific denial campaigns, and the social forces that may outwit them"--Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-216).
Subjects: Communication in organizations.; Denial (Psychology); Defense mechanisms (Psychology);
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Teaching smart people how to learn / by Argyris, Chris,1923-2013.(CARDINAL)152480;
"Why are your smartest and most successful employees often the worst learners? It's because they haven't had the opportunities for introspection that failure affords. Instead of critically examining their own behavior, they cast blame outward - on anyone or anything they can." "In Teaching Smart People How to Learn, Chris Argyris sheds light on the forces that prevent highly skilled people from learning from mistakes, and offers up suggestions for helping you talent reach their full potential."--Jacket.
Subjects: Organizational learning; Defensiveness (Psychology); Self-evaluation.; Active learning.; Organizational effectiveness.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Daring to love : move beyond fear of intimacy, embrace vulnerability, and create lasting connection / by Firestone, Tamsen,author.(CARDINAL)679145; Firestone, Robert,author.(CARDINAL)515740; Greenberg, Leslie S.,writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)785420;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-193)."Does it feel like your relationships never work out? After a breakup, do you spend most of your time dwelling on what the other person did to cause it, rather than reflecting on yourself? This book will help you identify the self-protective behaviors that keep you from building the intimate, lasting relationships you truly desire. Using techniques based in the authors' groundbreaking voice therapy-- the process of acknowledging unhealthy patterns aloud-- you'll uncover the real reasons you're sabotaging your love life and learn to quiet destructive thoughts that are rooted in fear of rejection, shame, or jealousy. With this book as your guide, you can approach your relationship with openness and fearlessness--two key ingredients for romantic bliss!"--Back cover.
Subjects: Defense mechanisms (Psychology); Intimacy (Psychology); Self-actualization (Psychology); Interpersonal relations;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Fawning : why the need to please makes us lose ourselves--and how to find our way back / by Clayton, Ingrid,1974-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-277) and index."From a clinical psychologist and expert in complex trauma recovery comes a powerful guide introducing fawning, an often-overlooked piece of the fight-flight-freeze reaction to trauma-explaining what it is, why it happens, and how to help survivors regain their voice and sense of self. Most of us are familiar with the three F's of trauma--fight, flight, or freeze. But psychologists have identified a fourth, extremely common (yet little-understood) response: fawning. Often conflated with "codependency" or "people-pleasing," fawning occurs when we inexplicably draw closer to a person or relationship that causes pain, rather than pulling away. Do you apologize to people who have hurt you? Ignore their bad behavior? Befriend your bullies? Obsess about saying the right thing? Make yourself into someone you're not . . . while seeking approval that may never come? You might be a fawner. Fawning explains why we stay in bad jobs, fall into unhealthy partnerships, and tolerate dysfunctional environments, even when it seems so obvious to others that we should go. And though fawning serves a purpose--it's an ingenious protective strategy in unsafe situations--it's a problem if it becomes a repetitive, compulsory reaction in our daily lives. But here's the good news: we can break the pattern of chronic fawning, once we see it for the trauma response it is. Drawing on twenty years of clinical psychology work-as well as a lifetime of experience as a recovering fawner herself-Dr. Ingrid Clayton demonstrates WHY we fawn, HOW to recognize the signs of fawning (including taking blame, conflict avoidance, hypervigilance, and caretaking at the expense of ourselves), and WHAT we can do to successfully "unfawn" and finally be ourselves, in all our imperfect perfection"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Toadyism.; Submissiveness.; Interpersonal relations; Psychic trauma; Stress (Psychology); Defense mechanisms (Psychology);
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 17
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You can't say that to me! : stopping the pain of verbal abuse : an 8-step program / by Elgin, Suzette Haden.(CARDINAL)724005;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202) and index.
Subjects: Verbal self-defense.; Invective.; Threat (Psychology);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Truth heals : what you hide can hurt you / by King, Deborah,1958-(CARDINAL)353685;
Subjects: Defense mechanisms (Psychology); Denial (Psychology); Mind and body.; Self-deception.; Truth.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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She fights back: using self-defence psychology to reclaim you power / by Ziobronowicz, Joanna,author.(CARDINAL)897251;
Women are taught from childhood to be "good" -- often at the expense of the assertive and confident behaviours that will help keep them safe. Defence expert and Jiu-Jitsu world champion Joanna Ziobronowicz shows us how to combat these people-pleasing tendencies, spot red flags earlier and cultivate innate mental and physical strengths which can prevent or de-escalate violence.
Subjects: Self-defense for women.; Women; Self-actualization (Psychology) in women.; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Secure relating : holding your own in an insecure world / Sue Marriott, LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley, PhD. by Marriott, Sue(Social worker),author.(CARDINAL)892897; Kelley, Ann(PhD),author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Secure Relating offers a refreshing and innovative approach to understanding and improving relationships in today's increasingly polarized world. Drawing on over thirty years of professional clinical experience, authors Ann Kelley, PhD and Sue Marriott, LCSW, CGP integrate modern attachment theory, relational neuroscience, and depth psychology into practical tools for deepening self-awareness and navigating closeness with strength in even the most challenging relationships.
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Attachment behavior.; Interpersonal relations.; Defense mechanisms (Psychology);
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Why do i do that? : psychological defense mechanisms and the hidden ways they shape our lives / by Burgo, Joseph.(CARDINAL)528209;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Defense mechanisms (Psychology); Self-deception.; Self-defeating behavior.;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Adaptation to life / by Vaillant, George E.,1934-(CARDINAL)134758;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Adulthood; Adjustment (Psychology); Defense mechanisms (Psychology); Emotional maturity;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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