Il metodo Rosen - Il rilassamento è la premessa per accedere alla consapevolezza e a un'esperienza di noi più profonda. Al centro del Metodo Rosen c'è la convinzione che la tensione muscolare cronica venga dalla negazione di sentimenti. Quando gli adulti negano i propri sentimenti, si bloccano in una posizione di difesa che è causa di dolore cronico e che porta a modalità di relazioni emozionalmente fragili. Il corpo non mente, racconta la sua propria storia, trattiene tutte le nostre esperienze conscie e inconscie. Il Metodo Rosen è una combinazione unica di tocco non intrusivo e di scambio verbale che fa da ponte tra l'inconscio e il corpo. Con l'uso di un tocco semplice, preciso e una comunicazione diretta, i praticanti Rosen aiutano a far affiorare le verità del corpo. Il punto centrale del Metodo Rosen non sta nel 'fare' qualcosa al cliente o trovare la risposta a un problema, ma nel risvegliare la consapevolezza attraverso il contatto fisico.

For graduate students, upper-level undergraduates, and scholars, Underwood and Rosen (psychological sciences and behavioral and brain sciences, U. of Texas at Dallas) assemble 17 chapters that examine the role of relationships in child and adolescent development, from infant-caregiver interactions to peer interactions, friendships, and romantic partnerships. A group of North American psychologists focuses on developmental organization and key issues, with chapters on historical context and key theories, biological foundations, and theories and methods for studying temperament and self-regulation; self and relationships; social behaviors such as physical and social aggression, moral development, and prosocial behavior; contexts such as gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, child care and schools, and culture; and risk and resilience, with discussion of the effects of child maltreatment and prevention programs. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Food Snob n: reference term for the sort of food obsessive for whom the actual joy of eating and cooking is but a side dish to the accumulation of arcane knowledge about these subjects

From the author of The United States of Arugula--and coauthor of The Film Snob's Dictionary and The Rock Snob's Dictionary--a delectable compendium of food facts, terminology, and famous names that gives ordinary folk the wherewithal to take down the Food Snobs--or join their zealous ranks.

Open a menu and there they are, those confusing references to “grass-fed” beef, “farmstead” blue cheese, and “dry-farmed” fruits. It doesn't help that your dinner companions have moved on to such heady topics as the future of the organic movement, or the seminal culinary contributions of Elizabeth Drew and Fernand Point. David Kamp, who demystified the worlds of rock and film for grateful readers, explains it all and more, in The Food Snobs Dictionary.

Both entertaining and authentically informative, The Food Snob' s Dictionary travels through the alphabet explaining the buzz-terms that fuel the food-obsessed, from “Affinage” to “Zest,” with stops along the way for “Cardoons,” “Fennel Pollen,” and “Sous-Vide,” all served up with a huge and welcome dollop of wit.

Local television newscasts around the country look alike and are filled with crime, accidents, and disasters. Interviews with more than 2,000 TV journalists around the country demonstrate that news looks this way because of the ingrained belief that 'eye-ball grabbers' are the only way to build an audience. This book contradicts the conventional wisdom using empirical evidence drawn from a five-year content analysis of local news in more than 154 stations in 50 markets around the country. The book shows that 'how' a story is reported is more important for building ratings than what the story is about. Local TV does not have to 'bleed to lead'. Instead local journalists can succeed by putting in the effort to get good stories, finding and balancing sources, seeking out experts, and making stories relevant to the local audience.

In this long-awaited description of the body-centered therapy developed by Marion Rosen, the reader begins to understand how emotional and physical ailments can be addressed through the gentle touch of the Rosen practitioner. Rosen explains how the practitioner identifies tensions in the body that point to the source of a problem and how that awareness guides the healing process. With the help of psychotherapist Susan Brenner, the director of Rosen Center East and one of Marion's first students, she describes the origins of her method; how people reveal their emotions in body postures; barriers they set up to love, self-expression, and intimacy, and how Rosen work enables a client to move beyond these barriers. Treatments for asthma, migraine headaches, heart problems, weak immune systems, and psychosomatic illnesses are chronicled. Essays by doctors, psychologists, and Rosen practitioners describe how this method of touch, words, and acceptance guides their work, and complete this remarkable tribute to a visionary woman.

While working as a physical therapist in Oakland in the fifties, Marion Rosen was asked by several clients how they could prevent aches and pains and avoid physical therapy treatments. This question inspired Rosen to begin teaching movement classes in 1956. The Rosen Method of Movement describes these preventative exercises in detail. Marion Rosen continued in the next four decades to become, alongside Moshe Feldenkrais, Milton Trager, Ida Rolf, and Alfred Lowen, one of the makor progenitors of a system of bodywork, which connects breathing, emotional responses and body functioning.