Yoga or Its Not All in Your Head

Yoga

Author: Elizabeth Silas

For centuries, people around the world have practiced yoga to develop flexibility and build strong muscles. However, yoga is more than just stretching and bending your limbs -- it is also about exercising your mind. Discover what it really means to be a yogi, from learning challenging poses such as Mountain and Warrior, to improving your self-confidence. Yoga offers a basic introduction to this popular practice, including step-by-step instructions and illustrations.

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It's Not All in Your Head: Now Women Can Discover the Real Causes of Their Most Commonly Misdiagnosed Health Problems

Author: Susan Anderson Swedo

Finally-there's medical proof that "it's not all in your head": cutting-edge research by two of the nation's top mental health experts help women reclaim control of their mental and physical health. "Different, important, and overdue" (Washinton Post).

Compelling, compassionate, upbeat, and empowering, this essential handbook combines stories from real women's lives with priceless information from the front lines of new scientific research. Revealing the biological origins of women's most common health disorders, this invaluable guide helps women seek the proper treatment for problems including depression, PMS, migraines, phobias, adverse reactions to medicines, the effects of trauma or abuse, sleep disorders, addictions, eating disorders, panic attacks, attention deficit disorder, and problems relating to menopause.

With warmth, insight, and a conversational style, Drs. Swedo and Leonard encourage women to trust their judgment and find the treatment-psychotherapy, medication, behavior therapy, or a combination of methods-that will enable the prospect of optimal health and well-being.

Publishers Weekly

In May, Harmony will publish Good Girls Don't Eat Dessert: Changing Your Relationship to Food and Sex, in which psychologists Rosalyn M. Meadow and Lillie Weiss note the startling parallels between the eating problems women face today and the sexual conflicts afflicting their foremothers in decades past. Throughout, their intent is to help women break the social cycle that links feelings of self-worth with the tyranny of deprivation, whatever its source. The book is a retitled reissue of Haworth Press's 1992 publication, Women's Conflicts About Eating and Sexuality. ($22 208p ISBN 0-517-70384-X) Dream work, self-help and group therapy mix in The Dreams of Women: Exploring and Interpreting Women's Dreams by British lecturer Lucy Goodison (Moving Heaven and Earth: Spirituality, Sexuality and Social Change). While drawing on the work of Jung, Freud and others, Goodison offers examples of dreams and their interpretations from women from many cultures to promote a variety of means by which women can mine their personal "gift of dreams" to enhance their well-being. Norton is publishing in April. ($23 354p ISBN 0-393-03917-X)

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	Evolutions and Revolutions in Psychiatry
1	From "Penis Envy" to Prozac: The Revolution in Women's Psychiatry	9
2	The Outcome of the Revolution: What Psychiatry Offers Women Today	27
Pt. 2	The Mind-Body Connection: Physical Causes
3	"All This Stress Is Driving Me Crazy!"	47
4	"My Hormones Are Driving Me Crazy"	63
5	"My Doctor Thinks I'm Crazy"	83
Pt. 3	The Mind-Brain Connection: Psychiatric Disorders
6	Disorders of Attention and Organization	115
7	Rhythms and Blues: Sleep/Wake Disorders and Bipolar Disorder	133
8	Seasonal Affective Disorder	157
9	From Sadness to Despair	173
10	"On the Outside Looking In"	193
11	"She's Not in Her Right Mind"	207
12	Worries, Fears, Phobias, and Panic	229
13	Excessively Compulsive, or Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?	261
14	You Can Never Be Too Thin or Too Beautiful - or Can You?	279
15	Irresistible Impulses	293
	Index	309