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A summer conference entitled The Positive Psychology of Flourishing Through Meaning and Purpose will be held July 26-29, 2012, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

This is being hosted by the International Network on Personal Meaning.

Who should attend?
Students, scholars, mental health professionals and anyone who values Viktor Frankl, positive psychology, resilience, and eudaimonia is invited to submit a brief summary of their work for possible presentation at the conference. Or, delegates may attend as an interested member of the listening audience.

A selected sample of keynote speakers include Richard Ryan, Chris Peterson, Jordan Peterson, Laura King, Todd Kashdan, Alan Waterman, and many other leading scholars such as humanistic psychologist Stanley Krippner as well as logotherapy practitioners such as Emmy Van Deurzen from the UK. and Paul Wong from Toronto. Viktor Frankl’s grandson, a filmmaker, will fly in from Vienna to talk and show his feature documentary film entitled, Viktor and I.

The deadline for the call for papers is June 15 for non students and June 1st for students. For full conference information, visit http://www.meaning.ca/conference

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Traumatic Memories

by djbaxter on April 21, 2012

Traumatic memories in the brain are like an overstuffed closet. You slam the door and try to keep them all locked tightly inside but every time anything jars the door open a crack they start to spill out. In therapy, you are opening those doors a bit at a time. Then you deal with what falls out first but there’s still the rest of the pile behind those ones. So you open the door a bit more and more spills out, and so on.

It is difficult work but the more you keep pushing forward the closer you get to being able to open the door all the way to an uncluttered closet.

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The Swiss Cheese Theory of Life

March 11, 2012

The Swiss Cheese Theory of Life Judith A. Belmont, MS, and Lora Shor, LSW Premier Publishing & Media; 1st edition (October 21, 2011) ISBN-10: 0982039891 ISBN-13: 978-0982039892 $16.75 Don’t get stuck in life’s holes! The Swiss Cheese Theory of Life is a book about resiliency. Using Swiss Cheese as a metaphor for life itself, you will [...]

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Life Over Cancer

March 3, 2012

Life Over Cancer: The Block Center Program for Integrative Cancer Treatment by Keith I. Block, M.D. Bantam, April 2009, 978-0-553801149 Dr. Keith Block is at the global vanguard of innovative cancer care. As medical director of the Block Center for Integrative Cancer Treatment in Evanston, Illinois, he has treated thousands of patients who have lived [...]

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Curse of Tourette’s becomes a blessing in disguise

September 20, 2011

Horseheads, N.Y.  Teen Finds New Purpose Through Illness ‘Curse’ of Tourette’s becomes a blessing in disguise August 7, 2011 HORSEHEADS, New York — Seventeen-year-old Cory Sweet wanted to die five years ago. His  school report card, once full of the high 90s that made him proud, was in the tank. And his body would not [...]

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DBT Self-Help App for the iPhone or iPod

September 16, 2011

DBT Self-Help App for the iPhone or iPod DBT Self-help is a tool that helps you manage overwhelming emotions, break destructive impulsive behaviors, navigate relationships and cultivate mindfulness. It contains skill descriptions complete with rationale and practice tips that will enable you to develop and practice the needed skills. The skills are based upon the [...]

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