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Print: $17.95 Download: $12.50 “Thoughts in Progress” is a collection of essays (most of) which appeared as blog posts on the PsychologyToday.com in the Spring of 2008 under the rubric of “East Meets West” and “Recovery Skills.” These essays are just thoughts in progress – of another mind trying to row up the stream of its own consciousness… Nothing more and nothing less…
Pavel G. Somov is a licensed psychologist in private practice. He holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology. He is also the author of “Eating the Moment: 141 Mindful Practices to Overcome Overeating One Meal at a Time” (New Harbinger, 2008).
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Print: $24.90 Download: $10.00 Pavel G. Somov, Ph.D. is the author of "Eating the Moment: 141 Mindful Practices to Overcome Overeating One Meal at a Time" (New Harbinger, 2008, www.eatingthemoment.com).
"Totem of Tautology" is a collection of over 350 "post-meditational" poems.
About the title: Tautology is traditionally associated with circular explanations and redundancy of articulation. And yet tautology, as a phenomenon of expression, spontaneously presents itself in our attempts to verbalize the complexity of the simplicities that befuddle us. Thus, tautology is both a confusing clarification and, paradoxically, a moment of clarity. This collection of poems, in its occasionally tautological manner, pursues a theme of polarity reversal of the “totem” of self-hood, from a sense of “I” to a sense of awe! It is my poetic hope, that in putting the dot not over the “I” but beneath it, you will appreciate the tautology of our self-exclamatory self-referencing. Enjoy the clarity of confusion.
www.eatingthemoment.com
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Print: $10.95 Download: $7.50 The book explores crime as a substance use relapse factor and offers a humanistic rehabilitation-compatible model of criminality. The book also offers an in-depth discussion of the interplay between four types of criminal motivations (profit, socialization, stimulation, ego) and substance use and introduces a detailed 8 session group treatment protocol, “Crime and Recovery,” designed specifically for a correctional substance use client. The “Crime and Recovery” group protocol allows clients to examine psychological motives behind their criminal behavior with the hope of identifying psychologically, physically, financially, ethically and legally safer alternative means to the satisfaction of their personal goals. As such, “Crime and Recovery” group serves the rehabilitation goal of crime-related substance use relapse prevention. The proposed group treatment protocol can be easily generalized to individual treatment format.
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Print: $17.96 Download: $10.00 Choice Awareness Training, as an existential-experiential (Logothera-py/Mindfulness Training) approach to substance use and compulsive spectrum presentations, is offered from the operating platform of Positive psychology, namely, from the position of capitalizing on free will as a fundamental treatment asset, and in contrast with the view of addiction as a disease. The author proposes a view of addiction as a process in which the initially conscious choice to engage in an appetitive behavior becomes a habit. The author posits that in order to reverse the process of addiction, clients should be assisted with a) modifying freedom-restricting cognitive schemas (e.g. disease model of addiction) and b) re-infusing choice awareness into their otherwise automated, mindless, stimulus-bound, compulsive, reflexive, reactive, unconscious, choice-unaware, habitual behavior.
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