The Intimate Self

An invaluable guide for women of all ages This book addresses every health concern that a woman may have about her body. Beginning with an exhaustive description of the female anatomy, it discusses a variety of subjects—common and complex—related not only to a woman's body, but also to her emotional and psychological responses. Dr Shelly Batra, gynaecologist and leading expert on women's health, draws on twenty years of medical experience to demonstrate concrete steps that a woman can take towards identifying and solving her problems in order to lead a healthy and satisfying life. Full of interesting anecdotes, wise advice and shared experience, this book encourages every woman to be fully informed about her body and celebrate her potential. Supplemented with detailed illustrations, ‘The Intimate Self: A Guide to Women’s Sexual Health includes up-to-date information on: • Puberty, sex and contraception • Infertility • Menopause • Abortion and miscarriage • Effects of smoking and alcohol • Cancer risks

In many areas of the world intimacy is a constant way of life. They often feel a sense of intimacy even while washing their dishes or feeding their pets. Teachers also feel a sense of intimacy with their students for the students are teaching the teacher while listening to the words. And especially is it true when they are intimate with their partner in this life experience. Yet this intimacy is not what is promoted by common advertising or any of the media. It is much more. It is a fuller sense of belonging that has no barriers created by saying "I am different from you, therefore, I will treat you differently than you deserve." Our bonding is based on higher principles of recognizing our common origins in the worlds beyond this one. We worship many material gods that keep us from a sense of intimacy. This is unfortunate. How can you connect with another if what you perceive is based on material possessions or relationships? Success in this life is not founded on how much I have gained materially but what I have learned to become intimately. The intimate life or what will be called in this book the "intimate self" is a spiritual experience, though you are free to call it by any other name if you are uncomfortable with that term. It could even be called a religious experience, if by that term you steer yourself away from dogmas or creeds. In this little guidebook, I'm going to present in Parts 1 and 2 some ideas on the intimate approach to life and love, in Parts 3 and 4 some of the elements that make up the "intimate self," and at length in Parts 5 and 6 a closer look at the various elements where the "intimate self" deals with the common problems facing most of us. Finally, in Part 7 will be found an example of an intimate experience with the various elements recommended for a successful intimate experience. This last section may not be for everyone absorbing the material in this book. It is offered merely as a possible scenario for those who are seeking a greater depth in their relationship.

Offering new ways of thinking about the intimate connections between analyst and patient, this lucid, clinically oriented volume presents an innovative model of psychoanalytic change. The authors integrate current findings in self psychology, attachment and infant research, and developmental systems theory to demonstrate the transformative power of interpersonal sharing between both members of the dyad. Interweaving conceptual material and careful guidelines for practice with case studies and clinical commentary, Intimate Attachments illuminates the power of the psychoanalytic process and affords readers a heightened level of creativity, freedom, and spontaneity in their therapeutic work. This volume will be of benefit to mental health practitioners and students interested in psychodynamic theory and treatment.

In Unveil Your Intimate Self, the author considers the mystery of our existence and its significance in our journey to freedom. She draws upon ancient wisdom and the findings of modern science to help us understand and experience our true nature, which is a field of awareness. When you know yourself as this field of awareness and live from your source, your life will be infused with inner peace and freedom from fear and limitations, you can manifest your desires, and you experience health and harmony in all levels of existence. The book is a blueprint that helps you break free from conditioning of ordinary life. Blending philosophy, modern science, spirituality, and natural healing modalities, the author provides a framework for transforming yourself to help you live an extraordinary life. A life of fulfillment, potential, and emotional and physical health.

This book looks at colonialism in its social, political and psychological context. The author suggests that the fundamental character of colonialism is not so much economic or technological domination, but cultural subservience of the indigenous people, and the cultural arrogance of the rulers. Nandy bases his thesis largely on a study of Gandhi and Kipling in colonial India. The book is in two parts: The Psychology of Colonialism: Sex, Age, and Ideology, and part two: The Uncolonized Mind: A Post-colonial View of India and the West.

Fourteen essays examine the unexpected relationships between government power and intimate life in the last 150 years of United States history. The last few decades have seen a surge of historical scholarship that analyzes state power and expands our understanding of governmental authority and the ways we experience it. At the same time, studies of the history of intimate life—marriage, sexuality, child-rearing, and family—also have blossomed. Yet these two literatures have not been considered together in a sustained way. This book, edited and introduced by three preeminent American historians, aims to close this gap, offering powerful analyses of the relationship between state power and intimate experience in the United States from the Civil War to the present. The fourteen essays that make up Intimate States argue that “intimate governance”—the binding of private daily experience to the apparatus of the state—should be central to our understanding of modern American history. Our personal experiences have been controlled and arranged by the state in ways we often don’t even see, the authors and editors argue; correspondingly, contemporary government has been profoundly shaped by its approaches and responses to the contours of intimate life, and its power has become so deeply embedded into daily social life that it is largely indistinguishable from society itself. Intimate States makes a persuasive case that the state is always with us, even in our most seemingly private moments.

The study of relationships—a topic which has received considerable attention in Europe, the United States, and parts of Asia, until now has not been addressed in the Arab world. Here for the first time are articles written by native feminist scholars that focus on intimate Arab familial relationships and provide a scholarly discussion of gendering of the self (the process of intimate selving) in the Arab community. The book is divided into three parts: biographical and autobiographical; ethnographic; and literary accounts in which the authors identify key family relationships—mother-son, brother-sister, mother-daughter-granddaughter, co-wives, and father-daughter—and explore them in terms of shaping and defining gender in relation to others.