Practical information and skills for better living! This highly regarded edition synthesizes the psychological wisdom of such notable writers as Freud, Rogers, Perls, Jung, Skinner, and Reich as it offers readers an approach that involves the systematic development of each part of the personality. Readers of Being and Caring will find ways to move beyond limiting attitudes and assumptions, use inner resources more effectively, make outer relation¬ships more rewarding, and live their lives more con¬sciously than before. Being and Caring speaks directly to the reader s past, present, and future life. Instead of talking about issues, it penetrates to the heart of readers concerns about them. Rather than presenting knowledge that is here today but gone after the exam, it provides practical information and skills that can be put to immediate use. Through its exercises, it provides an ongoing workshop in learning to confront dilemmas of existence that every person faces. Being and Caring both informs and demystifies. What others have stated in complicated ways, Daniels and Horowitz say simply and directly. Readers will appreciate the authors warm, personal tone, the clear and sharp writing, and the coherent organization. Not-for-sale instructor resource material available to college and university faculty only; contact publisher directly.
Welcome to my author page. In brief, my bio includes a Ph.D. in psychology from UCLA, a stint in the Peace Corps in Chile, and 41 years of teaching at Sonoma State University. I've been psychology department chair and I was the first director of the university's India Studies program. I've taught meditation as well as psychology for nearly 40 years, drawing on traditions from East and West alike. I am skilled in Gestalt therapy, and have been program chair for two international Gestalt conferences,
At this point my writing is focused on giving back what I've learned. My thinking process tends to be integrative--I like to see how the pieces of a large field of events and ideas fit together. I'm also a compulsive wordsmith--I want my writing to be as concise, precise, readable and enjoyable as possible.
My wife Kooch, the great love of my life, is also coauthor of my two most recent books. We have two grown daughters, one a professional firefighter and the other a high-school English teacher. I love to swim, snorkel, dive, kayak, and otherwise hang out in and around the water. We live beside a creek in a redwood forest, so I've become something of a woodsman and an expert on stream-bank maintenance and erosion control. Because I have an orchard and enjoy grafting. I usually have more dirt under my fingernails than the average professor.
My latest book, released in July 2009, is Matrix Meditations: A 16-Week Program for Developing the Mind-Heart Connection. It's actually three books in one: a systematic program of instruction in meditation for either beginning or advanced meditators; a framework for reflection on just about any aspect of your life; and an "oracle" that helps you look at your problems, opportunities, and life situations in new and different ways. Instead of being structured into regular chapters like most books, it has 65 "cells" that are full of valuable information. Each begins with a reflective passage on its subject, and then offers a concentrative, mindfulness, or contemplative practice or an "adventure in awareness" for taking meditative consciousness into daily life. Early reviewers loved the book, and I suspect that you might too. Kooch and I have also written Tarot d'Amour: Find Love, Sex, and Romance in the Cards. And with my colleague Laurence J. Horowitz, I wrote Being & Caring: A Psychology for Living, first published in 1976, with a second edition in 1984--it's still in print. I hope you'll visit me in one or more of my books. Love & light, Victor.
