This collection features four autobiographies from early twentieth-century actors and playwrights, offering insights into their lives and careers. It includes detailed chapters on the Parsi theatre, highlighting its cultural significance, and provides strategies for interpreting autobiographies within the Indian context. The translations aim to enrich understanding of the theatrical landscape and personal narratives of the era.
Brain Over Binge: Why I Was Bulimic, Why Conventional Therapy Didn't Work, and How I Recovered for Good.
A seminal study of a historically significant theater style. Unrivaled in its long-term impact, Parsi theater remains a crucial component of South Asia's cultural heritage. Like vaudeville in America, Parsi theater dominated mass entertainment in colonial India in the era before cinema. Drawn by the magic of sight and sound, crowds filled the country's urban playhouses each night. Marked by extravagant acting, operatic singing, and melodramatic stage effects, this cosmopolitan theater brought an unprecedented level of sophistication to the South Asian stage and transformed commercial drama into a modern industry, paving the way for Indian cinema. This volume presents Somnath Gupt's classic history of Parsi theater in an English translation enhanced by illustrations, annotations, and appendices, which make it a more comprehensive and accurate reference work.
Why I Was Bulimic, Why Conventional Therapy Didn't Work, and How I Recovered for Good - Second Edition
After completely and independently conquering a debilitating eating disorder, Kathryn Hansen wrote Brain over Binge to share her struggle-and her escape from it-with those still trapped in the compulsive binge-purge cycle. Since the book's initial release in 2011, it has endured as an essential road map for using the power of the brain to erase harmful habits and create lasting change. The second edition is fully revised and updated with new information, compelling insights, and uplifting success stories that will inspire readers to break free from their own self-defeating behaviors.Brain over Binge is both a memoir and a scientific account, providing a gripping personal narrative and a research-based perspective on bulimia and binge eating disorder. Kathryn traces the course of her own condition and then describes in detail her unconventional approach to recovery. In the process, she offers a much-needed alternative viewpoint on the landscape of eating disorder literature to help others in the throes of any form of out-of-control eating.The mainstream view of bulimia holds that it's a complex disorder that manifests as a means of coping with deep underlying emotional and psychological problems. But the author resolutely departs from this philosophy, cuts through the confusion she experienced in traditional therapy, and simplifies both the origins of binge eating and its cure. As Kathryn explains the brain-based principles that led to her recovery from relentless bingeing and purging, Brain over Binge sheds current and crucial light on our human potential to overcome destructive patterns and reclaim our lives.
Wie ich meine Bulimie durch die Veränderung meines Denkens erfolgreich selbst geheilt habe
Nie wieder Essanfälle ist ein außergewöhnlicher Bericht, der wissenschaftlich fundierte Perspektiven auf einen neuen therapeutischen Ansatz bei Bulimie und anderen Essstörungen eröffnet. Kathryn Hansen hat jahrelang unter Essanfällen und Erbrechen gelitten und entschloss sich schließlich, ihre Bulimie ohne fremde Hilfe zu besiegen. Sie erkannte, dass unkontrolliertes Essen das eigentliche Problem war, und begann, ihre Energie auf ihr ungesundes Essverhalten zu fokussieren. Bei Heißhunger stellte sie ihre mentale Stärke fast sportlich in Stellung und ließ das instinktive Bedürfnis, sich hemmungslos vollzustopfen, nicht zu. Durch diese Neuausrichtung konnte sie schnell und dauerhaft genesen. Das Buch ist getragen von der inspirierenden Idee einer starken und positiven Persönlichkeit. Unterstützt durch aktuelle Studien skizziert Hansen einen ungewöhnlichen Weg, der vielen Betroffenen zu einem selbstbestimmten Leben verholfen hat. Es wird als absolutes Muss für jeden, der an Bulimie oder Binge Eating Störung leidet, beschrieben. Kathryn Hansen erklärt die im Bewusstsein verankerten Muster für solche Essgewohnheiten mit beeindruckender Klarheit. Dr. Amy Johnson, Psychologin, hebt hervor, dass dieses bahnbrechende Buch die Basis ihrer professionellen Arbeit mit Betroffenen ist und dass viele Menschen vollständig gesund wurden, nachdem sie den Ansatz verstanden hatten.