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Raymond A. Moody Jr. (born June 30, 1944) is an American philosopher, psychiatrist, physician and author, most widely known for his books about afterlife and near-death experiences (NDE), a term that he coined in 1975 in his best-selling book Life After Life. [1]
A Full Life: Reflections at 90 is a memoir written by Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, released on July 7, 2015. The book is a collection of reflections and memories, including his upbringing, political career, and humanitarian efforts.
A chapter of the book is written solely by his daughter, Hana, where she recounts an experience with her father, and goes on to reflect upon what she means to him and what she has learned from him. A review in The New York Times describes the book as "an elliptical, collagelike memoir that offered a philosophical look back at his life." [2]
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Image credits: Didntlikedefaultname #2. You cannot save everyone. But the small kindnesses you share can dramatically affect the people around you, even if they feel insignificant to you.
Life story work as a concept has dated back to at least the 1960s, possibly further. [1] The application of the concept to children in foster care and adoption was discussed in academia from the early 1980s onward. [2] Life story work is well documented in the UK and Australia [3] and has been incorporated into UK Adoption legislation. More ...
Establishing a life story plays a vital role in adulthood by supporting generativity, [16] and it helps to foster meaning-making at the end of life. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Entire life narratives [ 12 ] and single event stories tend to increase in coherence and meaning-making over the course of adolescence. [ 19 ]
The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul is a 1981 collection of essays and other texts about the nature of the mind and the self, edited with commentary by philosophers Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett. The texts range from early philosophical and fictional musings on a subject that could seemingly only be examined ...