Bøger af Max Malikow

A question posed in song by Jimmy Durante is, "Did you ever have the feeling that you wanted to go and then had the feeling that you wanted to stay?" In this no fat instruction manual Dr. Malikow provides directions for those in a relationship with someone they don't love. Questions addressed in thisbook are: What is love?What if I'll never love or be loved again?What if I've fallen in love with someone else?How do I know the time has come to leave?What do I say to the one I'm leaving?How do I leave?What if leaving is a mistake?

This is a book about death. However, a one-word characterization of any book is likely to be too general to be helpfully descriptive. The subtitle, Reflections on the End of Life and What Comes After, provides a more meaningful representation.Arguably, humankind's two most enduring questions are: What is the meaning of life? and, Is there an afterlife? Noteworthy is both questions are unanswerable if definitive, irrefutable answers are being sought. The endurance of these essentially unanswerable questions imply a feature unique to human beings. To be human is to be curious about our place in the creation and if we have a place somewhere after we die. Both curiosities involve our existence and whether it comes to an end. Moreover, there is a curiosity about whether our earthly conduct has consequences for what, if anything, awaits us after our death.

Christians engaged in psychotherapy or counseling will be encouraged by Dr. Malikow's cogent argument that there is no necessary conflict between Christian faith and psychological practice. Using biblical and psychological material, he makes a strong case for the competency of Jesus Christ as a therapist and counselor. Christ the Counselor will inform anyone who is curious about the compatibility of biblically derived counseling principles and contemporary mental health practice.

"May you live all the days of your life," wrote Jonathan Swift. This book is for "baby boomers" who are thinking about their remaining years. If offers life-enriching discoveries and activities that will add meaning, pleasure, and satisfaction to the years ahead.

This book nurtures both mind and soul. Drawing from religion, philosophy, psychology, and using contemporary examples, Dr. Malikow offers inspiring insight into how to strive for a good life. This book is not about happiness as "persistent pleasure" but happiness as "overall life contentment." As stated in its title, it is concerned with a good life and how to attain it.

For each of us, if life is to be experienced as worthwhile, if not thrilling, and occasionally pleasant, if not joyful, our diligence is required. Even the most enviable of lives includes challenges, disappointments, frustrations, and confusions. There is a word for circumstances that challenge, disappoint, frustrate, and confuse - that word is predicament. Being a human being is not easy. Every advantage we enjoy seems to be accompanied by a disadvantage. We can acquire information, but also experience the frustration of forgetting. We can create, but also be tormented with "writer's block." We can know the euphoria of being in love, but also suffer heartbreak from a lover's rejection. These are but a few of the phenomena that can make life difficult, troubling, perplexing, and, perhaps, a predicament.

The intention of this book is to explain moral diversity and the conflict it sometimes generates between individuals, groups, and nations. Hopefully it will be helpful in our continuing effort to communicate with each other. Each chapter poses a question that is answered in a concise, thought provoking manner. It provokes one to think by the questions in each chapter. - How do ethics and morals differ? What are the methodologies people use for distinguishing right from wrong? Does the end always justify the means? How is a moral decision to be made when duties are in conflict? Is morality simply a matter of having a certain feeling about something? Can people be good without God? This book could be used as an introductory textbook or reading material for anyone interested in the issues that comprise moral philosophy.

Jean-Paul Sartre wrote, "Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, (but) once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does." Irvin Yalom asked, "How does a being who needs meaning find meaning in a meaningless universe?" Sartre and Yalom are two of nine philosophers featured in this introduction to existentialism. Written in user-friendly, unambiguous language, Mere Existentialism provides a rudimentary understanding of this philosophical school of thought.

Often, we are "doing philosophy" without realizing it. Each of the essays and articles in this collection addresses an aspect of ordinary life: A woman protests a parking ticket. An overdue library book is returned. A college student decides to transfer to another school. Two cars, heading in opposite directions, pass each other without incident. A letter is written to a college. A man is self-conscious about a skin condition. An elderly woman's sister passes away. At a glance, none of these mundane events merits philosophical consideration. Yet, each provides an opportunity to address one or more of seven philosophical topics: epistemology, logic, ethics, value theory, aesthetics, metaphysics, and free will/responsibility. The purpose of this collection is to give rise to philosophical discussion, but not mere discussion for the sake of discussion. Rather, the purpose of each piece is to refine the reader's thinking on the commonplace issues that constitute everyday life.

This book was written for anyone interested in understanding suicide. Questions addressed in this book include: Why do people commit suicide?Can a suicide attempt be anticipated?What do most suicides have in common?Is there such a thing as a rational suicide?What can be learned from suicide notes?Is it a bad thing to die?What are some common misperceptions about suicide?Why do some people heroically persevere and others opt for suicide?Is suicide a morally wrong act?

Max Malikow offers excellent examples of dedication, resilience, and rededication after the experience of loss. This book would be a good text for a course on heroes and heroism as well as a useful resource for a variety of other courses, including ethics, religion, clinical psychology, and pastoral counseling. We never tire of heroic stories, either fictional or real-life. They get our attention and make us wish to be more heroic in our own lives.

The murder of Sue Ann Riggs by her husband, Ralph Riggs and subsequent suicide of her lover, Albert Roy Marsh, were the culmination of ordinary people engaged in ordinary circumstances. Ralph and Sue had a troubled marriage; Albert had recently divorced; Sue and Albert were having an affair. These circumstances hardly constitute a perfect storm for tragedy, but tragedy occurred in the early morning of November 28, 1956 in Little Valley, New York, the ordinary village in which they lived.

This philosophy book is written for students who are not interested in philosophy or who are struggling to understand it. Professor Malikow makes it easy to understand the sophisticated ideas and profound truths of philosophy by his use of everyday language, analogies, examples, and humor.

The thread running through this collection of essays is the inviolate marriage between philosophy and psychology. This book explores the connections made between the two disciplines by famous thinkers such as Aristotle, Albert Camus, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Lawrence Kohlberg, John Robert Coles, and Viktor Frankl.