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The Resource The choice : embrace the possible, Dr. Edith Eva Eger, with Esmé Schwall Weigand

The choice : embrace the possible, Dr. Edith Eva Eger, with Esmé Schwall Weigand

Label
The choice : embrace the possible
Title
The choice
Title remainder
embrace the possible
Statement of responsibility
Dr. Edith Eva Eger, with Esmé Schwall Weigand
Creator
Contributor
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
A dual memoir and practical guide to healing by an eminent psychologist and Holocaust survivor counsels patients on how to escape the prisons of their own minds, describing her harrowing experiences in Auschwitz and how it gave her particular insights into the challenges of PTSD
Tone
Writing style
Award
National Jewish Book Award, 2017.
Biography type
autobiography
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10576540
Cataloging source
SRC
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Eger, Edith Eva
Dewey number
  • 150.92
  • B
  • 616.8521
Index
index present
LC call number
BF109.E35
LC item number
A3 2017
Literary form
non fiction
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  • Weigand, Esmé Schwall
  • Zimbardo, Philip G.
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True
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  • Eger, Edith Eva
  • Psychologists
  • Holocaust survivors
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Target audience
adult
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embrace the possible
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Label
The choice : embrace the possible, Dr. Edith Eva Eger, with Esmé Schwall Weigand
Instantiates
Publication
Note
Includes index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Foreword / Philip Zimbardo, PhD -- Part I: Prison. Introduction: I had my secret, and my secret had me ; The four questions ; What you put in your mind ; Dancing in hell ; A cartwheel ; The stairs of death ; To choose a blade of grass -- Part II: Escape. My liberator, my assailant ; In through a window ; Next year in Jerusalem ; Flight -- Part III: Freedom. Immigration day ; Greener ; You were there? ; From one survivor to another ; What life expected ; The choice ; Then Hitler won ; Goebbels's bed ; Leave a stone -- Part IV: Healing. The dance of freedom ; The girl without hands ; Somehow the waters part ; Liberation day
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Extent
xiii, 288 pages
Isbn
9781501130786
Lccn
2017285516
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • on1002089857
  • (OCoLC)1002089857
Label
The choice : embrace the possible, Dr. Edith Eva Eger, with Esmé Schwall Weigand
Publication
Note
Includes index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Foreword / Philip Zimbardo, PhD -- Part I: Prison. Introduction: I had my secret, and my secret had me ; The four questions ; What you put in your mind ; Dancing in hell ; A cartwheel ; The stairs of death ; To choose a blade of grass -- Part II: Escape. My liberator, my assailant ; In through a window ; Next year in Jerusalem ; Flight -- Part III: Freedom. Immigration day ; Greener ; You were there? ; From one survivor to another ; What life expected ; The choice ; Then Hitler won ; Goebbels's bed ; Leave a stone -- Part IV: Healing. The dance of freedom ; The girl without hands ; Somehow the waters part ; Liberation day
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Extent
xiii, 288 pages
Isbn
9781501130786
Lccn
2017285516
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • on1002089857
  • (OCoLC)1002089857

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