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  Today's publisher's pride is Understanding the People around You by Ekaterina Filatova, which reached #213 in psychology of personalities.  Book description: A Groundbreaking Introduction to Socionics—Now in English from the Founder of the Field Understanding the People Around You by Dr. Ekaterina Filatova is the definitive guide to socionics—the personality type system rooted in Jung’s original theories and expanded by Russian psychologists into a dynamic model of human behavior, cognition, and relationships. Dr. Filatova, widely credited as the mother of modern socionics in Russia, brings her seminal work to English-speaking readers for the first time. With clarity and warmth, she offers a complete, accessible primer to the 16 socion personality types, their traits, and how they interact in real life. Inside you’ll find: – A self-scoring test to help you identify your socion type – Detailed portraits of each of the 16 types, linked to familiar literary and historical fig...

  There is a strange trap that can happen when people learn psychology deeply enough: they become excellent at explaining emotions while losing contact with actually feeling them. They can identify attachment styles, defense mechanisms, trauma responses, cognitive distortions, nervous system states, projection, transference, dissociation, shame cycles, and emotional regulation strategies. They become fluent in the language of inner life. But fluency is not the same thing as experience. And sometimes knowledge becomes a substitute for feeling. The Seduction of Explanation Psychological knowledge offers something deeply attractive: distance. If I can explain my sadness as “an activation of abandonment wounds,” I no longer have to fully sit inside the rawness of grief. If I can classify my anger as “a nervous system response shaped by childhood unpredictability,” I can avoid the terrifying immediacy of rage. If I can analyze my relationship dynamics through attachment theory, I can st...

  Congratulations to Susan Lewis for the selection of her book, From Deep Within, as a Category Finalist in this year's Eric Hoffer Award competition. Book Description: Criminals, innocent victims, perpetrators--all without a voice, driven by their demons to suffer a lifetime of serious mental illness-share their innermost secrets with the author, a clinical and forensic psychologist. Enter the dialogue: open to the first page. You won't stop reading! For more posts about Susan and her book, click HERE . To get the book at 25% discount, use code FF25 at MSI Press webstore . Want to buy this book and not have to pay for it? Ask your local library to purchase and shelve it. Sign up for the MSI Press LLC monthly newsletter (recent releases, sales/discounts, awards, reviews, Amazon top 100 list, author advice, and more -- stay up to date)   Follow MSI Press on Twitter , Face Book , and Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC?  We help writers become aw...