Chance Action and Therapy : The Playful Way of Changing.

Intro -- CHANCE ACTION AND THERAPY THE PLAYFUL WAY OF CHANGING -- CHANCE ACTION AND THERAPY THE PLAYFUL WAY OF CHANGING -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chance by Chance -- About Evidence -- A Manifesto -- Lucky Encounters -- Chapter 1 OH CAPTAIN, YOUR BOAT IS STUCK! -- A Control Center out of Control -- Double-Faced Masters -- Chapter 2 SENSELESS SEX -- Laying Blame Where Blame is Due -- How to Psychologize with a Deck of Cards -- Chapter 3 THEY CALL YOU LADY LUCK -- Chance, Luck and Fate -- Gods and Goddesses of Luck -- The Pantheon of Luck -- Luck's Flip-Flops -- Science, Chaos and Luck -- Chapter 4 RANDOMNESS WILL DO YOU GOOD -- The Biology of Randomness -- The Economics of Luck -- Black Swans of the Mind -- The Philosophy of Luck -- The Psychology of Luck -- Chapter 5 WEIGHT LOSS WITH NO-DIET -- The No-Diet Spiel -- No-Diet Cards -- Instructions and suggestions: -- Two Overweight Games -- Chapter 6 CENTAURS ARE US -- Brain Logics -- Brain Politics -- Executive Operating Systems -- Why Bad Habits are Hard to Break -- Our Stone-Age Mind -- Centaurs are Us -- Chapter 7 CARDS AND PLAYFULNESS -- Play and Playfulness -- Play is a Serious Matter -- Keep on Playing -- Fighting Fire with Fire -- Sortilege and Divination -- Drawing Lots and Coin Tossing -- Play Your Cards -- Chapter 8 WILLPOWER IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE -- Willpower's Heydays -- The Education of the Will -- The Low Point of Will -- New Words and Stories of Will -- Not Really Will, not Really Free -- Life as an Automat -- The Limits of Will -- Monkey See, Monkey Do -- Will is a Fiction, a Necessary One -- Willing Smartly -- The Mae West Principle -- Chapter 9 GIVING UP SMOKING WITHOUT EVER QUITTING -- A Story within a Story -- Easy Does it -- Smoking Tricks and Tips -- What is Your Excuse? -- What are Your Hidden Needs? -- Be on Your Guard -- Avoiding Weight Gain.

It's my Business! -- It's my Body -- The Living Blues -- Chapter 10 HABITS, MULTIPLICITIES AND PARADOXES -- Good Habits, Bad Habits -- Who is Bonaro W. Overstreet? -- The "Forgotten Man" of American Psychology -- Multiplicities: The Many in One -- The Tail Wagging the Dog -- An Unacknowledged Psychologist -- Paradoxes: It Takes One to Cure One -- It is So Nice to Meet You Again -- Communication About Communication -- The Last of Human Freedoms -- Chapter 11 CARD GAMES FOR TWO -- A Three Levels Pyramid -- Togetherness -- Sensuality -- Tenderness -- Lady Luck, Help Us! -- A Classic Story -- Not So Classic Stories -- Chapter 12 DICE MAN AND WOMAN -- A Fat Laughing Buddha -- The Rules of the Game -- With a Throw of the Dice -- Magical Potion -- Coach and Athletes -- Proteus or Prometheus? -- Minority representation -- Why Luke Rhinehart? -- Dice Therapy -- Chapter 13 STANDING STRAIGHT AND TALL -- Apples for Free -- Keep on Trying -- Check it Out -- A Year Later -- Chapter 14 EPICTETUS MEETS LADY LUCK -- Teacher of Life -- Some Biographical Crumbs -- The Text Lives on, Only the Readers Change -- The New Serenity Prayer -- The Manual of Life -- Nobility -- Discernment -- Acceptance -- Metaphors to Live by -- Life is a Play -- Chapter 15 PANIC, OBSESSIONS AND BROKEN HEARTS -- False Alarms -- Obsessions and/Or Compulsions -- Mending Broken Hearts -- Attachment and Love -- So What is Love? -- Using Dice When One is Ready -- Postscript -- Chapter 16 MORE CARD GAMES -- I Must be Doing Something Innovative -- Homage to Andrew Salter -- Inhibition and Excitation -- Retro 'Feeling Talk' -- Chronic Acute Pain -- Chapter 17 CHANCE, CHANGE AND ACTION -- Vive La Difference! -- What's Wrong with Understanding? -- Understanding Comes with a Price -- Supplying an Alibi -- Unbearable Simplification -- Keeping Us on Our Toes.

The Problem with Psychological Mindfulness -- In Praise of Action -- The God Model -- Philosophy of Action -- Action in Psychology -- Tyche Automatia -- With the Throw of a Dice -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

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