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Title:

OPPORTUNITY'S SHADOW AND THE BEE AND MOTH EFFECT:

WHEN DANGER TRANSFORMS COMMUNITY

When Danger Transforms Community:

An Existential Psychology Approach to Chaos and Choice in Social, Community, Clinical, and Iatrogenic Contexts

“At the risk of wordiness and hyperbole, I must nevertheless say that I can think of no better way to describe the difference between Robert Morgan and Mahatma Gandhi than the fact that Gandhi is famous as a great man from another time and place while Robert Morgan is a great man living in our own midst relatively unknown. I first crossed paths with Robert Morgan when, armed with a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago, I appeared for an interview in the process of applying for admission to study for a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology, San Francisco, on the advice of a local black psychologist I had met and told of my unrequited interest in becoming a psychologist. Ironically, my goal was to wed the fields of psychology and sociology toward a deeper study of the black condition, and it would come to light in time that Prof. Morgan's work was already anticipating the emerging fields of clinical sociology and practical sociology as a part of his many visions for incorporation into the field of psychology.”

-Dr. Nathan Hare

Coordinator of the nation's first Black Studies university program, Founder of The Black Scholar and the Black Think Tank, winning professional boxer and author of The Black Anglo-Saxons, The Challenge of a Black Scholar, The Misducation of the Black Child, The Endangered Black Family, Crisis in Black Sexual Politics. In 2002 Dr. Hare received the Joseph S. Himes Award for Distinguished Scholarship, the highest award given by the Association of Black Sociologists.

“The book is a delight. Dr. Morgan's book is an incredible history of a renaissance psychologist reviewing his experience over his entire career; applying it to the most essential area of our work: the understanding and healing of our communities. His approach applies at all levels of complexity: the individual and his system, the family, the tribe, the region, the nation, and even the world. Read it and see that this is justified. He has the right. He has learned a lot in his incredibly diverse career and wants to share it. While the essential focus is on community, the lessons are valuable for all specialties of applied work in the helping professions. This is a work of the history of our time and of our field, a condensation of the lessons to be learned. A beautiful memoir of the personal discovery of meaning by one of our own.”

-Dr. Stephen M. Johnson

Personality theorist, distinguished psychologist and author of Characterological Transformation, and The Symbiotic Character

“What is good or bad in life is largely what is good or bad in our relationships with other people and in the organizing institutions that determine much of our relationships with other people. In this book Robert Morgan shares what he has learned about how to actually make things better, including how to think about it creatively.. He shares his lifetime of work in innovating, and teaching others to innovate, sharing what worked, so that the reader can go on to develop new ways that work even better. When reading it, I couldn't put it down. It reads like a gripping British Mystery, bringing disparate clues together to form unforgettable resolutions.”

-Dr. Bertram Karon

Winner of the first American Psychological Association (APAGS) Best Teacher Award and author of Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia.

“This is a wonderful manuscript in its uniqueness and beautiful writing.”

-Dr. Barbara Tedlock

Acclaimed anthropologist and author of The Woman in the Shaman's Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine, Dreaming: Anthropological and Psychological Interpretations and Time and the Highland Maya

Title: Growing Younger

"The best self-help book I've ever read- wise, authoritative, hopeful and without the cliches and facile generalizations that often mar this genre."

- Judy Stoffman, Senior Editor, Today Magazine

"The first practical handbook for layman or researcher on the conquest of human aging."

- Raymond J. Prohaska, Chairman, Foundation for the Study of Aging

"An important, vital contribution... a wealth of information that brings past research into present-day perspective and focus... practical tools for developing, verifying and exploring our own abilities... Genuine food for thought to the scientist, layman, clinician and dreamer alike."

- Victor Rausch, D.D.S. and Hypnosis Expert

"An enormous wealth of information relating to human growth and aging process... They are to be congratulated for putting together an instructive, comprehensive text that reads like a novel."

- David B. Cheek, M.D., F.A.C.S.

"The enduring optimism that is the tone of this book leaves one feeling almost warm... Those who read it may soon discover a path to a longer, livelier and lovelier life."

- Stephen A. Chris, Ph.D., Waterloo County Board of Education

Title: Training The Time Sense:

Hypnotic and Conditioning Approaches

"Tired of feeling trapped in a race against time? Time sickness can be cured, say stress experts. Coping with it can be as simple as sitting back in your chair or as involved as biofeedback, hypnosis, or meditation. These techniques will help you slow down as well as become more productive."

- Liz Luftkin, Working Women Magazine

"Whether the goal is resetting one's biological time clock, lowering body age, gaining an hour's worth of rest in a five-minute trance, using a time wedge to sort out tough choices- or even asking advice from an older and wiser version of oneself... you can use your mind to put time to work for you."

- Gurney Williams III, Longevity Magazine

"This very interesting book made available a really varied and complete collection of the many approaches to this fascinating field. I know that Milton considered Linn Cooper to be an important pioneer in the study of time perception. .. Would have pleased Milton very much."

- Mrs Elizabeth Erickson, Erickson Institute

(widow of hypnosis giant Milton Erickson)

Title: The Iatrogenics Handbook

"This collection of essays is on a theme which should interest every mental health practitioner: the ilnesses caused by our very attempts to cure people. It gives the reader a valuable humility."

- Dr. Rollo May, celebrated Existential Psychologist

"This is the sort of book which inspires hope... it presents considerable basis for hope that self-examination and public scrutiny will lead to a moderation in the negative consequences of receiving help."

- Dr. Nelson Jones, University of Denver

"An interesting, varied and valuable collection."

- Dr. Bertram P. Karon, Michigan State University

"This is an unusually alive book... we learn about the innumerable situations in the healing arts where the cure is worse than the disease... A feisty book that keeps up interest throughout."

- Dr. Ernst G. Beier, University of Utah

"Something every clinical therapist should know prior to starting a clinical practice."

- Dr. Roland Garcia, U.S. Public Health Service

"Like all anthologies, this one offers variety. The result should please Morgan, whose aim is to debunk sacred cows. It is this goal to which the book is joyfully dedicated, and if the shoe fits, it will hurt."

- Dr. Hans Toch, School of Criminal Justice, New York State University

Title: Electroshock: The Case Against

"Anyone who is interested in the history of ECT and the medical issues surrounding it should read this book. It includes chapters by Dr. Peter Breggin, Dr. John Friedberg and Leonard Roy Frank. If you only read one book about ECT, let it be this one."

- Juli Lawrence from St. Louis, Missouri

"This collection of brilliant and courageous critiques is a call to arms to abolish electroshock... I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the subject."

- Don Weitz, OPSA NEWS