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  Workbook for Eliminating Self-Defeating Behaviors and Growing Life in the Human Self

  Milton A. Cudney

  Hellol I am Milt Cudney, author of this workbook. I suspect you wouldn't be reading this workbook if you didn't have an interest in eliminating self-defeating behaviors and replacing them with more life-giving ones. In over 30 years of counseling with people of all walks of life I have learned some things about behavior change that may be useful to you. It is my pleasure to be able to pass these learnings on to you.

  You will find direction in this pamphlet about how to live more creatively. To do so, however, you will need to understand and apply the entire workbook. Each section is designed for a purpose, so please don't skip any. Good luck in your efforts. I believe you will find positive results from whatever time and energy you put into applying the enclosed knowledge to your life.

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  Eliminating Self-Defeating Behaviors

  Milton R. Cudney

  • Chapter 1. The Creation of Self-Defeating Behavior Patterns
  • Chapter 2. Introduction to the SDB Theory
  • Chapter 3. Fears--Source of Energy for SDB Patterns
  • Chapter 4. Choices Used to Implement SDB Patterns
  • Chapter 5. Naming and Following the Integrated Self
  • Chapter 6. Techniques
  • Chapter 7. Disowning .
  • Chapter 8. Prices--Source of Energy to Quit Using SDB Patterns .
  • Chapter 9. Using Mental Pictures to Probe Within
  • Chapter 10. Consciously Traveling the Non-SDB Life Road

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  Innovative Techniques of Counseling

  Milton R. Cudney

  Index of Techniques

  • Technique # I. Counselor-Made Drawings
  • Technique # 2. Taking the Flip Side Of The Argument
  • Technique # 3. The Use of Owning Language By The Counselor
  • Technique # 4. Let The Client In On What You Are Trying To Do
  • Technique # 5. Interrupt Clients
  • Technique # 6. Polaroid Technique
  • Technique # 7. Holding A Pretend Gun To The Client's Head
  • Technique # 8. A Technique To Make Replacement Behaviors Not Seem So Strange And Unknown
  • Technique # 9. Counselor Prepared To Give The Client Examples Of What The Counselor Is Seeking
  • Technique #10. Wastebasket Technique
  • Technique #11. The Use of Office Paraphernalia
  • Technique #12. Try A Behavior On For Size
  • Technique #13. Focus On How Instead Of Why
  • Technique #14. Seeing A Specific Behavior From A Larger Framework
  • Technique #15. Focus On The Creation Of Behaviors
  • Technique #16. Non-Judging Technique
  • Technique #17. Use Of Analogies
  • Technique #18. Include Them In The Human Race
  • Technique #19. Emphasis On Catching Oneself
  • Technique #20. Learning From Mistakes
  • Technique #21. Advice You Have For Others
  • Technique #22. Humor
  • Technique #23. The Use of Immediacy

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  Self-Defeating Characters

  Milton R. Cudney

  For some time I have been aware of a need to have additional ways of helping people open up to see what they do to defeat themselves. The need is to help people see, and honestly face, what they do to bring about defeating results in their lives. When people can see what they do to defeat themselves, they are in a better position to make non-defeating choices. The various characters in this book have been created by me to serve as vehicles to fulfill this need. The characters themselves do not represent real individual people, but the information contained in the characters is accurate information concerning how people bring about such things as depressions, worry, alienation, impotency, failure, and the like.

  Although this book is an entity in and of itself, the best utilization of it is as a supplement to my previous book entitled ELIMINATING SELF-DEFEATING BEHAVIORS.! That book is a basic text in the area of self-defeating behaviors, and this book can serve to give examples of how people implement defeating behaviors. I see this present book being used by individuals to help themselves, but I also believe helping professionals such as counselors, teachers, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and others can use this book to help open their clients' eyes to seeing more clearly what they do to defeat themselves.

  Personally I have had a great deal of enjoyment in creating these various characters. I hope my enjoyment comes through so that the reader can not only learn some valuable things about defeating behaviors, but can enjoy involvement with the book as well.

  Milton R. Cudney, Ph.D. April 10, 1975

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  The Life Circulatory System

  Milton R. Cudney

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  Wipe Out Depression

  Milton R. Cudney

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  Days of Gold: Klondike Gold Rush adventure

  Ardyce Czuchna-Curl

  A Klondike Gold rush adventure for young readers.

  The year is 1897. Twelve-year-old Marianne and her fourteen-year-old brother Thomas find themselves alone in Seattle at the beginning of the great Klondike Gold Rush. With some food from the family grocery store, but little money and no wilderness experience, the bold pair head for the Yukon, determined to find their father who is prospecting there. But Pa hasn't been heard from for a year. Will they find him alive? Will they win their race against the threatening arctic winter? During their quest, Marianne and Thomas face danger from challenging mountains, raging rapids and unscrupulous adults. They also encounter kindness and generosity, and discover courage and endurance they didn't know they had.

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  Olivier Messiaen and the Tristan Myth

  Audrey Ekdahl Davidson

  Following the second World War, Olivier Messiaen, previously known primarily for his religious music, composed three works inspired by the medieval love story of Tristan and Iseult: Harawi, Turangal^Dla-symphonie, and Cinq rechants. Though the song cycle, symphony, and choral work each consider their source story in a different way, the three compositions are tied closely together by theme and musical technique. This new study is the only full-length consideration of this most significant work, applying literary techniques of stylistic analysis and source study as well as musical analysis of Messiaen's aesthetics and form.

  As Audrey Ekdahl Davidson shows, Messiaen's work was informed by more than just the mythic tale at its center. The twelve songs in Harawi are indebted to Peruvian melodies, and rhythmically they reveal the influence of the Hindu musical theory that the composer encountered at the Paris Conservatory. Turangal^Dla-symphonie continues and expands the use of these complex rhythmic structures to create a form that expresses elements of the Tristan story as filtered through Wagner's famous operatic depiction. And in Cinq rechants, Messiaen produced a set of choral pieces that use surrealistic texts joined to music that is related structurally to the rechants of the sixteenth-century composer Claude le Jeune. Davidson's examination of these works reveals both their interrelatedness and their many layers of musical and textual meaning.

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  Osteogenesis imperfecta : living with brittle bones

  Audrey Ekdahl Davidson and Clifford Davidson

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  Baptism, the Three Enemies, and T.S. Eliot

  Clifford Davidson

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  Deliver us from evil : essays on symbolic engagement in early drama

  Clifford Davidson

  The focus of this book is on the reality of evil for medieval and Renaissance dramatists and their audiences. What propels the work beyond similar critiques is the author's insistence that evil is not an outmoded feature of past societies, but an active ingredient of contemporary life. Davidson fast forwards from distant times once described as calamitous to a century of far more violence and atrocity - our own twentieth and its overflow. drama through Marlowe and Shakespeare, Davidson refers to contemporary events that scream for an adjective for which there is no better - evil. In passing, he faults the Nietzsche-Foucault line for contributing to the trivializing of evil in postmodern times. In a survey that ranges from Greek drama and the Church Fathers through De Sade, Dostoyevsky, Beckett, and Ingmar Bergman, Davidson drives to his conclusion that an important function of drama has always been to bring a realization of evil into our consciousness and indeed, through giving symbolic form to it, to make us feel its power as a demonic force in human lives.

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  Gesture in Medieval Drama and Art

  Clifford Davidson

  Gesture and movement on stage in early drama have previously received very little attention in scholarship. The present collection of essays is the first book to present sensible, penetrating, and wide-ranging discussions of the gestural effects that were integral to the early stage. In addition to consideration of the influence of classical rhetoric and reference to medieval texts and documents, the essays carefully bring to bear evidence from the art of the period and hence will be of great importance for those interested in the visual arts as well as the theater; eschewing both the naive methodologies promoted in past criticism and ephemeral theoretical concerns, the book is truly ground-breaking. These essays will need to be perused by every serious theater historian or student of art concerned with the late Middle Ages.

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  History, Religion, and Violence: Cultural Contexts for Medieval and Renaissance English Drama

  Clifford Davidson

  Professor Davidson is concerned here to chart public theatrical display as a barometer of developments in the English Middle Ages and Renaissance. This book brings together twelve previously published articles on historical and religious aspects of the early English theatre as well as an original essay on Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and the Papacy. Other essays on Renaissance drama focus on Shakespeare against the background of the political and religious crosscurrents of the time. The treatment of medieval drama is dealt with under two headings, the first of which treats sacred violence in the mysteries. The second presents investigations of the cultural contexts for early English drama, from analysis of the claim that the mystery plays were informed by the spirit of Carnival to the signs of Doomsday in the pageant wagons on the streets of Coventry and Chester and in analogous representations in the visual arts.

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  In the House of Memory

  Clifford Davidson

  For his second novel, In the House of Memory, Clifford Davidson has turned to some seminal questions in our society: alienation of the dying, impersonal and badly managed nursing homes, Alzheimer's and/or stroke sufferers, unreliable memories, and the disconnect with traditional spirituality. Everything is reported through the consciousness of Davidson's protagonist, who is no longer able to remember his own name. He has bitter memories of childhood, and his unreliable recollections of adult life involve being a double agent during the Cold War. Such ambiguities are frequently reported of terminally ill persons, especially those who feel a strong sense of guilt and despair. It is a moving and terrifying book, comparable to the very best American writing in recent decades.

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  Material Culture & Medieval Drama

  Clifford Davidson

  The contributions by distinguished American and British scholars to this volume recognize that early drama depended on specific developments in material culture in order to achieve its effects, which included both visual and auditory means of appealing to audiences. The discussions range from the parchment and paper on which the plays were written to the instruments which enhanced their production. Of special interest is Mary Remnant's survey of musical instruments available to producers; she is the recognized expert on medieval English instruments.

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  The Worlde and the Chylde

  Clifford Davidson and Peter Happe

  The Worlde and the Chylde, issued by the press of Wynkyn de Worde in 1521, is one of the very earliest plays published in England. It also has very considerable interest for its adaptation of the Ages of Man iconography, which is extensively treated in the introduction, notes, and illustrations.

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  Ethcaste: PanAfrican Communalism and the Black Middleclass

  Douglas V. Davidson

  Ethcaste is a theoretical analysis and interpretation of one of the most complex and controversial groups in U.S. society―the black middle class. While this group has received accolades from the liberal journalistic press as well as academia, it has also been highly criticized and oftentimes ridiculed by radical black political activists and intellectuals. This analysis represents an effort to clarify the larger black community as an oppressed group constrained by the capitalist racial dynamics of the dominant white society. In so doing, it summarizes and critiques the major theoretical approaches to the study of social class in U.S. sociology as well as the dominant theories of race and ethnic relations. Noting that most of this preceding scholarship has studied the black community from the perspective that blacks constitute a racial (thus non-cultural) group as opposed to an ethnic (distinct cultural) group, the author presents compelling evidence of the vitality of black American culture and argues persuasively that any analysis of the black middle class must locate it within the cultural dynamics of the larger black community. The core argument in the text is that the so-called racial struggle must be re-defined as a cultural struggle where the core values, norms, and beliefs of the black community have been and continue to be in an intense struggle for dominance with the core values, norms, and beliefs of the white community. In essence, the book offers an alternative model for describing and interpreting the historical and contemporary racial dynamics between the black and white communities.

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  Anglo-Saxon Gestures and the Roman Stage

  C. R. Dodwell

  This book is concerned with the pictorial language of gesture revealed in Anglo-Saxon art, and its debt to classical Rome. The late Reginald Dodwell, an eminent art historian, notes a striking similarity of both form and meaning between Anglo-Saxon gestures and those in illustrated manuscripts of the plays of Terence, which, he argues, reflect actual Roman stage conventions. The extensively illustrated volume illuminates our understanding of the vigor of late Anglo-Saxon art and its ability to absorb and transpose continental influence.

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  Medieval Forms of Argument: Disputation and Debate

  Georgiana Donavin, Carol Poster, and Richard Utz

  These studies illustrate the various high and late medieval transformations of formal and formalized argument, from a broadly interdisciplinary perspective and it challenges today's dominant disciplinary approaches to what was and is still a pervasive mode of thought in the West. Many current treatments of disputational texts have a narrow focus either on the history of scholasticism, rhetoric, and pedagogy, or the genesis and function of such period-specific forms of academic altercation as demonstrative, dialectic, or sophistic disputation, or the later quaestiones, quodlibeta, and sophismata. Moreover, scholarship in literature often ignores the parallel structures of academic argument and narrowly focuses on the narrative and aesthetic functions of debate poetry. In contrast to these tendencies, the contributions to this volume afford a view which enables readers to recognize that the manifold formalized discursive practices of positing a thesis, constructing a counter antithesis, and then finding a synthesis permeated not only the cathedral schools and universities and their direct textual products (commentaries, formal disputations, sermons, and so forth), but were received by a wide range of other discursive realms. Especially in the high and late Middle Ages the academic disputation gradually moved from the isolation of the universities and toward extracurricular forms of debate between theologians (e.g., the public quaestiones disputatae; epistolary theological debates between Christians and Muslims) and in literary genres (e.g. querelle, debate poem). By confronting sample investigations from all these related forms of medieval argument, the volume examines the ways in which disputational forms - sometimes directly dependent on academic practices, sometimes showing organizational, structural, and discursive parallels - established themselves as a central mode of thinking for Western society. To achieve this goal, the volume unites contributions from the English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian traditions of the disputational mode and discusses central issues of academic, political, theological, courtly and literary debates.

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  Historical Dictionary of Liberia

  Elwood D. Dunn, Amos J. Beyan, and Carl Patrick Burrowes

  Originally formed to harbor freed slaves and Americans returning to Africa, Liberia once was a land of hope. That was shattered by a long Civil War that shook its very foundation. Today's Liberia is glimpsed in this second edition. Building on the first edition, this updated volume focuses on the personalities, from the founders of Liberia, to the soldiers who are responsible simultaneously for destruction and the hope of stability. Along with these people, various social and ethnic groups, political parties and labor movements, economic entities and natural resources are profiled in this updated work. A new chronology of Liberia is included, and a selected bibliography suggests further readings for the scholar.

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  Historical Dictionary of Liberia

  Elwood D. Dunn, Amos J. Beyan, and Carl Patrick Burrowes

  Originally formed to harbor freed slaves and Americans returning to Africa, Liberia once was a land of hope. That was shattered by a long Civil War that shook its very foundation. Today's Liberia is glimpsed in this second edition.

  Building on the first edition, this updated volume focuses on the personalities, from the founders of Liberia, to the soldiers who are responsible simultaneously for destruction and the hope of stability. Along with these people, various social and ethnic groups, political parties and labor movements, economic entities and natural resources are profiled in this updated work.

  A new chronology of Liberia is included, and a selected bibliography suggests further readings for the scholar.

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  Truth as gift : studies in medieval Cistercian history in honor of John R. Sommerfeldt

  Marsha L. Dutton, Daniel M. La Corte, Paul E. Lockey, and E Rozanne Elder

  John R. Sommerfeldt's love of medieval scholarship and his commitment to the encouragement of young scholars are reflected in his teaching and his published works on Bernard of Clairvaux, and in the annual Kalamazoo International Medieval Studies Congress. Initiated in 1962 as a small regional conference, the Congress now draws some three thousand medievalists from around the world each year. Colleagues, former students, and friends made during Congresses across the years offer their work in his honor.

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  I Sailed with Magellan

  Stuart Dybek

  Following his renowned The Coast of Chicago and Childhood, story writer Stuart Dybek returns with eleven masterful and masterfully linked stories about Chicago's fabled and harrowing South Side. United, they comprise the story of Perry Katzek and his widening, endearing clan. Through these streets walk butchers, hitmen, mothers and factory workers, boys turned men and men turned to urban myth. I Sailed With Magellan solidifies Dybek's standing as one of our finest chroniclers of urban America.

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  Streets in their own ink

  Stuart Dybek

  "In his second book of poems, Stuart Dybek finds extraordinary vitality in the same vibrant imagery that animates his celebrated works of fiction. A brilliant and deft enactment of place, these poems map the internal geographies of characters who inhabit severe and often savage city streets, finding there a tension that transfigures past and present, memory and fantasy, sin and sanctity, nostalgia and the need to forget. Full of music and ecstasy, the poems of Streets in Their Own Ink consecrate a shadowed, alternate city of dreams and retrospection that parallels a modern city of hard realities. Throughout, one finds poetry enlivened by Dybek's signature talent for translating ""extreme and fantastic events into a fabulous dailiness, as though the extraordinary were everywhere around us if only someone would tell us where to look"" (Geoffrey Wolff)."

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  Japanese Religion, Unity and Diversity

  H. Byron Earhart

  In continuous print since 1969, this text has helped establish the treatment of Japanese religion as a unified worldview, offering a concise yet thorough look at the culture and history of the Japanese religion. This text helps students see Japanese religion as a whole, rather than as disconnected religious traditions. No technical knowledge of Japanese history, Japanese religion, or the Japanese language is required for understanding the material. JAPANESE RELIGION has been used in Japan and Europe, as well as in North America.