Michael Ventura

A BUSINESS INSIDER BEST BOOK "With Applied Empathy, Michael Ventura shows us how to unlock our ability to design solutions, spark innovation, and solve tough challenges with empathy at the center."—Arianna Huffington Michael Ventura, entrepreneur and CEO of award-winning strategy and design practice Sub Rosa, shares how empathy—the ability to see the world through someone else’s eyes—could be what your business needs to innovate, connect, and grow. Having built his career working with iconic brands and institutions such as General Electric, Google, Nike, Warby Parker, and also The United Nations and the Obama Administration, Michael Ventura offers entrepreneurs and executives a radical new business book and way forward. Empathy is not about being nice. It’s not about pity or sympathy either. It’s about understanding—your consumers, your colleagues, and yourself—and it’s a direct path to powerful leadership. As such, Applied Empathy presents real strategies, based on Sub Rosa’s design work and the popular class Ventura and his team have taught at Princeton University, on how to make lasting connections and evolve your business internally (your employees, culture, and product/services) as well as externally (your brand, consumers, and value). For leaders of all levels, this groundbreaking guide lays the foundation to establish a diverse, inventive, and driven team that can meet the challenges of today’s ever-evolving marketplace. If you want to connect to the people you work with and for, you first have to understand them.

The New Language of Leadership

Applied Empathy

on the set of Love streams

Cassavetes directs

Newly Discovered Photographs by Earl Leaf from the Michael Ochs Archives

Marilyn Monroe: From Beginning to End 

A successful surgeon becomes estranged from his family and friends after his divorce, suffers a mental breakdown, seeks solace at the zoo, and finds reconciliation and recovery through the power of love and imagination. A first novel. 10,000 first printing.

A Novel

The Zoo where You're Fed to God

James Hillman

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Soul's Code engages in a wide-ranging dialogue that "bursts with vigorous ideas, tangents, and humor" ( Library Journal). This furious, trenchant, and audacious series of interrelated dialogues and letters takes a searing look at not only the legacy of psychotherapy, but also practically every aspect of contemporary living—from sexuality to politics, media, the environment, and life in the city. James Hillman—controversial renegade Jungian psychologist and the man Robert Bly called "the most lively and original psychologist we've had in America since William James"—joins with Michael Ventura, cutting-edge columnist for the L.A. Weekly, to shatter many of our current beliefs about our lives, the psyche, and society. Unrestrained, freewheeling, and brilliant, these two intellectual wild men take chances, break rules, and run red lights to strike at the very core of our shibboleths and perceptions. "All sorts of fresh ideas." — Los Angeles Times "Thought-provoking, fun, and not quite like anything else." — Library Journal "Range[s] energetically over such subjects as psychotherapy, politics and aesthetics, method acting and postwar ideas of the self, child abuse and inner child theory, romantic love, and America's tradition of anti-intellectualism . . . Seductive precisely because if offers two live voices actively engaged." — The Washington Post

And the World's Getting Worse

We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy

Perché in cent'anni la psicoanalisi non è riuscita a curare il malessere dell'uomo, non ci ha reso più felici, non ha creato un mondo migliore? A oltre un secolo dalla nascita della terapia psicoanalitica, uno dei grandi filosofi e psicologi del Novecento e uno scrittore dialogano, interrogandosi sugli obiettivi raggiunti da questa disciplina e ne tracciano un bilancio. Sempre più persone infatti vi si rivolgono per contrastare un crescente malessere, eppure nella società occidentale continuano a dilagare nevrosi, paure, infelicità. La psicoterapia ha dunque fallito? E soprattutto, come si può intervenire oggi perché possa tornare efficace? Forse l'errore è stato concentrarsi esclusivamente sulla mente e sull'anima dell'individuo, sulla sua storia interiore, e perdere di vista il mondo esterno. Se la terapia ha lo scopo di adattare l'individuo a una società malata, infatti, il risultato sarà una moltiplicazione del malessere, nell'individuo e nella società. Ciò che serve, allora, è un radicale, coraggioso cambiamento di paradigma. Quello che Hillman e Ventura propongono in questo saggio, un caposaldo della riflessione psicologica (e non solo) che gli autori stessi auspicavano come «informale, selvaggio, perfino divertente; un libro che rischiasse, che trasgredisse le regole, che passasse col rosso». Una lettura, insomma, capace di aprire la mente.

Cent'anni di psicoanalisi

Her platinum blonde hair and distinctive birthmark have become cultural icons. Her rise from small-town girl to glamorous film superstar, her torrid romances, and her untimely and mysterious death have captured the imagination of people around the world for decades. Now take a fresh look at the life and times of Marilyn Monroe through newly discovered photographs and fascinating text filled with quotes from Marilyn Monroe herself as well as from the people who knew and loved her. Taken from the body of work of Earl Leaf a famous paparazzo photographer of the fifties and sixties, the exquisite images in this volume offer the fascinating illustrated life story of an incredible woman. Although thousands of reels of film were devoted to Marilyn during her lifetime few professionals photographed her over the span of time that Earl Leaf did. He was with her in 1950 before stardom came and was still on the some in 1962 when her life hit the rocks. Because of this, his work offers an unforgettable glimpse into the life and career of an unforgettable woman.

From Beginning to End

Marilyn Monroe

A psychologist and a journalist explore the legacy of psychotherapy

We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy-- and the World's Getting Worse

"I'd rather have one or two of his whiplashing essays in my hands than almost any tome of philosophy". -- Thomas Moore

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