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Silverback Publishing A Guide to Development and Evaluation of Digital
Book SynopsisBehaviour change interventions are increasingly being delivered through digital channels including websites, smartphone apps, and wearables. While these new channels of delivery offer huge opportunities for novel and personalised interventions, they also come with their own specific challenges and difficulties.This monograph is an ideal starting point for anyone wanting to understand more about digital behaviour change interventions, offering plenty of references and links for more in depth reading on each of the topics discussed.This comprehensive guide outlines the current state of research around digital behaviour change interventions and provide guidelines for the development of new digital interventions. It discusses intervention techniques uniquely possible with digital technology such as personalised and just-in-time interventions as well as general intervention design and evaluation rules and guidance.
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Silverback Publishing Thinking About Behaviour Change: An
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Silverback Publishing Energise: The Secrets Of Motivation
Book SynopsisIn this bookRobert West explores the science behind motivation, delving into the Machiavellian art of persuasion and examining the roles that incentives, praise, and punishment play in our society.This lively and humorous book reveals simple yet game-changing principles that will transform your understanding of motivation and set you on a practical path to achieving your personal and professional goals."How do effective leaders motivate their teams?""How can parents stop their children throwing tantrums?""How do adverts play on our hopes and fears?""How do I resist that last slice of cheesecake?"Robert West is Professor of Psychology at University College London and an Associate of UCL's Centre for Behaviour Change. He is Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal Addiction, and he has published more than 800 scholarly works including books on behaviour change and addiction.Jamie West is a writer, performer, and musician. He holds a BA in English from UCL and an MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck University.
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Macat International Limited The Lucifer Effect
Book SynopsisWhat makes good people capable of committing bad – even evil – acts? Few psychologists are as well-qualified to answer that question as Philip Zimbardo, a psychology professor who was not only the author of the classic Stanford Prison Experiment – which asked two groups of students to assume the roles of prisoners and guards in a makeshift jail, to dramatic effect – but also an active participant in the trial of a US serviceman who took part in the violent abuse of Iraqi prisoners in the wake of the second Gulf War. Zimbardo’s book The Lucifer Effect is an extended analysis that aims to find solutions to the problem of how good people can commit evil acts. Zimbardo used his problem-solving skills to locate the solution to this question in an understanding of two conditions. Firstly, he writes, situational factors (circumstances and setting) must override dispositional ones, meaning that decent and well-meaning people can behave uncharacteristically when placed in unusual or stressful environments. Secondly, good and evil are not alternatives; they are interchangeable. Most people are capable of being both angels and devils, depending on the circumstances.In making this observation, Zimbardo also built on the work of Stanley Milgram, whose own psychological experiments had shown the impact that authority figures can have on determining the actions of their subordinates. Zimbardo's book is a fine example of the importance of asking productive questions that go beyond the theoretical to consider real-world events.Table of ContentsWays in to the Text Who was Philip Zimbardo? What does The Lucifer Effect Say? Why does The Lucifer Effect Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited
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Karnac Books Plato’s Ghost: Minus Links and Liminality in
Book SynopsisPsychoanalytic encounters are filled with the unknowability of two unconscious minds meeting. Here one may forge a link that enables the process of meaning-making, or else it can become the space for destruction, perversion, evacuation, regression, and stasis. The area that lies between the mind of the analyst and that of the analysand is thus the liminal area of psychoanalysis – of growth, change, turbulence, as well as that of impasse, bastion, and failure. This latter could be what Bion meant by minus links. It seems that the primitive part of the mind is always looking for ways to evade psychic pain and emotional truth is always in peril. Analytic links are always fraught with danger. Minus links share with each other the quality of evading truth and therefore inhibiting emotional growth and the capacity to give meaning to experiences. Blind spots may be enabled by analytic allegiance to our particular schools, our inability to forge a technique in the face of the protomental apparatus which can breed arrogance, the complacencies of language, gaps between our theoretical allegiance and our technique, and, finally, all too often, our unwillingness and inability to get in touch with our true experience. Would it help to chronicle our quotidian failures? In these liminal moments, the links between analyst and analysand slide away from the emotional truth, rather than towards it. Nilofer Kaul presents these moments and explores the complex reasons behind them in a stunning debut work that questions the heart of analytic practice.Trade Review‘Nilofer Kaul's inspirational book gently sways us in the liminal space between sleep and waking, conscious and unconscious, truth and deception. Her literary scholarship grants her further tools to approach ineffable emotional experience and give words to wordless psychic realms, the ghosts of psychoanalysis. Writing at the threshold of what is almost unbearable, “on the foremost circle that surrounds the abyss”, her book is deeply moving, and yet unsettling, perturbing. Kaul does not let us rest on our laurels, but compels us to acknowledge, not only our patients’, but also our own too-often collapse to negative links, lies, and untruthful interpretations. Kaul thus touches the heart of psychoanalytic practice, that which lies in the thin, hairbreadth space between truth and its evasion.’ -- Avner Bergstein, training and supervising psychoanalyst, Israel Psychoanalytic Society‘Plato’s Ghost is an absorbing and highly personal meditation on the positive and negative linkages that promote or stunt personality development, and the role of language in advancing or disguising truthful links. Plato’s classic formulation of truthful or lying representations becomes, in Bion’s model of the mind, his now familiar formula of LHK versus minus LHK – positive and negative emotional links. Using this model as her basis, Nilofer Kaul terms the points of potential change “liminal spaces” inhabited by the “ghosts” of internal objects of both analyst and analysand which meet through the transference. The book is wide-ranging in its references but Kaul draws her most telling examples from her own clinical work, in close association with evocations of emotional states in literature and myth. ‘She is especially concerned with the analyst’s own linguistic temptations: to use what Bion terms the “language of substitution” in the face of feelings of helplessness, when pressured either by sterile desires for professional or social “success” or excessive desire to help the patient. Kaul was a teacher of literature for many years and the book is structured along dichotomies that are familiar in literature, such as equivocation versus ambiguity or paradox, communication versus deception, emotionality versus sentimentality, empathy versus collusion, which are applicable also to the intimacy of the psychoanalytic consulting room. Her sensitivity and courage in exploring the nature of apparent “failures” or unsatisfactory endings in terms of the analyst’s own learning from experience, rather than romanticising them for self-protection, will be found valuable and appreciated by many practising analysts.’ -- Meg Harris Williams, psychoanalytic and literary author‘Plato's Ghost is a beautiful exploration of what constitutes the paradoxical essence of analytic space. It is not by chance that Kristeva borrows from Plato the concept of the “semiotic chora”, which we can define as the dynamic and affective-sensory container within which the “aesthetic” birth of the subject takes place. From the outset, this kind of external extension of the maternal womb is a dialectical space. It is neither one nor the other, but of both and neither. Psychoanalysis has many concepts to allude to dimension: transference, analytical field, hymenality, transitionality, middle kingdom, wakeful dream, caesura, reversible perspective, negative capability, no-thing, projective identification, and so on. Being an analyst means knowing how to inhabit this spatiality, in which the ego becomes itself only if it allows itself to be alienated from the other, without ever collapsing the processuality onto any of the terms that establish it. Nilofer Kaul demonstrates a great skill in dealing with such challenging but fascinating themes. Hers is also an important contribution to the current and very lively development of psychoanalysis inspired by Bion and post-Bionian models, in a word, a psychoanalysis more that is of the order of becoming than of having. Last, but not least, the author style of writing is excellent, which makes for not only a rewarding but also for a fluent and very pleasant reading. I can warmly recommend Plato's Ghost: Minus Links and Liminality in Psychoanalytic Practice not only to all psychoanalysts and psychotherapists who are passionate about their work and feel the need to constantly refine the tools they use in their clinical practice, but also—for example because of the great attention to the theme of language and its relation to the unconscious that runs throughout the text—to scholars of the humanities.’ -- Giuseppe Civitarese, author of Sublime Subjects: Aesthetic Experience and Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis‘Using examples from her practice, the author shows us how we may look for ways to evade psychic pain and romanticise outcomes for self-protection […] This book is an important contribution to Bionian thinking and will challenge readers to reassess their practice.’ -- Jane Cooper, former senior counsellor at University of Cambridge – Therapy Today May 2022‘There is great value in this book, which in its gentle insistence on “the inherently liminal nature of psychoanalysis” […] can remind us of what psychoanalysis initially was, is, and can continue to become. […] Readers of this book will be immersed in a leading edge of contemporary analytic thinking.’ -- Howard B. Levine, MA, 'The Psychoanalytic Quarterly', 92:1, 148-153, 2023Table of ContentsAcknowledgements About the author Prologue: On liminality and minus links Introduction Part I: Language 1. Unconscious and psychoanalysis 2. Vocabulary and syntax 3. Sentiment and emotion 4. Pride and arrogance Part II: Vertices 5. Womb and foetus 6. Mind and body 7. Endings and failures Epilogue: Solitude or blank desertion References Index
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Words Matter: Hermeneutics in the Study of
Book SynopsisThe challenge of methodic quality has haunted scholars in the human and social sciences since the end of the nineteenth century with the explosive and public success of the natural sciences and their precision and aim of controlling nature. The discussion has been dominated by the quest for proper scientific concepts and methods comparable to those employed in the natural sciences. This book discloses the limits of scientific concepts and methods, and the failure of approaches in the human sciences emulating the scientific procedures in the natural sciences, notably the cognitive science of religion, to articulate religious life in its actuality. The author demonstrates on the basis of his own field research conducted among Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka and Orthodox monks and pilgrims on the Holy Mountain of Athos in Greece how preconceptions and historical belongingness determine interpretation. He argues that in the human sciences words matter more than concepts and propositions, and elucidates how words are revelatory of the authenticity of being, when the attitude adopted is that the view of the encountered other might be right. In the conclusion the author identifies the methodic characteristics of hermeneutic reflection and proposes an analytic model for the human sciences that enables scholars to articulate the authenticity of actual life in words that reach the other.Trade Review«This book will be of interest to anyone concerned with issues of method in the study of religions, and perhaps (it can be hoped) may stimulate the long-overdue dialogue between the cognitive scientists of religion and those who, like Gothóni, seek a less rigid and linear form of research.» (Margaret Gouin, Paranthropology)Table of ContentsContents: The Challenge: the kind of knowledge of quality aimed at – The Uniqueness: humans possesses speech and words are revelatory of being – Beyond Methodic Truth: method as discernment and movement between concept and word – A Pilgrim among Pilgrims: the relation between subject matter and interpreter – Symbols: how historical belongingness determines interpretation – Towards a Method of Hermeneutic Reflection: the question of truth – The Method of Hermeneutic Reflection: Units and Universe, and the characteristics of hermeneutic reflection.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Ecological Migration: Environmental Policy in
Book SynopsisIn the context of the current wave of global environmental concern, this book considers measures aimed at solving environmental problems, investigating the example of ecological migration. The term «ecological migration» refers to the organized migration of people engaged in occupations that cause ecological destruction, aimed at rehabilitating and conserving the affected areas. In the vast arid and semi-arid regions that constitute the steppes of Inner Mongolia, grassland vegetation is in imminent danger due to overgrazing. Therefore, the herders are made to migrate to other areas in order to ensure regeneration of the affected grasslands. This book’s contributions are guided by questions such as: What has been the result of the strategy of ecological migration? Have the grasslands successfully been conserved? And can the desertification of Inner Mongolia be prevented? The essays collected in this volume originate from a workshop on ecological migration held in Beijing, China, in 2004, and were published in Japanese and Chinese, both in 2005. They have been adopted as a textbook in university classes in Japan and China, and were updated and translated for the English publication.Table of ContentsContents: Masayoshi Nakawo: Foreword – Shinjilt: Introduction: Remote regions of western China and «ecological migration» – Yuki Konagaya: The beginnings of «ecological migration» in the Heihe River valley from case studies in Ejene banner, Alasha League of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region – Kanako Kodama: The groundwater resource crisis caused by «ecological migration». Case studies of Mongolian pastoralists in Ejene Banner, Alasha League in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region – Suye: New round of grassland cultivation accompanying «ecological migration». From case studies of herders in Xianghuang Banner, Shilingol League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region – Yoshiki Seki/Xiang Hu: Forest restoration without reliance upon «ecological migration»: From a case study of NGO activities in Guizhou Province – Mailisha: The mechanism of poverty resulting from «ecological migration». From case studies of herders in Minghua District, Sunan Yogor Autonomous County, Gansu Province – Li Jingyi: The effectiveness of «ecological migration» in reducing poverty (1). A case study based on the Tarim River Basin, Xingjiang – Shi Guoqing: The effectiveness of «ecological migration» in reducing poverty (2). Lessons from the Implementation of Ecological Migration in Alasha League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region – Shunji Oniki/B. Gensuo: The voluntariness of migration under the «ecological migration» policy: from case studies of herders in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region – Alta: Cultural acceptance of inhabitants in «ecological migration» from case studies in Xianghuang Banner, Shilingol League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region – Shinjilt: Villagers’ perception of nature in relation to «ecological migration». A case study of «A» Village, Sunan Yogor Autonomous County, Gansu Province – Tomoko Nakamura: Differences in perception among the parties concerned with the «ecological migration policy»: from case studies in «B» Township, Qifeng District, Sunan Yogor Autonomous County, Gansu Province – Masayoshi Nakawo: Conclusion. Global environmental problems and ecological migration.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Early Childhoods in the Global South: Local and
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary volume aims to deepen and enrich the reader’s understanding of children’s lives in the Global South. At a time when provision for Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) is expanding across the globe, this book highlights issues around early childhood development as well as exploring the importance of including local traditions, culture and knowledge in developing professional practices in the sector. A range of international contributors, including key scholars in the field of early childhood, draw on topics identified for discussion at the Early Childhood in Developing World Contexts International Conference, held at University College Cork, Ireland, in 2011. Much of the exciting research being undertaken in this area remains unrecognized, and the volume aims to communicate some of the important debates currently taking place. The essays are organized into three broad themes: children’s lives and livelihoods; early years policy and practice; and language and culture.Table of ContentsContents: Karen Wells: Mobility and Social Reproduction: Key Issues for Early Childhood Research in Developing Countries – Angela Veale/Susan McKay/Miranda Worthen/Michael Wessells: Children of Young Mothers Formerly Associated with Armed Forces or Groups in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Northern Uganda – Una Murray: Child Labour: A Complex Problem Requiring ‘Joined Up’ Responses – Samuel Okyere: An Assessment of the Impact of Hazardous Work on Children’s Educational Attainment – Helen Penn: Does International Aid Work? The Example of Early Childhood – Johanna Davis: Values in Early Childhood Development: A Venture into the Field of Childhood Aid – Rosarii Griffin/Jacqui O’Riordan: Early Childhood and Primary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Impact of HIV and AIDS on Education in Lesotho – Jacqui O’Riordan/James Urwick/Matemoho Khatleli/Stella Long/Grace Ntaote/Florence Nyakudya/Nthabeleng Maketela: Identification of Disabilities in Young Children in Lesotho: The Role of the Early Childhood Sector – Mahima Mitra: The Take-Up of Government Early Childhood Education and Care Services in Developing Countries: Evidence from India and Theoretical Frameworks for Guiding Research – Annika Pissin: Migration in China: Floating Mothers and Fathers, Left-Behind Girls and Boys – Barney Shiels: The Equity Approach to Early Childhood Development and Accomplishing the Millennium Development Goals – Mary Kellett: Research Methods with Young Children: Extending the Canvas – Jacqui O’Riordan/Deirdre Horgan/Shirley Martin/Michael Blaney: Day-To-Day Transitions for Children of People Seeking Refugee Status Living in Ireland – Joy Chalke: Supporting Children with English as an Additional Language in the Early Years Foundation Stage (UK): Meeting the Challenges – Anne M. Dolan: Critically ‘Reading the World’ through Picture-Books – Pamela Mackenzie: A Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Curriculum as a Means to Quality Education: Lessons from Minority Language Communities in India and Bangladesh – Sarah Quinn/Sue Kraftsoff: Maintaining the Mother Tongue: An Exploratory Study of Russian-Speaking Immigrant Parents’ Opinions on Maintaining their Primary Language in their Children.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Becoming Self-Advocates: People with intellectual
Book SynopsisPeople with intellectual disability cannot assume that they can speak up for and represent themselves. A host of socially constructed factors act as barriers to their becoming self-advocates. This book analyses the nature of these factors and investigates how the label ‘intellectual disability’ is understood and interpreted. It also analyses the power imbalance between people with intellectual disability and non-disabled people, an imbalance which leads to the perpetuation of dependence of the former on the latter. The book proposes self-advocacy as a way of providing an environment in which this power imbalance can be redressed, negative perceptions of the label ‘intellectual disability’ challenged, and independence and autonomy promoted. In this way, contexts can be created in which the voices of people with intellectual disability are heard and valued. Self-advocacy thus enables people with intellectual disability to become more active agents in their own lives with the necessary support.Table of ContentsContents: Labels and definitions – Self-advocacy - Histories and contexts – Living circumscribed lives – Constructing the label intellectual disability – Helping people lead independent lives – Principal forces in the lives of people with intellectual disability – Places in self-advocacy – Becoming self-advocates.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Ballet Body Narratives: Pain, Pleasure and
Book SynopsisBallet Body Narratives is an ethnographic exploration of the social world of classical ballet and the embodiment of young ballet dancers as they engage in «becoming a dancer» in ballet school in England. In contrast to the largely disembodied sociological literature of the body, this book places the corporeal body as central to the examination and reveals significant relationships between body, society and identity. Drawing on academic scholarship as well as rich ballet body narratives from young dancers, this book investigates how young ballet dancers’ bodies are lived, experienced and constructed through their desire to become performing ballet dancers as well as the seductive appeal of the ballet aesthetic. Pierre Bourdieu’s critique of the perpetuating social order and his theoretical framework of field, habitus and capital are applied as a way of understanding the social world of ballet but also of relating the ballet habitus and belief in the body to broader social structures. This book examines the distinctiveness of ballet culture and aspects of young ballet dancers’ embodied identity through a central focus on the ballet body.Trade Review«Pickard’s book provides a welcome addition to a limited range of published research in this area.» (Susie Crow, Oxford Dance Writers September 2016)Table of ContentsContents: Ballet, Bodies and Becoming – Ballet, Body and Bourdieu – Thinking through the Body – Body, Capital and Habitus – Ballet Bodies in Pain – Gendered Experiences of Pain – Ballet Bodily Pleasures – Pleasure, Power and Perfection.
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Verlag Peter Lang The Scope and Limits of Folk Psychology: A
Book SynopsisExplaining behaviour is ubiquitous in our society. We are constantly trying to figure out what other people are doing and will do. This study is a comprehensive investigation of the main philosophical and psychological problems regarding how and why humans explain behaviour. The author answers key questions about how folk psychology develops in children, its roots in evolution, its status within society, its relation to philosophy of mind, and what sorts of folk psychological explanations should be considered rational. This assessment focuses on such theoretical positions as anti-realism, eliminativism, theory-theory, simulation theory, and modular theory in relation to folk psychology. The author argues for a radical, albeit intuitive, alternative, that folk psychology should be seen as product of the culture in which one is raised.
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Verlag Peter Lang Toward a Fuller Human Identity: A Phenomenology
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Verlag Peter Lang English as a Lingua Franca in Cross-cultural
Book SynopsisThis book explores the cognitive and communicative processes involved in the use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) within cross-cultural specialized contexts where non-native speakers of English – i.e. Western experts and non-Western migrants – interact. The book argues that the main communicative difficulties in such contexts are due precisely to the use of ELF, since it develops from the non-native speakers’ transfer of their native language structures and socio-cultural schemata into the English they speak. Transfer, in fact, allows non-native speakers to appropriate, or authenticate, those English semantic, syntactic, pragmatic and specialized-discourse structures that are linguistically and conceptually unavailable to them. It follows that there are as many ELF varieties as there are communities of non-native speakers authenticating English. The research questions justifying the ethnographic case studies detailed in this book are: What kind of cognitive frames and communicative strategies do Western experts activate in order to convey their culturally-marked knowledge of specialized discourse – by using their ELF varieties – to non-Westerners with different linguistic and socio-cultural backgrounds? What kind of power asymmetries can be identified when non-Westerners try to communicate their own knowledge by using their respective ELF varieties? Is it possible to ultimately develop a mode of ELF specialized communication that can be shared by both Western experts and non-Western migrants?Table of ContentsContents: English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) – A Cognitive Model of L1-Transfer as ELF Authentication – Ergativity in Journey Reports by West-African Immigrants – Inferring Material Actions from Mental Processes in Cross-cultural Welfare Interviews – An Ethnopoetic Approach to Forensic Entextualization – Narrative Representations in Transcultural Psychiatry – Schema Conflicts in ELF-mediated Legal Interactions – Cross-cultural Pragmatic Markedness in Legal and Medical Encounters – ELF Modality in Community-marked Production of Specialized Discourse – Problem-oriented Tagging for Intercultural Corpus Analysis – Reformulation Processes in Community-biased Popular Translations – Developing Accessibility and Cooperation Parameters in the ELF Drafting of EU Immigration Laws.
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Kohlhammer Lernen Im Sekundentakt: Prazisionslernen Bei
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Die Psychoanalytikerin Lou Andreas-Salomé: Ihr
Book SynopsisLou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937) begegnete zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts zwei bedeutenden Protagonisten sehr unterschiedlicher Geistesströmungen, die sich der Erforschung von subjektiven Innenwelten widmeten: Sigmund Freud mit seiner neuen Wissenschaft der Psychoanalyse und Rainer Maria Rilke mit seiner Philosophie eines Innerlichkeitskosmos. Von beiden Gedankenwelten zutiefst berëhrt, entwickelte Lou Andreas-Salomé eine eigene Synthese. Anders als Freud, fër den das Unbewusste als ein Reservoir fër Verdrängtes und somit potenziell Pathologisches galt, betrachtete Andreas-Salomé gerade diese Innenanteile als Quelle fër Kreativität und Weiterentwicklung. Den Trieb verstand sie nicht als etwas den Menschen primär Bedrängendes, dem er ausgeliefert sei, sondern eher als ein Begehren nach dem Anderen, als eine Sehnsucht nach Beziehung. Gerade hierdurch sah Lou Andreas-Salomé intrapsychische Entwicklungsprozesse induziert. Somit ist sie nicht nur als eine Schëlerin Freuds, sondern als eine Weiterdenkerin psychoanalytischen Gedankenguts zu betrachten. Ihre Auffassungen von Beziehung und ihr Einfordern des Intuitiven und Spirituellen als einer erweiterten Dimension des Psychischen finden sich heute aufgegriffen in der Bindungs- und Psychotherapieforschung und auch in der Diskussion um Mentalisierungsprozesse.
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Peter Lang AG Fusion Fashion: Culture beyond Orientalism and
Book SynopsisThe focus of «Fusion Fashion» is on Orientalism as a sartorial practice, which has to be differentiated from the common knowledge of Orientalism by means of its organization, constitution and reception. The book offers historic as well as systematic perspectives. On the one hand, it compares orientalizing practices in fashion since the Tang Period in China and European Renaissance. On the other hand, it highlights current tendencies of so called «orientalism», «self-orientalism», «occidentalism» in a globalized world. The book covers two time periods: Orientalized fashion practices from the 16th to the beginning of the 20th century, with an emphasis on European «Oriental» practices, and the period beginning in the 1990s up to the present day, with an emphasis on non-Western sartorial practices.Table of ContentsContents: Gertrud Lehnert/Gabriele Mentges: Fusion Fashion. Culture beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism – Buyun Chen: Toward a definition of «fashion» in Tang China (618-907 CE) – Gabriele Mentges: Drawing Borders: Perceptions of the Cultural Other in Renaissance Costume Books – Gertrud Lehnert: Orientalism in the 18th and 19th Century Fashion Magazines – Mona Abaza: The Motahajiba in Cairo, Inter-Arab Islamic chic, Adaptation, Hybridity and Globalization – Pravina Shukla: Fashion in the East: Dress in Modern India – Yuniya Kawamura: The Globalization of Japanese Lolita Fashion – Oly Firsching-Tovar: Reviving Kimono: Fashion as Memory at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century – Daniel Devoucoux : Bollywood, ou la réinvention de l´orientalisme et de l´occidentalisme dans le cinéma indien actuel.
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Peter Lang AG Teacher’s Personality and Professionalism
Book SynopsisThe papers in this collection analyse the professionalism of teachers in Estonia and neighbouring countries from several perspectives. Data from the OECD TALIS survey have been used to study the transformation of the teaching profession in recent years. As Estonia is bicultural, one paper deals with the transition to Estonian as the language of instruction in Russian-medium schools. Teacher professionalism is related to communication skills and this is also explored. It is generally accepted that teachers’ beliefs guide them in their daily work, and so three papers deal with the professional self and self-efficacy beliefs among teachers. In addition, an adaptation of the Teacher Efficacy Scale to the Estonian context is presented. The professional experience of young teachers is analysed and a comparison of the school practicum in teacher training in the Netherlands, Estonia and Finland is explored. Finally, the stress that teachers experience has been studied along with the preferred strategies for coping.Table of ContentsContents: Krista Loogma/Eeva Kesküla/Anne Roosipõld: The Transformation of the Teaching Profession in Estonia: Changes in Professionalism – Marika Veisson/Johanna Einarsdóttir/Bryndis Garðarsdóttir/Maria Filomena Gaspar/Eeva Hujala/Silvi Suur: A Cross-Cultural Qualitative Study on Parent-Teacher Partnership in Child Care in Estonia, Finland, Iceland and Portugal – Anu Masso/Katrin Kello: Implementing Educational Changes: Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Transition to Estonian as a Language of Instruction in Russian-Medium Schools – Tõnu Lehtsaar/Heiki Krips/Aleksander Pulver: The Structure of Social Competence of Estonian School Teachers – Äli Leijen/Katrin Kullasepp/Tuulike Agan: The Dynamics of the Professional Self of Final YearLeisure Time Management Students – Erika Löfström/Tiina Anspal/Markku S. Hannula/Katrin Poom-Valickis: Metaphors About ‘The Teacher’: Gendered, Discipline-Specific and Persistent? – Merle Taimalu/Eve Kikas/Maris Hinn/Airi Niilo: Teachers’ Self-Efficacy, Teaching Practices, and Teaching Approaches: Adaptation of Scales and Examining Relations – Edgar Krull/Ingrid Raudsepp: Perspectives for Optimizing the School Practicum for Student Teachers Through a Study of Dutch, Estonian and Finnish Experiences – Eve Eisenschmidt/Tuuli Oder/Merilyn Meristo: With Five Years of Teaching Experience: Professional Aims and Tenure – Kristiina Tropp/Kerli Liblik: Perceived Stress, Work Related Stressors and Coping Activities among Estonian Teachers.
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Peter Lang AG Cultural Diplomacy and Cultural Imperialism:
Book SynopsisThis book aims to contribute to the debate on European cultural policy and cultural diplomacy as well as to fill in the gap that exists in this under-researched field. Europe is still struggling in formulating its common cultural policy that will present Europe as a united and diverse entity to the world while the EU Member States invest efforts in promoting themselves only. This volume examines individual practices in 10 selected cases while the introduction study outlines main features of the EU cultural diplomacy.Table of ContentsContent: Martina Topić/Cassandra Sciortino: Cultural Diplomacy and Cultural Hegemony. A Framework for the Analysis – Miklós Székely: Rebuilding History. The Political Meaning of the Hungarian Historical Pavilion at the 1900 Paris Universal Exhibition – Margarita Kefalaki: Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Communication. Example of France and Corsica – Atsuko Ichijo: Cultural Diplomacy in the Contemporary United Kingdom. The Case of the British Council – Ayhan Kaya/Ayşe Tecmen: The Role of Yunus Emre Cultural Centres in Turkish Cultural Diplomacy – Laurens Runderkamp: Dutch and German International Cultural Policy in Comparison – Ovidiana Bulumac/Gabriel Sapunaru: Loosing Focus. An Outline for Romanian Cultural Diplomacy – Daniela Chàlàniova: Cultural Diplomacy and Stereotypes in Present-Day Czech-Slovak Relations Breaking with the Past? Hetero-Stereotypes of Czechs and Slovaks Twenty Years from the Velvet Divorce – Diego Albano: Italian Cultural Diplomacy. A Playboy’s Diplomacy? – Alexandros Sakellariou: Greek Orthodox Church’s Public Discourse. Balancing between Cultural Hegemony and Cultural Diplomacy – Martina Topić: Culture and Identity as Tools for Forging Europeanization.
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Peter Lang AG The Other’s Other: Reflections and Opacities in
Book SynopsisA challenge, a mission, a hope for a better life for all in an embattled country. This was the author’s vision in The Other’s Other. The challenge turned out to be greater and different than imagined; the mission more exasperating; the hope, more complicated. The book offers a new perspective on the problematic encounter between Jewish and Arab Israelis through the experience of a Jewish lecturer at an Arab college in an Arab city in Israel. The author’s unique insights into Arab Israeli culture gleaned from conversations with staff and students, students’ work, and everyday contact offer a window on the often conflicting feelings; the ambiguities, ambivalent identities, and layers of reality; the questions, doubts and dilemmas that mark the struggle of Arabs and Jews living in one country. It is also a meditation on the rewards and difficulties of discovering and accepting the other – and oneself as the other’s other. Of coexistence.Table of ContentsContents: The Beginning – The Big Cover-Up – Freedom – Meeting – Friction – Revelations – Condemnation – The Split – Second Thoughts or Cold Feet – Epilogue: Glimpses of change: The arrival of the 7 fat years?
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Peter Lang AG Beyond Crowd Psychology: The Power of Agoral
Book SynopsisThis book tries to answer some intriguing questions concerning the power of agoral gatherings. The 20th century is discussed as an age of crowds and masses. The book asks why the communist system disappeared in Europe during the last two decades of the 20th century and examines the factors which determined the collapse of the main military, political, social, economic and even symbolic infrastructures of the communist system in Europe. It poses the question why the end of communism in Europe was a peaceful phenomenon – except in the Balkan Peninsula. The author also discusses the predictability of this kind of phenomenon. In order to answer these questions the book introduces and extends the notion of agoral gathering as a new concept in the area of collective behavior and interprets the large-scale political transformations in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s in terms of peaceful collective behaviors as a political alternative for post-communist countries.Table of ContentsContents: Adam Biela: Agoral Gatherings which Have Changed the Political Face of Central and Eastern Europe – Jan Ferjenčik: Psychosocial Analysis of the Agoral Gatherings that Took Place During the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia – Eva Naništová: Retrospective and Current Approaches to the Velvet Revolution in Slovakia – Grzegorz Kida: Towards the Social and Cognitive Model of Macro Transformations in Poland – Piotr Andrukiewicz: Pilgrimages as Agoral Gatherings: A Case Study of the Pilgrimage to Częstochowa in Poland – Mariusz Wołońciej: The Power of Narratives Steering Collective Memory: The Cultural Aspects of Agoral Gatherings.
£36.68
Peter Lang AG The Mind Screen: Identification Desire and Its
Book SynopsisFor well over a century cinema has exerted enormous influence, yet many questions regarding its fascination remain unanswered. Films work so well because the viewers tend to unconsciously identify with the actors/actresses. The desire to become another, substituting identity by identification, can be traced to the illusion that the filmic heroes/heroines are immortal – identifying with them raises the possibility of gaining «deathlessness.» Viewers can, without real life risks, experiment with the existential drafts presented; the power of imagination is mobilized. Based on a multidisciplinary approach (semiotics, psychoanalysis, cultural anthropology, plus a healthy dose of film history), this book presents prolegomena of a philosophy of cinema.Table of ContentsContents: Fascination of cinema – Identification with actors/actresses – Participating in their immortality – Experimenting with the existential patterns offered – Film analysis – Film history – Semiotics – Psychoanalysis – Cultural anthropology.
£48.82
Springer Anorexia nervosa: Effektivität einer
Book SynopsisBei Anorexia nervosa zeigen sich oft schwere, langwierige und mitunter ernüchternde Verläufe. Selbst nach scheinbar erfolgreicher stationärer Behandlung kommt es häufig zu erneutem Körpersubstanzverlust und ungeplanten Wiederaufnahmen. Kathrin Peters stellt daher eine innovative Weiterentwicklung bisheriger Therapiekonzepte vor: Die Gewichtsmapping-basierte Intervalltherapie für Anorexia nervosa bei Erwachsenen. Diese fokussiert den Aufbau eines selbstfürsorglichen Essverhaltens sowie die Akzeptanz der resultierenden Gewichtsentwicklung. Durch eine individualisierte Behandlungsplanung auf Basis standardisierter Mapping-Methoden mit planvoll genutzten stationären Therapie- und häuslichen Erprobungsphasen können Bewältigungskompetenzen stufenweise aufgebaut werden. Erstmalig wird die mittelfristige Effektivität der Gewichtsmapping-basierten Intervalltherapie im Vergleich zur Standardtherapie untersucht und ihre Wirksamkeit empirisch belegt. Damit wird erstmals aufgezeigt, dass Gewichtsmapping-basierte Intervalltherapie vielversprechend für die Praxis ist, um die Essstörungsbewältigung nachhaltig positiv zu beeinflussen.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Anorexia nervosa.- Intervalltherapie.- Therapierational der vorliegenden studie.- Zielsetzung, fragestellungen und hypothesen.- Methode.- Ergebnisse.- Diskussion.- Fazit, integration und ausblick.- Literatur.
£52.24
Springer Why Knowing What To Do Is Not Enough: A Realistic
Book SynopsisThis open access book sets out to explain the reasons for the gap between “knowing” and “doing” in view of self-reliance, which is more and more often expected of citizens. In today’s society, people are expected to take responsibility for their own lives and be self-reliant. This is no easy feat. They must be on constant high alert in areas of life such as health, work and personal finances and, if things threaten to go awry, take appropriate action without further ado. What does this mean for public policy? Policymakers tend to assume that the government only needs to provide people with clear information and that, once properly informed, they will automatically do the right thing. However, it is becoming increasingly obvious that things do not work like that. Even though people know perfectly well what they ought to do, they often behave differently. Why is this? This book sets out to explain the reasons for the gap between ‘knowing’ and ‘doing’. It focuses on the role of non-cognitive capacities, such as setting goals, taking action, persevering and coping with setbacks, and shows how these capacities are undermined by adverse circumstances. By taking the latest psychological insights fully into account, this book presents a more realist perspective on self-reliance, and shows government officials how to design rules and institutions that allow for the natural limitations in people’s ‘capacity to act’. Table of ContentsChapter 1. The importance of mental capacity for self-reliance.- Chapter 2. Self-reliance in everyday life.- Chapter 3. Determinants of capacity to act.- Chapter 4. Self-reliance and situational influences.- Chapter 5. Training and intervention.- Chapter 6. Mental capacities, self-reliance and policy.- Bibliography.
£42.74
Springer Verlag, Singapore Bonobo and Chimpanzee: The Lessons of Social
Book SynopsisThis book describes the similarities and differences between two species, bonobos and chimpanzees, based on the three decades the author has spent studying them in the wild, and shows how the contrasting nature of these two species is also reflected in human nature. The most important differences between bonobos and chimpanzees, our closest relatives, are the social mechanisms of coexistence in group life. Chimpanzees are known as a fairly despotic species in which the males exclusively dominate over the females, and maintain a rigid hierarchy. Chimpanzees have developed social intelligence to survive severe competition among males: by upholding the hierarchy of dominance, they can usually preserve peaceful relations among group members. In contrast, female bonobos have the same or even a higher social status than males. By evolving pseudo-estrus during their non-reproductive period, females have succeeded in moderating inter-male sexual competition, and in initiating mate selection. Although they are non-related in male-philopatric society, they usually aggregate in a group, enjoy priority access to food, determine which male is the alpha male, and generally maintain much more peaceful social relations compared to chimpanzees. Lastly, by identifying key mechanisms of social coexistence in these two species, the author also seeks to find solutions or “hope” for the peaceful coexistence of human beings."Takeshi Furuichi is one of very few scientists in the world familiar with both chimpanzees and bonobos. In lively prose, reflecting personal experience with apes in the rain forest, he compares our two closest relatives and explains the striking differences between the male- dominated and territorial chimpanzees and the female-centered gentle bonobos."Frans de Waal, author of Mama’s Last Hug - Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves (Norton, 2019) Table of Contents
£28.49
