Psychological theory Books

Book SynopsisThis book explores how Jacques Lacan has influenced Black Studies from the 1950s to the present day, and in turn how a Black Studies framework challenges the topographies of Lacanianism in its understanding of race. David Marriott examines how a contemporary Black Studies perspective might respond to the psychoanalysis of race by taking advantage of the recent revitalization of Lacanianism in its speculative, metaphysical form. While the philosophical side of the debate makes a plea for a new universalism, this book proposes a Lacanian reassessment of the notion of race, a notion distinct from culture, language, religion, and identity. It argues that it is possible to re-establish the theoretical relation between capitalism, anti-blackness, and colonialism, by reassessing the links between Lacanian psychoanalysis and three main domains of black inquiry: mastery, knowledge, and embodiment. The book offers a strikingly original rereading of the place of Lacan in both Fanon Studies and Afro-pessimism. It will appeal to students and scholars of Black Studies, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory and Philosophy.Table of ContentsPart 1: Slave and Signifier.- Part 2: The X of X.- Part 3: Tell It Like It Is.

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Book SynopsisThis Open Access book offers a model of the human subject as complicit in the systems that structure human society and the human psyche which draws together clinical research with theory from both psychology and the humanities to advance a more social just theory and practice. Beginning from the premise that we cannot separate ourselves from the systems that precede and formulate us as subjects, the author argues that, in reckoning with this complicity, a model of subjectivity can be created that moves beyond binaries and identity politics. In doing so, the book examines how we might develop a more socially just psychological theory and practice, which is both systems work and intra-psychological work. In bringing together ways of thinking developed in the humanities with clinical psychotherapeutic practice, this book offers one interdisciplinary take on key questions of social and emotional efficacy in action-oriented psychotherapy work.Table of Contents1 Introduction: The Personal Is Still Political2 Well-Intentioned White People and Other Problems with Liberalism 3 Wakanda Forever 4 Thought Bodies: Gender, Sex, Sexualities 5 Love and Money 6 The Complicit Therapist 7 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisDiversity Competence and Leadership Personality.- Board diversity as institutional competence: recognition and misrecognition of diversity claims.- Migration and success: Conditions for success and obstacles.- History still matters: Unpacking the complexities of gendered black violence.- Interculturality between Majority and Minority in the European Context of Ethnic Nationalism.- Multiculturalism in the United Kingdom: Past, Present, and Future Directions.- What is intercultural competence?.- Diversity and urban economic growth.- Managing Cultural Diversity in Switzerland.- Diversity management at Universities in Germany and Austria.- Managing Team Diversity through Leadership.- Predicting German Managers' Intentions to Discriminate Against Minorities: A Theory of Planned Behavior-Based Model.- An Intercultural Training Module that is more about Us than about Them and the underlying Rationale.- Implementing group learning activities to foster intercultural competence: Facilitating interaction across differences in higher education.- The Promise of Board Gender Diversity State of the Art and Conclusions.- Diversity as a multi-level phenomenon in management and economics.- Culturally Diverse Classrooms as Natural Arenas for Promoting Adolescents' Competence to Engage with Cultural Diversity and Social Inequity The Case of Germany.- Diversity in learning processes.- Cultural Diversity in Lithuania: Challenges and Contradictions in Combating Hate Crime.- United in Diversity: Evidence from Romania.- Cultural Diversity and Entrepreneurial Capacities in Western Balkans.- Intercultural Education and Teacher Professional Development in Serbia: Between Tolerance and Transformation Paradigm.- Macedonian inter-ethnic relations: a path of continuous adjustment and political, social, and legal changes.- Minorities and inclusion in the case of Greece.- Unity in diversity from the perspective of diversity competence in Poland.- Understanding and Tolerance towards the Ethnic and Cultural Diversity among Bulgarians.- Diversity management in higher education under accelerating digitalization and workforce ageing: the cases of the Czech Republic and Ukraine.- Intercultural Competencies in Higher Education in Spain: development, assessment, and recommendations.- Europeanizing diversity: a cross-Atlantic conversation.- Being children of immigrants. Ambivalences, risks and potentials of present and future.- Urban Governance Beyond Diversity: The Case of Antwerp, Belgium.- Is there a space for diversity in the Italian Welfare System?.- Intercultural education in Finnish research: A literature review of the past 20 years.- Understanding Diversity in Norway: Ethnicity, Gender, Religion, and Social Class.- Cultural Diversity in Public Service Media.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Darwin and choosing soft.- Chapter 2. The Dodo rule and raising self-esteem.- Chapter 3. Intelligence and the Holy Grail.- Chapter 4. Standardized Testing and mismatch.- Chapter 5. Unconscious bias.- Chapter 6. Data too good, data too strange.- Chapter 7. A Summation.

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Book SynopsisCritical Geographies of Optimal Experience.- CONCEPTS AND MODELS.- Introduction to Part I A Diffuse Archipelago of Constructs.- The Componential Model and its Discontents.- Channel and Process Models of Flow .- Conclusion to Part I Bridging the archipelago.- ACTUAL AND VIRTUAL PLACES.- Problematising Place.- Actual Places.- Virtual Places.- Conclusion to Part II Flow as Place-Making.- MANIPULATIONS AND INTERVENTIONS.- Introduction to Part III Instrumentalising Flow.- Spaces of Flow Manipulation.- Flow Interventions in Place.- Conclusion to Part III Recrafting the Future of Flow.- Conclusion to Part III Recrafting the Future of Flow.- Conclusion: Hopeful Geographies of Optimal Experience.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: De-Sign and Hypnosis.- Chapter 2: Hypnosis and Reality: About that Which is Overlooked.- Chapter 3: Working With.- Chapter 4: Thinking and Doing: The Challenge of Effectiveness.- Chapter 5: Hypnosis, De-sign & Paradoxes.- Chapter 6: The Multiple Faces of Love.- Chapter 7: Hypnosis and Trance-Modernity.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- The Intersection of AI and Emotions: Deep Learning Applications for Well-being and a Better Society.- Feeling machines: Challenges and ethical perspectives in developing robots with emotions.- Robotic Positive Psychology Interventions and Emotional Well-being.- Zuversicht and Antifragility: A New Emotion Theoretical Perspective on a German Concept.- Sehnsucht is a Signpost - A German Case Study.- Saudade: Empirical Analysis of a Portuguese Concept.- Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Emotions and Other Aspects of Well-Being: Variations Within and Across Diverse Cultures.- Test Anxiety from a Cross-cultural Perspective.- The Interplay of Self-Efficacy and Test Anxiety in Academic Performance From an Individualistic Cultural Perspective.- Positive and Negative Affect Across Cultures - The Case of Latin Americans.- Post-traumatic Growth and Emotional Resilience in Immigrants and Refugees from Africa and the Middle East.- Boredom in Interactive Learning Settings.- Low-socioeconomic status Students Experience Positive Emotions Through Academic Intervention Programs in Japan: A Systematic Review.- The Socio-Cultural Context of Well-Being: The Case of Poland

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Book SynopsisNavigating Emotional Diversity: Editorial Volume 1.- Part I: Foundations and Classifications of Emotions.- The Spectrum of Affect: A Classification of the 64 Emotions.- Investigating Shame as a Resource in the Anthropocene: An Emotional Psychology Perspective.- Light Still Shines in the Darkness: Mindsets that Shape Encounters with the Storm of Suffering.- Coping and Stress-Related Emotions from a Cross-Cultural Perspective.- Part II: Healing, Transformation, and Growth.- What Can Older Adults Tell Us About Emotional Wisdom? Experiencing Emotion and Mental Health In Old Age.- The Emotion of Love Across Generations: An Intergenerational, Interethnic Perspective.- Forgiveness Reconsidered: Agency and the Contextual Nature of Forgiveness in the Aftermath of Clergy Sex Abuse.- Blessed is the One Whose Transgressions are Forgiven: Conceptual Foundations and a Template for Measuring Christian Experiences of Reconciliation with God.- Emotions and Moral Living: A Case Study In An Evolving Tradition.- Understanding Jealousy, Guilt, and Depression from a Commitment Point of View: Philip Brickman’s Unified Theory of Emotions and its Practical Implications.- Part III: Emotional Well-being in Education and the Workplace.- Exploring Peer Support in Emotional Well-being: A Positive Psychological Perspective.- An Approach to Build Trust in Opposition to the Fear of Making Mistakes in English – a Circle of Dialogue Based on Positive Psychology.- From Conflict to Connection: Harnessing Emotions in the Workplace with the EmC Method.- Part IV: The Arts and Aethetics in Positive Psychology.- The Emotional Impact of Aesthetic Appreciation on Individual and Collective Well-Being.- Aesthetic Emotions as Expression Of Experiencing The Beauty.- Experiencing Art: The Paradox of Positive and Negative Emotions.- How do you feel? Literature’s Contribution to Learning the Granularity of Emotions.- Bridging Chapter: Connecting Individual and Cultural Emotional Dynamics.

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Book SynopsisSie wünschen sich Erfolg - aber der will sich einfach nicht einstellen? Wenn Sie gerne erfolgreich wären, es aber Ihrer Meinung nach (noch) nicht sind, könnten Sie sich im Grunde davor fürchten und unbewusst Ihre eigenen Anstrengungen sabotieren. Immer wieder hält die meist unbewusste Furcht vor Veränderung Menschen davon ab, ihre ersehnten Ziele zu erreichen. Insbesondere die Angst vor dem Scheitern kann ihnen im Weg stehen. Dieses Buch hilft Ihnen, latente Ängste zu entlarven, sich ihnen zu stellen und sie zu überwinden. Sie erfahren, was Sie ganz konkret unternehmen können, um die angestrebten Ziele zu erreichen und wie Sie dabei Ihre eigene Erfolgsgeschichte schreiben. "...ein äußerst informativer und kompakt geschriebener Ratgeber, der einem hilft, die Steine des Misserfolgs, die in der eigenen Psyche oft genug den Weg versperren, beiseite zu räumen."Mag. Adam Silye, Künstler "Sehr gründlich und gut recherchiert, ohne dabei belehrend zu wirken. Das Buch motiviert sehr, sich mit der Thematik auseinanderzusetzen und daraus für sich persönlich eine Lehre zu ziehen."Katharina Kuhlmann, HR-Managerin Table of ContentsAngst vor Erfolg – Fallbeispiele und erprobte Strategien.- Was bedeutet Erfolg für Sie?.- Eigenschaften erfolgreicher Menschen.- Muster wenig erfolgreicher Menschen.- Auswirkungen der Angst vor Erfolg.- Strategien, wie Sie trotz der Angst Erfolg haben.- Wie Sie Erfolgspflänzchen für Ihre Kinder setzen.

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Book SynopsisHurley and Dobson explore how the wisdom of the Enneagram allows you to bring out the best in yourself and others. Delving deeper than other systems of personality exploration, the Enneagram system of nine distinctive patterns of unconscious motivation reveals the primary sources of our behavior and the reasons we live as we do.Through detailed descriptions and discerning self-inventory questions, Hurley and Dobson make discovering your personality type fun and easy. They provide simple, proven methods for neutralizing negative attitudes about self and others and releasing untapped potential. Armed with the Enneagram''s insights, readers learn to transform weaknesses into strengths, break free of crippling patterns, choose new ways of relating to others, and enjoy balance and harmony. For example: The Achiever can move from dissatisfied perfectionism to effective leadership and become a Pathfinder. The Observer can mo

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Book SynopsisA rich book covering many areas of human experience. . . . For the person looking for an intelligent and clear presentation of the relationship between psychological and spiritual growth, this is the book to read.''--America

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Book SynopsisTherapeutic changes occur in many places, and among animals as well as humans. A theory that attempts to explain therapeutic changes should be based on principles that apply not only to those changes occurring during the hour, but also to those observed in the educational process, in interpersonal relations, and in the social milieu, as well as with animals. It would be desirable to discover principles broad enough to provide a deeper understanding of therapeutic change in this wide variety of situations.Experienced therapists appear to be similar in what they are doing, although they may disagree as to why they do it. In spite of the arguments about theoretical formulations, it can be observed that during an hour with a patient many psychotherapists may not follow their own theories too well. There probably is some relevance in a comparison of psychotherapy with a concept formation test: the subject gives the correct answers but is unable to state why he did so or what princTable of Contents1: Introduction and Overview; 2: The Anatomy of a Message Structure and Motivation; 3: Developing Patterns Choosing Responses to the Environment; 4: Information-Gathering Process in Psychotherapy; 5: The Use of Conventions; 6: Interventions in Psychotherapy; 7: Labeling the Therapist’s Activity; 8: Content Choices in the Psychotherapeutic Hour; 9: Extratherapeutic Incidents; 10: Technical Problems in the Therapeutic Process; 11: Communication Analysis in Family Group and Group Therapy; 12: The Child’s Communication in Therapy; 13: The Changing Landscape of Psychotherapy Practice Managed Care; 14: The Therapist as a Consultant; 15: Supervision in Communication Analytic Therapy *; 16: Nonverbal Communication in Psychotherapy; 17: The Ethical Problems of Control of Behavior; 18: Pills and Caring Talk; 19: Summary and Conclusions

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Book SynopsisInterpersonal Relationships considers friendship and more intimate relationships including theories of why we need them, how they are formed, what we get out of them and the stages through which they go. Social and cultural variations are discussed as well as the effects of relationships on our well-being and happiness.The book is tailor-made for the student new to higher-level study. With its helpful textbook features provided to assist in examination and learning techniques, it should interest all introductory psychology and sociology students, as well as those training for the caring services, such as nurses.Table of ContentsPart 1.Types of Relationships. Introduction. Research on Interpersonal Relationships. Types of Relationships. Summary. Part 2. Types of Love. The Basic Distinction: Companionate and Passionate Love. Rubin's Model of Liking and Loving. Sternberg's Triangle of Love. Lee's Six Styles of Loving. Types of Love and Attachment Styles. Summary. Part 3. Factors Determining Relationship Formation. Proximity. Similarity. Physical Attraction. Reciprocal Liking. Complementarity. Competence. Summary. Part 4.Theories of Interpersonal Attraction. Learning theory. Social Exchange theory. Equity theory. Sociobiology. Summary. Part 5. The Maintenance and Course of Relationships. Stage and Filter Models. Evaluation of Filter and Stage theories. Summary. Part 6.The Dissolution of Relationships. Conflicts in Relationships. Duck's Model of Relationship Dissolution. Rusbult and Zembrodt's Model of Responses to Relationship Dissatisfaction. Concluding Comments. Summary. Part 7.Components and Effects of Relationships. Components of Relationships: Self-Disclosure. Components of Relationships: Rules. Components of Relationships: Power. Health and Happiness. Summary. Part 8.Individual, Social and Cultural Variations in Relationships. Homosexual Relationships. Gender Differences In Same-sex Friendships. Cross-Cultural Differences In Heterosexual Relationships. Summary. Part 9. Study Aids. Improving Your Essay Writing Skills. Key Research Summary. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisEver since the inception of economics over two hundred years ago, the tools at the disciplineâs disposal have grown more and more more sophisticated. This book provides a historical introduction to the methodology of economics through the eyes of economists. The story begins with John Stuart Mill's seminal essay from 1836 on the definition and method of political economy, which is then followed by an examination of how the actual practices of economists changed over time to such an extent that they not only altered their methods of enquiry, but also their self-perception as economists. Beginning as intellectuals and journalists operating to a large extent in the public sphere, they then transformed into experts who developed their tools of research increasingly behind the scenes. No longer did they try to influence policy agendas through public discourse; rather they targeted policymakers directly and with instruments that showed them as independent and objective policy advisTrade Review'There is no doubt that Harro Maas’s Economic Methodology: A Historical Introduction is a very important, innovative and scholarly written introduction to the methodology of economics. In putting the practices of economists at its heart it may – and should – attract a wide readership. Students of the history of economic thought and economic methodology will indeed find in this book much food for thought. I can only strongly recommend its reading.' - Journal of Economic Methodology'What is good economics? Instead of offering armchair answers to this question, the book offers detailed descriptions of the practice of economics throughout the course of its rich history.' — Esther-Mirjam Sent, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.'Harro Maas provides a concise introduction to the sources of factual knowledge and approaches to theoretical knowledge of leading economists of the last two centuries. His book is not about what economists say they do, or what methodologists say they should do, but what they do. It makes for a great read.' — Richard Van Den Berg, Kingston University London, UK 'The book's historical approach reflects a wide knowledge and deep understanding of economics and contains much that will fascinate practising economists and their students. It is a remarkable book, written in a lively and engaging style, that everyone with any interest in economic methodology, as well as economists who think methodology has nothing to say to them, should read.' — Roger Backhouse, University of Birmingham, UKTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Economics: Inductive or deductive science? 3. Economics and Statistics 4. Business-Cycle Research: The rise of modelling 5. John Maynard Keynes and Jan Tinbergen: The dramatist and the model-builder 6. Milton Friedman and the Cowles Commission for Econometric Research: Structural models and ‘as if’ methodology 7. Modelling Between Fact and Fiction: Thought experiments in economics 8. Experimentation in Economics 9. Simulation with Models 10. Economics as Science 11. Further Reading

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Book SynopsisDesigned to stimulate debate and critical thinking and to draw readers' attention to the ideological nature of literacy education across a broad range of literacy contexts, this book crosses traditional boundaries between the study of family, community, and school literacies to offer a unique global perspective on multiple literacies, from theory to case studies of various settings. These examples suggest ways that literacy practices should be created by simultaneously shaping relationships and identity, and by privileging particular literacy practices in particular situations. The dialogue within the book among chapter authors writing across traditionally distinct fields highlights the interconnections among diverse literacy sites and stimulates the pursuit of a more integrated and interdisciplinary approach to literacy education. The critical and dialogic approach serves to challenge and extend many conventional notions surrounding literacy education in communities, schools, and fTrade Review"The authors and editors of this volume, taking a lead from the little boy who pointed out that the king was wearing no clothes, have....begun to document what literacy actually looks like in action and in different contexts with different players....Enjoy the work contained in this volume. It is important and desperately needed. Consider it as part of the slowly emerging picture and join us in working on its completion."—Victoria Purcell-GatesFrom the Foreword"...I couldn't put it down! It's that good!...With its look at family literacy, its offer of relatively new research methodologies, and its reports of major policy initiatives, this book will be a welcome volume to scholars in literacy and social policy."—Carole EdelskyArizona State University"The issues addressed are important ones--in particular the concern for school literacy having more to do with students' lives and the development of literate agency in the face of curricula and testing practices designed to prevent it....The central focus of the book is not only at the leading edge of the field, but it is surely timely, particularly in the United States."—Peter JohnstonState University of New York at Albany"The editors have brought together emerging and established scholars who are well-known and respected in the field of literacy to address critical issues in the areas of literacy practices, programming, and policy across the spectrum of youth and adult literacy."—Pat CampbellUniversity of AlbertaTable of ContentsContents: V. Purcell-Gates, Foreword. Preface. M. Kendrick, T. Rogers, S. Smythe, J. Anderson, Portraits of Literacy Across Families, Communities, and Schools: An Introduction. Part I: Family Literacies.E. Gregory, Guiding Lights: Siblings as Literacy Teachers in a Multilingual Community. T.H. Cairney, Literacy Diversity: Understanding and Responding to the Textual Tapestries of Home, School, and Community. J. Anderson, S. Smythe, J. Shapiro, Working and Learning With Families, Communities, and Schools: A Critical Case Study. S. Cody, Snapshot 1: A Single Mother's Journey of Rediscovery. L.M. Phillips, H.L. Sample, Family Literacy: Listen to What the Families Have to Say. R. Hayden, M. Sanders, Snapshot 2: Voices From the Field: Practitioner Perspectives on Issues in Family Literacy. Part II: Early and Youth Literacies.M. Prinsloo, P. Stein, "Down, Up, and Round": Setting Children Up as Readers and Writers in South African Classrooms. M.H. Maguire, A.J. Beer, H. Attarian, D. Baygin, X.L. Curdt-Christiansen, R. Yoshida, The Chameleon Character of Multilingual Literacy Portraits: Re-Searching in "Heritage" Language Places and Spaces. D. Masny, Multiple Literacies: An Alternative OR Beyond Freire. M. Kendrick, R. McKay, L. Moffatt, The Portrayal of Self in Children's Drawings of Home, School, and Community Literacies. T. Rogers, A. Schofield, Things Thicker Than Words: Portraits of Youth Multiple Literacies in an Alternative Secondary Program. S. Moloney, Snapshot 3: A Small Piece of the Truth. B. Norton, A Portrait of Literacy From the Youth Millennium Project. Part III: Community and Adult Literacies.J. Hare, To "Know Papers": Aboriginal Perspectives on Literacy. Ningwakwe/Rainbow Woman, The Rainbow/Holistic Approach to Aboriginal Literacy. J. Horsman, Creating Change in Literacy Programs: Taking Account of Violence. D. Bloome, The People Write Back: Community Literacy Practices and the Visibility of the Ordinary Writer. B.A. Quigley, "First We Must Dream. Nothing Is Harder": Toward a Discourse on Literacy Across the Lifespan. Part IV: Literacy Policy Issues.P. Duff, Thinking Globally About English and New Literacies: Multilingual Socialization at Work. E. Auerbach, Connecting the Local and the Global: A Pedagogy of Not-Literacy.

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Book SynopsisA well-rounded education in the 21st century requires not just verbal and mathematical proficiency, but also the ability to interpret, critique, create, and use visual communication on sophisticated levels. In todayâs visual world, it is critically important to hold an appreciation for the profound effects imagery has on individuals and the communities in which they live.Visual Communication focuses on cultivating visual and media literacy from both consumption and production points of view and introduces students to the application of intuitive intelligence to a visual context. Innovative in its field, it provides a solid theoretical overview of the most advanced thinking and research about visual communication, teaching readers how to apply theory to enhance their understanding of and work with images.This book is intended for students in visual literacy and communication courses. It can also be used in photojournalism courses and other coursework with a visual component. Individuals interested in mass media studies will likewise find the book to be a worthwhile read.Trade Review“An intelligent and beautifully illustrated book on how visual communication helps us achieve intellectual and intuitive literacy. A well-researched treatise that instantly shows what Omniphasism and Integrative Mind are all about. What Fritjof Capra tired to do in the Tao of Physics three decades ago, the authors have accomplished here: to bring rational and intuitive intelligences into balance and to help us reconcile our inner and outer vision for a higher state of awareness and a richer state of life.” -- Herb Zettl, San Francisco State University“Drawing on their extensive experience as visual artists, educators, and researchers, the authors have produced a book that will inform and stimulate any reader who wants to gain a better understanding of the ways in which our minds make sense of visual images. This is a work of mature scholarship, containing a new theory of visual communication as well as a synthesis of prior research. A valuable addition to the visual studies literature.” — Paul Messaris, University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School of Communication“This is an important and truly beautiful book, one that is personally and professionally useful, as well as theoretically advanced. In it, Williams and Newton synthesize key theories in neurology, art and visual communication as a platform for the concept of an integrative, balanced mind. Filled with insights and practical exercises to achieve this balance, this book suggests that the truly integrated mind finds an equilibrium between intuition and reason that leads to both a fuller way of life and a philosophical outlook with vast educational and cultural implications.” — Ann Marie Barry, Boston College"Rick Williams and Juliana Newton are two of the most accomplished theorists in the wide field of visual communication. Their years of experience as educators and photographers combine in a well developed and important theory of intuitive intelligence. Additionally the exercises they have created and tested in their own courses illuminate for students ways to access visual intelligence, creativity and the whole mind. The book is a strong argument for inclusion of courses in visual communication and visual literacy in the liberal arts curriculum. Especially valuable are the examples and historical review of the intersections between science and art as performed in the highly mediated culture in which we live and learn. All of us have something to learn from this text." -- Diane S. Hope, William A. Kern Professor in Communications, Rochester Institute of Technology“A challenging book because it presents a thorough review of theory and research in visual communication. An eloquent book because it demonstrates the beauty and process of visual communication through illustrations and many creative exercises. It integrates the art and science of visual communication and is a testimony to the power and insights of Omniphasism—the underlying theory on which this work is based and which explores an integrative balance in ways of thinking and knowing, both rational and intuitive. Visual Communication breaks new ground in textbook writing by bringing alive the creative and mind-stretching classroom exercises that these professors have developed for their own instructional use. It helps rational thinkers learn to break through to their intuitive side through experiential learning. You have to do more than read about it to open up the intuitive side of the brain. Every student, whatever the learning or thinking style, expands individual potential in a personal and private journey through these broadening exercises.” — Sandra Moriarty, University of ColoradoTable of ContentsPREFACE. Knowing Before WordsACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTION. The Integrative MindClarifying TermsVisual IntelligenceMusical IntelligencePsychological IntelligencePhysiological IntelligenceUnderstanding a Key PointPART I. Vision and Intelligence.Understanding Intelligence as Intuitive and RationalCHAPTER ONE. Seeking Dynamic Balance: The Shaman, The Scientist, and the TheologianShe-Bear: The Power of Integrating Visual and Verbal CommunicationA Theory of Integrative MindTable 1. Key TermsTable 2. Key IdeasTable 3. Primary Intuitive & Rational Cognitive ProcessesCREATIVE ONE. The Intimate Eye: Accessing Your Inner Vision Through Creative VisualizationThe Goal: Enhancing Your Creative AbilitiesCHAPTER TWO. Abu Rocks: Integrating Perceptual and Conceptual RealitiesCREATIVE TWO. Visualizing a Personal Symbolic PortraitThe Goal: Creative Problem SolvingCHAPTER THREE. Art and Personal Development: The Quest for BalanceArt and the Integrated IndividualThe Stages of Artistic DevelopmentCREATIVE THREE. The Perceptual to Conceptual Leap: First DrawingsThe Goal: Creative Decision MakingCHAPTER FOUR. Overcoming Intuitive Illiteracy: Accessing Your Whole MindRepetition Techniques & PerceptionRational Bias & Visual ResponseThe Second Nature of ConsciousnessCREATIVE FOUR. The Yin/Yang of Drawing: Drawing Contours, Not FeaturesThe Goal: Integrating Ways of Seeing and KnowingCHAPTER FIVE. Ulysses in His Right Mind: The Historical Intuitive MindJulian Jaynes: The Bicameral Mind & the Ancient Intuitive MindBogen & Sperry and Distinctive Cognitive ProcessingCREATIVE FIVE. Drawing the Figure: One Contour, One Space at a TimeThe Goal: Drawing What You SeeCHAPTER SIX. Multiple Intelligences and Nonconscious Biases: The Contemporary Intuitive MindHoward Gardner:Multiple Intelligence TheoryTable 4. Comparison of Integrative Mind and Gardner’s Multiple IntelligencesThe Nature of Holistic ProcessingDamasio: Nonconscious Mind and BehaviorTable 5. Visual/Spatial IntelligenceTable 6. Intrapersonal IntelligenceTable 7. Interpersonal IntelligencesTable 8. Bodily Kinesthetic IntelligenceTable 9. Musical IntelligenceTable 10. Naturalist IntelligenceTable 11. Complementary/Parallel Systems of KnowingBringing It All TogetherCREATIVE SIX. Bringing It All Together: Drawing for RealThe Goal: Seeing Results of Cognitive BalancePART II. Visual Illiteracy and Education. What We Don’t LearnCHAPTER SEVEN. The Square Peg and the Round Hole: Education and Intuitive IntelligenceThe Contemporary VisionCultivating the IntuitiveThe Rational Side of Visual LiteracyThe Intuitive Side of Visual LiteracyThe Need for an Integrative New ApproachTable 12. Omniphasic Visual LiteracyBeyond Visual Literacy: A Holistic Approach to Being, Seeing, Knowing, and CreatingIn ConclusionTable 13. Summary of Theories Relevant to OmniphasismCREATIVE SEVEN. Designing Shapes: Concept in Visual FormThe Goal: Communicating Concepts VisuallyCHAPTER EIGHT. Visions in Voice: Language and the Intuitive Mind Visions in VoiceWritten LanguageOn Sounds and SignsWords as Balanced Ways of KnowingThe Sounds of WordsThe Form of the PresentationConclusionCREATIVE EIGHT . The Visual Word: Giving Vision to VoiceThe Goal: Integrating Visual and VerbalCHAPTER NINE. Insight Out: Dreams and the Nonconscious MindAn ExampleThe Role of Dreams in Human KnowingMiguel de Cervantes: Another Great DreamerWhat Science Has to SayHistorical Foundations of DreamsContemporary Research about DreamsCREATIVE NINE. Dream Visions: Insight OutThe Goal: Understanding Mental ImageryCHAPTER TEN. Sharing the Vision:Photography as a Medium of BalancePhotographic TruthTechnique in PhotographyThe Still CameraFilm, Film Speed, and Digital RatingsPhotography and LightContrastDirectionColorCamera ControlsShutter Speed Controls Light and MotionF/Stop Controls Light and Depth of FieldWorking Shutter Speed and F/Stop TogetherLensesAdding LightTripodsConstantly Changing TechnologyCREATIVE TEN. Image Insights: Photography from the Inside OutThe Goal: Translating Seeing into ImagesCHAPTER ELEVEN. Designing for MeaningThe Basic ElementsPointLinePlane/ShapeVolumeFrameSummary of Key PointsThe Core PrinciplesContrastRhythmBalanceProportionAdditional Terms of Graphic StructureMovementCenter of InterestRule of ThirdsScaleSpatialityPerspectiveLight and ColorContextTying it All TogetherPrinciples of the GestaltUnityCultural BiasesCREATIVE ELEVEN. Graphic Visions: Looking for MeaningThe Goal: Understanding the FrameCHAPTER TWELVE. Embedded Meanings: Learning to Look Behind the Mirrors and Beyond the WindowsCulture and Making Sense of What We SeeTraditional Ways to Study VisualsOther Methods to Study VisualsSix PerspectivesConclusionCREATIVE TWELVE. Thinking Systematically about ImagesThe Goal: Focusing on the RationalPART III. The Public as Art and Image. The Academy, The Media, and Visual PersuasionCHAPTER THIRTEEN. Stopping Time and Framing SpaceStill Media DefinedFormats of the FrameDesigning Well Within the FrameCharacteristics of TypeParts of a LetterformType GroupsOther TermsPractical Guidelines for Effective DesignMore than AppearancesCREATIVE THIRTEEN. Personal Impact Assessment: Understanding Images from Intuitive and Rational PerspectivesThe Goal: Understanding How Still Images CommunicateCHAPTER FOURTEEN. Images That Move and SoundMoving Media: Transcending Time & SpaceThe Body as Moving ImageTechnological HistoryBasic Elements of Moving ImagesLight and ColorTwo-Dimensional SpaceThree-Dimensional SpaceTime and MotionSoundReturning to ContentCREATIVE FOURTEEN. Film Clip AnalysisThe Goal: Understanding How Moving Images CommunicateCHAPTER FIFTEEN. Living at the Speed of Mind: Old Media–New MediaWhat Does All This Mean?What Do We Know?LayoutImagesAdsMultimediaReconceptualizing Media StudiesCREATIVE FIFTEEN. Communicating the Story of a PersonThe Goal: To tell a story visually with supporting wordsCHAPTER SIXTEEN. The Thousand Year ProjectSynthesisThe Larger ProblemFrom Ulysses to Artificial IntelligenceThe Other Side of the ProblemThe PlanTable 14: The Key IdeasAn Eye to the FutureConclusionAFTERWORD. Ecology in ParadiseCONTRIBUTORSREFERENCESSUGGESTED READINGSINDEX OF TERMS BY CHAPTER/CREATIVEALPHABETICAL INDEXCOLOR PLATES

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Book SynopsisThis scholarly book in SIOPâs Organizational Frontier series looks at research on enhancing knowledge acquisition and its application in organizations. It concentrates on training, design and delivery given the changing nature of work and organizations. Now that work is increasingly complex, there is greater emphasis on expertise and cognitive skills. Advances in technology such as computer simulations and web-based training are necessitating a more active role for the learner in the training process. In the broad context of the organization systems, this book promotes learning and development as a continuous lifelong endeavor.Trade Review"Everything you want to know regarding the scientific principles for effective training interventions, principles that are leading edge, questions not previously asked let alone addressed are here in this edited book of original chapters written by the titans in our field. This book is a dream come true for doctoral students and faculty who are searching for worthy ideas in need of research." -Gary P. Latham, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto"This is must reading and a valuable reference for researchers, students and practitioners in training, human resources, and organizational development. I was impressed by the comprehensive examination of state-of-the-art training methods, including active learning in virtual and informal contexts. Chapters by the field's leading experts review the latest research findings and show the importance of creating organizational cultures and structures for continuous individual and organizational learning...just right for understanding learning in today's high pressure, rapidly changing environment." -Manual London, College of Business, State University of New York at Stony Brook"The editors of LEARNING, TRAINING, AND DEVELOPMENT IN ORGANIZATIONS have assembled a volume with highly respected authors who have written chapters with exciting and up-to-date content. Major sections comprehensively address issues related to the learner, the design and delivery of instruction and the organizational context in which learning and development occur. This will be required reading for graduate seminars." -James L. Farr, Pennsylvania State UniversityTable of ContentsPart 1. The Learner, Learning Processes, and Training Outcomes. Gully, Chen, Individual Differences, Attribute-Treatment Interactions, and Training Outcomes. Beier, Kanfer, Motivation in Training and Development: A Phase Perspective. Salas, Rosen, Experts at Work: Principles for Developing Expertise in Organizations. Ford, Kraiger, Merritt, An Updated Review of the Multidimensionality of Training Outcomes: New Directions for Training Evaluation Research. Part 2. Emerging Issues for Design and Delivery. Cooke, Fiore, Cognitive Science-Based Principles for the Design and Delivery of Training. Mayer, Research-Based Solutions to Three Problems in Web-Based Training. Cannon-Bowers, Bowers, Synthetic Learning Environments: On Developing a Science of Simulation, Games, and Virtual Worlds for Training. Bell, Kozlowski, Toward a Theory of Learner-Centered Training Design: An Integrative Framework of Active Learning. Part 3. The Organizational Context, Levels, and Time. Tannenbaum, Beard, McNall, Salas, Informal Learning and Development in Organizations. Molloy, Noe, "Learning" a Living: Continuous Learning for Survival in Today’s Talent Market. Kozlowski, Chao, Jensen, Building an Infrastructure for Organizational Learning: A Multilevel Approach. Mathieu, Tesluk, A Multi-Level Perspective on Training and Development Effectiveness. Part 4. Reflection and an Agenda for the Future. Thayer, Goldstein, Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going? Salas, Kozlowski, Learning, Training, and Development in Organizations: Much Progress and a Peek Over the Horizon.

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive, multidisciplinary review, Neural Plasticity and Memory: From Genes to Brain Imaging provides an in-depth, up-to-date analysis of the study of the neurobiology of memory. Leading specialists share their scientific experience in the field, covering a wide range of topics where molecular, genetic, behavioral, and brain imaging techniques have been used to investigate how cellular and brain circuits may be modified by experience. In each chapter, researchers present findings and explain their innovative methodologies. The book begins by introducing key issues and providing a historical overview of the field of memory consolidation. The following chapters review the putative genetic and molecular mechanisms of cell plasticity, elaborating on how experience could induce gene and protein expression and describing their role in synaptic plasticity underlying memory formation. They explore how putative modifications of brain circuits and synaptic elements through experiTable of ContentsSearching for Memory in the Brain: Confronting the Collusion of Cells and Systems. Long-Term Potentiation and Depression as Putative Mechanisms for Memory Formation. Molecular Mechanisms of Synaptic Plasticity Underlying Long Term Memory Formation. Modification of Brain Circuits through Experience. Presynaptic Structural Plasticity and Long-Lasting Memory: Focus on the Learning-Induced Redistribution of Hippocampal Mossy Fibers. Electrophysiological Representation of Taste Memory. Changes in Neurotransmitters Extracellular Levels During Memory Formation. Reversible Brain Inactivation of Brain Circuits in Learning and Memory Research. Enhanced Learning Protects the Brain Against the Effects of Amnesic Treatments. Studies on Short-Term Avoidance Memory. Memory Reconsolidation or Post-Retrieval Updating Information? Memory Impairments by Stress and Aging. Adrenal Stress Hormones and Enhanced Memory for Emotionally Arousing Experiences. Neuro-Immune Associative Learning. Sex and Hemisphere Influences on Neural Mechanisms of Emotional Memory.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents an accessible and state-of-the-art survey of current research on social dilemmas. A social dilemma arises when actions that are justifiable in terms of individual rationality (e.g. over-harvesting resources, or using private instead of public transportation) threaten the common good and in the long run the individual''s own self-interest as well. The study of social dilemmas has important links with many areas in psychology, as well as with cognate disciplines such as risk analysis, environmental science, political science, and economics. Accordingly, the book should appeal not only to psychologists but also to a wider audience of scholars and researchers. Contributors include both established authorities and recent innovators, and the organization and contents of the book reflect the most recent trends in this exciting area. Increased attention is given to modeling dynamics and processes in social dilemmas, and greater emphasis placed on exploring structural solutiTable of ContentsM. Foddy, M. Smithson, Theories and Strategies for Studying Social Dilemmas. Part I. Formal Models andDynamic Systems Approaches. M. Smithson, Taking Exogenous Dynamics Seriously in Public Goods and Resource Dilemmas. Y. Watanabe, T. Yamagishi, Emergence of Strategies in a Selective Play Environment with Geographic Mobility. E. Takagi, Generalized Exchange and the Emergence of Social Order. A. Rapoport, W. Almadoss, Social Dilemmas Embedded in Between-group Competitions: Effects of Contest and Distribution Rates. W. Au, Sequential Effects in Give-some and Take-some Social Dilemmas. Part II. ControlSystems and Structural Solutions. N. Kerr, Anonymity and Social Control in Social Dilemmas. M. van Vugt, Managing Natural Resource Dilemmas Through Structural Change. A. Franzen, The Volunteer's Dilemma: Theoretical Models and Empirical Evidence. S. Suleiman, K. Or-Chen, Providing Step-level Public Goods Under Uncertainty: The Case of Probable External Supply. M. Beckenkamp, Sanctioning as an Ambiguous Structural Solution. Xiao-Ping Chen, Work Team Cooperation: A Longitudinal Study on the Effects of Reward Allocation Rules. J. Webb, Structural Change Decision-Making in Social Dilemmas: A Preliminary Framework. Part III. Linking Individual and GroupProcesses. D. Messick, Models of Decision Making in Social Dilemmas. T. Garling, A. Biel, M. Gustafsson, Managing Uncertain Common Resources. G. Hertel, Mood Effects in Social Dilemmas. A. Biel, C. von Borgstede, U. Dahlstrand, Norm Perception and Cooperation in Large-scale Social Dilemmas. S. Schneider, J. Sundali, Curbside Recycling: Does it Promote Environmental Responsibility? J. Garvill, Factors Influencing Elementary and Instrumental Cooperation in Choice of Transportation Mode. J. Schopler, C.A. Insko, The Role of Future Consequences in the Reduction of the Interindividual-intergroup Discontinuity Effect. B. Morrison, Interdependence, the Group, and Social Cooperation: A New Look at an Old Problem. M. Foddy, M. Hogg, Leaders and Social Dilemmas: The Intergroup Context. S. Schneider, M. Brewer, Social Dilemmas and Social Evolution.

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Book SynopsisAccording to recent surveys, approximately 40% of American women between the ages of 18 and 44 do not have children. Yet these women are virtually missing from accounts of women's lives. In this important new work, Mardy Ireland defines a place for women outside the parameters of motherhood and gives voice to the significant number of women who are not mothers. She draws extensively from interviews with over 100 childless women from various ethnic and educational backgrounds, demonstrating the myriad ways they came to view themselves as complete adults without recourse to the traditional defining criteria of motherhood. Her work offers all women--mothers and nonmothers alike--a vision of self-defined adulthood and a recognition that every woman is the subject of her own life. Challenging the assumption of deprivation or deviance that is traditionally applied to childless women in psychological theory and popular culture, Dr. Ireland reframes childlessness as a concept and laTrade ReviewFinally, a book about women who are not mothers--normal women who by choice or happenstance remain childless. If you want to understand who these women are, what they think and feel, how deeply the ideology of motherhood has infected our thinking about women and femininity, read Mardy Ireland's insightful and sensitive analysis of women who, even today, remain an anomaly, seen as less than 'woman' simply because they are not mothers. --Lillian Rubin, Ph.D., author of Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working Class Family and Intimate Strangers: Men and Women TogetherDr. Ireland has written an outstanding, pathbreaking book that gives a long-absent and much-needed voice and place to the 'other' women in our culture. By sharing the stories of childless women she has interviewed, Dr. Ireland holds up a mirror in which the diverse group of women who are not mothers can finally see their reflection. Beyond this significant contribution, she artfully considers their stories in the context of clearly presented psychoanalytic theory and feminist thought. In an evenhanded manner she broadens our conception of female identity, until now too-narrowly defined by our culture, apart from the social and psychic reality of women. By reconceiving women so that the concrete fact of childlessness is not the same as its meaning in the context of women's lives, Ireland succeeds in separating motherhood from female identity. In the psychological space she creates, she transforms the loss or absence of children into the presence of new potential. Dr. Ireland thus gives all contemporary women psychological room and permission to find new metaphors for female identity and innovative pathways for their intrinsic creative and generative energy. --Sue N. Elkind, Ph.D.Mardy Ireland's RECONCEIVING WOMEN: SEPARATING MOTHERHOOD FROM FEMALE IDENTITY is a necessary book for anyone interested in contemporary feminism and psychoanalytic theory. In the first half of this book, Ireland delineates a cultural problem new to contemporary history: the child-less woman. In three categories (traditional women/child-less; transitional women/child-free & child-less; transformative women: child-free) she examines the psychoanalytic views of well-known female psychologists.In the second half of the book, Ireland breaks new ground for the American psychoanalytic clinic, particularly in making an opening for working with particular female problems. Her innovate work here makes of this clear and well-written book required reading for feminists and clinical psychologists. Mardy Ireland's book opens a clear path for object-relations clinicians to follow in their desire to begin working with Lacan: especially in the all crucial areas of gender politics and sexual difference. --Ellie Ragland Sullivan, Ph.D., Department of English, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO - [A] smart, challenging book....Accessible and necessary. --The New York Times Book Review, 6/3/1993ƒƒ Reconceiving Women will be of interest to clinicians, especially those who work with women who are struggling with decisions about childbearing or who are confronting the impossibility of conceiving. --Contemporary Psychology, 6/3/1993Table of ContentsPreface.1. Childless in the 1990s: The Other Woman and Why Now?2. The Traditional Woman: Child-less.3. The Transitional Woman: Child-free and Child-less.4. The Transformative Woman: Child-free.5. The Development of Female Identity: Facts or Fictions?6. Weaving an Alternative Understanding.7. The Gendered View of Identity: Limitations and Possibilities.8. Women but Not Mothers.Appendix: Research Data Chapter Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisWhat do Madonna, Confucius, and Jackie Robinson have in common? What does it take to go down in history as a great political leader? Why do revolutions occur, riots break out, and lynch mobs assemble? Which events do people find the most shocking or memorable?This path-breaking work offers the first comprehensive examination of the important personalities and events that have influenced the course of history. It discusses whether people who go down in history are different from the rest of us; whether specific personality traits predispose certain people to become world leaders, movie stars, scientific geniuses, and athletes, while others are relegated to ordinary lives. In exploring the psychology of greatness, this volume sheds light on the characteristics that any of us may share with history-making people.Throughout, the book addresses two broad questions: what sorts of people are responsible for historic events and achievements, and what kinds of events are mostTrade ReviewThis is a book that might be used as a text or as a reference but here's the great part: It can be read for enjoyment!...Simonton has created a monument to completeness and complexity, but it is highly readable. The book is replete with fascinating tables, lists, and charts about individuals deemed as great who share a common characteristic....The book is very well written, full of examples and creative interpretation, persuasive, and up to date. This is a great book about greatness. --Malcolm James Ree in Personnel PsychologySimonton's book is so comprehensive and so engagingly written that, if major research universities regularly offered courses in the psychology of history, Greatness: Who Makes History and Why would be widely adopted as a text. The book is, in short, a tour de force: spirited, erudite, and entertaining - well within the reach of advanced undergraduates. --Philip E. TetlockFascinating, thorough, varied, readable, good text for students. --Joel Funk, Plymouth State College, New HampshireEverything you wanted to know--and more--about the great historical figures who have shaped culture and society, Dean K. Simonton, our most prolific psychologist in the field of creativity studies, has assembled here a treasure-trove of facts and observations that will delight the reader, and serve as a useful reference for many years to come. --Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ph.D., The University of Chicago, author of FLOW: The Psychology of Optimal ExperienceDean Simonton's book on Greatness is a tour de force that explores the many aspects of greatness, including intelligence, creativity, leadership, social forces, and more. The book combines Simonton's own pathbreaking analyses of greatness with those of others, providing essential reading for anyone interested in what makes some people stand out from the rest. The book is written in a lucid, engaging style that will interest laypeople as well as professionals in all disciplines who wish to know what makes some people stand out from the rest. --Robert J. Sternberg, Ph.D., Yale University, author of The Nature Of CreativityDean Keith Simonton has long been esteemed within the social sciences for his pioneering studies of creativity, leadership, and genius. Now he has produced a fascinating, accessible, and authoritative survey of work in this area. Students and seasoned experts are equally in his debt. --Howard Gardner, Ph.D., Harvard University, Graduate School of Education - Only a great book could do justice to greatness throughout the ages, and Simonton has produced one. --Readings, 5/23/1994Table of ContentsPreface. Prologue: The Psychologist Confronts Greatness. Birthrights and Birthmarks: Psychobiological Explanations. Acts, Affects, and Thoughts: Learning?Based and Cognitive Theories. The Creative Quest. The Drive to Succeed. Infants, Children, and Teenagers: The Famous in Their Youth. Life's Prime and Death's Advance: A Life?Span Perspective. The Importance of Intelligence. The Importance of Personality. The Significance of Psychopathology. Violence as a Shaper of History. The Influence of Attitudes and Beliefs. Imitation, Affiliation, Group Dynamics, and Leadership. Epilogue: Has the Psychologist Succeeded? Notes. References. Subject Index.

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Book SynopsisFor women in Western society, there is no straightforward path of development to autonomous adulthood. The double-bind of female authority--that a women cannot be both a healthy adult and an ideal woman-- is the context in which a woman must construct her self in this culture. Whether she sees herself as too needy or too controlling, too insecure or too self-reliant, she is gathering evidence to support a theory of personal inadequacy. The traditional perspectives of psychodynamics and psychopathology reinforce women's sense of inferiority. How then does a woman claim her own authority-- the validity of her own truth, beauty, goodness, originating in her own experience. Young-Eisendrath and Wiedemann break with the tradition of deficit thinking, the examination of what is absent, wrong, or deficient. Recognizing this as a fundamental barrier to the empowerment of women, they work instead from an understanding of what is already strong and satisfying in the lives of women and girTrade ReviewHighly recommended to all therapists, male and female, who are looking for a new window through which to see the plight of women in today's society. - Psychotherapy in Private Practice

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Book SynopsisDrawing lessons from the complex and often contradictory position of white women writing in the colonial period, This unique book explores how feminism and poststructuralism can bring new types of understanding to the production of geographical knowledge. Through a series of colonial and postcolonial case studies, essays address the ways in which white women have written and mapped different geographies, in both the late nineteenth century and today, illustrating the diverse objects (landscapes, spaces, views), the variety of media (letters, travel writing, paintings, sculpture, cartographic maps, political discourse), and the different understandings and representations of people and place. Trade Review...is a useful contribution to the literature on gender perspectives of the colonized world... --Helen Ruth Aspaas, African Studies Review...presents compelling ways of bringing together ideas from poststructuralist and postcolonial theory around geographical questions, and provides much material, both for those working within a similar intellectual territory, and for those grappling with more general methodological questions. I should find its place on many reading lists, if it has not already done so, as it provides an accessible contribution to contemporary debates around identity, space, and power. -- R. Elmhirst, Wye College University of London, Environment and Planning AThis timely collection of essays explores ways in which feminism, space, and the politics of identity, subjectivity, and representation come together in diverse colonial and postcolonial settings....I unhesitatingly invite colleagues and students across disciplines to read this fresh and imaginative collection of essays.... --Karen Morin, Growth and ChangeAs edited volumes go, this is a remarkably coherent (and successful) one.... This book makes an important contribution to feminist geography. --Geraldine Pratt, University of British ColumbiaThis is a superb new contribution to the literature on space, power and difference. In drawing together an exciting range of well-researched essays, it articulates the complex relations between gender, class, race and sexuality in different historical and geographic settings. With an emphasis on diversities among women and the contexts within which they occur, it is particularly effective in highlighting the fragmented, fluid and often contradictory nature of identity and space. --Morag Bell, Ph.D., Loughborough University of TechnologyAlthough I don't always see eye to eye with the authors in this volume, I warmly welcome this set of essays on women's colonial and post-colonial cartographics. For here we have a feisty feminist geography that is theoretically self-critical, empirically vigorous, and morally challenging....One thing is certain: coming to grips with this critique will lay upon readers an obligation; an obligation to expose the pretended innocence of the metaphorical and material maps we have historically produced...and the maps we currently plot. --David N. Livingstone, Professor of Geography, The Queen's University of BelfastThis is an important, path-breaking collection of essays. In highlighting the complicities and resistances of white women to imperial discourses, the book speaks to wider epistemological issues about human subjectivity. In different ways, the chapters demonstrate the inherent partiality, instability, positionality, and situatedness of subjectivity. By extension, conventional notions of space are unsettled in a powerful acknowledgment of our gendered imaginaries. This leads us to re-imagine space and mapping in fresh ways. --Kay Anderson, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in Geography, University of New South Wales and author of the award-winning Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875-1980This is an important, path-breaking collection of essays. In highlighting the complicities and resistances of white women to imperial discourses, the book speaks to wider epistemological issues about human subjectivity. In different ways, the chapters demonstrate the inherent partiality, instability, positionality, and situatedness of subjectivity. By extension, notions of transcendent, coherent space are unsettled in a powerful acknowledgment of our gendered imaginaries. This leads us to reimagine space and mappings in fresh ways. --Kay Anderson, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in Geography, University of New South Wales and author of the award-winning Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourses in Canada, 1875-1980 - This timely collection of essays explores ways in which feminism, space, and the politics of identity, subjectivity, and representation come together in diverse colonial and postcolonial settings....I unhesitatingly invite colleagues and students across disciplines to read this fresh and imaginative collection of essays.... --Growth and Change, 8/21/1994

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