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University of Nebraska Press Nebraska Symposium on Motivation 1995 Volume 43
Book SynopsisModern conceptualization of the multidimensional nature of anxiety, panic, and fear are examined from a variety of perspectives, including theories of emotion and cognition, neuropsychology, and conditioning. Carroll E. Izard and Eric A. Youngstrom open with a review of Differential Emotions Theory. In the second chapter, Jeffrey A. Gray and Neil McNaughton summarize and update Gray's neuropsychological theory of anxiety. Susan Mineka and Richard Zinbarg consider what modern conditioning theory contributes to the understanding of emotion, and Richard J. McNally offers an overview of the application of experimental cognitive paradigms to fear, panic, and anxiety. The volume concludes with a new version of David H. Barlow's theory of emotional disorders. Barlow, Bruce F. Chorpita, and Julia Turovsky draw from work on emotion, neurophysiology, attributions, learning, ethology, attention, and child development to describe how the inappropriate activation of fear (e.g., a panic attack) ca
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University of Nebraska Press Shrink
Book SynopsisArriving on the scene at around the same time as the modern idea of the self, psychoanalysis has both shaped and reflected the ascent of individualism in American society. Samuel traces its path from the theories of Freud and Jung to the innermost reaches of our current me-based, narcissistic culture.Trade Review“A fascinating, funny, and fast-paced exploration of how psychoanalysis has become subtly but deeply ingrained in everything from American art and advertising to our aspirations and identities.”—Stephen J. Kraus, author of Psychological Foundations of Success: A Harvard-Trained Scientist Separates the Science of Success from Self-Help Snake Oil “An exceptionally well-researched, accessible book that will undoubtedly appeal to both professionals in the psychoanalytic field and the interested lay reader.”—Therese Ragen, author of The Consulting Room and Beyond: Psychoanalytic Work and Its Reverberations in the Analyst’s Life"[Samuel] takes psychoanalysis off the couch in this fascinating history of the growth of Freud's brainchild. . . . This compelling study will appeal both to proponents and detractors."—Publishers Weekly"The distinctiveness of Shrink lies in its focus on popular culture. . . . An American book on America and psychoanalysis would not be complete without the extras: the retelling of horror and wonder stories that made news in the 1950s–1970s; the review of the popular terms that emerged to capture the psychoanalytic moment—from getting "psyched" in the 1920s to "hitting the couch" in mid-century; the discussion of films dealing with psychoanalysis; the treatment of the topic in women’s magazines, etc. etc."—Liana Giorgi, New York Journal of Books"A fascinating history."—James A. Cox , Library Bookwatch "Lawrence R. Samuel successfully explores the role psychoanalysis has had on shaping the country's consciousness overtime. Samuel delivers a powerful narrative of the discipline's ups and downs, packed with lively quotes, anecdotes, and fascinating historical tidbits."—Foreword ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: The New PsychologyChapter 2: The Voodoo ReligionChapter 3: The Horizontal HourChapter 4: The Pernicious InfluenceChapter 5: The Impossible PerfectionChapter 6: The Comeback CouchConclusionNotesBibliography
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Stanford University Press Infant Figures
Book SynopsisThis volume juxtaposes philosophical and psychoanalytic speculation with literary and artistic commentary in order to approach a set of questions concerning the human relation to language, a relation that cannot be taken as an object of critical or philosophical reflection in the traditional manner. Exploring the exigencies of figuring this relation at the limits of language, the multifold writing of this volume takes the form of a triptych (following the model of works by Francis Bacon) rather than that of a thesis.The central (and organizing) section of the volume contains an extended dialogue on two textual passages portraying versions of what the author describes as the death of the infans. With the strange resonance of the primal or the originary, these two scenes from works by Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Lacan invite a reflection on the mortal exposure that marks the human share in the advent of language, an exposure whose figuration is necessary to any speech oTrade Review"In blending theoretical acumen with literary sensibility, Christopher Fynsk's volume makes an important contribution to the timely and ethical project of thinking otherwise than Being our human relation to language." -- Symploke"This very important meditation on the human relationships to language will assume a prominent place not only in the field of the philosophy of language but in the expanding field of trauma research. Moreover, it will serve to introduce into philosophical and psychoanalytical thought a new dimension, namely the 'thought of relation.'" -- Elisabeth Weber * University of California, Santa Barbara *Table of ContentsList of illustrations Introduction Part I. What Remains at a Crucifixion: 1. A prefce on cruelty: Nietzsche's self-examination 2. What remains at a crucifixion Part II. Infant Figures: 3. Infant figures Appendix Part III. Anonymous Figures: 4. An art of the possible: a dialogue with Salvatore Puglia 5. Anonymous figures Notes Bibliography Index of names.
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Stanford University Press Infant Figures The Death of the Infans and Other
Book SynopsisA meditation on the human relationships to language and the exigencies of its figuration.Trade Review"In blending theoretical acumen with literary sensibility, Christopher Fynsk's volume makes an important contribution to the timely and ethical project of thinking otherwise than Being our human relation to language." -- Symploke"This very important meditation on the human relationships to language will assume a prominent place not only in the field of the philosophy of language but in the expanding field of trauma research. Moreover, it will serve to introduce into philosophical and psychoanalytical thought a new dimension, namely the 'thought of relation.'" -- Elisabeth Weber * University of California, Santa Barbara *Table of ContentsList of illustrations Introduction Part I. What Remains at a Crucifixion: 1. A prefce on cruelty: Nietzsche's self-examination 2. What remains at a crucifixion Part II. Infant Figures: 3. Infant figures Appendix Part III. Anonymous Figures: 4. An art of the possible: a dialogue with Salvatore Puglia 5. Anonymous figures Notes Bibliography Index of names.
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Stanford University Press The Mind of Modernism Medicine Psychology and
Book SynopsisThis vanguard collection of original and in-depth essays seeks to explore the intricate interplay of the aesthetic and psychological domains during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and to consider the reasons why a common Modernist project took shape when and in the circumstances it did.Trade Review"This excellent, well-organized collection widens our understanding of the diverse representation of the psyche by modernists, as well as premodernists, in various intellectual and cultural domains. The development of the modern disciplines of psychology, including psychiatry and psychoanalysis, in conjunction with modernism provides fertile ground for establishing new connections that enrich our understanding of both the disciplines and modernism." -Elazar Barkan,Claremont Graduate School
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Stanford University Press Mother Folly
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Luminous, erudite, diabolically ironic, and wonderfully wild, Francoise Davoine's Mother Folly turns psychiatry on its head. Taking her lead from that great satirical work by Erasmus, The Praise of Folly, Davoine has created a hybrid text, which combines elements of the novel, theatrical production, philosophical meditation, and narrative history to expose the absurdities of contemporary platitudes about mental illness and its treatment and to reveal the hidden truths of trauma and madness."—Siri Hustvedt"Françoise Davoine's unique, vibrant tale of folly's journey takes us on many paths, and in doing so, shows us folly's place in history and its startling and painful resonances in the consulting room. Simply brilliant."—Valerie Walkerdine, Cardiff University
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Stanford University Press Mother Folly
Book SynopsisIf your mentally ill patient dies, are you to blame? For Dr. Françoise Davoine, a Parisian psychoanalyst, this question becomes disturbingly real as one of her patients commits suicide on the eve of All Saints'' Day. She herself has a crisis, as she reflects on her thirty-year career and questions whether she should ever return to the hospital. But return she does, and thus commences a strange voyage across several centuries and countries, in which patients, fools, and the actors of medieval farces rise up from the past along with great thinkers who represent the author''s own philosophical and literary sources: the humanist Erasmus, mathematician René Thom, writer Antonin Artaud, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, and physicist Edwin Schrödinger, to name a few. Imaginary dialogues ensue as the analyst conjures up an interconnected world, where apiculture, wondrous rituals, theater, and language games illuminate her therapeutic practice as well as her personal history. Deeply affectedTrade Review"Luminous, erudite, diabolically ironic, and wonderfully wild, Francoise Davoine's Mother Folly turns psychiatry on its head. Taking her lead from that great satirical work by Erasmus, The Praise of Folly, Davoine has created a hybrid text, which combines elements of the novel, theatrical production, philosophical meditation, and narrative history to expose the absurdities of contemporary platitudes about mental illness and its treatment and to reveal the hidden truths of trauma and madness."—Siri Hustvedt"Françoise Davoine's unique, vibrant tale of folly's journey takes us on many paths, and in doing so, shows us folly's place in history and its startling and painful resonances in the consulting room. Simply brilliant."—Valerie Walkerdine, Cardiff University
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Stanford University Press Lucrecia the Dreamer
Book SynopsisSet in late sixteenth-century Spain, this book tells the gripping story of Lucrecia de León, a young woman of modest background who gained a dangerously popular reputation as a prophetic dreamer predicting apocalyptic ruin for her country. When Lucrecia was still a teenager, several Catholic priests took great interest in her prolific dreams and began to record them in detail. But the growing public attention to the dreams eventually became too much for the Spanish king. Stung that Lucrecia had accurately foreseen the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, Philip II ordered the Inquisition to arrest her on charges of heresy and sedition. During Lucrecia''s imprisonment, trial, and torture, the carefully collected records of her dreams were preserved and analyzed by the court. The authenticity of these dreams, and their potentially explosive significance, became the focal point of the Church''s investigation.Returning to these records of a dreamer from another era, Lucrecia Trade Review"An excellent scholarly work, Lucrecia the Dreamer reads like a novel of political and religious intrigue, for the scenes are stranger than fiction—even though they are a matter of historical record. Anyone interested in dreams should read this book."—Patrick McNamara, Boston University and Northcentral University"Structured like a police procedural and delightful to read, Lucrecia the Dreamer employs concepts from psychology, anthropology, and history to situate Lucrecia de León in a broader human story about the power of dreaming. Given the difficulties of crossing disciplinary boundaries while maintaining the integrity of each discipline's rules of analysis, Kelly Bulkeley's achievement is most impressive."—Leslie Tuttle, Louisiana State University"While Lucrecia's personal story becomes the framework on which the fault-lines of Spanish society are displayed, Bulkeley sees a bigger picture....4/5 stars"—Bob Rickard, Fortean Times"Bulkeley's book presents an intriguing micro-history that illuminates life in late sixteenth-century Madrid and suggests the potential value of incorporating cognitive and digital approaches to scholarship on early modern events and texts. Bulkeley portrays Lucrecia as a living, breathing person, and he attempts to reconstruct her lived experiences, both waking and sleeping. His multifaceted analyses may indicate new paths for studying other visionaries and mystics of Golden-Age Spain."—Teresa Hancock-Parmer, Bulletin of Spanish StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction Historical Prologue 1. Early Life 2. A Record of Dreams 3. The Three Companions 4. Esta Negra Soñadora 5. New Powers 6. The Trial 7. What She Was Not 8. Patterns in the Dreams 9. Cognitive Science 10. Relational Psychology 11. Politics and Society 12. History of Religions 13. What She Most Likely Was Historical Epilogue Conclusion
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Louisiana State University Press Debugging the Link between Social Theory and
Book SynopsisScientists have begun to challenge the traditional understanding of insect social organisation and to propose new models that combine ideas about social insect and human organizational structure with computer technologies. This interdisciplinary book makes an important contribution to the history - and future - of science and sociology.
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John Wiley & Sons Transforming Critical ThinkingThinking
Book SynopsisThis treatment of critical thinking theories, old and modern, addresses related concerns expressed by feminists and postmodernists. The author suggests a solution by way of a feminist redescription of critical thinking as constructive thinking, which she relates to classroom settings.
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Northwestern University Press Phenomenology in Psychology and Psychiatry Spep A
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Northwestern University Press Out of Silence Selected Poems
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University of Pennsylvania Press Humanitarian Aid Work
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University of Pennsylvania Press Whether to Kill
Book SynopsisWhether to Kill takes a new approach to understanding terrorism. By taking first-person accounts of those involved in both violent and nonviolent action against the state, then analyzing that data via cognitive mapping, Stephanie Dornschneider has opened up new perspectives of what drives people to-or away from-the use of political violence.Trade Review"Stephanie Dornschneider makes several innovative contributions to the field. By focusing on the perspective of terrorists-using personal interviews with those terrorists, something very few others have attempted-and a novel use of cognitive mapping, she analyzes the thought processes of terrorism. The book will appeal to those interested in Egypt, Germany, terrorism, social movements, political violence, and methodological innovation." * Marc Sageman, Foreign Policy Research Institute and author of Understanding Terror Networks and Leaderless Jihad *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. A Cognitive Mapping Approach to Political Violence Chapter 2. Interviewing Violent and Nonviolent Individuals Chapter 3. A Short History of the Individuals' Groups Chapter 4. Constructing Cognitive Maps About Political Violence Chapter 5. A Computational Analysis of Violent and Nonviolent Activism Chapter 6. Alternative Worlds Without Violence Conclusion Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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Rutgers University Press Sleep Paralysis Nightmares Nocebos and the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A fascinating and engaging book. Drawing upon multiple sources, including art, literature, work by other researches and her own fieldwork, Adler adroitly weaves a cogent narrative which provides insight into this pervasive yet under recognized affliction." * Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine *"Sleep Paralysis is a mind-bending exploration of how what you believe interacts with how your body works." -- Alexis Madrigal * The Atlantic *Table of ContentsConsistencies : cross-cultural patterns Continuities : a transhistorical bestiary The night-mare on the analyst's couch The night-mare in the sleep lab The night-mare, traditional Hmong culture, and sudden death The night-mare and the nocebo : beliefs that harm
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Rutgers University Press Therapeutic Revolutions Medicine Psychiatry and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Martin Halliwell offers fresh and inventive insights into the postwar period, showing mastery over an amazing range of material to demonstrate how fully the therapeutic triumphed in American culture." -- Stephen Whitfield * author of The Culture of the Cold War *"Following varied terms of health and illness, mind and body, through successive changes in the healing arts, Halliwell shows the postwar 'triumph of the therapeutic' in a wholly new light." -- Howard Brick * Louis Evans Professor of History University of Michigan *"Therapeutic Revolutions makes a very good read. It should be on the reading list of every scholar concerned with postwar America, especially with the nature of therapeutic culture." * Reviews in American History *"Martin Halliwell’s Therapeutic Revolutions traces the major post-World War II transformations in medicine and psychiatry through the lens of popular culture. To accomplish this ambitious goal, he uses an immense number of sources that include movies, novels, poetry, television shows, popular music, magazine stories, and government and foundation reports, as well as scholarly books, articles, ethnographies, and Ph.D. theses ... The strengths of this book stem from Halliwell’s comprehensive analysis of an astonishing array of diffuse material." * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *"When it comes to changes and culture, Halliwell knows his subject area. Throughout the book, he reveals his deep and thorough understanding of these diverse events as they evolved in the developing 'therapeutic revolutions.' He does so through a careful analysis of the writings of the period's therapeutic authorities, integrated with abundant examples from American popular culture. Throughout the book, Halliwell convincingly shows that the variables—events, popular culture, and postwar therapies—emerged as interdependent constructions." * H-Disability, H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Therapeutic Revolutions of Postwar America Part One Fragmentation: 1945– 1953 1 Going Home: World War II and Demobilization 2 In the Noir Mirror: Neurosis, Aggression, and Disguise 3 Ground Zero: Science, Medicine, and the Cold WarPart Two Organization: 1953–1961 4 Organization Men: Individualism Versus Incorporation 5 In the Family Circle: The Suburban Medicine Cabinet 6 Outside the Circle: Growing Pains, Delinquency, and SexualityPart Three Reorganization: 1961–1970 7 Institutions of Care and Oppression: Another America Speaks 8 The Human Face of Therapy: Humanistic and Existential Trends 9 Counterculture: Dissent, Drugs, and Holistic Communities Conclusion: Beyond the Two Cultures?
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John Wiley & Sons Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture Asian American Studies Today
Book SynopsisIn Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture, Jennifer Ann Ho shines a light on the hybrid and indeterminate aspects of race, revealing ambiguity to be paramount to a more nuanced understanding both of race and of what it means to be Asian American. Ho argues that seeing race as ambiguous puts us one step closer to a potential antidote to racism.Trade Review"With nuanced, original readings and fluid prose, Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture exceeds other studies of multiracialism by presenting a lucid, yet complex meditation on category confusion and epistemological uncertainty and their political stakes for Asian Americans." -- Leslie Bow * author of Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South *"With a nuanced approach and original analysis, Racial Ambiguity brings comparative ethnic studies and critical race studies into necessary dialogue. Ho skillfully maps the contours of U.S. racial formation by investigating mixed subjectivity and its particular resonances to Asian America." -- Cathy J. Schlund-Vials * author of Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing *"Looking through the dual lenses of critical and comparative race studies, Ho offers an engaging and provocative reflection on racial categorization, epistemological indeterminacy, and identity complexity in Asian American literature and culture … Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"[Ho's] engagement with the phenomenon of visuality is explicit and interesting." * American Literary History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Ambiguous Americans: Race and the State of Asian America1 From Enemy Alien to Assimilating American: Yoshiko deLeon and the Mixed-Marriage Policy of the Japanese American Incarceration2 Anti-Sentimental Loss: Stories of Transracial/Transnational Asian American Adult Adoptees in the Blogosphere3 Cablinasian Dreams, Amerasian Realities: Transcending Race in the Twenty-first Century and Other Myths Broken by Tiger Woods4 Ambiguous Movements and Mobile Subjectivity: Passing in between Autobiography and Fiction with Paisley Rekdal and Ruth Ozeki5 Transgressive Texts and Ambiguous Authors: Racial Ambiguity in Asian American LiteratureCoda Ending with Origins: My Own Racial AmbiguityNotesBibliographyIndex
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Univ of Chicago Behalf of Rutgers Univ Press Coming of Age in Jewish America Bar and Bat Mitzvah Reinterpreted
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Rutgers University Press Voices of Mental Health Medicine Politics and
Book Synopsis Halliwell examines the cultural history of modern American medicine and psychiatry focusing on the late twentieth century. He pays particular attention to the politics of the post-Watergate, bicentennial-era American nation and brings into conversation a diverse cast of writers, filmmakers, physicians, policy-makers, social critics, and public figures. Trade Review"In this gracefully argued, erudite study, Martin Halliwell places the complex issue of mental health at the centre of the history of the decades since Jimmy Carter’s Commission on Mental Health in 1977. It is a model of interdisciplinary scholarship, equally at home with federal public health policy and the cultural politics of identity and community." -- Jonathan Bell * Professor of American History, University College London *“Voices of Mental Health is a terrific contribution to the areas of contemporary American literature and culture, federal policy studies, and literature and medicine. Halliwell provides an impressive, vast amount of research.” -- Jacqueline Foertsch * author of Reckoning Day: Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America *"Professor Halliwell breaks new ground in understanding the place, politics, and trajectory of mental health from the moon landing to the millennium" * University of Leicester Press Office *"Topics include the voices of patients and former patients in survivor narratives, and through advocacy and support groups." * Chronicle *
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Rutgers University Press Red and Yellow Black and Brown Decentering
Book SynopsisThis book gathers together life stories and analysis by twelve contributors who express and seek to understand the often very different dynamics that exist for mixed race people who are not part white. Chapters focus on the social, psychological, and political issues and identities for people who are in dual or multiple minority situations. Trade Review"This is a first-rate book on an important, topical, and under-theorized area of scholarship. A focus on mixed race people of color, as opposed to mixed race white/people of color, is truly cutting edge." -- Kevin Johnson * Dean, UC Davis School of Law *"In decentering whiteness and highlighting the experiences of multiracial people of multiple minority backgrounds, this anthology signals the exciting start of a new third wave in mixed race studies." -- Robert Chao Romero * author of The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940 *"This is a first-rate book on an important, topical, and under-theorized area of scholarship. A focus on mixed race people of color, as opposed to mixed race white/people of color, is truly cutting edge." -- Kevin Johnson * Dean, UC Davis School of Law *"In decentering whiteness and highlighting the experiences of multiracial people of multiple minority backgrounds, this anthology signals the exciting start of a new third wave in mixed race studies." -- Robert Chao Romero * author of The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1 Introduction: About Mixed Race, Not About WhitenessPaul Spickard, Rudy P. Guevarra Jr., Joanne L. Rondilla Part I Identity JourneysChapter 2 Rising Sun, Rising Soul: On Mixed Race Asian Identity That Includes BlacknessVelina Hasu HoustonChapter 3 BlackapinaJanet C. Mendoza Stickmon Part II Multiple Minority Marriage and ParentingChapter 4 Intermarriage and the Making of a Multicultural Society in the Baja California BorderlandsVerónica Castillo-MuñozChapter 5 Cross-Racial Minority Intermarriage: Mutual Marginalization and CritiqueJessica Vasquez-TokosChapter 6 Parental Racial Socialization: A Glimpse into the Racial Socialization Process as It Occurs in a Dual-Minority Multiracial FamilyCristina M. Ortiz Part III Mixed Identity and Monoracial BelongingChapter 7 Being Mixed Race in the Makah Nation: Redeeming the Existence of African-Native AmericansIngrid Dineen-WimberlyChapter 8 “You’re Not Black or Mexican Enough!” Policing Racial/Ethnic Authenticity among Blaxicans in the USRebecca Romo Part IV Asian ConnectionsChapter 9 Bumbay in the Bay: The Struggle for Indipino Identity in San FranciscoMaharaj Raju DesaiChapter 10 Hyper-visibility and Invisibility of Female Haafu Models in Japanese Beauty CultureKaori Mori WantChapter 11 Checking “Other” Twice: Transnational Dual MinoritiesLily Anne Y. Welty Tamai Part V ReflectionsChapter 12 Neanderthal-Human Hybridity and the Frontier of Critical Mixed Race StudiesTerence KeelChapter 13 Epilogue: Expanding the Terrain of Mixed Race Studies: What We Learn from the Study of NonWhite MultiracialsNitasha Tamar Sharma BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex
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MW - Rutgers University Press Lesson Plans The Institutional Demands of
Book SynopsisJudson G. Everitt takes readers into the everyday worlds of teacher training. Using rich qualitative data, he analyzes how people make sense of their prospective jobs as teachers, and how their introduction to this profession is shaped by the institutionalized rules and practices of higher education, K-12 education, and gender. Trade Review"An excellent and exciting addition to the field. Lesson Plans makes important contributions to existing work through its treatment of teacher education programs as sites of cultural negotiation between future teachers and the institutional and organizational expectations for their teaching." -- Lisa M. Nunn * author of Defining Student Success *"Lesson Plans is a rich and wonderful study, perhaps the most interesting treatise on teachers since Lortie's seminal Schoolteacher." -- Tim Hallett * Indiana University *"A remarkably informative and exceptionally insightful study that is impressively accessible in both organization and presentation, Lesson Plans is a unique and critically important addition both college and university library Teacher Education collections and supplemental studies lists." * Midwest Book Review *"Lesson Plans is a much-needed addition to the body of work on professional socialization, and can be taught both for its topical focus as well as an example of how to use qualitative data to construct arguments that link levels of analysis." * Symbolic Interaction *"Everitt’s ethnographic analysis offers a novel look at how teacher candidates respond to accountability standards." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Social Institutions and the Professional Socialization of New Teachers 1 1 Compulsory Education and Constructivist Pedagogy 22 2 The Challenges and Assumptions of Adapting to All Students 48 3 Accountability and Bureaucracy 72 4 Dilemmas of Coverage and Control 95 5 The Injunction to Adapt, Autonomy, and Diversity of Practice 118 6 The Demands of Becoming a Teacher 142 Appendix: Site, Context, and My Role As an Ethnographer 165 Acknowledgments 179 Notes 181 Bibliography 197 Index 207
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MW - Rutgers University Press Lesson Plans The Institutional Demands of
Book SynopsisJudson G. Everitt takes readers into the everyday worlds of teacher training. Using rich qualitative data, he analyzes how people make sense of their prospective jobs as teachers, and how their introduction to this profession is shaped by the institutionalized rules and practices of higher education, K-12 education, and gender. Trade Review"An excellent and exciting addition to the field. Lesson Plans makes important contributions to existing work through its treatment of teacher education programs as sites of cultural negotiation between future teachers and the institutional and organizational expectations for their teaching." -- Lisa M. Nunn * author of Defining Student Success *"Lesson Plans is a rich and wonderful study, perhaps the most interesting treatise on teachers since Lortie's seminal Schoolteacher." -- Tim Hallett * Indiana University *"A remarkably informative and exceptionally insightful study that is impressively accessible in both organization and presentation, Lesson Plans is a unique and critically important addition both college and university library Teacher Education collections and supplemental studies lists." * Midwest Book Review *"Lesson Plans is a much-needed addition to the body of work on professional socialization, and can be taught both for its topical focus as well as an example of how to use qualitative data to construct arguments that link levels of analysis." * Symbolic Interaction *"Everitt’s ethnographic analysis offers a novel look at how teacher candidates respond to accountability standards." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Social Institutions and the Professional Socialization of New Teachers 1 1 Compulsory Education and Constructivist Pedagogy 22 2 The Challenges and Assumptions of Adapting to All Students 48 3 Accountability and Bureaucracy 72 4 Dilemmas of Coverage and Control 95 5 The Injunction to Adapt, Autonomy, and Diversity of Practice 118 6 The Demands of Becoming a Teacher 142 Appendix: Site, Context, and My Role As an Ethnographer 165 Acknowledgments 179 Notes 181 Bibliography 197 Index 207
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Correspondence of William James Vol 6
Book SynopsisConsisting of 400 letters with an additional 400 calendared, this volume offers an account of William James' correspondence for the years 1885-89. During this period, he completed most of the work on his book, ""The Principles of Psychology"" and became more directly involved with psychical research.
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Correspondence of William James v. 7 189094
Book SynopsisThis seventh volume continues the series of William James's correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues that was begun in volume four. Consisting of some 488 letters, with an additional 510 calendared, it offers an account of the academic's correspondence for the years 1890 to 1894.
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New York University Press Narcissism and the Literary Libido Rhetoric Text
Book SynopsisWhat is it that makes language powerful? This book uses the psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism and libidinal investment to explain how rhetoric compels us and how it can effect change. It shows how the production of literary texts begins and ends with narcissistic self-love.
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New York University Press Jury Decision Making The State of the Science
Book SynopsisExamines over 50 years of research on juries and offers a "big picture" overview of the fieldTrade ReviewThe book provides a rich and elegant explanation of what we observe in our own jury research and hear jurors describe in post-trial interviews. Those who want a better grasp of jury decision-making will find what they are looking for in this book. -- Susan Macpherson,Vice President of the Minneapolis office of NJP Litigation ConsultingA lucid, sure-footed tour of the unwieldy research literature on jurors and juries. In addition to offering fresh insights into past research, Devine proposes an ambitious agenda for future research. His integrative theory of jury decision making has the potential to generate much-needed new research and to reveal unnoticed connections between seemingly unrelated findings. Essential reading for both scholars and students. -- Mark Costanzo,Professor of Psychology, Claremont McKenna CollegeAdd this book to the list of milestones in the study of jury decision making. Not only has Dennis Devine provided an impressively comprehensive review of scholarly research on the question of how jurors and juries make decisions, he also offers a theory that ties the findings together, and does it all in an eminently readable way. -- Edie Greene,University of Colorado at Colorado SpringsThe book can be a good classroom introduction to this body of research and to rigorous research generally. * Choice *Devines book is most useful for those conducting research on juries. Any social scientist considering conducting studies on juries would benefit from the book. * Criminal Law Bulletin *Table of Contents1 The Lay of the Empirical Land 2 Models of Juror and Jury Decision Making 3 Jury-Related Trial Practices 4 Effects of Trial Context 5 Trial Participant Characteristics 6 The Evidence 7 Deliberation 8 An Integrative Multi-Level Theory of Jury Decision Making 9 So What? Implications and Future Directions
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New York University Press Deviant and Criminal Behavior in the Workplace
Book SynopsisWorkplace crimes are never far from the news. From major scandals like Enron to violent crimes committed by co-workers to petty theft of office supplies, deviant and criminal behavior is common in the workplace. Psychological factors are almost always involved when an employee engages in such behavior. Deviant and Criminal Behavior in the Workplace offers insights at the level of the individual employee and also sheds light on the role organizations themselves may play in fostering such criminal behavior. The volume considers psychological factors involved in theft and fraud, workplace violence, employee discrimination, and sexual harassment. It also analyses a number of variables which can influence such behavior including employee personality, employee emotional processes, experience of occupational stress, organizational culture, organizational injustice, and human resource management practices. The book will be of core interest to those interested in the psychology aTrade ReviewNever before have we had a resource that has brought together research that thoughtfully considers the full spectrum of deviance; who enacts deviance; the environmental conditions that drive people to deviance; and the consequences of deviances on actors, victims, and bystanders. This is a valuable volume for anyone with interest in the issues inherent to complex people working together within complex systems. -- Deborah E. Rupp,William C. Byham Chair in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Purdue UniversityElias's work has value for its unique coverage of a topic of increasing concern. * CHOICE *This is a book that should find an attentive readership among scholars, students, and practitioners alike, whether they are interested in the psychological, criminal or organizational aspects of deviance. * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsPart I : Introduction1 Conceptual Foundations: Insights from Criminology and the Sociology of WorkPart I I : Employee Characteristics Associated with D viant Workplace Behavior2 Emotions and Deviance3 Born to Be Deviant? An Examination of the Relationship between Workplace Deviance and Employee Personality4 The Role of Occupational Stress in Workplace DeviancePart I I I : Organizational Influences on Deviant Workplace Behavior5 Accounting in Organizational Environments: Contextualizing Rules and Fraud6 Human Resource Management and Deviant/Criminal Behavior in OrganizationsPart IV : The Rol e of ( In) Justice and Social Power in Deviant Workplace Behavior7 Hazards of Justice: Egocentric Bias, Moral Judgmentsand Revenge-Seeking8 The Role of Social Power in Sexual Harassment and Job DiscriminationPart V : Violence in the Workplace9 When Employees Turn Violent: The Potential Role of Workplace Culture in Triggering Deviant Behavior10 Workplace Violence: Prevention and Aftermath
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New York University Press Gay Dads Transitions to Adoptive Fatherhood
Book SynopsisA unique examination of the emergence of fatherhood among gay adoptive parentsTrade ReviewIn sum, Gay Dads is an important contribution to the literature on same-sex parenting. It is a study that offers a specific window into the transition to parenthood for gay men via adoption and paints a picture of the variety of decisions, challenges, and joys men face as they create families together. More broadly, it is a well-conducted study that challenges readers to expand their understanding of family and the roles that individuals fill within thefamily system. * PsycCRITIQUES *This highly readable text marks an important early step in the development of an understanding of psychology of adoptive fatherhood for gay men, and one that is accessible to a variety of interested readers. Beyond that, it serves as a thought-provoking platform for considering the ever-changing picture of family life. Goldberg challenges her readers to question how we choose to support and honor parents, both in our laws and on our sidewalks, and how we may work toward a different choice in the future. * Journal of GLBT Family Studies *Goldberg provides a careful analysis of the results of a qualitative study of 35 gay male couples who have chosen to become parents through adoption. * Goldberg Review *Abbie Goldbergs book is yet another example of her rigorous and insightful research on LGB families. Writing a book that is both accessible and theoretically informed, Goldberg describes the complexity of gay mens fathering as experienced through everyday decision making and social organization. Further, she argues against easy categorization of gay fathers as resisters or accommodators, and instead explains their decisions and experiences by showing how even the most prosaic moments (like peoples reactions to two fathers passing their child back and forth in a restaurant) oblige gay fathers to negotiate ideologies and opportunity structures in complicated ways. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and I highly recommend it to family researchers and graduate students, as well as adoption workers and clinicians. Gay men and lesbians considering parenthood would find it helpful, as would heterosexual men and women seeking to resist heteronormativity in their own lives. Really, anyone who wants to learn more about families should read this book. -- Ramona Faith Oswald,Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignOverall, Goldberg has written an engaging and accessible book that provides a benchmark for future studies of gay male adoption. The book makes a new and important contribution to scholarship on contemporary family diversity and to gay families and relationships in particular. -- Brian Heaphy * American Journal of Sociology *The descriptive aspects of this book alone are fascinating and serve to illustrate the complex and unique relationships among race, gender, sexuality, adoptive status, and identity. The books specific focus on gay male adoption is a welcome addition to the adoption literature...Gay Dads is an insightful, textured, highly readable, and original book. This book will no doubt be influential for both adoption and gay studies. * Adoption Quarterly *Gay Dads is a lucid, insightful study of the transition to parenthood among the first generation of gay male couples able to choose to adopt children and form nuclear families rather than to create queer 'families of choice.' Prominent family scholar Abby Goldberg sensitively explores what happens to family practice, politics and theory now that these former family outlaws have begun to acquire in-laws. -- Judith Stacey,author of Unhitched: Love, Marriage and Family Values from West Hollywood to Western ChinaThe transition to parenthood is filled with hopes, desires, unexpected twists and turns, and a myriad of emotions. Although typically a joyful experience, it can also be stressful, challenging parents in ways theydid not anticipate.This is especially true for families headed by individuals or couples who do not conform to heteronormative models of parenting.In her new book, Abbie Goldberg, a leading developmental scholar on parenting by sexual minority adults, provides an informative, authoritative, and supportive account of the experiences of gay men becoming fathers. Through in depth interviews, qualitative analyses, and useful case examples, Dr. Goldberg captures, in a rich and compelling manner, the way in which these men (re)define gender, parenting, and family life for themselves and others. This timely and important book will have significant impact across diverse areas of scholarship and will provide policymakers with thought provoking ideas about the meaning of parenthood and family. -- David Brodzinsky, Ph.D.,Professor Emeritus of Developmental and Clinical Psychology, Rutgers UniversityGay Dads is an original, engaging, and informative qualitative study of gaymale couple adoptions. * Routledge *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Gay Parenthood in Context 1 Decisions, Decisions: Gay Men Turn toward Parenthood 2 Navigating Structural and Symbolic Inequalities on the Path to Parenthood: Adoption Agencies, the Legal System, and Beyond 3 Engaging Multiple Roles and Identities: Men's Experiences (Re)negotiating Work and Family 4 Kinship Ties across the Transition to Parenthood: Gay Men's Relationships with Family and Friends 5 Public Representations of Gay Parenthood: Men's Experiences Stepping "Out" as Parents and Families in Their Communities Conclusion Appendix A: The Larger Study Appendix B: Procedure Appendix C: Interview Questions Appendix D: Participant Demographic Table Notes References Index About the Author
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New York University Press Mastering the SemiStructured Interview and Beyo
Book SynopsisOffers a close look at the inductive nature of qualitative research, the use of researcher reflexivity, and the systematic and iterative steps involved in data collection, analysis, and interpretationTrade ReviewA beautifully crafted book. Methodologically authoritative and narratively engaging, its comprehensive description of the semi-structured interview introduces established and emerging social scientists to a versatile, informative, inductive qualitative method that too often is treated as if it were methodologically self-evident. Galletta describes how this method can include diverse participants voices, experiences, understandings, and concerns with rigor and rich conceptual and narrative effects. This timely book will surely be a classic, widely used in methods courses and as an important resource for researchers interested in the complex dynamics of social issues and societal change. -- Susan Opotow,John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center, CUNYReading this book is like having an extended conversation with a wise and experienced qualitative researcher that explores not only how to construct and conduct effective semi-structured interviews but also many other aspects of qualitative research, including the difficult but important question of how to move from your data to your conclusions. -- Janet Ward Schofield,University of PittsburghTable of ContentsContentsForeword by William E. Cross, Jr. ixAcknowledgments xi Introduction 1Section I: Setting the Stage 1 Craft ing a Design to Yield a Complete Story 9 2 Th e Semi-Structured Interview as a Repertoire of Possibilities 45Section II: The Semi-Structured Interview: Collecting and Analyzing Qualitative Data 3 Conducting the Interview: Th e Role of Reciprocity and Refl exivity 75 4 Ongoing and Iterative Data Analysis 119Section III: Synthesizing and Interpreting Research Findings 5 Building Th eory 149 6 Writing Up and Speaking Back to the Literature 173 Aft erword: Loose Th reads 191Appendix A: Sample Protocol for Student Participants 195Appendix B: Past as Present, Present as Past: Historicizing Black Education and Interrogating "Integration" 203Notes 231References 235Index 241About the Author 245
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New York University Press Faith Born of Seduction Sexual Trauma Body Image
Book SynopsisOffers social and psychological insights into the most common forms of female sufferingincest and body hatredTrade Review"This moving and powerful book explores in intricate detail the spiritual consequences for women of early forms of sexual abuse and trauma. It is hard to imagine a more important subject for contemporary Americans. Manlowe's thorough scholarship and original, probing interviews will make her wonderful book a lasting contribution." -- Charles B. Strozier,author of Apocalypse: On the Psychology of Fundamentalism in America
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New York University Press Why Girls Fight Female Youth Violence in the
Book SynopsisA fresh perspective on the issues behind everyday street fighting among urban girls.Trade Review"Ness's interdisciplinary approach to the subject of street fighting among young women effectively orchestrates a dialogue between cultural, social-institutional, and psychological-theoretical analyses." -- Aimee Meredith Cox * Signs *"Ness's book is well written, well organized, and thought provoking. The interdisciplinary foundation to her work offers insight and explanation that few other studies of its kind have conveyed." -- Lisa Pasko * American Journal of Sociology *"Psychologist Ness offers compelling evidence for the cultural and structural reasons why inner-city girls fight." * Choice Magazine *"This is a scholarly book in which a case is made for the heretofore undocumented reasons why girls maintain a fighting stance both in school and in the streets . . . The ten pages of references attest to the academically rigorous research that went into thisground-breaking book." -- Peggy Flemming * VOYA Library Magazine *Table of ContentsPreface 1 Introduction 2 The City of Philadelphia and Female Youth Violence 3 Girls' Violent Behavior as Viewed from the Streets 4 The Reasons Girls Give for Fighting 5 Mothers, Daughters, and the Double-Generation Dynamic 6 Culture and Neighborhood institutions 7 Conclusion Notes References Index About the Author
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New York University Press Living with Brain Injury Narrative Community and
Book SynopsisShowcases how - and on what terms - the women come to re-author identity, community, and meaning post-injury.Trade ReviewIdentity is one of the most enduring but complex topics in disability studies. How do you create a positive sense of self in the midst of a severely devalued and marginalized status? Sadly, the voices of people with brain injuries are virtually absent in the literature about their experience. J. Eric Stewart's research thus addresses a critical gap. But this is much more than a study about brain injury. With the help of ten gracious informants, Stewart has produced a stunning work on identity and human transformation. Through his scrupulous attention to his informants accounts and his painstaking analysis, he reveals a complex humanity in these women's experiences that is rarely associated with brain injury. By striking a creative balance between the personal story of recovery and its broader social/cultural significance, he contributes significantly to disability studies and provides illuminating reading for psychologists, students in disability and health fields, scholars studying embodiment and culture, and disability advocates. Above all, his fidelity to the women's stories shines through the book from beginning to end, serving as an instructive example of respectful and intuitive qualitative research. The result is a wonderful balance of intellectual sophistication and grounded, accessible information. -- Carol J. Gill,University of Illinois at ChicagoA beautifully written and moving account of how we adjust to a radical discontinuity in our narratives about who we are and where we belong in society. Few people truly understand the extent to which a brain injury can change our abilities, our social status, our physical appearance, even our personalitiesall deeply affecting our basic sense of self. This book marries superb scholarship in qualitative analysis with inspired writing about the personal experiences of individuals who have lost much, but through struggle and commitment have learned to tell a new and satisfying story about themselves. Here we learn about the commonalities of the challenges as well as come to appreciate the diversity and creativity of the solutions. -- Wendy Heller,University of Illinois, Champaign-UrbanaStewart succeeds in shining a critical light upon the workings of society and in particular on the subjectification of disabled people. The experiences in this book emphasize how this subjectification occurs in the dominant discourses that direct both society as a whole and rehabilitation units in society. * Sociology & Illness *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. People and Methodology 2. Meeting Post-Injury 3. Oneself as Another 4. Fighting 5. Sense (and Sensibility) of Community 6. Wrestling with an Angel Coda Appendix: Brief Summary of Participants' Demographics and Injuries ReferencesIndex About the Author
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MI - New York University Psychopathy An Introduction to Biological
Book SynopsisProvides a non-technical overview of the research in the areas of genetics, hormones, brain imaging, neuropsychology, environmental influences, and more, focusing on explaining what we currently know about the biological foundations for this disorder and offering insights into prediction, intervention, and prevention.Trade ReviewThis innovative work presents the very latest and best science on the topic of psychopathy and biology. It is a tour de force with its coverage of the primary areas of biological research, explanation of the techniques used in biological research, and its coverage of existing findings on the topic. With this book, Glenn and Raine uncover hints regarding the biological underpinnings of psychopathy and the implications that biology has for the development, nature and treatment of this syndrome. Well informed and incredibly well written this book is a valuable source for those wanting to know more about psychopathy in general but especially those wanting to learn more about its biological roots and the contextual factors that affect its development and consequent variations. This book points to many avenues for future science and is highly relevant to a full range of trainees and professionals working in psychology, psychiatry, and other allied mental health professions. Glenn and Raine hit the mark with this incredibly powerful book that is also relevant to those in the general public who are interested in the biological foundations of psychopathy. -- Randall Salekin,University of AlabamaPsychopathy: An Introduction to Biological Findings and Their Implicationsis an impressive achievement, covering decades-long research on the neurobiology of antisocial behaviour and psychopathy. Frequently authors cannot see the wood for the trees, but the book clearly maps the growing forest that is our understanding of environmental, neurobiological and genetic contributions to psychopathy. * Times Higher Education *InPsychopathy,Andrea L. Glenn and Adrian Raine rigorously and cleverly summarize a multitude of findings from studies of behavior, cognition, and brain functioning. . . . [T]he book can be appreciated by students who want to be introduced to one of the domains of cognitive neuroscience that is rather complex and in the process of restructuring itself into not only a legitimate field of study, but also one that is independent from criminology. The book can also be an interesting and useful read for established researchers who want to assess the strengths and weaknesses of a domain before considering it as a field of study. All in all, the text is a good and valuable read which is difficult to put down. * Metapsychology *Psychopathyis one in a long list of publications designed to provide an overarching summary of a hypothetical neurobiological model of the disorder with the authors goal being to define the disorder in terms of neurobiological deficits, with each of the nine chapters summarizing the presumed influence of a particular factor. * PsycCRITQUES *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Genetics 2. Hormones 3. Psychophysiology 4. Neuropsychology 5. Brain Imaging 6. Biosocial and Environmental Influences 7. Successful Psychopaths 8. Ethical Issues 9. Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment Conclusion Further Reading References Index About the Authors
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New York University Press The Truth About Freuds Technique The Encounter
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New York University Press New Perspectives on Racial Identity Development
Book SynopsisOffers new perspectives on how we understand and study racial identity in a culture where race and other identities are socially constructed and carry significant societal, political, and group meaningTrade Review"The second edition of New Perspectives on Racial Identity is as groundbreaking as the first. A combination of continuing and new authors offer a diverse array of perspectives on cutting edge theories and models related to racial identity development. By both honoring foundational theories and models and providing new and innovative thinking, the editors provide readers with a contemporary and sophisticated treatment of racial identity development."-Susan R. Jones,The Ohio State University "Takes a fresh look at racial identity development through the lens of intersectionality. In so doing this text furthers our understanding of the complicated and simultaneous experience of race as mutually constituted with other social identities. The authors are to be applauded for their willingness to interrogate and critique their own prior theoretical frameworks in order to explore new ground in this new edition. The result is a book that significantly advances the field of racial identity development and the theoretical and pedagogical practices that rely on it to help us better understand racial identity in all its richness and variability."-Lee Anne Bell,Barbara Silver Horowitz Director of Education, Barnard College, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Creating and Re-Creating Race 2 Black Identity Development 3. Latina and Latino Ethnoracial Identity Orientations 4. The Intersectional Model of Multiracial Identity 5. Twenty-First Century Native American Consciousness 6. White Identity Development Revisited 7. Asian American Racial Identity Development Theory 8. The "Simultaneity" of Identities: Models and Skills for the Twenty-First Century 9. The Enactment of Race and Other Social Identities during Everyday Transactions 10. Pedagogical Approaches to Teaching about Racial Identity from an Intersectional Perspective About the Contributors Index
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New York University Press Girlfighting Betrayal and Rejection among Girls
Book SynopsisIn opposition to other books available discussing how girls are mean to each other, this book looks at WHY girls act this way. The author looks at the images family and media inadvertenly send to girls and discusses what should be done to prevent this avoidable pattern.Trade Review"Browns book, however, is a clear departure from the film [Mean Girls] stereotypes about dumb, mean, backstabbing girls." -- Waterville * Sunday Morning Sentinel *"While schools and parents scramble to once again 'fix girls' via meanness prevention programs, Lyn Brown gives us a wider, different, and eye-opening view of the problem. . . . This is the smartest book on mean girls around." -- Sharon Lamb,author of The Secret Lives of Girls"This book opens discussion related to the female gender role and the socialization of girls in many different, thought provoking ways, and serves as a timely critique of the current societal messages directed toward girls." * Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy *"Brown declares that to change the patterns of female animosity we must address the social environment as well as the individual." * Women's Review of Books *"Girlfighting is a serious and intelligent analysis of the cruelty and meanness involved in girls' relationships at each stage of development." * Pyschiatric Services *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha Gonna Do? 1 Reading the Culture of Girl?ghting 2 Good Girls and Real Boys: Preparing the Ground in Early Childhood 3 Playing It Like a Girl: Later Childhood and Preadolescence4 Dancing through the Mine?eld: The Middle School Years 5 Patrolling the Borders: High School 6 From Girl?ghting to Sisterhood7 This Book Is an ActionAppendix Notes ReferencesIndexAbout the Author
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University of Minnesota Press Essentials of MMPI2 and MMPIA Interpretation
Book SynopsisThe best resource for interpreting these widely used personality assessment tests.The best resource for interpreting these widely used personality assessment tests.Essentials of MMPI-2 and MMPI-A Interpretation presents innovative interpretive strategies for both the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2, or MMPI-2, and the adaptation for adolescents, the MMPI-A. James N. Butcher and Carolyn L. Williams detail the rationale for the revision and development of the instruments and their scales, and describe how to administer, score, profile, code, and interpret the tests.The revised edition includes the most recent MMPI research, including new information on ethnic background and cultural setting as they relate to assessment. Focusing primarily on studies of profile validity and external correlates, the revision also includes interpretive guidelines for several scales that will be introduced into the MMPI tests in 2000.
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University of Minnesota Press Conrads Models of Mind
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Thinking Animals
Book SynopsisIn a world increasingly dominated by human beings, the survival of other species becomes more and more questionable. This book offers an alternative to an ""us or them"" mentality, proposing that other species are integral to humanity's evolution and exist at the core of our imagination.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press It Takes a Worried Woman
Book SynopsisDebra Monroe has always written about the source of trouble. The illusion that every problem has a clear-cut cause and discernible solution is apparently her gateway drug. It Takes a Worried Woman explores the outer limits of her faith that all past hardship could have been prevented and all future hardship might still be.
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Ohio University Press The Phenomenology of Pain
Book SynopsisThe Phenomenology of Pain is the first book-length investigation of its topic to appear in English. Groundbreaking, systematic, and illuminating, it opens a dialogue between phenomenology and such disciplines as cognitive science and cultural anthropology to argue that science alone cannot clarify the nature of pain experience without incorporating a phenomenological approach. Building on this premise, Saulius Geniusas develops a novel conception of pain grounded in phenomenological principles: pain is an aversive bodily feeling with a distinct experiential quality, which can only be given in original first-hand experience, either as a feeling-sensation or as an emotion.Geniusas crystallizes the fundamental methodological principles that underlie phenomenological research. On the basis of those principles, he offers a phenomenological clarification of the fundamental structures of pain experience and contests the common conflation of phenomenology with introspectionism. GeniusTrade Review“[A] radical and unitary attempt, newly thought through, at a methodical clarification of this crucial experience. The author’s expositions achieve a high scientific standard and display an admirable familiarity with the enormous literature on the topic, yet without ever losing sight of the phenomenon itself, and he makes himself intelligible to readers who are not specialists in phenomenology. This is certainly not a minor merit of the book…. Any future treatment of pain in a phenomenological or philosophical perspective will accordingly have to pay very serious attention to this book." * Husserl Studies *“By making phenomenology dialogical, Geniusas opens up his study to findings from disciplines other than phenomenology. Philosophers, scientists, psychologists, sociologists, and really anyone interested in pain experience can both understand and critically engage with the book. Furthermore, … [Geniusas’s] explorations of the relation between listening and treatment of pain conditions, between the life-world and pain experiences, and between the lived body and the mind shed a new light on different aspects of medical treatments.” * Journal of Phenomenological Psychology *“Geniusas convincingly substantiates his claim that phenomenology is essential to reconciling various elements of the slippery concept of pain, while also elegantly teaching the basic principles of phenomenology. By focusing on Husserl rather than Heidegger or Merleau-Ponty, who are more commonly invoked in the contemporary phenomenology of health, illness, and medicine, Geniusas allows for a more analytical approach to his subject.”“Geniusas is the first to have developed a systematic phenomenology of pain, which has never existed before the publication of this book as far as its conceptual scale and empirical base are concerned….It is also its great merit that it outlines new prospects for a dialogue between phenomenology and the positivistic sciences of pain." * Horizon: Studies in Phenomenology *
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Ohio University Press Anxiety in and about Africa
Book SynopsisThis addition to the Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series presents multidisciplinary essays that demonstrate how individual and collective anxieties can unsettle dominant historical narratives, shape contemporary discourse, and appear across material culture.Trade Review“Using ‘anxiety’ as the organizing rubric, this collective examination of affect, emotion, and concern across Africa, geographically and temporally, delves into fascinating disciplinary endeavors and disparate approaches. Although ‘anxiety’ is deliberately not defined strictly by the editors, and the contributors employ their own, different takes on what is anxiety inducing (and what is inferred by being anxiety provoking), this volume contains valuable essays about historical periods or behavioral thresholds that may be labeled as sources of anxiety…. Recommended.” * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii I n t roduct ion States of Anxiety in Africa Perspectives, Approaches, and Potential Yola na Pringle and Andrea Mariko Grant 1 PART I: Anxious Spaces One: Misapprehensions. Outlaws and Anxiety in Southern Africa’s Archaeological Past (Rach el King) Two: Between the Anxiogenic and the Soothing. Settlers’ Engagements with Africans in Dance in Colonial Africa, 1920s–30s (Cécile Feza Bushidi) Three: Epidemics and Anxiety in Saint-Louis-du-Sénégal, from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century (Kalala Ngala mulume) Part II: Unsettling Na rratives Four: Anxiety over Masculinity. Gendered and Sexual Struggles in Mwanga II’s Buganda, 1884–97 (Naka nyike B. Musisi) Five: No End to the Trouble. Decolonization Anxieties and the Evacuation of White Settlers from Kenya, 1963–64 (Will Jacks on and Harry Firth-Jones) Six: Competing Development “Visions”? State Anxieties and Church Closures in Rwanda (Andrea Mariko Grant) Part III: Alternative Temporalities Seven: “Right Now, I Don’t Know What the Future Might Bring”. Hope, Anxiety, and Despair in the Burundian Crisis (Simon Turner) Eight: “Obuganda Buladde". Power, Anxiety, and Calm in Postcolonial Buganda (Jonathon L. Earle) Contributors Index
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Ohio University Press The Phenomenology of Pain
Book SynopsisThe Phenomenology of Pain is the first book-length investigation of its topic to appear in English. Groundbreaking, systematic, and illuminating, it opens a dialogue between phenomenology and the sciences to argue that science alone cannot clarify the nature of pain experience without incorporating a phenomenological approach.Trade Review“[A] radical and unitary attempt, newly thought through, at a methodical clarification of this crucial experience. The author’s expositions achieve a high scientific standard and display an admirable familiarity with the enormous literature on the topic, yet without ever losing sight of the phenomenon itself, and he makes himself intelligible to readers who are not specialists in phenomenology. This is certainly not a minor merit of the book…. Any future treatment of pain in a phenomenological or philosophical perspective will accordingly have to pay very serious attention to this book." * Husserl Studies *“By making phenomenology dialogical, Geniusas opens up his study to findings from disciplines other than phenomenology. Philosophers, scientists, psychologists, sociologists, and really anyone interested in pain experience can both understand and critically engage with the book. Furthermore, … [Geniusas’s] explorations of the relation between listening and treatment of pain conditions, between the life-world and pain experiences, and between the lived body and the mind shed a new light on different aspects of medical treatments.” * Journal of Phenomenological Psychology *“Geniusas convincingly substantiates his claim that phenomenology is essential to reconciling various elements of the slippery concept of pain, while also elegantly teaching the basic principles of phenomenology. By focusing on Husserl rather than Heidegger or Merleau-Ponty, who are more commonly invoked in the contemporary phenomenology of health, illness, and medicine, Geniusas allows for a more analytical approach to his subject.”“Geniusas is the first to have developed a systematic phenomenology of pain, which has never existed before the publication of this book as far as its conceptual scale and empirical base are concerned….It is also its great merit that it outlines new prospects for a dialogue between phenomenology and the positivistic sciences of pain." * Horizon: Studies in Phenomenology *
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MD - Duke University Press In the Shadow of the Epidemic
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£25.19
University of Pittsburgh Press Researching the Presidency Vital Questions New Approaches Pitt Series in Policy Institutional Studies Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies
Book SynopsisThis collection views the recruitment and selection of presidential candidates, presidential personality, advisory networks, policy making, evaluations of presidents, and comparative analysis of chief executives.Trade ReviewProbably the best book ever written on the subject-an instant classic."" - David Canon, University of Wisconsin
£55.10
Fordham University Press Malicious Objects Anger Management and the
Book SynopsisThis study investigates the relationship of objects and affects in literary and philosophical texts from the 18th to the 20th century. It focuses on the obstinate obtrusiveness of objects, which refuse to disappear into their automatic, unconscious functionality, instead remaining conspicuous thereby causing humorous outbursts of anger and rage.Trade Review"Kreienbrock's study moves with ease between literary theory, anthropology, epistemology, and psychology while never leaving the main thrust of his investigation from sight: the singular status of literature in articulating the pathos of the modern subject as seemingly overwhelmed and overcome by the world of things." -- -Paul Fleming Cornell University "Kreienbrock's work is a welcome contribution to the recent trend for Thing Studies." -Sean Williams, Monatshefte "The story Kreienbrock tells here is an interesting and thorough one, and it makes a contribution to the history of the modern subject amid the menagerie of objects from which he differentiates himself." -Daniel Bowles, German Studies Review
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Fordham University Press Malicious Objects Anger Management and the
Book SynopsisThis study investigates the relationship of objects and affects in literary and philosophical texts from the 18th to the 20th century. It focuses on the obstinate obtrusiveness of objects, which refuse to disappear into their automatic, unconscious functionality, instead remaining conspicuous thereby causing humorous outbursts of anger and rage.Trade Review"Kreienbrock's study moves with ease between literary theory, anthropology, epistemology, and psychology while never leaving the main thrust of his investigation from sight: the singular status of literature in articulating the pathos of the modern subject as seemingly overwhelmed and overcome by the world of things." -- -Paul Fleming Cornell University "Kreienbrock's work is a welcome contribution to the recent trend for Thing Studies." -Sean Williams, Monatshefte "The story Kreienbrock tells here is an interesting and thorough one, and it makes a contribution to the history of the modern subject amid the menagerie of objects from which he differentiates himself." -Daniel Bowles, German Studies Review
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Fordham University Press Peculiar Attunements How Affect Theory Turned
Book SynopsisPeculiar Attunements places the recent turn to affect into conversation with an earlier affective turn that took place in European music theory of the eighteenth century. It offers a new way of thinking through affect historically and dialectically, drawing attention to repeating patterns and problems in affect theory’s history.Table of ContentsNotes on Orthography and Translation | vii Introduction | 1 1 Eighteenth-Century Opera and the Mimetic Affektenlehre | 29 2 Comic Opera: Mimesis Exploded | 61 3 “Sonate, que me veux-tu?” and Other Dilemmas of Instrumental Music | 86 4 The Attunement Affektenlehre | 108 Coda: Affect after the Affektenlehre | 131 Acknowledgments | 143 Bibliography | 147 Index | 161
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