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Book SynopsisThe Virtuous Wehrmacht explores the myth of the German armed forces' innocence during World War II by reconstructing the moral world of German soldiers on the Eastern Front. How did they avoid feelings of guilt about the many atrocities their side committed? David A. Harrisville compellingly demonstrates that this myth of innocence was created during the course of the war itselfand did not arise as a postwar whitewashing of events. In 1941 three million Wehrmacht troops overran the border between German- and Soviet-occupied Poland, racing toward the USSR in the largest military operation in modern history. Over the next four years, they embarked on a campaign of wanton brutality, murdering countless civilians, systemically starving millions of Soviet prisoners of war, and actively participating in the genocide of Eastern European Jews. After the war, however, German servicemen insisted that they had fought honorably and that their institution had never involved itself in Nazi crimes. Drawing on more than two thousand letters from German soldiers, contextualized by operational and home front documents, Harrisville shows that this myth was the culmination of long-running efforts by the army to preserve an illusion of respectability in the midst of a criminal operation. The primary authors of this fabrication were ordinary soldiers cultivating a decent self-image and developing moral arguments to explain their behavior by drawing on a constellation of values that long preceded Nazism. The Virtuous Wehrmacht explains how the army encouraged troops to view themselves as honorable representatives of a civilized nation, not only racially but morally superior to others.Trade ReviewScholars have long understood how Nazi values infiltrated and infused the Wehrmacht leadership. In seeking to illustrate the self-awareness of average soldiers, Harrisville has broadened the scope of the study to include the ranks. [H]e provides readers with five thematic chapters, each of which explores a different aspect of the self-perception and moral self-justification of the soldiers. In what is perhaps the clearest illustration of the Nazi ability to mold traditional values to fit their own ideology, Harrisville notes the ways in which the Wehrmacht utilized concepts such as duty, honor, sacrifice, and comradeship, along with notions of upright conduct, to enable the men to see their actions in both a legal and virtuous context. * Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs *The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941–1944, is a very impressive and very important addition to that body of work. Harrisville's central concern is that of how soldiers were able to rationalize their involvement in the war of annihilation, and with what effects. * American Historical Review *The Virtuous Wehrmacht provides new insight into the feelings of the Germans who fought there. * Strategy Page *Using an impressive combination of front line soldiers' correspondence, Wehrmacht documents, and sources from the German home front, Harrisville demonstrates that the myth of a virtuous Wehrmacht emerged during the war, not after, and its primary architects were millions of Ostkämpfer (German soldiers on the Eastern Front), not opportunistic post-war politicians and cynical Nazi propagandists. * War in History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Toward a Moral History of the Wehrmacht in the War of Extermination 1. Honorable Self and Villainous Other: Value Systems in the Wehrmacht 2. Rationalizing Atrocities: Self-Exoneration in Soldiers' Letters 3. The "Crusaders": Religious Justifications for Barbarossa 4. The "Liberators": Barbarossa as an Emancipatory Act 5. Death and Victimhood: Cultivating Moral Superiority through Burial Practices Conclusion: A Myth Is Born

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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 the Dreamer is the first book to examine Lucrecia's dreams as dreams, as accurate reports of psychological experiences with roots in the brain's natural cycles of activity during sleep. Using methods from the cognitive science of religion, dream researcher Kelly Bulkeley finds meaningful patterns in Lucrecia's dreaming prophecies and sheds new light on the infinitely puzzling question at the center of her trial, a question that has vexed all religious traditions throughout history: How can we determine if a dream is, or is not, a true revelation?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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Book SynopsisA voyage of exploration to the outer reaches of our inner lives. UFOs are a myth, says David J. Halperin—but myths are real. The power and fascination of the UFO has nothing to do with space travel or life on other planets. It's about us, our longings and terrors, and especially the greatest terror of all: the end of our existence. This is a book about UFOs that goes beyond believing in them or debunking them and to a fresh understanding of what they tell us about ourselves as individuals, as a culture, and as a species. In the 1960s, Halperin was a teenage UFOlogist, convinced that flying saucers were real and that it was his life's mission to solve their mystery. He would become a professor of religious studies, with traditions of heavenly journeys his specialty. With Intimate Alien, he looks back to explore what UFOs once meant to him as a boy growing up in a home haunted by death and what they still mean for millions, believers and deniers alike. From the prehistoric Balkans to the deserts of New Mexico, from the biblical visions of Ezekiel to modern abduction encounters, Intimate Alien traces the hidden story of the UFO. It's a human story from beginning to end, no less mysterious and fantastic for its earthliness. A collective cultural dream, UFOs transport us to the outer limits of that most alien yet intimate frontier, our own inner space.Trade Review"It takes a classical scholar to fully challenge the belief in flying saucers, and David J. Halperin is the right expert for the job. Nearly fifty years after we realized we were pursuing the same mystery, I am delighted to see he has valiantly continued on this colorful and occasionally terrifying path." -- Jacques Vallée * author of Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers *"David Halperin doesn't believe in the literal reality of flying saucers, but he understands that they needn't physically exist to teach us lessons about a culture that sees them. Part folklorist and part psychologist, Halperin reads our UFO mythos like an alienist analyzing an extended collective dream." -- Jesse Walker * author of The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory *"Whatever it is, the UFO is a real phenomenon. What David Halperin explores is how to interpret phenomena that are neither imagination nor physics but somehow both. Intimate Alien is a thoroughly fascinating dive into a third domain, a genuine twilight zone that is perpetually shimmering between mind and matter." -- Dean Radin * author of Real Magic: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science, and a Guide to the Secret Power of the Universe *"On one level, this is a book about the UFO phenomenon. On another, this is a book about how a scholar of religion comes to be." -- Jeffrey J. Kripal * Rice University *"True believers in the UFO phenomenon are unlikely to find Halperin's book satisfying, but scholars of religion will find it quite illuminating of the ufological culture. One does not need to accept the entire Jungian scholarly apparatus to accept Halperin's clearly argued position that a collective unconscious fed the experience, memory, and mythic continuation of UFO folklore" -- Benjamin E. Zeller * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *"[Intimate Alien] will hopefully contribute to a growing willingness on the part of scholars of religion and related disciplines to delve into this phenomenon, an important – if often neglected – facet of modern Western culture." -- Ethan Doyle White * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts0Introduction chapter abstractSome believe in UFOs; others debunk and even ridicule the whole idea. I neither believe nor debunk. I approach UFOs as a mythology, a collective dream of our culture or even our entire species, as rich and profound as the great mythologies of the ancient world. When the myth takes visible form, experienced as something unknown and alien, it's akin to what our ancestors would have called a "vision of God." It doesn't take place only, or even authentically, in the sky. It's a human phenomenon, encompassing those who experience it and those who mock it, believers and debunkers alike. The UFO is the mystery of them all, or more correctly the mystery of us. 1Confessions of a Teenage UFOlogist chapter abstractThe UFO story I know best is my own. I was not quite thirteen when I became persuaded, with the sudden force of a religious conversion, that UFOs are real and that it was my destined mission to solve their mystery. UFOs were a perfect mythic expression for the ultimate alien, namely my mother's approaching death, that had invaded my familiar skies. The suppression of the truth about UFOs by mysterious agencies, mirroring my family's refusal to speak of the disease draining my mother's life, seemed to me a self-evident fact. After she died, when I was sixteen, my conviction faded. But it left me with a keen sense of the power and fascination of the UFO myth in which I'd believed, and how it might help us come to terms with our finite lives. 2Scenes from Magonia chapter abstractFour case studies, taken from diverse locations and historical periods—Philadelphia in 1974, Belgium in 1989-1990, the Dardanelles in 1683, Papua New Guinea in 1959—illustrate a central premise: the UFO comes from within. In all four cases the UFOs are psychic entities taking on the illusion of physical reality, transforming some mundane stimulus into an extraordinary new creation. The transformation is not random or meaningless, but to be understood through the psyche of the observers. Its roots may plunge very deep, into layers of the psyche that transcend centuries and cultures. In each case, the question to be asked of the UFO is not what it is or how it flies, but: What does it mean? 3The Abductions Begin chapter abstractThe alien abduction myth of the late twentieth century had its beginning in 1964, when an interracial New Hampshire couple underwent hypnosis to help them cope with the physical and psychological consequences of what they remembered as a UFO encounter. The experience, eerie as it seemed, was triggered by nothing more unearthly than the light on a mountaintop observation tower. But the abject terror the memories evoked in African-American Barney Hill came from a far older collective memory, of abduction into the alien craft that was the European slave ship. In their "UFO abduction," Barney and his white wife Betty channeled his historic trauma and her historic crime. Unintentionally, they planted seeds in the culture which, years later, would burst into fantastic bloom. 4The Lure of the Unremembered chapter abstractIf 1964 marked the birth of the abduction myth, its watershed event came at the beginning of 1987, when Whitley Strieber's abduction memoir Communion leaped to the top of the best-seller charts. The haunting cover illustration gave us our iconic image of an alien face: light-bulb shape, huge slanted eyes of impenetrable black. The numbers of reported abductions multiplied into the thousands. Abduction memories, retrieved through hypnosis, shared cultural space with another kind of recovered memory, of childhood sexual abuse. When sexual-abuse memories fell into discredit, so did abductions. Yet a 6000-year-old mask from Kosovo in the Balkans, mirroring the face on the Communion cover, points to something underlying them that's archaic and universal, a prehistory that goes back far beyond their twentieth-century manifestations. 5Ancient Abductees chapter abstractThe UFO is a modern myth. It's also timeless, with a prehistory as well as a history; the interplay of the two aspects is necessary for understanding it. The prehistory of the abduction theme includes the ancient Jewish tradition of psychic journeys to the merkavah, the UFO-like "chariot" described in the first chapter of Ezekiel. Like many abductees, the "merkavah mystics" imagined themselves descending to a vehicle that ought to be in the skies. They shriveled in dread under the gaze of eyes like those on the cover of Strieber's Communion. The "descent," ancient and modern, is into the unconscious, to a realm where boundaries blur: between human and animal, human and alien, "I" and the ultimate "not-I"—death. 6"Three Men in Black" chapter abstractThe "men in black" entered UFO mythology in 1953, when (according to report) they paid an unwelcome visit to a UFO researcher named Bender and terrorized him into silence. Like the abduction theme, the men-in-black tradition has a long prehistory. Its contemporary history begins with the mythologizing of the Bender incident by writer Gray Barker, who as a closeted gay man in 1950s West Virginia knew very well what it was to have a secret too terrible to be spoken. The myth, born of Barker's private trauma, spread. Others had run-ins with men in black; death symbolism became part of their image. In the wildly popular "Men In Black" movies at century's end, they turned into harsh protectors who "won't let you remember" what you've known to be true. 7Shaver Mystery chapter abstractIf the men in black embody the alien among us, the "dero" of the 1940s "Shaver Mystery" represent the alien within. Emerging from the troubled unconscious of a metal worker named Richard Shaver, promoted by a science fiction editor named Raymond Palmer, this grim gospel told of the perverted, dwarfish descendants of ancient space colonists who inhabit the caverns beneath our feet. They torment us surface folk with their "disintegrating rays"; they kidnap us for orgies of torture; they maintain active commerce with beings from other planets. When "flying saucers" suddenly filled American skies in the summer of 1947, following a landmark sighting over the Cascade Mountains, Shaver's devotees could say: we told you so. 8Roswell, New Mexico chapter abstractOn July 8, 1947, officials at Roswell Army Air Field declared themselves in possession of a "flying disc" that had landed on a ranch northwest of the town. The claim was debunked and sank into obscurity, re-emerging thirty years later to become the "seminal event in UFO history." In the process, it transformed itself from a banal mystery of fallen debris into a profound and gripping myth of mortal divinity—sky-riding gods who are frail and childlike, shattered and slain—tailored for the space age that's also the nuclear age. At the myth's heart is death, not only of the individual but of the species, which in 1947 had just become a realistic possibility. Its warning: child-humanity, straining toward the skies in arrogant self-regard, crashes to absolute and permanent extinction. Epilogue: John Lennon in Magonia chapter abstractOne hot summer night in 1974, a man and a woman stood naked before a sky-borne entity which they experienced as a glowing disk. They were the former Beatle John Lennon and his girlfriend May Pang, and although they were hardly conscious of re-enacting Adam and Eve's experience before God in the Garden of Eden, that's precisely what they were doing. Their encounter with the numinous, the alien, was a template hard-wired into the human unconscious. It typifies the UFO experience as a religious event, part of the myth that is UFO lore. Like the rest of the UFO's "hidden story," it expresses a mystery that has nothing to do with extraterrestrials or spaceships but is part of the most ancient mystery of all: what is this two-legged, two-gendered being that lives yet knows it must die? Who is this creature, us?

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Book SynopsisDepression has colonized the world. Today, more than 300 million of us have been diagnosed as depressed. But 150 years ago, "depression" referred to a mood, not a sickness. Does that mean people weren't sick before, only sad? Of course not. Mental illness is a complex thing, part biological, part social, its definition dependent on time and place. But in the mid-twentieth century, even as European empires were crumbling, new Western clinical models and treatments for mental health spread across the world. In so doing, "depression" began to displace older ideas like "melancholia," the Japanese "utsushô," or the Punjabi "sinking heart" syndrome. Award-winning historian Jonathan Sadowsky tells this global story, chronicling the path-breaking work of psychiatrists and pharmacists, and the intimate sufferings of patients. Revealing the continuity of human distress across time and place, he shows us how different cultures have experienced intense mental anguish, and how they have tried to alleviate it. He reaches an unflinching conclusion: the devastating effects of depression are real. A number of treatments do reduce suffering, but a permanent cure remains elusive. Throughout the history of depression, there have been overzealous promoters of particular approaches, but history shows us that there is no single way to get better that works for everyone. Like successful psychotherapy, history can liberate us from the negative patterns of the past.Trade Review"Drawing from literature, medicine, psychology, anthropology, and memoir, Jonathan Sadowsky shows how much the history of depression informs our present understanding of it. This is an immensely readable book which challenges dogmatic opinions about a complex condition which may be 'hard to manualize' but, sadly, is also too often politicized."—Linda Gask, writer and psychiatrist "Sadowsky deftly guides the reader across history and continents in search of depression's past, present, and future. Engagingly written, measured in tone, and nuanced in its conclusions, The Empire of Depression never loses sight of the human suffering at the heart of its subject."—Greg Eghigian, editor of The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health "fascinating."—New Statesman "a wise and discerning work."—Shepherd Express "What would an updated Anatomy of Melancholy look like? Perhaps something like Jonathan Sadowsky's The Empire of Depression.... Though neither a Galenist nor an Anglican priest, Sadowsky reminds one in many ways of Burton: wry, practical, humane...."—Gregory Hayes, New York Review of Books "With humour and personal reflexivity, Sadowsky unravels the history of depression in a comprehensive synthesis of a staggering range of sources, weaving classical, medical and academic literature with the tragic stories of prominent people such as artist, Mark Rothko and writer, Sylvia Plath."—Jacqueline Leckie, Health and HistoryTable of ContentsPreface 10 Acknowledgments 19 1 Depression is a Thing 23 2 Too Dry and too Cold 52 3 Turned Inward 79 4 A Diagnosis in Ascent 108 5 "Just Chemical" 152 6 Darkness Legible 187 Epilogue: Depression's Past and Future 216 Note on the Historiography 221 Partial Bibliography 226 Index 232

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Book SynopsisFor Freud, dreams were the royal road to the unconscious: through the process of interpretation, the manifest and sometimes bewildering content of dreams can be traced back to the unconscious representations underlying it. But can we understand dreams in another way by considering how the unconscious is structured by our social experiences? This is hypothesis that underlies this highly original book by Bernard Lahire, who argues that dreams can be interpreted sociologically by seeing the dream as a nocturnal form of self-to-self communication. Lahire rejects Freud’s view that the manifest dream content is the result of a process of censorship: as a form of self-to-self communication, the dream is the symbolic arena most completely freed from all forms of censorship. In Lahire’s view, the dream is a message which can be understood only by relating it to the social world of the dreamer, and in particular to the problems that concern him or her during waking life. As a form of self-to-self communication, the dream is an intimate private diary, providing us with the elements of a profound and subtle understanding of who and what we are. Studying dreams enables us to discover our most deep-seated and hidden preoccupations, and to understand the thought processes that operate within us, beyond the reach of our volition. The study of dreams and dreaming has largely been the preserve of psychoanalysis, psychology and neuroscience. By showing how dreams are connected to the lived experience of individuals in the social world, this highly original book puts dreams and dreaming at the heart of the social sciences. It will be of great value to students and scholars in sociology, psychology and psychoanalysis and to anyone interested in the nature and meaning of dreams.Trade Review�Drawing on many disciplines, on little-known works about dream activity and on discoveries about consciousness and the workings of thought, Bernard Lahire puts forward a bold theory: we replay at night the unconscious schemas and determinisms that structure our personality and underlie our behavior.� L'Obs �This great theoretical work, which opens up a whole host of questions about what troubles us day and night, about what social structures do to our unconscious and about what the world does to our nocturnal imagination, awaits only its practical application in order to corroborate its stimulating insights.� Les Inrocks "With insight and serious thought, Lahire builds a bridge between sociology and psychoanalysis. Across the bridge travel not only empirical and theoretical contributions to each field, but intellectual spurs to new creativity." Craig Calhoun, Arizona State University "Bernard Lahire has established himself as arguably the most creative and insightful French sociologist of his generation. A leading global social psychologist, Lahire reveals how dreams transcend the line between fantasy and daytime reality. This masterwork persuades us that that the chasm between sleep and waking is not as deep as easily imagined. Every sociologist will learn from Lahire and every psychologist should learn from him as well." Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern UniversityTable of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: A dream for the social sciences 1. Advances in the science of dreams The dream before Freud The need for an integrative theory Scientific progress and relativism The art of limping: the end of pure speculation On the scientific interpretation of dreams Beyond Freud 2. The dream: an intrinsically social individual reality Can the social be absorbed into the cerebral? A few precedents in the social sciences Limitations of environmentalist approaches: the ecology of dreams Limitations of literal approaches: content analysis of dream accounts In what sense are dreams a social issue? A general formula for the interpretation of dreams 3. Psychoanalysis and the social sciences Between biological and social Psychoanalysis and the general formula for interpreting practices Infantile hypothesis Sexual hypothesis The highs and lows of the dream: sexuality and domination 4. Incorporated past and the unconscious Ways in which the incorporated past is actualized The statistician brain or practical anticipation The internalization of the regularities of experience Oneiric schemas and the incorporated past A critique of the event-focused approach 5. Unconscious and involuntary consciousness The involuntary consciousness of the dreamer Unconsciousness or involuntary consciousness The unconscious without repression 6. Formal censorship, moral censorship: the double relaxation The most private of the private: on stage and behind the scenes All dreams are not the fulfillment of an unsatisfied wish 7. The existential situation and dreams Dream and outside the dream The driving force of emotions The therapeutic and political effects of making problems explicit 8. Triggering events The day residue: theoretical and methodological inaccuracies The day residue: the inertia of habit The deferred effects of triggering events Nocturnal perceptions and sensations 9. The context of sleep Cerebral and psychic constraints Withdrawing from the flow of interactions Self-to-self communication: internal language, formal and implicit relaxation 10. The fundamental forms of psychic life Practical analogy Analogy in dreams Transference in analysis as analogical transference Association: analogy and contiguity 11. The oneiric processes Verbal language, symbolic capacity and dream images Visualization Dramatization-exaggeration Personal or universal symbolization Metaphor Condensation Inversions, opposites, contradictions 12. Variations in forms of expression An expressive continuum Forms of expression, forms of psychic activity and types of social context The false ‘free expression’ of dreams and the varying levels of contextual constraints The dream between assimilation and accommodation The dream, as opposed to literature Play and the dream Dreams and daydreams Psychoanalytic therapy: recreating the conditions of the dream 13. Elements of methodology for a sociology of dreams The fleeting nature of dreams and dream accounts Do we need to know the dreamers to understand their dreams? Access to the non-dream state: associations Beyond associations Access to the non-dream state: the sociological biography Clarifications, associations, partial or systematic biographical accounts Conclusion 1. A dream without any function Conclusion 2. Dreams, will and freedom Coda. The formula for interpreting practices – implications and challenges Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWe all have minds, but what exactly is a mind? Is your mind the same thing as your brain? How does what’s happening in your mind cause your behaviour? Can you know what’s going on in other people’s minds? Can you even be sure what’s going on in your own? Are babies conscious? How about cats? Or self-driving cars? Philosophy of mind grapples with questions like these, exploring who we are and how we fit into the world. In this student-friendly guide, McClelland introduces the key ideas in philosophy of mind, showing why they matter and how philosophers have tried to answer them. He covers the major historical moments in philosophy of mind, from Descartes and his troubles with immaterial souls up to today’s ‘consciousness wars’. Additionally, he examines the implications that philosophy of mind has for psychology, artificial intelligence and even particle physics. McClelland lays out the centuries-long dialogue between philosophy and science, presenting a uniquely grounded, practical picture of the field for students. Rich with real-world examples and written for the absolute beginner, What is Philosophy of Mind? gives students the tools to delve deeper into this dynamic field of philosophy.Trade Review‘Tom McClelland provides a comprehensive and thoroughly informed introduction to the major topics in contemporary philosophy of mind. This lucid and engaging book is a splendid resource for undergraduates and for the interested public.’Derk Pereboom, Cornell University‘This is a lucid and fun introduction based on scholarship as deep as it is lightly worn by a leading philosopher of mind. It’s snappy yet packs in everything you need: history plus a compelling take on the state of the art.’Stephen Butterfill, Warwick UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Chapter 1 The Mind and Its Problems Chapter 2 Descartes’ Dualism Chapter 3 The Materialist Turn Chapter 4 Functionalism and the Computer Revolution Chapter 5 The Problem of Consciousness Chapter 6 The Mind Today Index

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Book SynopsisThis new, updated edition provides a lively, lucid and compelling introduction to contemporary controversies over the self and self-identity in the social sciences and humanities. In an accessible and concise format, the book ranges from classical intellectual traditions of symbolic interactionism, psychoanalysis and Foucauldian theory, through feminism and postfeminism, to postmodernism and the mobilities paradigm.With characteristic verve and clarity, Anthony Elliott explores the relationship between power, identity and personhood, connecting varied theoretical debates directly to matters of contemporary relevance and urgency, such as identity politics, the sociology of personal relationships and intimacy, and the politics of sexuality. This edition also includes a new chapter on the digital revolution, which situates the self and work/life transformations within the context of AI, Industry 4.0, advanced robotics and accelerating automation. Offering thoughtful entry points to a rich and complex literature, along with robust critical responses to each theory, Concepts of the Self will continue to be an invaluable text for students of social and political theory, sociology, social psychology, cultural studies, and gender studies.Trade Review"What Anthony Elliott accomplished in previous editions of this book was remarkable. Here, a fourth time around, he does it again! Few today have the range and depth of Elliott�s understanding of self theory. Fewer still can write so reliably of the classic theorists as well as the more recent queer and postmodern ones. No reader, whether student or scholar, will want to be without this brilliant book." Charles Lemert, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis PRAISE FOR THE THIRD EDITION: "This great little book contains everything you wished but did not dare to ask about the meaning of the 'self' – one of the thorniest, most contentious, exciting and enraging issues of our times and our lives in these times. To the questions you might have asked or are likely to ask yet, Elliott offers answers that are carefully weighted, balanced and realistic – drawing from the vast treasury of sociological insights and moving freely between the variety of complementary even if ostensibly adversary perspectives. Elliott's book is good to read, to learn and to think with. It helps to understand what it means to 'have a self' and 'to be oneself' – an understanding that itself is a foremost condition of both." Zygmunt Bauman "In clear, concise and elegant prose, Anthony Elliott offers an overview of theories of the self from the late nineteenth century to the present. He treats the subject of selfhood in private and individualistic terms, along with that of the socially engaged self. There is, quite simply, no better book on this subject." Madelon Sprengnether, University of MinnesotaTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Self, Society and Everyday Life 2 The Repression of Self 3 Technologies of the Self 4 Self, Sexuality and Gender 5 The Postmodern Self 6 The Algorithmic Self 7 The Individualized Self: From Reinvention to Mobile Lives Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe kiss is the image that, perhaps more than any other, encompasses the beauty and poetry of love. Every love is required to maintain the kiss, to make it last. When they kiss, lovers carve out their hiding holes, finding their peace from war. When they kiss, the noise of the world is silenced, its laws broken, time is stolen from its normal continuity. They fall together in their distinct, embraced tongues. The kiss joins the tongue that declares love with the body of the lover. And the extinction of the kiss and, most importantly, of the desire to kiss one’s beloved announces the demise of love. In this short book, Massimo Recalcati – one of Italy’s leading intellectuals and bestselling authors – offers seven brief lessons on the mystery and miracle of love, from the serendipity of the first encounter to its end or its continuation over time, as mysterious and miraculous as the first encounter itself.Trade Review“Both provocative and persuasive. Massimo Recalcati taps a rich seam of experience and analytic perception in this brief, elegant essay on love. The lessons he offers navigate us through love’s many turns and as many of its literary greats. All the while, he holds up a mirror to the predations of desire under capitalism, offering us instead an image of love in which the possibility of a' forever’ exists in an intimacy of strangers.”Lisa Appignanesi, author of Everyday Madness: On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love“The book’s proclamations yield flashes of real wisdom”The Washington Post“[Recalcati’s] style entrances… the lyricism and spaciousness of his prose only intensify its impact. At times The Enduring Kiss reads like poetry, fluent and heedless, as if written in a sensual delirium.”The AustralianTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Promise 2. Desire 3. Children 4. Betrayal and Forgiveness 5. Violence 6. Separations 7. Enduring Love

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Book SynopsisAlthough the term 'jouissance' is common currency in psychoanalysis today, how much does it really tell us? While often taken to designate a fusion of sexuality, suffering and satisfaction, the term has fallen into a purely descriptive use that closes down more questions than it opens up. Although assumed to explain the coalescence of pleasure and pain, it tends to cover a range of quite different issues that should be distinguished rather than conflated. By returning to some of the sources of the concept in Freud, and their elaborations in Lacan, this book hopes to stimulate a debate around the relations of pleasure to pain, autoerotism, the links of satisfaction to arousal, the effects of repression, and the place of the body in psychoanalytic theory. Leader aims to provide context for Lacan's work and encourage dialogue with other analytic traditions.Trade Review“In the last decades, ‘jouissance’ has emerged as the new master-signifier of those who refer to Lacan, turning it into a vague designation with no precise content. Here enters Leader, who proves that there is a strict conceptual network to jouissance with its own often different logics. To use Freud’s and Lacan’s notion of retroactivity, it is only with Leader’s booklet that we clearly see who Lacan was.”Slavoj Žižek, philosopher and professor at the Institute of Sociology, Ljubljana, Slovenia. “Impeccably researched and beautifully written, this nimble volume brims with sparkling new insights about the endlessly fascinating and deeply problematic relation between pleasure, sex and satisfaction. This book is a precious little gem, which will appeal to a very wide readership.”Dany Nobus, Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology, Brunel University LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Jouissance

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Book SynopsisWhy do people behave in the way they do and how can we get them to change? Drawing on a large body of empirical research, Lahlou shows that people's behaviour is predictable and shaped by installations' combining three sets of factors: what is technically possible (affordances of the environment), what people are able to do (embodied competences), and what monitors and controls behaviour (social regulation). These channel our behaviour and incline us to act one way or another in specific circumstances in the way, for example, that when you travel by plane, the steps you take from the moment you check in to the moment you take your seat are fixed and predictable. Lahlou shows how we can intervene at each of the three levels of installations to change human behaviour, and how we can combine them for greater effectiveness and direction, with a robust, step-by-step method. Because the method is so powerful, Lahlou also provides ethical guidelines and caveats about using these interventions to improve society, not just one's own business and interests. This concise and authoritative book, packed with real-world examples, will be of interest to anyone concerned about how to tackle the difficult problems of today's world. At long last, a book that offers realistic, concrete steps for changing our ways.

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Book SynopsisAssessment and Classification of Juvenile Offenders: A Treatment Manual for Criminal Justice Practitioners guides current and aspiring criminal justice professionals through the process of assessing, classifying, and correcting delinquent and criminal behaviors exhibited by youth offenders. The text employs a medical model, leveraging scientific insight into human thought and behavior, to demonstrate how criminality and delinquency, like physical illnesses, can be treated by prompt and accurate evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment.Over the course of 19 chapters, readers learn about offenses generally committed by youth, why they commit such offenses, and how to prevent or control criminal and delinquent behaviors. The chapters provide broader understanding of what takes place—or what should take place—in the post-adjudication and prosecution phases of youth offenders. Through the medical lens model, readers learn about the roles played by protective, risk, and needs factors; how to use classification tools to effectively assess youth offenders; the difference between legal and clinical offenders; and social, economic, and political factors that can contribute to delinquency.Assessment and Classification of Juvenile Offenders is an ideal resource for courses in criminal justice, criminology, social work, psychology, and sociology.

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Book SynopsisPracticum in Counseling: A Developmental Guide is designed to guide counselors-in-training through a meaningful practicum experience. The text utilizes a developmental approach to empower students and encourage them to commit to professional growth and the development of their counselor identity. The text is divided into four sections. In Section One, students learn their role in practicum, how to establish a working relationship with their site supervisor, what to expect onsite during the first week, and more. In Section Two, they learn how to make contact with their first client, review basic helping skills, consider ethical and legal issues, explore the role of diversity in counseling work, and learn how to handle critical incidents. Section Three addresses the importance of supervision, self-advocacy, wellbeing, and personal agency in becoming an effective counselor. Practicum assessment and evaluation are also explored. The final section focuses on the conclusion of practicum and the beginning of an internship. Students learn how to transition their responsibilities and terminate work with their clients. They are encouraged to assess their knowledge, skills, and values to shape their goals for their internship.Featuring voices from students who’ve completed practicum, as well as valuable and highly applicable information from the authors, Practicum in Counseling is a winning resource for counselors-in-training enrolled in a practicum course.

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Book SynopsisDeveloping a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the human Twentieth-century neuroscience fixed the brain as the basis of consciousness, the self, identity, individuality, even life itself, obscuring the fundamental relationships between bodies and the worlds that they inhabit. In Unraveling, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer draws on narratives of family and individual experiences with neurological disorders, paired with texts by neuroscientists and psychiatrists, to decenter the brain and expose the ableist biases in the dominant thinking about personhood. Unraveling articulates a novel cybernetic theory of subjectivity in which the nervous system is connected to the world it inhabits rather than being walled off inside the body, moving beyond neuroscientific, symbolic, and materialist approaches to the self to focus instead on such concepts as animation, modularity, and facilitation. It does so through close readings of memoirs by individuals who lost their hearing or developed trauma-induced aphasia, as well as family members of people diagnosed as autistic—texts that rethink modes of subjectivity through experiences with communication, caregiving, and the demands of everyday life. Arguing for a radical antinormative bioethics, Unraveling shifts the discourse on neurological disorders from such value-laden concepts as “quality of life” to develop an inclusive model of personhood that honors disability experiences and reconceptualizes the category of the human in all of its social, technological, and environmental contexts.Trade Review"Unraveling is a work of cultural reimagination. Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer knits together neurological, psychiatric, and neuroscientific theories about ‘the brain’ in this broad-based inquiry into ‘communicative disorders.’ He insists that the many possibilities and blocked channels of communication depend on the interdependency of subject, personhood, family, community, and polity. He joins leading scholars in disability studies and feminist theory, illuminating the thoroughly social nature of all embodied communication and thus its ethical and political reliance on making a world where differences are welcome."—Rayna Rapp, New York University"This is a book for our times—a deep dive into the problematics of personhood in relationship to the neurological. This book, alluringly readable, vigorously challenges our conceptions of what makes a human being human and advocates for an anti-neoliberal vision of complex selfhood that is not dependent on predictable norms. While this subject could lend itself to predictable advocacy, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer stays ahead of the reader's assumptions and provides a new and thoughtful way of conceiving big questions concerning the very definitions of life, thought, value, and ethics. A must read for anyone interested in neurodivergence and disability in general."—Lennard J. Davis, author of Obsession: A HistoryTable of ContentsContentsPreface: Blind-Man-and-WorldIntroduction: Let’s Build a New Nervous System1. Neurological Subjectivity: How Neuroscience Makes and Unmakes People through Neurological Disorder2. Symbolic Subjectivity: How Psychoanalysis and the Communication of Meaning Disable Individuals3. Materialist Subjectivity: How Technology and Material Environments Make Personhood Possible4. Cybernetic Subjectivity: The Fusion of Body, Symbol, and Environment in the Facilitated Person5. Facilitated Subjectivity, Affective Bioethics, and the Nervous SystemEpilogue: Living and Dying in the Nervous System AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines how our understanding of emotion is shaped by the devices we use to measure it Since the late nineteenth century, psychologists have used technological forms of media to measure and analyze emotion. In The Affect Lab, Grant Bollmer examines the use of measurement tools such as electrical shocks, photography, video, and the electroencephalograph to argue that research on emotions has confused the physiology of emotion with the tools that define its inscription. Bollmer shows that the psychological definitions of emotion have long been directly shaped by the physical qualities of the devices used in laboratory research. To investigate these devices, The Affect Lab examines four technologies related to the history of psychology in North America: spiritualist toys at Harvard University, serial photography in early American psychological laboratories, experiments on “psychopaths” performed with an instrument called an Offner Dynograph, and the development of the “electropsychometer,” or “E-Meter,” by Volney Mathison and L. Ron Hubbard. Challenging the large body of humanities research surrounding affect theory, The Affect Lab identifies an understudied problem in formulations of affect: how affect is a construction inseparable from the techniques and devices used to identify and measure it. Ultimately, Bollmer offers a new critique of affect and affect theory, demonstrating how deferrals to psychology and neuroscience in contemporary theory and philosophy neglect the material of experimental, scientific research. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.Trade Review "Moving compellingly through a series of instruments drawn from the histories of experimental psychology, psychiatric photography, and spiritualism, Grant Bollmer provides an important materialist rebuke to the liberatory strain in affect theory, which frequently treats affect as ‘an eternal truth of the body rather than a momentary fragment.’"—David Parisi, author of Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing "The Affect Lab argues that beneath affect theory lies media. Far from being natural or biological—and, most fundamentally, far from being universal—affect is the product of the concrete technical operations that are necessary to access it in the first place. By challenging affect theory to examine its own technical basis, The Affect Lab will reboot the field for our times and, in the process, fundamentally change our views of how affect operates and the roles it plays in lived experience."—Mark B. N. Hansen, author of Feed-Forward: On the Future of Twenty-First-Century Media Table of Contents Contents Introduction: Techniques of the Affect Lab 1. William James’s Planchette 2. Books of Faces 3. The Prison Dynograph 4. E-Meter Metaphysics Conclusion: The Epistemology and Aesthetics of Empathy Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book winsomely explores the significance of theology and the Christian faith for the practice of psychology. The authors demonstrate how psychology and the Christian faith can be brought together in a mutually enriching lived practice, helping students engage in psychology in a theologically informed way. Each chapter includes introductory takeaways, questions for reflection and discussion, and resources for further study and reading.Table of ContentsContentsIntroductionPart 1: What It Means to "Do" Theology and Why It Matters for Psychologists1. How to Do Constructive Theology2. Creation as a Trinitarian Project3. God's Wider Presence4. Christology, Incarnation, and the Imago DeiPart 2: The Psychologist as Theologian5. Research Psychology as Experimental Theology6. Clinical Psychology as Practical Theology7. Psychology as Contextual TheologyConclusionIndex

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Book SynopsisA Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature is a collection of essays honouring Richard (Dick) Slobodin, one of the great anthropologists of the Canadian North. A short biography is followed by essays describing his formative thinking about human nature and human identities, his humanizing force in his example of living a moral, intellectual life, his discernment of people's ability to make informed choices and actions, his freedom from ideological fashions, his writings about the Mackenzie District Métis, his determination to take peoples experience seriously, not metaphorically, and his thinking about social organization and kinship. An unpublished paper about a 1930s caribou hunt in which he participated finishes the collection, giving Dick the last word.

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Book SynopsisPeople who have high levels of H are sincere and modest; people who have low levels are deceitful and pretentious. The "H" in the H factor stands for "Honesty-Humility", one of the six basic dimensions of the human personality. It isn't intuitively obvious that traits of honesty and humility go hand in hand, and until very recently the H factor hadn't been recognized as a basic dimension of personality. But scientific evidence shows that traits of honesty and humility form a unified group of personality traits, separate from those of the other five groups identified several decades ago. This book, written by the discoverers of the H factor, explores the scientific findings that show the importance of this personality dimension in various aspects of people's lives: their approaches to money, power, and sex; their inclination to commit crimes or obey the law; their attitudes about society, politics, and religion; and their choice of friends and spouse. Finally, the book provides ways of identifying people who are low in the H factor, as well as advice on how to raise one's own level of H. Trade ReviewThe H Factor is a tour de force. Anchored in solid scientific research, it offers fascinating insights into how previously neglected aspects of personality influence people's strategies about power, social hierarchies, money, and sex. And it offers sound practical advice for navigating the social world of some unsavory characters. It's a "must-read." -- David M. Buss, author of The Evolution of Desire and Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the MindTable of Contents The H Factor of Personality: Why Some People are Manipulative, Self-Entitled, Materialistic, and Exploitve-And Why It Matters for Everyone by Kibeom Lee and Michael C. Ashton List of Boxes Acknowledgements 1 Meet the H Factor 2 The Missing Link of Personality Psychology The ""Big Five"" Personality Factors Six Personality Factors 3 HEXACO: The Six Dimensions of Personality Engagement and Endeavour: Openness to Experience (O), Conscientiousness (C), and Extraversion (X) Altruism versus Antagonism: Honesty-Humility (H), Agreeableness (A), and Emotionality (E) 4 A Field Guide to Low-H People Low H, Low E: Greed without Fear-or Pity Low H, High E: Weaseling and Whining Low H, High X: Narcissism Run Wild Low H, Low X: The Smug Silent Types Low H, Low A: Just Plain Nasty Low H, High A: Inoffensive but Insincere Low H, Low C: An Employer's Worst Nightmare Low H, High C: Selfish Ambition Low H, Low O: Shallow and Narrow Low H, High O: Sophisticated Snobbery 5 Can You Tell Someone's Level of H? Personality in Strangers Self-Reports of H: Are They Honest? Knowing Someone's Personality: H Is Among the Last Things You Learn H in the Workplace: Hard to Tell 6 Do High-H People Flock Together? Similarity Beyond Personality Similarity-and Perceived Similarity-in Friends Personality, Values, and Relationships 7 Politics Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) and Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) O and Right-Wing Authoritarianism H and Social Dominance Orientation Personality and Political Party Support 8 Religion Personality and Religious Beliefs Traditional Religion versus Mystical Spirituality: The Role of O Reasons for Religious Observance: The Role of H Do Religions Promote High H? 9 Money, Power, and Sex Money Power Sex 10 How to Identify Low-H People-and How to Live Around Them Not-So-Valid Signs of High H Respectability / Anti-conformity / Religious Piety / Championing the Underdog / Blunt Criticism / Publicly Displayed Generosity Valid Signs of Low H Beating the System / Instrumental Ingratiation / Gambling and Financial Speculation / Sexual Infidelity / Conspicuous Consumption (and Name Dropping) / ""Above the Law"" Mentality / Contempt of Other Groups Living Around Low-H People Epilogue: On Becoming a High-H Person Appendix: The HEXACO Personality Inventory-Revised HEXACO Personality Inventory-Revised (Self-Report Form) HEXACO Personality Inventory-Revised (Observer Report Form) HEXACO-PI-R Scoring and Interpretation Notes References

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Book SynopsisThis study explains the theory, research methodology, research results in the area of attachment, and discusses both health and pathological development in infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Personality, relationships and marriage are some of the issues assessed in attachment patterns.

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Book SynopsisFrom about 1740 to 1850, evangelical Protestantism became a major cultural force in virtually all areas of America. Emerging from this religious movement was a rich vernacular literature of conversion narratives and spiritual autobiographies—writings in which believers described their own salvation in hopes of converting others. In The Self and the Sacred, Rodger M. Payne examines these neglected texts in depth, focusing particularly on what they reveal about notions of selfhood and how those notions were incorporated into Christian orthodoxy.As Payne explains, conversion narratives point to a fascinating paradox that became evident among evangelicals as they were confronted by the disruptions and discontinuities marking their culture’s passage into modernity. On the one hand, these narratives asserted the traditional Christian values of humility and self-effacement—an annihilation of the self in the divine. On the other hand, they created a discourse that allowed one to embrace the modern idea of an autonomous self: only by speaking from personal experience could a convert testify to the power of God. “Despite protests to the contrary,” Payne writes, “the central character of any conversion account, spiritual diary, or spiritual autobiography was the convert, not God.”Using the theology of Jonathan Edwards as a key example, Payne shows how Puritan piety encouraged the development of autobiographical spiritual narratives. He goes on to explain the ways in which the discourse of conversion functioned apart from the control of the church and marked the growth of evangelicalism into “a discursive community.” Finally, he considers how the language of conversion functioned as a "rhetorical space" in which believers situated themselves individually within sacred space and time before turning back to society with a renewed regard for others. Drawing throughout on the insights of such theorists as Michel Foucault and Victor Turner, Payne’s penetrating analysis reveals the early conversion accounts as mythic texts through which the modern self emerged.The Author: Rodger M. Payne is associate professor of religious studies at Louisiana State University. He is editor-in-chief of The Journal of Southern Religion, an electronic publication available on the World Wide Web.

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Book SynopsisWhat happens when an expert on grief is faced with the slow decline of her beloved mother? Like A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis, Singing Mother Home offers an inside look at the struggles of an ""expert"" in coping with loss. Donna S. Davenport was forced to rethink the traditional academic approach to the process, which implied that the goal of grief resolution was to end the attachment to the loved one. Instead, she embarked on a personal exploration of her own anticipatory grief. This intimate narrative forms the core of her book. It is emotionally wrenching, but it also provides hope for those going through similar experiences. Just as Davenport used her family's tradition of singing to comfort her mother, readers will be encouraged to find their own sources of comfort in family and legacy. The book concludes by describing psychological approaches to grief and recommending further reading.Trade ReviewThis is a unique book by a professional who understands the field of loss and grief....Polgnantly heartbreaking. - Melba Vasquez, President, American Psychology Association's Division on Counseling Psychology

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Book SynopsisEmotion is an expression of the self, Verena Kast writes in this study of the neglected emotions of joy, inspiration, and hope. ""If we decide we no longer want to hide behind empty shells, then we will have to allow certain emotions more room. We will have to let ourselves laugh louder, cry louder, and shout for joy."" Kast makes the case that not only therapists and analysts but also individuals seeking growth in their own lives should give more attention to the elated emotions. Fear of excess (mania) and analytic preoccupation with grief, anxiety, and depression have together caused joy and hope to be shunned as a focus in individuation (the process toward wholeness). Joy answers the human need for elated feeling and meaning in our lives, a need that is often filled in modern society by secularized parodies of religious ecstasy, such as addiction and compulsiveness. Kast suggests simple techniques for recapturing our joy through development of an autobiography of joy. Using this approach, we can discover what gives us joy personally, how we can best experience joy, and how and why we choke off our joy. By viewing joy, inspiration, and hope as core emotions in our being, we open

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Book SynopsisThis new and expanded volume of The Compleat Academic is filled with practical and valuable advice to help new academics set the best course for a lasting and vibrant career. A new career in academia can be a challenge. While academia's formal rules are published in faculty handbooks, its implicit rules are often difficult to discern. This volume guides readers through academia's informal rules and describes the problems beginning social scientists will face. With humor and insight, leading academics share the lessons they have learned through their own hard experience. Individual chapters present the ins and outs of the hiring process; the advantages of a postdoctoral fellowship; expert strategies for managing a teaching load; insider and applicant advice for winning a research grant; detailed instructions for writing and publishing a journal article; and a straightforward explanation about intellectual property issues. The book also addresses the latter stages of a career. It offers thoughtful suggestions for keeping one's career dynamic. Chapters that provide specific information for minorities, women, and clinical psychologists are also included. The volume even presents options for working outside of academia.Table of Contents Contributors Preface I. Starting a Career A Guide to PhD Graduate School: How They Keep Score in the Big LeaguesCharles G. Lord After Graduate School: A Faculty Position or a Postdoctoral Fellowship?Kathleen B. McDermott and Todd S. Braver The Hiring Process in AcademiaJohn M. Darley and Mark P. Zanna Broadening the Job Search: Jobs Outside of AcademiaPatrick C. Kyllonen II. Teaching and Mentoring Tips for Effective TeachingDouglas A. Bernstein and Sandra Goss Lucas Mentoring: Managing the Faculty–Graduate Student RelationshipMark P. Zanna and John M. Darley III. Research and Writing Setting Up Your Lab and Beginning a Program of ResearchJeffrey M. Zacks and Henry L. Roediger III Obtaining a Research Grant: The Granting Agency's ViewJane Steinberg Obtaining a Research Grant: The Applicant's ViewRobert J. Sternberg Writing the Empirical Journal ArticleDaryl J. Bem Intellectual PropertyJames L. Hilton and Jonathan R. Alger IV. Orientation to the Academic Environment Power, Politics, and Survival in AcademiaElizabeth D. Capaldi Managing the Department Chair and Navigating the Department Power StructureLouis A. Penner, John F. Dovidio, and David A. Schroeder Wiring the Ivory Tower: The Interface of Technology and the AcademyKevin M. Carlsmith V. Diversity in Academia The Dialectics of Race: Academic Perils and PromisesJames M. Jones and Eun Rhee Women in AcademiaDenise C. Park and Susan Nolen-Hoeksema Clinical Psychologists in AcademiaRichard R. Bootzin Varieties of College and University ExperienceDeborah L. Best VI. Keeping Your Edge: Managing Your Career Over Time The Academic Marathon: Controlling One's CareerShelley E. Taylor and Joanne Martin Managing Your Career: The Long ViewHenry L. Roediger III and David A. Balota Index About the Editors

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Book SynopsisIn his latest collection of essays for forensic psychologists, Stanley L. Brodsky extends the lessons of his popular Testifying in Court series by focusing on the cross-examination, the trial phase that expert witnesses dread most. A leading teacher, scholar, and expert witness, Dr. Brodsky offers lessons and advice from the trenches to defuse the vulnerability psychologists may feel on the witness stand. More than 50 brief essays, each summarized by a maxim, teach readers about the typical techniques attorneys use to challenge experts' credibility and the basis of their opinions. Pointers on preparation and effective narrative style are included, backed by findings from the emerging literature on the assessment of expert testimony. Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsI. Introduction What This Book Is About A Beginning Point: Ten Things You May Not Know About Testifying II. Testimony: Narrative and StyleTelling a Clear and Compelling Story Bridges 1: Telling a Story on the Stand Bridges 2: Narrative Techniques for Courtroom Testimony More Yin, Less Yang Imagery to Reduce Anxiety Reversals Position and Alignment Witness Preparation and Videotape Feedback Hypercorrect and Personal Speech Metaphors in Testimony Obstacles and Pitfalls Pretentiousness Overconfidence Smug and They Don't Know It Suspicion-Evoking Testimony Visible Displays of Emotion 1 Visible Displays of Emotion 2 Repetitions Pocket Men and Quarterbacks Defining Moments Trivial Revenge Lies Cross-Examination Attacks and Bullying Anticipate Tactics of the Adversarial Attorney Bullying Attorneys Involuntary Disclosure of Forensic Self Gendered Invasion of Witness Privacy Physical Threats Ingratiation III. Expertise and Bases for TestimonyProfessional Dilemmas and Boundaries Transcripts of Problem Depositions When Unprepared Translations Empathy Dilemmas Headline Testimony Distrusting Experts Lawyer Intrusions Clear Boundaries of Testimony (Not) Offering Advice Token Experts Expert Panels Attorney Extrapolations and Demands Yes or No Demands Clients Next Door More Pulls to Extrapolate Echo Effects Familiar Presentation of Famous Studies Highly Paid, Well-Known Experts Surprise Demands Clarity and Focus The Tough and Tangential Cross-Examination Data Errors Cross-Examinations About Tests Sexual Predator Testimony 1: Principles Sexual Predator Testimony 2: Challenges to the Construct Actuarial Testimony ReferencesAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisIn Critical Thinking About Psychology: Hidden Assumptions and Plausible Alternatives contributors examine the unquestioned givens of psychology and suggest other ways of looking at them. Psychologists are taught early in their careers to use their research findings to examine common myths and debunk false beliefs. Yet, in spite of this emphasis on critical analysis, psychologists do not typically subject psychology itself to such evaluation. In this fascinating volume, experts from varied subdisciplines critique assumptions peculiar to their specialty and then propose alternatives to replace the original assumptions. The book covers six major psychology subdisciplines, ranging from clinical psychology to neuropsychology. Contributors critique unquestioned tenets of the field such as the dualism between mind and body, the truth of efficient causation, and the discrete unit known as the individual. Authors then provide alternative ways of seeing the field, such as nondualistic models of the self and a moral vision of human development, effectively creating new conceptual ground for psychology. In analyzing what is taken for granted, this volume teaches critical thinking skills at the same time that it moves psychology in exciting new directions. Table of ContentsContributorsIntroduction: Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking—Brent D. Slife, Stephen C. Yanchar, and Jeffrey S. ReberI. Clinical and Counseling Psychology Psychotherapy and Modern Dilemmas—Frank C. Richardson Psychotherapy, Character, and the Good Life—Blaine J. Fowers II. Social Psychology Social Psychology: Key Issues, Assumptions, and Implications—Jeffrey S. Reber and Lisa M. Osbeck Social Psychology: Exploring Alternative Conceptual Foundations—Edwin E. Gantt III. Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology The Assumptions and Implications of the Neurobiological Approach to Depression—Dawson Hedges and Colin Burchfield Alternative Assumptions for Neuroscience: Formulating a True Monism—Brent D. Slife and Ramona O. Hopkins IV. Cognitive Psychology Cognitive Psychology: Hidden Assumptions—Robert C. Bishop A Contextualist Alternative to Cognitive Psychology—Stephen C. Yanchar V. Developmental Psychology Developmental Psychology and the Death of God—Brian Vandenberg and Shawn P. O'Connor Moral Visions of Developmental Psychology—John Chambers Christopher VI. Methodology in Psychology The Language and Methods of Science: Common Assumptions and Uncommon Conclusions—Richard N. Williams Toward An Alternative Psychology—Jeff Sugarman and Jack Martin Conclusion: Toward Critical Openness—Suzanne R. KirschnerAuthor IndexSubject IndexAbout the Editors

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Book SynopsisA Spiritual Strategy for Counseling and Psychotherapy, Second Edition shows mental health professionals how to deal sensitively with clients whose spirituality or religion is an important part of their lives. It highlights the therapeutic possibilities religion and spirituality can offer. Building on the success of the first edition, the new edition provides timely updates and additional theoretical grounding for integrating a theistic, spiritual strategy into mainstream psychology.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsI. IntroductionPrologueThe Need for a Theistic Spiritual Strategy (PDF, 395KB)II. Historical Perspectives The Alienation Between Religion and Psychology The New Zeitgeist III. Theological, Philosophical, and Theoretical Perspectives Theological and Philosophical Assumptions of Theistic Psychotherapy Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Theistic Psychotherapy IV. Theistic Psychotherapy: Process and Methods A Theistic View of Psychotherapy Ethical and Process Issues and Guidelines Religious and Spiritual Assessment Religious and Spiritual Practices as Therapeutic Interventions Spiritual Interventions Used by Contemporary Psychotherapists V. Research and Future Directions A Theistic, Spiritual View of Science and Research Methods Directions for the Future ReferencesAuthor IndexSubject IndexAbout the Authors

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Book Synopsis This volume highlights the diverse contributions of military psychologists toward U.S. security and toward the discipline of psychology itself. The United States Armed Forces have frequently led American culture in personnel and policy changes that the general population had difficulty accepting, such as racial integration and the integration of women. In addition, psychologists in the military have used clinical approaches to post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), substance abuse, and psychopharmacology that have tested research understanding before widespread use for the general public. Currently, psychologists are working with policy makers to help the public build resiliency and cope with disasters, terrorism, and possible threats to the homeland. By putting their skills to work in such areas as personnel management, ergonomics, clinical care, training, leadership and executive development, and social and behavioral research, these individuals have transformed psychology into an integrative discipline that now encompasses aspects of health care and other fields such as information technology and disaster management. Psychology in the Service of National Security includes perspectives of psychologists and social scientists representing the uniformed services, research institutions, business, and academia. Readers interested in the history of psychology will learn how our armed services came to be on the cutting edge in many areas of basic and applied science. Readers inside and outside the military will learn lessons from military psychology that they can apply to community-based homeland security efforts. Table of Contents Contributors ForewordPatrick H. DeLeon IntroductionPart I. From Military Psychology to National Security Psychology Chapter 1: The Changing Face of National SecurityA. David Mangelsdorff Chapter 2: Foundations of National Security PsychologyWarren R. StreetPart II. Individual Differences Chapter 3: Human Factors Research in the Naval ServicePaul D. Nelson Chapter 4: National Security Interests at the Naval Health Research CenterKarl F. Van Orden and D. Stephen Nice Chapter 5: U.S. Army Research in Human PerformanceGerald P. Krueger Chapter 6: The History of Special Operations Psychological SelectionL. Morgan BanksPart III. Personnel Management Chapter 7: The Human Resources Research Organization: Research and Development Related to National Security ConcernsPeter F. Ramsberger Chapter 8: Psychology in Air Force Training and EducationHenry L. Taylor Chapter 9: The Navy Personnel Research and Development CenterMartin Wiskoff and Edmund ThomasPart IV. Clinical and Counseling Psychology Chapter 10: Navy Clinical Psychology: A Distinguished Past and a Vibrant FutureMorgan T. Sammons Chapter 11: Clinical Psychology in the U.S. Army: 1946–2004Robert S. Nichols Chapter 12: Air Force Clinical Psychology: History and Future TrendsKarl O. MoePart V. Applied Social Psychology Chapter 13: The U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social SciencesPaul A. Gade, Jonathan D. Kaplan, and Nicole M. Dudley Chapter 14: The Racial Integration of the U.S. Armed ForcesAlan Gropman Chapter 15: Psychological Research with Military WomenJanice D. Yoder and Loren Naidoo Chapter 16: Military Family ResearchMady Wechsler SegalPart VI. Conclusions Chapter 17: Psychology's Strategic Position for Today's National Security ConcernsA. David Mangelsdorff Additional Resources References Author Index Subject Index About the Editor

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Book SynopsisSuffering is an inescapable part of life. Some suffering is so profound, so violating, or so dogged that it fundamentally changes people in indelible ways. Many existing therapeutic approaches, from a medical model, treat suffering as mental illness and seek a curative solution. However, such approaches often fail to examine the deep questions that suffering elicits (e.g., existential themes of death, isolation, freedom, identity, and meaninglessness) and the far-reaching ways in which suffering affects the lived experience of each individual.In The Courage to Suffer, Daryl and Sara Van Tongeren introduce a new therapeutic framework that helps people flourish in the midst of suffering by cultivating meaning.Drawing from scientific research, clinical examples, existential and positive psychology, and their own personal stories of loss and sorrow, Daryl and Sara’s integrative model blends the rich depth of existential clinical approaches with the growth focus of strengths-based approaches.Through cutting edge-research and clinical case examples, they detail five “phases of suffering” and how to work with a client's existential concerns at each phase to develop meaning. They also discuss how current research suggests to build a flourishing life, especially for those who have endured, and are enduring, suffering.Daryl and Sara show how those afflicted with suffering, while acknowledging the reality of their pain, can still choose to live with hope. Trade Review“[A] timely gift. . . . The Courage to Suffer deserves a place on every therapist’s shelves, in every pastor’s library, and in the hands of every person concerned with cultivating meaning and finding flourishing in the darkness. Here is a book that instills what its title upholds.” —Reformed Journal “This volume is a treasure chest for individuals, clients, therapists, and anyone who fears addressing their pain and suffering. The authors present a gentle approach to dealing with core issues in every person’s life and give sensitive guidance. The book’s content is impressively authentic; the reader can recognize that the authors know what they are talking about, the suffering, the pain, and the resurrection toward increased flourishing and meaning. But not only that: they also present the reader with a great, practical knowledge of existential interventions—based on various cases which are well chosen—and explain how to apply them and make them usable in therapy or for the self.” —Frontiers in Psychology “This book is an absolute must read for therapists.” —The Therapist’s Bookshelf “Daryl and Sara skillfully weave together psychological theory, research findings, clinical wisdom, and their own story to create a powerful and insightful narrative useful to therapists, researchers, and anyone suffering.” —Crystal Park, PhD, professor of psychology, University of Connecticut “A courageous, poignant, and helpful guide to living bravely through the downs and ups of suffering. Regardless of whether you are a professional counselor, you—and people you care about and seek to help—can benefit from this synthesis of personal life, existential thought, and positive psychology.” —Everett L. Worthington, Jr., PhD, Commonwealth Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University and author of How Do I Forgive? “If you are facing adversity, this is a must-read book. Daryl and Sara offer a new framework for the important task of helping people flourish and find meaning amidst suffering by developing the courage to engage it.” —Jamie Aten, PhD, Blanchard Chair of Humanitarian Disaster Leadership, Wheaton College, and author of A Walking Disaster “Guided by a helpful sunset-to-daylight metaphor and enriched by case examples, psychological research and theory, and specific clinical suggestions, this book is a must-have for anyone wanting to engage tough issues about suffering—whether inside or outside a therapy context.”—Julie J. Exline, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, Case Western Reserve University and coeditor of APA Handbook of Psychology, Religion, and SpiritualityTable of Contents1. An Existential Positive Psychology Framework / 3 2. Existential Themes of Suffering / 19 3. Sunset: The Sting of Suffering / 31 4. Dusk: Into the Darkness / 55 5. Midnight: The Deconstruction Process / 71 6. Dawn: The Reconstruction Process / 87 7. Daylight: Living Authentically / 109 8. A Flourishing Life / 133 Epilogue . 151 Acknowledgments / 155 Notes 157Index / 165 About the Authors / 173

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Book SynopsisThis compendium of introductory essays invites scholars and clinicians to better understand people of various faiths from around the world. It is intended to correct the tendency among scientists to study religious behavior without accounting for its human dimension. For example: a psychologist describes a religious ceremony in a certain community as a "sociological phenomenon." Such a technical description is likely to strike members of that community as an attempt by science to explain away their beliefs. This is counterproductive. In order to work effectively and empathetically with people of faith, psychologists should seek an intimate knowledge of how religion operates in the hearts and minds of living, breathing human beings. With this goal in mind, editors Timothy Sisemore and Joshua Knabb have made one of the world’s major religions the subject of a separate chapter. In addition, they have arranged for each chapter to be written by a psychologist who practices—or is culturally connected with—that religion. This marks the book’s unique contribution to the field: it is the product of people who have lived the world’s religions, not merely studied them. By taking such a respectful approach, the book promotes an appreciation for the ways that religious belief animates, inspires, and instructs its adherents. Moreover, the indigenous point-of-view of these essays will help scholars identify their own biases when researching religious groups, allowing them to produce more accurate and holistic analyses. Psychologists understand that religion and spirituality provide meaning and purpose to billions of people around the globe. But the actual experience of these beliefs eludes the grasp of the reductionistic methods of science. With this resource at their side, psychologists in academic and clinical settings will be equipped to understand religious experience from the bottom-up, and honor the beliefs and practices of the people they are trying to help.Trade Review“If you want to understand major world religions, you have to read this indispensable volume. It takes a humble and indigenous approach to explaining the worldview of religions, embodying humble and culturally insider views. In this way it complements and, in many ways, surpasses an important but often limited scientific approach to understanding religions. Anyone interested in any religion should read and digest this germinal work.” —Adam Cohen, PhD, professor of psychology, Arizona State University “A book well-worth having. Psychology of religion researchers have long recognized that scientific yields are limited unless more indigenous approaches are adopted. With this book, those words are now put into practice. Need to learn more psychology through Chinese or African traditional religions, or Hinduism, or North American indigenous spirituality? How about Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, or Christianity? Get taught here by the insights of psychological researchers and scholars who themselves are religious insiders within the tradition presented. This one stays on my bookshelf within arm’s reach.” —Peter C. Hill, PhD, Rosemead School of Psychology, Biola University “After reading these descriptions by believers and sympathetic insiders of diverse indigenous religious traditions, any open-minded psychologist will recognize that a paradigm shift is imminent. Students and researchers alike will find that a genuine conversation with, and sharing of, other worldviews does not threaten but rather enriches us all.” —Ralph W. Hood Jr., PhD, professor of psychology and LeRoy A. Martin Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga “This is a tremendously important book. The editors have done an excellent job of addressing the most significant unresolved issue in the field of modern psychology—that of its antagonistic relationship with religion and spirituality. They provide a thoughtful analysis, make recommendations for conceptual and applied ways forward, and present what a variety of religious and spiritual psychologies look like in today’s world. This should be mandatory reading in every single psychology class everywhere. An absolute must-have text for anyone interested in any subfield of psychology or the intersection of psychology and religion.” —Carrie York Al-Karam, PhD, president, Alkaram Institute “Increasingly, mental health workers are treating clients whose backgrounds span the world’s faith traditions. To successfully address such diversity, practitioners must have a comprehensive and respectful understanding of the belief systems that animate religious observers from all walks of life. This indispensable text is the resource they need. Wise, thorough, and compassionate, it is a major contribution to the psychological study of religion.” —Harold G. Koenig, MD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Duke University Health Systems, and director of Duke’s Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health “This book is fascinating. By covering a range of assumptive frameworks, it gives insider perspectives on mental health and healing from different faith traditions. It also encourages us to examine some of our own Western assumptions and understand the prominence of spirituality in nearly all indigenous psychologies.” —Kate Loewenthal, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, and visiting professor at Glyndwr University, Wales, New York University in London “An amazing and timely work providing an emic perspective on religious and spiritual psychology. The authors have challenged the limitations of methodology and provided a psychological perspective on each religion from the ‘inside,’ while acknowledging that it is but one of many perspectives within the religion. The authors must be lauded for their expertise and the humility with which they have presented their material. A true masterpiece which will help advance dialog not just in the psychology of religion and spirituality but the field of psychology and its applications.” —Sonia Suchday, PhD, Professor and Chair, Psychology Department, Pace University “Such a timely resource that incorporates world religion into understanding human psychology. The various chapters provide profound insights and understanding of the psychology of different faiths from insiders’ perspectives, which makes The Psychology of World Religions and Spiritualities an excellent resource for researchers, clinicians, and students! A wonderful book for readers to understand, digest, and contrast the rich diversity of world religions.” —Kenneth T. Wang, PhD, professor and PhD Program Chair, Clinical Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary

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Book SynopsisThere are many kinds of helpers in our world, the caregivers among us. They are the social workers who serve the vulnerable, the nurses and doctors who treat the ill, the teachers who instruct the young, the first responders who rescue the imperiled, the faith leaders who comfort the congregation, the volunteers who support the community. And whether or not it is our professional calling, each of us is likely to serve as a caregiver at some point in our lives, as a parent raising a child, for instance, or as a loved one caring for an aging relative. These and many other efforts to serve are among the most noble pursuits we can imagine, but they come with a danger worth recognizing. In their devotion to the well-being of others, caregivers routinely put their own well-being last and can unintentionally burn themselves out physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Their self-neglect, paired alongside a deep desire to help others, has the potential to stir up feelings of anger and resentment, leading to a sense of guilt and shame. They often believe that if they were to grant themselves any rest or grace, they would be at risk of failing in their duty. In The Soul of the Helper, Dr. Holly Oxhandler shows caregivers and fellow helpers a more self-compassionate way to cope with their overwhelming responsibilities and to attend to their own needs, particularly when it comes to their mental health and spiritual journey. She invites them to pause and realize that if they let their personal resources run dry, they cannot possibly care for others as fully as they wish. In fact, their efforts are likely to cause more harm than good. With a background in spiritually-integrated mental health, Dr. Oxhandler teaches helpers a seven-step process to slow down and reconnect with the stillness within themselves. It is in this space of stillness that Oxhandler guides helpers to reconnect with the “sacred spark” within their soul. By allowing themselves to enter that stillness, caregivers will recognize that they, too, are worthy of care. And with that realization, they will see anew the sacred spark that dwells inside everyone else, especially within those they’re helping. As a social worker, researcher, and person of faith, Dr. Oxhandler writes in a warm and welcoming style, shares many relatable stories, and widens her scope to include believers of all faiths and spiritual traditions. Her book is for caregivers everywhere who sense the sacred spark within them saying, in effect: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”Trade Review “[A]n insightful and research-informed guide to spiritual self-exploration for personal and professional growth.” —Journal of Religion Spirituality in Social Work “This book joins insights from mental health research, contemplative theology, and Dr. Oxhandler’s own spiritual journey to guide helpers in transformational healing and growth. Dr. Oxhandler’s presentation of Namaste Theory nurtures awareness of the Sacred within ourselves and those we help in a wise, heartful, humble, and skillful way. She extends her deep faith to embrace the diversity of everyone’s spiritual paths. As a result, her approach joins head with heart and contemplation with active service while honoring the Sacred in all.” —Edward R. Canda, PhD, professor emeritus and coordinator of the Spiritual Diversity and Social Work Initiative at The University of Kansas, and author of Spiritual Diversity in Social Work Practice: The Heart of Helping “The Soul of the Helper is a deep exhale and a warm embrace for all who care for others but too easily forget to care for themselves. Dr. Oxhandler’s expansive, approachable work will shine a guiding light into your heart, mind, body, and soul—helping you release what is not yours to hold so that you might be more awake to the belovedness that radiates within you and around you.” —Kayla Craig, author of To Light Their Way: A Collection of Prayers Liturgies for Parents “The true gift of Dr. Oxhandler’s writing is that she engages her own curiosity and tenderly shares helpful tools to make our inner worlds and the world around us spiritually healthier. In this book, she helps the helpers by reminding us that our care matters and that the world is a better place when we meet those needs alongside recognizing the Divine in everyone. Please buy this book and give yourself the space to read and actively embody its practices—you will be so glad you did.” —Kaitlin Curtice, essayist, poet, and award-winning author of Native “In The Soul of the Helper, Holly Oxhandler gently reminds us that soul-work is an essential component of health, healing, and helping. A timely and much-needed read; spot-on, brilliantly unpacked, and beautifully written.” —Rev. Courtney Ellis, PCUSA, pastor, and author of Uncluttered: Free Your Space, Free Your Schedule, Free Your Soul, and Happy Now “It takes a special type of person to run into the difficult situations of others. These helpers rarely see what they do as valiant or sacrificial. They are simply acting from a place of authentic desire to serve others. In The Soul of the Helper, Dr. Holly Oxhandler reminds them of the importance of tending to their own inner spiritual and mental landscape. Holly guides the reader through a transformational seven stage journey to seeing the Sacred, through a combination of research, personal stories, and reflection questions. The Soul of the Helper provides a needed framework to help those within various service professions preserve their own wellbeing as they serve others.” —Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith, physician and author of Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity “Through years of academic research combined with much inner work, Dr. Holly Oxhandler offers us helpers Namaste Theory—seeing the Divine spark in ourselves, and thus, in turn, being able to better observe it in others. Only in embracing our belovedness, our enoughness, God’s love for us, can we identify God’s image in others, their belovedness, and thus serve them well. Not only is the theory brilliant, but Oxhandler peels it back like an onion, layer by layer, teaching us how to see and embrace our belovedness. Only then can we offer others the belovedness we observe in them, back to them—the greatest of gifts! Herein we find Oxhandler an able, wise, and humble guide. It is hard to give to others what we do not have; may we learn from her how to receive it.” —Marlena Graves, author of The Way Up Is Down: Becoming Yourself By Forgetting Yourself “In this groundbreaking, ovarial work, Dr. Oxhandler makes ancient contemplative wisdom easily accessible and applicable to the helping professions. The field of social work and mental health will be forever enriched by Oxhandler’s sound research and application of her Namaste Theory. This is a must-read not only for those in a helping career but for anyone interested in being of service to others. Thank you, Oxhandler, for living this work with your life.” —Phileena Heuertz, founding partner, Gravity, a Center for Contemplative Activism, and author of Mindful Silence and Pilgrimage of a Soul “As a researcher, Holly Oxhandler has shown that people want to talk about spirituality in psychotherapy and that mental health practitioners attuned to their own spirituality are more likely to attune to the spirituality of their clients. In The Soul of the Helper, Oxhandler becomes a spiritual guide. In language rich with warmth, clarity, and humanness, she describes practical strategies to help caregivers nourish their own spiritual selves. The Soul of the Helper is soul food for helpers.” —Russell Siler Jones, ThD, LPCS, author of Spirit in Session: Working with Your Client’s Spirituality (and Your Own) in Psychotherapy and developer of ACPE’s Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy Program “In these days of overwhelm and trauma, The Soul of the Helper is a vital resource to support folks in their own healing, and ultimately in becoming a healing presence in the world. Dr. Holly Oxhandler has lovingly woven together with threads of spirituality, mental health, and the inherent Divine spark we each carry. I’m immensely grateful for Dr. Oxhandler’s book; it’s something I will return to again and again.” —Aundi Kolber, MA, LPC, therapist, and author of Try Softer and The Try Softer Guided Journey “The Soul of the Helper is far more than a self-help book for helpers. Grounded in research yet deeply personal and profoundly practical, it’s a radical invitation into greater wholeness. Whether our helping role is personal or professional, accidental or a vocational calling, this book is a guide that illuminates with clarity both the pitfalls of ignoring our limits and the promises of turning toward the Sacred within each of us.” —Ryan Kuja, licensed therapist, spiritual director, and author of From the Inside Out “In The Soul of the Helper, Dr. Holly Oxhandler offers a fresh perspective on the complex intersection of spirituality and mental health, weaving in research and gently guiding readers to reflect upon their own spiritual and mental health journeys. Written from a background in mental health and a place of humility and respect for diverse faith traditions, Holly invites fellow helpers to wake up to the Divine spark within themselves and remember their identity as Beloved. This book is a vital and brilliant guide for each of us navigating the spiritual and mental health journey as we serve others.” —Melody Moezzi, The Rumi Prescription: How an Ancient Mystic Poet Changed My Modern Manic Life “This is a book first and foremost about the spirituality of the helper. How can helpers care for others, Holly Oxhandler asks, without attending to their own souls? With wisdom, compassion, patience, and the courage to share her personal story, Oxhandler teaches helpers to see themselves and others through a sacred lens. The Soul of the Helper is an invaluable, indeed essential, book for helpers, regardless of their orientation to religion and spirituality, interested in weaving spirituality more fully into the ways they care for others and themselves.” —Kenneth I. Pargament, PhD, professor emeritus of psychology, Bowling Green State University, author of Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy: Understanding and Addressing the Sacred “Like many other ‘helpers,’ I’ve often been haunted by a need to work harder, do more, and serve better that’s led to weariness and burnout. In The Soul of the Helper, Dr. Holly Oxhandler upends the lie that we can love others well if we don’t truly love ourselves. With tender vulnerability and simple practices we can all implement, Dr. Oxhandler gently leads us toward a life grounded in our belovedness. If you want to love others well but want to do it from a place of rest, health, and wholeness, this poignant and timely book is for you.” —Sarah J. Robinson, author of I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die: Finding Hope in the Darkness of Depression “The Soul of the Helper is a timely reminder to all healthcare practitioners that taking care of others necessitates taking care of ourselves and receiving care from others. Oxhandler masterfully interweaves her personal experiences, clinical anecdotes, and the latest research on spirituality and mental health to illustrate how a spiritual worldview can engender greater recognition of our inner greatness and that of our patients.” —David H. Rosmarin, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, director of the Spirituality and Mental Health Program at McLean Hospital, and author of The Connections Paradigm: Ancient Jewish Wisdom for Modern Mental Health “It’s truly the vulnerability for me. Dr. Oxhandler’s truth in the words of The Soul of the Helper is inspiring and breathtaking. It reads as if I’m having my own personal conversation with her in my living room. The reflection exercises are profound and yet still easily applicable to the everyday experience of a helper. One will truly connect or re-connect with the Sacred within them after reading this book.” —Dr. Amber Thornton, clinical psychologist, and motherhood wellness consultant “Well-researched and incredibly written, The Soul of The Helper is an outstanding resource. Dr. Oxhandler blends her own story with practical ideas that are important for anyone that calls themselves a helper, regardless of the context.” —Robert Vore, therapist and host of CXMH: A Podcast on Faith Mental HeathTable of ContentsAuthor’s Note Intention Introduction PART I Spirituality and Mental Health: Two Key Considerations for Seeking the Sacred Within Chapter 1: Considering the Spiritual Journey Chapter 2: Considering the Mental Health Journey Chapter 3: Namaste Theory for Helpers PART II The Journey of Seeking the Sacred: Finding the Sacred Within Ourselves to See It in Others Chapter 4: Speed Chapter 5: Slow Chapter 6: Steady Chapter 7: Still Chapter 8: See Chapter 9: Shift Chapter 10:Serve PART III “So What?”: Cultivating a Practice of Seeking and Serving the Sacred for the Journey Ahead Chapter 11: Seek and Serve the Sacred Notes Resources Gratitude About the Author

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Book SynopsisThis engaging collection presents thirty essays by Muslim chaplains reflecting on their experiences as spiritual caregivers. Through their first-hand accounts, they impart how they skillfully apply the mercy and compassion of the Prophet Muhammad to the people in their care. They also share how their faith informs their service, how they navigate the obstacles of a predominantly Christian profession, and how they administer to the spiritual needs of people of different faiths or of no faith at all. Working in a variety of settings—including hospitals, prisons, universities, and the armed forces—Muslim chaplains encounter unique challenges on a daily basis, requiring them to call upon the resources of their Islamic faith with wisdom and tenderness. The contributors to this volume explore these circumstances vividly and honestly. Their personal stories are instructive of how Islamic principles can be employed with spiritual insight to bring strength and comfort to the sick and suffering. Trade Review“Applause for Mantle of Mercy. This extraordinary compilation of personal essays provides insight into Muslim chaplains’ experiences and contributions to the field of chaplaincy in the United States. Readers gain a glimpse of the foundational Islamic principles and values that undergird the writers’ ministry and leadership within the diverse institutions they serve. Mantle of Mercy is a must-have resource for theological schools, Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) Centers, and students pursuing a career in chaplaincy.” —­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Chaplain Tahara Akmal, MA, BCC, ACPE Certified Educator “Mantle of Mercy fills an important void within the emerging body of research and writing about the field of chaplaincy. While chaplaincy may be unfamiliar to many Muslims, the writers in this volume generously engage with both the educational formation processes and spiritual practices of chaplaincy while thoroughly and authentically integrating them with the Islamic faith. Careful, scholarly attention is paid throughout the text to the core principles of Islam, demonstrating through story and reflection how a chaplaincy is an ideal form of practice for the faithful Muslim leader. The result is a beautiful witness to the many ways that Islamic chaplaincy embodies the kind of compassion that is at the heart of professional spiritual care. This text is an incredible resource to chaplaincy educators, professional chaplains, and those Muslims seeking to serve as professional spiritual care providers.” —Trace Haythorn, PhD, executive director CEO, Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) “Islamic chaplaincy, a relatively new field of inquiry and practice, has been skillfully outlined in this first volume of its kind, Mantle of Mercy. The editors have done a wonderful job in assembling a chorus of diverse voices of practitioners from the field. Critical perspectives from chaplains serving in universities, the healthcare sector, the military, and underrepresented communities provide fascinating insight into the world of fostering human souls. In a world where cynicism, distrust, and division have impaired our collective ability to engage with one another, this volume offers a reprieve, and perhaps even a way forward to reacquaint ourselves with our inherent humanity.” —Shaykh Dr. Walead Mosaad, Chair and Resident Scholar, Sabeel Community “In this superbly curated collection of essays, trailblazing Muslim chaplains provide intimate portraits of their professional lives and how they arrived at their vocational calling; how they create healing spaces through the Prophetic example; and how they provide pastoral care by drawing upon Islamic theology. As readers amble into this garden of stories, they will surely feel the hearts of these chaplains speaking to their own. And by taking in the vista, they will come to recognize the value Islamic chaplaincy adds within hospitals, prisons, college campuses, the armed forces, and, indeed, even within mosques and third spaces.” —Aasim I. Padela, MD, MSc, chairperson and director of the Initiative on Islam Medicine, and professor of emergency medicine, Bioethics, and the Medical Humanities at the Medical College of Wisconsin “I really loved this book. Muslim chaplains do amazing work for religious identity, pastoral care, and civic pluralism. This volume captures the complexity and range of such work remarkably well.” —Eboo Patel, author of Acts of Faith and president of Interfaith Youth Core “In the last few decades, Muslim chaplains have emerged as a profoundly important model of spiritual accompaniment. Mantle of Mercy brings together most of the leading Muslim chaplains in North America who bring a tradition-centered approach to healing in their various settings. The chapters are as spiritually rich as they are accessible. It is lovely to see how they advance the concept of healing and care beyond the Western obsession with ‘self’-care to the heart-community-Divine level. Particularly poignant and bittersweet are the chapter and the farewell from the departed and much beloved Imam Sohaib N. Sultan. I commend Ali, Bajwa, Kholaki, and Starr for this urgently needed volume and enthusiastically recommend this book to all who work with the Muslim community and in pastoral care in the context of universities, hospitals, and beyond.” —Omid Safi, PhD, professor of Islamic Studies at Duke and director of Illuminated Courses and Tours “Ali, Bajwa, Kholaki, and Starr have created a watershed moment with the publication of Mantle of Mercy. By assembling North America’s leading lights in Islamic chaplaincy, the editorial team has provided an essential resource not just for Muslim chaplains but for all spiritual care providers who are rightly attentive to contemporary spiritual and religious diversity. Students, educators, and chaplains in the field will benefit from Mantle of Mercy. This essential addition to the literature makes it definitely clear that North American spiritual care cannot develop further without taking Islamic chaplaincy into much greater account.” —Michael Skaggs, PhD, director of programs, Chaplaincy Innovation Lab “This is an important and much-needed scholarly contribution to the literature on chaplaincy in general and, more specifically, Islamic chaplaincy. It gives insight into how far the field has come and how Islam is establishing itself into the fabric of North American life in such a beautiful way. The contributors and the topics they write beautifully demonstrate how diverse the Islamic tradition is and how interesting and wonderful such diversity can be. This compilation is a moving and inspiring book and a must-have for anyone interested in chaplaincy, pastoral care, the healing arts, Islam, Islam in North America, and many other related fields.” —Carrie M. York, PhD, president, The Alkaram Institute “Mantle of Mercy provides a unique discussion on how Muslim Americans face life’s challenges, how they have much to offer many Americans, and how their religion can fit into American society. The writers’ enthusiasm and security in their faith will inspire many readers to consider a vocation in chaplaincy. For those already in chaplaincy, it provides essential information on the complexities and challenges that are unique to Islam.” ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­-Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling “This collection of personal stories, theological reflections, and case studies conveys the joys and challenges Muslim chaplains face in the various settings in which they serve….An excellent reference for many interested in pastoral care and related fields, this volume will be especially useful to those who are considering chaplaincy as a career, graduate students of chaplaincy about to begin Field Education, or Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) students and supervisors.”–Journal of Interreligious StudiesTable of ContentsTable of Contents and Contributors: ForewordIngrid Mattson IntroductionMuhammad A. Ali,Omer Bajwa, Sondos Kholaki, and Jaye Starr A Source of Strength A CPE student finds his place in a medical team.Ibrahim J. Long The Jihad of Self-Realization and Human Growth in Clinical Pastoral Education A CPE educator shares how Islam informs his pedagogy and theory of personality.Jawad A. Bayat Finding My Path A university chaplain shares his discernment process. Kaiser Aslam Pastoral Care as an Islamic Tradition & Practice The director of a chaplaincy degree program shares his journey and educational philosophy.Bilal W. Ansari A Theology of Spiritual Care Inspired by Allah’s Attributes A pastoral theology informed by God as The Compassionate, the Merciful, and the Kind.Ali R. Candir Bridging the Interfaith Divide A corrections chaplain shares experiences navigating the challenges of sectarianism and explores the role of chaplains in building informed and inclusive communities.Muhammad A. Ali Navigating Identity Politics and Recentering in the Divine Campus chaplains share their efforts to redirect students from identity politics toward knowing oneself.Amira Quraishi & Ailya Vajid From Banana Leaves A healthcare chaplain shares her journey as a female Muslim chaplain.Samsiah Abdul-Majid Mapping the Landscape of Education Chaplaincy A campus chaplain presents a framework for understanding the different functions of the role.Khalil Abdur-RashidOpen Door, Open Heart A college chaplain reflects on his various roles through the theme of the days of the week.Omer BajwaIslam at ‘Alcatraz of the Rockies’ A corrections chaplain shares his experience serving in an American supermax security facility.Fiazuddin Shuayb Creating Space Drawing from his own journey and work, an imam addresses spiritual care for queer Muslims.El-Farouk KhakiA Call for Pastoral Care in The Mosque A chaplain describes the potential for chaplaincy and a pastoral care mindset in mosques.Joshua Salaam “Hurt People Hurt People” A third-space director shares the development of a restorative justice model for community violations.Lauren Schreiber An Immigrant’s Journey to Chaplaincy A Turkish-trained imam shares his path confronting his own racism in a corrections setting. Mustafa Boz Chaplains: A Voice for the Alienated A military chaplain explains microaggressions and their impact and the need for chaplains to be proactive in addressing them.Ryan Carter Chaplaincy and Black Muslim Students A college chaplain presents research about Black Muslim students’ experiences and her recommendations for support.Nisa Muhammad And Then We Were One Before The One An oncology chaplain explores use of self as a ministry tool relating to her practice of Islam.Taqwa Surapati Drawing from the Five Pillars A healthcare chaplain explores how the fundamental practices of Islam inform her caregiving.Sondos Kholaki Dua: The Heart of Chaplaincy A chaplain shares his approach to crafting prayer as an act of pastoral care.Khalid LatifSister Padres Canada’s first female Muslim military chaplains share their journey to chaplaincy and what they bring to the profession.Barbara Lois Helms & Serap Bulsen Paradise Beneath Her Feet: Chaplaincy in Birthing Spaces A healthcare chaplain shares how her faith informs her care amidst birthing hardship.Jaye Starr Thank You For Your Service A military chaplain speaks to the isolation he has experienced as a Muslim service member.Jamal BeyThe Kinder Garden: Circles of Remembrance A healthcare chaplain shares the words of meditation from programs he leads in hospital.Kamau M. AyubbiMercy to Self: Preserving the Gift of Empathy in Life's Winters A corrections chaplain shares her recovery journey following professional burnout.Tricia PethicWhat I Learn From the Prophet A dying chaplain reflects on the guidance his faith provides for the journey. Sohaib N. Sultan Lasting Grief A hospice chaplain looks to how Shiʿa teachings inform his understanding of grief.Sameer Ali An Islamic Theology of Pastoral Care A pastoral caregiver examines her theology of suffering and the work necessary to uncover one’s inner Light.Rabia Terri Harris Skipping Stones A hospital chaplain wrestles with conflicting medical advice while accompanying a young international patient.Azleena Salleh Azhar Ziyara Spiritual Care Healthcare chaplains share how they are taking palliative care education to Muslims around the world.Kamal Abu-Shamsieh Afterword A farewell letter to colleagues.Sohaib N. Sultan

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Book SynopsisAn old man learns how to die from a poet facing death For the entire six months that Mark Dowie became friends with Judith Tannenbaum, they both knew she was going to die. In fact, for most of that time they knew the exact hour she would go: sometime between 11:00 AM and noon, December 5, 2019, which she did. Judith was a poet, writer, activist, and artist who worked for decades teaching and collaborating with imprisoned lifers. Beloved by her community, Judith told almost no one when she was diagnosed with an incurable disease that would cause her immeasurable pain. Instead she chose to end life on her own terms. When they met, Mark Dowie had already been working for years to advocate for physician assistance in dying for terminally ill people in his home state of California. He helped many friends along this path, but it wasn't until he was introduced to Judith through a mutual friend that he came to a profound new understanding of death. Mark and Judith created a two-person "death café," a group devoted to discussions of death. They talked about many things during Judith's final months, but the rapidly approaching moment of her death came to inform and shape their entire conversation. Death was, as she said, “the undercurrent and the overstory of our relationship.” Judith Letting Go supports the right to plan one’s death, but it is ultimately about the lost human art of releasing everything that matters to the living in preparation for the inevitable.Trade ReviewFor decades I’ve admired Mark Dowie’s fearlessness as an investigative reporter. But it’s a different kind of bravery he shows in this book: the courage to take on a subject that most of us tiptoe around—and to do so in a way that is compassionate, sensitive, and deeply moving. -- Adam Hochschild, author of American Midnight, King Leopold’s Ghost, and many other booksFor decades I’ve admired Mark Dowie’s fearlessness as an investigative reporter. But it’s a different kind of bravery he shows in this book: the courage to take on a subject that most of us tiptoe around—and to do so in a way that is compassionate, sensitive, and deeply moving. -- Adam Hochschild, author of American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis and other booksDying well is one of life’s greatest challenges. In this short but poignant memoir Mark Dowie finds the method where he least expected it to be, and shares it with the world. -- Robert Reich, former US Secretary of Labor; Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, BerkeleyBy the end of this book, readers will have a repository of questions and ideas with which to open a Death Café of their own, or to approach the subject with some aplomb instead of fear. -- Doris Ober * Point Reyes Light *

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Book SynopsisAn old man learns how to die from a poet facing death For the entire six months that Mark Dowie became friends with Judith Tannenbaum, they both knew she was going to die. In fact, for most of that time they knew the exact hour she would go: sometime between 11:00 AM and noon, December 5, 2019, which she did. Judith was a poet, writer, activist, and artist who worked for decades teaching and collaborating with imprisoned lifers. Beloved by her community, Judith told almost no one when she was diagnosed with an incurable disease that would cause her immeasurable pain. Instead she chose to end life on her own terms. When they met, Mark Dowie had already been working for years to advocate for physician assistance in dying for terminally ill people in his home state of California. He helped many friends along this path, but it wasn't until he was introduced to Judith through a mutual friend that he came to a profound new understanding of death. Mark and Judith created a two-person "death café," a group devoted to discussions of death. They talked about many things during Judith's final months, but the rapidly approaching moment of her death came to inform and shape their entire conversation. Death was, as she said, “the undercurrent and the overstory of our relationship.” Judith Letting Go supports the right to plan one’s death, but it is ultimately about the lost human art of releasing everything that matters to the living in preparation for the inevitable.Trade ReviewFor decades I’ve admired Mark Dowie’s fearlessness as an investigative reporter. But it’s a different kind of bravery he shows in this book: the courage to take on a subject that most of us tiptoe around—and to do so in a way that is compassionate, sensitive, and deeply moving. -- Adam Hochschild, author of American Midnight, King Leopold’s Ghost, and many other booksFor decades I’ve admired Mark Dowie’s fearlessness as an investigative reporter. But it’s a different kind of bravery he shows in this book: the courage to take on a subject that most of us tiptoe around—and to do so in a way that is compassionate, sensitive, and deeply moving. -- Adam Hochschild, author of American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis and other booksDying well is one of life’s greatest challenges. In this short but poignant memoir Mark Dowie finds the method where he least expected it to be, and shares it with the world. -- Robert Reich, former US Secretary of Labor; Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, BerkeleyBy the end of this book, readers will have a repository of questions and ideas with which to open a Death Café of their own, or to approach the subject with some aplomb instead of fear. -- Doris Ober * Point Reyes Light *

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Book SynopsisThis volume understands itself as an invitation to follow a fundamental shift in perspective, away from the self-contained `I’ of Western conventions, and towards a relational self, where development and change are contingent on otherness. In the framework of `Dialogical Self Theory’ (Hermans & Hermans-Konopka, 2010; Hermans & Gieser, 2012), it is precisely the forms of interaction and exchange with others and with the world that determine the course of the self’s development.The volume hence addresses dialogical processes in human interaction from a psychological perspective, bringing together previously separate theoretical traditions about the `self’ and about `dialogue’ within the innovative framework of Dialogical Self Theory. The book is devoted to developmental questions, and so broaches one of the more difficult and challenging topics for models of a pluralist self: the question of how the dynamics of multiplicity emerge and change over time. This question is explored by addressing ontogenetic questions, directed at the emergence of the dialogical self in early infancy, as well as microgenetic questions, addressed to later developmental dynamics in adulthood. Additionally, development and change in a range of culture-specific settings and practices is also examined, including the practices of mothering, of migration and cross-cultural assimilation, and of `doing psychotherapy’.

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Book SynopsisVenturing out of the laboratory into the wild of natural settings, it becomes untenable to locate memory strictly in the head. Instead, memory appears as a materially extended and socially distributed process, embedded within culture and history. This book explores the complex relations between practices of remembering and the settings in which they are enacted. It advances a novel set of concepts developed from ecological, cognitive, cultural and narrative currents in psychology and further afield to analyze (1) trajectories of autobiographical remembering, (2) the relation between individual and collective memory, (3) memory and cultural transmission, as well as (4) various methodological techniques to investigate memory in the wild.

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Book SynopsisIn our current digital era, imagination and the cultural and material conditions by which it is developed are more crucially than ever implicated in the experienced adversities and contradictions of drug use. The technological changes of society underscore the need for rethinking dominant understandings which portray addiction as an immediate and even mindless relation between a person and a substance or behavior, only minimally affected by subjective significance and historical alterations of everyday life. Indeed, from ancient mythology to our modern times drugs have been part of our cultural history. Understandings and practices of their uses have developed through cultural ideas and cultural-material conditions like traditions, rituals and routines. Today, the omnipresence of digital media in everyday life is massively changing and expanding such cultural and material conditions. Digital media equip people with associations between drugs and an incredible abundance of images, ideas, facts, fiction, narratives, plots, soundtracks, characters, and much more, and thereby expanding their imaginable potentials for providing answers to biographical questions. People and potential drug use become connected in novel and labyrinthine ways through digital communities and arrangements of everyday life. And digital media are part of and transform the cultural-material practices in which activities and experiences of intoxication actually take place. In the book, all these details are extensively analyzed empirically based on qualitative data on the lives of a number of young, Danish people who were undergoing treatment for drug-related problems at the time of the research. An underlying premise of the entire work is that addiction may be seen as a more extreme expression of how the technological developments in our contemporary world more generally speaking magnify the contradictory implications of imagination for modern living.Over the recent years, psychological research into the significance of the human capacity to imagine for how people deal with and live their lives has received growing attention. Yet, the complex involvement of imagination in actual living and consequently the theoretical cruxes this engenders continue to amaze and surprise research and researchers. This book also contributes to these theoretical ambitions with a substantial work on the concept of imagination. It primarily suggests that a critical discussion of how imagining is essentially a contradictory process in everyday life and how it is always grounded in the agency of material aspects, ranging anywhere from mundane artifacts over mediated content to advanced technologies, is ultimately what makes the scientific study of imagination relevant to understanding and intervening in the dilemmas and crises of modern life and society.The book will primarily interest scholars of social psychology of everyday life, scholars working conceptually and empirically on imagination, scholars of social studies of media, materiality and technology, and researchers or practitioners working with addictions.

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Book SynopsisIn our current digital era, imagination and the cultural and material conditions by which it is developed are more crucially than ever implicated in the experienced adversities and contradictions of drug use. The technological changes of society underscore the need for rethinking dominant understandings which portray addiction as an immediate and even mindless relation between a person and a substance or behavior, only minimally affected by subjective significance and historical alterations of everyday life. Indeed, from ancient mythology to our modern times drugs have been part of our cultural history. Understandings and practices of their uses have developed through cultural ideas and cultural-material conditions like traditions, rituals and routines. Today, the omnipresence of digital media in everyday life is massively changing and expanding such cultural and material conditions. Digital media equip people with associations between drugs and an incredible abundance of images, ideas, facts, fiction, narratives, plots, soundtracks, characters, and much more, and thereby expanding their imaginable potentials for providing answers to biographical questions. People and potential drug use become connected in novel and labyrinthine ways through digital communities and arrangements of everyday life. And digital media are part of and transform the cultural-material practices in which activities and experiences of intoxication actually take place. In the book, all these details are extensively analyzed empirically based on qualitative data on the lives of a number of young, Danish people who were undergoing treatment for drug-related problems at the time of the research. An underlying premise of the entire work is that addiction may be seen as a more extreme expression of how the technological developments in our contemporary world more generally speaking magnify the contradictory implications of imagination for modern living.Over the recent years, psychological research into the significance of the human capacity to imagine for how people deal with and live their lives has received growing attention. Yet, the complex involvement of imagination in actual living and consequently the theoretical cruxes this engenders continue to amaze and surprise research and researchers. This book also contributes to these theoretical ambitions with a substantial work on the concept of imagination. It primarily suggests that a critical discussion of how imagining is essentially a contradictory process in everyday life and how it is always grounded in the agency of material aspects, ranging anywhere from mundane artifacts over mediated content to advanced technologies, is ultimately what makes the scientific study of imagination relevant to understanding and intervening in the dilemmas and crises of modern life and society.The book will primarily interest scholars of social psychology of everyday life, scholars working conceptually and empirically on imagination, scholars of social studies of media, materiality and technology, and researchers or practitioners working with addictions.

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Book SynopsisEl objetivo del libro es proporcionar a los lectores las herramientas necesarias para evaluar la calidad psicome trica de las medidas educativas y psicolo gicas, así como de encuestas y cuestionarios. Cada capí tulo aborda un tema relativo a la pra ctica psicome trica y de la medida, con e nfasis en la aplicacio n. Los temas sera n tratados brevemente desde una perspectiva teo rica/te cnica con el fin de proporcionar al lector los antecedentes necesarios para utilizar e interpretar correctamente los ana lisis estadí sticos que se presentara n con posteriormente.Este libro esta dirigido a investigadores, profesionales y estudiantes de posgrado (Ma ster y Doctorado) que buscan una guí a para realizar ana lisis psicome tricos de diferentes instrumentos de evaluacio n. Asumimos un nivel ba sico de conocimientos estadí sticos, pero estos conceptos se ira n repasando a lo largo de los diferentes capí tulos. Nos imaginamos que este texto (a) esperara pacientemente en algunos despachos implorando ser entregado, como recurso, a un estudiante, (b) tendra un lugar fijo en las mesas de los despachos donde continuamente, y debido a su uso diario, sera el primero del monto n, (c) estara en las mochilas de los estudiantes de postgrado, y los acompan ara felizmente desde casa al trabajo o a las clases y vuelta, (d) aparecera orgullosamente como un texto de referencia en los programas y guía s de estudio, y finalmente (e) como ocasional posavasos mientras se reflexiona profundamente acerca de co mo resolver los problemas de medida. Esperamos que a trave s de estos usos, sobre todo el u ltimo, aportar algu n conocimiento y ayuda que permita a los lectores aplicar adecuadamente las te cnicas y los conceptos abordados en este manual.The goal of the book is to provide readers with the tools necessary for assessing the psychometric qualities of educational and psychological measures as well as surveys and questionnaires. Each chapter will cover an issue pertinent to psychometric and measurement practice, with an emphasis on application. Topics will be briefly discussed from a theoretical/technical perspective in order to provide the reader with the background necessary to correctly use and interpret the statistical analyses that will be presented subsequently.The anticipated audience for this book includes researchers, practitioners, and graduate students searching for a guide to perform common psychometric analyses on various assessments, as discussed in many psychometric texts. We envision that this text will (a) patiently wait on some office shelves begging to be handed to a student as a resource, (b) have a permanent home on desks where it continually rises to the top of the stacks for daily use of the applied researcher, (c) be happily carried in bags to and from work and class by the graduate student learning techniques, (d) be listed proudly as a reference text on syllabi, and finally (e) as an occasional drink coaster while deep thoughts are pondered about how to solve measurement problems. We hope that through such uses, particularly the latter, that we have provided some insight and assistance to the user in appropriately applying the techniques and concepts discussed.

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Book SynopsisEl objetivo del libro es proporcionar a los lectores las herramientas necesarias para evaluar la calidad psicome trica de las medidas educativas y psicolo gicas, así como de encuestas y cuestionarios. Cada capí tulo aborda un tema relativo a la pra ctica psicome trica y de la medida, con e nfasis en la aplicacio n. Los temas sera n tratados brevemente desde una perspectiva teo rica/te cnica con el fin de proporcionar al lector los antecedentes necesarios para utilizar e interpretar correctamente los ana lisis estadí sticos que se presentara n con posteriormente.Este libro esta dirigido a investigadores, profesionales y estudiantes de posgrado (Ma ster y Doctorado) que buscan una guí a para realizar ana lisis psicome tricos de diferentes instrumentos de evaluacio n. Asumimos un nivel ba sico de conocimientos estadí sticos, pero estos conceptos se ira n repasando a lo largo de los diferentes capí tulos. Nos imaginamos que este texto (a) esperara pacientemente en algunos despachos implorando ser entregado, como recurso, a un estudiante, (b) tendra un lugar fijo en las mesas de los despachos donde continuamente, y debido a su uso diario, sera el primero del monto n, (c) estara en las mochilas de los estudiantes de postgrado, y los acompan ara felizmente desde casa al trabajo o a las clases y vuelta, (d) aparecera orgullosamente como un texto de referencia en los programas y guía s de estudio, y finalmente (e) como ocasional posavasos mientras se reflexiona profundamente acerca de co mo resolver los problemas de medida. Esperamos que a trave s de estos usos, sobre todo el u ltimo, aportar algu n conocimiento y ayuda que permita a los lectores aplicar adecuadamente las te cnicas y los conceptos abordados en este manual.The goal of the book is to provide readers with the tools necessary for assessing the psychometric qualities of educational and psychological measures as well as surveys and questionnaires. Each chapter will cover an issue pertinent to psychometric and measurement practice, with an emphasis on application. Topics will be briefly discussed from a theoretical/technical perspective in order to provide the reader with the background necessary to correctly use and interpret the statistical analyses that will be presented subsequently.The anticipated audience for this book includes researchers, practitioners, and graduate students searching for a guide to perform common psychometric analyses on various assessments, as discussed in many psychometric texts. We envision that this text will (a) patiently wait on some office shelves begging to be handed to a student as a resource, (b) have a permanent home on desks where it continually rises to the top of the stacks for daily use of the applied researcher, (c) be happily carried in bags to and from work and class by the graduate student learning techniques, (d) be listed proudly as a reference text on syllabi, and finally (e) as an occasional drink coaster while deep thoughts are pondered about how to solve measurement problems. We hope that through such uses, particularly the latter, that we have provided some insight and assistance to the user in appropriately applying the techniques and concepts discussed.

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