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Taylor & Francis Ltd Immigrants and Refugees: Trauma, Perennial
Book SynopsisAside from the many political, cultural and economic aspects of the present refugee crisis in Europe, it is also crucial to consider the psychological element. In our fast-changing world, globalisation, advances in communication technology, fast travel, terrorism and now the refugee crisis make psychoanalytic investigation of the Other a major necessity.Psychoanalyst Vamik Volkan, who left Cyprus for the US as a young man, brings his own experiences as an immigrant to bear on this study of the psychology of immigrants and refugees, and of those who cross paths with them.In Part I, case examples illustrate the impact of traumatic experiences, group identity issues, and how traumas embedded in the experience of immigrants and refugees can be passed down from one generation to the next. Part II focuses on the host countries, considering the evolution of prejudice and how fear of newcomers can affect everything from international politics to the way we behave as individuals. Volkan also considers the psychology of borders, from the Berlin Wall to Donald Trump. He argues that it is not enough to sympathise with the material plight of people who have left their homes; we must also strive to understand the mental health issues caused by their uprooting.Trade Review'Throughout his extraordinary career, Vamik Volkan has met with and listened to political leaders, refugees, traumatised groups, families, intellectuals, and ordinary citizens throughout the world. He has gathered a wealth of intimate, textured information about our collective engagement with the irrational, with a focus on the dynamics of large groups and the unconscious origins of ethnic identities in conflict. In this book, he links this perspective with his own experience as an immigrant, his detailed psychoanalysis of individual immigrants, and his clinical study of immigrant families, children and adults. Volkan has a profound understanding of loss, mourning, and the ways the trauma embedded in the immigration experience is passed on to the next generation. The book is a vivid and evocative portrait of immigration and the irrational and developmental sources of prejudice. With his understanding of the origins of hatred of the "other", Volkan allows us to see through our clouded vision, opening the possibility of actually learning across difference.'- Edward Shapiro, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Yale Child Study Center and Former Medical Director/CEO, Austen Riggs Center'This is the right book for the right time. Vamik Volkan has dedicated his working life to understanding large-group psychology in order to provide politicians, decision makers and a wider public knowledge about collective human behaviour. The author describes various aspects of the psychology of refugees and immigrants, as well as those of people in host countries who receive them. This book helped me understand better what we are now witnessing in Germany and throughout Europe, and I consider the author's observations and conclusions to be vital to finding ways to deal with this refugee issue constructively. I recommend this book wholeheartedly, not only to psychoanalysts, but to a wider public as well.'- Regine Scholz, PhD, member of the Management Committee of Group Analytic Society International and a member of the Advisory Council for Science and Research of the German Society for Group Analysis and Group PsychotherapyTable of ContentsIntroduction , Newcomers , Psychoanalytic theories on adult immigrants and refugees , Mourning and perennial mourning , Newcomers’ linking objects, linking phenomena, and nostalgia , Relocated children and their unconscious fantasies , Living statues , Double mourning: adolescents as immigrants or refugees , A refugee family’s story , Hosts , Prejudice on a psychoanalytic couch , The Other , Border psychology and fear of newcomers
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Out of This World: Suicide Examined
Book SynopsisThis book is intended for anyone with either an interest in suicide or suicidal behaviour. It is not aimed solely at the professional psychotherapist but at a broad range of professionals who encounter suicidal people in their work. It is also intended for those of us who have been touched by suicide personally.The book approaches suicide from the point of view of the suicidal state of mind and is intended to help us understand more about this condition. In its essence suicide is examined as a largely unconscious aggressive act having its roots in a perceived or real experience of thwarted childhood needs. The wounds of the suicidal person are often long held and deep. The suicidal person is pursued by haunting losses and the suicidal act comes from deep disturbance created by this and from the idea of death as an acting out of some form of suicidal fantasy. The quasi delusional and split quality of the act is examined - namely that suicide is both an act for and against the self. Consequently a strong case is made for the contribution of psychotherapy to the project of suicide prevention since it is in this carefully managed arena the suicidal fantasy can be examined and the settling of these scores can be worked through, rather than acted out by suicide. The hope is that the book will increase understanding, challenge concepts of mental illness and suicidality but most importantly address the understandable fear we all have about suicide and its power to render us impotent. In turn it is hoped this will empower readers, who might otherwise be fearful of suicide, to intervene, support and work with those who are suicidal.Trade Review'This is the best book available for therapists on working with people who are contemplating suicide, or with those bereaved as a result of it. Suicide is explored from personal and societal angles in a manner that is honest, lucid, informative and deeply based in considerable clinical and training experience. The book is also an exceptionally frank testament to both the frighteningly insecure and the more reassuringly solid aspects of being human. I was moved, educated and challenged.'- Andrew Samuels, former chair of the UK Council for Psychotherapy and author of A New Therapy for Politics?'Read this book. If it succeeds in making you feel less fearful and more curious about suicide, then it will have achieved its purpose. Clearly written and thought provoking, Antonia Murphy reminds us that suicide is not an illness, and through weaving together personal insight, professional experience, and a review of the writing on suicide, she gives us an accessible account of our current understanding of suicidal states of mind.'- Jane Rosoman, consultant counsellor, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, Ealing'We met Antonia having set up a charity following the tragic, unexpected, and devastating death of our 21-year-old son James. James was a student at Newcastle University and we recognised how important it was to support the valuable training that Counsellors and Psychotherapists in Primary Care (CPC) were offering to university staff. Through Antonia's own personal experience, her journey of working with the complex issue of suicide and subsequent wealth of knowledge gained, she has produced a book that will shed light onto this dark and difficult subject, and give the reader a much clearer understanding of it.'- Clare Milford Haven, founder and trustee of the James Wentworth-Stanley Memorial Fund'A really good weaving together of the personal, theoretical and practical. And it's really accessible and sensible and will make people feel less scared. I've been recommending it to people. Thanks for writing it. It's really good. I hope it sells bucket loads!'- Nick Luxmore, psychotherapist and trainer working with adolescents'My husband had a saying that the light at the end of the tunnel was that of an on-coming train. He took his life in 1993. My brother took his own life in 1986 aged only 23. Your book gave voice to so much that I had thought about and processed over the years the complexities that a human being has in how/why they take the ultimate death decision. Internalised anguish and thwarted psychological needs. Tunnel vision where everyone is shut out of their thinking - a rage against their world, to those who they feel don't care enough, where everyone would be better off without them in their uselessness. I have always felt that they didn't have the underlying resilience/safety/love of themselves within to cope or ask for help in a way that they felt others would understand... I didn't feel that sense of guilt for either death although if odd things had been different at the time then perhaps outcomes would have been different. So regrets yes... I have done workshops around suicide: the myths, risk factors, keeping ourselves, as professionals, safe but at the heart of it my aim has always been to lift the taboo and enable others to engage with someone who has suicidal thoughts and not be fearful of it. This is an area that I would like to explore further and your book has given me much to think about and reflect on. Thank you.'- Anonymous counsellor'What a relief to read your book! My relief emanates from frustration that you have raised the subject of the unconscious and the internal world, both concepts totally absent in all the strategies, awareness projects and so on, and therefore for me, missing the vital components of suicide yet never mentioned. I fear that so much money (because that seems to be how we measure human life and worth) time and of course lives are wasted by bureaucracy and vain attempts to find the definitive risk assessment form in order to reach Zero Suicide - a term that really distresses me because it sounds so seductive, yet to me, it trivialises the act of suicide as well as being unattainable and adding pressure to those involved with suicidal people -when given the opportunity.Another great relief is your wanting to separate suicide from mental illness. I absolutely agree that whilst there may be overlaps in some people, the notion of mental illness will alienate many people who are grappling with the an existential questions around life and death - not that abnormal and mostly resolved to a greater or lesser degree that doesn't end in suicide. I am concerned that all these programmes of suicide awareness and so on do not have very much to offer if anyone does try to get help.I also thought you trod most diplomatically when considering those bereaved by suicide. Congratulations on your brilliant book. How are you going to get your message across that you can't assess suicidal intention by asking questions and ticking boxes. My own experience is that asking somebody if he or she was suicidal was not the best way of assessing risk, but having a good and wide understanding of suicide and checking a person's own narrative with the knowledge in one's own head helped - as you've said assessing suicidal risk is about about a relationship.'- Paddy Bazeley, former director of Maytree, a respite centre for the suicidalTable of ContentsIntroduction , Why suicide? , Suicide and mental health , Suicide and self-harm , Myths, misrepresentations, and fallacies , The suicidal condition , The suicidal fantasy , Working Through , Exploring the consequences , Final thoughts
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Psychology of Behaviour at Work: The
Book SynopsisThis superb introduction to the field of organizational psychology and organizational behaviour builds on the foundation of the highly successful first edition to provide up-to-date explanations of all the key topics in a clear, coherent and accessible style. The text is supported by numerous illustrations and examples as well as end-of-chapter summaries and concluding remarks. Topic sections on key research studies, as well as applied aspects such as human resources applications and cross-cultural issues, lead the reader through the complexities of the theory to its practical application.The Psychology of Behaviour at Work covers all major topics in the field, from vocational choice, personality, attitudes, motivation and stress, to cooperation, learning, training, group dynamics, decision making and leadership. Further sections introduce corporate culture and climate, as well as organisational structure, change and development, and a final section outlines predictions not only for the future study of organizational psychology, but of the future of work itself. As with the first edition, The Psychology of Behaviour at Work will prove to be an invaluable resource for psychology students on work and organizational psychology courses, business students on organizational behaviour courses, and human resources managers eager to expand their knowledge of this fascinating field.Trade Review"This new edition of The Psychology of Behaviour at Work is a must buy for students of organisational behaviour and psychology. It provides all the traditional and new topic areas in the field ... a real gem." Professor Cary L. Cooper, CBE"It is a pleasure in these days of multi-authored volumes to see a single authored work of such magnitude and density. 5/5" - Roger Watson, University of Sheffield, in Nursing Standard, November 2005Table of ContentsIntroduction. The History of Organizational Psychology and the Study of Work Psychology. Vocational Choice, Organizational Selection and Socialization. Personality and Individual Differences. Work-Related Attitudes, Values and Perceptions. Work Motivation and Satisfaction. Stress at Work. Co-operation, Power and Ethical Behaviour in Organizations. Learning and Training at Work. Group Dynamics. Decision-making. Leadership. Culture at Work. Organizational Structure, Change and Development. Working Abroad. The Future of Work.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The New Psychology of Money
Book SynopsisThe New Psychology of Money is an accessible and engrossing analysis of our psychological relationship to money in all its forms. Comprehensive and insightful, Adrian Furnham explores the role that money plays in a range of contexts, from the family to the high street, and asks whether the relationship is always a healthy one. Discussing how money influences what we think, what we say, and how we behave in a range of situations, the book places the dynamics of high finance and credit card culture in context with traditional attitudes towards wealth across a range of cultures, as well as how the concept of money has developed historically.The book is split into four sections: Understanding Money. What are our attitudes to money, and how does nationality, history and religion mediate those attitudes? Money in the Home How do we grow up with money, and what role does it play within the family? What role does gender play, and can we lose control in dealing with money? Money at Work. Are we really motivated by money at work? And what methods do retailers use to persuade us to part with our money? Money in Everyday Life. How do we balance the need to create more money for ourselves through investments with the desire to make charitable contributions, or give money to friends and family? How has the e-revolution changed our relationship to money? Radically updated from its original publication in 1998, The New Psychology of Money is a timely and fascinating book on the psychological impact of an aspect of daily life we generally take for granted. It will be of interest to all students of psychology, economics and business and management, but also anyone who takes an interest in the world around them. Trade Review‘The New Psychology of Money is extremely wide ranging, well informed and very readable, with delightful chapter heading quotations. As well as the obvious topics such as money and happiness and money attitudes, we are given a clear primer on behavioural economics and advice on good parenting. There is something for everyone, whether specialists seeking synoptic accounts of research or generalists seeking inspiration.’ – Professor Paul Webley, Director of SOAS, University of London, UK'Professor Furnham is to be congratulated for writing a scholarly yet popular book ... For readers who want to learn about the basics of behavioural economics, how Psychology is used to sell products and to unravel the wealth / happiness conundrum (and many other topics), this volume is for you.' – Alan Lewis, Professor of Economic Psychology, University of Bath, UK‘The New Psychology of Money is extremely wide ranging, well informed and very readable, with delightful chapter heading quotations. As well as the obvious topics such as money and happiness and money attitudes, we are given a clear primer on behavioural economics and advice on good parenting. There is something for everyone, whether specialists seeking synoptic accounts of research or generalists seeking inspiration.’ – Professor Paul Webley, Director of SOAS, University of London, UK'Professor Furnham is to be congratulated for writing a scholarly yet popular book ... For readers who want to learn about the basics of behavioural economics, how Psychology is used to sell products and to unravel the wealth / happiness conundrum (and many other topics), this volume is for you.'– Alan Lewis, Professor of Economic Psychology, University of Bath, UKTable of ContentsThe Psychology of Money. Money Today. Different approaches to the topic of Money. Money and Happiness. Money Attitudes, Beliefs and behaviours. Understanding the Economic World. Economic Socialisation and good parenting. Sex Differences, Money and the Family. Money Madness: Money and Mental Health. Money and Motivation in the Workplace. Behavioural economics. Persuasion, Pricing and Money.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Therapeutic Care for Refugees: No Place Like Home
Book SynopsisThis volume addresses the complexities involved in attending to the mental health of refugees. It covers theory and research as well as clinical and field applications, emphasising the psychotherapeutic perspective. It explores the delicate balance between accepting the resilience of refugees whilst not neglecting their psychological needs, within a framework that avoids pathologising their condition.Moreover, it deals with the difficulties in delineating the various relevant intersecting perspectives to the refugee reality, e.g. psychological, socio-political, legal, organisational and ethical. The book introduces important considerations about the actual psychotherapy with refugees (in individual, family and group settings) but in addition, it encourages the introduction of therapeutic elements to all types of work with refugees. Thus, it argues for the necessity of approaching every facet of the refugee experience from a therapeutic perspective; this is why the title refers to therapeutic care rather than to psychotherapy. Offering a representative sample of the rich variety of work done at the Tavistock Clinic in London, this volume presents new and valuable insights into many aspects of conceptualising and working with refugees in different contexts.Trade Review'This is an authoritative book that introduces innovative ideas in many facets of the therapeutic care of the most vulnerable mobile populations. A relevant publication, especially in the current world situation. A useful companion for all who work in this field.'- Brunson McKinley, Director General of the International Organisation for Migration'This is a remarkable book! It is not only extremely useful for practice, but it is founded on humanity and solidarity and art! [It] is highly recommended!'- Tom Andersen, Professor in Social Psychiatry, University of Tromsoe, Norway'I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in keeping abreast of the most recent developments in the field of refugee mental health.'- Jack Saul, Director, International Trauma Studies Program, New York University'This extraordinarily timely and very important book contributes substantive scholarly insights to studies of migration and to studies of trauma... Many theoretical and clinical practice issues... are raised from multiple perspectives by this outstanding book... The honest and thoughtful revelations here offer valuable insights... This book is an essential resource for any professional or lay person interested in [this field]... In a topic of wrenching dimensions, this comprehensive book explores incisively and compassionately the difficult dynamics of ethical intervention.'- Celia Jaes Falicov, from the Foreword
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Systems Psychodynamics of Organizations: Integrating the Group Relations Approach, Psychoanalytic, and Open Systems Perspectives
Book SynopsisThis authoritative source book on the learning and creative application of the systems psychodynamic perspective defines the field, presenting the key concepts, models, and social methodologies that derive from it, together with their theoretical and conceptual underpinnings in psychoanalysis, group relations and open systems theory.Trade Review'This is a stimulating and thought-provoking volume that is sure to further develop clearer insights about organizations and change. The Introduction and nine chapters offer well-structured and accessible explorations of some key aspects of psychodynamic and systems thinking, together with ideas from group relations work, to illuminate typical challenges facing organizations. The mixture of conceptual writing and case material should prove interesting to readers from a range of outlooks, disciplines, and levels of experience. Topics addressed include: leadership, conflict, dependence and dependency, enablers and obstacles of change, and culture. Attention to these relevant dimensions of organizational work should lead to deeper knowledge of what may help and hinder organizations to develop and to change.'- Ruth Levitt, Office for Public Management, LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction -- Applying Learning from Experience: The Intersection of Psychoanalysis and Organizational Role Consultation -- The Exercise of Authority in a Dependent Context -- An Organization Looks at Itself: Psychoanalytic and Group Relations Perspectives on Facilitating Organizational Transition -- Complexity at the “Edge” of the Basic-Assumption Group -- Enemies Within and Without: Paranoia and Regression in Groups and Organizations -- Dilemmas of Organizational Change: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective -- A Large-System Intervention: The Influence of Organisational Culture -- Institutional Learning as Chief Executive -- The Leader, the Unconscious, and the Management of the Organisation
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Containment in the Community: Supportive
Book SynopsisThis book is aimed at all practitioners working in healthcare and criminal justice community settings with individuals displaying antisocial, offending, and challenging behaviours, at times complicated by severe mental disorders.Despite risk assessment policies and procedures, we all know how disorientated we can feel when trying to make sense of what is going on in the course of our work. Contributors to this book describe familiar anxiety-provoking situations. Most importantly, they illustrate ideas and perspectives that can help you to rediscover meaning and purpose in your roles and tasks, with the ultimate objective of enabling service-users to manage more effectively the emotional turbulence that invariably lies behind their challenging behaviours.Trade ReviewContributors:John Adlam, Jina Barrett, Ruth Berkowitz, William Crouch, Oliver Dale, Rob Hale, Gabriel Kirtchuk, David Morgan, David Reiss, Rosemary Richards, Alla Rubitel, Christopher Scanlon, Mike Solomon, Philip Stokoe, Richard Taylor, Jessica YakeleyWith a foreword by R.D. HinshelwoodThis volume is designed to support the day-to-day practice of all staff working in the community that need to support individuals who manifest antisocial behaviour often complicated by chronic mental disorder, or people whose presentation causes similar stressful dilemmas. The book draws on experience gained across a wide spectrum of settings: within the NHS, the National Offender Management Services (NOMS) and the wider criminal justice services, as well as various services for children, young people and their families.The subject matter of this text covers antisocial, offending and challenging behaviours: in particular behaviours that create unusual levels of anxiety in practitioners or the public. Valuable insights are offered, with examples, into ways of thinking about these problems and practical guidance is offered on the way professional teams and the individuals within them can develop and maintain effective work. Whilst not explicitly focussed on those identified as having a personality disorder, the material concerns individuals with psychological difficulties that are pervasive, enduring and which have a particularly intrusive impact on caring staff members working with them.This book is a valuable contribution to service improvement and provides essential support for our ability to provide effective intervention and a more capable workforce to assist those with complex and often challenging needs.'It is an exceptionally difficult task for practitioners working in this complex and demanding field to find the time and space to think reflectively about the challenges and anxieties they face. Containment in the Community achieves the rare and enviable goal of facilitating a wide-ranging therapeutic discourse, and at the same time never loses its focus on the application of good clinical practice for real people in real settings. This book should be read by anyone with an active interest in forensic mental health services.'- Michael Howlett, Formerly Director, The Zito Trust'The criminal justice system is swamped with people, of all ages, suffering from some form of mental health problem, for whom too little is done. Fundamental to any action are trained mental health practitioners. This collection of articles by a variety of experts is both welcome and timely because it presents stark realities to those responsible for determining both what must and what cannot at present be done.'- Lord David Ramsbotham, Former Chief Inspector of Prisons
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Elusive Elements in Practice
Book SynopsisThe third volume in the The Practice of Psychotherapy series, Elusive Elements in Practice brings together a collection of papers, examining their ideas and theories more commonly regarded as off-centre, or indeed elusive, in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The papers in this volume concentrate on the religious and spiritual dimension of the therapeutic encounter, the "aesthetic experience", creativity and mysticism. These "moments of relatedness", or meetings of minds, are discussed and examined with the help of clinical examples.'...[psychotherapists] tend to agree on what is just too eccentric and is to be regarded with reserve and suspicion. These ideas are left on the margins and, getting less attention, they are more elusive. They will not get concentrated consideration either in the consulting room or in the study. This is one reason why they are more elusive. But such neglect may cause potentially good ideas to be lost, as well as ridiculous ones.'- From the IntroductionContributors:Patricia Allen; Bernardine Bishop; Faye Carey; Nathan Field; Angela Foster; Josephine Klein; Steven Mendoza; and Victoria O'Connell.Trade Review'The therapeutic elements this collection deals with may be elusive, but they are also eminently practical. Stephen Mendoza (following Bion) writes on "faith", Josephine Klein on the importance of true "recognition" for the patient; others write on the consequences of the baby's experience of the mother's beauty. These therapists venture to look into a more affirmative territory, most of it impeccably psychoanalytic but hitherto obscured, perhaps, by Freud's celebrated pessimism. The result is a courageous and original collection of papers, which offer a great deal of "food for thought".'- David M. Black, British Psycho-Analytical SocietyTable of ContentsThe London Centre for Psychotherapy -- Introduction -- Mechanisms and mysteries -- Love, the aesthetic conflict and the self -- The emerging religious dimension of knowing in psychoanalysis -- Therapy by design: style in the therapeutic encounter -- Narcissism, the mystics' remedy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Consulting Process as Drama: Learning from
Book SynopsisDrawing comparisons between consultancy and the classical tragedy King Lear, the author explores the core theme of responsibility. Arguing that King Lear is vital in gaining an understanding of consulting, leadership and management, the author explores in detail the positive lessons to be learnt from this tragedy for the manager and the management consultant. An intriguing premise that uncovers key strategies for managers.'This book gives a summary of key issue in management consulting, in a step-by-step chronological way. However, it is directed mainly at those consultants who know from experience that consulting does not work as smoothly as the manuals suggest, and who have learned through trials and tribulations to take a tragic outlook on the art of consulting.'- From the PrologueTrade Review'I have never read such an elegantly literate exposition of the nuances of the consulting process. Dr. De Haan presents a robust model of the issues and choices that arise for the consultant, and brilliantly interweaves well-chosen passages from King Lear to exemplify the model. Not only is this a book to delight the philosophically inclined among us, but it also beautifully illustrates De Haan's down-to-earth approach to consulting. After forth years of consulting practice, I found insights into consultant-client relationships that had previously escaped me. De Haan's approach is highly practical; if we were to follow more closely, we and our clients would both profit thereby.'- Roger Harrison, Organisation Development Consultant and Writer, from the ForewordTable of ContentsPrologue -- Introduction -- Exposition -- Development -- Crisis and peripeteia -- Denouement -- Catastrophe and exodus -- Conclusion -- Epilogue
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of Visuospatial Thinking
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Cambridge University Press Wisdom Intelligence and Creativity Synthesized
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Cambridge University Press Embodiment and Cognitive Science
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Cambridge University Press The Moral Foundations of Trust
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Cambridge University Press Psychology and Experience
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Cambridge University Press Thinking in Education
Book SynopsisThe first edition of Thinking in Education made a case for inserting thinking into all levels of education by infusing critical thinking into existing disciplines. Matthew Lipman, a leading education theorist, provided procedures to enable students at all levels of education to become more thoughtful, more reasonable, and more judicious. In the 12 years since the first edition was published, the author has broadened his approach to teaching thinking. While critical thinking is important and highly valuable, it is not sufficient; students must develop creative and caring thinking as well. This edition provides methods for integrating emotive experience, mental acts, thinking skills and informal fallacies into a concerted approach to the improvement of reasoning and judgment. It also shows how the community of inquiry can be utilized for the reduction of violence in the classroom and for the improvement of the education of children at risk.Trade Review"This book highlights, very appropriately, why thinking needs improving in schools. It illustrates, in a variety of ways, how teachers could encourage their pupils in thought-provoking debates....This book would be a useful resource to anyone involved in teaching philosophy, citizenship or subject-specific thinking." British Journal of Educational StudiesTable of ContentsPart I. Education for Thinking: 1. The reflective model of educational practice; 2. Approaches in teaching for thinking; 3. Obstacles and misconceptions in teaching for thinking; Part II. Communities of Inquiry: 4. Thinking in community; 5. The community of inquiry approach to violence reduction; Part III. Orchestrating the Components: 6. The emotions in thinking and in education; 7. Mental acts; 8. Thinking skills; Part IV. Education for the Improvement of Thinking: 9. The transactive dimensions of thinking; 10. Education for critical thinking; 11. Education for creative thinking; 12. Education for caring thinking; 13. Strengthening the power of judgment.
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Cambridge University Press Death of a Parent
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Cambridge University Press Bringing Ritual to Mind
Book SynopsisBringing Ritual to Mind explores the psychological foundations of religious rituals. Religious rituals exploit either high performance frequency or extraordinary emotional stimulation (but not both) to enhance recollection. McCauley and Lawson use a wide range of evidence to argue that the explanation lies in participants' cognitive representations of ritual form.Trade Review'Bringing Ritual to Mind makes a substantial contribution to one corner of the cognitive field, the cognitive basis of ritual forms. The book extends and clarifies aspects of the theory of ritual competence presented in the authors' Rethinking Religion (1990).' Numen'… a provocative and very stimulating set of ideas …'. AnthroposTable of Contents1. Cognitive constraints on religious ritual form: a theory of participants' competence with religious ritual systems; 2. Ritual and memory: frequency and flashbulbs; 3. Two hypotheses concerning religious ritual and emotional stimulation; 4. Assessing the two hypotheses; 5. General profiles of religious ritual systems: the emerging cognitive science of religion.
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Cambridge University Press Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
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Cambridge University Press Grammar Gesture and Meaning in American Sign Language
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Cambridge University Press Mind Reason and Imagination
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Cambridge University Press Sodium Hunger
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Cambridge University Press Psychopathology
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Cambridge University Press Adult Eyewitness Testimony
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Cambridge University Press The Nature of Consciousness
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Cambridge University Press Citizens and Politics
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Cambridge University Press Psychological Perspectives on Justice
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Cambridge University Press The Nature of Explanation
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Cambridge University Press Human Motivation
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Cambridge University Press An Introduction to the Psychology of Religion
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Cambridge University Press Molyneuxs Question
Book SynopsisIf a man born blind were to gain his sight in later life would he be able to identify the objects he saw around him? Dr Morgan examines the whole history of this debate. He shows how this debate is involved in the development and eventual separation of philosophy and experimental psychology after the eighteenth century and considers why the original question is effectively still unanswered.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. The background to Molyneux's question; 2. Cataract operations; 3. Diderot's Letter on the Blind; 4. Berkeley and Condillac; 5. Thomas Reid and the new nativism; 6. Lotze and Kant: the theory of local signs; Afterword; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Laughter in Interaction 18 Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics Series Number 18
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Cambridge University Press Religion Culture and Mental Health
Book SynopsisAre religious practices involving seeing visions and speaking in tongues beneficial or detrimental to mental health? Do some cultures express distress in bodily form because they lack the linguistic categories to express distress psychologically? Do some religions encourage clinical levels of obsessional behaviour? And are religious people happier than others? By merging the growing information on religion and mental health with that on culture and mental health, Kate Loewenthal enables fresh perspectives on these questions. This book deals with different psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia, manic disorders, depression, anxiety, somatisation and dissociation as well as positive states of mind, and analyses the religious and cultural influences on each.Trade ReviewReviews of the hardback: 'This book offers an excellent introduction to the field of religion, culture and mental health. It is comprehensive in its overview of contemporary studies. It reads in a clear and lucid way and will be useful for anyone in the field of mental health, religion and culture.' Simon Dein, Consultant Psychiatrist and Senior Lecturer, University College Hospital London'Psychology has long needed a text on psychopathology and religion. Now we have it. This excellent book - scholarly, even-handed, and appreciative of the diversity of religion and culture - should provide just the jump-start we need to advance the state of research and practice in the field of religion and mental health.' Kenneth I. Pargament, Bowling Green State University'This book provides a challenging, cogent, and well-documented overview of religion, mental health and culture and is a must-read for researchers, practitioners and students interested in the processes through which religion is related to mental health. As well as the traditional focus on mental health problems, such as depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia, Professor Loewenthal also reviews the recent literature on the positive psychology of religion and happiness. Case examples are used throughout the book to illustrate the issues in thoughtful and insightful ways and, coupled with Professor Loewenthal's research and personal wisdom, make this book a compelling read.' Stephen Joseph, University of Nottingham'In a time of increasingly polarised and politicised views of religion, it has become difficult to think clearly about the impact of religious practice on mental health and illness. Yet, for many people, religion and spirituality are crucial resources for making sense of suffering and affliction. In this thoughtful text, Kate Loewenthal has mapped out the diverse interactions between religion and psychiatry relevant to clinical care. With its careful consideration of the role of religious experience in illness and healing, this book will help practitioners address one of the most central sources of meaning in patients' lives.' Laurence J. Kirmayer, McGill University and Editor-in-Chief of Transcultural Psychiatry'The obvious strengths of the book are Loewenthal's knowledge and expertise within the field of psychology and religion, the didactic nature of her discourse, and the sheer amount of information, which is succinctly summarized for those with particular academic interests in this area. However, clinicians will also find the material relevant to multicultural and multiethnic practice, especially related to matters of discernment and interpretation of a client's behaviour within the influence of religion and culture on their psychopathology, or conversely, the use of religion and culture in order to restore or enhance optimal functioning.' Community Mental Health Journal'… [Loewenthal] brings credibility, balance, and clarity to the subject, anchored in genuine scholarship. The book's brevity … belies the richness of the source material, much of it recent, that she taps for her discussion.' Journal of Clinical Psychiatry'… includes many case examples … Each chapter concludes with a review of the findings, providing a succinct overview of the research position … Religion, Culture and Mental Health definitely challenges some of the assumptions that people may have around the possible adverse impact of religious belief and practice on mental health.' Inclusion NewsTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Schizophrenia; 3. Manic disorder; 4. Depression; 5. Anxiety; 6. Somatization; 7. Dissociation; 8. Positive states; 9. Conclusion.
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