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Archway Publishing Good News, Bad News, Who Can Tell?: The Pandemic
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Sounds True Inc The Science of Mindfulness and Self-Compassion:
Book SynopsisLearn the science of self-compassion and mindfulness to heal and build resilience In the face of a setback or failure, is your first response to "get tough" on yourself? Do you worry that being too easy on yourself will make you "go soft"? In fact, over a decade of research shows that mindful self-compassion makes us stronger, not weaker. Together, mindfulness and self-compassion: Reduce anxiety, depression, trauma symptoms, and chronic pain. Make us more capable, connected with others, and, resilient. Improve our health, personal relationships, and ability to achieve our aspirations. In this immersive, seven-hour audio program—presented to an audience of psychotherapists, caregivers, teachers, and meditators—you'll join two pioneering researchers to explore: The science supporting the many benefits of mindfulness and self-compassion • How to build kind awareness through meditations, physical gestures, and many other tested methods • How to cultivate presence, ease, and courage Taught with depth, humor, and an empathy for those in need, Shauna Shapiro and Kristin Neff weave surprising scientific insights, their own stories as dedicated mothers and researchers, and a wealth of guided practices to bring mindfulness and self-compassion into every area of our lives. Highlights:Three ingredients of effective mindfulness: Intention, Attention, and Attitude • Posture, movement, touch, and tone of voice—somatic tools to activate self-compassion • Self-esteem versus self-compassion—crucial differences • Working with a challenging client, parent, or child (and not burning out) • Healing trauma—guidance for survivors and therapists • How mindfulness and self-compassion foster secure attachment within ourselves • Interconnectedness and inter-being—how self-compassion and mindfulness expand our empathy and sense of self—and many other topics
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PESI Publishing & Media 150 More Group Therapy Activities & Tips
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PESI Publishing & Media CBT Toolbox for Depressed, Anxious & Suicidal
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£38.69
PESI Publishing Ifs Integration
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PESI Publishing A NeurodiversityAffirming Approach to ADHD
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Book*hug Press GoNoGo
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc The Dispositif: A Concept for Information and
Book SynopsisThe notion of the dispositif (dispositive) is particularly relevant for understanding phenomena where one can observe the reproducibility of distributed technical activities, operational or discursive, between human and non-human actors. This book reviews the concept of the dispositive through various disciplinary perspectives, analyzing in turn its technical, organizational and discursive dimensions. The relations of power and visibility enrich these discussions. Regarding information and communication sciences, three main uses of this concept are presented, on the one hand to illustrate the heuristic scope of issues integrating the dispositive and, on the other hand, to demonstrate its unifying aspect in this disciplinary field. The first use concerns the complexity of media content production; the second relates to activity traces using the concept of the “secondary information dispositive”; finally, the third involves the use of the dispositive in contexts of digital participation. Table of ContentsPart 1. Epistemological Foundations 1. Techne-Poiesis and the Dispositive. 2. The Dispositive, Organization and Collective Action. 3. Discursive Productions and the Dispositive. Part 2. The Dispositive and ICS 4. Complexity of Media Productions. 5. Data, Activity Traces and the Dispositive. 6. Digital Participation and Work.
£132.00
Chronicle Prism Discover Your Dharma: A Vedic Guide to Finding
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Reflexive Governance for Research and Innovative
Book SynopsisThe governance theories that have developed over the past twenty years offer a new framework to consider and examine the collective conditions of a "Responsible Research and Innovation – RRI" linked up with the policy challenges of a society in transition in all its modes of regulation. This book will recall the genesis of the reflexive point of view in the context of the development of the theory of governance. It will then develop the strengths of the model and finally, will show the fruitfulness of its application to the field of the RRI.Table of ContentsForeword ix Introduction xv Chapter 1. RRI and Governance Theory 1 1.1. Definition of a minimum concept of governance 1 1.2. RRI and governance theory 6 1.2.1. The transition toward questions of governance in RRI policy 7 1.2.2. Introduction of explicit reflection on governance theory 10 1.2.3. Contributions of the GREAT project 14 1.2.4. Reasons for the delayed shift 17 1.3. The case of neighboring fields 21 1.4. Lessons to be learned 24 1.5. Changing perspective 28 Chapter 2. The Origins of Governance Theory 31 2.1. Old and new governance: a first shift 36 2.2. The neo-institutionalist hypothesis 40 2.3. The nodal governance approach 44 2.4. The move toward democratic experimentalism 49 2.5. Institutionalist change and reflexivity in governance theories 55 Chapter 3. Exploring Reflexive Governance Theory 57 3.1. Reflexivity and the academic third party 62 3.2. Reflexivity and the imaginary third party 67 3.3. Reflexivity and the real third party 69 3.4. The increase in references to reflexivity 72 3.5. Reasons why this use of reflexivity is unsatisfactory 76 3.6. What remains out of scope 79 Chapter 4. Key Strengths of a Reflexive Theory of Governance 85 4.1. Attention as “thematization” 86 4.2. Reflexivity in governance 91 4.3. Deconstructing governance narratives 94 4.4. Examples of post hoc thematization of relational decentering 98 4.5. Shortcomings of thematization 105 4.6. The five stages of reflexive governance in identity processes 109 Chapter 5. Promoting Reflexive Governance of RRI 117 5.1. Co-constructing problems 122 5.2. Transformation of relational structures and negotiability of roles 125 5.3. Iterating identities 128 5.4. RRIs pathway for reflexive governance 132 5.5. Operationalizing reflexive governance of RRI 137 Chapter 6. Intellectual Intervention in Society: The Key to Reflexive Governance of RRI 145 6.1. The destiny of rationality in the construction of common interest 148 6.2. The fragmentation of knowledge 156 6.3. Contradiction and pluralization of real interests 161 6.4. From intellectual intervention to the community of destiny 165 6.5. The possible role of political philosophy 170 6.6. Long and short cycles of RRI governance 172 6.7. A new model for the institution of knowledge? 175 Conclusion 179 Bibliography 185 Index 197
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Cleveland State University Poetry Center Arena
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Specialty Press, Incorporated, U.S. Angry Children, Worried Parents
Book SynopsisAcknowledging that anger in children is an emotion that cannot be entirely avoided, this guide for parents outlines a seven-step program to promote healthy anger management in children aged 4 to 14. The advice and experiences of mental health professionals and clinicians who are parents themselves are disclosed, with attention given to the anxiety that many parents feel when their child exhibits angry behaviour. Parents learn techniques to help their child deal with stress and anger, build confidence and resilience, and use effective coping behaviours to avoid dysfunctional behaviour.
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Templeton Foundation Press,U.S. Ways & Power Of Love: Techniques Of Moral
Book SynopsisThe Ways and Power of Love was originally published in 1954 when Pitirim Sorokin was in the twilight of his career and leading the Harvard Research Center in Creative Altruism. His elaborate scientific analysis of love with regard to its higher and lower forms, its causes and effects, its human and cosmic significance, and its core features constitutes the first study on this topic in world literature to date.Sorokin was the one absolutely essential twentieth-century pioneer in the study of love at the interface of science and religion. Bringing The Ways and Power of Love back into print allows a new generation of readers to appreciate Sorokin's genius and to move forward with his endeavor at a time when civilization itself continues to be threatened by a marked inability to live up to the ideal of love for all humankind. It is certainly right to hope, with Sorokin, that progress in knowledge about love can move humanity forward to a better future. Turning the sciences toward the study of love is no easy task, but it can and must be done.
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St Augustine's Press Motivated Irrationality
Book SynopsisA study of how reason can be influenced by wishful thinking and how it shapes a person's outlook on life as well as their behaviour.Trade Review"It is invevitable that a book of this scope and ambition will be controversial...What ought not to be controversial, however, is that David Pears has given us an outstandingly lucid and intelligent account of mtters of the highest importance. It is the first comprehensive and unified treatment of the paradoxes of irrational thought and irrational action." - Jon Elster, 'Times Literary Supplement'Table of Contentspreface, footnotes, index
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St Augustine's Press Four Dissertations: And Essays on Suicide and the
Book SynopsisIn 1756 a volume of Hume's essays entitled Five Dissertations was printed and ready for distribution. The essays included 'The Natural History of Religion,' 'Of the Passions,' 'Of Tragedy,' 'Of Suicide,' and 'Of the Immortality of the Soul.' The latter two essays made direct attacks on common religious doctrines by defending a person's moral right to commit suicide and by criticizing the idea of life after death. Early copies were passed around, and someone of influence threatened to prosecute Hume's publisher if the book was distributed as is. The printed copies of Five Dissertations were then physically altered, with a new essay 'Of the Standard of Taste' inserted in place of the two removed essays. Hume also took this opportunity to alter two particularly offending paragraphs in the Natural History. The essays were then bound with the new title Four Dissertations and distributed in January, 1757. The essays in Four Dissertations stand together as a unified whole, showcasing his psychology of the passions and demonstrating its application to both religion and aesthetics. This edition also includes Hume's extended Dedication, a passionate endorsement of intellectual and artistic freedom, which has been out of print since the original publication in 1757. The essays on suicide and the immortality of the soul, long separated from the other essays, are here finally put back, as intended by Hume. Included are 'Two Letters on Suicide' from Rousseau's Eloisa.Table of ContentsPreface by James Fieser, Editor of 'The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'. Introduction of 'Four Dissertations' by John Immerwarhr, Villanova University Dedication "Of the Natural History of Religion" "Of the Passions" "Of Tragedy" "Of the Standard of Taste" Introduction of 'Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul' by John Valdimir Price, University of Edinburgh Preface "On Suicide" "On the Immortality of the Soul" Anti Suicide (Notes on "On Suicide") Immortality of the Soul (Notes on "On the Immortality of the Soul") "Letters on Suicide" (From Rousseau's 'Eloisa')
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Golden Sufi Center,U.S. The Circle of Love
Book Synopsis"Step out of the circle of timeAnd into the circle of love."- RumiThe circle of divine love is always present within the heart. The journey of the mystic is to retrace this circle and so experience the oneness that is hidden within us.In THE CIRCLE OF LOVE Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, continuing his work of providing a contemporary understanding of Sufism, draws us into this mystery of the soul. He describes the way of mystical prayer and of listening with the heart. He offers valuable insight into power and the spiritual life: how to use one''s power to break free of restrictions and live the joy of one''s divine nature. He explores the primordial question of why we so easily forget our origin in God. Finally, THE CIRCLE OF LOVE takes us deep into the mystical secret of being lost in God, to the centre of the circle where the lover merges into the Beloved and the heart''s deepest truth is revealed.The Persian saying in the front-cover image is from a poem by Hafîz:"We have not come to this doorlooking for greatness and glory."
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Bancroft Press Cry Unheard: New Insights into the Medical
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£22.32
Experiment Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of
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Barry Long Books Wisdom and Where to Find it: A Book of Truth
Book SynopsisThis short book of five chapters deals with some basic questions: What is truth? Why does mankind suffer? Do we really have control over our lives? Is there an absolute ''good''?A training in self-observation.Untangles basic moral issues.Insight into self-realisation.An excellent guide to where philosophy ends and the spirit takes over.In this book Barry Long speaks to people in search of self-knowledge and provides the reflection of truth essential, but so hard to find in this world.Why am I alive? What is of real value? When the world no longer holds the answers we turn within ourselves and question conventional wisdom. The challenge then is to find the truth.There are five chapters, each based on a talk in which Barry Long addresses fundamental questions about the purpose and meaning of life. The talks were given when the author first declared himself a spiritual teacher in 1968 and spring from his experience of ''the mystic death'' which he had undergone in India a couple of years earlier.So this book could be seen as the starting point in Barry Long''s work. But it is far from elementary. In fact it poses questions that philosophers, theologians and sages have wrestled with over the ages. But here some of the same fundamental issues are handled with all the clarity of someone who has just ''seen the light''. They are expressed concisely, simply and the implications are immediately thrown into sharp focus so that it is difficult to reduce them to ethical niceties. There is no room for ambiguity or debate. The challenge is to find the solution in self-observation alone, not in handed-down religious or philosophical concepts. This is the basis of Barry Long''s way of teaching self-knowledge, which is founded in his own self-observation. In fact the book offers an exceptional view and example of the lack of compromise that self-realisation requires.The five chapters are:The Mystic Death / The Problem of Choice / Why Man Must Suffer /What Man Must Do / Observation and Meditation.The last chapter is a good outline of the basic practice which is one of the foundation-stones of Barry Long''s teaching.''When we talk of wisdom, the wisdom of Solomon, the wisdom of men, we speak of a wisdom invariably related to objects outside ourselves. That unfortunately is not real wisdom. . . because the real wisdom, the wisdom that sleeps with you, worries with you, pines with you, weeps and laughs with you, is the wisdom of self-knowledge. This is the only real wisdom.''
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Karnac Books Queering Psychotherapy
Book SynopsisLGBTIQ+ people are morelikely than cisgender and heterosexual individuals to suffer with mental healthissues, yet often have poorer therapeutic outcomes. Mainstream Eurocentricpsychotherapeutic theories, developed largely by heterosexual, cisgender andwhite theorists, tend to see LGBTIQ+ as a singular group through this ?othered?lens. Despite the undeniable value offered by many of these theories, they andthose who use them ? queer therapists included ? can often pathologize,marginalize, misunderstand and diminish the flourishing and diversity of queerexperience.In this volume, editor and psychotherapist Jane C. Czyzselska speaks with practitioners and clients from diverse modalities and livedexperiences, exploring and rethinking some of the unique challenges encountered in a world that continues to marginalize queer lives.The contributors to Queering Psychotherapy present key insights and practical advice in adynamic conversational format, providing intimate access to therapists?personal and professional knowledge and reflections. This book is an invaluable training in itself.
£28.49
Karnac Books Ecotherapy: A Field Guide
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£40.87
The University of Akron Press Thick Description and Fine Texture: Studies in
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Templeton Foundation Press,U.S. Faith and Mental Health: Religious Resources for
Book Synopsis Dr. Harold Koenig opens a window on mental health, providing an unprecedented source of practical information about the relationship between religion and mental health. He examines how Christianity and other world religions deliver mental health services today, and he makes recommendations, based on research, expertise, and experience, for new programs to meet local needs. Meticulously researched and documented, Faith and Mental Health includes Research on the relationship between religion and positive emotions, psychiatric illnesses, and severe and persistent mental disorders Ways in which religion has influenced mental health historically, and how now and in the future it can be involved with mental health A comprehensive description and categorization of Christian and non-Christian faith-based organizations that provide mental health resources Resources for religious professionals and faith communities on how to design effective programs Presenting a combination of the history and current research of mental health and religion along with a thorough examination of faith-based organizations operating in the field, this book is a one-of-a-kind resource for the healthcare community; its valuable research and insights will benefit medical and religious professionals, and anyone concerned with the future of mental health care. Table of Contents Acknowledgments / vii Introduction / ix Part I. Historical Considerations 1. People and Communities of Faith / 3 2. History of Mental Health Care / 17 Part II. Research on Religion and Mental Health 3. Religion, Coping, and Positive Emotions / 43 4. Religion, Psychiatric Symptoms, and Disorders / 82 5. Religion and Severe, Persistent Mental Illness / 113 6. Integrating Religion into Mental Health Treatments / 133 Part III. Faith-based Mental Health Care 7. Caring for the Emotionally and Mentally Ill / 161 8. Local Religious Congregations (FBO category A) / 173 9. Networking and Advocacy Organizations (FBO category B) / 185 10. Mission-driven Faith-based Services (FBO category C) / 193 11. Faith-integrated Counseling (FBO categories D and E) / 205 12. Non-Christian Faith-based Services / 227 Part IV. Barriers and Solutions 13. Barriers to Research and Implementation / 243 14. Identifying Possible Solutions / 255 Glossary / 277 Additional Resources / 289 References / 299 Index / 333
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Childhood Cancer Guides Childhood Leukemia: A Guide for Families, Friends
Book SynopsisApproximately 4,500 children and teens are diagnosed with leukemia in the United States and Canada each year. The illness and its treatment can have a devastating effect on family, friends, classmates, and the larger community. This newly updated edition of Childhood Leukemia contains the information and support parents need during this difficult time, including: New treatments such as immunotherapy, tailoring drugs dosages to children's genetic profiles, and ways to deal with side effects. Advice on how to cope with procedures, hospitalization, school, family, and financial issues. Tips for forming a partnership with the medical team. Poignant and practical stories from family members. Updated resources for medical information, emotional support, and financial assistance. Parents who read this book will find understandable medical information and emotional support.Table of ContentsIntroduction Diagnosis Overview of Childhood Leukemia Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Acute Myeloid Leukemia Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Telling Your Child and Others Choosing a Treatment Coping with Procedures Forming a Partnership with the Medical Team Hospitalization Venous Catheters Chemotherapy and Other Medications Common Side Effects of Treatment Radiation Therapy Stem Cell Transplantation Siblings Family and Friends Communication and Behavior School Sources of Support Nutrition Insurance, Record-keeping, and Financial Assistance End of Treatment and Beyond Relapse Death and Bereavement Appendix A: Blood Tests and What They Mean Appendix B: Resource Organizations Appendix C: Books, Websites, and Support Groups Index
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Bull Publishing Company Culturally Competent Kids
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Belt Publishing This City Is Killing Me: Community Trauma and
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Belt Publishing (Mis)Diagnosed
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Hearst Home Books Find Your Joy: A Powerful Self-Care Journal to
Book SynopsisWe all want to spark joy in our lives, and this attractive and practical guided journal takes you on a journey of inner discovery. You’ll learn to cultivate self-compassion, savour small pleasures, practice forgiveness, explore mindfulness, and express gratitude. Easy exercises, tips, writing prompts, and empowering quotations from top psychologists and other experts in the field will allow you to calm your mind, invigorate your spirit, and increase your sense of well-being. Inside you’ll discover how to: • Start showing yourself more love • Create a self-care first-aid kit for anxiety and stress • Keep worries away at night so you can enjoy more peaceful, sound sleep • Let go of lingering resentments, grudges, and pain • Apologise for any transgressions to find relief and peace at last • Forgive yourself with kindness • Discover your purpose to find meaning and take pride in a well-lived life • Explore mindfulness, quiet the chatter, and achieve peace • Appreciate your strengths So take a deep breath, savor the moment, and celebrate you.Trade Review“Jennifer King Lindley gives women permission to be happy and advice on how to treat ourselves compassionately – just like we do for the people around us. Find Your Joy reminds us how valuable the power of positive psychology is to our health. The exercises are as helpful as fresh air, exercise, and healthy eating are to a woman’s overall well-being.”—Beth Battaglino, RN, CEO of HealthyWomen“Find Your Joy invites us to take a break from the news, technology, and all the things that might serve to distract us from happiness and calm. This beautiful self-care journal is rich in advice, practices, and activities. It offers an opportunity to be immersed in chapters like: Befriend Yourself, Bask in Awe, and Be Here Now, all offering ways to assess our lives, our minds, and support discovery.” —Sharon Salzberg, New York Times bestselling author of Lovingkindness, Real Happiness, and Real Change "Jennifer King Lindley has figured out how to make improving your well-being fun. It's like a science-backed activity book for adults that will definitely spark joy!"—Amy Morin, author of 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do“A beautiful guided journal filled with inspiration, wisdom, and science-backed tips for living your best life! Packed with practical guidance and writing prompts to cultivate a positive mindset, this journal will uplift you and help you discover joy in the ordinary moments of your life. A must have for every bedside!”—Beth Kurland, Ph.D., clinical psychologist and author of Dancing on the Tightrope: Transcending the Habits of Your Mind and Awakening to Your Fullest Life“Joy will not arrive unbidden, crashing through the door, and demanding to take up residence. Joy is here, waiting for you to see it, and to touch it. No one else can discover it for you. This charming book is full of gentle steps that turn up the light and sweep away the fog so you can find what is so close: the joy of being you.”—Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D. author of A Liberated Mind“Find your joy on a daily basis. As a self-professed Joy Champion, I have promoted this philosophy for years and considered it one of the best-kept secrets of happiness—until now. Jennifer King Lindley presents the latest psychological research, inspirational quotes, and practical worksheets for helping you to become your most joyful self. In the midst of a global pandemic and massive economic recession, this book couldn't come at a better time. We all need Lindley's tips to boost ourselves in the midst of such challenges, stay hopeful and motivated, resilient and positive.”—MeiMei Fox, New York Times bestselling author, Forbes contributor and life coach “In Find Your Joy, Jennifer King Lindley taps into the powers of mindfulness and positive psychology to deliver a beautiful and thought-provoking journal. It’s full of writing prompts, exercises, and relevant research that will inspire you to explore your thoughts and feelings and understand yourself better. If you’re stressed, self-critical, or feeling down and disconnected, this guided journal is bound to help you create a greater sense of calm, purpose, and joy in your life.”—Sharon Martin, LCSW, psychotherapist and author of The CBT Workbook for Perfectionism “When happy is hard to come by, this guided journal with writing prompts, actionable tips, and quotes from psychologists can help you get there. With chapters on compassion, self-talk, and forgiveness, Lindley covers the gamut on unblocking your road to bliss.” —Health Magazine
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Belt Publishing Dreadful Sorry: Essays on an American Nostalgia
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Bridge City Books I Want to Connect
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Rutgers University Press All My Friends Live in My Computer: Trauma,
Book SynopsisAll My Friends Live in my Computer combines personal stories, media studies, and interdisciplinary theories to examine case studies from three unique parts of society. From illness narratives among breast cancer patients to political upheaval among Iranian-Americans, this book examines what people do when they go online after they have suffered a trauma. It offers in-depth academic analysis alongside deeply personal stories and case studies to take the reader on a journey through rapidly changing digital/social worlds. When people are traumatized, their worlds stop making sense, and All My Friends Live in My Computer explores how everyday people use social media to try and make a new world for themselves and others who are suffering. Through its attention to personal stories and application of media theory to new contexts, this book highlights how, when given the tools, people will make meaning in creative, novel, and healing ways. Trade Review"An emotionally intense, imaginative journey into the way our online lives mediate the experience and definition of the suffering subject. This book should appeal to a general audience as well as to specialists in media and communication and health communication who are intensely interested in how the new online world has shaped the most fundamental of human emotions and experiences." -- Andrea L. Press * co-author of Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism: How U.S. Audiences Create Meaning Across Platforms *"An emotionally intense, imaginative journey into the way our online lives mediate the experience and definition of the suffering subject. This book should appeal to a general audience as well as to specialists in media and communication and health communication who are intensely interested in how the new online world has shaped the most fundamental of human emotions and experiences." -- Andrea L. Press * co-author of Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism: How U.S. Audiences Create Meaning Across Plat *Table of ContentsPrologue Part I Trauma and Media Theory 1 Introduction: Seeing through Suffering: Digital Mediation and the Suffering Subject 2 There Are Many Ways to Suffer 3 Putting It Out There: Tactics of Meaning Making in Digital Media Part II Meaning Making Online 4 The Battle We Didn’t Choose: Angelo Merendino and Mediations of Grief, Disease, and the Trauma of Bearing Witness 5 Nothing Can Stop You: CrossFit, Trauma, and the Digital Remaking of Ability 6 Bullied by the Nation: The Symbolic Trauma of Iranians Living in the United States 7 Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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Rutgers University Press Self-Alteration: How People Change Themselves
Book SynopsisMany of us feel a pressing desire to be different—to be other than who we are. Self-conscious, we anxiously perceive our shortcomings or insufficiencies, wondering why we are how we are and whether we might be different. Often, we wish to alter ourselves, to change our relationships, and to transform the person we are in those relationships. Not only a philosophical question about how other people change, self-alteration is also a practical care—can I change, and how? Self-Alteration: How People Change Themselves across Cultures explores and analyzes these apparently universal hopes and their related existential dilemmas. The essays here come at the subject of the self and its becoming through case studies of modes of transformation of the self. They do this with social processes and projects that reveal how the self acquires a non-trivial new meaning in and through its very process of alteration. By focusing on ways we are allowed to change ourselves, including through religious and spiritual traditions and innovations, embodied participation in therapeutic programs like psychoanalysis and gendered care services, and political activism or relationships with animals, the authors in this volume create a model for cross-cultural or global analysis of social-self change that leads to fresh ways of addressing the 'self' itself. Trade Review"Anthropology has only recently focused on one of the basic human experiences: that people set out to change themselves, and they do so using the tools that their culture offers to them. This volume presents a rich array of observations around this theme to carry the conversation forward." -- Tanya Luhrmann * author of How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others *"This remarkable volume casts new light on our understanding of selfhood, by looking at the ways different people in different contexts alter themselves." -- Jon P. Mitchell * author of Ambivalent Europeans: Ritual, Memory and the Public Sphere in Malta *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: A Time for Change: Modes of Self-Alteration Jean-Paul Baldacchino and Christopher Houston Part I: Religious Cultures, Spiritual Practices, and Self-Alteration Chapter 2 Exemplary Masters, Exemplary Reeds: Pedagogies of Self-Alteration in Sufi Music Banu Şenay Chapter 3 Re-imagining Self and Self-Alteration in Contemporary New Age, Pagan and Neo-Shamanic Spiritualities Kathryn Rountree Chapter 4 Wounded by Grace: Becoming a Prophet in an Evangelical Revival in Solomon Islands Jaap Timmer Part II: Self-Alteration and Political Activism Chapter 5 Fabricating the New Man and Woman: Self-Alteration Through Revolutionary Socialism Christopher Houston Chapter 6 Transcendental Terror: Zen Self-Transformation through White Supremacist Atrocity, from Nazi Germany to Utøya and Christchurch Max Harwood Part III: Gendered Bodies and Therapeutic Interventions Chapter 7 Beautiful, Moral, Functional: Bodily Self-Alteration in an Italian Centre for Eating Disorders Gisella Orsini Chapter 8 Porous Individuality as Self-Alteration: Commercial Self-Improvement in Urban China Gil Hizi Chapter 9 How Is Psychoanalysis a Mode of Self-Alteration? Anthropological Interrogations Jean-Paul Baldacchino Part IV: Self-Alteration, The Human, and the More-Than-Human Chapter 10 Mutualistic Self-Alteration: Human-Pigeon Assemblages in Rural Pakistan Muhammad A. Kavesh Chapter 11 Self-Alteration as Human Capacity and as Cosmopolitan Right Nigel Rapport Part V: Afterword Chapter 12 Making Oneself Otherwise: Reflections on Natality Michael Jackson Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index
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Balboa Press Wake-Up & Dream: An Insightful Glimpse into
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Les Belles Lettres Le Cheval Dans La Locomotive
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Les Belles Lettres L'Envie: Une Histoire Du Mal
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Encre Marine Lequel Suis-Je ?: Variations Sur l'Identite
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Classiques Garnier Enfermer Ou Guerir: Discours Sur La Folie a la
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Classiques Garnier Yves Bonnefoy: L'Inconscient a l'Oeuvre Ou Zeuxis
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Classiques Garnier Gide Et Freud
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Moise Geographe: Recherches Sur Les
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Qu'est-Ce Que l'Intentionalite?
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Force - Pulsion - Desir: Une Autre Philosophie de
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Springer International Publishing AG Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreaks, Vaccination, Politics and Society: The Continuing Challenge
Book SynopsisThis books comprises of 24 chapters by experts from developed and developing countries. The book cover Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Fiji, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, the UK and England, USA, West Africa, and Zambia.FOREWORD by David J. Hunter, Emeritus Professor, Newcastle University, the UK.Table of Contents1.Introduction:AUSTRALASIA2.Under Promise and Over-deliver:The failure of political rhetoric in managing COVID-19 in Australia3. COVID-19 and culture in Papua New Ginea.Failing to meet the challenges of diversity?4.COVID-19 in Fiji: From health and economic to major political crisis5. COVID-19 Vaccination trends and people’s views and action in Japan6. Through the lens of systems thinking:Analyzing the breakdown of a successful COVID-19 mitigation model in Taiwan7.Lessons from COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Hong Kong and South Korea8.Distribution and allocation of vaccines against COVID-19 and vaccination communication in Thailand9. Resurgence of COVID-19 in Indonesia:Response to the critical second wave of pandemic10.Coronavirus disease(COVID-19) and vaccine epidemiology in Malaysia11.COVID-19 in Bangladesh:A spatio-Temporal and Gender analysis. 12.Crowded out:The pandemic’s toll on non-COVID patients in India Africa13.COVID-19:Work,economic activity and its geo-spatiotemporal distribution in South Africa14. Analyzing the dual nature of responses to COVID-19 in Lusaka city15.COVID-19 patterns and waves in West Africa:A geographical perspectiveEurope16.Current development and impact of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy17. The pandemic in France reveals the vulnerability of society18. Without risk? A sociological analysis of the vaccination programme in England19. COVID-19 in the United Kingdom: How a mixed welfare regime has responded to the Pandemic. Americas 20.COVID-19 in Canada:Vaccination and the effects of the pandemic on health care workers and healthcare systems 21.Geographic patterns of COVID-19 vaccination,infection and mortality in the United States during year-two of the pandemic and the influence of political orientation22.COVID-19 vaccine hesitation in young adults and mitigation policies in the United States23. Vaccination in Mexico as a political strategy24. Collateral effects of COVID-19 pandemic on health services in Argentina25. COVID-19 in Brazil: The experience of collecting citizen data in the city of Rio de Janeiro26.Conclusion and Suggestions Index
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Der Tod von eigener Hand: Studien zum Suizid im
Book SynopsisViele Fragen zur Selbsttötung und zum gesellschaftlichen Umgang mit Selbsttötung werden aktuell in der Öffentlichkeit und auf verschiedenen Forschungsfeldern diskutiert. Eine umfassende Behandlung des Themas mit Blick auf das Alte Testament und die Kulturen des Alten Orients, einschließlich des Alten Ägypten, stand bislang jedoch aus. Mit dem vorliegenden Band schließt Jan Dietrich diese Forschungslücke. Er grenzt Suizid und Suizidgedanken vom allgemeinen Sterbens- und Todeswunsch ab und wählt einen kulturgeschichtlichen und soziologischen Zugriff auf die Quellen. Die Selbsttötung wird dabei aus der Perspektive des Suizidanten und aus der Perspektive der Kulturen des Altertums verständlich gemacht und es wird gezeigt, dass sie fernab von dem Stigma Krankheit oder Sünde ihren Platz in der Wiege unserer Kultur hatte. Entsprechend wird die Selbsttötung als "Sinngeschichte", als ein mit Sinn besetzter Versuch zur Lösung eines lebensrelevanten Problems begriffen. Der Autor unterscheidet zwischen eskapistischen Formen des Suizids in unterschiedlichen Kontexten sowie zwischen aggressiven und oblativen Formen und macht die Selbsttötung besonders vor dem Hintergrund vorherrschender Ehr- und Schamvorstellungen verständlich.
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Kohlhammer Psychologen Im Beruf: Anforderungen, Chancen Und
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Kohlhammer Madchen Und Jungen in Schule Und Unterricht
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Kohlhammer Biopsychologie
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