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Book SynopsisIntroduction 1. Theoretical Discourse, Subjectivity and Critical Psychology PART I: ENLIGHTENMENT, REALISM AND POWER (AND THEIR REVERSE) 2. Against Postmodernism: Psychology in Cultural Context 2a. Against Against-ism: Comment on Parker; Fred Newman and Lois Holzman 2b. Critical Distance: Reply to Newman and Holzman 3. Against Relativism in Psychology, On Balance 3a. Regulating Criticism: Some Comments on an Argumentative Complex; Jonathan Potter, Derek Edwards and Malcolm Ashmore 3b. The Quintessentially Academic Position 4. Against Wittgenstein: Materialist Reflections on Language in Psychology 4a. The Practical Turn in Psychology: Marx and Wittgenstein as Social Materialists; John. T. Jost and Curtis D. Hardin 4b. Reference Points for Critical Theoretical Work in Psychology PART II: THE TURN TO DISCOURSE AS A CRITICAL THEORETICAL RESOURCE 5. Discursive Psychology Uncut 6. Discourse: Definitions and Contradictions 6a. Discourse: Noun, Verb or Social Practice?; Jonathan Potter, Margaret Wetherell, Ros Gill and Derek Edwards 6b. The Context of Discourse: Let's Not Throw the Baby Out With the Bathwater; Dominic Abrams and Michael A. Hogg 6c. Real Things: Discourse, Context and Practice PART III: CRITICAL DISCURSIVE RESEARCH, SUBJECTIVITY AND PRACTICE 7. Reflexive Research and Grounding of Analysis: Psychology and the Psy-Complex 8. Tracing Therapeutic Discourse in Material Culture 9. Constructing and Deconstructing Psychotherapeutic Discourse 10. The Psychosocial Turn 11. Critical ReflectionsTrade Review"Critical Discursive Psychology collects more than a decade's intellectual work into a single volume...readers now have easy-access to some of the most pertinent, theoretically inspiring, and discursively engaged of Parker's contributions." - Catriona Macleod and Lindy Wilbraham, Psychology in SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Theoretical Discourse, Subjectivity and Critical Psychology PART I: ENLIGHTENMENT, REALISM AND POWER (AND THEIR REVERSE) 2. Against Postmodernism: Psychology in Cultural Context 2a. Against Against-ism: Comment on Parker; Fred Newman and Lois Holzman 2b. Critical Distance: Reply to Newman and Holzman 3. Against Relativism in Psychology, On Balance 3a. Regulating Criticism: Some Comments on an Argumentative Complex; Jonathan Potter, Derek Edwards and Malcolm Ashmore 3b. The Quintessentially Academic Position 4. Against Wittgenstein: Materialist Reflections on Language in Psychology 4a. The Practical Turn in Psychology: Marx and Wittgenstein as Social Materialists; John. T. Jost and Curtis D. Hardin 4b. Reference Points for Critical Theoretical Work in Psychology PART II: THE TURN TO DISCOURSE AS A CRITICAL THEORETICAL RESOURCE 5. Discursive Psychology Uncut 6. Discourse: Definitions and Contradictions 6a. Discourse: Noun, Verb or Social Practice?; Jonathan Potter, Margaret Wetherell, Ros Gill and Derek Edwards 6b. The Context of Discourse: Let's Not Throw the Baby Out With the Bathwater; Dominic Abrams and Michael A. Hogg 6c. Real Things: Discourse, Context and Practice PART III: CRITICAL DISCURSIVE RESEARCH, SUBJECTIVITY AND PRACTICE 7. Reflexive Research and Grounding of Analysis: Psychology and the Psy-Complex 8. Tracing Therapeutic Discourse in Material Culture 9. Constructing and Deconstructing Psychotherapeutic Discourse 10. The Psychosocial Turn 11. Critical Reflections

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Book SynopsisMagnus Englander is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work at Malmö University, Sweden and Faculty Member in the Department of Humanistic and Clinical Psychology, Saybrook University, USA. He also serves as the Book Review Editor for the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology. Trade ReviewContributors include clinicians and scholars from the US and northern Europe; their varied perspectives provide a multifaceted view of the contributions phenomenological approaches can make to psychological research … Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and faculty. * CHOICE *This is a scholarly and thought provoking book, written by philosophically sophisticated contributors, that provides an appealing vision of psychiatry that takes seriously the social dimension of human existence. It includes several chapters that have direct clinical relevance. I believe that it would interest a broad range of readers and scholars, especially in psychology and philosophy. -- Steen Halling, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Seattle University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Magnus Englander Towards a Phenomenological Social Psychiatry Chapter 1: Larry Davidson Transcendental Intersubjectivity as the Foundation for a Phenomenological Social Psychiatry Chapter 2: Mads Gram Henriksen Schizophrenia, Psychosis, and Empathy Chapter 3: Magnus Englander Empathy in a Social Psychiatry Chapter 4: Scott D. Churchill On the Empathic Mode of Intuition: A Phenomenological Foundation for Social Psychiatry Chapter 5: Frederick J. Wertz, Miraj U. Desai, Emily Maynard, Justin R. Misurell, Mary Beth Morrissey, Batya Rotter, Nicoletta C. Skoufalos Research Methods for Person-Centered Health Science: Fordham Studies of Suffering and Transcendence Chapter 6: Idun Røseth & Rob Bongaardt A Phenomenological Understanding of Postpartum Depression and its Treatment Chapter 7: Samuel Thoma & Thomas Fuchs A Phenomenology of Sensus Communis: Outline of a Phenomenological Approach to Social Psychiatry Chapter 8: Susi Ferrarello Husserl's Ethics and Psychiatry Chapter 9: Marc Applebaum The I and the We: Psychological Reflections on Husserl’s Egology Index

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Book SynopsisRecent events worldwide have increased public interest in nonviolence, pacifism, and peace psychology. This important volume assembles multiple perspectives to create a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the concepts and phenomena of nonviolence.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews: “Mayton (Lewis-Clark State College) presents the foundations of peace psychology in this release in the ‘Peace Psychology Book Series.’ … this accessible book will serve both experienced and inexperienced readers in psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science, and philosophy. … Each chapter includes an annotated list of relevant recommended reading and Web sites. … gives specific recommendations for future research. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (E. E. Gratz, Choice, Vol. 47 (7), March, 2010) “Mayton has written an impressive and scholarly text that blends theory, historical references, and empirical research to address the nuances of nonviolence from an intrapersonal to cultural and societal level. … Nonviolence and Peace Psychology is an essential text for individuals across a range of domains from education to clinical practice. … Each chapter is well organized, carefully researched, inclusive of critical evaluation of the theory and research, and extensively referenced. … this book will make a valuable addition to anyone’s personal or university library.” (Linda M. Woolf, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 55 (24), June, 2010)Table of ContentsMeaning of Nonviolence and Pacifism.- Recent History of Nonviolent Responses to Conflict.- Theories of Nonviolence.- Intrapersonal Perspectives of Nonviolence.- Interpersonal Perspectives of Nonviolence.- Cultural and Societal Perspectives of Nonviolence.- Nonviolent Perspectives Within the Abrahamic Religions.- Situational Influences on Nonviolent Action.- Measurement Tools for Research on Nonviolence and Related Concepts.- New Directions for Research on Nonviolence.

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Book SynopsisPsychoanalysis offers many concepts that are extremely useful clinically but not always accessible in the original. In Psychoanalysis and Literature: The Stories We Live, Marilyn Charles pairs case vignettes with examples from literature to highlight the essential human struggles that play out in the consulting room. This pairing depathologizes those struggles and offers a conceptual framework that can help the clinician facilitate these journeys of discovery. Describing first how literature affords an opportunity for vicarious engagement with struggles endemic to the human condition, she then focuses on trauma, dreams, and cultural collisions' turning more explicitly to the developmental challenges of identity, relatedness, aging, and generativity. Psychoanalysis and Literature is accessible, relevant, and timely.Trade ReviewA psychoanalyst in private practice, Charles provides an adroit exploration of the ways in which literature and clinical work often function as mappings of the same terrain—terrain that is at once intellectual, emotional, and behavioral. By bringing her work with patients in sync with her readings of literary texts—by writers from Herman Melville to Virginia Woolf to John Fowles—the author is able to look at the human condition, and the lived lives of her patients, from a vantage point outside the individual therapeutic case. Literature and literary metaphor afford Charles a mode of inquiry that has the special capacity to highlight the structures and patterns that underlie the particulars of a person's life. Charles's investigations of texts and lives crosses the territory of sensory experience, trauma, dreams, relatedness, and identity issues related to the collision of culture, aging, and death. One strength of the book is the author's refusal to pathologize the individual dilemmas playing out in her consulting room; she always sees her patients' lives as part of the larger human condition that literature has mapped independent of the healing arts and sciences. This book will have great appeal to those whose interests are humanistic, clinical, and philosophical, whatever the level of preparation. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. -- Michael Uebel, University of Texas * CHOICE *One of my graduate school professors was fond of telling us that our role as therapists was to be the keepers of others’ stories. Psychoanalysis is a perspective keenly centered on the stories we tell ourselves, both about our own lives and in the realm of fictions. Charles’ Psychoanalysis and Literature is a great contribution to this ever-fruitful conversation. * Psychology Today *"Marilyn Charles unites the dimensions of literature and clinical encounters, creating a fresh perspective of their mutually illuminating interplay. Exploring the value of the unconscious, dreams, myths and metaphors, this precious volume brims with transformative wisdom. Charles conveys the poetry of life’s journey, directing us to live fully, in the experience of mind, body and world and to open deeply to pain and pleasure, trauma and insight––from birth to death." -- Danielle Knafo, Ph.D., Long Island University, author of Dancing with the Unconscious“Marilyn Charles has given us a profound work, a writing clearly destined to become a classic in contemporary psychoanalytic thinking. Her powerful, deeply creative, moving, and accessible prose carries us from literature to dreams to the clinical experience, with an unparalleled intellectual grace and spacious depth of feeling. She succeeds in her effort ‘to understand some essential patterns at the core of the dilemma of being human.’ This is truly a remarkable book that will leave a deep and lasting impression on our field and beyond.” -- Paul Lippmann, Ph.D., William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Institute“Readers from many fields—clinical, academic, and non-professional—will be enriched by this book. With her emphasis upon metaphor, creativity, and the discovery of human experience, Marilyn Charles explores literary and psychoanalytic relations with fresh, sensitive, and smartly subtle intelligence.” -- Marshall Alcorn, PhD, George Washington UniversityFrom the narratives of The Stories We Live, one cannot fail to appreciate Marilyn Charles’s devotion to psychoanalysis….This book shows exquisite breadth in its choices and illuminations of psychoanalytic foundations and directions. Her case studies shadowed by literary tales, bring analysis very close to the reader.… [who] is necessarily engaged with Charles’s love of psychoanalysis, her love of literature, and her fidelity to her patients. -- Kareen Malone, PhD, University of West GeorgiaTable of ContentsPart I: LITERATURE, PSYCHOANALYSIS, AND SENSORY EXPERIENCE Introduction 1.Epiphany: The Poet’s Art, The Analyst’s Instrument: Formal Structure as a Vehicle for the Expression of Primary Experience: To the Lighthouse 2.The Waves: Tensions between Creativity and Containment in the Life and Writings of Virginia Woolf Part II: TRAUMA 3.Falling Man: Encounters with Catastrophic Change 4.Telling Trauma: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Part III: DREAMS 5.The Book of Intimate Grammar: Transgenerational Trauma 6.Dreamscapes: Rectangular Spaces in Memoirs of a Survivor and in Dreams 7.Pictures at an Exhibition: Reparation and Redemption, Nightmare and Memory Part IV: CULTURAL COLLISIONS 8.Collisions Between Conscious and Unconscious; East and West; Enigma and Transparency: Kafka on the Shore 9.Cultural Chasms: Catastrophic Change and the Excluded Other: Mulberry and Peach Part V: THE HERO’S QUEST: IDENTITY AND RELATEDNESS 10.The Labyrinth, Part I: The Magus 11.Journeys into the Labyrinth, Part II: Through the Unknown, Remembered Gate: The Glass Bead Game 12.Standing Outside the Gates: Pierre, or the Ambiguities 13.Identity Derailed: The Echo Maker Part VI: RELATEDNESS, AGING, AND GENERATIVITY 14.Identity, Community, and Object Choice, Part I: Mrs. Dalloway and Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing 15.Identity, Community, and Object Choice, Part II: Possession 16. Aging and Death: The Map and the Territory, The Sense of an Ending, and All Passion

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Book SynopsisIn his late teens and early twenties Erik H. Erikson, the widely acclaimed psychoanalyst and developmental theorist, aspired to be an artist. In Erik Erikson's Verbal Portraits: Luther, Gandhi, Einstein, Jesus, Donald Capps contends that Erikson's portraits of respective historical figures not only reflect his artistic gifts but also make a highly creative contribution to psychoanalytic discourse. Moreover, his verbal portraits are vivid and compelling representations of his multifaceted conception of identity. His emphasis on the formative role of the mutual recognition of mother and infant in human portraiture, the importance he attaches to the Self and the sense of I, and his use of psychoanalysis as a means to experience the living presence of noteworthy historical figures are especially noted. In addition to his portraits of the four men, his brief verbal portrait of Ruth Benedict is presented, and his personal identification with a fifteenth century painting of Mary, the mother oTrade ReviewCapps is on form. Much like Erikson’s work in his own time, Capps delivers a new way of looking at things ‘already familiar.’ Readers will not be disappointed. These beautiful and articulate depictions of Erikson’s verbal portraits give us a new way of looking at the ‘already familiar’ life and achievements of Erikson as a portraitist. I have never seen Erikson in this way before. I admire and deeply enjoy what this book accomplishes. -- Kate Miriam Loewenthal, emeritus, University of LondonErik Erikson put the word ‘identity’ on the map of modern vocabulary, in part because he had his own struggles with identity. Having given up his dream of becoming an artist, Erikson reclaimed this aspect of himself by means of ‘verbal portraits.’ In this remarkable book, Capps demonstrates the ongoing relevance of Erikson’s [portraits] of inspiring individuals and, in so doing, inspires us all. -- Nathan Carlin, PhD, University of Texas Medical School, HoustonDonald Capps does in this book for Erik Erikson what Erikson does in his quartet of 'verbal portraits.' He offers a way of looking at his subject that is richly illuminating because it is informed by his own longstanding personal engagement with one of the towering psychoanalysts of the mid-twentieth century. -- Peter L. Rudnytsky, University of Florida and the Florida Psychoanalytic InstituteTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Identity Concept and the Verbal Portrait 2. Creative Recovery: Portrait of Martin Luther 3. Mutual Recognition: Portrait of Mohandas Gandhi 4. Radiant Intelligence: Portrait of Albert Einstein 5. Self-Reconciliation: Portrait of Jesus of Galilee Epilogue Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWho hasn’t felt the sting of rejection? It doesn’t take much for your feelings to get hurt—a look or a tone of voice or certain words can set you ruminating for hours on what that person meant. An unreturned phone call or a disappointing setback can really throw you off your center. It’s all too easy to take disappointment and rejection personally. You can learn to handle these feelings and create positive options for yourself. Don’t Take It Personally! explores all forms of rejection, where it comes from, and how to overcome the fear of it. Most of all, you’ll learn some terrific tools for stepping back from those overwhelming feelings. You’ll be able to allow space to make choices about how you respond. —Understand the effect that anxiety, frustration, hurt, and anger have on your interactions with others. —De-personalize your responses and establish safe personal boundaries that protect you from getting hurt. —Practice making choices about the thoughts you think and the ways you respond to stressful situations. —Understand and overcome fear of rejection in personal and work relationships. Elayne Savage explores with remarkable sensitivity the myriad of rejection experiences we experience with friends, co-workers, lovers, and family. Because her original ideas have inspired readers around the world, Don’t Take It Personally! has been published in six languages.Trade Review“Never before has the impact of rejection been explored to this degree. Don’t Take It Personally! offers much reassurance and inspiration.” —Susan Jeffers, Ph.D., author of Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway and End the Struggle and Dance with Life “Elayne Savage is right on the money here. Distinguish yourself by buying this book and you’ll never feel rejected again.” —Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump: A Novel “This wonderfully readable book offers wise counsel and information . . . Useful insights into an issue that impacts each of our lives-rejection.” —Judy Tatelbaum, M.S.W., author of The Courage of Grieve “This is psychological education at its best. Elayne Savage has provided a thoughtful, good-humored, original treatment of a crucial life problem.” —Elaine Aron, Ph.D., author of The Highly Sensitive Person

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Book SynopsisDiscover a revolutionary approach to attachment theory that teaches readers how to heal their inner child to change their anxious, avoidant, or disorganized attachment style in relationships, friendships, at work, and home—perfect for readers of How to Do the Work, Polysecure, and Amir Levine’s Attached. Did you know that attachment style impacts more than romantic relationships? As it turns out, most of us are thinking about Attachment Theory all wrong, and triple board-certified clinical and forensic neuropsychologist Dr. Judy Ho is here to set the record straight.   Grounded in the science of attachment, Dr. Judy’s game-changing approach shows that our attachment style impacts every aspect of our lives: friendships, career, goal setting, and, critically, our sense of self. Moreover, we can all learn to become securely attached—no matter what attachment style we developed in childhood—meaning that we can

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