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In this ambitious follow-up to Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay uses the Odyssey, the story of a soldier's homecoming, to illuminate the pitfalls that trap many veterans on the road back to civilian life. Seamlessly combining important psycho- logical work and brilliant literary interpretation with an impassioned plea to renovate American military institutions, Shay deepens our understanding of both the combat veteran's experience and one of the world's greatest classics.
An explanation of how Peruvian migrants maintain meaningful social
relations across borders. In this engaging volume, Ulla D. Berg
examines the conditions under which Peruvians of rural and
working-class origins leave the central highlands to migrate to the
United States. Migrants often create new portrayals of themselves
to overcome the class and racial biases that they had faced in
their home country, as well as to control the images they share of
themselves with others back home. Migrant videos, for example,
which document migrants' lives for family back home, are often
sanitized to avoid causing worry. By exploring the ways in which
migration is mediated between the Peruvian Andes and the United
States, this book makes a major contribution to understanding
technology's role in fostering new forms of migrant sociality and
subjectivity. It focuses on the forms of sociality and belonging
that these mediations enable, adding to important anthropological
debates about affect, subjectivity, and sociality in today's mobile
world. It also makes significant contributions to studies of
inequality in Latin America, showcasing the intersection of
transnational mobility with structures and processes of exclusion
in both national and global contexts. A key resource for
understanding the experiences of racialized and indigenous migrant
populations, Mobile Selves demonstrates the critical role that
ethnography can play in transdisciplinary migration studies and
exemplifies what comparative migration studies stand to gain from
anthropological analysis and ethnographic methodologies.
Midwest Publishing Association Award of Excellence Since its origin
in the early 1980s, the field of developmental psychopathology has
become a highly influential framework for approaching the clinical
treatment of children. Until now there has been no effort to
integrate this framework with a Christian understanding of
psychopathology. The essays in this volume break new ground by
providing Christian mental health professionals with a
theoretically and empirically sound basis for working with
children, adolescents and families. Throughout the book, the
authors explore three integrative themes, looking at children as
divine gifts, as persons and as agents in their own development.
Given the deep biblical and theological interest in children and
the "least of these," there is great potential in this integrative
work for mutual enrichment. Christian insights help to prevent the
scientific study of the developmental process from being reductive.
At the same time, research into the biological, sociocultural and
psychological dimensions of human development can serve to inform
and guide Christian practices of care and hospitality toward
children and families. Christianity and Developmental
Psychopathology makes an important contribution to a conversation
that is still in its infancy. Christian Association for
Psychological Studies (CAPS) Books explore how Christianity relates
to mental health and behavioral sciences including psychology,
counseling, social work, and marriage and family therapy in order
to equip Christian clinicians to support the well-being of their
clients.
Despite the important place it occupies in both Freudian and
Lacanian nosology, obsessional neurosis has received far less
attention than its erstwhile companion hysteria. This book
elaborates and deepen research into questions of obsession, going
beyond the usual cliches which reduce obsession to the question "Am
I alive or dead?". Emphasis is given to the structure of this
neurosis, as distinguished from its symptomatology, and to clinical
questions of work with obsessional subjects. The chapters provide
discussions of some of the following themes: the creation of the
category of obsessional neurosis and of obsessive-compulsive
disorder (OCD), the fate of desire and the inability to act in
obsession, debt and guilt, obsessional manoeuvres and their
implications for the treatment. The book will be of interest to
readers with academic or clinical backgrounds who wish to deepen
their understanding of obsessional neurosis from a theoretical or
clinical point of view. Newcomers to the subject will find
signposts here that guide them through the complex landscape of
obsession and lead them to avenues they may wish to pursue further.
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Lab Girl is a book about work and about love, and the mountains
that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told
through Jahren's remarkable stories: about the discoveries she has
made in her lab, as well as her struggle to get there; about her
childhood playing in her father's laboratory; about how lab work
became a sanctuary for both her heart and her hands; about Bill,
the brilliant, wounded man who became her loyal colleague and best
friend; about their field trips - sometimes authorised, sometimes
very much not - that took them from the Midwest across the USA, to
Norway and to Ireland, from the pale skies of North Pole to
tropical Hawaii; and about her constant striving to do and be her
best, and her unswerving dedication to her life's work. Visceral,
intimate, gloriously candid and sometimes extremely funny, Jahren's
descriptions of her work, her intense relationship with the plants,
seeds and soil she studies, and her insights on nature enliven
every page of this thrilling book. In Lab Girl, we see anew the
complicated power of the natural world, and the power that can come
from facing with bravery and conviction the challenge of
discovering who you are.
`The patient suddenly resembled a writhing snake of great strength... More frightening than the writhing body,however,was the face. The eyeswere hooded with lazy reptilian torpor...` This is the second bestselling book by Dr M, Scott Peck. Here Dr ScottPeck describes his encounters during psychiatric therapy with patientswho are not merely ill but manifestly evil - People of the Lie. This brilliant,disturbing book forces us to confront the darker side of our natures and to recogise that without spiritual (and indeed religious) dimension,modern psychiatry cannot claim to understand human nature or behaviour. It is a worthy successor to The Road Less Travelled.
A CHILLING FOLLOW-UP TO THE POPULAR TRUE CRIME BOOK THE ANATOMY OF
EVIL Revisiting Dr. Michael Stone's groundbreaking 22-level
Gradations of Evil Scale, a hierarchy of evil behavior first
introduced in the book The Anatomy of Evil, Stone and Dr. Gary
Brucato, a fellow violence and serious psychopathology expert, here
provide even more detail, using dozens of cases to exemplify the
categories along the continuum. The New Evil also presents
compelling evidence that, since a cultural tipping-point in the
1960s, certain types of violent crime have emerged that in earlier
decades never or very rarely occurred. The authors examine the
biological and psychiatric factors behind serial killing, serial
rape, torture, mass and spree murders, and other severe forms of
violence. They persuasively argue that, in at least some cases, a
collapse of moral faculties contributes to the commission of such
heinous crimes, such that "evil" should be considered not only a
valid area of inquiry, but, in our current cultural climate, an
imperative one. They consider the effects of new technologies and
sociological, cultural, and historical factors since the 1960s that
may have set the stage for "the new evil." Further, they explain
how personality, psychosis, and other qualities can meaningfully
contribute to particular crimes, making for many different motives.
Relying on their extensive clinical experience, and examination of
writings and artwork by infamous serial killers, these experts
offer many insights into the logic that drives horrible criminal
behavior, and they discuss the hope that in the future such
violence may be prevented.
Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into
and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the
"disease model" of addiction is wrong and illuminates the path to
recovery.The psychiatric establishment and rehab industry in the
Western world have branded addiction a brain disease, based on
evidence that brains change with drug use. But in The Biology of
Desire , cognitive neuroscientist and former addict Marc Lewis
makes a convincing case that addiction is not a disease, and shows
why the disease model has become an obstacle to healing.Lewis
reveals addiction as an unintended consequence of the brain doing
what it's supposed to do-seek pleasure and relief-in a world that's
not cooperating. Brains are designed to restructure themselves with
normal learning and development, but this process is accelerated in
addiction when highly attractive rewards are pursued repeatedly.
Lewis shows why treatment based on the disease model so often
fails, and how treatment can be retooled to achieve lasting
recovery, given the realities of brain plasticity. Combining
intimate human stories with clearly rendered scientific
explanation, The Biology of Desire is enlightening and optimistic
reading for anyone who has wrestled with addiction either
personally or professionally.
Helps readers to identify how narcissism shows up in their own
lives and when everyday narcissism becomes destructive. The
Narcissist in You and Everyone Elseintroduces readers to the notion
of narcissism as a spectrum-based model of increasing loss of
empathy (due to a variety of factors including genetics, trauma,
abuse, conditioning and environment) that can give way to a
propensity toward narcissism. Through studies and examples, Sterlin
Mosley defines the 27 subtypes of narcissism and how these
variations differ from the limited description of the narcissistic
as popularized in psychological literature, movies, and other forms
of popular culture. He offers readers an opportunity to explore how
their own narcissistic tendencies may show up and how to challenge
those tendencies to continue to push for greater compassion and
empathy for ourselves and others. Using the Enneagram model of
personality, Mosley explores and explains the variety of
narcissistic tendencies and types and reveals useful tips on how to
best to manage those tendencies in ourselves and the narcissists
around us.
Everybody has heard the statement "they are a hoarder" but not so
many many of us really know what it means. Pathological hoarding
was first formally conceptualised as a syndrome separate from OCD
in the early 1990s, yet it wasn't until 2013 that hoarding received
formal psychiatric diagnostic criteria in the DSM. Recognizing and
Treating Hoarding Disorder looks at how a mental health
professional who sees clients in an office can determine if
hoarding is a factor in a client's life. Here, Carol Mathews
provides readers with the first-ever comprehensive clinical book on
hoarding, covering every aspect of the disorder. Topics include:
epidemiology and impact; screening tools and clinical interview
tools for assessment; differential diagnosis and co-occurring
disorders; when to suspect mild cognitive impairment and dementia;
hoarding behaviours in children; how to differentiate normal
keeping of items from hoarding; animal hoarding; the neurobiology
of hoarding disorder; treatments, both psychopharmacological and
otherwise; self-help options; and the impact of hoarding on the
family.
A stunning exploration of the relation between desire and
psychopathology, The Death of Desire is a unique synthesis of the
work of Laing, Freud, Nietzsche, and Heidegger that renders their
often difficult concepts brilliantly accessible to and usable by
psychotherapists of all persuasions. In bridging a critical gap
between phenomenology and psychoanalysis, M. Guy Thompson, one of
the leading existential psychoanalysts of our time, firmly
re-situates the unconscious - what Freud called "the lost continent
of repressed desires" - in phenomenology. In so doing, he provides
us with the richest, most compelling phenomenological treatment of
the unconscious to date and also makes Freud's theory of the
unconscious newly comprehensible. In this revised and updated
second edition to the original published in 1985, M. Guy Thompson
takes us inside his soul-searching seven-year apprenticeship with
radical psychiatrist R. D. Laing and his cohorts as it unfolded in
counterculture London of the 1970s. This rite de passage culminates
with a four-year sojourn inside one of Laing's post-Kingsley Hall
asylums, where Laing's unorthodox conception of treatment dispenses
with conventional boundaries between "doctor" and "patient." In
this unprecedented exploration, Thompson reveals the secret to
Laing's astonishing alternative to the conventional psychiatric and
psychoanalytic treatment schemes. Movingly written and deeply
personal, Thompson shows why the very concept of "mental illness"
is a misnomer and why sanity and madness should be understood
instead as inherently puzzling stratagems that we devise in order
to protect ourselves from intolerable mental anguish. The Death of
Desire offers a provocative and challenging reappraisal of depth
psychotherapy from an existential perspective that will be of
interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, philosophers, social
scientists, and students of the human condition.
The opioid epidemic is laying waste to America. Overdose deaths
have decimated a generation and lowered overall life expectancy.
Between the greed of Big Pharma, the war on drugs, and ineffectual
treatment, addicts and their families face an uphill battle in
getting the help they need. But there is a way out! Noted recovery
professionals Eric Spofford and Piers Kaniuka are providing some
much-needed hope. In this book, they describe how they beat opiate
addiction and went on to help thousands of addicts find recovery.
Along the way, they discuss the root causes of the current opiate
epidemic, which include dislocation, the prison industrial complex,
the greed of the pharmaceutical industry, stress, racism, poverty,
and much more. In addition, Real People Real Recovery explains the
difference between recovery and sobriety and what actually
constitutes success in treatment. Provides useful, unique
information on how to choose the right treatment center for
yourself or your loved one. Offers valuable insight from two of the
leading voices in the New England recovery community as well as
from Dr. Bruce Alexander, a noted pioneer in the field. Thoroughly
explains their model of addiction treatment, which focuses on the
root causes of addiction and why meaning, purpose, and connection
are essential to recovery. Analyzes and assesses the societal
factors that are exacerbating and perpetuating the opioid epidemic
in the U.S. Provides a unique blueprint for recovery that weds the
12 Steps and the Dislocation Theory of addiction.
This new collection of essays by distinguished international
scholars and clinicians will revolutionize your understanding of
madness. Essential for those on both sides of the couch eager to
make sense of the plethora of theories about madness available
today, Lacan on Madness: Madness, Yes You Can't provides compelling
and original perspectives following the work of Jacques Lacan.
Patricia Gherovici and Manya Steinkoler suggest new ways of working
with phenomena often considered impermeable to clinical
intervention or discarded as meaningless. This book offers a fresh
view on a wide variety of manifestations and presentations of
madness, featuring clinical case studies, new theoretical
developments in psychosis, and critical appraisal of artistic
expressions of insanity. Lacan on Madness uncovers the logics of
insanity while opening new possibilities of treatment and cure.
Intervening in current debates about normalcy and pathology,
causation and prognosis, the authors propose effective modalities
of treatment, and challenge popular ideas of what constitutes a
cure offering a reassessment of the positive and creative potential
of madness. Gherovici and Steinkoler's book makes Lacanian ideas
accessible by showing how they are both clinically and critically
useful. It is invaluable reading for psychoanalysts, clinicians,
academics, graduate students, and lay persons.
What does it mean to have a personality? Is emotional intelligence
a kind of intelligence? Learn the answers to these questions, as
well as everything you need to know about personality,
intelligence, and individual differences in the third edition of
this clear and accessible textbook. From natural selection to
intelligence tests, and from personality disorders to the concept
of IQ, the panoramic coverage of this field makes this textbook
essential reading for any psychology student on a personality and
individual differences course. New to this edition: * Increased
coverage of intelligence * 'Key Theorists' feature * Discussion
questions moved to end-of-chapter to enable in-text assessment Nick
Haslam is Professor of Psychology at the University of Melbourne,
Australia. Luke Smillie is an Associate Professor of Psychology at
the University of Melbourne and director of the Personality
Processes Lab.
Thoroughly revised and updated with the latest research and
methodologies, the fourth edition of the classic guide written
specifically for parents, friends, and caregivers of individuals
with eating disorders. For more than thirty years, this classic
guide has been an essential resource for the "silent
sufferers"-those affected by a loved one's eating disorder. This
revised edition put family and friends at the center of the
treatment process, providing the latest information on the methods
and practices available to facilitate the recovery process.
Surviving an Eating Disorder is the first book for family and
friends to use a psychological perspective to understand eating
disorders. Other treatment manuals or self-help books propose
change but Surviving is the first to consider why change can be so
hard for everyone involved. The factors that can hinder progress
are discussed and the methods that can work are emphasized.
Illustrated with case examples, this fourth edition explains the
latest treatments and provides the necessary tools to carefully
evaluate what can be most effective for each reader's individual
care. The authors offer concrete advice and support, urging readers
to care for both themselves and their relationships as they support
their loved ones struggling with food and eating issues. With its
combination of information, insight, and practical strategies,
Surviving an Eating Disorder considers crisis as opportunity-a time
for the possibility of hope and change for everyone involved.
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