Updated with three entirely new chapters. Represents psychosomatic work internationally. Leading contributors.

Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical psychotherapy remain an unparalleled source of insights into the unconscious determinants and dimensions of psychological suffering. However, there is a worldwide debate as to the most appropriate ways in which to carry out research into psychopathology and treatment, which remains true to the essence of the discipline. This volume presents the rationales, methods and findings of some of the main empirical studies. The methodological and scientific problems, as well as some sophisticated solutions, are illustrated with concrete research examples. The distinguished authors of this volume share the common aim to bridge the gap between practicing therapists and researchers.

Drucilla Cornell interweaves the ethical and the political in this unique and profound narrative, focusing on women and dignity.Before Drucilla Cornell’s mother died, she asked her daughter to write a book, “that would bear witness to the dignity of her death [and that] her bridge class would be able to understand.” Shortly thereafter, Cornell’s mother, who had a degenerative disease, decided to claim her right to die. Forceful, honest, and unsentimental, this is the book that Cornell promised to write.Cornell uses the personal as a springboard to discuss contemporary issues concerning women today. She engages with the difficult nature of intergenerational relationships between women by writing about her relationship to her own mother. The fundamental argument of Between Women and Generations is that all women should have the conditions under which they can claim dignity in their own lives. It is necessary to create such conditions, Cornell argues, because even when women are physically harmed and morally wronged, they do not lose their dignity. Cornell tells the story of her adoption of Sarita Graciela Kellow Cornell, her Paraguayan daughter, and of her relationship with UNITY, a cooperative of house cleaners in Long Island, New York. She creates a powerful picture of the legacies of dignity between women and generations.

There is a moment at every level of psychological development in which the mind comes face to face with a challenge. This moment can last for a literal moment in time or it can extend for years becoming the leading edge of development. Disordered Thought and Development: Chaos to Organization in the Moment explores the processes around that moment. The exploration begins with a psychotic analysand in which these processes loudly reveal themselves. From there, the exploration extends to a young child with pervasive developmental disorder and then on to four other cases, each revealing the elements and dynamics necessary for development to proceed. One of the elements includes the vicissitudes of affect from its raw, unprocessed form that is initially experienced as chaotic bodily sensations without meaning to one that carries meaning, purpose, and direction. Another element is the organizational capacities that help to solve a problem that has never been solved before. The dynamics of the moment can be understood within the context of non-linear systems theory as the mind is conceptualized as a self-organizing system in the process of evolving. This book provides clinicians with a touchstone that can help guide development of all the individuals they are called on to assist whether they are anxious, obsessional, psychotic or neurotic, and whether they are children, adolescents, or adults."

Contents:
Volume I: Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice
1. Jacques-Alain Miller Paradigms of Jouissance, lacanian Ink 17 pp. 10-47 [2000]
2. Jacqueline Rose The Imaginary, in Colin McCabe, ed., The Talking Cure pp. 132-161 [St. Martin's Press, 1981]
3. Martin Thom The Unconscious Structured as a Language, in Colin McCabe, ed., The Talking Cure pp. 1-44 [St. Martin's Press, 1981]
4. Moustapha Safouan In Praise of Hysteria, in Stuart Schneiderman, ed., Returning to Freud pp. 55-60 [Yale UP, 1980]
5. Gerard Wajeman The Hysteric's Discourse Hystoria (Lacan Study Notes: Special Issue) pp. 1-22 [1988]
6. Michel Silvestre Conducting the Hysteric's Cure Hystoria (Lacan Study Notes: Special Issue) pp. 23-33 [1988]
7. Darian Leader, Why Do Women Write More Letters Than They Post pp. 123-159 [Faber and Faber, 1996]
8. Charles Mehlman On Obsessional Neurosis, in Stuart Schneiderman, ed., Returning to Freud pp. 130-138 [Yale UP, 1980]
9. Jacques-Alain Miller H20: Suture in Obsessionality Hystoria (Lacan Study Notes: Special Issue) pp. 34-44 [1988]
10. Octave Mannoni Je sais bien, mais quand meme Clefs pour l'imaginaire pp. 9-33 [Editions du Seuil, 1968]
11. Jean Clavreuil The Perverse Couple, in Stuart Schneiderman, ed., Returning to Freud pp. 215-233 [Yale UP, 1980]
12. Jacques-Alain Miller On Perversion, in Richard Feldstein, Bruce Fink, Maire Jaanus, eds., Reading Seminars I and II pp. 306-320 [SUNY Press, 1996]
13. Serge Leclaire, Psychoanalyzing: On the Order of the Unconscious and the Practice of the Letter, Chapters 5 and 7 [Stanford UP, 1998]
14. Jean Laplanche Interpretation between Determinism and Hermeneutics: a Restatement of the Problem Essays on Otherness pp. 138-165 [Routledge, 1999]
15. Anne Dunand The End of Analysis, in Richard Feldstein, Bruce Fink, Maire Jaanus, eds., Reading Seminar XI pp. 243-256 [SUNY Press, 1995]
16. Kirsten Hyldgaard The Cause of the Subject as an Ill-timed Accident: Lacan, Sartre and Aristotle Umbr(a): A Journal of the Unconscious pp. 67-80 [2000]
17. Bruce Fink The Subject and the Other's Desire, in Richard Feldstein, Bruce Fink, Maire Jaanus, eds., Reading Seminars I and II pp. 76-97 [SUNY Press, 1996]
18. Jean-Claude Milner The Doctrine of Science Umbr(a): A Journal of the Unconscious 2000: Science and Truth pp. 33-63
Volume II: Philosophy
19. Mladen Dolar Cogito as the Subject of the Unconscious, in Slavoj Zizek, ed., Cogito and the Unconscious pp. 11-40 [Duke UP, 1998]
20. Alain Badiou Descartes/Lacan Umbr(a): A Journal of the Unconscious: On Badiou, pp. 13-16, 1996
21. Bernard Baas Le desir pur Ornicar?, No 43, pp. 56-91 [1987]
22. Alenka Zupancic The Subject of the Law, in Slavoj Zizek, ed., Cogito and the Unconscious pp. 41-73 [Duke UP, 1998]
23. Joan Copjec Euthanasia of Reason Read My Desire: Lacan against the Historicists pp. 201-236 [The MIT Press, 199X]
24. Slavoj Zizek Cogito and the Sexual Difference Tarrying With the Negative pp. 45-80 [Duke UP, 1993]
25. Richard Boothby Figurations of the Objet a, Freud as Philosopher pp. 241-280 [Routledge, 2001]
26. Edward S. Casey and J. Melvin Woody Hegel, Heidegger, Lacan: The Dialectic of Desire, in Joseph H. Smith and William Kerrigan, eds., Interpreting Lacan pp. 75-112 [Yale UP, 1973]
27. Hermann Lang Language and Finitude Language and the Unconscious. Lacan's Hermeneutics of Psychoanalysis pp. 135-177 [Humanities Press, 1999]
28. Gilles Deleuze The Logic of Sense pp. 27-48 [Columbia UP, 1990]
29. Barbara Johnson The Frame of Reference: Poe, Lacan, Derrida, in John P. Muller and William J. Richardson, eds., The Purloined Poe pp. 457-505 [Johns Hopkins UP, 1988]
30. Jean-Claude Milner, For the Love of Language, Chapters 5, 6 and 7 [MacMillan, 19XX]
Volume III: Society, Politics, Ideology
31. Fredric Jameson Imaginary and Symbolic in Lacan The Ideologies of Theory. Essays 1971-1986, Vol. 1 pp. 75-115 [Minnesota UP, 1988]
32. Louis Althusser Freud and Lacan Writings on Psychoanalysis pp. 13-32 [Columbia UP, 1996]
33. Mladen Dolar Lacan and the Uncanny October 58 pp. 5-23 [1991]
34. Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen The Freudian Subject: From Politics to Ethics The Emotional Tie pp. 15-35 [Stanford UP, 1992]
35. Gilbert D. Chaitin The Subject and the Symbolic Order: Historicity, Mathematics, Poetry Rhetoric and Culture in Lacan pp. 195-242 [Cambridge UP, 1996]
36. Henry Krips, Fetish: An Erotics of Culture pp. 73-117 [Cornell UP, 1999]
37. Eric Santner Freud's Moses and the Ethics of Nomothropic Desire, in Renata Salecl, ed., Sexuation pp. 57-105 [Duke UP, 2000]
38. Alain Grosrichard The Case of Polyphemus, in Slavoj Zizek, ed., Cogito and the Unconscious pp. 117-148 [Duke UP, 1998]
39. Miran Bozovic An Utterly Dark Spot An Utterly Dark Spot pp. 95-120 [The University of Michigan Press, 2000]
40. Yannis Stavrakakis Encircling the Political Lacan And the Political pp. 71-98 [Routledge, 2000]
41. Ernesto Laclau Why do Empty Signifiers Matter to Politics? Emancipation(s), pp. 36-46 [Verso Books, 1995]
42. Yannis Stavrakakis Laclau With Lacan Umbr(a): A Journal of the Unconscious pp. 134-153 [2000]
43. Slavoj Zizek Che vuoi? The Sublime Object of Ideology pp. 87-129 [Verso Books, 1989]
44. Robert Pfaller Negation and Its Reliabilities: An Empty Subject for Ideology?, in Slavoj Zizek, ed., Cogito and the Unconscious pp. 225-246 [Duke UP, 1998]
45. Jerry Aline Flieger Is Oedipus On-line?, in Pretexts: studies in writing and culture, Vol. 6 No 1, pp. 81-94 [1997]
Volume IV: Culture
46. Jacques-Alain Miller Suture Screen Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 24-34 [1977/78]
47. Alain Badiou Complementary Note On a Contemporary Usage Of Frege Umbr(a): A Journal of the Unconscious 2000: Science and Truth pp. 107-113 [Buffalo]
48. Jean-Pierre Oudart Cinema and Suture Screen Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 35-47 [1977/78]
49. Stephen Heath Notes on Suture Screen Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 48-76 [1977/78]
50. Alain Badiou What Is Love?, in Renata Salecl, ed., Sexuation pp. 263-281 [Duke UP, 2000]
51. Alenka Zupancic The Case of the Perforated Sheet, in Renata Salecl, ed., Sexuation pp. 282-296 [Duke UP, 2000]
52. Mladen Dolar The Object Voice, in Renata Salecl and Slavoj Zizek, eds., Gaze and Voice as Love Objects pp. 7-31 [Duke UP, 1996]
53. Michel Chion, The Voice in Cinema pp. 17-57 [Columbia UP, 1999]
54. Mary Ann Doane Sublimation and the Psychoanalysis of the Aesthetic Femmes Fatales pp. 249-267 [Routledge, 1991]
55. Pascal Bonitzer Hitchcockian Suspense, in Slavoj Zizek, ed., Everything you always wanted to know about Lacan (but were afraid to ask Hitchcock) pp. 13-30 [Verso Books, 1992]
56. Richard Maltby A Brief Romantic Interlude, in David Bordwell and Noel Carroll, eds., Post-Theory pp. 13-30 [The University of Wisconsin Press, 1996]
57. Gerard Wajcman The Absence of the 20th Century Lacanian Ink 18 pp. 60-79 [2001]
58. Michel Poizat, The Angel's Cry: Beyond the Pleasure Principle in Opera, Part II, chapter 2 ("Entre parole, cri et silence") [Cornell UP, 1992]
59. Jacqueline Rose Daddy The Haunting of Sylvia Plath pp. 205-238 [Virago, 1991]
60. Alenka Zupancic Lacan's Heroines: Antigone and Sygne de Coufontaine New Formations, No. 35, pp. 108-121

Neuroscience and Behavioral Neuroscience offered by many universities, and coursework has historically been very technical/scientific, now there is increasing demand within these programs for showing application. This book fills this gap in the market. Looks to dispel myths as well as reinforcing careful application of behavioral neuroscience. Spans many areas and gives a broad overview of BN careers: from clinical practice, forensics, consumer psychology, economics, leadership, education, health and robotics.

Constructing Measures introduces a way to understand the advantages and disadvantages of measurement instruments. It explains the ways to use such instruments, and how to apply these methods to develop new instruments or adapt old ones, based on item response modeling and construct references. Now in its second edition, this book focuses on the steps taken while constructing an instrument, and breaks down the "building blocks" that make up an instrument-the construct map, the design plan for the items, the outcome space, and the statistical measurement model. The material covers a variety of item formats, including multiple-choice, open-ended, and performance items, projects, portfolios, Likert and Guttman items, behavioral observations, and interview protocols. Each chapter includes an overview of the key concepts, related resources for further investigation, and exercises and activities. A variety of examples from the behavioral and social sciences and education-including achievement and performance testing, attitude measures, health measures, and general sociological scales-demonstrate the application of the material. Accompanying downloadable resources feature control files, output, and a data set to allow readers to compute the text's exercises and create new analyses and case archives based on the book's examples so the reader can work through the entire development of an instrument. New to this edition are additional example contexts including a cognitive/achievement example, an attitude example, and a behavioral example; new concentrations on specific measurement issues and practices such as standard-setting, computer-delivery and reporting, and going beyond the Likert response format; and updated online resource with new materials, such as selected research articles with data sets and teaching resources like a syllabus and PowerPoint slides. Constructing Measures is an invaluable text for undergraduate and graduate courses on item, test, or instrument development; measurement; item response theory; or Rasch analysis taught in a variety of departments including education, statistics, and psychology. The book also appeals to practitioners who develop instruments, including industrial/organizational, educational, and school psychologists; health outcomes researchers; program evaluators; and sociological measurers.

This second edition has been substantially revised and expanded to form a truly comprehensive, practical guide to research methods and statistical analysis. The text retains the successful student-centred approach, assuming no background knowledge. Logically and intuitively organised, the book introduces key terms and concepts, progressing through the process of selecting a study and analysing results right through to the final point of preparing a report. This edition has been extensively revised to offer more detailed coverage - including more depth on topics such as power, meta-analysis, ethics, the literature review, questionnaire design, small sample research, and graphing techniques. Coverage of qualitative methods has been expanded to include more on software tools and IPA. The book offers a range of support focused on essential concepts, practicalities, and a new feature to highlight important research from the scientific literature. The examples have been increased and updated to help clarify concepts and further support the reader in developing both a conceptual and practical understanding of research and analysis. The book relates to the most recent version of PASW statistics (previously SPSS).

This book is based on the work done by a group of British and Italian psychoanalysts who have been meeting twice yearly since 2003 to study clinically the relationship between the mind and the body of their patients. The analytical dyad became the focus of a dialectical movement between body and mind and between subject and object. Containing contributions from a range of distinguished British and Italian analysts, this book covers such key topics as somatic symptoms, the embodied unconscious, bodily expressions of affect, sexuality, violence, self-harm, suicide attempts, hypochondria, hysteria, anorexia and bulimia, and splits and fragmentation associated with the body. The theoretical understanding is inspired by various psychoanalytic theoreticians, including Freud, M. Klein, Winnicott and Bion and their theories on sexuality, infantile sexuality, libido, aggressiveness, death instinct, Oedipus complex and mother-child relationship. Offering new advances in theoretical thinking and practical applications for clinical work, this book will be essential for all psychoanalysts and mental health clinicians interested in understanding serious mental disturbance that is represented in the body.

In the face of trauma, our assumptive world - the world experienced as normal or predictable - is seriously disrupted. This disruption, this "loss of our assumptive world" functions as a metaphor for traumatic loss in this volume, providing extraordinary insight into the psychology of trauma, loss and change. Loss of the Assumptive World: A Theory of Traumatic Loss builds on Ronnie Janoff-Bulman's new psychology of trauma and Colin Murray Parkes' principle of psychosocial change. It is a concept that allows for the close examination of the psychological disturbance that takes place in the wake of a traumatic event. The authors in this collection examine the loss of the assumptive world and its reconstruction from diverse theoretical perspectives including constructivist and narrative theory, Kohutian self-psychology, betrayal theory, psychoanalysis and coping theory. The diversity of perspectives and distinct interpretations illuminates the loss of the assumptive world concept and its clinical usefulness while articulating a spirit of hope and resilience in the face of traumatic loss.


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These two volumes represent the cutting edge of contemporary theory and research in psychological science. Based on the keynote and state-of-the-art lectures from the 27th International Congress of Psychology, the volumes feature a collection of chapters written by international leaders in psychological scholarship. The chapters reflect the diversity of current research topics in psychology, where old boundaries have become obsolete and subdivisions from the past merge to form new objects of study. Volume 1 addresses cognitive, biological, and health perspectives. It includes sections on the neural mechanisms underlying psychological processes; the core areas in experimental psychology, perception, attention, learning, and memory; the multiple aspects of psychological health; the interaction between cognitive and emotional processes; and higher cognitive processes with special focus on decision-making and language. Volume 2 deals with social, developmental, and clinical perspectives. The sections highlight human development across the life span; basic and applied issues in personality, emotion, and clinical psychology; social psychology, ranging from experimental work through social constructivism; and gender.

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How is one to understand the nature of intelligence? One approach is through psychometric testing, but such an approach often puts the "cart before the horse"--the test before the theory. Another approach is to use evolutionary theory. This criterion has been suggested by a number of individuals in the past, from Charles Darwin in the more distant past to Howard Gardner, Stephen Gould, Steven Pinker, Carl Sagan, David Stenhouse, and many others. The chapters in this book address three major questions:
1. Does evolutionary theory help us understand the nature of human intelligence?
2. If so, what does it tell us about the nature of human intelligence?
3. And if so, how has intelligence evolved?
The goal of this book is to present diverse points of view on the evolution of intelligence as offered by leading experts in the field. In particular, it may be possible to better understand the nature and societal implications of intelligence by understanding how and why it has evolved as it has. This book is unique in offering a diversity of points of view on the topic of the evolution of human intelligence.

Contents:
EPIDEMIOLOGY
Blazer, D.G., Kessler, R.C., McGonagle, K.A., and Swartz, M.S. 'The Prevalence and Distribution of Major Depression in a National Community Sample: The National Comorbidity Survey.' American Journal of Psychiatry 151 (1994).
Burke, K.C., Burke, J.D. Jr., Rae, D.S. and Regier, D.A. 'Comparing Age at Onset of Major Depression and Other Psychiatric Disorders by Birth Cohorts in Five US Community Populations.' Archives of General Psychiatry 48 (1991)
Judd, L.L., Paulus, M.P., Wells, K.B. and Rapoport, M.H. 'Socioeconomic Burden of Subsyndromal Depressive Symptoms and Major Depression in a Sample of the General Population.' American Journal of Psychiatry 153 (1996).
Murphy, J.M., Laird, N.M., Monson, R.R., Sobol, A.M., and Leighton, A.H. 'A 40-Year Perspective on the Prevalence of Depression.' Archives of General Psychiatry 57 (2000).

NATURAL HISTORY
Kessler, R.C. 'The Effects of Stressful Life Events on Depression.' Annual Review of Psychology 48 (1997).

DEPRESSION AND MEDICAL DISORDERS
Krishnan, K.R., Hays, J.C., and Blazer, D.G., 'MRI Defined Vascular Depression.' American Journal of Psychiatry 154 (1997).
Musselman, D.L., Evans, D.L., and Nemeroff, C.B. 'The Relationship of Depression to Cardiovascular Disease: Epidemiology, Biology, and Treatment.' Archives of General Psychiatry 55 (1998).

GENES AND ENVIRONMENT
Kendler, K.S., Heath, A.C., Martin, N.G., and Eaves, L.J. 'Symptoms of Anxiety and Symptoms of Depression. Same Genes, Different Environments?' Archives of General Psychiatry 44 (1987).
Malhi, G.S., Moore, J., and McGuffin, P. 'The Genetics of Major Depressive Disorder.' Current Psychiatry Reports (2000).
Sullivan, P.F., Neale, M.C., and Kendler, K.S. 'Genetic Epidemiology of Major Depression: Review and Meta-Analysis.' American Journal of Psychiatry 157 (2000).
Weiss, E.L., Longhurst, J.G., and Mazure, C. 'Childhood Sexual Abuse as a Risk Factor for Depression in Women: Psychosocial and Neurobiological Correlates.' American Journal of Psychiatry 156 (1999).

EVOLUTION
Nesse, R.M. 'Is Depression an Adaptation?' Archives of General Psychiatry 57 (2000).

NEUROBIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOUR
Drevets, W.C., Price, J.L., Simpson, J.R., Todd, R.D., Reich, T., Vannier, M., and Raichle, M.E., 'Subgenual Prefrontal Cortex Abnormalities in Mood Disorders.' Nature 386 (1997).
Duman, R.S., Heniger, G.R., and Nestler, E.J. 'A Molecular and Cellular Theory of Depression.' Archives of General Psychiatry 54 (1997).
Heim, C. and Nemeroff, C.B. 'The Impact of Early Adverse Experiences on Brain Systems Involved in the Pathophysiology of Anxiety and Effective Disorders.' Biological Psychiatry 46 (1999).
Holsboer, F. 'The Corticosteroid Receptor Hypothesis of Depression.' Neuropsychopharmacology 23 (2000).
Mayberg, H.S., Liotti, M., Brannan, S.K., McGinnis, S., Mahurin, R.K., Jerabek, P.A., Silva, J.A., Tekell, J.L., Martin, C.C., Lancaster, J.L., and Fox, P.T. 'Reciprocal Limbic-Cortical Function and Negative Mood: Converging PET Findings in Depression and Normal Sadness.' American Journal of Psychiatry 156 (1999).
Sheline, Y.I., Sanghavi, M., Mintun, M.A., and Gado, M.H. 'Depression Duration but not Age Predicts Hippocampal Volume Loss in Medically Healthy Women with Recurrent Major Depression.' Journal of Neuroscience 19 (1999).

TREATMENT OUTCOMES
Frank, E., and Thase, M.E. 'Natural History and Preventative Treatment of Recurrent Mood Disorders.' Annual Review of Medicine 50 (1999).
Wells, K.B., and Sherbourne, C.D., 'Functioning and Utility for Current Health of Patients with Depression or Chronic Medical Conditions in Managed, Primary Care Practices.' Archives of General Psychiatry 56 (1999).

Wolfgang Pauli, world-renowned physicist, turned to Carl Jung for help, setting a standing appointment for Mondays at noon. Thus bloomed an extraordinary intellectual conjunction. Eighty letters, written over twenty-six years, record that friendship, and are published here in English for the first time.Through the association of these two pioneering thinkers, developments in physics profoundly influenced the evolution of Jungian psychology. And many of Jung's abiding themes shaped how Pauli - and, through him, other physicists - understood the physical world. Atom and Archetype will appeal not only to those interested in the life of Pauli or Jung, but also to the educated general reader.

Provides an in-depth understanding of how certain features of ASD may provide the context of vulnerability to engaging in a number of types of offending behaviours Written by a world-leading expert in the field of violent crime and its relationship to ASD Evidence-based, practical guide to working with Suspects, Defendants and Offenders with Autism, making it suitable for both researchers and professionals across Psychology and Legal domains

Kenneth Sanders' book combines a historical approach to the literature of Freud, Klein and the Post Kleinian development, with demonstrations of the central role of dream analysis. Students and practitioners of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, educationalists, social scientists, doctors, and alll those who value the endeavour to enrich their work with imagination will find fine food for thought in these seminars, both in the survay of the literature, the case histories described, and in the concluding question and answer debates.

This book on Alain Badiou's philosophy begins with a central theme: the attempt to trace how Badiou has replaced the tradition of critical theory and negation with an affirmative support of his four generic procedures (art, science, love, and art) as inseparable from his revitalization of both the subject and the concept of truth. By defining four procedures as conditions of philosophy, Badiou makes the attempt to establish each as inter-related and systematically necessary to make a new proposal for thought. The fidelity to Badiou's project for the 21st century, however, requires a fundamental examination: are his four truths complicated by an inescapable dilemma? And if so, can the four truths be retained, as a whole, or does the individual reader have to make a decision that will alter Badiou's project and conclusions? By presenting the dilemmas of his thought, the scholarly reader will be in a position to then pursue the necessary study to come to their own conclusions and, by doing so, become sufficiently free to resist the many coercions of social and political life in liberal democracies today.

This is the 3rd volume in the definitive guide to Lacan's work in English; Lacan is very influential in the fields of psychoanalysis, literary criticism and cultural studies, but poorly understood; Lacanian psychoanalysis is the single biggest school of thought globally

This sensitive guide for carers and professionals working with children and young people explains the serious issues of sexual content and harm that children face online. Covering technologies used by children aged two through to adulthood, it offers clear, evidence-based information about sexual-based online harm, its effects and what adults can do to support children should they see, hear or bear witness to these events online. Catherine Knibbs, specialist advisor in the field, explains the issues involved when using online platforms and devices in family, social and educational settings. The guide offers an accessible explanation of how online harm impacts developmental, neurological and social development, as well as young people’s mental health and well-being. Examined in as non-traumatising a way as possible, the book covers key topics, including consent, pornography, online grooming, sexting, live streaming, revenge porn, ASD sexuality and gender, and vigilantism. Offering guidance and proactive and reactive strategies based on neuroscience and child development, it shows how e-safety is not one-size-fits-all and must consider the vulnerabilities of individual children and families. Children and Sexual-Based Online Harms will equip professionals and carers with the knowledge to support their work and to direct conversations about the online harms that children and young people face. It is essential reading for those training and working with children in psychological, educational and social work contexts, as well as parents, policy makers and those involved in the development of online technologies.

The contributors to this volume provide commentaries on Freud s work, explicating the multiple ways in which Freud s insights continue to illuminate the irrational dynamics to which all groups including psychoanalytic institutions, are prey. Serving as both an introduction to, and elegant expansion of, Freud s text, this volume demonstrates the role of psychoanalytic hypotheses in obtaining deeper insight into the tectonic shifts in group psychology underlying today s mass society."

This book is a practical and thoughtful guide for the forensic interview of children, presenting a synthesis of the empirical and theoretical knowledge necessary to understand the account of child victims of abuse or witnesses of crime. It is a complex task to interview children who are suspected of being abused in order to gather their stories, requiring the mastery of many skills and knowledge. This book is a practical one in that constant links are made between the results of the research and their relevance for the interventions made when interviewing child victims of abuse or witnesses of crime and in understanding their accounts. This book also presents in a detailed and concrete way the revised version of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD-R) Protocol, a forensic structured interview guide empirically supported by numerous studies carried out in different countries. The step-by-step explanations are illustrated with a verbatim interview with a child, as well as other tools to help the interviewer to prepare and handle an efficient and supportive interview. Conducting Interviews with Child Victims of Abuse and Witnesses of Crime is essential reading for stakeholders in the justice, social and health systems as well as anyone likely to receive allegations from children such as educators or daycare staff. Although the NICHD-R Protocol is intended for forensic interviewers, the science behind its development and application is relevant to all professionals working with children.

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Modern Man in Search of a Soul is the perfect introduction to the theories and concepts of one of the most original and influential religious thinkers of the twentieth century. Lively and insightful, it covers all of his most significant themes, including man's need for a God and the mechanics of dream analysis. One of his most famous books, it perfectly captures the feelings of confusion that many sense today. Generation X might be a recent concept, but Jung spotted its forerunner over half a century ago. For anyone seeking meaning in today's world, Modern Man in Search of a Soul is a must.

Foundations of Embodied Learning advances learning, instruction, and the design of educational technologies by rethinking the learner as an integrated system of mind, body, and environment. Body-based processes-direct physical, social, and environmental interactions-are constantly mediating intellectual performance, sensory stimulation, communication abilities, and other conditions of learning. This book's coherent, evidence-based framework articulates principles of grounded and embodied learning for design and its implications for curriculum, classroom instruction, and student formative and summative assessment for scholars and graduate students of educational psychology, instructional design and technology, cognitive science, the learning sciences, and beyond.