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Each chapter represents a personal account of a reading disorder
through which details of the features of the disorder, methods used
for testing, and theoretical accounts are illustrated.
Controversies are explained, theories evaluated and anomalies
pointed out.
From this emerges a picture of the central properties of each
disorder and the contribution of each to our understanding of the
reading system as a whole. However, the picture is not complete:
loose threads tantalise, some findings are hard to explain, and
some newly controversial theories are put forward. The intention is
to provide information that will help to equip the reader with the
knowledge and expertise necessary to take the study of these
reading disorders forward.
This book explains how and why the transatlantic relationship has
remained resilient despite persistent differences in the
preferences, approaches, and policies of key member states. It
covers topics ranging from the history of transatlantic relations,
North Atlantic Treaty Organization and security issues, trade,
human rights, and the cultural sinews of the relationship, to the
impacts of COVID-19, climate change, think tanks, the rise of
populism, public opinion, and the triangular relationship between
the United States (US), Europe, and China. The book also
conceptualizes resilience as a quality arising from myriad forms of
interdependence. This interdependence helps shed light on the
Atlantic partnership's capacity to withstand serious disagreements,
such as those that occurred during the Reagan, George W. Bush, and
Trump presidencies. With a principal focus on the US and Europe,
the contributors to the volume also employ Canadian case studies to
provide a unique and useful corrective. This book will interest all
intermediate and senior undergraduate as well as graduate courses
on relations between the US and Europe, American foreign policy,
and European Union foreign policy. A specialist readership that
includes academic and think tank researchers, policy practitioners,
and opinion leaders will also benefit from this timely volume.
This book offers a synthesis of social science and evolutionary
approaches to the study of intergenerational relations, using
biological, psychological and sociological factors to develop a
single framework for understanding why kin help one another across
generations. With attention to both biological family relations as
well as in-law and step-relations, it provides an overview of
existing studies centred on intergenerational relations -
particularly grandparenting - that incorporate social science and
evolutionary family theories. This evolutionary social science
approach to intergenerational family relations goes well beyond the
traditional nature versus nurture distinction. As such, it will
appeal to scholars across a range of disciplines with interests in
relations of kinship, the lifecourse and the sociology of the
family.
Why do international policing missions often fail to achieve their
mandate? Why do United Nations Police officers struggle when
serving in foreign peacekeeping missions? United Nations
International Police Officers in Peacekeeping Missions: A
Phenomenological Exploration of Complex Acculturation unravels
these problems to find a causal thread: When working in
hyper-diverse organizations such as the United Nations Police,
United Nations police officers must grapple with adjusting to a
kaleidoscope of different and competing cultures simultaneously-an
issue the author identifies as complex acculturation. In this
introduction to the novel concept of complex acculturation, Michael
Sanchez explores the reasons behind the chronic performance
troubles of the United Nations Police, and explains how the very
fabric of the organization contributes to its ineffectiveness.
While previous research has focused on private sector expatriate
workers' challenges when adapting to a single new culture, this
timely book describes a previously unstudied phenomenon and applies
this knowledge to help businesses, governments, organizations, and
citizens navigate the increasingly diverse workplace of the future.
This book lays the foundation for a new area of study and provides
a forward-thinking perspective that will interest multinational
companies, police agencies, international relations organizations,
prospective expatriate workers, and academics alike.
Unique selling point: * Based on years of personal leadership and
mentoring experience Core audience: * Emergency workers and
business leaders are the primary market. Place in the market: *
Will help people to navigate personal leadership issues in the
post-COVID world
The result of the second Appalachian conference on neurodynamics,
this volume focuses on the problem of "order," its origins,
evolution, and future. Central to this concern lies our
understanding of time. Both classical and quantum physics have
developed their conceptions within a framework of time symmetry.
Divided into four major sections, this book: * provides
refreshingly new approaches to the problem of the evolution of
order, indicating the directions that need to be taken in
subsequent conferences which will address learning and memory more
directly; * addresses the issue of how information becomes
transmitted in the nervous system; * shows how patterns are
constructed at the synaptodendritic level of processing and how
such pattern construction relates to image processing; and * deals
with the control operations which operate on image processing to
construct entities such as visual and auditory objects such as
phonemes. The aim of the conference was to bring together
professionals to exchange ideas -- some were fairly worked out;
others were in their infancy. As a result, one of the most valuable
aspects of the conference is that it fostered lasting interactive
relationships among these leading researchers.
Are you interested in the Enneagram, but want to explore your
personality more fully than a single number result? Discover how
the Enneagram can be paired with the power of the gospel in this
revolutionary and transformative guide for Enneagram beginners and
experts alike. We are all made up of parts. Have you ever said,
"Part of me wants to go to the party, but part of me wants to stay
home"? We already speak in these terms without realizing it. More
Than Your Number takes a deeper dive into the world of the
Enneagram by moving past the quickly assigned and sometimes
stereotypical Enneagram Types to consider and engage your unique,
multidimensional personality. After discovering your Enneagram
Internal Profile (EIP), you'll be able to not only name what has
affected you your entire life, whether positively or negatively,
but also understand and apply the truth of how God intends to
redeem and use all of you-not just parts of you. Through the EIP,
Enneagram coaches Beth and Jeff McCord provide a simple, tested,
personal strategy to understand and welcome these parts through
God's grace, equipping you to better lead and shepherd your
internal interests. Filled with charts, diagrams, and unique
insights, you will: Explore the driving force behind your unhealthy
thoughts, feelings, and behaviors Learn how to lead yourself out of
unhealthy patterns and get real help Experience deeper
understanding, confidence, and peace in your relationships with
God, yourself, and others Discover why the Enneagram on its own is
not enough and how the gospel changes everything Discover your real
identity in Christ, readjusting your internal world toward a
healthier path for your unique personality type.
The general aim of this volume is to investigate the nature of the
relation between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation.
In particular, it is concerned with the character and intimacy of
this relationship: is there a mere causal connection between
pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation, or are the two
relata constitutively associated with one another? The essays in
the book's first section investigate important conceptual issues
related to the pictorial experience of paintings. In Section II,
the essays discuss the notion of styles, techniques, agency, and
facture, and also take into account the experience of photographic
and cinematic pictures. The Pleasure of Pictures goes substantially
beyond current debates in the philosophy of depiction to launch a
new area of reflection in philosophical aesthetics.
1. A unique look into how Freud's own adolescence informed his own
work on adolescent psychoanalysis, amongst other theories; 2.
Includes excerpts of letters written by Freud himself to offer a
personal insight into his thought process; 3. Written in an
accessible and informative way, this book will invite readers from
the general public as much as it will appeal to analysts;
This practical evidence-based guide to running Reflective Practice
professional development programmes provides a dynamic and engaging
resource for a wide range of coaches. Reflective Practice is a
proven learning and development approach that involves consciously
and deliberately thinking about experiences to develop insights and
apply these within coaching practice. McCormick argues that it is
vital that coaches regularly reflect on their work to develop and
grow professionally, and this book provides a definitive and rich
source of material on how and what to reflect on. Topics include
how to reflect as an individual coach; working in pairs and small
groups; applying reflective practice in a training context; and how
to run advanced group sessions for coaches. The book features a
wide range of practical workbook exercises to challenge the
reader's current practice and extend their capability, as well as
an evidence-based guide to enhancing skills in recently developed
areas such as Unified Protocol Cognitive Behavioural Therapy,
Internet Supplemented Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Using
Schema Therapy with Mindfulness Techniques. Written by a highly
experienced executive coach, this book is full of practical and
effective ways to become more capable and proficient. It is
essential reading for any career, life or executive coach who
wishes to enhance their coaching capability through reflective
practice, as well as for coaching training organisations, senior
executive coaches offering sessions for other coaches, and academic
institutions offering coaching qualifications.
This lively and engaging text introduces readers to the core
interpersonal and organizational skills needed to effectively
collaborate on group projects in the classroom and the workplace.
Group projects are critical in preparing students for the realities
of today's workplace, but many college students despise group
work-often because they have not been prepared with the necessary
skills to effectively collaborate. This guide teaches core
collaboration skills such as active listening, interviewing,
empathy, and conflict resolution. It examines the research and
theory behind these skills, and provides tangible ways to practice
these skills both alone and in groups. This guide can be used a
supplementary text for any courses involving group projects, and
will also be of interest to professionals in communication,
business, and many other fields.
* Explores how fast-changing communication technologies, platforms,
applications and practices impact how we perceive ourselves,
others, relationships and bodies. * Shows how authentic, curated
self-identity is increasingly formed, performed and engaged with
through digital cultural practices, and these practices need to be
understood if we are to make sense of identity in the 2020s and
beyond * Features critical accounts, everyday examples, and case
studies focusing on key platforms from Instagram to TikTok.
Primatology, Ethics and Trauma offers an analytical re-examination
of the research conducted into the linguistic abilities of the
Oklahoma chimpanzees, uncovering the historical reality of the
research. It has been 50 years since the first language experiments
on chimpanzees. Robert Ingersoll was one of the researchers from
1975 to 1983. He is well known for being one of the main carers and
best friend of the chimpanzee, Nim Chimpsky, but there were other
chimpanzees in the University of Oklahoma's Institute for Primate
Studies, including Washoe, Moja, Kelly, Booee, and Onan, who were
taught sign language in the quest to discover whether language is
learned or innate in humans. Antonina Anna Scarna's expertise in
language acquisition and neuroscience offers a vehicle for critical
evaluation of those studies. Ingersoll and Scarna investigate how
this research failed to address the emotional needs of the animals.
Research into trauma has made scientific advances since those
studies. It is time to consider the research from a different
perspective, examining the neglect and cruelty that was inflicted
on those animals in the name of psychological science. This book
re-examines those cases, addressing directly the suffering and
traumatic experiences endured by the captive chimpanzees, in
particular the female chimpanzee, Washoe, and her resultant
inability to be a competent mother. The book discusses the
unethical nature of the studies in the context of recent research
on trauma and offers a specific and direct psychological message,
proposing to finally close the door on the language side of these
chimpanzee studies. This book is a novel and groundbreaking
account. It will be of interest to lay readers and academics alike.
Those working as research, experimental, and clinical psychologists
will find this book of interest, as will psychotherapists,
linguists, anthropologists, historians of science and
primatologists, as well as those involved in primate sanctuary and
conservation.
This ground-breaking, provocative book presents an overview of
research at the disciplinary intersection of psychoanalysis and
linguistics. Understanding that linguistic activity, to a great
extent, takes place in unconscious cognition, Thomas Paul Bonfiglio
systematically demonstrates how fundamental psychoanalytic
mechanisms-such as displacement, condensation, overdetermination,
and repetition-have been absent in the history of linguistic
inquiry, and explains how these mechanisms can illuminate the
understanding of the grammatical structure, evolution, acquisition,
and processing of language. Re-examining popular misunderstandings
of psychoanalysis along the way, Bonfiglio further proposes a new
theoretical configuration of language and expertly sets the future
agenda on this subject with new conceptual paradigms for research
and teaching. This will be an invaluable, fascinating resource for
advanced students and scholars of theoretical and applied
linguistics, the cognitive-behavioral sciences, metaphor studies,
humor studies and play theory, anthropology, and beyond.
BBC R4 Book of the Week 'Brilliant' Guardian 'Fascinating and often
delightful' The Times What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not
once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting
an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter? In
Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of
science and a skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how
nature became aware of itself - a story that largely occurs in the
ocean, where animals first appeared. Tracking the mind's fitful
development from unruly clumps of seaborne cells to the first
evolved nervous systems in ancient relatives of jellyfish, he
explores the incredible evolutionary journey of the cephalopods,
which began as inconspicuous molluscs who would later abandon their
shells to rise above the ocean floor, searching for prey and
acquiring the greater intelligence needed to do so - a journey
completely independent from the route that mammals and birds would
later take. But what kind of intelligence do cephalopods possess?
How did the octopus, a solitary creature with little social life,
become so smart? What is it like to have eight tentacles that are
so packed with neurons that they virtually 'think for themselves'?
By tracing the question of inner life back to its roots and
comparing human beings with our most remarkable animal relatives,
Godfrey-Smith casts crucial new light on the octopus mind - and on
our own.
A New York Times bestselling writer explores what our unique sonic
signature reveals about our species, our culture, and each one of
us. Finally, a vital topic that has never had its own book gets its
due. There's no shortage of books about public speaking or language
or song. But until now, there has been no book about the miracle
that underlies them all--the human voice itself. And there are few
writers who could take on this surprisingly vast topic with more
artistry and expertise than John Colapinto. Beginning with the
novel--and compelling--argument that our ability to speak is what
made us the planet's dominant species, he guides us from the
voice's beginnings in lungfish millions of years ago to its
culmination in the talent of Pavoratti, Martin Luther King Jr., and
Beyonce--and each of us, every day. Along the way, he shows us why
the voice is the most efficient, effective means of communication
ever devised: it works in all directions, in all weathers, even in
the dark, and it can be calibrated to reach one other person or
thousands. He reveals why speech is the single most complex and
intricate activity humans can perform. He travels up the Amazon to
meet the Piraha, a reclusive tribe whose singular language, more
musical than any other, can help us hear how melodic principles
underpin every word we utter. He heads up to Harvard to see how
professional voices are helped and healed, and he ventures out on
the campaign trail to see how demagogues wield their voices as
weapons. As far-reaching as this book is, much of the delight of
reading it lies in how intimate it feels. Everything Colapinto
tells us can be tested by our own lungs and mouths and ears and
brains. He shows us that, for those who pay attention, the voice is
an eloquent means of communicating not only what the speaker means,
but also their mood, sexual preference, age, income, even
psychological and physical illness. It overstates the case only
slightly to say that anyone who talks, or sings, or listens will
find a rich trove of thrills in This Is the Voice.
Freud's collection of antiquities-his "old and dirty gods"-stood as
silent witnesses to the early analysts' paradoxical fascination and
hostility toward religion. Pamela Cooper-White argues that
antisemitism, reaching back centuries before the Holocaust, and the
acute perspective from the margins that it engendered among the
first analysts, stands at the very origins of psychoanalytic theory
and practice. The core insight of psychoanalytic thought- that
there is always more beneath the surface appearances of reality,
and that this "more" is among other things affective, memory-laden
and psychological-cannot fail to have had something to do with the
experiences of the first Jewish analysts in their position of
marginality and oppression in Habsburg-Catholic Vienna of the 20th
century. The book concludes with some parallels between the decades
leading to the Holocaust and the current political situation in the
U.S. and Europe, and their implications for psychoanalytic practice
today. Covering Pfister, Reik, Rank, and Spielrein as well as
Freud, Cooper-White sets out how the first analysts' position as
Europe's religious and racial "Other" shaped the development of
psychoanalysis, and how these tensions continue to affect
psychoanalysis today. Old and Dirty Gods will be of great interest
to psychoanalysts as well as religious studies scholars.
Is there a theory that explains the essence of consciousness? Or is
consciousness itself an illusion? Am I conscious now? Now
considered the 'last great mystery of science', consciousness was
once viewed with extreme scepticism and rejected by mainstream
scientists. It is now a significant area of research, albeit a
contentious one, as well as a rapidly expanding area of study for
students of psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience. This edition
of Consciousness, revised by author team Susan Blackmore and Emily
Troscianko, explores the key theories and evidence in consciousness
studies ranging from neuroscience and psychology to quantum
theories and philosophy. It examines why the term 'consciousness'
has no recognised definition and provides an opportunity to delve
into personal intuitions about the self, mind, and consciousness.
Featuring comprehensive coverage of all core topics in the field,
this edition includes: Why the problem of consciousness is so hard
Neuroscience and the neural correlates of consciousness Why we
might be mistaken about our own minds The apparent difference
between conscious and unconscious Theories of attention, free will,
and self and other The evolution of consciousness in animals and
machines Altered states from meditation to drugs and dreaming
Complete with key concept boxes, profiles of well-known thinkers,
and questions and activities suitable for both independent study
and group work, Consciousness provides a complete introduction to
this fascinating field. Additional resources are available on the
accompanying companion website: www.routledge.com/cw/blackmore
The Red Book, published to wide acclaim in 2009, contains the
nucleus of C. G. Jung's later works. It was here that he developed
his principal theories of the archetypes, the collective
unconscious, and the process of individuation that would transform
psychotherapy from treatment of the sick into a means for the
higher development of the personality. As Sara Corbett wrote in the
New York Times, "The creation of one of modern history's true
visionaries, The Red Book is a singular work, outside of
categorization. As an inquiry into what it means to be human, it
transcends the history of psychoanalysis and underscores Jung's
place among revolutionary thinkers like Marx, Orwell and, of
course, Freud." The Red Book: A Reader's Edition features Sonu
Shamdasani's introductory essay and the full translation of Jung's
vital work in one volume.
This book provides a psychoanalytic perspective on female
psychology and includes articles with divergent theoretical
viewpoints. It is useful for both research and clinical study and
may also provide a bridge to scholars, teachers, and clinicians
outside of psychoanalysis itself.
Myths and Lies About Dads: How They Hurt Us All is a groundbreaking
book that destroys more than 100 of the most damaging beliefs about
fathers. Using the most recent research, this pioneering work
exposes these baseless beliefs and the toll they take on children's
relationships with their fathers, parents' relationships with one
another, and the physical and mental health of fathers and mothers.
Tackling a wide range of topics from custody laws, to children's
toys, to the sexist behavior of counselors, pediatricians, and
lawyers, Dr Linda Nielsen describes in vivid detail how these myths
are linked to many of our most pressing issues: Creating more
gender equity in childcare and housework Reducing child abuse,
post-partum depression, and fathers' suicide rates Expanding
mothers' and fathers' options at home and at work Reducing
children's academic, behavioral, and emotional problems Lessening
the pressures of parenting for both parents Changing sexist
policies and practices that hurt parents and children Improving the
economic situations for parents and their children The book is not
only a wake-up call for parents but also for students and
professionals in medicine and family law, social work, child
development, education, and in the publishing, advertising, media,
and entertainment industries. Above all, the book empowers parents
to free themselves from the myths and lies about fathers that bind
them.
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