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‘Highly eloquent, fascinating and deeply compassionate’ Henry
Marsh, author of Do No Harm We cannot know how to fix a
problem until we understand its causes. But even for some of the
most common mental health problems, specialists argue over whether
the answers lie in the person’s biology, their psychology or
their circumstances. As a cognitive neuropsychiatrist, Anthony
David brings together many fields of enquiry, from social and
cognitive psychology to neurology. The key for each patient might
be anything from a traumatic memory to a chemical imbalance, an
unhealthy way of thinking or a hidden tumour. Patrick believes he
is dead. Jennifer's schizophrenia medication helped with her voices
but did it cause Parkinson’s? Emma is in a coma – or is she
just refusing to respond? Drawing from Professor David’s
career as a clinician and academic, these fascinating case studies
reveal the unique complexity of the human mind, stretching the
limits of our understanding.
For millennia, human beings have reported hearing 'voices'. These
experiences have been a source of fascination, sometimes because
they spoke of revelation, sometimes because they presaged madness
and destruction. From Socrates to the Yorkshire Ripper, the impact
of voices upon human society has been considerable. But after all
this time what can we really say about their causes, their meaning
and their treatment? In the special issue of Cognitive
Neuropsychiatry, Spence and David have edited a contemporary
synthesis of what is known about voices ('auditory verbal
hallucinations', AVH). Contributions are drawn from an
internationally renowned panel of authors, most of whom contributed
to a symposium held in Sheffield, England in September 2002
('Voices in the Brain: The Cognitive Neuropsychiatry of Auditory
Verbal Hallucinations'). Topics included in this special issue are:
a contemporary voice hearer's perspective on voices and their
treatment (Cockshutt); a phenomenological-hermeneutic
interpretation of the content of 'voice speech' (Thomas, Bracken
& Leudar); a review of the evidence for cognitive interventions
used to treat AVH in a group setting (Wykes); a structured
literature review of evidence for and against 3 cognitive models of
AVH (Seal, Aleman & McGuire); a review of the functional
neuroimaging literature on AVH and proposed directions for future
discovery (Woodruff); the use of 'virtual acoustics' to model
hallucinations in healthy subjects in the brain scanner (Hunter); a
critique of contrasting cognitive models of the AVH phenomenon
(David), an evolutionary account of schizophrenic voices and the
place of language in human speciation (Crow); and the phenomology
of a saint who was burned at the stake.
The complexity of modern computer networks and systems, combined
with the extremely dynamic environments in which they operate, is
beginning to outpace our ability to manage them. Taking yet another
page from the biomimetics playbook, the autonomic computing
paradigm mimics the human autonomic nervous system to free system
developers and administrators from performing and overseeing
low-level tasks. Surveying the current path toward this paradigm,
Autonomic Computing: Concepts, Infrastructure, and Applications
offers a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art research and
implementations in this emerging area. This book begins by
introducing the concepts and requirements of autonomic computing
and exploring the architectures required to implement such a
system. The focus then shifts to the approaches and
infrastructures, including control-based and recipe-based concepts,
followed by enabling systems, technologies, and services proposed
for achieving a set of "self-*" properties, including
self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization, and
self-protection. In the final section, examples of real-world
implementations reflect the potential of emerging autonomic
systems, such as dynamic server allocation and runtime
reconfiguration and repair. Collecting cutting-edge work and
perspectives from leading experts, Autonomic Computing: Concepts,
Infrastructure, and Applications reveals the progress made and
outlines the future challenges still facing this exciting and
dynamic field.
Schizophrenia is being increasingly viewed as a neurological
disorder. This book addresses the key questions in modern
schizophrenia research. How do abnormalities of the brain produce
the characteristic signs and symptoms of this most severe and
mysterious malady? Where are these abnormalities? How do they
develop? How can we detect them? What clinical and cognitive
effects do they have?; This book tackles these questions in a
systematic way from a number of allied perspectives, from
phenomenology to physiology, from animal behaviour to
metacognition, and from PET scans to paper and pencil tests. Each
chapter contains a concise review of the particular topic,
empirical data and a theoretical overview.
An international team focuses on current models of self-consciousness from neurosciences and psychiatry in this collection of essays. These are set against introductory essays describing philosophical, historical and psychological approaches. Neuroscience has recently contributed important insights to the concept and construction of the self from conditions, such as schizophrenia, in which the self becomes disordered and can be studied against healthy controls through experiment, building cognitive models of how the mind works, and imaging brain states.
An international team focuses on current models of self-consciousness from neurosciences and psychiatry in this collection of essays. These are set against introductory essays describing philosophical, historical and psychological approaches. Neuroscience has recently contributed important insights to the concept and construction of the self from conditions, such as schizophrenia, in which the self becomes disordered and can be studied against healthy controls through experiment, building cognitive models of how the mind works, and imaging brain states.
This book looks at the relationship between questions of identity
formation and modern practices in travelling and tourism.
Unprecedented levels of mobility and international exchange over
the last 100 years have raised questions about the stability of
national and personal identities and new and creative patterns of
behaviour and self-realisation are now emerging due to the enormous
commercial interests that lie behind the modern travel and tourism
industries. The volume will consider these issues and the
challenges they create in various geographical contexts (Germany,
Spain, Romania, Italy, Africa) and concludes with a number of case
studies from the Portuguese context, where the revenues from
tourism are integral to its economy and a lifeline in the current
economic crisis.
Few people thought as deeply or incisively about Germany, Jewish
identity, and the Holocaust as Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem.
And, as this landmark volume reveals, much of that thinking was
developed in dialogue, through more than two decades of
correspondence. Arendt and Scholem met in 1932 in Berlin and
quickly bonded over their mutual admiration for and friendship with
Walter Benjamin. They began exchanging letters in 1939, and their
lively correspondence continued until 1963, when Scholem's vehement
disagreement with Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem led to a rupture
that would last until Arendt's death a dozen years later. The years
of their friendship, however, yielded a remarkably rich bounty of
letters: together, they try to come to terms with being both German
and Jewish, the place and legacy of Germany before and after the
Holocaust, the question of what it means to be Jewish in a
post-Holocaust world, and more. Walter Benjamin is a constant
presence, as his life and tragic death are emblematic of the very
questions that preoccupied the pair. Like any collection of
letters, however, the book also has its share of lighter moments:
accounts of travels, gossipy dinner parties, and the quotidian
details that make up life even in the shadow of war and loss. In a
world that continues to struggle with questions of nationalism,
identity, and difference, Arendt and Scholem remain crucial
thinkers. This volume offers us a way to see them, and the
development of their thought, anew.
A "New York Times Book Review" Editors' Choice
A teacher, a scholar, a philosopher, and an eyewitness to history,
Sari Nusseibeh is one of our most urgent and articulate authorities
on the conflict in the Middle East. From his time teaching side by
side with Israelis at the Hebrew University through his appointment
by Yasir Arafat to administer the Arab Jerusalem, he has held fast
to the principles of freedom and equality for all, and his story
dramatizes the consequences of war, partition, and terrorism as few
other books have done. This autobiography brings rare depth and
compassion to the story of his country.
My Book of P.E.M.S. is a combination of things. What they represent
most are a reflection of my relationships in the past. They are a
pure emotion and they come from within my mind and soul. I feel I
have reach a point in my life where the world can know how I felt
instead of judge me for the decisions I have made along my way.
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