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The analytic literature has heretofore been silent about the issues
inherent in the nuclear threat. As a groundbreaking exploration of
new psychological terrain, Psychoanalysis and the Nuclear Threat
will function as a source book for what, it is hoped, will be the
continuing effort of analysts and other mental health professionals
to explore and engage in-depth nuclear issues. This volume provides
panoramic coverage of the dynamic and clinical considerations that
follow from life in the nuclear age. Of special interest are
chapters deling with the developmental consequences of the nuclear
threat in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, and those
exploring the technical issues raised by the occurrence in analytic
and psychotherapeutic hours of material related to the nuclear
threat. Additional chapters bring a psychoanalytic perspective to
bear on such issues as the need to have enemies; silence as the
"real crime"; love, work, and survival in the nuclear age; the
relationship of the nuclear threat to issues of "mourning and
melancholia"; apocalyptic fantasies; the paranoid process;
considerations of the possible impact of gender on the nuclear
threat; and the application of psychoanalytic thinking to nuclear
arms strategy. Finally, the volume includes the first case report
in the English language - albeit a brief psychotherapy - involving
the treatment of a Hiroshima survivor. A noteworthy event in
psychoanalytic publishing, Psychoanalysis and the Nuclear Threat
betokens analytic engagement with the most pressing political and
moral issue of our time, a cultivating of Freud's "soft voice of
the intellect" in an area where it is desperately needed.
Drawing on a broad range of approaches in the fields of sociology,
anthropology, political science, history, philosophy, medicine and
nursing, Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus exposes psychiatric
practices that are mobilized along the continuum of repression,
transformation and assistance. It critically examines taken for
granted psychiatric practices both past and current, shedding light
on the often political nature of psychiatry and reconceptualizing
its central and sensitive issues through the radical theory of
figures such as Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Goffman, and Szasz.
As such, this ground-breaking collection embraces a broad
understanding of psychiatric practices and engages the reader in a
critical understanding of their effects, challenging the
discipline's altruistic rhetoric of therapy and problematizing the
ways in which this is operationalized in practice. A comprehensive
exploration of contested psychiatric practices in healthcare
settings, this interdisciplinary volume brings together recent
scholarship from the US, Canada, the UK, Europe and Australia, to
provide a rich array of theoretical tools with which to engage with
questions related to psychiatric power, discipline and control,
while theorizing their workings in creative and imaginative ways.
Drawing on a broad range of approaches in the fields of sociology,
anthropology, political science, history, philosophy, medicine and
nursing, Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus exposes psychiatric
practices that are mobilized along the continuum of repression,
transformation and assistance. It critically examines taken for
granted psychiatric practices both past and current, shedding light
on the often political nature of psychiatry and reconceptualizing
its central and sensitive issues through the radical theory of
figures such as Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Goffman, and Szasz.
As such, this ground-breaking collection embraces a broad
understanding of psychiatric practices and engages the reader in a
critical understanding of their effects, challenging the
discipline's altruistic rhetoric of therapy and problematizing the
ways in which this is operationalized in practice. A comprehensive
exploration of contested psychiatric practices in healthcare
settings, this interdisciplinary volume brings together recent
scholarship from the US, Canada, the UK, Europe and Australia, to
provide a rich array of theoretical tools with which to engage with
questions related to psychiatric power, discipline and control,
while theorizing their workings in creative and imaginative ways.
This volume explores the interface between linguistics and literary
studies. Theoretical and textual analyses help illustrate the
common features between everyday discourse and literature, and show
the potentials for a collaborative approach between literary
scholars and linguists in understanding speech acts and reference;
inference, cognitive and cultural background; rhetoric, styles of
speaking and writing; as well as perspectives and genres.
This edited volume helps bridge the elusive gap between theory and
practice in dealing with the issue of "security" broadly conceived.
A quarter of a century has passed since the crumbling of the Berlin
Wall. Yet our notions of security remain mired in Cold War thinking
whose realist ethos is predicated on holding the nation state's
power, interests, and survival as the guiding unit of analysis in
international relations. Security is ever changing. Confronting new
dangers to the individual, the state, and the international order
calls for new categories that speak to the new influence of
globalization, international institutions, and transnational
threats. Composed of original essays by a cosmopolitan mix of
leading figures inside and outside the academy, this book proves
relevant to any number of classes and courses, and its
controversial character makes it all the more necessary and
appealing.
In the long tradition of the anti-hero in English literature,
award-winning author Daniel Jacob has created a whole bunch of them
- each able to stand shoulder to shoulder with a Flashman or anyone
from the pages of a Waugh novel. With the touch of a Tom Sharpe for
grand farce, the grotesque Crooke-Wells siblings trace their mean,
mendacious and downright nasty steps through a series of plots and
pitfalls in their attempt to accumulate unearned and entirely
unmerited wealth. Standing like a beacon in this sea of iniquity is
the mother, whose string of illicit love affairs seems positively
honest by comparison. This is the story of an upper-crust English
family which is part of a sub-group known as The Hereditary Rich.
Beautifully written and splendidly wicked, The Silence of the
Shaggy Rug is not for the faint-hearted or politically correct.
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