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Filling a noticeable gap in the market for a new text solely
focused on Dementia with Lewy Bodies, this book discusses
cutting-edge topics covering the condition from diagnosis to
management, as well as what is known about the neurobiological
changes involved. disorder's recognition as a common cause of
cognitive impairment, its clinical features, its underlying
neurobiology, investigative changes, and management, this is
undoubtedly a much-needed work in what is an important and rapidly
progressing field. modern text is equally accessible to clinicians
such as old-age psychiatrists, geriatricians and neurologists, as
well as allied health professionals with a particular interest in
the area.
Across the spectrum of psychopathology in later life, psychotic
symptomatology has been the most neglected, and although literature
in this area is increasing, this is the first book to address the
need for an overarching framework to examine and understand
late-life psychotic phenomena. Exploring the practical and ethical
issues that arise when managing psychotic elderly patients in the
community, as well as the sequelae of stigmatisation and carer
stress,
this text
brings together the latest research findings on schizophrenia as it
presents in later life
covers the frequent comorbidity of psychotic symptoms with
cognitive impairment, mood disturbance and physical illness
highlights the diversity of late-life psychotic symptomatology,
discussing both aetiological considerations and management
strategies
This collection presents a broad and compelling overview of the
most recent work by a world-renowned figure in contemporary
thought. Starting from an inquiry that grows out of the specific
context of a society that is experiencing uncertainty as to its
ways of living and being, its goals, its values, and its knowledge,
one that has been incapable, so far, of adequately understanding
the crisis it is undergoing, Castoriadis sets as his task the
elucidation of this crisis and its conditions.
The book is in four parts: Koinonia, Polis, Psyche, Logos. The
opening section begins with a general introduction to the author's
views on being, time, creation, and the imaginary institution of
society and continues with reflections on the role of the
individual psyche in racist thinking and acting and on the retreat
from autonomy to generalized conformity in postmodernism. The
second part is a critique of those who now belittle and distort the
meaning of May '68 and other movements of the sixties as well as
the French Revolution. The fate of the "project of autonomy" is
considered here in the light of the Greek and the modern "political
imaginary," the "pulverization of Marxism-Leninism," and a recent
alleged "return of ethics" (Habermas, Rawls, McIntyre,
Solzhenitsyn, Havel).
In part three, Castoriadis shows how psychoanalysis, like politics,
can contribute to the project of individual and collective autonomy
and challenges Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, and others in his report
on "The State of the Subject Today." This section also presents his
most current lines of psychoanalytic research and thought on the
"human nonconscious" in the body and on the problem of the
psychoanalysis of psychotic subjects, where an alternative
coherence on the level of meaning offers a constant challenge to
the task of psychoanalytic interpretation.
Castoriadis's highly original investigations of the unruly place of
the imagination in Western philosophy round out the book. He
examines how Aristotle's original aporetic discovery and cover-up
of the imagination were repeated by Kant, Freud, Heidegger, and
Merleau-Ponty.
Across the spectrum of psychopathology in later life, psychotic
symptomatology has been the most neglected, and although literature
in this area is increasing, this is the first book to address the
need for an overarching framework to examine and understand
late-life psychotic phenomena. Exploring the practical and ethical
issues that arise when managing psychotic elderly patients in the
community, as well as the sequelae of stigmatisation and carer
stress, this text brings together the latest research findings on
schizophrenia as it presents in later life covers the frequent
comorbidity of psychotic symptoms with cognitive impairment, mood
disturbance and physical illness highlights the diversity of
late-life psychotic symptomatology, discussing both aetiological
considerations and management strategies
This posthumous book represents the first publication of one of the
seminars of Cornelius Castoriadis, a renowned and influential
figure in twentieth-century thought. A close reading of Plato's
"Statesman," it is an exemplary instance of Castoriadis's
pragmatic, pertinent, and discriminating approach to thinking and
reading a great work: "I mean really reading it, by respecting it
without respecting it, by going into the recesses and details
without having decided in advance that everything it contains is
coherent, homogeneous, makes sense, and is true."
Castoriadis brings out what he calls "The Statesman"'s "quirky
structure," with its three digressions, its eight incidental
points, and its two definitions, neither of which is deemed good.
He does not hesitate to differ with the text, to show that what is,
in appearance, secondary is really essential, and that the
denunciation of the Sophists accommodates itself quite well to the
use of sophistical procedures. Castoriadis shows how "The
Statesman" takes us into the heart of what is distinctive in the
late Plato: blending, acceptance of the mixed, of the intermediate.
These transcriptions of Cornelius's afford the reader an
opportunity to discover his trenchant, convincing, energetic,
provocative, and often droll voice. Here is a hitherto unknown
Castoriadis, who reflects as he speaks, collects himself, corrects
himself, and doesn't hesitate to revisit key points. In short, this
is Castoriadis's thinking in action.
Although Latinos are now the largest non-majority group in the
United States, existing research on white attitudes toward Latinos
has focused almost exclusively on attitudes toward immigration.
This book changes that. It argues that such accounts fundamentally
underestimate the political power of whites' animus toward Latinos
and thus miss how conflict extends well beyond immigration to
issues such as voting rights, criminal punishment, policing, and
which candidates to support. Providing historical and cultural
context and drawing on rich survey and experimental evidence, the
authors show that Latino racism-ethnicism is a coherent belief
system about Latinos that is conceptually and empirically distinct
from other forms of out-group hostility, and from partisanship and
ideology. Moreover, animus toward Latinos has become a powerful
force in contemporary American politics, shaping white public
opinion in elections and across a number of important issue areas -
and resulting in policies that harm Latinos disproportionately.
The degree to which shopping, or, more broadly, consumerism, is
both critiqued and defended in American society confirms the role
that commercial goods play in our daily lives. This collection of
essays provides case studies depicting selected aspects of this
engaging activity. The authors include several historians with
diverging specialties: an art historian, an anthropologist, an
environmental journalist, a geographer and urban planner, and
practicing artists. Each author demonstrates how a material culture
perspective—a focus on the relationship between people and their
things—can illuminate a specific corner of consumption.
Connecting the essays are concerns about the spaces in which
shopping occurs; about the experience of shopping itself, both
individual and social; and about its economic, environmental, and
personal downsides. Collectively, these essays demonstrate how a
material culture perspective on shopping yields insights into
multiple aspects of American culture. Published by University of
Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University
Press. Â
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