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This book is about how we can deepen our understanding of
subjectivity through the use of the concept of triangulation.
Fundamentally, this book seeks to address the question of how we
can be objective about subjectivity. If psychology, as a scientific
discipline, is concerned with the study of human experience, which
is essentially subjective, then we are faced with the problem of
how to apply the scientific method as it is commonly understood. If
experience is essentially unique to the experiencer, then there
seems to be a basic incompatibility with the scientific method. As
currently practiced, this method searches for psychic phenomena
which can be validly measured. But this does not enable us to
examine individual experience. An individual's experience seems to
become impenetrable because generalization across different
individuals' experience entails the loss of individuality in the
generalization. Thus, in using the scientific method as it usually
understood, we lose the very matter we are trying to study. This
leaves us with the question of how we are going to advance our
inquiry?
It might be said that adolescence as a process occurs because of a
conflict of expectation between developing individuals and the
society in which they live. Its onset can be defined by arrival of
puberty but its termination is much harder to objectively define.
This is a book that seeks to help those going through the process
of mid-adolescence either from the point of view of the adolescent
or their families. It attends to the serious strains that may have
to be borne if the picture portrayed is to have any realism.
Examined are many of the issues that adolescents may face
including: their emotional and intellectual development; variation
in physiological development and what this can mean to them; the
importance of the peer group; the emergence of disturbed mental
behavior; the frequency of eating disorders; self-harming; and
suicide.The You and Your Child Series is aimed especially at
parents but this book will also appeal to adolescents and those
working with this group.
No-one who has ever seen the original The Texas Chain Saw
Massacre (1974) is ever likely to forget the experience. An intense
fever dream (or nightmare), it is remarkable for its sense of
sustained threat and depiction of an insane but nonetheless
(dys)functional family on the furthest reaches of society who have
regressed to cannibalism in the face of economic hardship. As well
as providing a summary of the making of the film, James Rose
discusses the extraordinary censorship history of the film in the
UK (essentially banned for two decades) and provides a detailed
textual analysis of the film with particular reference to the
concept of 'the Uncanny'. He also situates the film in the context
of horror film criticism (the 'Final Girl' character) and discusses
its influence and subsequent sequels and remakes.
This book is concerned with whether we can develop our
understanding of the mind through the application of new approaches
to the study of complex systems. It is divided into two sections.
The first is concerned with the application of non-linear systems
theory to the psychoanalytic study of the mind. The second is
concerned with the technical application of the ideas of chaos
theory to the understanding of therapeutic action and psychic
change. It concludes with a consideration of the research and
clinical implications of considering the mind as a non-linear
system.
This book is concerned with whether we can develop our
understanding of the mind through the application of new approaches
to the study of complex systems. It is divided into two sections.
The first is concerned with the application of non-linear systems
theory to the psychoanalytic study of the mind. The second is
concerned with the technical a
This book traces the development of the understanding of symbols
and their formation and use in its historical context, and
discusses their clinical significance in psychoanalysis. It will be
of relevance and use in the practical sense as well as the
theoretical.
This is a book which seeks help those going through the process of
mid-adolescence - either from the point of view of the adolescent
or their families - it attends to the serious strains that may have
to be borne if the picture portrayed is to have any realism. 'Youth
culture' may idealize the adolescent and vilify parents; but, as we
shall see, the paradoxical expectations placed on both adolescents
and their parents arise from the creative tension between the
desire to progress and the desire to regress as mid-adolescents
consolidate the move out of childhood and prepare for adulthood. No
easy task for the mid-adolescent and those responsible for them.
This book is about how we can deepen our understanding of
subjectivity through the use of the concept of triangulation.
Fundamentally, this book seeks to address the question of how we
can be objective about subjectivity. If psychology, as a scientific
discipline, is concerned with the study of human experience, which
is essentially subjective; then we are faced with the problem of
how apply the scientific method, as it is commonly understood. If
experience is essentially unique to the experiencer, then there
seems to be a basic incompatibility with the scientific method. As
currently practised, this method searches for psychic phenomena,
which can be validly measured e.g. intelligence; showing a range of
individual differences. But this does not enable us to examine
individual experience. An individual's experience seems to become
impenetrable because generalisation across different individuals'
experience entails the loss of individuality in the generalisation.
A new edition of a classic text This new edition of Human
Development has been thoroughly revised and updated to incorporate
recent developments in the field. New material is introduced on the
development of a sense of self, the social self and moral
development. Beginning with a discussion of birth and childhood,
the reader is lead through each of the crucial stages in human
development. The authors reveal the intricate interplay between
physical, emotional and psychological factors that contribute to
the individual patterns of development that make each of us unique.
All of the major milestones of life are covered, including
adolescence, work, parenthood and old age. Employing psychoanalytic
theories of development, this book reveals the richness that these
ideas bring to well-known everyday phenomena. This highly
accessible and jargon-free introduction to human development
combines scientific objectivity with a sensitive and sympathetic
approach to the subject. It will prove invaluable to anyone
involved in the helping professions.
Because psychoanalysis is a science of subjectivity, it is no
surprise that symbolism has been of central interest from its
inception and early development. There are few phenomena more
obviously subjective than symbols. They conjure a particular
fascination because of their enigmatic quality. For this reason,
they manage to communicate something in an obscure manner. Thus,
they partly hide. This duality and ambiguity approaches the
fleeting and evanescent quality of subjectivity itself at its most
subjective. Thinking in this descriptive way is not the most
immediately helpful approach to understanding symbols as phenomena
because it omits immediate consideration of how symbols are formed
and how they are used by the individual and the groups that seem to
form around them. Initially, the promise of symbols to the pioneers
of psychoanalysis was based on their offering an access to the
unconscious. Like dreams-and manifest in dreams-they promised to be
part of the royal road to the unconscious. This book is therefore
assembled in such a way that the reader can trace the development
of the understanding of symbols and their formation and use in its
historical context and to try to look at their clinical
significance. This is in the hope that the book will be of
relevance and use in the practical sense as well as the
theoretical.
"The Devil's Backbone" (2001) is a Gothic film written and
directed by Guillermo del Toro ( "Pan's Labyrinth," 2006). The
story centers on a ghost that haunts an isolated orphanage during
the Spanish Civil War. "Studying The Devil's Backbone" explores the
narrative of the film in relation to central concerns, such as
genre, theme, iconography, representation, and film language.
Through these elements, the volume reads the film's unique blend of
literary Gothic, Western, and War film and the use of bombs,
ghosts, and color as visual signifiers. It critiques the central
characters and compares their representation of women, monsters,
and political context against an examination of mise-en-scene,
sound, and special effects. In addition, the author provides a
critical biography of del Toro, an analysis of his auteurist
traits, and an in-depth bibliography and filmography.
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