Behavioral Disciplines and Activities

Global mental health: principles and practice

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Global health is an area for study, research and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide. Global mental health is the application of these principles to the domain of mental ill-health. The most striking inequit…

Neuroscience and legal responsibility

by Vincent, Nicole A.

fromSeries in neuroscience, law, and philosophy

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Embracing a broadly compatibilist approach - one according to which responsibility hinges on psychological features of agents not on metaphysical features of the universe - this volume's authors demonstrate that the behavioural and mind sciences may impact on legal responsibilit…

Hermann Lotze: an intellectual biography

by Woodward, William Ray

fromCambridge studies in the history of psychology

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"As a philosopher, psychologist, and physician, the German thinker Hermann Lotze (1817-81) defies classification. Working in the mid-nineteenth-century era of programmatic realism, he critically reviewed and rearranged theories and concepts in books on pathology, physiology, med…

Hermann Lotze: an intellectual biography

by Woodward, William Ray

fromCambridge studies in the history of psychology

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"As a philosopher, psychologist, and physician, the German thinker Hermann Lotze (1817-81) defies classification. Working in the mid-nineteenth-century era of programmatic realism, he critically reviewed and rearranged theories and concepts in books on pathology, physiology, med…

A metaphysics of psychopathology

by Zachar, Peter

fromPhilosophical Psychopathology

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In this study Peter Zachar considers such terms as 'real' and 'reality' - invoked in psychiatry but often obscure and remote from their instances - as abstract philosophical concepts. He then examines the implications of his approach for psychiatric classification and psychopath…

Neuropsychedelia: the revival of hallucinogen research since the de…

by Langlitz, Nicolas

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Neuropsychedelia examines the revival of psychedelic science since the "Decade of the Brain." After the breakdown of this previously prospering area of psychopharmacology, and in the wake of clashes between counterculture and establishment in the late 1960s, a new generation of …

Philosophy, Science, and Psychoanalysis

by Brakel, Linda A. W., Boag, Simon, Talvitie, Vesa

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The perennial interest in psychoanalysis shows no signs of abating and the longevity of psychoanalytic theory is seen in the varied extensions and elaborations of Freudian thinking in the fields of neuroscience and cognitive theory. Nevertheless, the scientific standing of psych…

Analytical Psychology: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1925

by Jung, C. G., McGuire, William

fromJung seminars

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For C.G. Jung, 1925 was a watershed year. He turned fifty, visited the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and the tribesmen of East Africa, published his first book on the principles of analytical psychology meant for the lay public, and gave the first of his formal seminars in Englis…

Body-Subjects and Disordered Minds: Treating the 'whole' person in psychiatry

by Matthews, Eric

fromInternational Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry

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How should we deal with mental disorder - as an ""illness"" like diabetes or bronchitis, as a ""problem in living"", or what? This book seeks to answer such questions by going to their roots, in philosophical questions about the nature of the human mind, the ways in which it can…

Body-subjects and disordered minds: treating the whole person in psychiatry

by Matthews, Eric

fromInternational perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry

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How should we deal with mental disorder - as an "illness" like diabetes or bronchitis, as a "problem in living", or what? This book seeks to answer such questions by going to their roots, in philosophical questions about the nature of the human mind, the ways in which it can be …

Headaches and Brain Injury from a Biopsychosocial Perspective: a Practical Psychotherapy Guide

by Gurr, Birgit

fromBrain injuries series

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Post-traumatic headache is the most common symptom after mild/moderate brain injury. Similar to the characteristics of naturally occurring headaches, it is multi-faceted in nature and includes neurophysiological, psychological and social aspects. Consequently, headache has an en…

Lacanian Coordinates: Volume 1: From the Logic of the Signifier to the …

by Wolf, Bogdan

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Psychoanalysis is an experience of truths and lies in language. It is also a discourse, and a praxis. Lacanian Coordinates takes the reader from the beginning of Lacan's teaching, from the logic of the signifier and the Lacanian subject, to the drive and object a, qua object a, …

The Freudian Orient: Early Psychoanalysis, Anti-Semitic Challenge, and…

by Scherer, Frank F.

fromHistory of psychoanalysis series

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This study consists of a twofold, interrelated enquiry: the Orientalism of psychoanalysis and the psychoanalysis of Orientalism - bringing into conversation Sigmund Freud and Edward Said and, thereby, the founding texts of psychoanalysis and postcolonial studies. The immediate o…

Looking Through Freud's Photos

by Molnar, Michael

fromHistory of psychoanalysis series

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A moody Freud posed against a background of holiday pictures pinned to a wall; or lurking at the very edge of a large family group; or lost in a crowd of nineteenth-century scientists. These snapshots or posed portraits not only tell stories, they also carry a specific emotional…

Psychoanalytic Filiations: Mapping the Psychoanalytic Movement

by Falzeder, Ernst

fromHistory of psychoanalysis series

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This book presents a collection of fifteen essays on the early history of psychoanalysis, focusing on the network of psychoanalytic "filiations" ("who analysed whom") and the context of discovery of crucial concepts, such as Freud's technical recommendations, the therapeutic use…

Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences

by George, Linda, Ferraro, Kenneth

fromHandbooks of aging

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Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, Eighth Edition, presents the extraordinary growth of research on aging individuals, populations, and the dynamic culmination of the life course, providing a comprehensive synthesis and review of the latest research findings in the socia…

Philosophical Psychopathology

by Graham, George, Stephens, G. Lynn

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The biology of happiness

by Grinde, Bjørn

fromSpringerBriefs in well-being and quality of life research

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The briefs presents a model for happiness based on current knowledge in evolutionary biology and neurobiology. Briefly, the primary purpose of nervous systems is to direct an animal toward behaviour relevant for survival and procreation. In primitive animals actions are based on…

AIDS: the burdens of history

by Fee, Elizabeth, Fox, Daniel M.

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"The AIDS epidemic has posed more urgent historical questions than any other disease of modern times. How have societies responded to epidemics in the past? Why did the disease emerge when and where it did? How has it spread among members of particular groups? And how will the p…