955 results for "Psychology"

The politics of manhood: profeminist men respond to the mythopoetic men's movement (and the mythopoetic leaders answer)

Michael Kimmel
The concept and reality of revolution continue to pose some of the most challenging and important questions in the world today. What causes revolution? Why do some people participate in revolutionary events while others do not? What is the role of religion and ideology in causing and sustaining revolution? Why do some revolutions succeed and some fail? These questions have preoccupied philosophers and social scientists for centuries. In Revolution, Michael S. Kimmel examines why the study of revolution has attained such importance and he provides a systematic historical analysis of key ideas and theories. The book surveys the classical perspectives on revolution offered by nineteenth- and early twentieth-century theorists, such as Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Tocqueville, and Freud. Kimmel argues that their perspectives on revolution were affected by the reality of living through the revolutions of 1848 and 1917, a reality that raised crucial issues of class, state, bureaucracy, and motivation. The author then turns to the interpretations of revolution offered by social scientists in the post-World War II period, especially modernization theory and social psychological theories. Here, he contends that the relative quiescence of the 1950s cast revolutions in a different light, which was poorly suited to explain the revolutionary upheavals that have marked the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. With reference to the work of Barrington Moore, Theda Skocpol, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Charles Tilly, among others, Kimmel develops the criteria for a structural theory of revolution. This lucid, accessible account includes contemporary analyses of the Nicaraguan, Iranian, and Angolan revolutions.
Temple University Press 1995-11-28 379 pages

Attracting Terrific People How To Find - And Keep - The People Who Bring Your Life Joy

Lillian Glass
Do you recognize these Twenty Types of Terrific People? -The Feel-Gooders -The You, You, and You Anti-Narcissists -The Generous Givers -The Non-Judgers -The Good Mouthers -The Self-Respecters -The Class Acts -The Honest Abes -The Lightened-Ups -The Cheerleaders -The Completely Conscious -The Keep-On-Goers -The Emotionators -The Win-Winners -The Loyalists -The Immediate Doers -The Calculated-Risk Takers -The Non-Victims -The Life Livers -The Enlisters If not, you need to learn about Attracting Terrific People
Macmillan 1998-02-15 224 pages

Studyguide for Cognitive Therapy Basics and Beyond by Judith S. Beck, Isbn 9780898628470

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Cram101 Incorporated 2012-07 163 pages

Psychoanalysis and Buddhism: an unfolding dialogue

Safran, Jeremy D.
"What a wonderful book! Jeremy Safran has assembled an absolutely stellar group of writers and has himself contributed an illuminating introduction. The essays are riveting and the book is the rare edited collection with real thematic unity. If you think you might have an interest in the intersection of psychoanalysis and Buddhism, this is the place to start. If you already know you're interested, once you look at the table of contents you'll find (at least I did) that you want to let Psychoanalysis and Buddhism displace whatever you were going to read next."--Donnel B. Stern, PhD, author of Unformulated Experience and editor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Wisdom Publications 2003 443 pages

The newlywed's guide to physical intimacy: [ʻEt le-ʼehov]

Rosenfeld, Jennie
Sexuality is a beautiful part of life - truly a gift from God. But in order for it to be enjoyed as a meaningful part of marriage, young couples need accurate information. Knowledge about marital intimacy was once passed from parent to child; today, many couples are left to face this critical area of their lives with little helpful guidance. Et Le'ehov seeks to address this issue, with a sense of tzniyus and respect for the sanctity of marriage. This book is an essential resource for the chassan (groom) and kallah (bride), as well as chassan and kallah teachers, rabbis, and anyone in the Torah-observant community with questions about sexuality. Written in clear language with helpful illustrations structured specifically to answer questions that many observant couples face, Et Le'ehov is designed to help newlyweds and "young marrieds" learn about the many aspects of their sexual experience.
Gefen 2011 91 pages

This brilliant darkness: a book of strangers

Sharlet, Jeff
"As a journalist suddenly skeptical of the power of words to tell the deepest truths of other people's stories, Jeff Sharlet turned to taking snapshots and posting them on Instagram- images that he then reflected on in words of extraordinary intimacy and power. A visionary work of radical empathy, this collection of images and reflections is framed by the two years between his father's heart attack and his own, a time defined by insomnia and late- night driving and the companionship of other darkness- dwellers: night bakers and last- call drinkers, frightened people and frightening people, the homeless and the lost (or merely disoriented), addicts and people on the margins. A book that erases all boundaries between author and subject and reader, between the "safe" and the afflicted, This Brilliant Darkness is a riveting, light- bearing inquiry into the ways we live with suffering"--
W. W. Norton & Company 2020 320 pages

The real world of college: what higher education is and what it can be

Fischman, Wendy,Gardner, Howard
"For The Real World of College, Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner analyzed in-depth interviews with more than 2,000 students, alumni, faculty, administrators, parents, trustees, and others, which were conducted at ten institutions ranging from highly selective liberal arts colleges to less-selective state schools. What they found challenged characterizations in the media: students are not preoccupied by political correctness, free speech, or even the cost of college. They are most concerned about their GPA and their resumes; they see jobs and earning potential as more important than learning. Many say they face mental health challenges, fear that they don't belong, and feel a deep sense of alienation. Given this daily reality for students, has higher education lost its way? Fischman and Gardner contend that US universities and colleges must focus sharply on their core educational mission. Fischman and Gardner, both recognized authorities on education and learning, argue that higher education in the United States has lost sight of its principal reason for existing: not vocational training, not the provision of campus amenities, but to increase what Fischman and Gardner call "higher education capital"--to help students think well and broadly, express themselves clearly, explore new areas, and be open to possible transformations. Fischman and Gardner offer cogent recommendations for how every college can become a community of learners who are open to change as thinkers, citizens, and human beings."--
The MIT Press 2022 384 pages

Dream, phantasy, and art

Segal, Hanna
Hanna Segal's work, especially on symbolism, aesthetics, dreams, and the exploration of psychotic thinking, has established her as an outstanding figure in psychoanalysis, particularly in psychoanalysis of the Kleinian tradition. In Dream, Phantasy and Art she reworks her ideas on these topics and brings them vividly alive in a new integration which links them afresh to the work of Freud, Klein, and Bion. Throughout the book, the clinical illustrations the author has selected brilliantly spotlight the theory, touching the imagination, and fixing even the most difficult ideas permanently in the reader's mind. In a mutually enhancing relationship, theory and clinical example are combined, and then applied, to create the author's new and original theories of art and aesthetics. As Betty Joseph notes in her foreword, Segal's writing, and in particular this book, does much to enrich psychoanalysis not only because of the clarity and intelligence but also because of the depth and breadth of her interests and her clinical imagination.
Routledge 1991 120 pages

Life History and the Historical Moment: Diverse Presentations

Erik H. Erikson,H. Erik Erikson
One of the most powerful (though deceptively simple) of current ideas is Erik H. Erikson's insight into the nature of the interrelationships of the psychogenic development of an individual and the historical development of the times. This insight, present in all his work beginning with Childhood and Society, and particularly examined in Young Man Luther and Gandhi's Truth, finds full and mature expression in the present book. Just as Erikson's notion of the identity crisis has been obscured and confused as it has passed into everyday speech, so too have glib popularizers misused his notions of psychobiography and psychohistory. Thus, this book is of supreme importance, not merely to set the record straight, but more especially to make these vital ideas, central to our time, fully available. "To deal with life history and history psychoanalytically," Erikson points out, "means to engage in a kind of circular chronology: our inquiry always points to selected periods in the past which, in throwing new light on the present, suggest new forays into the more distant past." Consequently, this book opens with autobiography; ranges through discussions of Freud and Gandhi and of the meaning of ideas on womanhood; and concludes with an examination of the role of psychoanalysis in the evolution of ethics.
W. W. Norton & Company 1977-11-17 284 pages

Women's Mysteries Toward a Poetics of Gender

Christine Downing
In Women's Mysteries , Christine Downing celebrates the gains and achievements of women, psychologically speaking, as they have been recovered, reclaimed, and repossessed by women over the past several decades. Her title is itself a conscious appropriation, in homage, of a book Esther Harding wrote fifty years ago and an extension of her own much celebrated book The Goddess .
Mandorla Books 2020-05-26 208 pages