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A comparative analysis of some of the disasters in U.S. history with cases of successful emergency escape.

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Dramaturgical analysis describes social behavior from the standpoint of the language of the theater: individuals are defined as actors and social interactions viewed as dramatic productions.

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This volume examines the relationship between oneiric and historical episodes of atrocity in twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, film, literature and theatre. Examining the political and aesthetic power harnessed by dreams in dark times, it takes as its subject the significance granted to the oneiric beyond Freudian psychoanalysis.

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A provocative new explanation for why we dream and what our dreams mean.

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This work examines how residuals of past approaches to dreams make conceptions of dreams in psychoanalysis and science more complex than ever today.

Scholars and students in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, cinema, medicine, and religion may find this volume useful.

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This book exposes the skyrocketing rate of antipsychotic drug prescriptions for children, identifies grave dangers when children's mental health care is driven by market forces, describes effective therapeutic care for children typically prescribed antipsychotics, and explains how to navigate a drug-fueled mental health system.

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In this long-awaited volume, David Shapiro extends the same stubbornly intuitive clinical vision that informed his phenomenally successful Neurotic Styles to probe the dynamic psychopathological character

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The Early Memories Procedure (EMP), the first procedure to assess autobiographical memory, consists of five spontaneous early memories, a particularly clear or important memory (lifetime), fifteen directed memories of various types, several rating scales, and open-ended questions.

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A comprehensive and practical guide to the important areas of development-biological, physical, emotional, intellectual, social, psychological, and sexual-taking place during the early adolescent years and what concerned parents can do to help their ten-to-fifteen year old get through this time of drastic upheaval.

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A balanced introduction that bridges the gap between current neuroscience research and early childhood practice.

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By reconstructing what the ancient Greeks and Romans understood by terms such as ^Ipsyche^R, ^Iphrenes^R, and ^Inous^R, this survey of the early development of psychological thought highlights the legacies of their accounts, which can still be found embedded in modern psychological assumptions.

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A timely, relevant work, this encyclopedia provides a comprehensive examination of a full range of topics related to eating disorders and body image.

The mortality rate associated with eating disorders is higher than that of any other psychiatric illness.

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This volume fills the void created by the lack of a book-length, critical, and systematic treatment of ecological attitudes and behaviors. Gray summarizes and integrates existing research and reviews major alternative approaches to measuring ecological attitudes, while presenting his own ecological attitude domain model.

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An ecopsychology that integrates our totemic selvesour kinship with a more than human worldwith our technological selves.

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The first section provides a distillation of evidence regarding the three approaches to understanding leadership. The next section describes the validity of existing leadership models in light of new research in gender and sex-roles and detailed discussions of implications of the theoretical results to varied organizations are provided.

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Writings by a thinkera psychiatrist, a philosopher, a cybernetician, and a poetwhose ideas about mind and brain were far ahead of his time.

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Eminent Creativity, Everyday Creativity, and Health brings together key past and present cutting-edge papers in the hot area of creativity and mental health. Other emphases include creativity and unhappy childhoods, coping with adversity, and immune function and health.

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Eminent Creativity, Everyday Creativity, and Health brings together key past and present cutting-edge papers in the hot area of creativity and mental health. Other emphases include creativity and unhappy childhoods, coping with adversity, and immune function and health.

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Shows the role of emotion in hierarchies of domination and subjugation across history and into countries worldwide. This title takes us across history and into nations worldwide to show how emotion spurs hierarchies of domination and therefore causes subjugation, human rights violations, abuse, conflict, and fighting.