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Examines the psychoanalytic encounter of Freud and "Dora", an adolescent suffering from hysteria. Decker describes their lives before and after the meeting, places the treatment in a larger social and historical context, and provides a glimpse of middle-class Jewish life in fin-de-siecle Vienna.

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A Jew in a violently anti-Semitic world, Sigmund Freud was forced to cope with racism even in the 'serious' medical literature of the fin de siecle, which described Jews as inherently pathological and sexually degenerate. This book argues that Freud's internalizing of these images of racial difference shaped the questions of psychoanalysis.

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Offers an account of Freud's thought, providing an useful guide to the complex ideas of this thinker. This book introduces some of the key Freudian concepts and themes and examines the ways in which they intersect with issues in philosophy and literary theory.

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Offers an account of Freud's thought, providing an useful guide to the complex ideas of this thinker. This book introduces some of the key Freudian concepts and themes and examines the ways in which they intersect with issues in philosophy and literary theory.

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Michael T. Michael evaluates Freuds theory of dreams in light of major criticisms and scientific research. Approaching the issue from the vantage of the history and philosophy of science, he argues that the theory is a live hypothesis fully deserving of continued scientific exploration.

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Based on a year-long micro-ethnography of a nursery school, this book presents a unique approach to childhood socialization by focusing directly upon the social, interactive, and communicative processes that make up the world of young children.

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The book addresses two major questions: How does the social-ecology of a public school classroom affect children's interactions and peer relations, and what are the important psychosocial processes by which children initiate and cultivate friendships at school.

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Pronko examines how guiding postulates determine the outcome of inquiry, raises new questions and new possibilities regarding old problems, and stresses the importance of seeing known facts in a new light and describing new theories.

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An analysis of the recent switch from the name Black to African American symbolizes a reconceptualization of Americans of African descent away from race to culture.

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This book examines various forms of racism to provide a better understanding of the detrimental consequences they have in BIPOC communities. It also provides strategies to challenge racism and address the traumatic responses racism evokes, advocating for a society where diversity is celebrated.

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Why has shame displaced guilt as a dominant emotional reference in the West This book presents a genealogical-critical study of the vicissitudes of the concept of survivor guilt and the significance of guilt's replacement by shame.

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A classic in the field of psychology, From India to Planet Mars (1900) depicts the remarkable multiple existence of the medium Helene Smith, who claimed to be the reincarnation of Marie Antoinette, of a Hindu princess from fifteenth-century India, and of a regular visitor to Mars, whose landscapes she painted and whose language she appeared to spea

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A theory that treats language not as an abstract symbol system but as a function of our brains and experience, integrating recent findings from biology, computer science, linguistics, and psychology, and demonstrated with computational models.

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Argues that the symptoms of psychosomatic illness that patients have produced throughout the centuries are shaped by the cultural shifts of larger society, and that diseases such as "chronic fatigue syndrome" are ailments that express the deepest truths about the culture in which we live.

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From Research to Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health demonstrates how research data can be concretely applied in various cultural contexts around the world. This book has been shaped to reflect the mental health needs of children and adolescents in Low and Middle In...

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From Sign to Symbol describes emerging approaches to the unconscious experience and the development of emotional meaning in intersubjective, implicit relationships. The book presents strategies that utilize symmetrical, impactful interventions in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and psychotherapy supervision.

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You may think that vampires and werewolves were merely the stuff of bad Hollywood films and mysterious legends, but as the author reveals, there are real people out there who believe they are werewolves and vampires. This book uses case studies to explain the thinking on brain function and emotional disorders.

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Presenting a picture of the world giving rise to Islamic terrorism, From the Terrorists' Point of View argues that terrorism arises from a deep and pervasive identity crisis in Islamic societies.

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The authors postulate that aggression is always a consequence of frustration. They indicate manifestations of this sequence in almost every field of human behavior and interpret aggression as assuming many forms and as being affected by other psychological factors.