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The Apocalypse of the Reluctant Gnostics Carl G. Jung and Philip K. Dick

The Apocalypse of the Reluctant Gnostics Carl G. Jung and Philip K. Dick

This book presents a comparison of the Gnostic worldviews of Carl G. Jung and science-fiction author Philip K. Dick two figures who have done far more than most to revive an interest in the Gnostic tradition in the modern world. Despite profoundly different approaches - one was a depth psychologist whose unique insights and approach to psychology forced him to explore the depths of the unconscious in a way that inevitably led him to touch frequently on metaphysical or spiritual matters; the other was an author of science-fiction - there are some striking parallels between their unique Gnostic visions. With the relatively recent publication of both Jung's and Dick's personal journals - The Red Book (2009) and The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick (2011) respectively - in which they articulate their Gnostic visions it seems timely to make this comparison. | The Apocalypse of the Reluctant Gnostics Carl G. Jung and Philip K. Dick

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Philip Doddridge and the Shaping of Evangelical Dissent

Philip Doddridge and the Shaping of Evangelical Dissent

Evangelical Dissent in the early eighteenth century had to address a variety of intellectual challenges. How reliable was the Bible? Was traditional Christian teaching about God humanity sin and salvation true? What was the role of reason in the Christian faith? Philip Doddridge (1702-51) pastored a sizeable evangelical congregation in Northampton England and ran a training academy for Dissenters which prepared men for pastoral ministry. Philip Doddridge and the Shaping of Evangelical Dissent examines his theology and philosophy in the context of these and other issues of his day and explores the leadership that he provided in evangelical Dissent in the first half of the eighteenth century. Offering a fresh look at Doddridge’s thought the book provides a criticial examination of the accepted view that Doddridge was influenced in his thinking primarily by Richard Baxter and John Locke. Exploring the influence of other streams of thought from John Owen and other Puritan writers to Samuel Clarke and Isaac Watts as well as interaction with contemporaries in Dissent the book shows Doddridge to be a leader in and shaper of an evangelical Dissent which was essentially Calvinistic in its theology adapted to the contours and culture of its times.

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Play and the Artist’s Creative Process The Work of Philip Guston and Eduardo Paolozzi

Play and the Artist’s Creative Process The Work of Philip Guston and Eduardo Paolozzi

Play and the Artist’s Creative Process explores a continuity between childhood play and adult creativity. The volume examines how an understanding of play can shed new light on processes that recur in the work of Philip Guston and Eduardo Paolozzi. Both artists’ distinctive engagement with popular culture is seen as connected to the play materials available in the landscapes of their individual childhoods. Animating or toying with material to produce the unforeseen outcome is explored as the central force at work in the artists’ processes. By engaging with a range of play theories the book shows how the artists’ studio methods can be understood in terms of game strategies. | Play and the Artist’s Creative Process The Work of Philip Guston and Eduardo Paolozzi

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Literature in our Lives Talking About Texts from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman

Literature in our Lives Talking About Texts from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman

This book recreates in written form seventeen of the most popular frankly personal and engaging lectures on literature given by the award-winning teacher Richard Jacobs who has been working with students for over forty years. This is a book written for students whether starting their studies or more experienced and also for all lovers of literature. At its heart is the conviction that reading thinking about and writing or talking about literature involves us all personally: texts talk to us intimately and urgently inviting us to talk back intervening in and changing our lives. These lectures discuss in an open but richly informed way a wide range of texts that are regularly studied and enjoyed. They model what it means to be excited about reading and studying literature and how the study of literature can be life-changing - perhaps even with the effect of changing the lives of readers of this eloquent and remarkable book. | Literature in our Lives Talking About Texts from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman

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Disarmed And Dangerous The Radical Life And Times Of Daniel And Philip Berrigan Brothers In Religious Faith And Civil Disobedience

Disarmed And Dangerous The Radical Life And Times Of Daniel And Philip Berrigan Brothers In Religious Faith And Civil Disobedience

What transformed Daniel and Philip Berrigan from conventional Roman Catholic priests into ?holy outlaws??for a time the two most wanted men of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI? And how did they evolve from their traditionally pious second-generation immigrant beginnings to become the most famous (some would say notorious) religious rebels of their day?Disarmed and Dangerous the first full-length unauthorized biography of the Berrigans answers these questions with an incisive and illuminating account of their rise to prominence as civil rights and antiwar activists. It also traces the brothers' careers as constant thorns in the side of church authority as well as their leadership of the ongoing Plowshares movement?a highly controversial campaign of civil disobedience against the contemporary arms trade and nuclear weapons. Murray Polner and Jim O'Grady plumb the Berrigans' contradictions: among them Philip's secret marriage while he was still a Josephite priest to Elizabeth McAlister then a Catholic nun which led to their dismissals by their respective religious orders and Philip's excommunication from the church; and Daniel's speech faulting Israel's treatment of Palestinians and the resulting criticism loosed upon him from pro-Israeli Americans and many of his allies on the left. Disarmed and Dangerous is a fascinating study of brothers linked by faith and the dreams of peace and social justice in a century bloodied by war mass murders and weapons of immense destructive power. It is above all an original contribution to modern American history that is sure to be widely read and discussed. | Disarmed And Dangerous The Radical Life And Times Of Daniel And Philip Berrigan Brothers In Religious Faith And Civil Disobedience

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The British Polity

The British Polity

The British Polity is an engaging and comprehensive survey of the structure and process of British government. Offering an insider's analysis Philip Norton examines the debates surrounding Britain's political history and culture constitution parties and elections branches of government media and relations with the European Union. Throughout The British Polity follows a theme of continuity and change that draws on historical and institutional knowledge and that helps to explain contemporary British politics.

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Creating Writers A Creative Writing Manual for Schools

Creating Writers A Creative Writing Manual for Schools

This unique and comprehensive text offers an original approach to teaching creative writing by exploring ideas giving advice and explaining workshop activities and has many contributors from some of today's most popular children's authors including: Jacqueline Wilson Roger McGough Philip Pullman Malorie Blackman and David Almond. Creating Writers is a practical writing manual for teachers to use with upper primary and lower secondary level pupils that covers poetry fiction and non-fiction. | Creating Writers A Creative Writing Manual for Schools

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The Nature of Belief Systems Reconsidered

The Nature of Belief Systems Reconsidered

In the foundational document of modern public-opinion research Philip E. Converse’s The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics (1964) established the U. S. public’s startling political ignorance. This volume makes Converse’s long out-of-print article available again and brings together a variety of scholars including Converse himself to reflect on Converse’s findings after nearly half a century of further research. Some chapters update findings on public ignorance. Others outline relevant research agendas not only in public-opinion and voter-behavior studies but in American political development state theory and normative theory. Three chapters grapple with whether voter ignorance is rational. Several chapters consider the implications of Converse’s findings for the democratic ideal of a well-informed public; others focus on the political elite who are better informed but quite possibly more dogmatic than members of the general public. Contributors include Scott Althaus Stephen Earl Bennett Philip E. Converse Samuel DeCanio James S. Fishkin Jeffrey Friedman Doris A. Graber Russell Hardin Donald Kinder Arthur Lupia Samuel L. Popkin Ilya Somin and Gregory W. Wawro. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society. | The Nature of Belief Systems Reconsidered

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HyperThinking Creating a New Mindset for the Age of Networks

HyperThinking Creating a New Mindset for the Age of Networks

Hyperthinking is predicated on the assumption that the single most important skill required to help you and your organization thrive in the age of perpetual change digital communications and networks is the mind-set of individuals. This includes your values your ability to learn and ability to adapt to change. After 14 years of experience with leading global companies author Philip Weiss has developed an approach that pulls together the ingredients needed for the modern executive to both adapt and thrive in this new age. The Hyperthinking model has been developed and tested on teams clients and the author‘s networks with great success. The book explains how Hyperthinking can apply to different facets of our lives starting from our personal experience and our role in society and shows how to adapt better to the new business world. Hyperthinking is a set of values and tools that used in combination enable individuals to embrace change develop their creativity and effectively engage in the digital age. It has been tested by a variety of business executives and helped them to understand change as well as overcome fear or resistance to technology. Philip Weiss offers the perfect antidote to information overload; a wonderful blueprint for personal and organizational innovation; and a set of perspectives to help us all make sense of a fast-changing business environment. Read it and start Hyperthinking! | HyperThinking Creating a New Mindset for the Age of Networks

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The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance brings together a selection of particularly memorable performances beginning with Nell Gwyn in a 1668 staging of Secret Love and moving chronologically towards the final performance of John Philip Kemble's controversial adaptation of Thomas Otway's Venice Presever'd in October 1795. This volume contains a wealth of contextual materials including contemporary reviews portraits advertisements and cast lists. By privileging event over publication this collection aims to encourage an understanding of performance that emphasizes the immediacy - and changeability - of the theatrical repertoire during the long eighteenth century. Offering an invaluable insight into the performance culture of the time The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance is a unique much-needed resource for students of theatre.

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Sociology and Medicine Selected Essays by P.M. Strong

Sociology and Medicine Selected Essays by P.M. Strong

Doctors and patients inter-professional rivalries how sociologists might tackle the study of vital topics in health - all these are enduring themes in sociology and medicine. These are also the long-running intellectual preoccupations of Philip M. Strong's twenty-year contribution to the field - one which he did much to shape. Posthumously gathered together for the first time in this volume are twelve of his major essays many of which are difficult to find or have been out of print for some years. Grouped by theme this important reference allows the reader to trace the development of Strong's thought over his career as well as the more general development of medical sociology as a whole. | Sociology and Medicine Selected Essays by P. M. Strong

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The Early Christian Centuries

The Early Christian Centuries

Charting the first six hundred years of the Christian movement THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CENTURIES carries the reader from the world of second-temple Judaism to the Byzantine age the rise of Islam and the beginnings of medieval European polities. With a combination of rare tact and acuity Philip Rousseau takes the measure of a generation of scholarship on early Christianity and the late Roman world. He stresses the importance of shifting historical consciousness the continuity and development of ideas and the urge for social respectability. Paying the greatest attention to the 'inner' components of Christian life the resulting story captures fully the major figures: Paul the gospel writers the early 'apologists' and the great figures of the 'patristic' age including the Cappadocian Fathers Augustine and Gregory the Great.

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The Lower Niger Bronzes Beyond Igbo-Ukwu Ife and Benin

The Lower Niger Bronzes Beyond Igbo-Ukwu Ife and Benin

This book demonstrates that copper-alloy casting was widespread in southern Nigeria and has been practiced for at least a millennium. Philip M. Peek’s research provides a critical context for the better-known casting traditions of Igbo-Ukwu Ife and Benin. Both the necessary ores and casting skills were widely available contrary to previous scholarly assumptions. The majority of the Lower Niger Bronzes which we know number in the thousands are of subjects not found elsewhere such as leopard skull replicas grotesque bell heads ritual objects and humanoid figures. Important puzzle pieces are now in place to permit a more complete reconstruction of southern Nigerian history. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history African studies African history and anthropology. | The Lower Niger Bronzes Beyond Igbo-Ukwu Ife and Benin

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Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama

Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama

Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s most celebrated collaboration the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach had its premiere at the Avignon Festival in 1976. During its initial European tour Metropolitan Opera premiere and revivals in 1984 and 1992 Einstein provoked opposed reactions from both audiences and critics. Today Einstein is well on the way itself to becoming a canonized avant-garde work and it is widely acknowledged as a profoundly significant moment in the history of opera or musical theater. Einstein created waves that for many years crashed against the shores of traditional thinking concerning the nature and creative potential of audiovisual expression. Reaching beyond opera its influence was felt in audiovisual culture in general: in contemporary avant-garde music performance art avant-garde cinema popular film popular music advertising dance theater and many other expressive commercial and cultural spheres. Inspired by the 2012–2015 series of performances that re-contextualized this unique work as part of the present-day nexus of theoretical political and social concerns the editors and contributors of this book take these new performances as a pretext for far-reaching interdisciplinary reflection and dialogue. Essays range from those that focus on the human scale and agencies involved in productions to the mechanical and post-human character of the opera’s expressive substance. A further valuable dimension is the inclusion of material taken from several recent interviews with creative collaborators Philip Glass Robert Wilson and Lucinda Childs each of these sections comprising knee plays or short intermezzo sections resembling those found in the opera Einstein on the Beach itself. The book additionally features a foreword written by the influential musicologist and cultural theorist Susan McClary and an interview with film and theater luminary Peter Greenaway as well as a short chapter of reminiscences written by the singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega. | Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama

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A History of British Prime Ministers Two Volume Set

A History of British Prime Ministers Two Volume Set

This new two volume set of Dick Leonard's British Premiers trilogy surveys the lives and careers of all the fifty-five Prime Ministers between Sir Robert Walpole (1721-42) and Boris Johnson (2019- ) bringing to life the political achievements and also the personal idiosyncrasies of Britain's rulers over nearly three centuries. Volume One surveys the lives and careers of all the 32 Prime Ministers from Sir Robert Walpole (1721-42) to Archibald Philip Primrose 5th Earl of Rosebery (1894-95) in 32 succinct informative and entertaining chapters. Volume Two continues this survey on the remaining 23 Prime Ministers from Arthur James Balfour 1st Earl of Balfour (1902-05) to Boris Johnson (2019-). This book will be of key interest to scholars students and readers of British political history the Executive Government and British Politics. | A History of British Prime Ministers Two Volume Set

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Just Literature Philosophical Criticism and Justice

Just Literature Philosophical Criticism and Justice

In Just Literature Tzachi Zamir introduces the idea of 'philosophical criticism' as an innovative approach to interpreting literary texts. Throughout the book Zamir uses the theme of justice as a case study for this new critical approach. By using ‘philosophical criticism’ Zamir posits that a stronger grasp of the idea of justice can increase one’s understanding of literature and thus its value. He offers philosophical readings of works by Dante Shakespeare Toni Morrison J. M. Coetzee and Philip Roth to explore the relationship between aesthetic and epistemic value. Zamir argues that while literature and philosophy remain separate entities examining the two in tandem may help inform the study of both. Offering an inventive twist on an established dynamic this book is essential reading for any student or scholar of literature or philosophy. | Just Literature Philosophical Criticism and Justice

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Therapeutic Culture Triumph and Defeat

Therapeutic Culture Triumph and Defeat

For nearly half a century social scientists have made claims that there is a therapeutic ethos with extensive influence upon numerous aspects of American society. In Therapeutic Culture twelve authors address the implications of this ethos and its effects on a wide range of social institutions extending from the family to schools and operating in religious behavior and within the legal system. Has there been as the sociological theorist Philip Rieff argued in 1966 a triumph of the therapeutic? If so in what kinds of institutions has it been most pervasive? At the same time what aspects of modern culture has it replaced or defeated? Therapeutic Culture addresses these questions and raises others. Part 1 of this volume examines the emergence of the idea of authenticity as it defines the manipulation of emotions and behavior both in the United States and Great Britain. Contributors include Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn Frank Furedi Jonathan B. Imber and Alan Woolfolk. Part 2 illustrates specific cases of the effects of therapeutic culture within institutions including courts schools religious communities and the virtual community of the Internet. Contributors include James L. Nolan Jr. John Steadman Rice Felicia Wu Song and James Tucker. Part 3 extends the analyses of specific social institutions to the broader consequences that have resulted as a therapeutic ethos has taken root in contemporary life. Contributors include Digby Anderson Ellen Herman and James Davison Hunter. Part 4 is devoted to a previously unpublished essay by Philip Rieff whose significant influence can be seen in many of the contributions. Rieff revisits the highly controversial confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas in 1991 and offers ample evidence of the therapeutic uses of politics as well as the political manipulations available within a therapeutic culture to provide a fitting conclusion. This volume establishes a benchmark for further theoretical reflection and empirical research on the nature of therapeutic culture. It will be of interest to sociologists psychologists political scientists and cultural studies specialists. | Therapeutic Culture Triumph and Defeat

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Marie Jeanne Riccoboni’s Epistolary Feminism Fact Fiction and Voice

Marie Jeanne Riccoboni’s Epistolary Feminism Fact Fiction and Voice

Marie Jeanne Riccoboni’s Epistolary Feminism: Fact Fiction and Voice argues that Riccoboni is among the most significant women writers of the French Enlightenment due to her epistolary feminism. Locating its source in her first novel Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd (1757) between fact and fiction public and private Marijn S. Kaplan provides new evidence supporting both the novel’s autobiography theory and de Maillebois hypothesis. Kaplan then traces how Riccoboni progressively develops a proto-feminist poetics of voice in her epistolary fiction empowering women to resist patriarchal efforts to silence and appropriate them which culminates in her final novel Lettres de Milord Rivers (1777). In nineteen relatively unknown letters (included with translations) written over three decades to her publisher Humblot several editors Diderot Laclos Philip Thicknesse etc. Riccoboni is shown similarly to defend her oeuvre her reputation and her authority as a woman (writer) refusing to be manipulated and silenced by men. | Marie Jeanne Riccoboni’s Epistolary Feminism Fact Fiction and Voice

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Handbook of Operant Behavior

Handbook of Operant Behavior

This classic edition of the Handbook of Operant Behavior presents seminal work in the field of learning and behavior foreshadowing a new direction for learning research and presenting many questions that remain unanswered. Featuring impressive contributions from leading figures across the field—ranging from N. J. Mackintosh from what was to become the cognitive school through Morse Kelleher Hutchinson and Hineline on the neglected topic of aversive control to Blough and Blough on psychophysics to Philip Teitelbaum on behavioral physiology—the book is a must-read for anyone interested in human and animal learning. In a newly written introduction J. E. R. Staddon highlights several issues that deserve more attention: how language is learned and syntax evolves how animals choose and a new paradigm for the study of learning in general. The book is essential reading for all students and researchers of learning and behavior and aims to encourage researchers to revisit some of the fascinating behavioral questions raised by the original book.

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Intervention and Disarmament In a Culturally Diverse World

Intervention and Disarmament In a Culturally Diverse World

In this book some of Philip Towle’s major contributions are brought together to shed light on the Cold War and its aftermath. Topics include the build-up of chemical and nuclear weapons the attack on New York’s World Trade Center in 2001 intervention in overseas conflicts and the role of the Church. The first section concentrates on the ways in which the West has interfered in conflicts around the world from the Vietnam War to Bosnia Afghanistan and Iraq and explains why intervention worked in former Yugoslavia but not in countries such as Vietnam Afghanistan or Libya. The second section focuses on arms control and disarmament how they were linked to intervention – particularly through the fear of terrorism – and how and why some arms control measures succeeded and some did not. Intervention and Disarmament: In a Culturally Diverse World is useful for postgraduates and scholars interested in international affairs and warfare in the modern world. | Intervention and Disarmament In a Culturally Diverse World

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Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Adolescents College student development and treatment

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Adolescents College student development and treatment

In this book Philip Rosenbaum and Richard Webb consider the complexities of working as counselors and psychotherapists for college students and offer a broad and detailed account of the developmental issues essential to understanding adolescent experience. Drawing on existentialism cultural psychology and relational and object relations theories in psychoanalysis this book offers a perspective that is sensitive to both clinical concerns and the broader context of college counseling and working with adolescents. Particular attention is paid to the emergence of adolescent identities through a relationship with otherness and several considerations are explored as a result. These include the emergence and reconciliation of destructive feelings suicidal phenomenology and the effects of trauma. By taking a fresh look at clinical developmental theories as they affect adolescents and young adults Rosenbaum and Webb provide a view of college-student development that is theoretically rich and clinically applicable in a way that warrants renewed appreciation and practice among counselors psychotherapists and psychoanalysts working with college-age clients. | Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Adolescents College student development and treatment

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Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse Eleven Days at Newington Butts

Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse Eleven Days at Newington Butts

The playhouse at Newington Butts has long remained on the fringes of histories of Shakespeare’s career and of the golden age of the theatre with which his name is associated. A mile outside London and relatively disused by the time Shakespeare began his career in the theatre this playhouse has been easy to forget. Yet for eleven days in June 1594 it was home to the two companies that would come to dominate the London theatres. Thanks to the ledgers of theatre entrepreneur Philip Henslowe we have a record of this short venture. Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse is an exploration of a brief moment in time when the focus of the theatrical world in England was on this small playhouse. To write this history Laurie Johnson draws on archival studies archaeology environmental studies geography social political and cultural studies as well as methods developed within literary and theatre history to expand the scope of our understanding of the theatres the rise of the playing business and the formations of the playing companies. | Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse Eleven Days at Newington Butts

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Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry Cultural Identities Political Crises

Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry Cultural Identities Political Crises

Delving into the landscapes and politics of twentieth- and twenty-first-century South East and West Yorkshire Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry: Cultural Identities Political Crises theorises Yorkshire as a distinct region of poetry in its own right. In outlining the commonalities and parameters of this branch of poetry Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry engages the work with a selection of poets writing in and about the region since 1945 including Philip Larkin Ted Hughes Simon Armitage Helen Mort Zaffar Kunial Kate Fox and Vicky Foster. Charting the developments in Yorkshire poetry this book explores several key contexts – including deindustrialisation the Miners’ Strikes and Brexit – in detail evidencing the impacts of these sociopolitical events on the poetry of a region. Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry investigates 75 years of poetry to ask the question: what is Yorkshire poetry? In other words what is it that connects poems by these writers whilst setting them apart from poetry of other UK regions? | Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry Cultural Identities Political Crises

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Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Psychology of Exclusion From Rejection to Personal and Social Harmony

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Psychology of Exclusion From Rejection to Personal and Social Harmony

This new volume considers one of the most pressing topics of the generation: the sense of social exclusion rejection and loneliness experienced by many adolescents and young adults. It offers insights from psychological and biochemical research explaining the role of the brain mind and body in the development of a sense of belonging over the lifespan. Illustrated with examples of the consequences of exclusion drawn from the author’s clinical work this important work surveys the latest research in the field and introduces an innovative framework for understanding the development of a sense of belonging. Wilczyńska considers the effects of social exclusion exploring its consequences for mental health particularly amongst young people and reveals how transgenerational trauma imprinted at the early stages of human development impacts lifelong development. Including a foreword by Philip Zimbardo Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Psychology of Exclusion is essential reading for students and researchers of developmental psychology social psychology and sociology. It will also be of interest to practitioners and policymakers working with children and young people to understand and mitigate the effects of social exclusion and loneliness. | Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Psychology of Exclusion From Rejection to Personal and Social Harmony

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The Cristos yacentes of Gregorio Fernández Polychrome Sculptures of the Supine Christ in Seventeenth-Century Spain

The Cristos yacentes of Gregorio Fernández Polychrome Sculptures of the Supine Christ in Seventeenth-Century Spain

Analyzing seventeenth-century images of the dead Christ produced by Gregorio Fern¡ndez author Ilenia Col³n Mendoza investigates how and why the artist and his patrons manipulated these images in connection with the religious literature of the time to produce striking images that moved the faithful to devotion. In so doing she contributes new findings to the topic of Spanish sacred sculpture. The author re-examines these sculptures not only in the context of a larger sculptural group but also as independent sculptures that were intended as powerful aids to contemplation and devotion as was prescribed by the writings of San Juan de la Cruz and Luis de Granada. Combining study of the sculptural works with that of liturgical sources she reveals the connection between the written word and the sculpted work of art. Through this interdisciplinary approach the author links Fern¡ndez's sculptural program with the strategic objectives of major patrons of the period such as the Duke of Lerma and King Philip III of Spain both fervent defenders of the Catholic faith. | The Cristos yacentes of Gregorio Fernández Polychrome Sculptures of the Supine Christ in Seventeenth-Century Spain

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