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The Development of Mind

The Development of Mind

The experimental and highly regarded Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh University was endowed in the late nineteenth century. Over the years participants have including many leading representatives of religion science and philosophy. This series has as its subject The Development of Mind. First published in 1972 the series continues to attract widespread interest. In this volume contributors argue about the mind from diverse analytical standpoints. The focus of the series remains the relationship between religion science and philosophy. This volume attempts to achieve a comprehensive view of the subject of mind. The mental development of children in the light of modern psychology is discussed and the distinction between how and why questions is put forward with clarity. The development of mind is further contrasted with the evolution of embryos in the young. The mind is considered as a capacity for intellectual activity and as a multi-purpose program. Goal-directed behavior and language development are given importance and issues of cosmic purpose and the how and why of evolution are never far from the surface of the argument. The lecturers know their opposition and their positions and the cut-and-thrust of the discussion has much acumen and wit to it. Issues ranging from the impact of mind on theories of religion causation and rational will are examined in an informal yet compelling manner.

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Presence of Mind in Neurophysiological Processes

Presence of Mind in Neurophysiological Processes

This book is a study of the simultaneous physiological recordings and psychoanalytic observations when emotional/psychological responses to external stimuli occur pari passu with observed physiological changes. It is the culmination of the author's psychiatric and psychoanalytic work with patients over fifty years and is based on the simple premise that physiological measurements cannot describe the mind and the mind cannot describe physiological processes. In order for us to have a significant knowledge of the object the author argues that we need both and that medical specialists and health professionals (doctors nurses psychoanalysts psychotherapists psychiatrists etc. ) need to be trained to adopt a Complementary approach to patients. The complex relationship between mind and body offers vital clues to the individual's condition and only by considering patients both physically and mentally can doctors and psychoanalysts make precise and competent judgements. | Presence of Mind in Neurophysiological Processes

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Mathematical Mind-Benders

Mathematical Mind-Benders

Peter Winkler is at it again. Following the enthusiastic reaction to Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur's Collection Peter has compiled a new collection of elegant mathematical puzzles to challenge and entertain the reader. The original puzzle connoisseur shares these puzzles old and new so that you can add them to your own anthology. This book is for lovers of mathematics lovers of puzzles lovers of a challenge. Most of all it is for those who think that the world of mathematics is orderly logical and intuitive-and are ready to learn otherwise! A pdf with errata is updated by the author and can be accessed here | Mathematical Mind-Benders

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Ritual Abuse and Mind Control The Manipulation of Attachment Needs

Ritual Abuse and Mind Control The Manipulation of Attachment Needs

People who have survived ritual abuse or mind control experiments have often been silenced accused of lying mocked and disbelieved. Clinicians working with survivors often find themselves isolated facing the same levels of disbelief and denial from other professionals within the mental health field. This report - based on proceedings from a conference on the subject - presents knowledge and experience from both clinicians and survivors to promote understanding and recovery from organized and ritual abuse mind control and programming. The book combines clinical presentations survivors' voices and research material to help address the ways in which we can work clinically with mind control and cult programming from the perspective of relational psychotherapy. | Ritual Abuse and Mind Control The Manipulation of Attachment Needs

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Psychoanalysis and Philosophy of Mind Unconscious Mentality in the Twenty-first Century

Psychoanalysis and Philosophy of Mind Unconscious Mentality in the Twenty-first Century

Of the topics found in psychoanalytic theory it is Freud's philosophy of mind that is at once the most contentious and enduring. Psychoanalytic theory makes bold claims about the significance of unconscious mental processes and the wish-fulfilling activity of the mind citing their importance for understanding the nature of dreams and explaining both normal and pathological behaviour. However since Freud's initial work both modern psychology and philosophy have had much to say about the merits of Freudian thinking. Developments in psychology philosophy and psychoanalysis raise new challenges and questions concerning Freud's theory of mind. This book addresses the psychoanalytic concept of mind in the 21st century via a joint scientific and philosophical appraisal of psychoanalytic theory. It provides a fresh critical appraisal and reflection on Freudian concepts as well as addressing how current evidence and scientific thinking bear upon Freudian theory. The book centres upon the major concepts in psychoanalysis including the notion of unconscious mental processes and wish-fulfilment and their relationship to dreams fantasy attachment processes and neuroscience. | Psychoanalysis and Philosophy of Mind Unconscious Mentality in the Twenty-first Century

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Law and the Modern Mind

Law and the Modern Mind

Law and the Modern Mind first appeared in 1930 when in the words of Judge Charles E. Clark it fell like a bomb on the legal world. In the generations since its influence has grown-today it is accepted as a classic of general jurisprudence. The work is a bold and persuasive attack on the delusion that the law is a bastion of predictable and logical action. Jerome Frank's controversial thesis is that the decisions made by judge and jury are determined to an enormous extent by powerful concealed and highly idiosyncratic psychological prejudices that these decision-makers bring to the courtroom.

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Freud Alder and Jung Discovering the Mind

Freud Alder and Jung Discovering the Mind

Walter Kaufmann completed this the third and final volume of his landmark trilogy shortly before his death in 1980. The trilogy is the crowning achievement of a lifetime of study writing and teaching. This final volume contains Kaufmann's tribute to Sigmund Freud the man he thought had done as much as anyone to discover and illuminate the human mind. Kaufmann's own analytical brilliance seems a fitting reflection of Freud's and his acute commentary affords fitting company to Freud's own thought. Kaufmann traces the intellectual tradition that culminated in Freud's blending of analytic scientific thinking with humanistic insight to create a poetic science of the mind. He argues that despite Freud's great achievement and celebrity his work and person have often been misunderstood and unfairly maligned the victim of poor translations and hostile critics. Kaufmann dispels some of the myths that have surrounded Freud and damaged his reputation. He takes pains to show how undogmatic how open to discussion and how modest Freud actually was. Kaufmann endeavors to defend Freud against the attacks of his two most prominent apostate disciples Alfred Adler and Carl Gustav Jung. Adler is revealed as having been jealous hostile and an ingrate a muddled thinker and unskilled writer and remarkably lacking in self-understanding. Jung emerges in Kaufmann's depiction as an unattractive petty and envious human being an anti-Semite an obscure and obscurantist thinker and like Adler lacking insight into himself. Freud on the contrary is argued to have displayed great nobility and great insight into himself and his wayward disciples in the course of their famous fallings-out. | Freud Alder and Jung Discovering the Mind

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The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics An Argument from Consciousness to Mental Substance

The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics An Argument from Consciousness to Mental Substance

This book evaluates the widespread preference in philosophy of mind for varieties of property dualism over other alternatives to physicalism. It takes the standard motivations for property dualism as a starting point and argues that these lead directly to nonphysical substances resembling the soul of traditional metaphysics. In the first half of the book the author clarifies what is at issue in the choice between theories that posit nonphysical properties only and those that posit nonphysical substances. The crucial question he argues is whether one posits nonphysical things that satisfy an Aristotelian-Cartesian independence definition of substance: nonphysical things that could exist in the absence of anything else. In the second half the author argues that standard and Russellian monist forms of property dualism are far less plausible than we usually suppose. Most significantly the presuppositions of one of the leading arguments for property dualism the conceivability argument lead by parity of reasoning to the view that conscious subjects are nonphysical substances. He concludes that if you posit nonphysical properties in response to the mind-body problem then you should be prepared to posit nonphysical substances as well. Mainstream philosophy of mind must take nonphysical substances far more seriously than it has done for the best part of a century. The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of mind metaphysics and the history of philosophy. | The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics An Argument from Consciousness to Mental Substance

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Entropy of Mind and Negative Entropy A Cognitive and Complex Approach to Schizophrenia and its Therapy

Entropy of Mind and Negative Entropy A Cognitive and Complex Approach to Schizophrenia and its Therapy

Schizophrenia is the central problem in the sciences of the mind not only for its etiological psychopathological and clinical aspects but also because of its implications for therapy and rehabilitation. In this volume the author describes a series of new scientific and clinical perspectives for schizophrenia influenced by cognitivist and constructivist approaches and informed by the logic of complexity and non-linear dynamic systems. The author delineates a new complex theory of the brain and a procedural theory of the mind founded on the concept of the modular brain and the coalitional mind. Subsequently the author develops a multi-factorial conceptualization of the etiological dynamic and an original complex and evolutionary perspective concerning the psychotic condition which has been redefined in this case as Entropy of the Mind or Phrenentropy. In conclusion the author illustrates an innovative integrated protocol denominated Negative Entropy for the treatment and rehabilitation of patients with schizophrenia. | Entropy of Mind and Negative Entropy A Cognitive and Complex Approach to Schizophrenia and its Therapy

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Becoming Yourself Overcoming Mind Control and Ritual Abuse

Becoming Yourself Overcoming Mind Control and Ritual Abuse

In contrast to the author's previous book Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control which was for therapists this book is designed for survivors of these abuses. It takes the survivor systematically through understanding the abuses and how his or her symptoms may be consequences of these abuses and gives practical advice regarding how a survivor can achieve stability and manage the life issues with which he or she may have difficulty. The book also teaches the survivor how to work with his or her complex personality system and with the traumatic memories to heal the wounds created by the abuse. A unique feature of this book is that it addresses the reader as if he or she is dissociative and directs some information and exercises towards the internal leaders of the personality system teaching them how to build a cooperative and healing inner community within which information is shared each part's needs are met and traumatic memories can be worked through successfully. | Becoming Yourself Overcoming Mind Control and Ritual Abuse

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Everyday Life and the Unconscious Mind An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Concepts

Everyday Life and the Unconscious Mind An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Concepts

An increasing number of people are seeking to develop an understanding of psychoanalytic concepts in order to apply them to the ordinary situations that they encounter as they go about their work family and social lives. Some of these people are students just leaving college and going on to university some are managers seeking to understand the dynamics of work place relationships and some are the friends or families of people who suffer with emotional distress or mental health issues. Everyday Life and the Unconscious Mind is written for students for those who work in the care sector or in management and for those who love someone who is struggling emotionally. It explains and clarifies some of the concepts that address the way in which the unconscious mind works and how it seeks to manage its feelings. It includes chapters on trauma and defence mechanisms which are to do with how we cope with events that act like a psychological blow to our self esteem or our identity. | Everyday Life and the Unconscious Mind An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Concepts

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Narrative Perception and the Embodied Mind Towards a Neuro-narratology

Narrative Perception and the Embodied Mind Towards a Neuro-narratology

This book encourages cross-disciplinary dialogues toward introducing a new framework for neuro-narratology expanding on established theory within cognitive narratology to more fully encompass the different faculties involved in the reading process. To investigate narrative cognition the book traces the ways in which cognitive patterns of embodiment – and the neural connections that comprise them – in the reading process are translated into patterns in narrative fiction. Drawing theories of episodic memories and nonvisual perception of space Farmasi draws on theories of episodic memories and nonvisual perception of space in analyzing a range of narratives from twentieth century prose. The first set of analyses shines a light on perception and emotion in narrative discourses and the construction of storyworlds while the second foregrounds the reader’s experience. The volume makes the case for the fact that narratives need to be understood as dynamic elements of the interaction between mind body and environment generating new insights and inspiring further research. This book will appeal to scholars interested in narrative theory literary studies cognitive science neuroscience and philosophy. | Narrative Perception and the Embodied Mind Towards a Neuro-narratology

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Thinkback A User's Guide to Minding the Mind

Thinkback A User's Guide to Minding the Mind

The fundamental premise of Thinkback-based on overwhelming scientific evidence-is that intelligence is not fixed at birth and that with consistent effort we can dramatically improve our capacities. It counters the claims of some psychologists that it is impossible to increase intelligence because that ability is determined at birth. Thinkback builds on the Think Aloud strategies in Arthur Whimbey and Jack Lochhead's popular and widely used volume Problem Solving & Comprehension now in its sixth edition. Since its publication thousands of students have used these techniques for improving thinking and analytic reasoning to increase test scores win National Merit Scholarships and gain admission to top-ranked professional schools. Now Thinkback shows how these powerful strategies can be applied to a range of important academic areas including mathematics language arts social studies and science. Thinkback is a tool for student empowerment-a strategy they can use to improve both their ability to think and their ability to learn. The Thinkback classroom on the other hand is a design for teacher liberation-enabling them to see learning more clearly than they ever could before. This is the only book currently available that contains detailed models of metacognitive dialogues in the classroom. These dialogues enable teachers and teacher educators to observe thinking processes that have previously been invisible and undetectable. Based on over 20 years of careful cognitive research the dialogues provide teachers with important insights into the nature of thinking and problem solving. Thinkback is a picture window on the working mind. This book: Describes the Thinkback strategy for making thinking strategies explicit easy to teach and easy to learn. Includes numerous detailed examples that demonstrate the Thinkback technique. Six quite different learning strategies-deri | Thinkback A User's Guide to Minding the Mind

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Meaning Mind and Self-Transformation Psychoanalytic Interpretation and the Interpretation of Psychoanalysis

Meaning Mind and Self-Transformation Psychoanalytic Interpretation and the Interpretation of Psychoanalysis

Interpretation is the primary intervention of psychoanalysis. Until now it has been discussed almost exclusively from a technical standpoint rather than its relationship to the mind human life and how it affects the personality. This book explores the intrinsic nature of interpretation in psychoanalysis. For that purpose two streams of thought are brought into dialogue with one another: Anglo-American psychoanalysis and Continental European philosophical hermeneutics the study of meaning and interpretation. This book celebrates and makes explicit the value of interchanges between the paradigm of science and philosophical hermeneutics. It is divided into three sections preceded by a discussion of the relationship between psychoanalysis hermeneutics and the sciences with psychoanalysis at a crossroads seeking a new path. Part 1 starts with a consideration of Freud's methodology in The Interpretation of Dreams moving to a review of ancient romantic and modern theories of interpretation as they relate to psychoanalysis. | Meaning Mind and Self-Transformation Psychoanalytic Interpretation and the Interpretation of Psychoanalysis

GBP 130.00
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Expected Experiences The Predictive Mind in an Uncertain World

Expected Experiences The Predictive Mind in an Uncertain World

This book brings together perspectives on predictive processing and expected experience. It features contributions from an interdisciplinary group of authors specializing in philosophy psychology cognitive science and neuroscience. Predictive processing or predictive coding is the theory that the brain constantly minimizes the error of its predictions based on the sensory input it receives from the world. This process of prediction error minimization has numerous implications for different forms of conscious and perceptual experience. The chapters in this volume explore these implications and various phenomena related to them. The contributors tackle issues related to precision estimation sensory prediction probabilistic perception and attention as well as the role predictive processing plays in emotion action psychotic experience anosognosia and gut complex. Expected Experiences will be of interest to scholars and advanced students in philosophy psychology and cognitive science working on issues related to predictive processing and coding. | Expected Experiences The Predictive Mind in an Uncertain World

GBP 130.00
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One-Track Mind Capitalism Technology and the Art of the Pop Song

One-Track Mind Capitalism Technology and the Art of the Pop Song

The song remains the most basic unit of modern pop music. Shaped into being by historical forces—cultural aesthetic and technical—the song provides both performer and audience with a world marked off by a short discrete and temporally demarcated experience. One-Track Mind: Capitalism Technology and the Art of the Pop Song brings together 16 writers to weigh in on 16 iconic tracks from the history of modern popular music. Arranged chronologically in order of release of the tracks and spanning nearly five decades these essays zigzag across the cultural landscape to present one possible history of pop music. There are detours through psychedelic rock Afro-pop Latin pop glam rock heavy metal punk postpunk adult contemporary rock techno hip-hop and electro-pop here. More than just deep histories of individual songs these essays all expand far beyond the track itself to offer exciting and often counterintuitive histories of transformative moments in popular culture. Collectively they show the undiminished power of the individual pop song both as distillations of important flashpoints and in their afterlives as ghostly echoes that persist undiminished but transform for succeeding generations. Capitalism and its principal good capital help us frame these stories a fact that should surprise no one given the inextricable relationship between art and capitalism established in the twentieth century. At the root readers will find here a history of pop with unexpected plot twists colorful protagonists and fitting denouements. | One-Track Mind Capitalism Technology and the Art of the Pop Song

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Trust in Risk Management Uncertainty and Scepticism in the Public Mind

Trust in Risk Management Uncertainty and Scepticism in the Public Mind

Trust is an important factor in risk management affecting judgements of risk and benefit technology acceptance and other forms of cooperation. In this book the world's leading risk researchers explore all aspects of trust as it relates to risk management and communication. The authors draw on a wide variety of disciplinary approaches and empirical case studies on topics such as mobile phone technology well-known food accidents and crises wetland management smallpox vaccination cooperative risk management of US forests and the disposal of the Brent Spar oil drilling platform. The book integrates diverse research traditions and provides new insights into the phenomenon of trust including the factors that lead to the establishment and erosion of trust. Insightful analyses are provided for researchers and students of environmental and social science and professionals engaged in risk management and communication in both public and private sectors. | Trust in Risk Management Uncertainty and Scepticism in the Public Mind

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Ancient Wisdom for Modern Minds A Thinking Heart and a Feeling Mind

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Minds A Thinking Heart and a Feeling Mind

Thoughts reflections and experiences voiced by ancient sages appear in this book as 'coaching conversations'. Their wisdom creates a vibrant landscape populated with insights which help us to reflect upon and discuss emotions encountered in personal transformation and constant workplace change. They allow us to process past experiences and emotions in order to move on. James Carlopio shows us that coaching for personal improvement has occurred since time-immemorial. These ancient quotes illuminate modern-day socio-cognitive constructs and techniques used in coaching psychology. The 'coaching conversation' itself is grounded in the constructivist-narrative approaches used within Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. These ancient quotes will assist readers to undergo personal transitions Executive Coaches to facilitate workplace change and Life Coaches in personal development. Positive Psychology and important areas in coaching psychology are referenced in the Introduction and section openings. Supported by a subject index this luminous work is grouped into sections addressing: awareness of self and others life death health and happiness wisdom communication and learning achievement goals and effort The text is designed to help people access emotion express emotion acknowledge emotion release emotion and move on gracefully to happier more successful and less stressed lives. | Ancient Wisdom for Modern Minds A Thinking Heart and a Feeling Mind

GBP 175.00
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Culture Technology and Development In Memory of Jan Hawkins:a Special Issue of mind Culture and Activity

Culture Technology and Development In Memory of Jan Hawkins:a Special Issue of mind Culture and Activity

This special issue provides a set of articles written by former colleagues and friends of Jan Hawkins-a member of a talented group of graduate students who participated in the weekly seminars held in what was then referred to as the Institute for Comparative Development during the mid-1970s. The single theme that brought together this diverse group of scholars and that dominates the papers in this issue is the belief in the value of human diversity not only as a resource for understanding human nature but as a necessity for continued human development. The articles and commentaries testify that the ideas practices and values that Jan Hawkins helped to create in the mid-1970s are now found around the world. | Culture Technology and Development In Memory of Jan Hawkins:a Special Issue of mind Culture and Activity

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The Transatlantic Persuasion Liberal-Democratic Mind in the Age of Gladstone

The Transatlantic Persuasion Liberal-Democratic Mind in the Age of Gladstone

This pioneering work is the basic and largely unmatched study of the single transatlantic community of thought shared by nineteenth century British and Canadian Liberals and American Democrats. The result of more than tens years of comparative research The Transatlantic Persuasion explores the roots of those ideas hat comprise a coherent Liberal-Democratic worldview: ideas about society human relations the economy equality liberty the ethnocultural dimension of life the proper role and nature of government and the world community. In Britain Canada and the United States Liberal-Democrats saw themselves as battlers against social evils caused by corrupt self-seeking aristocracies. This was true whether their power was based on business wealth land or vested religious privilege; and in all three countries they developed practically identical public policy agendas. Widely praised for its graceful narrative style its intriguing political and cultural analysis and its sensitive feeling for the nuances of personality and the human condition The Transatlantic Persuasion finds that cultural forces such as ethnicity religion and style of life have played an astonishingly central role in politics. Kelley sees a similar confrontation within each of the three countries between the core culture including the Establishment and its institutions and the outgroups the culturally socially and often economically peripheral peoples. In Britain for example the Tories (Conservatives) were the aggressively dominant English who look down on such minorities as the Scots and the Irish. These outgroups gathered within Gladstone's Liberal party and from this base fought for equal status and treatment against prejudices. Similar patterns in Canada and the United States led to Kelley to conclude that these cultural facts of life were as important and powerful in public life as those that were purely economic in nature. Greeted with praise on its original publication in the general media as well as in major scholarly journals The Transatlantic Persuasion performs history's highest office: It explains the present by placing it in the deep perspective of time thus demonstrating how the past prefigures and shapes current events. | The Transatlantic Persuasion Liberal-Democratic Mind in the Age of Gladstone

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