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China’s New Normal Supply-side and Structural Reform

China’s New Normal Supply-side and Structural Reform

China’s continuous rapid economic growth since the Reform and Opening up of the country in the early 1980s has been praised as a miracle of the world economy. However since 2012 the rate of growth has slowed down rendering some people pessimistic about the country’s economic prospects. This title is a collection of a leading Chinese economists’ views on China’s economic growth and structural reform. The author argues that China’s economy has entered “the new normal” meaning that slowed growth rate is not a cyclical phenomenon but a change in the stage of economic development. Therefore there is a need to enact supply-side structural reforms such as improved efficiency of resource reallocation while shifting the mode of development from one of inputs to innovation. In addition the author discusses the five major concepts of development proposed for the “13th Five-Year Plan” as well as some critical topics related to supply-side structural reform such as agricultural development labor employment and product quality. Scholars and students of macroeconomics development economics and the Chinese economy will find this book to be essential reading. | China’s New Normal Supply-side and Structural Reform

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Traumatic Experiences of Normal Development An Intersubjective Object Relations Listening Perspective on Self Attachment Trauma and Reality

Traumatic Experiences of Normal Development An Intersubjective Object Relations Listening Perspective on Self Attachment Trauma and Reality

Traditionally trauma has been defined as negatively impacting external events with resulting damage. This book puts forth an entirely different thesis: trauma is universal occurring under even the best of circumstances and unavoidably sculpting the very building blocks of character structure. In Traumatic Experiences of Normal Development Dr. Carl Shubs depathologizes the experience of trauma by presenting a listening perspective which helps recognize the presence and effects of traumatic experiences of normal development (TEND) by using a reconstruction of object relations theory. This outlook redefines trauma as the breach in intrapsychic organization of Self Affect and Other (SAO) the three components of object relations units which combine to form intricate and changeable constellations that are no less than the total experience of living in any given moment. Bridging the gap between the trauma and analytic communities as well as integrating intrapsychic and relational frameworks the SAO/ TEND perspective provides a trauma-based band of attunement for attending to all relational encounters including those occurring in therapy. Though targeted to mental health professionals this book will help enable therapists and sophisticated lay readers alike to recognize the impact of relational encounters providing new tools to understand the traumas we have experienced and to minimize the hold they have on us. | Traumatic Experiences of Normal Development An Intersubjective Object Relations Listening Perspective on Self Attachment Trauma and Reality

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Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal?

Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal?

The 9/11 attacks as well as the ones in Madrid London Paris and Brussels; the genocides in Nazi Germany Rwanda and Cambodia; the torture in dictatorial regimes; the wars in former Yugoslavia Syria and Iraq and currently in Ukraine; the sexual violence during periods of conflict all make us wonder: why would anyone do something like that? Who are these people? Drawing on 30 years of research in this book Alette Smeulers explores the perpetrators of mass atrocities such as war crimes crimes against humanity genocide and terrorism. Examining questions of why people kill and torture and how mass atrocities can be explained Smeulers presents a typology of perpetrators with different ranks roles and motives. Devoting one chapter to each type of perpetrator the book combines insights from academic research with illustrative case studies of well-known perpetrators from dictators to middlemen to lower ranking officials and terrorists. Their stories are explored in depth as the book examines their behaviour and motivation. Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities thus provides a comprehensive understanding of the causes of extreme mass violence. Such knowledge not only can help the international criminal justice system to be able to attribute blame in a fairer way but can also assist in preventing such atrocities being committed on the current scale. Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities is essential reading for all those interested in war crimes genocide terrorism and mass violence | Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal?

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Re-Write A Trauma Workbook of Creative Writing and Recovery in Our New Normal

Re-Write A Trauma Workbook of Creative Writing and Recovery in Our New Normal

Attachment theory-based treatments including depth psychology somatic psychology holistic therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) are becoming even more popular and desired by clinicians health systems and the patients they care for. Up until recently cognitive behavioral therapy and medication management were the mainstays for trauma-informed care although we are witnessing a demand for a more somatic holistic and therefore deeper level of treatment to target attachment injury and change/re-write the trauma narrative. This book provides the response and tools to meet this current need. Due to the pandemic lockdowns and significant changes in our stability the economy sense of belonging and community there is a heightened level of triggering which has resulted in multifactorial trauma responses. The devastating traumatic impact spans nations ages and socioeconomic statuses. Unfortunately domestic violence child abuse substance use medical trauma self-injury suicide and violence turned outwards have all increased significantly in the past two years. This workbook focuses on the healing journey of the trauma survivor utilizing easy-to-use methodologies for long-lasting effects. It includes various exercises writing prompts coping mechanisms and soothing techniques with the intention of allowing the person to create an individualized experience. This empowers the person to go in the order they choose experiment with different techniques from different modalities and find the ones that meet their needs the best. The authors also address generational trauma societal trauma and trauma at the family and individual levels and their work can be used in conjunction with a clinical treatment plan or by the end user. Re-Write: A Trauma Workbook of Creative Writing and Recovery in Our New Normal employs practical strategies using evidence-based methodologies with psychological theory within a human-centered design framework. | Re-Write A Trauma Workbook of Creative Writing and Recovery in Our New Normal

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China's Foreign Investment Law in the New Normal Framing the Trajectory and Dynamics

China's Foreign Investment Law in the New Normal Framing the Trajectory and Dynamics

This book analyzes China's new foreign investment law which came into force in January 2020. The new law implemented sweeping changes and overhauled China’s foreign investment law regime of the last four decades. The foreign investment law aims to make the business environment more investor-friendly and address some of the contentious issues between US and China in the ongoing trade war. The book explains how the law enhances regulatory transparency. It also outlines the new approval process that is the pre-establishment negative list system which has replaced the former approval system for foreign investment projects. The book also analyzes China's series of anti-sanction laws. This book will help give readers a better understanding of major changes and benefits under the new law and will be the first of its kind looking at the implications of this important law. | China's Foreign Investment Law in the New Normal Framing the Trajectory and Dynamics

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Future Normal 8 Questions to Create Businesses Your Children will be Proud Of

Future Normal 8 Questions to Create Businesses Your Children will be Proud Of

This is a book for leaders who think about legacy their own and the one their business is leaving. Yet none of us get to write our legacy that is for those who come after us. This book and the lessons within will enable you to improve yours. The eight questions at the core of this book are underpinned by three big ideas: The questions we ask matter Businesses are the tools we use to shape our world Business value is optimized for the long term when society thrives The questions have been developed and road-tested with business leaders and thousands of executives on an MBA that is ranked number one in the world as ‘best for the planet’. Applying them to your business will enable long-term value creation while shifting it to one that your children will be proud of. This book will appeal to business executives leaders and managers MBA graduates and students and all those interested in transforming their organizations for the challenges ahead. | Future Normal 8 Questions to Create Businesses Your Children will be Proud Of

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Social Work with Families Readings in Social Work Volume 1

Social Work with Families Readings in Social Work Volume 1

Originally published in 1965 this book gathers together some outstanding contributions to various aspects of social work with families. The subject was now more than ever of concern to social workers as fresh knowledge added to their understanding of the dynamics of family life and interaction. The papers which compose the book were written by well-known authors from both sides of the Atlantic. They are arranged in three sections dealing with: normal and less normal families as a group; with particular crisis situations for children; and with some more theoretical concepts contributing to an understanding of family types. This volume was the first in a series of Readings in Social Work designed to collect together significant articles on different aspects of social work. | Social Work with Families Readings in Social Work Volume 1

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Adolescence and Breakdown

Adolescence and Breakdown

In this volume and its companion Adolescence: The Crises of Adjustment originally published in 1975 members of the Adolescent Department at the Tavistock Clinic and of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations together with other leading experts on the subject present a unique study of adolescence. Of all living species only human beings go through a period of adolescence – and because the conflicting influences that adolescents encounter both within themselves and in the outside world are so complex even normal adolescence is a time of crises and adjustment. While Adolescence: The Crises of Adjustment is devoted to the dynamics and complexities of ‘normal adolescence’ the present volume traces what happens when the crises of adolescence are not sufficiently well negotiated. The topics debated and explored include: emotional conflicts; educational drop-outs; social conflict; delinquency; acting-out rebellion and violence; drugs; depression and suicide; individual treatment; family therapy. | Adolescence and Breakdown

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Genetic Influences on Neural and Behavioral Functions

Genetic Influences on Neural and Behavioral Functions

Utilizing the flood of information derived from the Human Genome Project and corresponding efforts to elucidate the mouse genome Genetic Influences on Neural and Behavioral Functions provides a scholarly catalog organized logically of relations between the expression of specific genes nerve cell biology and behavior normal and abnormal in animals AND humans. Sample topics include genes in relation to schiziphrenia panic disorder epilepsy alcoholism sleep eating disorders and more.

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Modeling Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Modeling Sensorineural Hearing Loss

A recent study indicates that 20 million people in the United States have significant sensorineural hearing loss. Approximately 95% of those people have partial losses with varying degrees of residual hearing. These percentages are similar in other developed countries. What changes in the function of the cochlea or inner ear cause such losses? What does the world sound like to the 19 million people with residual hearing? How should we transform sounds to correct for the hearing loss and maximize restoration of normal hearing? Answers to such questions require detailed models of the way that sounds are processed by the nervous system both for listeners with normal hearing and for those with sensorineural hearing loss. This book contains chapters describing the work of 25 different research groups. A great deal of research in recent years has been aimed at obtaining a better physiological description of the altered processes that cause sensorineural hearing loss and a better understanding of transformations that occur in the perception of those sounds that are sufficiently intense that they can still be heard. Efforts to understand these changes in function have lead to a better understanding of normal function as well. This research has been based on rigorous mathematical models computer simulations of mechanical and physiological processes and signal processing simulations of the altered perceptual experience of listeners with sensorineural hearing loss. This book provides examples of all these approaches to modeling sensorineural hearing loss and a summary of the latest research in the field.

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Schooling the Violent Imagination

Schooling the Violent Imagination

The violent imagination begins in experiences of violation against the self and grows through the stories myths folktales and anecdotes of everyday life. Originally published in 1986 John Schostak discusses the educational social and moral implications of the violent imagination in connection with theories of violence childrearing practices and schooling as a childrearing institution. He also looks at the relation between sexism racism drugs and the emergence of a vandalised sense of self. The book explores the complex ways in which images of violence pervade society inform action and provide interpretations of events. Schools the author argues contribute towards the development of a violent imagination which guides judgements and actions. The child’s images and experiences of violation may involve physical assault or psychological forms of assault. Some of these experiences of violation and violence are considered normal even moral (‘spare the rod and spoil the child’); others are considered abnormal criminal pathological – although the abstract logical form of each may be equivalent. Nevertheless all such images contribute towards the development of a sense of violation and children are schooled to accept normal forms and reject abnormal forms. | Schooling the Violent Imagination

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Making Sense of the EEG From Basic Principles to Clinical Applications

Making Sense of the EEG From Basic Principles to Clinical Applications

This book educates the reader on the cellular and neurophysiological aspects of Electroencephalography (EEG) alongside its technical and engineering principles. Providing a background on normal EEG the content includes the clinical applications of EEG in epilepsies and other brain disorders in order to provide the reader with the necessary knowledge to use EEG in clinical practice. Aimed at those who in the earlier stages of using EEGs this resource provides an effective overview and offers a key resource to anyone using EEGs. | Making Sense of the EEG From Basic Principles to Clinical Applications

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Psychology and Gender Dysphoria Feminist and Transgender Perspectives

Psychology and Gender Dysphoria Feminist and Transgender Perspectives

Psychiatry and psychology have a long and highly debated history in relation to gender. In particular they have attracted criticism for policing the boundaries of ‘normal’ gender expression through gender identity diagnoses such as transvestism transsexualism gender identity disorder and gender dysphoria. Drawing on discursive psychology this book traces the historical development of psychiatric constructions of ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’ gender expression. It contextualizes the recent reconstruction of gender in the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) and its criteria for gender dysphoria. This latest diagnosis illustrates the continued disagreement and debate within the profession surrounding gender identity as ‘disordered’. It also provides an opportunity to reflect on the conflicted history between feminist and transgender communities in the changing context of a more trans-positive feminism and the implications of these diagnoses for these distinct but linked communities. Psychology and Gender Dysphoria examines debates and controversies surrounding psychiatric diagnoses and theories related to gender and gender nonconformity by exploring recent research examples of collaborative perspectives and existing feminist and trans texts. As such the book is relevant for postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers of gender feminism and critical psychology as well as historical issues within psychiatry. | Psychology and Gender Dysphoria Feminist and Transgender Perspectives

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The Mask of Normalcy Social Conformity and its Ambiguities

The Mask of Normalcy Social Conformity and its Ambiguities

Psychologists view well-adjusted behaviour as conformity the ability to navigate relationships and events within a framework of societal rules and regulations. George Serban argues that a better test is how well an individual is able to navigate adverse situations by handling conformity's ambiguities and incongruities. He uses clinical findings and content analysis to explore the interface between social conformity and nonconformist behaviours. The definition of the normal is itself problematic since society's expectations are sometimes controversial arbitrary or equivocal. As a result people who have problems coping with social conformity choose between degrees of nonconformity or hiding under what Serban calls a mask of normalcy. Further complicating matters is that some nonconformist attitudes are now seen as normal supported by governmental policies tacitly favouring moral relativism. A multicultural society is crisscrossed by shades of controversial values and mores. New social codes of correct conduct blur the distinction between true and false right and wrong; and social conflict simmers as a result. What society perceives as well adjusted may even change within a society over time depending on prevailing social values. Some noticeable variations have been within male-female relationships and sexual morality. Serban ultimately concludes that those who have learned how to manipulate social situations are viewed as well adjusted. Those who have not are seen as struggling or maladjusted. | The Mask of Normalcy Social Conformity and its Ambiguities

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Deep Analysis The Clinical Study of an Individual Case

Deep Analysis The Clinical Study of an Individual Case

First published in 1947 with a second edition in 1950 the original blurb reads: 'This is an illuminating description of a complete Freudian analysis of a single case. From the first interview to the last the reader’s attention is engrossed with the almost-normal personality of the individual who is being analysed. We see his thoughts philosophy and emotions gradually unfolding under the application of analytical technique (lightly explained in the second chapter) until – and this is where the book is such a tremendous advance upon the psychological novel – the very springs and mechanisms of his psychic pattern and emotional structure are abundantly and lucidly revealed. We see and understand the hidden depths of the nature of the human mind and obtain introductory insight not only into normal mental functioning but into almost all its psychopathic aberrations including frigidity impotence love hate hysteria obsessions and even paranoia and schizophrenia – all in minor degrees an integral part of normality. In spite of this the book is light reading and though particularly instructive to doctor and professional psychologist understandable to the average intelligent layman. ' This book is a re-issue originally published in 1950. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication. | Deep Analysis The Clinical Study of an Individual Case

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Teaching the 'Slow' Learner in the Special School

Teaching the 'Slow' Learner in the Special School

This book is a re-issue originally published in 1961. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication. Dr Cleugh was in charge of the course for teachers of so-called 'educationally sub-normal' children at the University of London Institute of Education. This work an up-to-date guide at the time was written by practising teachers who had passed through the Institute’s course and covers every part of the curriculum from the point of view of the 'slow' learner. | Teaching the 'Slow' Learner in the Special School

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Challenges from Within

Challenges from Within

This title was first published in 2001. The challenges that face the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) have changed considerably. Growing international interdependence has meant that domestic civil servants are playing an increasing role in international negotiations and foreign policy making. The scope and complexity of foreign policy under conditions of interdependence has pushed FCO involvement beyond its normal boundaries and into areas that have traditionally been the preserve of domestic policy-makers. In this book Roger Murphy assesses the success of the FCO in dealing with these challenges providing an examination of the changes that have taken place in the British foreign policy making system. | Challenges from Within

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The Essential Being Psychoanalytic Understanding of Totalitarianism

The Essential Being Psychoanalytic Understanding of Totalitarianism

This book explores the concept of pre-conceptual trauma drawing in particular on the pioneering research of Wilfred Bion. A comparison is established between two different groups of individuals: five well-known dictators and five famous creative individuals. The authors have defined pre-conceptual traumas as ubiquitous experiences that all human beings go through during the first years of their lives when a temporary absence changes into a permanent presence determining the outcome of what any individual might do or perform in the future. Pre-conceptual traumas split the mind into two dialectical and correlated states: the traumatized (conflictive or pathological) and the non-traumatized (developmental or normal). | The Essential Being Psychoanalytic Understanding of Totalitarianism

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GLUE Transforming Leadership in a Hybrid World

GLUE Transforming Leadership in a Hybrid World

The adoption of remote hybrid and flexible working is the new normal. But like the old normal no one seems very happy. The solution requires a different type of leadership – one that unites transforms and elevates performance. Leadership that creates glue. With employee engagement productivity and personal ties on the wane leaders urgently need to refocus on harnessing relationships making their organisations more humane and finding new ways to engage and unleash talent. To do that the single most impactful thing leaders can do is to create and nurture an intangible yet essential factor called glue. So this book sets out some ideas about glue: where to look for it how to use it and most importantly how to cultivate glue amongst your most valuable people. It explores the approach of some unusual leaders and of firms transformed through the ‘organisational advantage’ of smartly configuring and harnessing talent. Using stories from firms such as Alibaba Apple Barclays Sky Husqvarna Group HSBC Space X Zopa and Richer Sounds the book shows how leaders can shape the effectiveness of teams reimagine the workplace and reinvigorate their business through the talents ideas and energy of their firm’s best people. This book is for anyone who has a genuine interest in leading others with impact and wants to better unite transform and elevate their business. Whatever your role sector or seniority this book sets out a distinctive vision for the firm and shows the profound impact you can make through creating and nurturing glue. | GLUE Transforming Leadership in a Hybrid World

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The Permafrost Environment

The Permafrost Environment

Originally published in 1986 The Permafrost Environment examines how the search for oil gas and minerals in the arctic region instigated new and vitally important needs to understand the permafrost environment. The construction of roads airfields buildings and pipelines in this inhospitable environment has posed enormous problems for engineers and geologists. This book is a comprehensive review of the nature of the permafrost environment and its utilization. It looks at environmental processes and their effects and examines the management problems which result. It provides a detailed look at how normal procedures for construction etc. need to be modified to cope with the special conditions and it gives examples from throughout the arctic region including Canada Siberia Alaska Greenland and Northern Scandinavia.

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Navigating Voice Disorders Around the Larynx in 50 Tips

Navigating Voice Disorders Around the Larynx in 50 Tips

This book comprises 50 tips for speech and language therapy practitioners who are new to or less experienced in working with adult voice disorders. It considers the full clinical pathway from assessment to management and on through to discharge. Packed with easily accessible practical hints about therapy and useful self-development activities for the reader sections cover: Reflecting on the normal voice ‘Doing’ therapy Assessment Management Specific diagnoses Professional voice users Professional liaison Learning from clients The resource concludes with a handy appendix providing further reading and useful resources. Presenting diagnosis-specific and client group-specific tips alongside widely applicable guidance this is a go-to book for accessible and practical support for voice newbies. | Navigating Voice Disorders Around the Larynx in 50 Tips

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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for the Specialty Board Review

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for the Specialty Board Review

This new thoroughly revised fifth edition of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for the Specialty Board Review offers a comprehensive study guide of child psychiatry. New authors incorporate the latest evidence-based content while still offering the questions and detailed answers format of previous editions. Part I includes chapters covering normal development diagnostic categories treatments and special issues whilst Part II includes new case problems that test knowledge of assessment and treatment planning. This book includes hundreds of multiple-choice questions modelled on board examination questions and includes references from leading textbooks providing a comprehensive review of the field. Both general and child/adolescent psychiatrists will find this fifth edition essential not only as a guide for preparing for their first successful board examination but also as a review in preparing for important recertification exams.

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Teaching the 'Slow' Learner in the Primary School

Teaching the 'Slow' Learner in the Primary School

This book is a re-issue originally published in 1961. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication. Dr Cleugh was in charge of the course for teachers of so-called 'educationally sub-normal' children at the University of London Institute of Education. The three volumes of this work which at the time took their place as complete and up-to-date guides to the subjects they cover were written by practising teachers who had passed through the Institute’s course and they cover every part of the curriculum from the point of view of the 'slow' learner. This volume focuses on the primary school. | Teaching the 'Slow' Learner in the Primary School

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Teaching the 'Slow' Learner in the Secondary School

Teaching the 'Slow' Learner in the Secondary School

This book is a re-issue originally published in 1961. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication. Dr Cleugh was in charge of the course for teachers of so-called 'educationally sub-normal' children at the University of London Institute of Education. The three volumes of this work which at the time took their place as complete and up-to-date guides to the subjects they cover were written by practising teachers who had passed through the Institute’s course and they cover every part of the curriculum from the point of view of the 'slow' learner. This volume focuses on the secondary school. | Teaching the 'Slow' Learner in the Secondary School

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Hypnosis and Imagination

Hypnosis and Imagination

The book's first three chapters-by Sheehan and Robertson; Wagstaff; Council Kirsch and Grant - conclude that three different factors turn imagination into hypnosis. The next three chapters-by Lynn Neufeld Green Rhue and Sandberg; Rader Kunzendorf and Carrabino; and Barrett-explore the hypnotic and the clinical significance of absorption in imagination. Three subsequent chapters-by Coe; Gwynn and Spanos; and Gorassini-examine the role of compliance and imagination in various hypnotic phenomena. Pursuing the possibility that some hypnotic hallucinations are experienced differently from normal images the following two chapters-by Perlini Spanos and Jones; and Kunzendorf and Boisvert-focus on negative hallucinating which reportedly blocks out perceptual reality. The remaining three chapters-by Wallace and Turosky; Crawford; and Persinger-pursue other physiological differences and possible physiological connections between hypnosis and imagination.

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