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Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia
by Gila AshtorWinner, Alan Bray Memorial Book Award2022 Lammy Finalist, LGBTQ StudiesCan queer theory be erotophobic? This book proceeds from the perplexing observation that for all of its political agita, rhetorical virtuosity, and intellectual restlessness, queer theory conforms to a model of erotic life that is psychologically conservative and narrow. Even after several decades of combative, dazzling, irreverent queer critical thought, the field remains far from grasping that sexuality’s radical potential lies in its being understood as “exogenous, intersubjective and intrusive” (Laplanche). In particular, and despite the pervasiveness and popularity of recent calls to deconstruct the ideological foundations of contemporary queer thought, no study has as yet considered or in any way investigated the singular role of psychology in shaping the field’s conceptual impasses and politico-ethical limitations.Through close readings of key thinkers in queer theoretical thought—Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Leo Bersani, Lee Edelman, Judith Butler, Lauren Berlant, and Jane Gallop—Homo Psyche introduces metapsychology as a new dimension of analysis vis-à-vis the theories of French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche, who insisted on “new foundations for psychoanalysis” that radically departed from existing Freudian and Lacanian models of the mind. Staging this intervention, Ashtor deepens current debates about the future of queer studies by demonstrating how the field’s systematic neglect of metapsychology as a necessary and independent realm of ideology ultimately enforces the complicity of queer studies with psychological conventions that are fundamentally erotophobic and therefore inimical to queer theory’s radical and ethical project.
Homo Sapiens: From Man to Demigod (Routledge Library Editions: Evolution #9)
by Bernhard RenschOriginally published in 1972, Homo Sapiens examines how humans emerged from among the millions of other species and achieved our unique position within the animal kingdom. The book examines what direction future evolution will take and what may be regarded as the ‘meaning’ of human existence. It stipulates that these are the questions for which no real basis of discussion existed before the 20th century, and at the time of publication, some were still without a definite answer. The book sets out analyse these questions and the continuing debate that has arisen from their study. This is an account of the uniqueness of man in the animal kingdom, how this uniqueness arose during evolution, and what traces of it can be detected in animals other than man. The book describes the mental and physical evolution of man, from his earliest ancestors to the present day. He also gives an account of man’s cultural development seeking to establish that there is an underlying principal of cultural evolution, a principle that has been denied by many historians. Later chapters deal with the future and with possible forecasts of mankind’s further physical, intellectual and cultural evolution.
Homo emoticus: La historia de la Humanidad contada a través de las emociones
by Richard Firth-GodbehereLa historia humana contada desde las emociones. A los humanos nos gusta pensar en nosotros mismos como criaturas racionales. Sin embargo, algunos de los momentos más excepcionales de la historia no tratan de acontecimientos sino de sentimientos: los orígenes de la filosofía, el nacimiento del cristianismo, la caída de Roma, la Revolución científica o los grandes conflictos bélicos del siglo XX no pueden entenderse sin las emociones. Gracias a sus sólidos conocimientos en psicología, neurociencia, arte, filosofía y religión, Richard Firth-Godbehere hilvana un fascinante recorrido por la historia de la humanidad desde una perspectiva absolutamente original, un relato que explica cómo las emociones han modelado el mundo en el que vivimos con toda su complejidad, maravilla y diversidad. La crítica ha dicho...«Una mirada fascinante al papel de las emociones humanas en la forja de la historia y la cultura universales.»Gina Rippon, autora de El género y nuestros cerebros «Las emociones son una parte mucho más importante de la experiencia del ser humano de lo que la mayoría de la gente cree. Si quieres saber más sobre las emociones y cómo hemos llegado a entenderlas, este libro es exactamente lo que necesitas.»Dean Burnett, autor de El cerebro feliz «Tanto si buscas nuevas ideas, como historia narrativa, teoría psicológica o antropología cultural, este libro te enseñará algo nuevo sobre cómo la gente ha sentido a través de los tiempos. Un libro como ningún otro.»Thomas Dixon, autor de Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears
Homosexual Issues In The Workplace (Series In Clinical And Community Psychology Ser.)
by Louis DiamantFirst published in 1993. This book looks at the stress of gay and lesbian workers within the work world, and for that reason alone deserves its place on a list of recommended mental health, psycho-social health readings. However, more than this major factor merits consideration. Issues that are core to the identity of any person must be examined from the particular position of the homosexual worker and career seeker, and include such fundamental concepts as fairness, self-esteem, economics, survival, the need and right to participate in the work force, and the need and right for a voice and basic identity in vocational systems.
Homosexualities: Psychogenesis, Polymorphism, and Countertransference (Psychoanalysis and Women Series)
by Elda AbrevayaThis latest volume in the Psychoanalysis and Women Series for the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytical Association presents and discusses theoretical and clinical work from a number of authors worldwide. It clearly demonstrates that there is no typical development of homosexuality and that each individual's object-choice can only be grasped by examining their psychic history. While the therapeutic work requires no special adaptation of technique, countertransferential difficulties which may arise and stem in part from cultural representations about gender differences are fully explored. The book includes a unique retrospective view by Ralph Roughton over three time points which charts changes in considering the analyst's response within the wider cultural context.
Homosexuality and the Mental Health Professions: The Impact of Bias
by Committee on Human SexualityFor more than half a century, The Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) has produced position statements on relevant and controversial psychiatric topics. This latest monograph, Homosexuality and the Mental Health Professions: The Impact of Bias,continues a tradition of timely publications dealing with specific aspects of bias, discrimination, and human sexuality. This monograph acutely identifies problems of bias, overt and covert, as they affect the treatment of lesbian and gay patients and as they influence the training of mental health professionals. Incorporating clinical vignettes that detail actual incidents from a wide range of clinical and professional encounters, the report enables the clinician not only to review his or her own experience, but also to envision alternative possibilities of constructive and caring intervention. As psychiatry enters a new era of understanding the full range of normal variation in human sexuality, this monograph will serve both as an indispensable teaching tool and as an invaluable touchstone for assessing quality of care with gay and lesbian patients.
Homosexuality, Transsexuality, Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism (Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series)
by Alan Slomowitz Alison FeitHomosexuality, Transsexuality, Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism explores the often incommensurable and irreconcilable beliefs and understandings of sexuality and gender in the Orthodox Jewish community from psychoanalytic, rabbinic, feminist, and queer perspectives. The book explores how seemingly irreconcilable differences might be resolved. The book is divided into two separate but related sections. The first highlights the divide between the psychoanalytic, academic, and traditional Orthodox Jewish perspectives on sexual identity and orientation, and the acute psychic and social challenges faced by gay and lesbian members of the Orthodox Jewish world. The contributors ask us to engage with them in a dialogue that allows for authentic conversation. The second section focuses on gender identity, especially as experienced by the Orthodox transgender members of the community. It also highlights the divide between theories that see gender as fluid and traditional Judaism that sees gender as strictly binary. The contributors write about their views and experiences from both sides of the divide. They ask us to engage in true authentic dialogue about these complex and crucial emotional and religious challenges. Homosexuality, Transsexuality, Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as members and leaders of Jewish communities working with LGBTQ issues.
Homosexuality: A Subjective and Objective Investigation (Collected Works of Charles Berg)
by Charles BergFirst published in Britain in 1958, the original blurb read: ‘To those whose sex life is based on heterosexual relationships, the homosexual is a grotesque, shadowy creature – a person spoken of with scorn. If you are not one of us, it is impossible to realise our feelings when this occurs. It is incredible to us that a well-educated girl could make the following remark: "What do they look like? I wonder if I’ve ever seen one?"’ These words – written by a lesbian and taken from one of the personal histories of homosexual men and women which open this book – might be taken as its theme. In our statistically minded age, we are apt to forget that behind the word homosexual there is always a person. Widespread misconceptions about homosexuality are particularly startling when one considers the disturbing prevalence. The purpose of this book is to bring into public light, the knowledge of the manifestations of the problem, so that they may be openly examined. The book is divided into two parts: Part One presents a collection of revealing autobiographies, diaries, letters and intimate observations in which the homosexuals speak for themselves. Part Two offers an examination of the cause and cure of homosexuality by important figures from all major schools of thought. It includes contributions by Sigmund Freud, C. G. Jung, George W. Henry, Magnus Hirschfield, Wilhelm Stekel and Sandor Ferenczi. In editing this volume, Dr Berg has bridged a significant gap in the scientific approach to sexual behaviour. By bringing to life the feelings, fears, attitudes and anxieties of the human being behind the statistics of homosexual incidence, as well as the causes, it should become indispensable to the movement for intelligent sex education. This book is a re-issue originally published in 1958. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.
Homosexuality: Power and Politics
by Gay Left CollectiveA socialist journal edited by gay men in the 1970sAfter the leading organizations of radical sexual politics - the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Marxist Group - imploded or dissolved, the Gay Left Collective formed a research group to make sense of the changing terrain of sexuality and politics writ large. Its goal was to formulate a rigorous Marxist analysis of sexual oppression, while linking together the struggle against homophobia with a wider array of struggles, all under the banner of socialism. This anthology combines the very best of their work, exploring masculinity and workplace organizing, counterculture and disco, the survivals of victorian morality and the onset of the HIV/AIDS crisis.
Homöopathie - die Fakten [unverdünnt]
by Edzard Ernst Jutta BretthauerHomöopathie und Wissenschaft Dieses Buch zeichnet die Entstehung der Homöopathie nach, erläutert ihre grundlegenden Prinzipien, klärt über die heutige Praxis auf und diskutiert die Gründe für die anhaltende Beliebtheit dieser Heilmethode. Vor zweihundert Jahren hatte die Medizin Kranken wenig zu bieten: Man ließ sie zur Ader oder verabreichte ihnen extrem starke Abführmittel – Praktiken, die den Krankheitsverlauf verkürzten, indem sie den Tod des Patienten beschleunigten. Vor allem als Reaktion auf diese brachiale und ineffektive Medizin entwickelte der deutsche Arzt Samuel Hahnemann im ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert ein therapeutisches System, das er als Homöopathie bezeichnete. Während sich die Medizin seit jener Zeit enorm gewandelt und weiterentwickelt hat, wird die Homöopathie – mit ihren Wurzeln in Alchemie und Metaphysik – heute noch genauso praktiziert wie in Hahnemanns Tagen. Die Leser dieses Buches werden nicht nur die Geschichte der Homöopathie und ihrer fast magischen Anziehungskraft kennen lernen, sondern vor allem die rationale und wissenschaftliche Herangehensweise des Autors zu schätzen wissen, der in kompakter Form die gesamte Bandbreite der biologischen, chemischen und psychologischen Fragen beleuchtet, die diese Behandlungsform aufwirft.
Homöopathie neu gedacht
by Natalie GramsDer Versuch eines BrückenschlagsDieses viel diskutierte Buch hat die Debatte um die Homöopathie neu belebt. Die nun vorliegende Taschenbuchausgabe, in der auch die Erfahrungen der Autorin nach der Erstveröffentlichung Niederschlag gefunden haben, wird unentbehrlich bleiben für die weitere Diskussion.Die Homöopathie ist über 200 Jahre alt und erfährt auch heute noch einen ungebrochenen Zustrom. Viele Patienten und Therapeuten schwören auf die „alternative Heilmethode“, die mittlerweile auch von vielen Krankenkassen erstattet wird. Kritikern erscheint dies völlig unverständlich – ist für sie doch längst klar, dass die Homöopathie hoffnungslos unwissenschaftlich ist und allenfalls einen Placebo-Effekt zu bieten hat. Die Positionen von Befürwortern und Gegnern scheinen dabei ebenso unverrückbar wie unvereinbar. Das Buch beantwortet spannende Fragen: Was bleibt in einer Medizin des 21. Jahrhunderts übrig von dem Gedankengebäude der Homöopathie? Wie wirkt sie wirklich? Welche der ursprünglichen Theorien können wir auch heute noch guten Gewissens anwenden und zum Nutzen von Patienten und Gesundheitssystem einsetzen? Wo aber hat die Homöopathie Grenzen und muss in der Tat kritisch betrachtet und bewertet werden? Die Autorin hat sich über Jahre mit den Kritikpunkten auseinandergesetzt, nimmt aber gleichzeitig auch die Wünsche und Sorgen der Patienten ernst, die sich in der konventionellen Medizin oft nur unzureichend versorgt fühlen. Ihr Buch versucht einen (überfälligen) Brückenschlag zwischen zwei traditionell verfeindeten Lagern.Die AutorinNatalie Grams ist Ärztin, Autorin und Leiterin des Informations-Netzwerks Homöopathie. Ihr Buch und ihre kritische Einschätzung der Homöopathie haben ihr zahlreiche Interviews beschert und ein neues Nachdenken über diese Heilmethode befördert.
Honest Answers: Interview and Negotiation Skills to Get to the Truth
by Lena SiscoBECOME A MASTER AT NEGOTIATION AND COMMUNICATIONNever go into an important conversation feeling unheard, unprepared, or uninformed again—apply the proven SISCO method for communication to become a master negotiator, trusted interviewer, and engaging conversationalist. No matter the conversation, detecting honesty and persuading others to be honest are some of the most valuable skills you can learn. With these skills, you can master your daily conversations and interactions with others. The Strategic Interviewing Skills and Competencies (SISCO) Method will help you see the full picture, have all the facts, and make effective decisions.Former Navy interrogator, Lena Sisco, created this method during challenging investigative and information-gathering interviews. Her 5-step program focuses human-to-human interaction. When you can gain someone&’s trust you can get truth in any scenario. She teaches readers how to validate their gut feeling when they think someone is lying, unassumingly control a conversation, and persuade others to be honest.These skills are not only applicable in an interrogation room, but they can be relevant in everyday life. In this book, you will learn how to:Apply the strategic interviewing skills behind the SISCO method to your everyday life to discover the information and the honest answers you need.Create an environment of trust that will facilitate the fact finding necessary to be more effective at your job while encouraging others to be more accountable.Control the signals you may or may not be inadvertently sending to others.Know the right words to say during a disagreement in order to de-escalate conflict, gain respect, and create a win-win situationNot only does she teach you techniques and methods to negotiate and interview with confidence, she shares the neuroscience behind why they are effective. You will be able to interpret patterns of behavior and influence positive behaviors in others, as well as enhancing the effectiveness of your communication practices; both verbal and nonverbal.
Honest Dialogue: Presence, Common Sense, and Boundaries when You Want to Help Someone
by Bent FalkFocusing on how someone in need can best be helped, the author identifies the skills and honesty of the person who wants to help as key to how effective this can be. Looking in detail at the nature of boundaries, willingness to speak from a place of authenticity and to be honestly present to the experience of the individual person, and the sensitive and economical use of language, the author shows how people in a state of deep personal crisis can be richly helped. Taking the view that no set response is always right or always wrong, he argues strongly for the importance of going with what is spontaneous and real in the moment, and responding thoughtfully and with integrity to the experience of the person in need. The book is an inspiration to develop deep awareness about the practice of encounter. Focusing on experiences of crisis and anxiety, the author provides many in-depth case examples, and sample scripts with actual questions and answers included. This short and deceptively simple book will raise awareness of, and broaden the range of, possible interventions for the open-minded reader.
Honest Signals
by Alex Sandy PentlandHow can you know when someone is bluffing? Paying attention? Genuinely interested? The answer, writes Sandy Pentland in Honest Signals,is that subtle patterns in how we interact with other people reveal our attitudes toward them. These unconscious social signals are not just a back channel or a complement to our conscious language; they form a separate communication network. Biologically based "honest signaling," evolved from ancient primate signaling mechanisms, offers an unmatched window into our intentions, goals, and values. If we understand this ancient channel of communication, Pentland claims, we can accurately predict the outcomes of situations ranging from job interviews to first dates. Pentland, an MIT professor, has used a specially designed digital sensor worn like an ID badge--a "sociometer"--to monitor and analyze the back-and-forth patterns of signaling among groups of people. He and his researchers found that this second channel of communication, revolving not around words but around social relations, profoundly influences major decisions in our lives--even though we are largely unaware of it. Pentland presents the scientific background necessary for understanding this form of communication, applies it to examples of group behavior in real organizations, and shows how by "reading" our social networks we can become more successful at pitching an idea, getting a job, or closing a deal. Using this "network intelligence" theory of social signaling, Pentland describes how we can harness the intelligence of our social network to become better managers, workers, and communicators.
Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World (The\mit Press Ser.)
by Alex PentlandHow understanding the signaling within social networks can change the way we make decisions, work with others, and manage organizations.How can you know when someone is bluffing? Paying attention? Genuinely interested? The answer, writes Alex Pentland in Honest Signals, is that subtle patterns in how we interact with other people reveal our attitudes toward them. These unconscious social signals are not just a back channel or a complement to our conscious language; they form a separate communication network. Biologically based “honest signaling,” evolved from ancient primate signaling mechanisms, offers an unmatched window into our intentions, goals, and values. If we understand this ancient channel of communication, Pentland claims, we can accurately predict the outcomes of situations ranging from job interviews to first dates.Pentland, an MIT professor, has used a specially designed digital sensor worn like an ID badge—a “sociometer”—to monitor and analyze the back-and-forth patterns of signaling among groups of people. He and his researchers found that this second channel of communication, revolving not around words but around social relations, profoundly influences major decisions in our lives—even though we are largely unaware of it. Pentland presents the scientific background necessary for understanding this form of communication, applies it to examples of group behavior in real organizations, and shows how by “reading” our social networks we can become more successful at pitching an idea, getting a job, or closing a deal. Using this “network intelligence” theory of social signaling, Pentland describes how we can harness the intelligence of our social network to become better managers, workers, and communicators.
Honest Work: A Business Ethics Reader
by Clancy Martin Joanne B. Ciulla Robert C. SolomonIn today's business world, ethics is not simply a peripheral concern of executive boards or a set of supposed constraints on free enterprise. Ethics stands at the very core of our working lives and of society as a whole, defining the public image of the business community and the ways in which individual companies and people behave. What people do at work--and how they think about work--determines their attitudes and aspirations, affecting and even structuring their personal lives and habits. <P><P>Working from this premise, Honest Work: A Business Ethics Reader provides a practical overview of business ethics that concentrates on the ethical problems and dilemmas students are most likely to face in their prospective work environments. Classic and recent articles and cases cover a broad spectrum of issues and concerns--from private ethical dilemmas to larger considerations of corporate values--and propose guidelines for thinking about the business world in a moral context. Each reading and case is followed by lively questions for discussion. <P><P>Offering a welcome alternative to the impersonal tone of most business ethics texts, the editors address students in an appealing and conversational manner. They provide engaging chapter introductions that include personal narratives and also present the ideas of great philosophers in a unique way--as emails. <P><P>Ideal for introductory undergraduate and MBA courses in business ethics, Honest Work: A Business Ethics Reader can be read as a coherent narrative but also offers instructors great flexibility, as its various chapters, readings, and cases can be pursued in almost any order. A Companion Website featuring chapter objectives and summaries, study questions, self-tests, and off-site links of interest will soon be available. An Instructor's Manual with Test Bank is available to adopters.
Hong Kong as Creative Practice (Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture)
by Eddie TayIn this book, Hong Kong is seen as a labyrinth, a postmodern site of capitalist desires, and a panoptic space both homely and unhomely. The author maps out various specific locations of the city through the intertwined disciplines of street photography, autoethnography and psychogeography. By meandering through the urban landscape and taking street photographs, this form of practice is open to the various metaphors, atmospheres and visual discourses offered up by the street scenes. The result is a practice-led research project informed by both documentary and creative writing that seeks to articulate thinking via the process of art-making. As a research project on the affective mapping of places in the city, the book examines what Hong Kong is, as thought and felt by the person on the street. It explores the everyday experiences afforded by the city through the figure of the flâneur wandering in shopping districts and street markets. Through his own street photographs and drawing from the writings of Byung-Chul Han, Walter Benjamin and Michel de Certeau, the author explores feelings, affects, and states of mind as he explores the city and its social life.
Honky
by Dalton ConleyThe author recalls how his childhood had all of the classic elements of growing up in America. His entertaining memoir as child, teenager and adult reveals how race and class impact all of us.
Honneth and Everyday Intercultural: Work, Marginalisation And Integration (Palgrave Politics Of Identity And Citizenship)
by Bona AnnaThis book conducts a critical investigation into everyday intercultural recognition and misrecognition in the domain of paid work, utilising social philosopher Axel Honneth’s recognition theory as its theoretical foundation. In so doing, it also reveals the sophistication and productivity of Honneth's recognition model for multiculturalism scholarship.Honneth and Everyday Intercultural (Mis)Recognition is concerned with the redress of intercultural related injustice and, more widely, the effective integration of ethically and culturally diverse societies. Bona Anna analyses the everyday experiences of cross-cultural misrecognition in a distinctive ethno-cultural group, including social norms that have been marginalised in the contexts of employment. In this endeavour, she deploys key constructs from Honneth’s theory to argue for individual and social integration to be conceptualised as a process of inclusion through stables forms of recognition, rather than as a process of inclusion through forms of group representation and participation. This book will appeal to students and academics of multiculturalism interested in learning more about the usefulness of Honneth’s recognition theory in intercultural inquiry, including the ways in which it can circumvent some of the impasses of classical multiculturalism.
Honor Related Violence: A New Social Psychological Perspective
by Robert ErmersHonor related violence is generally associated with crimes committed by people from the Middle East and adjacent areas. Perpetrators sometimes justify their deeds saying they ‘had to’ restore their honor. Theorists have argued that men from these populations exclusively correlate honor with the behaviour of their womenfolk, which they use as a pretext to further oppress and dominate women. Due to large-scale migration, western societies have become acquainted with honor related violence and honor killings. In this book, Robert Ermers addresses a number of questions related to honor related violence, including the use of predominantly negative frames regarding the cultural and social background of non-westerners and immigrants. In many publications, including the press, crimes committed by non-western individuals are often attributed to their cultural background rather than specific contexts or circumstances, in contrast to western cases. Vague and insufficiently defined concepts such as ‘honor’ and ‘culture’ strongly contribute to this bias. Honor Related Violence deals with honor and honor related violence, their background and contexts, what honor is, and what it is not. It examines stigma in relation to honor and based upon stigma research, reliably explains, analyses, and predicts honor related violence. The book argues that people all over the world can be stigmatized, excluded and ostracized when they commit misbehavior, and therefore find themselves in a state of dishonor which can lead to honor related violence. A timely intervention into the psychology of honor related violence, this is an essential resource for students and researchers in the fields of social psychology, sociology, law, criminology and anthropology.
Honor Your Anger: How Transforming Your Anger Style Can Change Your Life
by Beverly EngelFrom a leading expert, a guide to changing your anger style and successfully communicating your feelings. Do you act out your anger in destructive or underhanded ways? Or do you suppress your anger and turn other people&’s abuse and criticism against yourself? Anger is a normal, healthy emotion. But if it&’s channeled in negative directions, anger can do real damage to you and your loved ones. In this provocative, healing book, psychotherapist Beverly Engel explains why your personal anger style may be hurting your relationships, your career, and yourself. She then shows you step by step how to transform a negative anger style into a positive one. Once you've discovered how to express your anger in healthy ways, you'll find that anger can empower you, motivate you to make important changes, and help you gain a sense of control over your life. &“You can indeed learn to understand and manage your anger, and this book will show you how.&” —Robert Epstein, Ph.D., West Coast Editor, Psychology Today, Director Emeritus, Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, University Research Professor, California School of Professional Psychology &“A critical first step for people who have trouble getting in touch with their anger and expressing it in direct and appropriate ways.&” —Virginia Williams, Ph.D., coauthor of Anger Kills and Lifeskills
Honor, Symbols, and War
by Barry O'NeillNelson Mandela's presidential inauguration invitation to his former jailer; the construction and destruction of the Berlin Wall; the Gulf War's yellow ribbons. While the symbolic nuances of words and actions such as these are regular concerns for foreign policy practitioners, the subject has never been emphasized in international relations theory. That will change with the publication of this exceptionally original work. Many practitioners see symbolism as peripheral compared to resources, interests, military power, and alliances. Those who theorize about norms, ideas, and institutions tend to be open to the importance of symbolism, but they have not drawn out its details. Barry O'Neill's Honor, Symbols, and War puts symbolism at the center of the discussion. O'Neill uses the mathematical theory of games to study a network of concepts important in international negotiation and conflict resolution: symbolism, honor, face, prestige, insults, and apologies. His analysis clarifies the symbolic dynamics of several phenomena, including leadership, prenegotiation maneuvers, crisis tension, and arms-control agreements. This book will be of interest to political scientists, in particular those involved with game theory and international relations. Its findings also will prove useful to students of cultural anthropology, sociology, social psychology, and political behavior. Barry O'Neill is Associate Professor of Politics, School of Management, Yale University.
Honor-Based Violence: Policing and Prevention (Advances in Police Theory and Practice)
by Karl Anton Roberts Gerry Campbell Glen LloydHonor-based violence (HBV) is a crime committed to protect or defend the honor of a family and/or a community. It is usually triggered by the victim‘s behavior, which the family and/or community regards as causing offense or dishonor. HBV has existed for thousands of years but has only very recently become a focus of law enforcement, policy makers,
Honoring Differences: Cultural Issues in the Treatment of Trauma and Loss (Series in Trauma and Loss)
by Kathleen Nader Nancy Dubrow B. Hudnall StammWars, violence, and natural disasters often require mental health interventions with people from a multitude of ethnic groups, religions, and nationalities. Within the United States, those who care for the victims of trauma often assist individuals from a variety of immigrant cultures. Moreover, many aspiring mental health professionals from other countries seek training in the United States, creating an additional need for a broad cultural awareness within educational institutions.Honoring Differences deals with the treatment of trauma and loss while recognizing and understanding the cultural context in which the mental health professional provides assistance. Training in the cultural beliefs that may interact with traumatic reactions is essential, both to assess traumatic response accurately and to prevent harm in the process of assessing and treating trauma. Various cultures within the United States and several international communities are featured in the book.Each culturally-specific chapter aims to help the caregiver honor the valued traditions, main qualities, and held beliefs of the culture described and prepare to enter the community well-informed and well-equipped to intervene or consult effectively. Further more, the book provides information about issues, traditions, and characteristics of the culture, which are essential in moving through the phases of post-trauma or other mental health intervention.Mental health professionals, trauma specialists, missionaries, and organizations that send consultants to other nations, will find Honoring Differences essential reading. It will also be a resource to those who are interested in cultural differences and in honoring the belief systems of other cultures and nations.
Hoogbegaafdheid (jong)volwassenen: Toolbox voor de praktijk
by Mia FrumauDit boek geeft aankomende en ervaren professionals in de jeugd-GGZ nieuwe inzichten en praktische handvatten voor hun werk met hoogbegaafde cliënten. Hoogbegaafdheid: Emotionele ontwikkeling bij kinderen en (jong) volwassenen. Toolbox voor de praktijk gaat uit van een holistisch mensbeeld. Niet het label hoogbegaafdheid staat centraal, maar de emotionele ontwikkeling van kinderen en (jong)volwassenen met een hoog ontwikkelingspotentieel. Een risicofactor in hun psychosociale ontwikkeling is het ervaren van een mismatch met hun omgeving. Het boek geeft handvatten om juist het omgekeerde te bereiken. Dit heet ‘Goodness of Fit’. Het boek legt daarvoor het accent op de samenwerking tussen thuis, onderwijs en zorg. Hoogbegaafdheid: Emotionele ontwikkeling bij kinderen en (jong) volwassenen. Toolbox voor de praktijk gaat in op verschillende vragen. Bijvoorbeeld wat we verstaan onder hoog ontwikkelingspotentieel. Hoe we krachten, ontwikkelpunten en ontwikkelingsdomeinen in beeld krijgen. Wat maakt dat een “t”-trauma of een sociaal wenselijk masker, een Persona, ontstaat. Het laatste hoofdstuk geeft aanbevelingen voor de praktijk. Het boek wisselt theorie af met concrete praktijkvoorbeelden. Ook zijn er handige werkbladen. Deze werkbladen komen uit de Goodness-of-Fit Dialoog Toolbox, waarbij ook een kaarttool en een bordspel horen. Mia Frumau heeft als ontwikkelingspsycholoog, GZ-psycholoog en psychotherapeut jarenlange ervaring in het diagnosticeren en behandelen van mensen met een hoog ontwikkelingspotentieel. Ze doet wetenschappelijk onderzoek, publiceert en doceert. Frumau is directeur van PPF Centrum voor HoogOntwikkelingsPotentieel.