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Wissenschaft als Kompass für die Zukunft
by Matthäus RudolphWurden Sie heute schon mit Fake News, Halbwissen oder Verschwörungserzählungen konfrontiert? Ob in den sozialen Medien, am Küchentisch oder in Talkshows – wissenschaftliche Fakten werden zunehmend angezweifelt. Das Buch Wissenschaft als Kompass für die Zukunft nimmt Sie mit auf eine erkenntnisreiche Reise in die Denkweise moderner Wissenschaft: Wie entstehen Fakten? Was unterscheidet Forschung von Meinung? Und warum ist gerade jetzt wissenschaftliches Denken so wichtig? In Zeiten von Desinformation, Vertrauenskrisen und Polarisierung erklärt dieses Buch verständlich, was Wissenschaft wirklich ausmacht – mit historischen Rückblicken, anschaulichen Beispielen und einem kritischen Blick auf heutige Forschungspraxis. Sie erfahren, warum Wissenschaft nicht perfekt ist, aber unverzichtbar bleibt. Und wie sie uns hilft, Debatten zu versachlichen, Orientierung zu gewinnen und die großen Herausforderungen unserer Zeit zu meistern. Zu den Zielgruppen: Das Sachbuch ist gut verständlich verfasst, interessant und leicht und lesbar. Es richtet sich an alle an der Thematik Interessierte. Zudem ist es hilfreich für Studierende. Zum Autor: Matthäus Rudolph ist Kognitionspsychologe und promoviert zur Ausbildung von Gewohnheiten. Seine Arbeiten wurden in internationalen Fachzeitschriften veröffentlicht. Er engagiert sich für wissenschaftliche Aufklärung und Bildungsgerechtigkeit – geprägt von Erfahrungen zwischen unterschiedlichen gesellschaftlichen Milieus.
Wissenschaft und Diplomatie: Aushandeln wesentlicher Allianzen
by Mauro Galluccio, Ph.D.Dieses Buch legt den Grundstein für ein neues Studien- und Forschungsgebiet an der Schnittstelle zwischen Wissenschaft und Diplomatie. Es gibt einen Überblick über die multidisziplinäre Forschung in diesem aufstrebenden Bereich und liefert die wissenschaftliche Grundlage für die Anwendung psychologischer Prinzipien zum Verständnis und zur Erleichterung politischer Entscheidungen in einem internationalen Kontext. Das Buch konzentriert sich darauf, wie Menschen auf individueller und kollektiver Ebene denken, handeln und fühlen, und berücksichtigt eine realistische Perspektive, aus der heraus transformative Prozesse entstehen können. Es folgt der laufenden Debatte in der EU und weltweit, um ein besseres Verständnis der Instrumente zu vermitteln, die zur Verbesserung der Kommunikation und Zusammenarbeit zwischen Wissenschaftlern, Politikern und Diplomaten in diesem Bereich eingesetzt werden können. Beim Scheitern der Kommunikation in dieser COVID-19-Planetenkrise ging es nicht darum, ob die Ziele erreicht wurden oder nicht, sondern um die Fähigkeit der Hauptakteure, zusammenzuarbeiten, um Verbindungen zu den Menschen herzustellen. Die Art und Weise, wie Politiker und Wissenschaftler ihre zwischenmenschlichen Verhandlungen führen, wird von großer Bedeutung für die Förderung der internationalen Zusammenarbeit und eines koordinierten Verhaltens bei der Problemlösung sein. Andernfalls wird die Wissenschaftsdiplomatie ihren wichtigsten Zweck aus den Augen verlieren: die Unterstützung bei der Lösung von Problemen, Konflikten und diplomatischen Prozessen zum Wohle der Menschheit.
Wissenschaftliche Poster gestalten und präsentieren
by Gregor Domes Ralf ChristeSie promovieren oder sind „Postdoc“ und die Präsentation Ihrer Forschungsergebnisse auf der Postersession einer Fachtagung / Konferenz steht an? Dann hilft Ihnen dieses Buch, Ihr Poster so zu gestalten und zu präsentieren, dass Ihnen die Aufmerksamkeit im unübersichtlichen Posterdschungel sicher ist! Das ist nicht selbstverständlich – denn die Konkurrenz ist groß und für ein „Hingucker-Poster“ braucht es neben einer effizienten Darstellung des Inhalts auch Know-how in Design-Fragen. Je besser Ihnen das Gesamtpaket gelingt, desto breiter die Wahrnehmung für Ihre Forschung und desto besser die Chancen, auf der nächsten Tagung Ihr wissenschaftliches Netzwerk zu pflegen und zu erweitern.
Wissenschaftliches Publizieren in der Psychologie: Ein Praktischer Wegweiser Und Leitfaden
by Winfried Rief Gregor Domes Beate Ditzen Jürgen BarthDieser Leitfaden ist gedacht als Wegweiser von der Idee zur erfolgreichen Publikation im Rahmen einer Dissertation, Habilitation oder anderer wissenschaftlicher Projekte – geschrieben für Studierende, Doktorierende, Post-Doktorierende und Forscher in Psychologie, Sozialwissenschaften, Neurowissenschaften und in den Nachbarfächern, welche in peer-reviewed journals publizieren wollen. Das Buch basiert auf zahlreichen erfolgreichen Workshops der Autoren zum Publizieren und den eigenen Publikationserfahrungen und liefert in kompakter Form alles, was man zum Publizieren braucht: kompetent, strukturiert und zielorientiert.Der Inhalt: Als praktischer Leitfaden zum Publizieren enthält dieses Buch Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen zum Aufbau, Schreiben, Überarbeiten, Korrigieren und Einreichen von wissenschaftlichen Artikeln. Es hilft bei Planung, Entwurf und Umsetzung des Publikationsvorhabens und begleitet durch den Review-Prozess, gibt Hinweise zur Kommunikation mit Verlagen und Herausgebern und Tipps zum Umgang mit Rückmeldungen der Gutachter. Weitere Themen sind: Auswahl eines geeigneten Journals, Schreiben eines prägnanten Abstracts, Gestaltung von Abbildungen und Tabellen und vieles mehr.Die Autoren:Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Gregor Domes, Abteilung für Biologische und Klinische Psychologie, Universität Trier. Prof. Dr. phil. Beate Ditzen, Institut für Medizinische Psychologie, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg. PD Dr. phil. Jürgen Barth, Trainer Academic Writing, Bern, Schweiz.
Wissenschaftliches Schreiben mit Leichtigkeit: Durchblick und Erfolg im Studium mit smartem Schreiben (essentials)
by Sarah VaclavIn diesem praxisnahen Essential entmystifiziert ein erfahrener Schreibcoach das wissenschaftliche Schreiben und macht es zugänglich für Studierende aller Fachbereiche, sodass es der Freude am Studium nicht mehr im Weg steht. Mit einem innovativen Ansatz, der Strategie, Kreativität und Individualität vereint, wird das Schreiben von wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten zu einer bereichernden und weniger belastenden Erfahrung. Der Leitfaden motiviert und unterstützt Studierende aktiv bei der Erstellung von Essays, Hausarbeiten, Referaten und mehr, indem er praktische Tipps und bewährte Techniken bietet. Mit diesem Buch an der Seite erhalten Studierende nicht nur wertvolles Handwerkszeug, sondern auch die nötige Zuversicht, um ihre akademischen Texte erfolgreich und selbstbewusst zu gestalten. Ein unverzichtbarer Begleiter für alle, die ihre Schreibfähigkeiten verbessern und ihre wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten erfolgreich meistern möchten.
Wit And Its Relation To The Unconscious
by Freud, SigmundFirst published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious
by Sigmund FreudRenowned as the father of psychoanalysis, Freud was uniquely qualified to write this fascinating exploration of the nature of wit — including jokes and joking — and its role and function as a manifestation and vehicle of unconscious impulses. First analyzing the techniques and tendencies of wit, the great analyst probes the origins of wit in the "pleasure mechanism." He then discusses the motives of wit, wit as a social process, the relation of wit to dreams and the unconscious, and wit and the various forms of the comic.Until the publication of this important study, the literature on which was insubstantial; those investigations that existed tended to neglect wit in favor of the larger, more general area of the comic. In Freud's hands, however, the study of wit became another avenue of investigation into the psyche. With characteristic insight and intelligence he shows that wit, although it belongs to aesthetics, is subject to the same laws, shares the same mechanism and serves the same tendencies as neuroses, dreams and psychopathological acts.Published a few years after Freud's breakthrough work, The Interpretation of Dreams, the present volume is not only an acutely perceptive psychological study, its lighthearted tone and abundant store of jokes and witticism make it one of the most accessible and enjoyable of Freud's works. It is presented here in an excellent English translation by A. A. Brill, Freud's chosen translator and former Chief of the Clinic of Psychiatry, Columbia University.
Witchcraft and Magic in Ireland (Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic)
by Andrew SneddonThis is the first academic overview of witchcraft and popular magic in Ireland and spans the medieval to the modern period. Based on a wide range of un-used and under-used primary source material, and taking account of denominational difference between Catholic and Protestant, it provides a detailed account of witchcraft trials and accusation.
Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust: Africa in Comparison
by Peter GeschiereIn Dante's Inferno, the lowest circle of Hell is reserved for traitors, those who betrayed their closest companions. In a wide range of literatures and mythologies such intimate aggression is a source of ultimate terror, and in Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust, Peter Geschiere masterfully sketches it as a central ember at the core of human relationships, one brutally revealed in the practice of witchcraft. Examining witchcraft in its variety of forms throughout the globe, he shows how this often misunderstood practice is deeply structured by intimacy and the powers it affords. In doing so, he offers not only a comprehensive look at contemporary witchcraft but also a fresh--if troubling--new way to think about intimacy itself. Geschiere begins in the forests of southeast Cameroon with the Maka, who fear "witchcraft of the house" above all else. Drawing a variety of local conceptions of intimacy into a global arc, he tracks notions of the home and family--and witchcraft's transgression of them--throughout Africa, Europe, Brazil, and Oceania, showing that witchcraft provides powerful ways of addressing issues that are crucial to social relationships. Indeed, by uncovering the link between intimacy and witchcraft in so many parts of the world, he paints a provocative picture of human sociality that scrutinizes some of the most prevalent views held by contemporary social science. One of the few books to situate witchcraft in a global context, Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust is at once a theoretical tour de force and an empirically rich and lucid take on a difficult-to-understand spiritual practice and the private spaces throughout the world it so greatly affects.
Witches, Midwives, & Nurses
by Barbara Ehrenreich Deirdre EnglishAs we watch another agonizing attempt to shift the future of health care in the United States, we are reminded of the longevity of this crisis, and how firmly entrenched we are in a system that doesn't work.Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, first published by The Feminist Press in 1973, is an essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witch hunters. In this new edition, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English have written an entirely new chapter that delves into the current fascination with and controversies about witches, exposing our fears and fantasies. They build on their classic exposé on the demonization of women healers and the political and economic monopolization of medicine. This quick history brings us up-to-date, exploring today's changing attitudes toward childbirth, alternative medicine, and modern-day witches.Barbara Ehrenreich is author of the New York Times bestsellers Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch, and, most recently, This Land is Their Land.Deirdre English, the former editor of Mother Jones, is a professor in the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
With A Woman's Voice: A Writer's Struggle for Emotional Freedom
by Lucy DanielsHaving written a bestselling book at 22, survived a harrowing battle with anorexia nervosa, and pursued a successful career as a clinical psychologist, Lucy Daniels has led a remarkable life. In With a Woman's Voice: A Writer's Struggle for Emotional Freedom, her first book in 40 years, Daniels shares the experience of overcoming emotional hardships and gaining valuable insights from them, through psychoanalysis, that has enabled her to help others.With a Woman's Voice is Daniels' memoir of the struggles she faces as a writer and a doctor of psychology, struggles that began at a very young age and continued long after the success of her two novels. As the child of a wealthy newspaper family, Daniels was emotionally deprived by her demanding parents and plagued by her own feelings of inadequacy and helplessness. Sent to a mental hospital for treatment of her anorexia, she spent years enduring brutal regimens of electroshock therapy, insulin injections, and force-feedings. It was during this time that she wrote Caleb, My Son. Caleb, My Son became a national bestseller, earning accolades for its portrayal of racial and generational conflict in the South of the 50s. Her second book, High on a Hill, was a fictional account of the time she spent in the hospital. Her novels won her a Guggenheim fellowship and extensive praise.After this early success, Daniels succumbed to writer's block that lasted several decades. She tells in her memoir of her decision to examine and resolve her problems, leading her to seek psychoanalytic treatment while pursuing a doctorate in clinical psychology. After years of examining her difficulties and learning how they could be treated, she created a foundation that helps artists overcome emotional disorders and gain creative insight from both self-examination and psychotherapy.With a Woman's Voice recalls these achievements, and the difficult years that led up to them, with insight, humor, and wisdom. Daniels provides a moving account of
With Culture in Mind: Psychoanalytic Stories (Relational Perspectives Book Series)
by Muriel DimenThis is a new kind of anthology. More conversation than collection, it locates the psychic and the social in clinical moments illuminating the analyst's struggle to grasp a patient's internal life as voiced through individual political, social, and material contexts. Each chapter is a single detailed case vignette in which aspects of race, gender, sexual orientation, heritage, ethnicity, class – elements of the sociopolitical matrix of culture – are brought to the fore in the transference-countertransference dimension, demonstrating how they affect the analytic encounter. Additionally, discussions by three senior analysts further deconstruct patients' and analysts' cultural embeddedness as illustrated in each chapter. For the practicing clinician as well as the seasoned academic, this highly readable and intellectually compelling book clearly demonstrates that culture saturates subjective experience – something that all mental health professionals should keep in mind.
With Nature in Mind: The Ecotherapy Manual for Mental Health Professionals
by Andy Mcgeeney Lindsay RoyanWhat is ecotherapy, how does it relate to mental health, and how can it reduce emotional distress and promote general wellbeing? This book explains how a deeper connection to nature can improve quality of life, by combining the therapeutic power of mindfulness and being out in the natural world. Examining the latest psychological research evidence into how and why the natural world has such a positive effect on us, this book shows how best to utilise these therapeutic connections in practice. 100 nature-based activities are included, from experiencing the full force of the wind, to creating a sound map of natural noises. The aims of each activity are clearly outlined, with detailed guidelines for facilitating outdoor sessions with adults effectively and safely, and advice to help make the most of the outdoors in all weathers and seasons.
With Pleasure: Managing Trauma Triggers for More Vibrant Sex and Relationships
by August McLaughlin Jamila DawsonA companion for anyone experiencing the effects of trauma, featuring true stories of survivors from a broad, inclusive range of backgroundsWith Pleasure: Managing Trauma Triggers for More Vibrant Sex and Relationships is a companion for anyone experiencing the effects of trauma. Through true survivor stories, expert insight, writing prompts, and grounding exercises, it explores pleasure, relationships, and community as worthy and essential antidotes in trying times. Written by trauma-informed sex therapist Jamila Dawson, LMFT, and sexuality journalist and podcaster August McLaughlin, With Pleasure provides a much-needed alternative to harmful "self-help" ideologies that instruct people to "change their thoughts" or "choose to be happy."Instead, Dawson and McLaughlin encourage readers to respect their feelings, understand the complexities of a society and systems that fuel trauma, foster self-compassion, and embrace pleasure.
With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
by Kathryn MannixFor readers of Atul Gawande and Paul Kalanithi, a palliative care doctor's breathtaking stories from 30 years spent caring for the dying.Modern medical technology is allowing us to live longer and fuller lives than ever before. And for the most part, that is good news. But with changes in the way we understand medicine come changes in the way we understand death. Once a familiar and gentle process, death has come to be something from which we shy away, preferring to fight it desperately than to accept its inevitability. Palliative care has a long tradition in Britain, where Dr. Kathryn Mannix has practiced it for 30 years. In this book, she shares beautifully crafted stories from a lifetime of caring for the dying. With insightful meditations on life, death, and the space between them, With the End in Mind describes the possibility of meeting death gently, with forethought and preparation, and shows the unexpected beauty, dignity, and profound humanity of life coming to an end.
With the Wind and the Waves: A Guide to Mental Health Practices in Alaska Native Communities (Alaska)
by Ray M. DrobyIn With the Wind and the Waves, psychologist Ray M. Droby tells a story of treatment and learning, drawing on experiences ranging from an ocean journey he took on the Bering Sea while serving in a Alaska Native community to his clinical work as a psychologist in rural Alaska. Like negotiating an ocean, Droby moves “with the wind and the waves” while working with substance abuse disorders and mental health issues superimposed on intergenerational trauma and internalized oppression. He captures positive momentum in work aimed at facilitating self-determination with Alaska Natives and their communities while discouraging historical dependency and colonizing patterns of thinking and doing for mental health workers. Sensitive to the history of non-Native outsiders imposing their own culture on Native land, Droby presents here principles, combined with cultural and therapy considerations, that are designed to help people avoid replicating this history of harm. Recognizing the strengths of Alaska Natives and their communities, and the stages of change human individuals and communities undergo, Droby shows how to exercise a nonjudgmental presence as a mental health worker in rural Alaska.
Withdrawal, Silence, Loneliness: Psychotherapy of the Schizoid Process
by Richard G ErskineWith contributions from Silvia Allari, Leigh Bettles, Dan Eastop, Richard G. Erskine, Amaia Mauriz Etxabe, Linda Finley, Ray Little, Lynn Martin, Marye O'Riely-Knapp, Eugenio Peiro Orozco. Richard G. Erskine is a master clinician who, through more than fifty years of practice, has integrated diverse schools of psychoanalytic thought - self psychology, object relations, transactional analysis, and Gestalt therapy - with his client-centered background to form his relationally focused, integrative psychotherapy. Alongside eight colleagues, he presents an authoritative guide on working with the schizoid process. Part I provides an introduction to the schizoid process and an understanding of the concepts and therapeutic interventions required, helpfully illustrated through relevant vignettes that retain the subjective experience of therapist and client. Part II, the heart of the book, contains a longitudinal case study of Allan. This focuses on the narrative of the psychotherapy sessions interwoven with several salient concepts. It is followed by the observations of two colleagues on the process of the psychotherapy. A representation of professional dialogue, which is so central to refining the practice of psychotherapy. Part III looks at the clients' perspective, including a chapter written by a client to provide her personal views on her internal experience of psychotherapy. The final part contains a chapter on the five-year psychotherapeutic journey of a client, Louise. This chapter demonstrates how the theory of the schizoid process is put into therapeutic practice. This is an essential book for all psychotherapists to widen their understanding of therapeutic practice.
Within Our Reach: Ending the Mental Health Crisis
by Susan K. Golant Rosalynn Carter Kathryn E. CadeIn Within Our Reach: Ending the Mental Health Crisis, Rosalynn Carter and coauthors Susan K. Golant and Kathryn E. Cade render an insightful, unsparing assessment of the state of mental health. Mrs. Carter has been deeply invested in this issue since her husband's gubernatorial campaign when she saw firsthand the horrific, dehumanizing treatment of people with mental illnesses. Using stories from her 35 years of advocacy to springboard into a discussion of the larger issues at hand, Carter crafts an intimate and powerful account of a subject previously shrouded in stigma and shadow, surveying the dimensions of an issue that has affected us all. She describes a system that continues to fail those in need, even though recent scientific breakthroughs with mental illness have potential to help most people lead more normal lives. Within Our Reach is a seminal, searing, and ultimately optimistic look at how far we've come since Carter's days on the campaign trail and how far we have yet to go.
Within Our Reach: Ending the Mental Health Crisis
by Susan K. Golant Rosalynn Carter Kathryn E. CadeIn Within Our Reach, Rosalynn Carter and coauthors Susan K. Golant and Kathryn E. Cade render an insightful, unsparing assessment of the state of mental health. Mrs. Carter has been deeply invested in this issue since her husband, former President Jimmy Carter, campaigned for governor of Georgia, when she saw firsthand the horrific, dehumanizing treatment of people with mental illnesses.Using stories from her 35 years of advocacy to springboard into a discussion of the larger issues at hand, Carter crafts an intimate and powerful account of a subject previously shrouded in stigma and shadow, surveying the dimensions of an issue that has affected us all. She describes a system that continues to fail those in need, even though recent scientific breakthroughs with mental illness have potential to help most people lead more normal lives.Within Our Reach is a seminal, searing, and ultimately optimistic look at how far we've come since Jimmy Carter's days on the campaign trail and how far we have yet to go.
Within Reach?: Managing Chemical Risks in Small Enterprises (Work, Health and Environment Series)
by David WaltersExamines regulatory and other strategies for improving chemical risk management in small enterprises in the European Union. This book considers what supports are necessary to secure the implementation of these strategies and is particularly concerned with the role of chemical product supply as envisaged by REACH.
Within Reason: Rationality and Human Behavior
by Donald B. CalneIt has long been a central conviction of western humanistic thought that reason is the most godlike of human traits, and that it makes us unique among animals. Yet if reason directs what we do, why is human behavior so often violent, irrational and disastrous? <BR>In Within Reason, leading neurologist Donald B. Calne investigates the phenomenon of rationality from an astonishingly wide array of scientific, sociological, and philosophical perspectives--and shows that although reason evolved as a crucial tool for human survival, it is an aspect of mind and brain which has no inherent moral or spiritual qualities and one whose relationship to our thoughts and actions may not be as central as we want to believe. Learned, lucid, and always illuminating, Within Reason brings together the latest developments in the science of mind with some of the most enduring questions of Western thought. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Within Time and Beyond Time: A Festschrift for Pearl King
by Riccardo SteinerThis book is dedicated to Pearl King who is something of an institution in herself within psychoanalysis as well as an important contributor to the development of the institution of psychoanalysis. She is the co-author with Riccardo Steiner of the monumental The Freud-Klein Controversies (1941-1945) detailing the 'Controversial Discussions' of the British Psychoanalytical Society.
Without Child
by Laurie LisleWithout Child challenges the stigma of childlessness by offering childless women the lifeaffirming story of themselves. Beginning with the difficult inner journey a woman faces before finally deciding or realizing she will not bear children, Without Child explores the myth of the childless woman's rejection of the maternal instinct. It also examines the childless woman's relationship to mothers and mothering, to her femininity, to men, to achievement, to her body,and to old age.Laurie Lisle contends that childless women are part of an ancient and respectable cultural tradition that includes biblical matriarchs, celibate saints, and nineteenth-century social reformers. However, like other aspects of women's history, this tradition has been forgotten and, in the process, maligned. Without Child bring childless women out of obscurity and places them back in women's history.Without Child brings scope and depth to a subject that has long been misunderstood. Weaving rich materials from history, literature, religion, and sociology with the author's own and other stories, this groundbreaking book does what no other has done before-presents childlessnessin a multifaceted and positive light.Most women grow up thinking they will become mothers, and many do follow that path. But for those women who are willingly or unwillingly without children, childlessness is a way of life that many of them must constantly defend. Without Child explores the facts and fallacies behind childlessness,what it means for women and society, and reminds us of how women can and do embrace this choice.In the shadow of a culture that claims to adore the child, Without Child bring a long forbidden topic into the light. Wide-ranging, yet intimate, philosophical, yet clear~sighted, this important book will reassure millions of women that they are not alone, not unusual, and, in fact, are part of a long and honorable tradition.Laurie Lisle is the author of four other books besidesWithout Child: two biographies of women artists, a history of a girls'school, and a memoir from the point-of-view as a gardener. Raised in Rhode Island, she lives with her husband in Litchfield County,Connecticut and in Westchester County, New York. For more information, please see her website at www.laurielisle.com.
Without Condoms: Unprotected Sex, Gay Men and Barebacking
by Michael ShernoffAfter years of activism, risk awareness, and AIDS prevention, increasing numbers of gay men are not using condoms, and new infections of HIV are on the rise. Using case studies and exhaustive survey research, this timely, groundbreaking book allows men who have unprotected sex, a practice now known as "barebacking," to speak for themselves on their willingness to risk it all. Without Condoms takes a balanced look at the profound needs that are met by this seemingly reckless behavior, while at the same time exposing the role that both the Internet and club drugs like crystal methamphetamine play in facilitating high-risk sexual encounters. The result is a compassionate, sophisticated and nuanced insight into what for many people is one of the most perplexing aspects of today's gay male culture and life style. Michael Shernoff digs deep and forces us to see that the AIDS epidemic is not over. We must now ask the hard questions and listen to the voices that answer. The stakes are too high to ignore.
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
by Robert D. HareMost people are both repelled and intrigued by the images of cold-blooded, conscienceless murderers that increasingly populate our movies, television programs, and newspaper headlines. With their flagrant criminal violation of society's rules, serial killers like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy are among the most dramatic examples of the psychopath. Individuals with this personality disorder are fully aware of the consequences of their actions and know the difference between right and wrong, yet they are terrifyingly self-centered, remorseless, and unable to care about the feelings of others. Perhaps most frightening, they often seem completely normal to unsuspecting targets--and they do not always ply their trade by killing. Presenting a compelling portrait of these dangerous men and women based on 25 years of distinguished scientific research, Dr. Robert D. Hare vividly describes a world of con artists, hustlers, rapists, and other predators who charm, lie, and manipulate their way through life. Are psychopaths mad, or simply bad? How can they be recognized? And how can we protect ourselves? This book provides solid information and surprising insights for anyone seeking to understand this devastating condition.