In this book, Fayek summarizes current arguments and debates stemming from neurological and phenomenological perspectives. He presents the notion that consciousness needs to be considered a human phenomenon and not simply a manifestation of brain activity, which is an occurrence shared by all organisms.
This text sets out to demonstrate that a psychoanalytic point of view can enrich one's understanding and appreciation of works of art. It draws on late-1990s psychoanalytic views of the importance of fantasy in order to address the impact of psychoanalysis on the understanding of the visual arts.
This text sets out to demonstrate that a psychoanalytic point of view can enrich one's understanding and appreciation of works of art. It draws on late-1990s psychoanalytic views of the importance of fantasy in order to address the impact of psychoanalysis on the understanding of the visual arts.
This book is a "best of the best" volume -- cutting-edge work that covers the systematization of theory, including its application to problems of development and culture, and aspects of practice, whether pointing to elements of the therapeutic or elaborating the psychoanalyst's position within the analytic relationship.
''In this excellent, concise volume, Rothenberg reports his current views on this fascinating subject . . . Well argued and judicious . . . I cannot recommend this book too highly.''--Journal of the American Medical Association.''This intriguing theory will no doubt provoke lively debate both inand outside professional circles. For lay readers, ......
A comprehensive collection of essays exploring the interstices of Eastern and Western modes of thinking about the self, this book documents just some of the challenges, conflicts, pitfalls, and "wow" moments that inhere in today's historical and cultural intersections of theory, practice, and experience.
In this gripping book, Professor Brett Kahr examines the nature of criminality throughout history, exploring the ways in which we have progressed from the ancient methods of torture and the execution of offenders to a more humane and psychologically sophisticated approach.
The Evolving Self, the Personal Unconscious, and the Creative Process
Demystifying Meaningful Coincidences (Synchronicities): The Evolving Self, the Personal Unconscious, and the Creative Process offers an original theory of the nature of meaningful coincidences (synchronicities) and their practical use from a naturalistic (nonsupernatural and non-Jungian) perspective. The findings are the outgrowth of Gibbs A. ......
Most everyone agrees that having pneumonia or a broken leg is always a bad thing, but not everyone agrees that sadness, grief, anxiety, or even hallucinations are always bad things. This fundamental disjunction in how disease and disorders are valued is the basis for the considerations in Descriptions and Prescriptions. In this book John Z. ......
