Voices in Psychosis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives deepens and extends the understanding of hearing voices in psychosis in a striking way. For the first time, this collection brings multiple disciplinary, clinical and experiential perspectives to bear on an original and extraordinarily rich body of testimony: transcripts of forty in-depth phenomenological interviews conducted with people who h…
This book takes the reader from basic questions like “What is health?” and “What is a psychiatric disorder?”, into the midst of people’s present mental health and enhancement choices. More and more people receive psychiatric diagnoses and the use of psychopharmacological drugs keeps increasing. Concurrently, media report the popularity of “brain doping” or “study drugs” on cam…
In Jane Addams’s Evolutionary Theorizing, Marilyn Fischer advances the bold and original claim that Addams’s reasoning in her first book, Democracy and Social Ethics, is thoroughly evolutionary. While Democracy and Social Ethics, a foundational text of classical American pragmatism, is praised for advancing a sensitive and sophisticated method of ethical deliberation, Fischer is the first t…
This study examines the ‘travel’ of political concepts between women's movements in the West around 1900 and argues that for the historical analysis of social movements, regardless of whether they were transnationally active or not, the exploration of the transfer practices that create spaces of exchange across linguistic and other borders is of eminent importance. It takes the biographical…
My class was scheduled from ten until noon. Many students came late. Several arrived after 10:30. A few showed up closer to eleven. Two came after that. All of the latecomers wore the relaxed smiles I later came to enjoy. Each one greeted me, and although a few apologized briefly, none seemed terribly concerned about being late. They assumed that I understood. That Brazilians would arrive late …
The introduction to this volume describes the contribution that it makes to scholarship on ancient divinatory practices. It analyses previous and current research, arguing that while this predominantly functionalist work reveals important socio-political dimensions of divination, it also runs the risk of obscuring from view the very people, ideologies, and experiences that scholars seek to unde…
Debates about the possibility of an open culture – or indeed about the possibility of an open debate about the openness of culture – often turn on questions of standards. But since no benchmark can be absolute, judgement is a proliferation of comparisons. Through a series of case studies in everyday and academic comparison (literature, history, politics, philosophy), Haun Saussy calls out t…
Water will undoubtedly become an ever more crucial locus of academic reflection, as Christiana Peppard’s concern that “wars of the future will be fought over water, not oil” (2014) stresses. Increasing water shortages worldwide and global warming of water, in particular the salt water of the oceans, beg further reflection, from natural and agricultural sciences, the legal field, and also …
The Runaway Species is a deep dive into the creative mind, a celebration of the human spirit, and a vision of how we can improve our future by understanding and embracing our ability to innovate. David Eagleman and Anthony Brandt seek to answer the question: what lies at the heart of humanity’s ability—and drive—to create? Our ability to remake our world is unique among all living thin…
When the Nerds Go Marching In shows how digital technology has moved from the margins to the mainstream of campaign and election organization in contemporary democracies. Combining an extensive review of existing literature and comparative data sources with original survey evidence and web content analysis of digital campaign content across four nations—the United Kingdom, Australia, France, …
The present volume does not generally focus on the question of whether thoughts (cognition) or feelings (emotion) are more functional. Rather, this introductory material is sufficient to make the case that, typically, thoughts and feelings are seen to be distinct entities with distinct effects (e.g., Epstein, 1994). Yet, it has become increasingly apparent that cognition and emotion often inter…
How does memory work? How do we understand language, and produce it so that others can understand? How do we perceive our environment? How do we infer from patterns of light or sound the presence of objects in our environment, and their properties? How do we reason, and solve problems? How do we think? These are some of the foundational questions that cognitive psychology examines. They are fou…
The massive disruptions caused by climate change, the Covid-19 Pandemic, war, and ever-rising inequalities have presented the world with challenges across social and economic life, health and education, policy, politics, and community life. Compassion is a central Buddhist value and practice but is also essential to our survival. Defined as feeling genuine concern about the suffering of others …
The majority of authors of Tarot books are content to describe and analyze the cards one by one without imagining the entire deck as a whole. However, the true study of each Arcanum begins with the consistent order of the entire Tarot; every detail, tiny as it may be, begins from the links that connect all seventy-eight cards. To understand these myriad symbols, one needs to have seen the final…
The study of signs, portents observed in the physical and social worlds indicating the will of supernatural agents and the course of future events, was undoubtedly important in all ancient cultures. The first written evidence for a concept of sign, however, comes from cuneiform texts of ancient Mesopotamia.
The ancient and mystic pack of cards called the Tarot never fails to evoke the curiosity of the uninitiated. “What are the Tarot cards?” “What makes them so different from our own playing cards?” “Can they really foretell the future?” “Can anyone learn how to read them?” This book is devoted to answering these and many other questions and to give the reader a knowledge of the Ta…
This volume examines the ethical issues that arise as a result of national security intelligence collection and analysis. Powerful new technologies enable the collection, communication, and analysis of national security data on an unprecedented scale. Data collection now plays a central role in intelligence practice, yet this development raises a host of ethical and national security problems, …
Food is more than just nutrition. Its preparation, presentation and consumption is a multifold communicative practice which includes the meal's design and its whole field of experience. How is food represented in cookbooks, product packaging or in paintings? How is dining semantically charged? How is the sensuality of eating treated in different cultural contexts? In order to acknowledge the ma…
Science has lost its ethical imperatives as it moved away from a science of ought to a science of is. Subsequently, it might have answers for how we can address global challenges, such as climate change and poverty, but not why we should. This supposedly neutral stance leaves it to politics and religions (in the sense of non-scientific fields of social engagement) to fill in the values. The pro…
Walaupun sudah susah payah merapikan rumah, apakah kertas-kertas terus saja bertumpuk dan pakaian harus terus anda jejalkan di lemari? Kenapa kita tidak bisa menjaga kerapian rumah? Marie Kondo memperkenalkan metode merapikan yang ampuh tiada duanya, KonMari. Keampuhan metode yang kini semakin marak diterapkan di Jepang dan telah dikemas dalam program televisi laris, "Tidy Up With KonMari!" in…
Terbukti telah mengubah cara orang melihat dunia dan kesuksesan hidup di berbagai belahan dunia, Mindset bertengger jadi topseller di amazon.com sejak 15 tahun lalu hingga sekarang. Kesuksesan tak hanya buah bakat dan kecerdasan serta usaha. Cara kita memandang diri, dunia, dan kesuksesan juga amat berperan. Karena itu, kunci sukses dalam segala pentas kehidupan sesungguhnya adalah pola pikir …
The book presents a theory of what the basic building blocks of the world are and argues that they can be reduced to three: a field, a set of values, and an actualizer. The theory is used to answer philosophical questions like: What are truth, existence, laws of nature, mind, free will, time, mathematical entities, and ethical values? The book is for people who like to ponder the big existentia…
In this era of digital multiplicity, images are reproduced atdazzling speed and spread instantly across the globe, yet they trigger vastly different responses. Images are not sim-ply depictions; they become visible to beholders in the con-text of embodied, habitual practices of looking, display,and figuration — a visual regime. In pluralistic settingscharacterized by cultural and religious di…
Joe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer and a recognized expert on nonverbal behavior, explains how to "speed-read" people: decode sentiments and behaviors, avoid hidden pitfalls, and look for deceptive behaviors. You'll also learn how your body language can influence what your boss, family, friends, and strangers think of you.
"Reach into this trickbox of memory and rummage around: you may find a tiny spaceship, or perhaps a signpost, a parade, a raised fist, an entire museum. The essays in Trickbox of Memory: Essays on Power and Disorderly Pasts draw on literary criticism, post-qualitative inquiry, new materialism, and political activism to dismember and reanimate the field of memory studies. In the trickbox, concep…
Life mastery. Savour the words. Who doesn’t want to master life? And who would disagree that young people of today, in particular those experience so much stress and pressure, might benefit from learning life skills? Where better to start than in primary school and lower secondary schools that are attended by 99.88 per cent of all Norwegian children? Raising doubts about mental he…
This book is a development of Jean-Paul Sartre’s philosophy. And the goal is to make Sartre’s work relevant for issues in contemporary philosophy in a new way. The relevance of the French philosopher for the study of human beings lies in two essential dichotomies that pervade his thought. That is, the dichotomy of freedom/facticity and that of individual/gro…
This perceived hybrid nature of astrology often offends contemporarysensi-bilities, although, from ahistorical perspective,iti is the anachronistic projection of a modern divideon to anancient knowledge system that is to blame. Astrology, classified as a 'pseudoscience' has long been regarded as a liability by orthodox scholars of both science and religion and as a result, academics of either …
he authority of contemporary science is fuelled by its achievements. The extraordinary experimental success of the Standard Model of particle physics and of the descrip-tion of quantum mechanical interactions between those particles, the observational data confirming the Big Bang theory and the age of the universe, as well as the discovery of its accelerating expansion (not to mention more spec…
All areas of philosophy are characterized by dissent. Philosophers disagree among themselves in innumerable ways, and this pervasive and permanent dissensus is a sign of their inability to solve philosophical problems and present well-established philosophical truths. Every philosopher who has not buried his head in the sand knows or at least suspects this.The saddest aspe…
In such stirring reports Europeans– explorers, missionaries, merchants, delegates and consuls– characterised the market as a place of brutal in- humanity where captured Africans were examined and treated like animals rather than beings with human dignity forming an undeniable, essential part of humankind. They used their outcry to attack especially the Arab sla…
We begin with four tales of ancient philosophers. First, the time When Thales Fell in the Well. Thales was from a prominent Milesian family, and had dedicated himself to the contemplation of nature. Of particular interest was the nature of the heavens: he learned to determine when the sun would be eclipsed and the dates of the solstices. One night, as he was intently examining the st…
Aku: Bagaimana caranya agar bisa mengubah pikiran bahwa saya ini standar dan biasa saja? Psikiater: Memangnya hal itu merupakan masalah yang harus diperbaiki? Aku: Iya, karena saya ingin mencintai diri saya sendiri. I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokpokki adalah esai yang berisi tentang pertanyaan, penilaian, saran, nasihat, dan evaluasi diri yang bertujuan agar pembaca bisa menerima da…
"Alih-alih menerima kekurangan, aku memutuskan untuk tidak memandang diriku sendiri secara negatif." Perjuangan Baek Se Hee untuk sembuh dari distimia masih berlanjut. Konflik batin yang dialaminya selama masa penyembuhan pun jadi lebih kompleks. I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokpokki adalah catatan pengobatan Baek Se Hee yang berjuang mengatasi distimia - depresi ringan yang terus-meneru…
Isi buku: 1. Jujur, aku merasa nggak punya teman. 2. Aku cuma butuh teman cerita. Satu saja. 3. Sekarang, aku: seseorang tanpa circle. 4. Aku selalu jadi opsi kedua di hidup orang. 5. Latihan berteman dengan diri sendiri. 6. Jadi dewasa itu sepi, ya. 7. Introver dan ekstrover yang kesepian. 8. Keluargaku nggak sehangat keluarga lain. 9. Kayaknya, nggak ada yang sayang sama aku. 10. Ak…
Bagaimana anda menjaga dan mencintai diri sendiri? Metode Pelatihan Mandiri untuk Harga Diri ala Dokter Kejiwaan 'dr. Yoon si Penjawab'. Selain mengandung 24 latihan untuk meningkatkan kepercayaan diri, buku ini juga terbagi dari tujuh bagian berikut: # Bagian pertama penanganan kesalahpahaman dan prasangka atas 'harga-diri' serta mengajak anda menyadari pentingnya kepercayaan diri dalam keh…
Mengapa interaksi kita dengan orang tak dikenal sering kali keliru? Penghentian pelanggar lalu lintas rutin yang berakhir dengan tragedi. Mata-mata yang bertahun-tahun tak terdeteksi di tingkat tertinggi Pentagon. Mengapa kita sering sekali keliru memahami orang lain? Mengapa sukar sekali mendeteksi kebohongan, membaca wajah, atau menilai motif orang tak dikenal? Melalui serangkaian pertemuan…
The preceding volumes in this series--devoted respectively to Person and Nature, Person and Society and Person and God1 --progressively delineated the basic issues of human and, indeed, of all existence. They took work on these issues beyond the horizon of the physical and social sciences, as well as beyond such philosophical methods as those of pragmatism and positivism. In this process the qu…
Di tangan anda ada "buku sukses" terlaris sepanjang masa yang sudah direvisi dan diperbarui untuk kehidupan di abad ke-21. Think and Grow Rich adalah karya fundamental sang penulis buku sukses legendaris, Napoleon Hill. Buku yang pertama kali diterbitkan tahun 1937 ini sekarang tetap sama ampuhnya - dan akan mengubah kehidupan anda selamanya. Bisa dibilang mustahil menemukan motivator yang sa…
Orang mengira ketika ingin mengubah hidup, Anda perlu memikirkan hal-hal besar. Namun, pakar kebiasaan terkenal kelas dunia James Clear menemukan cara lain. Ia tahu bahwa perubahan nyata berasal dari efek gabungan ratusan keputusan kecil dari melakukan dua push-up sehari, bangun lima menit lebih awal, sampai menahan sebentar hasrat untuk menelpon. Ia menyebut atomic habits. Dalam buku terobosa…
Lebih dari 2000 tahun lalu, sebuah mazhab filsafat menemukan akar masalah dan juga solusi dari banyak emosi negatif. Stoisisme atau Filosofi Teras adalah filsafat Yunani-Romawi kuno yang bisa membantu kita mengatasi emosi negatif dan menghasilkan mental yang tangguh dalam menghadapi naik turunnya kehidupan. Jauh dari kesan filsafat sebagai topik berat dan mengawang-awang, Filosofi Teras justru …
Alpha Female adalah para perempuan yang menginspirasi, memimpin, menggerakkan orang sekitarnya, dan membawa perubahan. Mereka cerdas, percaya diri, dan independen. Bagaimana remaja dan perempuan muda bisa mengembangkan diri menjadi mereka? The Alpha Girl's Guide akan membahas tip-tipnya, seperti: Mana yang lebih penting, nilai atau pengalaman berorganisasi? Apakah teman kamu teman sejati ata…
"Apakah memang dunia yang terlalu sibuk, atau malah batin saya?" Dunia bergerak dengan cepat, tetapi tidak berarti kita juga harus begitu. Melalui b uku ini, guru meditasi Zen Haemin Sunim mengajak kita untuk menyadari bahwa ketika melambatkan diri, dunia juga akan melambat bersama kita. Pesan-pesan singkat Haemin Sunim yang ditulis untuk menjawab pertanyaan di media sosialnya - menyasar kep…
Kita pikir, cinta adalah jawaban dari insecurity kita. Kita pikir, kita special bagi seseorang. Kita pikir, melupakan masa lalu adalah pilihan yang tepat. Dan, kita pikir-pikir kita pikir lainnya. Walau semua pemikiran itu sering berakhir kekecewaan yang sama, kita tetap nggak belajar dan akhirnya mengulangi kesalahan yang itu-itu lagi. This is the reason why I wrote this book.
Not exactly a recipe for happiness. Why is it so hard to admit when we step out of line, are rude, or act impatient? Because our ego feels so much better when we project our flaws and shortcomings on to someone else. It’s your fault, not mine. Just think about all the arguments and fights that grow out of this simple dynamic. Each person blames the other for saying or doing something wrong, j…
We have theories of development because observers of human behavior have been intrigued by what they saw childern and adults do. A 3-year-old predicts that a crayon box holds crayons; then, after it is opened to reveal candles, he asserts that he always believed that it held candles. A 5-year-old claims that spreading out a row of buttons increases the number of buttons. A school-age child use…
Under a certain description, Immanuel Kant appears like an intellectual ancestor of today’s animal rights movement.1 Here we have a philosopher who insists that duty trumps self-interest. That we should treat others according to rational principles, not momentary appetites. That moral responsibility arises from the capacity to determine our own actions auton-omou…
This introduction explores friendliness by moving through seven main topics. The first two topics (recollection of the body and working with the hin-drances) provide the foundations and could in themselves be considered as an autonomous and complete practice. In fact, anything else will just be a deepening of what is already entailed by them. They should be fairly acces-sible, although they wil…
Time Distortions in Mind brings together current research on temporal processing in clinical populations to elucidate the interdependence between perturbations in timing and disturbances in the mind and brain. For the student, the scientist, and the stepping-stone for further research.
"This book is for all those who are seeking a human perspective on economic and organizational processes. It lays the foundations for a value based approach to the economy. The key questions are: “What is important to you or your organization?” “What is this action or that organization good for?” The book is directed at the prevalence of instrumentalist thinking in the current economy a…