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Author: Ivan Leudar Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134754299 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 234
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Hearing voices is equated with madness in our society but Leudar & Thomas show that this has not always been the case and that it may be a normal experience.
Author: Ivan Leudar Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134754299 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 234
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Hearing voices is equated with madness in our society but Leudar & Thomas show that this has not always been the case and that it may be a normal experience.
Author: Ivan Leudar Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134754280 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 250
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Records of people experiencing verbal hallucinations or 'hearing voices' can be found throughout history. Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity examines almost 2,800 years of these reports including Socrates, Schreber and Pierre Janet's "Marcelle", to provide a clear understanding of the experience and how it may have changed over the millenia. Through six cases of historical and contemporary voice hearers, Leudar and Thomas demonstrate how the experience has metamorphosed from being a sign of virtue to a sign of insanity, signalling such illnesses as schizophrenia or dissociation. They argue that the experience is interpreted by the voice hearer according to social categories conveyed through language, and is therefore best studied as a matter of language use. Controversially, they conclude that 'hearing voices' is an ordinary human experience which is unfortunately either mystified or pathologised. Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity offers a fresh perspective on this enigmatic experience and will be of interest to students, researchers and clinicians alike.
Author: Simon McCarthy-Jones Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107007224 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 471
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A comprehensive exploration of the history, phenomenology, meanings and causes of hearing voices that others cannot hear (auditory verbal hallucinations).
Author: Karen Ann Hohne Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 1452901309 Category : Feminist literary criticism Languages : en Pages : 234
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A Dialogue of Voices was first published in 1994. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The work of the Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, particularly his notions of dialogics and genre, has had a substantial impact on contemporary critical practices. Until now, however, little attention has been paid to the possibilities and challenges Bakhtin presents to feminist theory, the task taken up in A Dialogue of Voices. The original essays in this book combine feminism and Bakhtin in unique ways and, by interpreting texts through these two lenses, arrive at new theoretical approaches. Together, these essays point to a new direction for feminist theory that originates in Bakhtin-one that would lead to a feminine être rather than a feminine écriture. Focusing on feminist theorists such as Hélène Cixous, Teresa de Lauretis, Julia Kristeva, and Monique Wittig in conjunction with Bakhtin's concepts of dialogism, heteroglossia, and chronotope, the authors offer close readings of texts from a wide range of multicultural genres, including nature writing, sermon composition, nineteenth-century British women's fiction, the contemporary romance novel, Irish and French lyric poetry, and Latin American film. The result is a unique dialogue in which authors of both sexes, from several countries and different eras, speak against, for, and with one another in ways that reveal their works anew as well as the critical matrices surrounding them. Karen Hohne is an independent scholar and artist living in Moorhead, Minnesota. Helen Wussow is an assistant professor of English at Memphis State University.
Author: Stephen Jenkinson Publisher: North Atlantic Books ISBN: 1583949739 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 417
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Die Wise does not offer seven steps for coping with death. It does not suggest ways to make dying easier. It pours no honey to make the medicine go down. Instead, with lyrical prose, deep wisdom, and stories from his two decades of working with dying people and their families, Stephen Jenkinson places death at the center of the page and asks us to behold it in all its painful beauty. Die Wise teaches the skills of dying, skills that have to be learned in the course of living deeply and well. Die Wise is for those who will fail to live forever. Dying well, Jenkinson writes, is a right and responsibility of everyone. It is not a lifestyle option. It is a moral, political, and spiritual obligation each person owes their ancestors and their heirs. Die Wise dreams such a dream, and plots such an uprising. How we die, how we care for dying people, and how we carry our dead: this work makes our capacity for a village-mindedness, or breaks it. Table of Contents The Ordeal of a Managed Death Stealing Meaning from Dying The Tyrant Hope The Quality of Life Yes, But Not Like This The Work So Who Are the Dying to You? Dying Facing Home What Dying Asks of Us All Kids Ah, My Friend the Enemy
Author: Lisa Morgan Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1634173775 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 215
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Go on the ride of your life as the hilarious Lisa Morgan talks to you about anything and everything under the sun. She teaches you life lessons that she has learned from almost everyone who are near and dear to her—her husband, her mother, her father, her grandmothers, and even her missing aunt—and she provides you with in-your-face realizations about life, love, friendship, sense of self, laughter, relationships, faith, karma, and keeping it real. She takes her own everyday experiences—some good, some not so good, and some really bad—and relates them to useful advices that we can all use one time or another in our lives. Lisa holds nothing back as she writes with a passion about things and subjects that interest her, and she isn’t afraid to show what her true opinions are on certain issues. Partnered with her witty quips and laugh-out-loud one-liners peppered throughout the pages, this book will make you smile, laugh, cry, and nod your head in agreement.
Author: Lisa Arnold Publisher: Ambassador International ISBN: 1620204061 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 400
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For Sanity’s Sake is a 365-day survival guide for women experiencing moderate to severe symptoms of perimenopause. Anxiety, fuzzy-brain, fatigue, and headaches are only some of the symptoms plaguing menopausal women. With such menacing symptoms, concentration on long, drawn out Bible Studies is often impossible. Many women feel guilty and often force themselves to muddle through, gaining nothing but frustration from the experience. Each devotion is designed to help women cope spiritually and emotionally with daily hormonal fluctuations and distractions. Women struggling with severe hormonal imbalances often struggle with deciphering the right or wrong of their emotions. Even when they know the right or wrong, their extreme emotional state makes it difficult to always choose God’s way Everything women need to persevere through menopause is provided through the power of the Holy Spirit, and it is imperative that women learn how to launch a counter attack against their fleshly emotions. For Sanity’s Sake provides that added spiritual boost needed to fight and ultimately win each daily battle. Through personal experiences, experiences of other women (and men), and Bible characters, this devotional helps women come to a realization that they are not alone in their menopausal struggles and that the best years of their lives are yet to come.
Author: Ellen S. Silber Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 9780847686414 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 292
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The essays collected in Analyzing the Different Voice: Feminist Psychological Theory and Literary Texts apply influential, pathbreaking psychological studies about women's lives to literature. In their analyses of fictional portraits, contributors both challenge and confirm psychological theories about female identity, about 'connection/separation' as developmental catalysts, and about the impact of gender on 'voice, ' moral decision-making, and epistemology in relation to classical and contemporary literary texts, written by both women and men.
Author: John Toker Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595365248 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 170
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Soul search your own path of independent thinking. Consider the freedom and costs that may go with it. John Toker applies his years as a psychotherapist and as a learning specialist to empower his readers through insightful observations and questions about humanity. He brings attention to social engineering and how it relates to individuality. Frank Thomas must deal with the stress from training to be a psychotherapist in psychiatric hospitals, heal from his father's death, and wake to his young nephew's life-threatening illness. He is ultimately consumed with questioning who is sane and what makes for a functional philosophy on how to lead his life. Excerpts from Conflicting Sanity "What would become of this tragedy? Would he also succumb, like those who have surrendered to life's hardships? Give up on his spirituality? Or would this be a growing experience? Could he learn from this loss and help others? Reaffirm his vigor for life?" "To reveal any self-doubts about his lonely dawning would assuage their issues with him as having all the answers, yet, he perceives, douse his credibility in kerosene. As a psychotherapist, the fuel of being vulnerable would be ablaze." Reviews "The book makes you think and gives you a deeper understanding of our psyche." -Cynthia Brian TV/Radio personality Best selling author, coauthor of NY Times Best Seller www.star-style.com " John Toker felt so passionate about his work that he put it in the form of a novel " -Chronicle Newspapers
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