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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Clinical Applications
The main purpose of this book is to be useful in daily practice to clinicians, including less-discussed subjects that are frequently encountered in practice. For this, it was aimed to explain the formulation of the disorder in light of the basic CBT model in each chapter and then to present the treatment approach of the disorder with case examples. We believe that the case examples, which came from the authors' own practices, are the strength of the book.
Do Both Psychopathology and Creativity Result from a Labile Wake-Sleep-Dream Cycle?
Laypeople think of wake, sleep and dreaming as distinct states of the mind/brain but “in-between”, hybrid states are recognized. For example, day-dreaming or, more scientifically, the default network occurs during wake. Equally, during sleep, lucid dreaming in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep presents as another hybrid state. But hybrid states are usually temporary. This book explores the possibility of an enduring hybrid wake-sleep-dream state, proposing that such a state may engender both creativity and psychopathologies. REM sleep is hyper-associative. Creativity depends on making remote associations. If REM sleep and dreaming begin to suffuse the wake state, enhanced creativity may result. But moderate to severe interpenetration of wake, sleep and dreaming may engender psychopathologies – as the functions of wake, sleep and dreaming are partially eroded.
Cognitive Sciences and Medieval Studies
This study brings together medieval studies and cognitive methodologies in a study specifically aimed at medievalists. It presents a longer history of certain mental health conditions and locates contemporary debates about the mind in a broader historical framework. It considers both the benefits of incorporating insights from contemporary neuroscientific and cognitive studies into the exploration of the past, and the benefits of employing historical models and case studies in order to reflect on modern methods.
A Mental Ethnography: Conclusions from Research in LSD
There has recently been a renewed interest in both casual use of psychedelics as well as experimental use and attempts to discover therapeutic value. There is an effort to recapture the achievements and failures of past work to guide present use. This book is based around material derived from unpublished scientific research from Dr. Robert Mogar’s laboratory and built upon by forty years of field research by the author. The author Niccolo Caldararo participated in a number of studies of perception, including sensory deprivation and psychotropic drugs, some of recent manufacture or discovery and some of primitive or traditional societies. He places this analysis of the physiological aspects of hallucinations, delusions, visions and dreamsn context through an , as well as cross cultural data on dreams, dreaming and drug use and the social value of hallucinations, dreams and visions. The book reviews ethnographic literature in this area and contributes to a comprehensive evaluation of past work done in this area.
Contemporary Homo Ludens
Play allows the fulfilment of one’s dreams, yet also teaches subjugation to the norms governing daily life. Furthermore, traditional forms of play, transmitted from one generation to another, guarantee a culture’s continuance and perpetuation in time. Contemporary forms of play integrate a populace, creating a specific community of laughter which places a high value on individuality and the ability to lead social games. Play invalidates social divisions, but also diversifies behaviours through the introduction of changes in the rules, depending on the age of those engaged. Furthermore, it adapts to the forms by which social reality is created, as well as that reality’s goals, which, in turn, impart sense and meaning to something which, of its own nature, seems deprived thereof.
Dreaming in Auschwitz
This book, based on the descriptions of their dreams that former Auschwitz inmates wrote in 1973, provides a deep, insightful explanation of the role of dreams in shaping the prisoners’ experiences. It studies these testimonies from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, analysing the psychological, social, anthropological, narrative and even artistic dimensions of the reports. The book characterises the content of the dreams and their possible meanings, the manners in which the respondents sensed, understood and described their dreams, and the informants’ attitudes towards dreaming. Among thousands of books about the Nazi atrocities, this one is unique because it explores the Holocaust through the prism of dreams. The dream descriptions serve here as an exceptional source of knowledge. They often reveal not only an image of the camp reality, but also the truth that remained unconscious, incomprehensible, and unspeakable for the dreamers themselves. As such, this text will serve to open a completely new way of thinking and writing about the Holocaust.
Personality Assessment
Personality assessment is the determination and evaluation of personality attributes by interviews, observations, tests, or scales. What, then, are the common properties of assessment, regardless of which area is examined? It is proposed that there are three common denominators: (a) Decisions, (b) Procedures, and (c) Data acquisition. In general, assessment may be defined as a procedure whereby data is collected for decision-making purposes. Specifically, then, psychological assessment is a procedure whereby data is collected for making decisions about people. Such a definition. although short and simple, has a major advantage in emphasising the role of decision-making in assessment. This book presents the latest research developments in the field.
Współwytwarzanie wiedzy o technologii. Gaz łupkowy jako wyzwanie dla zbiorowości
Co się dzieje, kiedy zbiorowość próbuje zrozumieć, czym jest nowa technologia i jak może nas zmienić? Rozważmy to pytanie w odniesieniu do poszukiwań gazu łupkowego w Polsce. Jakiego rodzaju wiedza jest nam potrzebna, żeby podjąć decyzję: co zrobić z gazem łupkowym? Co dzieje się ze wspólnotą polityczną, która próbuje odpowiedzieć na te pytania? Badając te zagadnienia, autorka śledzi działania podejmowane w latach 2010–2014 w związku z poszukiwaniem gazu łupkowego w Polsce: wysiłek na rzecz budowania wiedzy o zasobie i możliwościach jego wydobycia oraz o potencjalnym oddziaływaniu prac na ludzi i przyrodę. W tym celu książka ta wykorzystuje dorobek badań...
"Nikt za nas tego nie zrobi". Praktyki językowe i kulturowe młodych aktywistów mniejszości językowych Europy
Książka przedstawia portret młodych ludzi angażujących się na rzecz mniejszości językowych Europy: Kaszubów (w Polsce), Górnołużyczan (w Niemczech), Bretończyków (we Francji) i Walijczyków. Odgrywają oni rolę przewodników po swoich kulturach, wskazują na problemy, trudności i wyzwania, z jakimi się spotykają w codziennym życiu i działaniu. Ich słowa ukazują sytuację socjolingwistyczną mniejszości, panujące ideologie językowe, rolę edukacji mniejszościowej oraz typy młodych użytkowników języków mniejszościowych. Analizie zostały poddane także praktyki kulturowe i tożsamościowe młodych w kontekście różnych form życia wspólnotowego oraz ich drogi do działania na rzecz mniejszości, wiodące od aktywnego uczestnictwa w kulturze, przez stopniowe angażowanie się w działania, aż po aktywizm językowy.
