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Provides a comprehensive overview of the political and economic developments in Panama from 1980 to the present day.
They Used to Call Us Witches is an informative, highly readable account of the role played by Chilean women exiles during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet from 1973-1990. Sociologist Julie Shayne looks at the movement organized by exiled Chileans in Vancouver, British Columbia, to denounce Pinochet's dictatorship and support those who remained in Chile. Through the use of extensive interviews, the history is told from the perspective of Chilean women in the exile community established in Vancouver.
The purpose of the World Psychiatric Association is to coordinate the activities of its Member Societies on a wor1d-~ide scale and to advance enquiry into the etiology, pathology, and treatment of mental illness. To further this purpose, the Association organizes mono- or mu1tithematic Regional Symposia in different parts of the world twice a year, and World Congresses dealing with all individual fields of psychiatry once every five or six years. Between these meetings the continuation of the Association's scientific work is assured through the activities of its specialty sections, each covering an important field of psychiatry. The programs of the World Congresses reflect on the one hand th...
As this book documents local, specific, and contextualized acts of resistance and offers a detailed analysis of varied forms of public literacies, it functions as a template to inform and inspire resistant practices in diverse communities.
This book provides a panoramic history of psychoanalysis at its zenith, as human nature was rethought in the wake of war and the global transformations that followed.
El presente libro reúne una selección de trabajos del autor que abarcan buena parte de la psiquiatría clínica: la esquizofrenia, las enfermedades del ánimo, las perturbaciones psíquicas en la epilepsia, las adicciones, los trastornos de personalidad, las neurosis y el problema de la psicoterapia. Todos los temas son analizados con gran rigurosidad desde la perspectiva fenomenológico-antropológica. Esta selección incluye, entre otros, un trabajo de 1972 sobre la bulimia nerviosa, que representa la primera descripción de este cuadro como una enfermedad independiente a nivel mundial.
Award-winning author Tanita S. Davis delivers a heartwarming and humorous middle grade tale about a young Black girl who finds her own voice through vlogging and learns to speak out. Perfect for fans for Sharon M. Draper and Lisa Greenwald. JC shines like a 4th of July sparkler. She has the best ideas, the biggest, funniest laugh, and the party starts when she arrives. Serena St. John is proud to be known as her best friend. Everything changes when JC returns from the hospital with a new kidney—and a new best friend. Out of the spotlight of JC’s friendship, suddenly things aren’t quite so sparkly in Serena’s world. Lonely Serena works on perfecting her vlogs, hoping to earn a shot at...
La primera edición de este libro fue realizada en 1982, sin pie de imprenta, en Santiago de Chile y fue declarada como publicada en México por un colectivo chileno de trabajo psicosocial, para evitar la censura y represalias. En él se reúnen los trabajos presentados en un seminario convocado en Punta de Tralca, en abril de 1980 por la Fundación de Ayuda Social de las Iglesias Cristianas (FASIC) con la colaboración de la Vicaría de la Solidaridad. El propósito de esa reunión realizada durante cinco días, fue compartir las experiencias de trabajo asistencial, médico, psicológico y social que se efectuaba en Chile y fuera del país para asistir a las víctimas de violaciones de derechos humanos.
El libro cuenta un poco sobre la vida de Solange Juvella, en el momento en que decide que tiene necesidad de hacer un cambio radical. Sutil y con información sobre Croacia, el libro nos hace viajar con la autora en sus aventuras por este país.