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      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2017

        Conflict, peace and mental health

        Addressing the consequences of conflict and trauma in Northern Ireland

        by David Bolton

        What are the human consequences of conflict and what are the appropriate service responses? This book seeks to provide an answer to these important questions drawing upon over 25 years work by the author in Northern Ireland and elsewhere. Focussing on the work undertaken following the Omagh bombing the book describes how needs were assessed and understood, how evidence-based services were put in place and the training and education programmes that were developed to assist first those communities affected by the Omagh bombing and later the wider population affected by the years of conflict. The author places the mental health needs of conflict affected communities at the heart of the political and peace processes that follow. This is a practical book and will be of particular interest to those planning for and responding to conflict-related disasters, policy makers, service commissioners and providers, politicians, civil servants and peace makers.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2019

        Knowledge resistance

        How we avoid insight from others

        by Mikael Klintman

        Why do people and groups ignore, deny and resist knowledge about society's many problems? In a world of 'alternative facts' and 'fake news', the question has never been more pressing. This book integrates insights from the social, economic and evolutionary sciences to advance our understanding of the phenomenon of knowledge resistance. It identifies simplistic views in public and scholarly debates about what facts, knowledge and human motivations are and what 'rational' use of information actually means. The examples used include controversies about nature-nurture, climate change, gender roles, vaccination, genetically modified food and artificial intelligence. Drawing on cutting-edge scholarship as well as personal experiences of culture clashes, the book is aimed at the general, educated public as well as students and scholars interested in the interface of human motivation and the urgent social problems of today.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2017

        Conflict, peace and mental health

        Addressing the consequences of conflict and trauma in Northern Ireland

        by David Bolton

        What are the human consequences of conflict and what are the appropriate service responses? This book seeks to provide an answer to these important questions, drawing on over twenty-five years of work by the author in Northern Ireland and elsewhere. Focusing on the work undertaken following the Omagh bombing, the book describes how needs were assessed and understood, how evidence-based services were put in place, and the training and education programmes that were developed to assist first those communities affected by the bombing and later the wider population affected by the years of conflict. The author places the mental-health needs of affected communities at the heart of the political and peace processes that follow. This is a practical book and will be of particular interest to those planning for and responding to conflict-related disasters, policy makers, service commissioners and providers, politicians, civil servants and peace makers.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2019

        Knowledge resistance

        How we avoid insight from others

        by Mikael Klintman

        Why do people and groups ignore, deny and resist knowledge about society's many problems? In a world of 'alternative facts' and 'fake news', the question has never been more pressing. This book integrates insights from the social, economic and evolutionary sciences to advance our understanding of the phenomenon of knowledge resistance. It identifies simplistic views in public and scholarly debates about what facts, knowledge and human motivations are and what 'rational' use of information actually means. The examples used include controversies about nature-nurture, climate change, gender roles, vaccination, genetically modified food and artificial intelligence. Drawing on cutting-edge scholarship as well as personal experiences of culture clashes, the book is aimed at the general, educated public as well as students and scholars interested in the interface of human motivation and the urgent social problems of today.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2021

        Knowledge resistance

        How we avoid insight from others

        by Mikael Klintman

        Why do people and groups ignore, deny and resist knowledge about society's many problems? In a world of 'alternative facts', 'fake news' that some believe could be remedied by 'factfulness', the question has never been more pressing. After years of ideologically polarised debates on this topic, the book seeks to further advance our understanding of the phenomenon of knowledge resistance by integrating insights from the social, economic and evolutionary sciences. It identifies simplistic views in public and scholarly debates about what facts, knowledge and human motivations are and what 'rational' use of information actually means. The examples used include controversies about nature-nurture, climate change, gender roles, vaccination, genetically modified food and artificial intelligence. Drawing on cutting-edge scholarship as well as personal experiences of culture clashes, the book is aimed at the general, educated public as well as students and scholars interested in the interface of human motivation and the urgent social problems of today.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2021

        Critical theory and demagogic populism

        by Paul K. Jones

        Populism is a powerful force today, but its full scope has eluded the analytical tools of both orthodox and heterodox 'populism studies'. This book provides a valuable alternative perspective. It reconstructs in detail for the first time the sociological analyses of US demagogues by members of the Frankfurt School and compares these with contemporary approaches. Modern demagogy emerges as a key under-researched feature of populism, since populist movements, whether 'left' or 'right', are highly susceptible to 'demagogic capture'. The book also details the culture industry's populist contradictions - including its role as an incubator of modern demagogues - from the 1930s through to today's social media and 'Trumpian psychotechnics'. Featuring a previously unpublished text by Adorno on modern demagogy as an appendix, it will be of interest to researchers and students in critical theory, sociology, politics, German studies, philosophy and history of ideas, as well as all those concerned about the rise of demagogic populism today.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2022

        Stereotypes and stereotyping in early modern England

        Puritans, papists and projectors

        by Koji Yamamoto, Jason Peacey, Peter Lake

        Early modern stereotypes used to be studied as evidence of popular belief, something mired with prejudices and commonly held assumptions. Stereotypes and stereotyping in early modern England goes beyond this view by exploring practices of stereotyping as contested processes. To do so, the volume draws on recent works on social psychology and sociology. It thereby brings together early modern case studies and explores how stereotypes and their mobilisation shaped various negotiations of power, in spheres of life such as politics, religion, economy and knowledge production.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2022

        Stereotypes and stereotyping in early modern England

        Puritans, papists and projectors

        by Koji Yamamoto, Jason Peacey, Peter Lake

        Early modern stereotypes used to be studied as evidence of popular belief, something mired with prejudices and commonly held assumptions. Stereotypes and stereotyping in early modern England goes beyond this view by exploring practices of stereotyping as contested processes. To do so, the volume draws on recent works on social psychology and sociology. It thereby brings together early modern case studies and explores how stereotypes and their mobilisation shaped various negotiations of power, in spheres of life such as politics, religion, economy and knowledge production.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2022

        Stereotypes and stereotyping in early modern England

        Puritans, papists and projectors

        by Koji Yamamoto, Jason Peacey, Peter Lake

        Early modern stereotypes used to be studied as evidence of popular belief, something mired with prejudices and commonly held assumptions. Stereotypes and stereotyping in early modern England goes beyond this view by exploring practices of stereotyping as contested processes. To do so, the volume draws on recent works on social psychology and sociology. It thereby brings together early modern case studies and explores how stereotypes and their mobilisation shaped various negotiations of power, in spheres of life such as politics, religion, economy and knowledge production.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2022

        Critical theory and demagogic populism

        by Paul K. Jones, Darrow Schecter

        Populism is a powerful force today, but its full scope has eluded the analytical tools of both orthodox and heterodox 'populism studies'. This book provides a valuable alternative perspective. It reconstructs in detail for the first time the sociological analyses of US demagogues by members of the Frankfurt School and compares these with contemporary approaches. Modern demagogy emerges as a key under-researched feature of populism, since populist movements, whether 'left' or 'right', are highly susceptible to 'demagogic capture'. The book also details the culture industry's populist contradictions - including its role as an incubator of modern demagogues - from the 1930s through to today's social media and 'Trumpian psychotechnics'. Featuring a previously unpublished text by Adorno on modern demagogy as an appendix, it will be of interest to everyone concerned about the rise of demagogic populism today.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2020

        Knowledge resistance

        How we avoid insight from others

        by Mikael Klintman

        Why do people and groups ignore, deny and resist knowledge about society's many problems? In a world of 'alternative facts', 'fake news' that some believe could be remedied by 'factfulness', the question has never been more pressing. After years of ideologically polarised debates on the topic, this book seeks to further advance our understanding of the phenomenon of knowledge resistance by integrating insights from the social, economic and evolutionary sciences. It identifies simplistic views in public and scholarly debates about what facts, knowledge and human motivations are and what 'rational' use of information actually means. The examples used include controversies about nature-nurture, climate change, gender roles, vaccination, genetically modified food and artificial intelligence. Drawing on cutting-edge scholarship and personal experiences of culture clashes, the book is aimed at the general, educated public as well as students and scholars interested in the interface of human motivation and the urgent social problems of today.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2025

        Framing

        The social art of influence

        by Mikael Klintman

        A smart, incisive toolkit for understanding how the framing of information influences the way we think about it. In today's chaotic media landscape, working out who and what to believe is a daunting task. Lies and misinformation are only part of the problem - often the way a story is presented has just as much effect on us as what the story is. In Framing, sociologist Mikael Klintman offers a cutting-edge toolkit for exposing and analysing the rhetoric that saturates our everyday lives. Combining insights from the social sciences, economics and evolutionary biology, he lays out a four-part approach to understanding how information is 'framed' for us, built around the key elements of texture, temperature, position and size. Demonstrating this approach through an array of real-world examples, from climate change denial to the subtle messaging of caviar ads, Klintman reveals how canny communicators mislead us without relying on overt deception. At the same time, he probes the deeper evolutionary and cultural roots of our susceptibility to frames.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2020

        The Science of Feelings

        What Psychological Research Tells Us About Our Emotions

        by Eugene Tee

        What are emotions and why do we experience them? In the last 50 years or so, psychological science has shed light on the essence of what makes us human—why we experience a range of feelings from joy to sadness, anger to fear, and compassion to contempt. Yet, the science of emotion remains mostly inaccessible to the curious reader and those outside academic circles.   This book is a story of our emotions; a story of why and how we feel as human beings. It is a tale of our emotions, told by philosophers, biologists, neuroscientists, sociologists, and economists. Drawing on the rich psychological research on emotions, this book invites you to revisit your emotions and to better appreciate and understand how feeling states define us and our humanity.   Click here for more information

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2011

        Konfliktmanagement und Mediation in Organisationen

        Ein Lehr- und Übungsbuch

        by Rudi Ballreich, Fritz Glasl

        This comprehensive book combines mediation with organisational development and presents numerous concepts, methods and exercises for sustainable conflict management in organisations, which have proven themselves many times over in practice.Part 1 Understanding organisational conflicts:Field and system orientation in conflict diagnosis.Metaphorical methods of conflict diagnosis.Escalation stages of hot and cold conflicts.The conflict dynamics in and between people.Differentiated understanding of organisation as a basis for systemic conflict management.Development crises of the organisation as conflict potential and as an opportunity.The detailed case description together with the film scenes and practical exercises are ideal for training sessions with mediators, supervisors, organisational consultants and managers.Conflict scenes on the accompanying film serve as examples to practice conflict diagnosis. Further scenes show key moments of mediation with the parties to the conflict and for working on organisational conflict potential.Part 2. Dealing with organisational conflicts:Situation-specific approaches to conflict management.Dealing with conflicts between individuals and teams.Solution-focused conflict moderation.Transformative mediation.System-therapeutic mediation.Mediation as organisational development.The design of complex organisational mediation.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences

        Ungal Kulanthai Yarudaiyathu?

        by Jeyarani

        We strive to enlighten our children With that in mind but We turn them into students. We only teach mindfulness in the season when knowledge is on fire. We make our children ourselves into modern beasts who have misunderstood the caste-based social values ​​of gender inequality and embraced the hyper-imagination of the economy. Thus we first need to understand that we are parents who have no understanding of education and do not know what the basics of child rearing are. The book is like a slap in the face to the fact that Indian parents can be subdued in two ways as strict parenting or pet parenting. Although the words of the author Jayarani, who speaks through this book, may hurt us in some places, there is a need for every parent to absorb these considering the future completeness of our children.

      • Social, group or collective psychology
        July 2019

        The Unconscious in Social and Political Life

        by Morgan, David

        Traumatic events happen in every age, yet there is a particularly cataclysmic feeling to our own epoch that is so attractive to some and so terrifying to others. The terrible events of September 11th 2001 still resonate and the repercussions continue to this day: the desperation of immigrants fleeing terror, the uncertainty of Brexit, Donald Trump in the White House, the rise of the alt-right and hard left, increasing fundamentalism, and terror groups intent on causing destruction to the Western way of life. If that were not enough, we also have to grapple with the enormity of climate change and the charge that if we do not act now, it will be too late. Is it any wonder many are left overwhelmed by the events they see on the news? Galvanised by the events outside of his consulting room, in 2015, David Morgan began The Political Mind seminars at the British Psychoanalytical Society and their successful run continues today. A series of superlative seminars, mostly presented by colleagues from the British Society plus a few select external experts, that examine a dazzling array of relevant topics to provide a psychoanalytic understanding of just what is going on in our world. This book is the first in The Political Mind series to bring these seminars to a wider audience.The Unconscious in Political and Social Life contains compelling contributions from Christopher Bollas, Michael Rustin, Jonathan Sklar, David Bell, Philip Stokoe, Roger Kennedy, David Morgan, M. Fakhry Davids, Ruth McCall, R. D. Hinshelwood, Renée Danziger, Josh Cohen, Sally Weintrobe, and Margot Waddell. They investigate so many vital issues affecting us today: the evolution of democracy, right-wing populism, prejudice, the rise of the far right, attitudes to refugees and migrants, neoliberalism, fundamentalism, terrorism, the Palestine-Israel situation, political change, feminism, austerity in the UK, financial globalisation, and climate change.This book needs to be read by all who are concerned by the state of the world today. Psychoanalysis and psychoanalysts with their awareness of what motivates human beings bring clarity and fresh insight to these matters. A deeper understanding of humanity awaits the reader of The Unconscious in Political and Social Life.

      • Social, group or collective psychology
        June 2001

        Between Ourselves

        Second Person Issues in the Study of Consciousness

        by Thompson, Evan, B01

        The first volume in this series (The View from Within, ed. Francisco Varela and Jonathan Shear) was a study of first-person approaches to the study of consciousness. Second-person ‘I–You’ relations are central to human life yet have been neglected in...

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2016

        The Meaning of Music

        by Leo Samama

        For virtually all of our lives, we are surrounded by music. From lullabies to radio to the praises sung in houses of worship, we encounter music at home and in the street, during work and in our leisure time, and not infrequently at birth and death. But what is music, and what does it mean to humans? How do we process it, and how do we create it?Musician Leo Samama discusses these and many other questions while shaping a vibrant picture of music's importance in human lives both past and present. What is remarkable is that music is recognised almost universally as a type of language that we can use to wordlessly communicate. We can hardly shut ourselves off from music, and considering its primal role in our lives, it comes as no surprise that few would ever want to. Able to transverse borders and appeal to the most disparate of individuals, music is both a tool and a gift, and as Samama shows, a unifying thread running throughout the cultural history of mankind.

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