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Bion in Film Theory and Analysis: The Retreat in Film
by Carla Ambrósio GarciaIn Bion in Film Theory and Analysis: The Retreat in Film, Carla Ambrósio Garcia introduces the rich potential of the thinking of British psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion for film theory. By so doing, she rethinks the space of the cinema as a space of retreat, and brings new insights into the representation of retreat in film. Presented in two parts, the book seeks to deepen our understanding of the film experience and psychical growth. Part I places Bion’s view on the importance of the epistemophilic instinct at the heart of a critique of the pleasure-centred theories of the cinematic apparatus of Jean-Louis Baudry, Christian Metz and Gaylyn Studlar, proposing an idea of cinema as ‘thoughts in search of a thinker’. Garcia then moves from Bion’s epistemological period to his later work, which draws on mysticism, in order to posit an emotional experience in the cinema through which the subject can be or become real (or at one with ‘O’). Part II examines representations of retreat in four European films, directed by Ingmar Bergman, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Georges Perec and Bernard Queysanne, and Manoel de Oliveira, showing them to articulate a gesture of retreat as an emotionally turbulent transitional stage in the development of the psyche – what Bion conceptualizes as caesura. Through its investigation of the retreat in cinema, the book challenges common understandings of retreat as a regressive movement by presenting it as a gesture and space that can also be future-oriented. Bion in Film Theory and Analysis will be of significant interest to academics and students of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and film and media studies, as well as psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.
Psy-Q
by Ben AmbridgePsychology 101 as you wish it were taught: a collection of entertaining experiments, quizzes, jokes, and interactive exercisesPsychology is the study of mind and behavior: how and why people do absolutely everything that people do, from the most life-changing event such as choosing a partner, to the most humdrum, such as having an extra donut. Ben Ambridge takes these findings and invites the reader to test their knowledge of themselves, their friends, and their families through quizzes, jokes, and games. You'll measure your personality, intelligence, moral values, skill at drawing, capacity for logical reasoning, and more--all of it adding up to a greater knowledge of yourself, a higher "Psy-Q". Lighthearted, fun, and accessible, this is the perfect introduction to psychology that can be fully enjoyed and appreciated by readers of all ages.Take Dr. Ben's quizzes to learn:- If listening to Mozart makes you smarter- Whether or not your boss is a psychopath- How good you are at waiting for a reward (and why it matters)- Why we find symmetrical faces more attractive- What your taste in art says about you
Tate: the perfect SECRET SANTA present
by Frances Ambler'Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.' - MatisseUse this essential guide to crack artistic algorithms and improve, sustain and nurture your creativity. Brief Lessons in Creativity presents a rich variety of artistic methods and solutions for you to try, and is packed with inspiration and practical takeaways. Stay curious like Rauschenberg by immersing yourself in the world through seeing, reading and researching. Repeat and revisit with Cézanne to try things differently, and collect and remix with Matisse and Bacon. Appreciate the importance of solitude and space with Bourgeois, and improvise freely with Van Gogh. With every chapter, learn how to create your best work and embrace a new sense of playfulness.
Tate: the perfect SECRET SANTA present
by Frances Ambler'Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist'- PicassoWhether it's through disrupting a routine, turning an idea on its head or challenging the norm, Brief Lessons in Rule Breaking will give you the confidence to take creative risks and experiment, free from self-doubt. Be inspired by the artistic avant garde with wise words from Abramovic, Duchamp and more.
Tate: Brief Lessons in Creativity (Tate #6)
by Frances Ambler'Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.' - MatisseUse this essential guide to crack artistic algorithms and improve, sustain and nurture your creativity. Brief Lessons in Creativity presents a rich variety of artistic methods and solutions for you to try, and is packed with inspiration and practical takeaways. Stay curious like Rauschenberg by immersing yourself in the world through seeing, reading and researching. Repeat and revisit with Cézanne to try things differently, and collect and remix with Matisse and Bacon. Appreciate the importance of solitude and space with Bourgeois, and improvise freely with Van Gogh. With every chapter, learn how to create your best work and embrace a new sense of playfulness.
Tate: Brief Lessons in Rule Breaking (Tate #7)
by Frances Ambler'Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist' - PicassoWhether it's through disrupting a routine, turning an idea on its head or challenging the norm, Brief Lessons in Rule Breaking will give you the confidence to take creative risks and experiment, free from self-doubt. Be inspired by the artistic avant garde with wise words from Abramovic, Duchamp and more.
Tate: Brief Lessons in Seeing Differently (Tate #12)
by Frances Ambler'the mundane becomes special as soon as you pay attention to it' - Susan HillerThis essential guide delves into the techniques, routines and mindsets of boundary-shifting artists, and the ways in which seeing differently can lead to creating something original. Learn the advantages of a different angle with Georges Braque, view everyday sights in a new way with Alex Katz and open your eyes to the possibilities of colour with Josef Albers. In every chapter, inspiring anecdotes and practical exercises will you help you gain a new perspective and reinvigorate your work.
Tate: Brief Lessons in Seeing Differently
by Frances Ambler'the mundane becomes special as soon as you pay attention to it' - Susan HillerThis essential guide delves into the techniques, routines and mindsets of boundary-shifting artists, and the ways in which seeing differently can lead to creating something original. Learn the advantages of a different angle with Georges Braque, view everyday sights in a new way with Alex Katz and open your eyes to the possibilities of colour with Josef Albers. In every chapter, inspiring anecdotes and practical exercises will you help you gain a new perspective and reinvigorate your work.
The Effect of Children on Parents
by Anne Marie AmbertRecognize the hidden costs and rewards of childrearing!The Effect of Children on Parents, Second Edition, thoughtfully explores the interactions by which parents and children change, develop, and sometimes affect each other negatively. Everyone knows that parents influence their children, but few people consider the ways in which children affect their parents. The love, satisfaction, and fulfillment children offer can change parents’lives. So can the stress, worry, and financial drain. The Effect of Children on Parents, Second Edition, honestly confronts these long-neglected issues of family dynamics. Taking a unique interdisciplinary approach, this book describes in great detail, with jargon-free language the various aspects of children's effects on their parents. This second edition contains an abundance of fresh information, including nine entirely new chapters that deal with such complex topics as the effects on parents of children with emotional, behavioral, and delinquency problems. The Effect of Children on Parents, Second Edition, asks and answers essential questions on the parent-child dynamic, including: what role does genetic inheritance play in children's responses to their parents? how do peers influence children and through them, their parents? what happens to parents when children are difficult or have emotional problems? what special considerations apply to minority or adoptive parents? how do adult childrem affect their aging parents? how does society support or undermine parents? what roadblocks prevent parents from being as effective as they would like to be?The Effect of Children on Parents, Second Edition, takes a brave look at this often ignored area of family dynamics, giving a richer, more complex, and ultimately more healing view of how humans interact in families. Professors, students, and experts in the fields of child development, family studies, and sociology of childhood and family will find this book a sophisticated tool in their desire to better understand and help families and children.
Parents, Children, and Adolescents: Interactive Relationships and Development in Context
by Anne Marie AmbertParents, Children, and Adolescents presents an integrative perspective of the parent-child relationship within several contexts. You can expand your empirical and theoretical knowledge of the parent-child relationship and child development through the book’s unusually holistic, theoretical perspective that integrates three main frameworks: interactional theories on parents, children, and development; contextual (ecological) models; and behavior genetics.This insightful book’s empirical scope is broader than that of most books in that it considers the parent-child relationship throughout the life course as well as within a great variety of contexts, including interactions with sibling and peers, at school, in their neighborhoods, and with professionals. You’ll gain immeasurable knowledge about: parents’child-rearing styles and how they are affected by environmental variables the interaction between parents and children, and between their personalities behavior genetics as one of the explanatory frameworks for the role of genetics and environment negative child outcomes--emotional problems, conduct disorders, and delinquency poverty and other stressors affecting parents and children problematic-abusive, emotionally disturbed, alcoholic parents siblings and peers as contexts for the parent-child dyad the effect of the school system on the family, with a focus on minority families family structure--divorce, remarriage, and families headed by never-married mothers adolescent mothers and their own mothers the psychogenetic limitations on parental influence and cultural roadblocks to parental moral authorityComplete with an Instructor’s Manual, Parents, Children, and Adolescents is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate classes in family studies and human development, sociology of the family, interdisciplinary developmental psychology, and social work classes that need a thorough perspective on the parent-child relationship. Professionals and scholars in these fields seeking an interdisciplinary framework as well as research suggestions and incisive critiques of traditional perspectives will also find this innovative book a valuable addition to their reading lists.
Führungskompetenz Achtsamkeit: Eine Einführung für Führungskräfte und Personalverantwortliche (essentials)
by Martina AmbergMartina Amberg legt in diesem essential dar, was sich hinter dem Begriff und dem Konzept „Achtsamkeit“ verbirgt, und umreißt Möglichkeiten, die sich dadurch im Führungskontext ergeben. Sie zeigt, dass Selbstkompetenz, Beziehungskompetenz und Veränderungskompetenz die Ebenen sind, die Führungskräfte für sich weiterentwickeln müssen, um zukunftsfähige Führungskompetenz zu erlangen. Eine zentrale Bedeutung kommt hierbei Achtsamkeit zu als innerer Haltung der offenen, nichtwertenden Aufmerksamkeit, die bewusst auf den gegenwärtigen Augenblick gelenkt wird. Globalisierung, technologische Entwicklungen und veränderte gesellschaftliche Rahmenbedingungen haben in den letzten Jahren Dynamik und Komplexität in Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft deutlich erhöht. Dadurch kommen klassische Führungskonzepte zunehmend an ihre Grenzen. Führung neu zu denken und zu gestalten, wird daher zu einer zentralen Bedingung für die Zukunftsfähigkeit von Unternehmen und Organisationen.
Diagnostic Assessment of Learning Disabilities in Childhood
by Amber E. Brueggemann TaylorDiagnosing learning disabilities (LD) in children has never been an easy task. The multiple approaches in use complicate the assessment process, raising the risk of young students getting the wrong services, or none at all. It is clear that more accurate diagnosis and classification methods are needed to advance the prevention and treatment of difficulties in reading and mathematics. Diagnostic Assessment of Learning Disabilities in Childhood takes important steps to cut through the confusion. This timely resource weighs the strengths and weaknesses of commonly used assessment methods including the aptitude-achievement discrepancy, cognitive processing, RTI and low achievement approaches and introduces the author's academic impairment model as a promising alternative. A chapter on comorbid disorders in students with LD guides readers in the fine points of differential diagnosis. And to make the coverage especially practical, the book's features link the theoretical to the real-world practice of LD assessment, among them: Overviews of LD identification and definitions. Analysis of widely used diagnostic approaches with strengths and weaknesses. Examples of assessment protocols and report writing. Case examples illustrating diagnostic issues. Q&A sections with leading experts in the field. Useful summaries, appendices and resource links. Diagnostic Assessment of Learning Disabilities in Childhood is an invaluable reference for school and clinical child psychologists, special education and allied educational professionals and researchers and graduate students in school, educational and clinical child psychology who are dedicated to higher measurement standards and greater opportunities for children's academic success.
Forever Ours: Real Stories of Immortality and Living from a Forensic Pathologist
by Janis Amatuzio[From the Book Jacket] As a physician, forensic pathologist, and coroner for several Minnesota counties, I have had the extraordinary privilege of caring for families and their loved ones when death comes suddenly, unexpectedly, or traumatically. My job is to speak for the dead, to solve the mystery of "What happened?" However, I have occasionally been faced with mysteries I cannot solve or explain. These experiences always baffle me, partly because as a scientist I seek to reach a reasonable degree of medical certainty, a rational explanation. But I have come to realize that for some experiences there is no explanation, just a deep knowing that I have encountered the Divine. - JANIS AMATUZIO, MD
The Complete Marriage Counselor: Relationship-Saving Advice from America's Top 50+ Couples Therapists
by Sherry Amatenstein• More couples than ever before are seeking relief from couples therapy (American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy) • Author is the Dating Doyenne for iVillage and writes the column &“Dating After 40&” for More magazine • Amatenstein has provided relationship advice for VHI, BBC, Lifetime, Inside Edition, Regis and Kelly, The Early Show, CBS News, and many other programs • Contributors are the most well-known marriage counselors in America, including: Dr. Judy Kuriansky, Dr. John Gray, Dr. John Gottman, Dr. Warren Farrell, Dr. Harville Hendrix, Dr. Ruth, and more Combining the best advice from the best counselors across the country—couples on the brink of divorce finally have the answers they need. Bringing this prestigious group of experts together for the first time, Sherry Amatenstein offers readers advice based on counseling sessions with real couples from around the country. By selecting the 101 most-asked questions after polling 50+ notable counselors in America, Sherry gets to the heart of the real problems couples are facing today. With questions about everything from sex and money to infidelity and communication, troubled couples will realize they&’re not alone while absorbing the best advice there is on the market today. Questions include: • I hate his family. What can I do to get out of seeing them so often? • Why does she always overspend? • How do I/do we get over an affair? • How can we stop being so bored? • Why does she treat me like I&’m the enemy? The ultimate resource for unhappy couples, The Complete Marriage Counselor features marriage-saving solutions that really work.
Psicología punk: Contra el pensamiento positivo y naif
by Víctor Amat¿Quién dijo que para ser feliz hay que pensar en positivo?Por fin un libro de autoayuda que se atreve a hablar alto y claro. Parece que estamos en la época de la necesidad de que todos seamos felices. La terapia, la meditación, el yoga, la espiritualidad... cualquier camino parece bueno. La cuestión es que, si funcionaran bien, probablemente la gente en general sería más feliz y no necesitaría consumir todas esas cosas. Pero no es así. El pensamiento negativo aparece y permanece, a pesar de nuestros esfuerzos para no pensar en él. Es ahí donde podemos cambiar. En este libro, el psicólogo Victor Amat desmonta uno a uno los mitos del pensamiento naif y nos muestra que podemos reivindicar nuestras capacidades mentales y aprovecharlas a nuestro favor, y que, a pesar de la paradoja, el hecho de permitirse ser negativo nos lleva a un estado de bienestar.
Habits of Highly Effective Teachers: The Ultimate Guide to Practical Behaviour Management That Works!
by Marie AmaroWhat do I do when students won't stop talking? <p>How can I stop students wasting time and disrupting other students? <p>What can I do about disrespectful students? Sound familiar? <p><p> Difficult student behaviours can keep you awake at night! Effective classroom management can feel elusive and you feel isolated and incompetent dealing with students. Problematic student behaviour can lead to teacher stress, frustration and yes, even tears. You didn't learn about this at uni! <p><p> If you dream of a classroom where you can get on with the business of teaching and learning without being interrupted by poor student behaviour, Habits of Highly Effective Teachers is the book for you. <p><p> Well-regarded trainer, speaker and author Marie Amaro, has over 30 years' experience in the classroom. As a teacher, she really understands the unique challenges that face teachers today, the difficulties and demands on teachers and how to provide solutions that are achievable and easily implemented. <p><p> Learn what good teachers do, so you can do it too! <p> <p>- How to establish clear expectations for behaviour in the classroom <p>- The secret to building rapport with students while maintaining appropriate boundaries <p>- How to reduce conflict with students through prevention and early intervention <p>- Simple ways to reinforce expected behaviour throughout the day <p>- How to skilfully redirect inappropriate student behaviour <p>- Highly practical teaching strategies to motivate and engage students
A Unified Theory of Information Design: Visuals, Text and Ethics (Baywood's Technical Communications)
by Nicole Amare Alan ManningCommunicative visuals, including written text, have a diverse range of forms and purposes. In this volume, the authors show that it is possible to both describe and explain the major properties of diverse visual-communication forms and purposes within a common theoretical framework of information design and ethics. For those unaccustomed to thinking of written text as a visual form belonging to the same general class as other visual forms (colour, texture, shape, imagery, etc.), consider how a text's readability suffers if we remove all white space and punctuation, which can be identified as visual signals of the same subtype as grid lines and bullet points, dividing and calling attention to adjacent information. The authors identify deep connections between foundational visual design elements and the grammar of language itself. No physicist or chemist today questions the value of a single theory that describes and explains a wide variety of phenomena, but oddly enough, the authors have frequently been asked why they are interested in advancing a unified theory of visual communication. The simplest answer is: to treat visual communication as a science, and seeking unified theories is just what science does. In more practical terms, a unified approach to visual communication allows us to teach visual design students relatively few things that will enable them to do relatively many things.
Madness and Social Change: Autobiography of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform
by Paulo AmaranteIn this book, the history of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform is told by one of its main protagonists. In the early 1980s, there were about 80 thousand people admitted to psychiatric hospitals in Brazil, with average lengths of hospital stay of approximately 25 years. The psychiatric reform process that took place in the country was responsible for closing more than 60 thousand beds in mental asylums, most of them characterized by conditions of violence and abandonment.The Brazilian Psychiatric Reform was inspired by the psychosocial care model introduced by psychiatrist Franco Basaglia in Italy and was marked by the broad participation of social movements, such as the anti-asylum movement and other human rights movements. This process gave rise to a model of mental health care based on open-door territorial mental health services, guided by the principle of treatment in liberty, in addition to other strategies of deinstitutionalization. More than a proposal to restructure or modernize the mental health care model, the objective of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform was the construction of a new social place for the diverse and singular subjective experience of madness. By intending to produce new imaginaries, new social representations and new meanings for these experiences, the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform led to one of the larger experiences of deinstitutionalization in the world and to the large scale implementation of a new model of mental health care in which the old asylum-centric paradigm was replaced by a new democratic psychosocial care model.
Advanced Neuroradiology Cases
by Amaral Lázaro Luís Faria do Bag Asim K. Gonçalves Fabrício Guimarães Hanagandi Prasad B. Byan-Parker Suzanne Prasad B. Byan-ParkerFeaturing atypical cases and focusing on advanced imaging techniques, this book presents a compilation of unusual CNS pathologies with characteristic imaging findings. The aim is to aid the speedy diagnosis of otherwise rarely encountered clinical conditions and improve patient care. Presented as more than 130 real cases with extensive imaging description and step-by-step guidelines on how to diagnose individual pathologies, each scenario is backed by the most up-to-date literature available. The cases include some of the most recently described clinical conditions. The case-based format and description of each clinical journey encourages readers to engage with the diagnostic process and facilitates self-study. This book is for any radiologist who practices neuroradiology, neuroradiology fellows, neuroimaging fellows, practicing neurologist and neurology residents.
Warrior Goddess Training
by Heatherash AmaraThis is a book that teaches women to see themselves as perfect just the way they are; to resist society's insistence that they seek value, wholeness, and love through something outside themselves, such as a husband, children, boyfriend, career, or a spiritual path. Author HeatherAsh Amara has a message for women struggling to find themselves under these false ideals: If you don't love and honor yourself with every fiber of your being, if you struggle with owning your power and passion, then it is time for an inner revolution! It is time to claim your Warrior Goddess energy. Amara challenges women to be "warrior goddesses;" to be a woman who: Ventures out to find herself Combats fear and doubt Reclaims her power and vibrancy Demonstrates her strength of compassion and fierce love Drawing on the wisdom from Buddhism, Toltec wisdom, and ancient earth-based goddess spirituality, Amara, combines them all with the goal of helping women become empowered, authentic, and free. Also included here are personal stories, rituals, and exercises that encourage readers to begin their own journey towards becoming warrior goddesses. This is an essential tool for women interested in self-empowerment and wholeness.
The Bedside Dream Dictionary: Hundreds Of Symbols To Unlock The Mysteries Of The Subconscious
by Silvana AmarSilvana Amar, a psychologist with extensive experience in dream studies, has created an invaluable guide with descriptions of hundreds and hundreds of the most important dream symbols. Her well-researched explanations cover our most common dream themes and symbols, including adultery, death, jail, money, running, smoking, water, worms, and zombies. Designed to be kept on the nightstand where users can reference it quickly first thing in the morning when their dreams are still fresh, it features a notebook for keeping track of those nightly reveries. In addition to definitions, there's additional important information on the science of sleep and sleep cycles; commentary on the influential dream theories of Freud and Jung; and poems on the topic by such writers as Whitman and Poe.
Psychologie für Fach- und Führungskräfte: Für mehr Erfolg im Berufsleben
by Patrick Amar Jutta BretthauerKonzepte und Themen wie positives Denken, Abwehrmechanismen, emotionelle Intelligenz, Überzeugungskommunikation, kognitive Dissonanz, Commitment-, Motivations- und Leadershiptheorien, interkulturelle Unterschiede, Stress und Work-Life-Balance beruhen alle auf zentralen psychologischen Theorien. Psychologie und Management sind eng miteinander verflochten. Die Psychologie stellt Unternehmen einen reichhaltigen Schatz an empirischen Erkenntnissen zur Verfügung, die die Managementtheorien gut ergänzen. Ausgehend von grundlegenden Experimenten aus den Gebieten der klinischen Psychologie, sowie der Sozial- und Organisationspsychologie zeigt Patrick Amar in diesem Werk Konzepte und Tools auf, die die Managementpraxis erklären, ergänzen und erweitern. Darüber hinaus gibt dieses Werk derzeitigen und zukünftigen Führungskräften wertvolle Impulse zur persönlichen und professionellen Weiterentwicklung und ist somit eine Pflichtlektüre für alle, die ihre ganz persönliche Work-Life Balance anstreben.
Complex Clinical Conundrums in Psychiatry: From Theory To Clinical Management
by Shabbir Amanullah Kuppuswami ShivakumarThis book provides the readers with a series of complex cases that are organized by psychiatric disorder. Written by experts in the field, the cases offer insight on how to navigate care in delicate situations while considering preexisting medical conditions. Topics cover pharmacological concerns in women who are pregnant or nursing, working with dementia patients suffering from HIV, assessing and treating ADHD in special populations, monitoring medication use in patience recovering from Substance Use Disorder, and working with patients suffering from personality disorders. Each chapter offers guidance through the maze of classifications, clinical features, diagnosis and various complex interventions. The book also covers new information on the advances in research and management aspects. Complex Clinical Conundrums in Psychiatry is a valuable resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, family physicians, geriatricians, counselors, social workers, nurses, and all medical professionals working with complex psychiatric patients.
Alone Sometimes: Everybody Needs a Hole in the Ground
by Skylaar AmannIn Skylaar Amann’s gentle, beautifully illustrated picture book, two best friends learn that sometimes everyone needs a quiet, safe space to just be. Ren and Kit are the best of friends, always doing everything together. But when Ren needs some quiet time to herself, she chooses to hide away in an unlikely place. Kit doesn’t understand, but she’s willing to listen and learn. And in the end, they both realize that sometimes, everybody needs a hole in the ground. Alone Sometimes speaks directly to the need we all occasionally have for a safe space where we can hide away from the frustrations of the world.
Das gruppendynamische Feld: Struktur – Dynamik – Prozess – Praxis (Schriften zur Gruppen- und Organisationsdynamik #14)
by Andreas AmannDieses Buch geht von einigen wenigen Zentralkonzepten aus, die bis heute zum normativen Kernbestand der angewandten Gruppendynamik gehören und legt mit deren Hilfe die Besonderheit des gruppendynamischen Feldes frei. Laboratorium, Trainingsgruppe, Hier und Jetzt-Prinzip sowie Minimalstrukturierung bilden zusammen den strukturellen Rahmen gruppendynamischer Praxis: den gruppendynamischen Raum. Aufbauend auf dieser Strukturrekonstruktion werden Dynamik, Prozess und Praxis der Gruppendynamik – das gruppendynamische Feld - dargestellt.