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Admirable Evasions

Author : Theodore Dalrymple
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1594037884
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Admirable Evasions written by Theodore Dalrymple and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different schools of psychological thought. Most psychological explanations of human behavior are not only ludicrously inadequate oversimplifications, argues Dalrymple, they are socially harmful in that they allow those who believe in them to evade personal responsibility for their actions and to put the blame on a multitude of scapegoats: on their childhood, their genes, their neurochemistry, even on evolutionary pressures. Dalrymple reveals how the fashionable schools of psychoanalysis, behaviorism, modern neuroscience, and evolutionary psychology all prevent the kind of honest self-examination that is necessary to the formation of human character. Instead, they promote self-obsession without self-examination, and the gross overuse of medicines that affect the mind. Admirable Evasions also considers metaphysical objections to the assumptions of psychology, and suggests that literature is a far more illuminating window into the human condition than psychology could ever hope to be.

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Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Summary of Theodore Dalrymple's Admirable Evasions written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-23T22:59:00Z with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The claim that we have greater insight into human nature than ever before is common. But it is a bold man who claims that he has greater insight than Montaigne or Shakespeare. #2 The first psychological scheme to provide the common man with the illusion of much expanded self-understanding was psychoanalysis. Then came behaviorism, after which there was cybernetics. Now, neuroscientific imaging and a little light neurochemistry persuade us that we are about to solve the mystery of human existence. #3 Freud was a brilliant man, but his career as a scientist was not. He was a liar who falsified evidence, a plagiarist who did not acknowledge his sources, and a self-aggrandizing mythologist who manipulated people. #4 The human mind is not straightforward, and we do not always know the reasons for our thoughts and actions. We can, however, recognize that we can think and direct our thought, and that we can check the accuracy of our thoughts for veracity, decency, and consistency.

The Therapized Antisemite

Author : Christopher L. Schilling
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111349578
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book The Therapized Antisemite written by Christopher L. Schilling and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Therapized Antisemite determines the failure of psychology in the understanding and punishment of antisemitism. For over a hundred years, psychology’s vision – understanding the mind and conquering feelings with thoughts – has remained a myth in much of Western societies. Despite its theories and concepts being widely criticized and often proven wrong, it remains part of our culture, academia, and legal systems. Instead of hoping for the field of psychology to one day solve the problem of antisemitism and how to punish it, we must ask ourselves how much it has not helped but rather harmed the fight against it. Through exploring social, clinical, and forensic psychology, as well as psychohistory and the intrusion of psychology into criminal law and policymaking, The Therapized Antisemite argues that we don’t yet understand what causes antisemitism in psychological terms, let alone how to go about solving the problem. The Holocaust, the Nuremberg Trials, Hitler biographies, the Halimi murder, Hate Crime, Mental Illness, False Memory, and Criminal Profiling are all discussed within the book. The Therapized Antisemite looks to change the way readers think about antisemitism, psychology and law, and will be of interest to legal and social science academics and students researching and practicing within the fields of criminal law, criminology, antisemitism studies, Jewish studies, and psychology.

Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Culture of Sentimentality

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Publisher : Gibson Square
ISBN 13 : 9781783342327
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (423 download)

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Life at the Bottom

Author : Theodore Dalrymple
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
ISBN 13 : 161578019X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Life at the Bottom written by Theodore Dalrymple and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 2003-03-08 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing account of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does, written by a British psychiatrist.

A Fortnight From God (A Dialogue with Dom)

Author : Richie Cooley
Publisher : Richie Cooley
ISBN 13 : 1311164359
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book A Fortnight From God (A Dialogue with Dom) written by Richie Cooley and published by Richie Cooley. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This isn't a dialogue with Justin Martyr, but rather with Dom, a very normal Christian with a few hidden talents. When a philandering acquaintance runs into him on the way to catch a holiday flight, an awkward conversation ensues -- one that both men will be unlikely to forget anytime soon. This is a fictional short story written from a fundament Christian perspective. Come on! Give it a try! This is the new, edited version.

Deconstructing Scandinavia's "Achievement Generation"

Author : Ole Jacob Madsen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030725553
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing Scandinavia's "Achievement Generation" written by Ole Jacob Madsen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Professor Ole Jacob Madsen analyses the implications of Scandinavia's current concern for the mental health problems of adolescents, said to be struggling in the face of increasing demands for achievement and success. It critically examines our understanding of this so-called “achievement generation”, questioning whether today’s youth are really worse off than previous generations and how we have come to believe that this is so. The author’s wide-ranging investigation draws on a large body of research, as well as considering socio-political, historical and regional factors that might be affecting the resilience and mental health among young people. It also provides original psycholinguistic studies of popular media concepts associated with these issues including: “the achievement generation”, “pathological perfection” and “the good girl syndrome”. Deconstructing Scandinavia’s “Achievement Generation” presents an engaging contribution to key debates around therapeutic culture and society in the 21st century. It will appeal to students and scholars of critical and social psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy; as well as to those working in education, social work and mental health.

Angel Mountain

Author : Christine Sunderland
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725259826
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Angel Mountain written by Christine Sunderland and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A holy hermit, a Holocaust survivor, a literary librarian, and a Christian geneticist search for peace and happiness in a culture of chaos. Hermit Abram, eighty, and his sister Elizabeth, eighty-four, escaped the Holocaust in Greece and made it to America as children. Elizabeth retired from teaching high school Western Civilization, and Abram, who retired from teaching classics at U.C. Berkeley, converted to Christianity and retreated to Angel Mountain to pray with his icons for the world and preach from the mountainside. Elizabeth hires Catherine, thirty-three, to sort her home library. When Gregory, thirty-seven, a geneticist supporting intelligent design, falls from the mountainside and is rescued by Abram, these four lives are changed forever. The earth quakes, fires rage, and lightning strikes, as antifa protestors threaten the hermit and his friends. Angels bridge Heaven and Earth, and eternity intersects time. Is this the end of the world? Is the kingdom coming?

The Anti-Jacobin Review and Protestant Advocate

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Curriculum

Author : Martin Robinson
Publisher : Crown House Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1785834487
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book Curriculum written by Martin Robinson and published by Crown House Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Robinson's Curriculum: Athena versus the machine explores the educational value of a curriculum rooted in the pursuit of wisdom and advocates the enshrinement of such a curriculum as the central concern of an academic institution. Rather than being seen as a data-driven machine, a school should be viewed as a place that enables children to develop thoughtful perspectives on the world, through which they can pursue wisdom and be free to join in with the ancient and continuing conversation: 'What is it to be human?' Teachers need to be liberated from policy-led prescription in order to design curricula which bring the subjects being studied, rather than the blind pursuit of measurable outcomes, to the foreground of the school's teaching and learning agenda. In Curriculum, Martin Robinson explores how this can be achieved. The Machine demands data, order and regulation; Athena is the goddess of philosophy, courage and inspiration. An Athena curriculum celebrates wisdom and skills, and considers why it seeks to transmit the knowledge that it does. In this book, Martin examines how we can construct a curriculum that will allow liberal education to flourish. Anti gimmick and pro wisdom, the principles that he advocates will make a big difference to teachers' and pupils' lives, and will help to ensure that our young adults are better educated. Suitable for teachers, school leaders and policy makers.

The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine Or Monthly Political and Literary Censor

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
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Life Skills and Adolescent Mental Health

Author : Ole Jacob Madsen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000926583
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Life Skills and Adolescent Mental Health written by Ole Jacob Madsen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can school teach us to master life? This book confronts what the author sees as an ongoing trend in many Western democracies where citizens are increasingly being held accountable for their health and happiness. The author believes that the introduction of life skills in school shows a tendency to place more responsibility on the individual rather than address fundamental societal flaws that really should be solved politically. It examines how such responsibility to psychologically deal with these problems affects our mental health and quality of life. This book questions the fundamentals of the life mastery curriculum where we might be risking the creation of just another arena where children have to perform, challenging readers to evaluate more closely the premises, consequences and limitations of life mastery. The book, one of the first to question ‘life mastery’ as an achievable goal with critical reviews of the 21st century skills movement, will be of interest to psychologists, school counsellors, teachers, students, politicians, and any reader evaluating school curriculums in relation to the decline in youth and adolescent mental health.

The Right to Do Wrong

Author : Mark Osiel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0674368258
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (743 download)

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Download or read book The Right to Do Wrong written by Mark Osiel and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The law sometimes permits what ordinary morality, or widely-shared notions of right and wrong, reproaches. Rights to Do Grave Wrong explores the relationship between law and common morality to clarify law's reliance on society's broad presumption that people will exercise their rights responsibly. More concretely, he argues that certain legal rights rest on tacit sociological assumptions as to who will exercise them, under what circumstances, and how frequently. Further, he argues that we depend on stigma and shame to reduce and circumscribe the law's use. Some examples: though reneging on a debt is considered wrong, the law allows you to declare personal bankruptcy; international law allows museums to retain some masterworks looted from their rightful owners; in many countries abortion is permitted as a means of birth control. Using these examples and more, Osiel presents a "social scientific" analysis of law's interaction with social mores and the extent to which they limit our exercising rights to do wrong. The paradox he intends to elucidate is when and why it is appropriate for societies to champion de jure entitlements even as they successfully limit their de facto usage.--

Biblical Counseling Basics

Author : Jeremy Lelek
Publisher : New Growth Press
ISBN 13 : 194527087X
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book Biblical Counseling Basics written by Jeremy Lelek and published by New Growth Press. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive account of biblical counseling, Jeremy Lelek recounts its history, discusses its beliefs, and provides insight for the future. Valuable for those both inside and outside of biblical counseling, Biblical Counseling Basics draws from a wide range of and experts to guide readers through Christian soul care.

Metaphysical Poetry

Author : Colin Burrow
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141394048
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Metaphysical Poetry written by Colin Burrow and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A key anthology for students of English literature, Metaphysical Poetry is a collection whose unique philosophical insights are some of the crowning achievements of Renaissance verse, edited with an introduction and notes by Colin Burrow in Penguin Classics. Spanning the Elizabethan age to the Restoration and beyond, Metaphysical poetry sought to describe a time of startling progress, scientific discovery, unrivalled exploration and deep religious uncertainty. This compelling collection of the best and most enjoyable poems from the era includes tightly argued lyrics, erotic and libertine considerations of love, divine poems and elegies of lament by such great figures as John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell and John Milton, alongside pieces from many other less well known but equally fascinating poets of the age, such as Anne Bradstreet, Katherine Philips and Thomas Traherne. Widely varied in theme, all are characterized by their use of startling metaphors, imagery and language to express the uncertainty of an age, and a profound desire for originality that was to prove deeply influential on later poets and in particular poets of the Modernist movement such as T. S. Eliot. In his introduction, Colin Burrow explores the nature of Metaphysical poetry, its development across the seventeenth century and its influence on later poets and includes A Very Short History of Metaphysical Poetry from Donne to Rochester. This edition also includes detailed notes, a chronology and further reading. Colin Burrow is Reader in Renaissance and Comparative Literature at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He has edited Shakespeare's Sonnets for OUP and The Complete Works of Ben Jonson, and is working on the Elizabethan volume of the Oxford English Literary History. If you enjoyed Metaphysical Poetry, you might like John Donne's Selected Poems, also available in Penguin Classics.

Shakespeare: Seven Tragedies Revisited

Author : E. Honigmann
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230503039
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare: Seven Tragedies Revisited written by E. Honigmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-06-17 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic text, reprinted several times since its first publication in 1976, has been extensively revised in this new edition and includes new chapters on Henry V, As You Like It, and on 'the study of the audience and the study of response'. Both readers and actors/theatre-goers will find will find it opens up new ways of looking at the plays and at the mechanisms that underpin some of the most magical moments in Shakespeare's plays.