A revelatory look at how poet Allen Ginsberg transformed experiences of mental illness and madness into some of the most powerful and widely read poems of the twentieth century. Allen Ginsberg’s 1956 poem “Howl” opens with one of the most resonant phrases in modern poetry: “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.” Thirty years later, Ginsberg entrusted a Columbia University medical student with materials not shared with anyone else, including psychiatric records that documented how he and his mother, Naomi Ginsberg, struggled with mental illness. In Best Minds, psychiatrist, researcher, and scholar Stevan M. Weine, M.D., who was that medical student, examines how Allen Ginsberg took his visions and psychiatric hospitalization, his mother’s devastating illness, confinement, and lobotomy, and the social upheavals of the postwar world and imaginatively transformed them. Though madness is often linked with hardship and suffering, Ginsberg’s showed how it could also lead to profound and redemptive aesthetic, spiritual, and social changes. Through his revolutionary poetry and social advocacy, Ginsberg dedicated himself to leading others toward new ways of being human and easing pain. Throughout his celebrated career Ginsberg made us feel as though we knew everything there was to know about him. However, much has been left out about his experiences growing up with a mentally ill mother, his visions, and his psychiatric hospitalization. In Best Minds, with a forty-year career studying and addressing trauma, Weine provides a groundbreaking exploration of the poet and his creative process especially in relation to madness. Best Minds examines the complex relationships between mental illness, psychiatry, trauma, poetry, and prophecy—using the access Ginsberg generously shared to offer new, lively, and indispensable insights into an American icon. Weine also provides new understandings of the paternalism, treatment failures, ethical lapses, and limitations of American psychiatry in the 1940s and 1950s. In light of these new discoveries, the challenges Ginsberg faced appear starker and his achievements, both as a poet and an advocate, even more remarkable.
Автор: Michael Bamberg et al. Название: The Cambridge Handbook of Identity ISBN: 1108719112 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108719117 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7762.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Cambridge Handbook of Identity presents the lively, multidisciplinary field of identity theory and research as working around three central themes: sameness vs. difference, agency, and constancy vs. change. These themes help guide scholars and students through a wealth of perspectives from different theoretical and methodological traditions.
Описание: The second edition of this popular textbook builds on the strengths of the first, continuing its reputation for clarity, accessibility, conceptual sophistication and panoramic coverage of personality and intelligence. The authorship team is enriched by the addition of two high-profile international scholars, Luke Smillie and John Song, whose expertise broadens and deepens the text. New to this edition: Chapters exploring the neurobiological, genetic and evolutionary foundations of personality; and emotion, motivation and personality processes An enhanced coverage of personality disorders A thoroughly revised and extended section on intelligence which now addresses cognitive abilities and their biological bases; the role of intelligence in everyday life; and emotional intelligence A brand new companion website that includes a substantial test bank and lecture slides. An Introduction to Personality, Individual Differences and Intelligence, Second Edition is a key textbook for all psychology students on a personality or individual differences course.
Автор: Mayer John D. Название: Personality: A Systems Approach ISBN: 1442266864 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442266865 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 31680.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Organized around the personality systems framework, this text offers students a clear and engaging introduction to the study of personality. Integrating cutting-edge research, the second edition provides a comprehensive roadmap toward understanding personality by examining personality`s different parts, organization, and development over time.
Автор: Edward C. Chang, Martha K. Berg Название: Motivation and Morality: A Multidisciplinary Approach ISBN: 1433838729 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433838729 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 10532.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book offers an integrative examination of the role of motivation in shaping moral cognition, judgment, and behavior.
How do we define good and bad? Where do our moral systems originate? These questions have long sparked inquiry across multiple disciplines, and scholars have debated the answer both within and across fields for centuries.
Contributors examine the sociocultural context of morality including norms and norm compliance; psychological frameworks that underlie virtuous behavior and help navigate competing moral obligations; the neurobiology of moral reasoning, and more.
In bringing together leading researchers across sociology, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, this book explains the complex motivational aspects of morality, which represents a crucial step toward understanding how and why our moral choices arise, and in turn can shape and guide how we engage in the daily practice of morality.
Автор: Lester David Название: Theories of Personality: A Systems Approach ISBN: 0367133458 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367133450 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5358.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Originally published in 1995, this title presents an intrapsychic explanation of human behaviour - concepts based on psychological processes and `structures` within the mind. In this context, a unique treatment of personality theory is introduced. It focuses on Freud, Kelly and Angyal.
Автор: Gudmund J.W. Smith Название: The Process Approach to Personality ISBN: 144193359X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441933591 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13415.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Smith and his colleagues at Lund University are part of a small insurgency in psychology that has worked gamely and in relative obscurity to document the presence of subjective phases in the process leading to a perceptual object and the infrastructure of this process in the person ality.
Автор: Michael Eysenck Название: Personality and Individual Differences ISBN: 1461294703 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781461294702 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 10610.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book presents an introduction to the study of personality and indi- vidual differences, but it is not a textbook in the usual sense.
Автор: Stenner Название: Liminality and Experience ISBN: 1137272104 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137272102 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 7927.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book breathes new life into the study of liminal experiences of transition and transformation, or `becoming`. Of transdisciplinary scope, it will appeal beyond psychosocial studies and social psychology to all scholars interested in the interface between experience and social (dis)order.
Автор: Maurice Yolles , Gerhard Fink Название: A Configuration Approach to Mindset Agency Theory ISBN: 1108833322 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108833325 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 23443.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explains socio-political and organisational change in multidisciplinary settings to researchers and postgraduate students studying management, sociology, politics, finance, anthropology, social psychology, and psychology. Consultants can also use this to apply advanced techniques of contextual analysis to complex situations.
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