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Depression and Narrative
(October 2008)
Telling the Dark
Hilary Clark - Edited, introduction, and notes
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How the story of depression gets told in print, on screen, and online.
Depression and Narrative examines stories of depression in the context of recent scholarship on illness and narrative, which up to this point has largely focused on physical illness and disability. Contributors from a number of disciplinary perspectives address these narrative accounts of depression, by both sufferers and those who treat them, as they ...(Read More) |
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Confronting Evil
(April 2004)
Two Journeys
Fred Emil Katz - Author
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Using insights from behavioral science, a Holocaust survivor explores how evil actions can seem "moral" to the perpetrators and how we must alter our thinking to prevent this.
Confronting Evil describes Fred Emil Katz's two journeys in response to surviving the Holocaust. One journey is that of a survivor who tries to come to terms with his own survival, and who must cope with survival guilt as well as the sense of rootless...(Read More) |
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Beyond Friendship and Eros
(July 2001)
Unrecognized Relationships between Men and Women
John R. Scudder Jr. - Author
Anne H. Bishop - Author
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Explores deep intimate personal relationships between men and women.
Culminating a twenty-year personal and scholarly quest, the authors explore the phenomenon of loving relationships (minus the sexual attraction) between men and women. They articulate these relationships as dialogical love in which partners respond to each other's presence personally rather than categorically as friend or lover. In a society where relationships ...(Read More) |
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Freud, Psychoanalysis, Social Theory
(December 2000)
The Unfulfilled Promise
Fred Weinstein - Author
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Discusses the reasons for the decline of the cultural influence of psychoanalysis.
Freud, Psychoanalysis, Social Theory explores the parallel decline of psychoanalysis which, as psychoanalysts themselves testify, has lost its position as a vital source for innovative cultural analysis and critique, and mainstream social science, which has for methodological reasons similarly abandoned larger interpretive goals. Theory in all do...(Read More) |
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Who Is My Neighbor?
(September 1999)
Social Affinity in a Modern World
James A. Vela-McConnell - Author
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Points the way toward a world in which we might feel more connected to and responsible for each other.
In a world which often is labeled a "global village," who exactly is our neighbor? Who is My Neighbor? explores the emergence of what is called "social affinity," a concept bridging classical notions of social cohesion with contemporary social psychology. The ideas underlying social affinity focus on the sentiment of mor...(Read More) |
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Dialogue, Conflict Resolution, and Change
(May 1999)
Arab-Jewish Encounters in Israel
Mohammed Abu-Nimer - Author
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"In his in-depth examination of intervention models in Israel, Abu-Nimer provides a fresh insight into the important role of dialogue in conflict resolution. This comprehensive study will not only serve as a useful guide for future Arab-Israeli dialogues, but also a framework for other citizen diplomacy programs in areas of conflict around the world."
-- John W. McDonald, Ambassador, and Chairman and co-founder of the Institute for Multi-Track D...(Read More) |
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Beyond the Power Mystique
(February 1999)
Power as Intersubjective Accomplishment
Robert Prus - Author
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Locating power within the symbolic interactionist framework, this book permeates much of the mystique shrouding "power" and examines the ways in which notions of power, control, influence and the like are brought into human existence.
Despite the considerable attention given to 'power' by foundational sources such as Machiavelli, Hobbs, Weber, Durkheim, and Marx, and those social theorists who have built on their works, surprisingly lit...(Read More) |
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Self, Interaction, and Natural Environment
(February 1997)
Refocusing our Eyesight
Andrew J. Weigert - Author
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Provides a framework for sharing a more adequate view of human-environment relations and contributes to the development of an ecologically aware sense of self-understanding.
Self, Interaction, and Natural Environment helps us as individuals to understand environmental issues and to respond accordingly. Although it acknowledges that such issues exist on a worldwide scale, it sharpens our focus on the personal level. For example, it...(Read More) |
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Subcultural Mosaics and Intersubjective Realities
(January 1997)
An Ethnographic Research Agenda for Pragmatizing the Social Sciences
Robert Prus - Author
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Examines the theory and methods by which social scientists study the human lived experienced.
"Prus has written a textbook on qualitative research--a textbook in the best sense of being the summation of a discipline presented in a manner that can be put to use by students." -- Marvin Scott, Hunter College, City University of New York
The author builds on the broader interpretive/constructionist ethnographic and pragmatist traditions...(Read More) |
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The Eclipse of the State Mental Hospital
(April 1996)
Policy, Stigma, and Organization
George W. Dowdall - Author
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Examines the origins, recent history, and future of state hospitals.
State hospitals still account for the majority of the state dollars spent on mental health care across the nation. Why do state hospitals persist and expand despite public scandal and professional disapproval? What role does the state mental hospital play in the current system of care for the seriously mentally ill? What role should it play, and at what cost? Dowdall exp...(Read More) |
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