Bodies Under Siege

Author : Armando R. Favazza
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996-05-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0801853001

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Although instances of deliberate skin-cutting are recorded as far back as the old and New Testaments of the Bible the behavior has generally been regarded as a symptom of various mental disorders. With the publication of Bodies Under Siege, a book described in the New York Times Magazine (July 17, 1997) as "the first to comprehensively explore self-mutilation," Dr. Armando Favazza has pioneered the study of the behavior as significant and meaningful unto itself. Drawing from the latest case studies from clinical psychiatry he broadens our understanding of self-mutilation and body modification and explores their surprising connections to the elemental experiences of healing, religions, salvation, and social balance. Favazza makes sense out of seemingly senseless self-mutilative behaviors by providing both a useful classification and examination of the ways in which the behaviors provide effective but temporary relief from troublesome symptoms such as overwhelming anxiety, racing thoughts, and depersonalization. He offers important new information on the psychology and biology of self-mutilation, the link between self-mutilation and eating disorders, and advances in treatment. An epilogue by Fakir Musafar, the father of the Modern Primitive movement, describes his role in influencing a new generation to "experiment with the previously forbidden 'body side' of life" through piercing, blood rituals, scarification, and body sculpting in order to attain a state of grace. The second edition of Bodies Under Siege is the major source of information about self-mutilation, a much misunderstood behavior that is now coming into public awareness.

Author : Sian Norris
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781839764738

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An exposé of how far-right extremists across Europe use attacks on abortion to introduce broader fascist politics–and their connections to the American far right, from a leading investigative journalist Think today's anti-abortion ideas are rooted in religious prohibitions or arguments about where life begins? Wrong: today's anti-abortion movements is largely financed and planned by far-right extremists. Many of them are avowedly fascist and white supremacist, afraid of a "great replacement" of the world's white population by other races, who are working hard to reshape governments and policies across Europe, North America and around the world. Much of this far-right organizing and funding network, however, has been overlooked by today's feminist and left movements. As investigative journalist Sian Norris uncovers here, it is through attacking abortion rights that fascist ideas from the dark web, incel chat boards, and fringe organizations comes to enter mainstream debate -- and to then shape governmental policy across Europe, from authoritarian regimes like Hungary's to liberal democracies like Britain. As Norris goes undercover at anti-abortion activist meetings, and pieces together the money trail linking American think tanks to far-right fascist groups, she maps out the pipeline by which fascism has become respectable across the Global North by taking away women's reproductive rights and autonomy.

Author : Armando R. Favazza
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781421401119

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Bodies under Siege by Armando R. Favazza Pdf

A quarter century after it was first published, Bodies under Siege remains the classic, authoritative book on self-mutilation. Now in its third edition, this invaluable work is updated throughout with findings from hundreds of new studies, discussions of new models of self-injury, an assessment of the S.A.F.E. (Self Abuse Finally Ends) program, and the Bill of Rights for People Who Self-harm. Armando Favazza’s pioneering work identified a wide range of forces, many of them cultural and societal, that compel or impel people to mutilate themselves. This new edition examines the explosive growth in the incidence of self-injurious behaviors and body modification practices. Favazza critically assesses new and significant biological, ethnological, social, and psychological findings regarding self-injury; presents current understandings of self-injurious acts from cultural and clinical perspectives; and places self-mutilation in historical and contemporary context.

Author : Stephen Coonts
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 9780671742942

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Under Siege by Stephen Coonts Pdf

Captain Jake Grafton faces the duel threats of a determined assassin and a vicious drug lord, both intent on plunging the U.S. into chaos.

Author : Joel Bakan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781439121221

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Childhood Under Siege by Joel Bakan Pdf

Computer game designers craft techniques to titillate children with sex and violence, while social media developers infiltrate and shape children's social and emotional worlds to compel them to spend more and more monetizable time online. America's schools are being transformed into profit centers while children are subjected to increasingly regimented teaching that thwarts curiosity and creativity, numbing the joy of learning. And children's chronic health problems, from asthma to cancer, autism, and birth defects, steadily escalate as thousands of new industrial chemicals are dumped into their environments. Nelson Mandela once sagely remarked that "there can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way it treats its children." The problem today, as Joel Bakan reveals, is that business interests have made protecting children extremely difficult.

Author : Robert Firestone,Lisa A. Firestone,Joyce Catlett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780415520331

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The Self Under Siege by Robert Firestone,Lisa A. Firestone,Joyce Catlett Pdf

Noted clinical psychologist Robert Firestone and his co-authors explore the struggle that all of us face in striving to retain a sense of ourselves as unique individuals.

Author : Nicole Archambeau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : France
ISBN : 1501753665

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Souls Under Siege by Nicole Archambeau Pdf

In Souls under Siege, Nicole Archambeau explores how the inhabitants of southern France made sense of the ravages of successive waves of plague, the depredations of mercenary warfare, and the violence of royal succession during the fourteenth century. Many people, she finds, understood both plague and war as the symptoms of spiritual sicknesses caused by excessive sin, and they sought cures in confession. Archambeau draws on a rich evidentiary base of 68 narrative testimonials from the canonization inquest for Countess Delphine de Puimichel, which was held in the market town of Apt in 1363. Each witness in the proceedings had lived through the outbreaks of plague in 1348 and 1361, as well as the violence inflicted by mercenaries unleashed by truces in the Hundred Years' War. Consequently, their testimonies unexpectedly reveal the importance of faith and the role of affect in the healing of body and soul alike. Faced with an unprecedented cascade of crises, the inhabitants of Provence relied on saints and healers, their worldview connecting earthly disease and disaster to the struggle for their eternal souls. Souls under Siege illustrates how medieval people approached sickness and uncertainty by using a variety of remedies, making clear that "healing" had multiple overlapping meanings in this historical moment.

Author : Elle Kennedy
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460394434

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Soldier Under Siege by Elle Kennedy Pdf

A single mother and a special ops captain are united by revenge in the New York Times–bestselling author’s military romance series debut. Eva Dolce would stop at nothing to save her son—even if it takes murdering Hector Cruz, the most fearsome man in San Marquez. But she can’t do it alone. Enter special ops captain Robert Tate, a man who’s seen too much. Ruthless and taciturn, Tate couldn’t be more different from Eva. But they have one thing in common: revenge. Tate saw his brother die by Cruz’s hand. And if Eva is his only way to Hector, then so be it. But the combustible chemistry sizzling between them is even more dangerous than their formidable enemies. And Eva’s face, beautiful as it is, masks the truth about her past and her child. Can Tate forgive her lies . . . or will her secrets leave them both dead?

Author : John Henderson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Black Death
ISBN : 9780300196344

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Florence Under Siege by John Henderson Pdf

A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronted, suffered, and survived a major epidemic of plague Plague remains the paradigm against which reactions to many epidemics are often judged. Here, John Henderson examines how a major city fought, suffered, and survived the impact of plague. Going beyond traditional oppositions between rich and poor, this book provides a nuanced and more compassionate interpretation of government policies in practice, by recreating the very human reactions and survival strategies of families and individuals. From the evocation of the overcrowded conditions in isolation hospitals to the splendor of religious processions, Henderson analyzes Florentine reactions within a wider European context to assess the effect of state policies on the city, street, and family. Writing in a vivid and approachable way, this book unearths the forgotten stories of doctors and administrators struggling to cope with the sick and dying, and of those who were left bereft and confused by the sudden loss of relatives.

Author : Tom Ridge,Lary Bloom
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781429928670

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The Test of Our Times by Tom Ridge,Lary Bloom Pdf

When our nation called, Tom Ridge answered. Appointed by the President to head up domestic security, Ridge established the Department of Homeland Security. In this probing and surefooted memoir, Ridge takes us through the challenges he and his new department faced, including Anthrax scares and reports (both real and false alarms) of new Al-Qaeda operations sprouting up in the United States. A "law and order" Republican who was on the shortlist to be John McCain's running mate in 2008, Ridge writes with refreshing candor on both the successes and missteps of the DHS. He details the obstacles faced in his new post—often within the administration itself—as well as the failures of Congress to provide for critical homeland security needs, and the irresponsible use of terrorism by both parties to curry favors with voters. Ridge also reveals: • How the DHS was pressured to connect homeland security to the international "war on terror" • How Ridge effectively thwarted a plan to raise the national security alert just before the 2004 Election • How Ridge had pushed for a plan (defeated because of turf wars) to integrate DHS and FEMA disaster management in New Orleans and other areas before Hurricane Katrina Finally, Ridge offers a prescriptive look to the future, advocating ways that America may reaffirm its safety—including his provocative support for a national ID card program and for comprehensive immigration reform—without sacrificing personal liberty. Television captures every word and every expression. I was reasonable to think that our enemies would look for any sign of weakness in the person who in a few days would be responsible for protecting America against them. At that moment, I experienced a royal flush of emotion—after all, I was leaving the state I loved, a loyal staff, many friendships developed over a lifetime, the frustration of work unfinished, to head into the unknown and the undoable. In normal times, I might have shed a tear at such thoughts. But I was determined not to do so as I said my farewell. If I needed any reminding, I glanced down at the note I had written for counsel. "The bastards are watching." We can never guarantee we will be free from another attack. We must also understand that every day thousands and thousands of our fellow citizens work here and abroad to take us to a new level of readiness and security. For in the end, Americans do not live in fear. We live in freedom. And we will let no one take that freedom away. —Tom Ridge, from THE TEST OF OUR TIMES

Author : Antonius C. G. M. Robben,Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521784352

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Cultures Under Siege by Antonius C. G. M. Robben,Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco Pdf

Collective violence changes the perpetrators, the victims, and the societies in which it occurs. It targets the body, the psyche, and the socio-cultural order. How do people come to terms with these tragic events, and how are cultures affected by massive outbreaks of violence? This book is a groundbreaking collection of essays by anthropologists, psychologists and psychoanalysts, drawing on field research in many different parts of the world. Profiting from an interdisciplinary dialogue, the authors provide provocative, at times deeply troubling, insights into the darker side of humanity, and they also propose new ways of understanding the terrible things that people are capable of doing to each other.

Author : James Garbarino,Claire Bedard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780743223836

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Parents Under Siege by James Garbarino,Claire Bedard Pdf

A compassionate and practical guide for parents facing the difficult task of raising children in an increasingly violent world. This intelligent, parent-centered reference takes a sympathetic yet tough-minded look at the forces that are shaping--and disrupting--American family life today.

Author : Florin Diacu
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421402871

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The Lost Millennium by Florin Diacu Pdf

Join the author as he pushes further and further in search of the truth.

Author : Stuart A. Wright,James T. Richardson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780814795309

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Saints Under Siege by Stuart A. Wright,James T. Richardson Pdf

This volume offers an incisive set of analyses by distinguished religious movements scholars of the massive state raid on the FLDS community in 2008. The book considers the raid as an exemplar case of a larger pattern of state actions against minority religions.

Author : Armando R. Favazza,Barbara Starks Favazza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Cultural psychiatry
ISBN : OCLC:852668955

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