Distorting Defense

Author : Stephen P. Aubin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780313388576

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Distorting Defense by Stephen P. Aubin Pdf

Using journalists' own standards as the measure, an exhaustive analysis of nearly 3000 network news reports from the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations reveals that the networks may do more to misinform than inform on a whole range of complex issues related to national defense. This study paints a disturbing picture of the inadequate coverage ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News provide to millions of viewers each night. Aubin concludes that network coverage of defense issues was too often tainted by preconceived attitudes and lapses in journalistic standards. While as much as twenty-five cents of every dollar went to the defense budget during some of the periods reviewed, the networks hardly covered the key issues surrounding the Reagan defense buildup or the dramatic cuts that followed the end of the Cold War. In addition to their inadequate coverage, the networks also deprived Americans of balanced coverage of the investments made in high-tech weapons that ultimately prevailed in the Gulf War. Though the networks receive good marks for foreign policy coverage, they need to improve the quality of defense reports. This book provides them with the lessons and prescriptions for doing so, and it serves as a primer for all Americans who want to know just what it was that the networks failed to tell them.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Strategy
ISBN : UOM:39015078433334

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Strategic Review by Anonim Pdf

... dedicated to the advancement and understanding of those principles and practices, military and political, which serve the vital security interests of the United States.

Author : Gregory J Boyle,Gerald Matthews,Donald H Saklofske
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 809 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781446207024

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The SAGE Handbook of Personality Theory and Assessment by Gregory J Boyle,Gerald Matthews,Donald H Saklofske Pdf

This Handbook of Personality Theory and Assessment 2-Volume Set constitutes an essential resource for shaping the future of the scientific foundation of personality research, measurement, and practice. It reviews the major contemporary personality models (Volume 1) and associated psychometric measurement instruments (Volume 2) that underpin the scientific study of this important area of psychology. With contributions from internationally renowned academics, this work will be an important reference work for a host of researchers and practitioners in the fields of individual differences and personality assessment, clinical psychology, educational psychology, work and organizational psychology, health psychology and other applied fields as well. Volume 1: Personality Theories and Models. Deals with the major theoretical models underlying personality instruments and covers the following broad topics, listed by section heading: " Explanatory Models For Personality " Comprehensive Trait Models " Key Traits: Psychobiology " Key Traits: Self-Regulation And Stress " New Trait And Dynamic Trait Constructs " Applications

Author : Sabina E. Preter,Theodore Shapiro,Barbara Milrod
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190877729

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Child and Adolescent Anxiety Psychodynamic Psychotherapy by Sabina E. Preter,Theodore Shapiro,Barbara Milrod Pdf

Child and Adolescent Anxiety Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, CAPP, is a new, manualized, tested, 24-session psychotherapeutic approach to working psychodynamically with youth with anxiety disorders. This book describes how clinicians intervene by collaboratively identifying the meanings of anxiety symptoms and maladaptive behaviors and to communicate the emotional meaning of these symptoms to the child. The treatment is conducted from a developmental perspective and the book contains clinical examples of how to approach youth of varying ages. The authors demonstrate that CAPP can help youth: · Reduce anxiety symptoms by developing an understanding of the emotional meaning of symptoms · Enhance children's skill of reflection and self-observation of one's own and others' motivations (improvement in symptom-specific reflective functioning) · Diminish use of avoidance, dependence and rigidity by showing that underlying emotions (e.g. guilt, shame, anger), as well as conflicted wishes and desires can be tolerated and understood · Understand fantasies and personal emotional significance surrounding the anxiety symptoms to reduce symptoms' magical qualities and impact on the child The manual provides a description of psychodynamic treatment principles and technique and offers a guide to opening, middle, and termination phases of this psychotherapy. It contains chapters on the historical background of psychodynamic child psychotherapy, on developmental aspects of child psychotherapy, and on the nature of parent involvement in the treatment. It will be useful for clinicians from diverse therapy backgrounds and it will appeal to the student reader, as well as to the experienced clinician.

Author : William Haltom,Michael McCann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226314693

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Distorting the Law by William Haltom,Michael McCann Pdf

In recent years, stories of reckless lawyers and greedy citizens have given the legal system, and victims in general, a bad name. Many Americans have come to believe that we live in the land of the litigious, where frivolous lawsuits and absurdly high settlements reign. Scholars have argued for years that this common view of the depraved ruin of our civil legal system is a myth, but their research and statistics rarely make the news. William Haltom and Michael McCann here persuasively show how popularized distorted understandings of tort litigation (or tort tales) have been perpetuated by the mass media and reform proponents. Distorting the Law lays bare how media coverage has sensationalized lawsuits and sympathetically portrayed corporate interests, supporting big business and reinforcing negative stereotypes of law practices. Based on extensive interviews, nearly two decades of newspaper coverage, and in-depth studies of the McDonald's coffee case and tobacco litigation, Distorting the Law offers a compelling analysis of the presumed litigation crisis, the campaign for tort law reform, and the crucial role the media play in this process.

Author : Travis Langley
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781118239513

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Batman and Psychology by Travis Langley Pdf

A journey behind the mask and into the mind of Gotham City’s Caped Crusader, timed for the summer 2012 release of The Dark Knight Rises Batman is one of the most compelling and enduring characters to come from the Golden Age of Comics, and interest in his story has only increased through countless incarnations since his first appearance in Detective Comics #27 in 1939. Why does this superhero without superpowers fascinate us? What does that fascination say about us? Batman and Psychology explores these and other intriguing questions about the masked vigilante, including: Does Batman have PTSD? Why does he fight crime? Why as a vigilante? Why the mask, the bat, and the underage partner? Why are his most intimate relationships with “bad girls” he ought to lock up? And why won't he kill that homicidal, green-haired clown? Gives you fresh insights into the complex inner world of Batman and Bruce Wayne and the life and characters of Gotham City Explains psychological theory and concepts through the lens of one of the world’s most popular comic book characters Written by a psychology professor and “Superherologist” (scholar of superheroes)

Author : Mufid James Hannush
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030743154

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Markers of Psychosocial Maturation by Mufid James Hannush Pdf

This book advances an integrative approach to understanding the phenomenon of psychosocial maturation. Through a rigorous, dialectically-informed interpretation of psychoanalytic and humanistic-existential-phenomenological sources, Mufid James Hannush distils thirty essential markers of maturity. The dialectical approach is described as a process whereby lived, affect-and-value laden polar meanings are transformed, through deep insight, into complementary and integrative meta-meanings. The author demonstrates how responding to the call of maturation can be viewed as a life project that serves the ultimate purpose of living a balanced life. The book will appeal to students and scholars of human development, psychotherapy, social work, philosophy, and existential, humanistic, and phenomenological psychology.

Author : Joseph H. Obegi,Ety Berant
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781606239292

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Attachment Theory and Research in Clinical Work with Adults by Joseph H. Obegi,Ety Berant Pdf

Written with the practicing psychotherapist in mind, this invaluable book presents cutting-edge knowledge on adult attachment and explores the implications for day-to-day clinical practice. Leading experts illustrate how theory and research in this dynamic area can inform assessment, case formulation, and clinical decision making. The book puts such concepts as the secure base, mentalization, and attachment styles in a new light by focusing on their utility for understanding the therapeutic relationship and processes of change. It offers recommendations for incorporating attachment ideas and tools into specific treatment approaches, with separate chapters on psychoanalytic, interpersonal, cognitive-behavioral, and emotionally focused therapies.

Author : Yuksel Akay Unvan
Publisher : Livre de Lyon
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9782382360729

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Studies on Economics Sciences by Yuksel Akay Unvan Pdf

Studies on Economics Sciences

Author : Claire Finkelstein,Jens David Ohlin,Andrew Altman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191625909

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Targeted Killings by Claire Finkelstein,Jens David Ohlin,Andrew Altman Pdf

The war on terror is remaking conventional warfare. The protracted battle against a non-state organization, the demise of the confinement of hostilities to an identifiable battlefield, the extensive involvement of civilian combatants, and the development of new and more precise military technologies have all conspired to require a rethinking of the law and morality of war. Just war theory, as traditionally articulated, seems ill-suited to justify many of the practices of the war on terror. The raid against Osama Bin Laden's Pakistani compound was the highest profile example of this strategy, but the issues raised by this technique cast a far broader net: every week the U.S. military and CIA launch remotely piloted drones to track suspected terrorists in hopes of launching a missile strike against them. In addition to the public condemnation that these attacks have generated in some countries, the legal and moral basis for the use of this technique is problematic. Is the U.S. government correct that nations attacked by terrorists have the right to respond in self-defense by targeting specific terrorists for summary killing? Is there a limit to who can legitimately be placed on the list? There is also widespread disagreement about whether suspected terrorists should be considered combatants subject to the risk of lawful killing under the laws of war or civilians protected by international humanitarian law. Complicating the moral and legal calculus is the fact that innocent bystanders are often killed or injured in these attacks. This book addresses these issues. Featuring chapters by an unrivalled set of experts, it discusses all aspects of targeted killing, making it unmissable reading for anyone interested in the implications of this practice.

Author : Val Atkinson
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781698716695

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“DISTRACTIONS” DISTORTIONS, DECEPTIONS, and Outright LIES by Val Atkinson Pdf

The second edition of Distractions is an updated copy of the original book written in 2018. Part I (Conservative Strategies) outlines how conservatives deal with the critical issues of communications, the economy, the electoral process, the law, and DEMOCRACY. Part II (The “G’s”) focuses on the issue areas used mainly by the GOP to gain acceptance in the eyes of the general public. An additional chapter has been added — “Gerrymandering”. With the advent of Citizens United, The Gutting of the 1965 Voting Rights Act with the ruling in the Shelby Co. v. Holder case, The Chiafalo v. Washington case, Heller, and Dobbs v. Jackson already decided, Gerrymandering became the cherry atop the sundae. Afterword has been revised and an appendix added which includes: A Timeline, An example of a Literacy Test, and a copy of the Constitution of the Confederate States of America with cited changes from the U.S. Constitution. Examples of the media gaslighting its reading audience for ratings and the profits they generate are included as well. Emphasis are placed on the future of the GOP after the Trump led fiasco of January 6th. There is also a great deal of attention placed on the lead-up to the 2024 General Election under the pending dispositions of the various Trump indictments. Conservatives’ immigration woes and their fear of the United States becoming a “Colored” country are discussed, and gun violence and the policing of the Black man in America is given added attention, and the Biographical section was expanded.

Author : Naval War College (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : International relations
ISBN : UOM:39015052103986

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Naval War College Review by Naval War College (U.S.) Pdf

Author : William John Little
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Clubfoot
ISBN : CHI:45907777

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A Treatise on the Nature of Club-foot and Analogous Distortions by William John Little Pdf

Author : Diana Diamond,Frank E. Yeomans,Barry L. Stern,Otto F. Kernberg
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781462546749

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Treating Pathological Narcissism with Transference-Focused Psychotherapy by Diana Diamond,Frank E. Yeomans,Barry L. Stern,Otto F. Kernberg Pdf

Filling a crucial gap in the clinical literature, this book provides a contemporary view of pathological narcissism and presents an innovative treatment approach. The preeminent authors explore the special challenges of treating patients--with narcissistic traits or narcissistic personality disorder--who retreat from reality into narcissistic grandiosity, thereby compromising their lives and relationships. Assessment procedures and therapeutic strategies have been adapted from transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP), a manualized, evidence-based treatment for borderline personality disorder. Rich case material illustrates how TFP-N enables the clinician to engage patients more deeply in therapy and help them overcome relationship and behavioral problems at different levels of severity. The volume integrates psychodynamic theory and research with findings from social cognition, attachment, and neurobiology.

Author : Donald E. Davis,Eugene P. Trani
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780826271891

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Distorted Mirrors by Donald E. Davis,Eugene P. Trani Pdf

"Drawing on memoirs, archives, and interviews, Davis and Trani trace American prejudice toward Russia and China by focusing on the views of influential writers and politicians over the course of the twentieth century, showing where American images originated and how they evolved"--Provided by publisher.