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Author : Debra J. H. Mathews,Hilary Bok,Peter V. Rabins
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780801893384
D., Colgate University--John C. Racy "Journal of Clinical Psychiatry"
Author : Tamara Ownsworth
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317820192
An injury to the brain can affect virtually any aspect of functioning and, at the deepest level, can alter sense of self or the essential qualities that define who we are. In recent years, there has been a growing body of research investigating changes to self in the context of brain injury. Developments in the cognitive and social neurosciences, psychotherapy and neurorehabilitation have together provided a rich perspective on self and identity reformation after brain injury. This book draws upon these theoretical perspectives and research findings to provide a comprehensive account of the impact of brain injury on self-identity. The second half of this book provides an in-depth review of clinical strategies for assessing changes in self-identity after brain injury, and of rehabilitation approaches for supporting individuals to maintain or re-establish a positive post-injury identity. The book emphasizes a shift in clinical orientation, from a traditional focus on alleviating impairments, to a focus on working collaboratively with people to support them to re-engage in valued activities and find meaning in their lives after brain injury. Self-Identity after Brain Injury is the first book dedicated to self-identity issues after brain injury which integrates theory and research, and also assessment and intervention strategies. It will be a key resource to support clinicians and researchers working in brain injury rehabilitation, and will be of great interest to researchers and students in clinical psychology, neuropsychology, and allied health disciplines.
Author : Marya Schechtman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501718380
An amnesia victim asking "Who am I?" means something different from a confused adolescent asking the same question. Marya Schechtman takes issue with analytic philosophy's emphasis on the first sort of question to the exclusion of the second. The problem of personal identity, she suggests, is usually understood to be a question about historical life. What she calls the "reidentification question" is taken to be the real metaphysical question of personal identity, whereas questions about beliefs or values and the actions they prompt, the "characterization question," are often presented as merely metaphorical. Failure to recognize the philosophical importance of both these questions, Schechtman argues, has undermined analytic philosophy's attempts at offering a satisfying account of personal identity. Considerations related to the characterization question creep unrecognized into discussions of reidentification, with the result that neither question is adequately addressed. Schechtman shows how separating the two questions allows for a more fruitful approach to the reidentification question, and she develops her own narrative account of characterization. She suggests that persons constitute their identities by developing autobiographical narratives that bear the right relation to facts about the environment, the general concept of a person, and other people's concepts of who they are.
Author : Janina Fisher
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134613014
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors integrates a neurobiologically informed understanding of trauma, dissociation, and attachment with a practical approach to treatment, all communicated in straightforward language accessible to both client and therapist. Readers will be exposed to a model that emphasizes "resolution"—a transformation in the relationship to one’s self, replacing shame, self-loathing, and assumptions of guilt with compassionate acceptance. Its unique interventions have been adapted from a number of cutting-edge therapeutic approaches, including Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, mindfulness-based therapies, and clinical hypnosis. Readers will close the pages of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors with a solid grasp of therapeutic approaches to traumatic attachment, working with undiagnosed dissociative symptoms and disorders, integrating "right brain-to-right brain" treatment methods, and much more. Most of all, they will come away with tools for helping clients create an internal sense of safety and compassionate connection to even their most dis-owned selves.
Author : Fabrice Jotterand,Marcello Ienca,Tenzin Wangmo,Bernice Elger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190459826
The financial burden and the level of specialized care required to look after older adults with dementia has reached the point of a public health crisis. Older adults diagnosed and living with the disorder reached 35.6 million worldwide in 2010 and is expected to increase to 135.5 million in 2050, with costs soaring to $1.1 trillion. In the face of the increasing burden this disorder poses to health care systems and the management of this patient population, intelligent assistive technologies (IATs) represent a remarkable and promising strategy to meet the need of persons suffering from dementia. These technologies aim at helping individuals compensate for specific physical and cognitive deficits, and maintain a higher level of independence at home and in everyday activities. However, the rapid development and widespread implementation of these technologies are not without associated challenges at multiple levels. An international and multidisciplinary group of authors provide future-oriented and in-depth analysis of IATs. Part I delineates the current landscape of intelligent assistive technologies for dementia care and age-related disability from a global perspective, while the contributions in Part II analyze and address the major psycho-social implications linked to the development and clinical use of IATs. In the last section, essays examine the major ethical, social and regulatory issues associated with the use of IATs in dementia care. This volume provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of how IATs are reshaping dementia care.
Author : Michelle Maiese
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199689231
This text examines how research in embodied cognition and enactivism can contribute to our understanding of the nature of self-consciousness, the metaphysics of personal identity, and the disruptions to self-awareness that occur in cases of psychopathology.
Author : Marya Schechtman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199684878
Offers a new way of thinking about the relation between personal identity and practical interests, seeing persons as unified loci of practical interaction and defining the identity of a person in terms of the unity of a characteristic kind of life.
Author : Kevin Tobia,James R. Beebe,Justin Sytsma
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350246898
Introduction, Kevin Tobia (Georgetown University, USA) -- 1. For Who Do Moral Changes Matter? The Influence of Change Type, Direction, and Target on Judgments of Identity Persistence, Jim Everett (University of Kent, UK), Joshua Skorburg (Duke University, USA), Jordan Livingstone (University of Toronto, Canada), Vlad Chituc (Yale University, USA), and Molly Crockett (Yale University, USA) -- 2. Identity Crisis, Christina Starmans (University of Toronto, Canada) -- 3. Personal Identity and Dual Character Concepts, Josh Knobe (Yale University, USA) -- 4. What's Left of Me? The Role of Self-Continuity in Decision Making and Judgments about Identity Persistence, Stephanie Chen (London Business School, UK) and Oleg Urminsky (University of Chicago, USA) -- 5. Personal Identity and Morality, Harold Noonan (University of Nottingham, UK) -- 6. The Whole Story: Identity and Narrative, Marya Schechtman (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) -- 7. What Matters in Psychological Continuity? Using Meditative Traditions to Identify Biases in Intuitions about Personal Persistence, Megan Sullivan (University of Notre Dame, USA) and Preston Greene (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) -- 8. Memory as Evidence of Personal Identity. A Study on Reincarnation Beliefs, Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian University, Poland) -- 9. The Importance of Morality for One's Self-Concept Predicts Perceptions of Personal Change after Remembering Wrongdoings, Matthew Stanley (Duke University, USA) and Felipe de Brigard (Duke University, USA) -- 10. Uncomfortable Decisions, Paul Bloom (Yale University, USA) and Laurie Paul (Yale University, USA) -- 11. Experimental Philosophical Bioethics of Personal Identity, Brian Earp (University of Oxford, UK), Ivar Hannikainen (University of Granada, Spain), Joshua Skorburg (Duke University, USA), and Jim Everett (University of Kent, UK) -- 12. Authenticity as a Pathway to Coherence, Purpose, and Significance, Rebecca Schlegel (Texas A&M University, USA), Joshua Hicks (Texas A&M University, USA), Patricia N. Holte (Texas A&M University, USA), Joe Maffly-Kipp (Texas A&M University, USA), Devin Guthrie (Texas A&M University, USA) -- 13. Corporate Identity, Mihailis Diamantis (University of Iowa, USA) -- 14. The Essence of an Immigrant Identity: Children's Pro-social Responses to Others Based on Perceived Ability and Desire to Change, James Dunlea (Columbia University, USA), Redeate Wolle (Columbia University, USA). and Larisa Heiphetz (Columbia University, USA) -- 15."Human" Is an Essentially Political Category, David Livingstone Smith (University of New England, USA) -- Index.
Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1992-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674257047
In this extensive inquiry into the sources of modern selfhood, Charles Taylor demonstrates just how rich and precious those resources are. The modern turn to subjectivity, with its attendant rejection of an objective order of reason, has led—it seems to many—to mere subjectivism at the mildest and to sheer nihilism at the worst. Many critics believe that the modern order has no moral backbone and has proved corrosive to all that might foster human good. Taylor rejects this view. He argues that, properly understood, our modern notion of the self provides a framework that more than compensates for the abandonment of substantive notions of rationality. The major insight of Sources of the Self is that modern subjectivity, in all its epistemological, aesthetic, and political ramifications, has its roots in ideas of human good. After first arguing that contemporary philosophers have ignored how self and good connect, the author defines the modern identity by describing its genesis. His effort to uncover and map our moral sources leads to novel interpretations of most of the figures and movements in the modern tradition. Taylor shows that the modern turn inward is not disastrous but is in fact the result of our long efforts to define and reach the good. At the heart of this definition he finds what he calls the affirmation of ordinary life, a value which has decisively if not completely replaced an older conception of reason as connected to a hierarchy based on birth and wealth. In telling the story of a revolution whose proponents have been Augustine, Montaigne, Luther, and a host of others, Taylor’s goal is in part to make sure we do not lose sight of their goal and endanger all that has been achieved. Sources of the Self provides a decisive defense of the modern order and a sharp rebuff to its critics.
Author : M. Altman,C. Coe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137263322
The Fractured Self in Freud and German Philosophy examines Freud's transformation of German philosophical approaches to freedom, history, and self-knowledge; defends a theory of situated knowledge and agency; and considers the relevance of Freudian thought for contemporary cultural issues.
Author : Jennifer Radden
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262181754
TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. heterogeneities of self in everyday life 2. a language of successive selves 3. multiplicity through dissociation 4. succession and recurrence outside dissociative disorder 5. From abnormal psychology to metaphysics: a methodological preamble 6. memory, responsibility, and contrition 7. purposes and discourses of responsibility ascription 8. multiplicity and legal culpability 9. paternalistic intervention 10. responsibilities over oneself in the future of one's future selves 11. a mataphysics of successive selves 12. the normative tug of individualism 13. therapeutic goals for a liberal culture 14. continuity sufficient for individualism 15. the divided minds of mental disorder 16. the grammar of disownership.
Author : James Giordano
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781439825860
New technologies that allow us to investigate mechanisms and functions of the brain have shown considerable promise in treating brain disease and injury. These emerging technologies also provide a means to assess and manipulate human consciousness, cognitions, emotions, and behaviors, bringing with them the potential to transform society. Neurotechnology: Premises, Potential, and Problems explores the technical, moral, legal, and sociopolitical issues that arise in and from today’s applications of neuroscience and technology and discusses their implications for the future. Some of the issues raised in this thought-provoking volume include: Neurotechnology in education: an enablement, a treatment, or an enhancement? The potential and limitations of neuroimaging technology in determining patient prognoses Tissue implantation technology as a way of engendering personalized medicine Neuroprostheses: restoration of functions of the disabled vs. enhancement to transhuman capabilities Deep brain stimulation and its use in restoring, preserving, or changing patients’ personal identity The benefit and risk of cognitive performance tools Cyborg technology and its potential to change our vision of humanity Methodologies for reducing the risk of neurotechnology’s impact on ethical, legal, and social issues With contributions from an international group of experts working on the cutting edge of neurotechnology, this volume lays the groundwork to appreciate the ethical, legal, and social aspects of the science in ways that keep pace with this rapidly progressing field.
Author : Rupert Glasgow
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783958260528
'Self' is a term that is much used but often poorly understood or over-hastily dismissed. In The Minimal Self R.D.V. Glasgow seeks to unearth the underlying nature of selfhood. Glasgow's approach is based upon the notion of 'intrinsic reflexivity', which manifests itself in three fundamental forms: self-maintenance, self-reproduction and self-containment. Through a conceptual analysis of selfhood, Glasgow aims to ascertain what distinguishes full forms of minimal selfhood from entities such as genes and viruses that are merely selfish or self-like. The idea is to establish the logical prerequisites for the transition from a world bereft of selfhood to one populated by selves like us. Minimal selfhood thus provides a bridge linking philosophy, biology and other disciplines that have previously failed to coincide in their understanding of what a self is.
Author : Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781648893902
How do people turn out the way they do? How do they “arrive” at themselves and attain an identity? How are our identities affected by our birth order, our hair color, how tall or short we are, our intelligence, our occupation, our race, our religion, our nationality, the socio-economic level of our parents (or our being raised in a single-parent family), where we are born and where we grow up, the language we learn, the way we use language, our fashion tastes, our gender, our education, our psychological makeup, chance experiences we have, the people we marry (if we marry), and countless other factors? There are numerous matters to consider when dealing with identity, which, as Nigel Denis, the author of 'Cards of Identity', reminds us, “is the answer to everything.” 'Searching for a Self' takes a deep dive into the question of identity formation from various perspectives; it is written in a reader-friendly accessible style and makes use of insightful quotations from seminal thinkers who have dealt with the topic. Split into two parts, the first “Theories of Identity,” offers evaluations of identity from semioticians, psychologists, sociologists and Marxists while the second, “Applications,” offers case studies on topics such as Russian identity, Donald Trump’s identity, fashion and identity, LGBTQIA+ identity, Orthodox Jewish identity, elite university education and identity, tattoos and identity, travel and identity, and politics and identity. Covering a wide array of subject areas, this book will be a valuable resource for undergraduate students taking courses in identity, sociology, psychology, cultural studies, and other related fields.
Author : Barbara Klug Redman
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-21
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780826195722
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