Re Visioning The American Psyche

Author : Ipek S. Burnett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000982497

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Re-Visioning the American Psyche by Ipek S. Burnett Pdf

The United States is at a crossroads: Moving away from the stalemate of political polarization and culture wars requires reflection, critical thinking, and imagination. This book of collected essays brings together leaders in Jungian and archetypal psychology to forge this path by offering a comprehensive look at the American psyche. Re-Visioning the American Psyche examines the myths, images, and archetypal fantasies ingrained in the collective consciousness and unconscious in the United States. The volume tends to manifest symptoms in political institutions, social conflicts, and cultural movements. Using various interpretative processes—from psychoanalytic to literary and to participatory—it reflects on the meaning of democratic participation, the psychological cost of wars and violence, intergenerational trauma due to racism, the emotional dimensions of political polarization, deep-seated oppositional thinking in patriarchal structures, frailty of the American Dream, and more. With its rich scope, interdisciplinary scholarship, and critical engagement with historical and current affairs, this book will be of great interest to those in Jungian and depth psychology, as well as sociology, politics, cultural studies, and American studies. As a timely contribution with an international appeal, it will engage readers who are invested in better understanding psychology’s capacity to respond to social, cultural, and political realities.

Author : Monica McGoldrick,Kenneth V. Hardy
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781462539741

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Re-Visioning Family Therapy by Monica McGoldrick,Kenneth V. Hardy Pdf

A leading text for courses that go beyond the basics of family systems theory, intervention techniques, and diversity, this influential work has now been significantly revised with 65% new material. The volume explores how family relationships--and therapy itself--are profoundly shaped by race, social class, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and other intersecting dimensions of marginalization and privilege. Chapters from leading experts guide the practitioner to challenge assumptions about family health and pathology, understand the psychosocial impact of oppression, and tap into clients' cultural resources for healing. Practical clinical strategies are interwoven with theoretical insights, case examples, training ideas, and therapists' reflections on their own cultural and family legacies. New to This Edition *Existing chapters have been thoroughly updated and 21 chapters added, expanding the perspectives in the book. *Reflects over a decade of theoretical and clinical advances and the growing diversity of the United States. *New sections on re-visioning clinical research, trauma and psychological homelessness, and larger systems.

Author : Debbie Sydow,Richard L. Alfred
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781442214880

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Re-visioning Community Colleges by Debbie Sydow,Richard L. Alfred Pdf

Re-visioning Community Colleges has the foresight into the shape that community colleges will likely take in the future. Their predictions are based on an analysis of the growth and innovation trajectory in community colleges as they respond to the dramatic changes in the field.

Author : Bob Lonne,Deb Scott,Daryl Higgins,Todd I. Herrenkohl
Publisher : Springer
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030058586

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Re-Visioning Public Health Approaches for Protecting Children by Bob Lonne,Deb Scott,Daryl Higgins,Todd I. Herrenkohl Pdf

This volume provides readers around the globe with a focused and comprehensive examination of how to prevent and respond to child maltreatment using evidence-informed public health approaches and programs that meet the needs of vulnerable children, and struggling families and communities. It outlines the system failures of contemporary forensically-driven child protection practice. Detailed guidance is provided about how to re-think earlier intervention strategies, and establish stronger and more effective programs and services that prevent maltreatment at the population level. Service user and stakeholder perspectives, particularly from marginalized groups including Indigenous peoples, highlight how public health approaches can better support families and keep children safe. Case studies from different countries grapple with the fraught nature of large system change and the various strategies needed to effect multi-level reforms. Presenting the reader with an array of innovative services used in different institutional and community context, this volume confronts the complex challenges found in implementing successful prevention programs that are aligned with diverse cultural and political environments and community expectations.

Author : Laurence J. Kirmayer,Robert Lemelson,Constance A. Cummings
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781107032200

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Re-Visioning Psychiatry by Laurence J. Kirmayer,Robert Lemelson,Constance A. Cummings Pdf

Revisioning Psychiatry brings together new perspectives on the causes and treatment of mental health problems. The contributors emphasize the importance of understanding experience and explore how the brain, the person, and the social world interact to give rise to mental health problems as well as resilience and recovery.

Author : Greg Surratt
Publisher : Whitaker House
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781642960068

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Re-visioning by Greg Surratt Pdf

Vision. It can be a very slippery thing. As leaders, we can have a crystal-clear sense of purpose and direction at some points, but they may seem like foreign objects from time to time. Sooner or later, it happens to all of us. In this book, Pastor Greg Surratt shares his story of asking himself hard questions... and finding the answers to be both surprising and inspiring. He addresses the crucial topics of limitations, culture, and legacy, but he also dives into harder issues of how to handle heartaches and what actually captures the hearts of the people we lead. Re-Visioning is designed to recharge our leadership batteries and equip us to inspire our teams with humility, boldness, and joy.

Author : Ipek S. Burnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429513640

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A Jungian Inquiry into the American Psyche by Ipek S. Burnett Pdf

In A Jungian Inquiry into the American Psyche: The Violence of Innocence, Ipek Burnett’s penetrating cultural criticism enriched with psychoanalytical and Jungian insight offers a timely interrogation of national consciousness in the United States. Through evocative storytelling, Burnett unpacks the images and myths that run deep in the American psyche—from that of the New World, the city upon a hill, to the Manifest Destiny, the melting pot, and the pursuit of happiness. Against this backdrop, she investigates the vicious cycles of innocence and violence that have dominated American history and continue to reinforce systematic oppression in America, evident in racial and economic inequality, xenophobia, materialism, and more. Burnett’s thought-provoking analysis exposes the ways in which psychological defenses such as historical amnesia, projection, denial, and dissociation work on a collective level, helping America avoid a confrontation with these violent truths of its past and present circumstances, and its national character. With its seamless multidisciplinary approach and revealing insight, this book will be of great interest to psychologists, scholars, and students of Jungian and post-Jungian thought, depth psychology, and cultural and American studies. Eloquent and accessible, it will engage readers who strive to be self-reflective, well-informed global citizens. .

Author : Michael Gellert
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612342214

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The Fate of America by Michael Gellert Pdf

The Fate of America examines the national character of the United States against the backdrop of its history, popular culture, and media. Michael Gellert suggests that the deterioration of AmericaOCOs OC heroic ideal, OCO the heart of its national character, is responsible for the countryOCOs deepening social ills and the erosion of its vital institutions. He calls for a spiritual and intellectual renaissance and a renewed sense of national purpose in order to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century."

Author : Louis Owens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015010352154

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John Steinbeck's Re-vision of America by Louis Owens Pdf

Author : Kyle Wolfe
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781637105856

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American Psyche by Kyle Wolfe Pdf

American Psyche's central theme of dominance and return to the tribal roots of human nature is especially relevant with prison culture but is also present in the workplace, romantic relationships, and during everyday interactions. The problem outlined in this piece is that Eurocentric thinking is the root cause of many of the world's problems. Americans stuck in the vicious ego-cycle described in American Psyche are not just suffering but attempting to solve problems of their own creation with the very logic that created them.

Author : Thomas Singer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317724780

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The Vision Thing by Thomas Singer Pdf

Contemporary politics goes on at a mythic level. This is the provocative argument put forward in this unique book which results from the collaboration of practising politicians, organisational and political consultants, scholars of mythology and culture, and Jungian analysts from several countries. The first part of the book focuses on leadership and vision, and features a reflection on myth and leadership by former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley. The second part deals with the way the theme of 'the one and the many' works itself out in politics today. From the perspective of 'the many', there are chapters on factionalism, ethnic strife, genocide and multiculturalism. From the perspective of 'the one', there are chapters on the economic myth and gender politics showing how these bring coherence to today's confused political scene, culminating in the suggestion that the modern political psyche is itself in the midst of a rite of passage. The relevance of the book to the practice and study of politics, mainstream and marginal, cannot be overemphasised and the book will provide stimulating reading for practitioners and students in these areas as well as for those engaged in psychological work such as therapy, counselling or analysis.

Author : Pythia Peay
Publisher : Lantern Books
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781590564486

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America on the Couch by Pythia Peay Pdf

What lies behind America’s historic romance with the gun? Why does it have such a troubled relationship with alcohol and drugs? Why is it so wedded to consumerism and so resistant to the evidence of climate change? What are its enduring myths about individuality, freedom, and independence, and how might we re-imagine our vision of the United States as the “Promised Land” and “The City on the Hill” to reflect a multiculturalism that offers “the last, best hope” for the world? In a two-decades long journey through the American psyche, depth journalist Pythia Peay has asked these and many more questions of no fewer than thirty-six of the world’s leading psychologists and psychoanalysts. From Robert Jay Lifton to Marion Woodman, A. Thomas McLellan to Judith V. Jordan, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi to June Singer, and James Hillman to Mary Pipher, the thinkers in America on the Couch discuss violence, addiction, the environment, capitalism and consumerism, politics and power, and the soul of America. The result is a uniquely comprehensive, wide-ranging, and compelling kaleidoscope of insights into the psychodynamics of a hegemon in peace and at war, as it confronts the shadows of the American century and charts its way into an uncertain, multi-polar future. Featuring Stephen Aizenstat, John Beebe , Bonnie Bright, Gary S. Bobroff , Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Philip Cushman, Larry Decker, Raymond De Young, Edward Edinger, Michael Eigen, Stephen J. Foster, Charles Grob, Bud Harris, A. Chris Heath, James Hillman, Judith V. Jordan, Donald Kalsched, Robert J. Langs, Linda Schierse Leonard, Harriet Lerner, Robert Jay Lifton, A. Thomas McLellan, Thomas Moore, Ginette Paris, Mary Pipher, Ernest Rossi, Andrew Samuels, Erel Shalit, June Singer, Thomas Singer, Lawrence Staples, Murray Stein, Charles B. Strozier, Paul Wachtel, Karen B. Walant, Marion Woodman, and Luigi Zoja.

Author : Barbara Tepa Lupack
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0879727144

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Vision/re-vision by Barbara Tepa Lupack Pdf

Essays analyze ten popular films adapted from contemporary American fiction by women, addressing the ways in which the writers' feminist messages are reinterpreted and examining the extent to which filmmakers adapt, retain, or erase the feminist content of the original fiction. Films examined in include Ordinary People, The Women of Brewster Place, and Interview with the Vampire. Contains bandw photos. Paper edition (unseen), $24.95. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Ethan Watters
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1416587195

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Crazy Like Us by Ethan Watters Pdf

It is well known that American culture is a dominant force at home and abroad; our exportation of everything from movies to junk food is a well-documented phenomenon. But is it possible America's most troubling impact on the globalizing world has yet to be accounted for? In Crazy Like Us, Ethan Watters reveals that the most devastating consequence of the spread of American culture has not been our golden arches or our bomb craters but our bulldozing of the human psyche itself: We are in the process of homogenizing the way the world goes mad. America has been the world leader in generating new mental health treatments and modern theories of the human psyche. We export our psychopharmaceuticals packaged with the certainty that our biomedical knowledge will relieve the suffering and stigma of mental illness. We categorize disorders, thereby defining mental illness and health, and then parade these seemingly scientific certainties in front of the world. The blowback from these efforts is just now coming to light: It turns out that we have not only been changing the way the world talks about and treats mental illness -- we have been changing the mental illnesses themselves. For millennia, local beliefs in different cultures have shaped the experience of mental illness into endless varieties. Crazy Like Us documents how American interventions have discounted and worked to change those indigenous beliefs, often at a dizzying rate. Over the last decades, mental illnesses popularized in America have been spreading across the globe with the speed of contagious diseases. Watters travels from China to Tanzania to bring home the unsettling conclusion that the virus is us: As we introduce Americanized ways of treating mental illnesses, we are in fact spreading the diseases. In post-tsunami Sri Lanka, Watters reports on the Western trauma counselors who, in their rush to help, inadvertently trampled local expressions of grief, suffering, and healing. In Hong Kong, he retraces the last steps of the teenager whose death sparked an epidemic of the American version of anorexia nervosa. Watters reveals the truth about a multi-million-dollar campaign by one of the world's biggest drug companies to change the Japanese experience of depression -- literally marketing the disease along with the drug. But this book is not just about the damage we've caused in faraway places. Looking at our impact on the psyches of people in other cultures is a gut check, a way of forcing ourselves to take a fresh look at our own beliefs about mental health and healing. When we examine our assumptions from a farther shore, we begin to understand how our own culture constantly shapes and sometimes creates the mental illnesses of our time. By setting aside our role as the world's therapist, we may come to accept that we have as much to learn from other cultures' beliefs about the mind as we have to teach.

Author : Gregory Albert Waller
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0252014480

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American Horrors by Gregory Albert Waller Pdf

Since the release of Rosemary's Baby in 1968, the American horror film has become one of the most diverse, commercially successful, widely discussed, and culturally significant film genres. Drawing on a wide range of critical methods---from close textual readings and structuralist genre criticism to psychoanalytical, feminist, and ideological analyses---the authors examine individual films, directors, and subgenres. In this collection of twelve essays, Gregory Waller balances detailed studies of both popular films (Night of the Living Dead, The Exorcist, and Halloween) and particularly problematic films (Don't Look Now and Eyes of Laura Mars) with discussions of such central thematic preoccupations as the genre's representation of violence and female victims, its reflexivity and playfulness, and its ongoing redefinition of the monstrous and the normal. In addition, American Horrors includes a filmography of movies and telefilms and an annotated bibliography of books and articles about horror since 1968.