Through Divided Minds

Author : Pamela Spiro Wagner,Carolyn Spiro
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466805392

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Divided Minds by Pamela Spiro Wagner,Carolyn Spiro Pdf

A riveting true story of sisters who were identical, until the voices began Growing up in the fifties, Carolyn Spiro was always in the shadow of her more intellectually dominant and socially outgoing twin, Pamela. But as the twins approached adolescence, Pamela began to suffer the initial symptoms of schizophrenia, hearing disembodied voices that haunted her for years and culminated during her freshman year of college at Brown University where she had her first major breakdown and hospitalization. Pamela's illness allowed Carolyn to enter the spotlight that had for so long been focused on her sister. Exceeding everyone's expectations, Carolyn graduated from Harvard Medical School and forged a successful career in psychiatry. Despite Pamela's estrangement from the rest of her family, the sisters remained very close, "bonded with the twin glue," calling each other several times a week and visiting as frequently as possible. Carolyn continued to believe in the humanity of her sister, not merely in her illness, and Pamela responded. Told in the alternating voices of the sisters, Divided Minds is a heartbreaking account of the far reaches of madness as well as the depths of ambivalence and love between twins. It is a true and unusually frank story of identical twins with very different identities and wildly different experiences of the world around them. It is one of the most compelling histories of two such siblings in the canon of writing on mental illness.

Author : Robert S. Mayer
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0385243960

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Describes cases of multiple personalities, discusses the symptoms and causes, and explains the therapy process used to integrate the personalities

Author : Jennifer Radden
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262181754

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Divided Minds and Successive Selves by Jennifer Radden Pdf

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 : Raphael G. Warnock
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479806003

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The Divided Mind of the Black Church by Raphael G. Warnock Pdf

A revealing look at the identity and mission of the black church What is the true nature and mission of the church? Is its proper Christian purpose to save souls, or to transform the social order? This question is especially fraught when the church is one built by an enslaved people and formed, from its beginning, at the center of an oppressed community’s fight for personhood and freedom. Such is the central tension in the identity and mission of the black church in the United States. For decades the black church and black theology have held each other at arm’s length. Black theology has emphasized the role of Christian faith in addressing racism and other forms of oppression, arguing that Jesus urged his disciples to seek the freedom of all peoples. Meanwhile, the black church, even when focused on social concerns, has often emphasized personal piety rather than social protest. With the rising influence of white evangelicalism, biblical fundamentalism, and the prosperity gospel, the divide has become even more pronounced. In The Divided Mind of the Black Church, Raphael G. Warnock, Senior Pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, the spiritual home of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., traces the historical significance of the rise and development of black theology as an important conversation partner for the black church. Calling for honest dialogue between black and womanist theologians and black pastors, this fresh theological treatment demands a new look at the church’s essential mission.

Author : Jonathan Haidt
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780307455772

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The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The acclaimed social psychologist challenges conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to conservatives and liberals alike—a “landmark contribution to humanity’s understanding of itself” (The New York Times Book Review). Drawing on his twenty-five years of groundbreaking research on moral psychology, Jonathan Haidt shows how moral judgments arise not from reason but from gut feelings. He shows why liberals, conservatives, and libertarians have such different intuitions about right and wrong, and he shows why each side is actually right about many of its central concerns. In this subtle yet accessible book, Haidt gives you the key to understanding the miracle of human cooperation, as well as the curse of our eternal divisions and conflicts. If you’re ready to trade in anger for understanding, read The Righteous Mind.

Author : John E. Sarno
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780061860584

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The Divided Mind by John E. Sarno Pdf

The Divided Mind is the crowning achievement of Dr. John E. Sarno's distinguished career as a groundbreaking medical pioneer, going beyond pain to address the entire spectrum of psychosomatic (mindbody) disorders. The interaction between the generally reasonable, rational, ethical, moral conscious mind and the repressed feelings of emotional pain, hurt, sadness, and anger characteristic of the unconscious mind appears to be the basis for mindbody disorders. The Divided Mind traces the history of psychosomatic medicine, including Freud's crucial role, and describes the psychology responsible for the broad range of psychosomatic illness. The failure of medicine's practitioners to recognize and appropriately treat mindbody disorders has produced public health and economic problems of major proportions in the United States. One of the most important aspects of psychosomatic phenomena is that knowledge and awareness of the process clearly have healing powers. Thousands of people have become pain-free simply by reading Dr. Sarno's previous books. How and why this happens is a fascinating story, and is revealed in The Divided Mind.

Author : Carol Polsgrove
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0393020134

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Divided Minds by Carol Polsgrove Pdf

This history of the climatic years of the civil rights movement depicts the reluctance of American intellectuals to participate in its efforts or adopt its cause. Based on unpublished archival material and new interviews, the book presents a portrait of leading writers and scholars responding with ambivalence to the movement. Polsgrove (journalism, Indiana University at Bloomington) contrasts the moderate voices of Faulkner, Ellison, Woodward, and Warren with their more radical counterparts, represented by Wright, Du Bois, Reddick, Zinn, and Silver. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Arnold I. Goldberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134902026

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Being of Two Minds by Arnold I. Goldberg Pdf

From the unfaithful husband to the binge eater, from the secret cross-dresser to the pilferer of worthless items, there are those who seem to live two lives, to be divided selves, to be literally of two minds. This division or "vertical split" appears in a person at odds with himself, a person who puzzles over, and even heartily dislikes, that parallel person who behaves in so repugnant a manner. In Being of Two Minds, Arnold Goldberg provides trenchant insight into such divided minds - their origins, their appearances, and their treatment. Goldberg's inquiry into divided minds leads to a return to the psychoanalytic concept of disavowal, which forms the basis of the vertical split. Goldberg explores the developmental circumstances that tend to a reliance on disavowal, provides numerous examples of the emergence of disavowal in the treatment situation, and considers the therapeutic approaches through which disavowal may be addressed. He is especially perceptive in discussing the manner in which the therapist's own tendency to disavow may collusively interact with that of the patient. Goldberg considers the full range of splits to which disavowal gives rise, from circumscribed instances of dissociation to the much-debated multiple personality disorders. He gives special attention to the role of the vertical split in patients with behavior disorders; here his thoughtful insights point to a treatment approach that significantly differs both from the simple ascription of a 'self disorder' and from the usual pedagogical emphasis on issues of self-control and/or punishment. As Goldberg shows, the repugnance felt by many therapists for offensive behaviors emanating from the patient's parallel self are frequently shared by the patient, who commonly despises misbehavior that he is unable to understand. Being of Two Minds begins to formulate just such understanding, to the great benefit of patient and therapist alike.

Author : Iain McGilchrist
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780300245929

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The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist Pdf

A new edition of the bestselling classic – published with a special introduction to mark its 10th anniversary This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain – the place where mind meets matter. Until recently, the left hemisphere of our brain has been seen as the ‘rational’ side, the superior partner to the right. But is this distinction true? Drawing on a vast body of experimental research, Iain McGilchrist argues while our left brain makes for a wonderful servant, it is a very poor master. As he shows, it is the right side which is the more reliable and insightful. Without it, our world would be mechanistic – stripped of depth, colour and value.

Author : Lesley J. Rogers,Giorgio Vallortigara,Richard J. Andrew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781107005358

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Divided Brains by Lesley J. Rogers,Giorgio Vallortigara,Richard J. Andrew Pdf

Discusses brain asymmetry from four perspectives - function, evolution, development and causation - covering a wide range of species, including humans.

Author : Trent Reedy
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545543699

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Divided We Fall (Divided We Fall, Book 1) by Trent Reedy Pdf

"DIVIDED WE FALL delivers cover-to-cover action, intrigue and suspense, all with a gut-punch of an ending that'll leave you begging for the next installment." -- Brad Thor, author of THE LAST PATRIOT Danny Wright never thought he'd be the man to bring down the United States of America. In fact, he enlisted in the Idaho National Guard because he wanted to serve his country the way his father did. When the Guard is called up on the governor's orders to police a protest in Boise, it seems like a routine crowd-control mission ... but then Danny's gun misfires, spooking the other soldiers and the already fractious crowd, and by the time the smoke clears, twelve people are dead. The president wants the soldiers arrested. The governor swears to protect them. And as tensions build on both sides, the conflict slowly escalates toward the unthinkable: a second American civil war.With political questions that are popular in American culture yet rare in YA fiction, and a provocative plot that asks what happens when the states are no longer united, Divided We FAll is Trent Reedy's very timely YA debut.

Author : Robert S. Mayer
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1992-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0380719207

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Author : Erika Erdmann,David Stover
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000-12
Category : Brain
ISBN : 9780595160372

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Beyond a World Divided by Erika Erdmann,David Stover Pdf

Thinkers as diverse as C.P. Snow, J. Bronowski, and Carl Sagan have described the rift between the “two cultures” of science and the humanities as the greatest barrier to solving the many problems threatening today’s world. During the last two decades of his life, Nobel laureate Roger W. Sperry – best known for his pioneering split-brain studies that highlighted the differing aptitudes of the two hemispheres of the human brain – turned his energies to this dilemma. Sperry’s ideas about consciousness challenged the behaviorist orthodoxy that prevailed in psychology in the 1950s and ’60s, and provided a way of understanding the relationship between brain and mind that not only more accurately reflected reality, but also promised a reconciliation between the conflicting claims of hard-edged objective fact and the realm of human emotion and subjective experience. Beyond A World Divided chronicles the neuroscientist’s groundbreaking research, his efforts to refine and win acceptance for his ideas, and his struggle to advance his work despite the onslaught of the degenerative nerve disease that eventually killed him. The book concludes by surveying the debate in the psychological and philosophical communities about the impact of Sperry’s ideas – a debate which still continues.

Author : Iain McGilchrist
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780300190021

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The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning by Iain McGilchrist Pdf

In this 10,000-word essay, written to complement Iain McGilchrist's acclaimed The Master and His Emissary, the author asks why - despite the vast increase in material well-being - people are less happy today than they were half a century ago, and suggests that the division between the two hemispheres of the brain has a critical effect on how we see and understand the world around us. In particular, McGilchrist suggests, the left hemisphere's obsession with reducing everything it sees to the level of minute, mechanistic detail is robbing modern society of the ability to understand and appreciate deeper human values. Accessible to readers who haven't yet read The Master and His Emissary as well as those who have, this is a fascinating, immensely thought-provoking essay that delves to the very heart of what it means to be human.

Author : M. Billiter
Publisher : Tangled Tree Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1925853268

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A Divided Mind by M. Billiter Pdf

The complexities in "A Divided Mind" creates a compelling premise and, at times, a remarkable hero. Branson's struggles and Tara's desperate fight to save her son make you reach for the tissues and turn the page.