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Author: Tom Cochrane
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 110842967X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book develops an original control theory of the emotions and related affective states, providing new perspectives on how the mind works as a whole. Discussing pains and pleasures, moods and behaviours, and character and personality, the book will be important for readers interested in the philosophy and cognitive science of emotion.
Author: Mateusz Laszczkowski
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2017-12-29
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 178533719X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years, political and social theory has been transformed by the heterogeneous approaches to feeling and emotion jointly referred to as ‘affect theory’. These range from psychological and social-constructivist approaches to emotion to feminist and post-human perspectives. Covering a wide spectrum of topics and ethnographic contexts—from engineering in the Andes to household rituals in rural China, from South African land restitution to migrant living in Moscow, and from elections in El Salvador to online and offline surveillance among political refugees from Uzbekistan and Eritrea—the chapters in this volume interrogate this ‘affective turn’ through the lens of fine-grained ethnographies of the state. The volume enhances the anthropological understanding of the various ways through which the state comes to be experienced as a visceral presence in social life.
Author: Eleanor Jupp
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2016-10-14
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1317144589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is the political allure, value and currency of emotions within contemporary cultures of governance? What does it mean to govern more humanely? Since the emergence of an emotional turn in human geography over the last decade, the notion that our emotions matter in understanding an array of social practices, spatial formations and aspects of everyday life is no longer seen as controversial. This book brings recent developments in emotional geography into dialogue with social policy concerns and contemporary issues of governance. It sets the intellectual scene for research into the geographical dimensions of the emotionalized states of the citizen, policy maker and public service worker, and highlights new research on the emotional forms of governance which now characterise public life. An international range of empirical field studies are used to examine issues of regulation, modification, governance and potential manipulation of emotional affects, professional and personal identities and political technologies. Contributors provide analysis of the role of emotional entanglements in policy strategy, policy implementation, service delivery, citizenship and participation as well as considering the emotional nature of the research process itself. It will be of interest to researchers and students within social policy, human geography, politics and related disciplines.
Author: F. Scott Hall
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2016-08-17
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 0128026693
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNegative Affective States and Cognitive Impairments in Nicotine Dependence is the only book of its kind that addresses nicotine use and abuse in the context of negative reinforcement mechanisms. Written and edited by leading investigators in addiction, affective, genetic, and cognitive research, it provides researchers and advanced students with an overview of the clinical bases of these effects, allowing them to fully understand the various underlying dysfunctions that drive nicotine use in different individuals. In addition, this book examines animal models that researchers have utilized to investigate the biological bases of these dysfunctions. The combination of clinical and preclinical approaches to understanding nicotine dependence makes this book an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners seeking to develop targeted treatments aimed at ameliorating symptoms of nicotine dependence, as well as identifying premorbid differences in affective or cognitive function. - Provides a unique perspective on nicotine dependence that emphasizes negative reinforcement rather than positive reinforcement - Examines psychiatric comorbidities and alleviation of withdrawal states as motivation for continued tobacco use - Includes both clinical and preclinical perspectives - Includes genetic and multi-neurotransmitter perspectives on nicotine use and withdrawal - Emphasizes heterogeneity of underlying reasons for smoking, the need for multiple animal models to understand this heterogeneity, and the expectation of heterogeneous responses to potential treatments, underscoring the need for personalized therapeutics
Author: David Nugent
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 0470692936
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Companion offers an unprecedented overview of anthropology’s unique contribution to the study of politics. Explores the key concepts and issues of our time - from AIDS, globalization, displacement, and militarization, to identity politics and beyond Each chapter reflects on concepts and issues that have shaped the anthropology of politics and concludes with thoughts on and challenges for the way ahead Anthropology’s distinctive genre, ethnography, lies at the heart of this volume
Author: Zsófia Demjén
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-08-27
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1474212670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on the first journal in The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, this book writes a convincing case for the value of corpus-based stylistics and narrative psychology in the analysis of representations of the experience of affective states. Situated at the intersection between language study, psychology and healthcare, this study of the personal writing of a poet and novelist showcases a cutting-edge combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches, including metaphor analysis, corpus methods, and second person narration. Techniques that systematically account for representations of experiences of affective states, such as those in this book, are rare and crucial in improving understanding of these experiences. The findings and methods of this book therefore potentially have bearing on the study, diagnosis and treatment of depression and other mental illnesses. Zsófia Demjén follows the cognitive turn in both literary studies and linguistics here, emerging with a greater understanding of Plath, her diarized output and her experience of her inner world.
Author: Jaak Panksepp
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004-09-30
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 019802567X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSome investigators have argued that emotions, especially animal emotions, are illusory concepts outside the realm of scientific inquiry. However, with advances in neurobiology and neuroscience, researchers are demonstrating that this position is wrong as they move closer to a lasting understanding of the biology and psychology of emotion. In Affective Neuroscience, Jaak Panksepp provides the most up-to-date information about the brain-operating systems that organize the fundamental emotional tendencies of all mammals. Presenting complex material in a readable manner, the book offers a comprehensive summary of the fundamental neural sources of human and animal feelings, as well as a conceptual framework for studying emotional systems of the brain. Panksepp approaches emotions from the perspective of basic emotion theory but does not fail to address the complex issues raised by constructionist approaches. These issues include relations to human consciousness and the psychiatric implications of this knowledge. The book includes chapters on sleep and arousal, pleasure and fear systems, the sources of rage and anger, and the neural control of sexuality, as well as the more subtle emotions related to maternal care, social loss, and playfulness. Representing a synthetic integration of vast amounts of neurobehavioral knowledge, including relevant neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and neurochemistry, this book will be one of the most important contributions to understanding the biology of emotions since Darwins The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
Author: Aradhana Sharma
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009-02-09
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 1405155353
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis innovative reader brings together classic theoretical textsand cutting-edge ethnographic analyses of specific stateinstitutions, practices, and processes and outlines ananthropological framework for rethinking future study of “thestate”. Focuses on the institutions, spaces, ideas, practices, andrepresentations that constitute the “state”. Promotes cultural and transnational approaches to thesubject. Helps readers to make anthropological sense of the state as acultural artifact, in the context of a neoliberalizing,transnational world.
Author: Marc D. Gellman
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Philip C. Kendall
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 552
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile the conceptual and empirical relationship between anxiety and depression has long been a matter of concern, no systematic attempt had been made to examine the interaction between the two disorders. This book is the first such effort. The contributors to the volume were asked to identify the similar and distinctive aspects of these disorders, and to consider the implications of their findings for the theory, diagnosis, and treatment of anxiety and depression. This book: Offers the first systematic attempt to examine the interaction between anxiety and depression Examines the comorbidity of anxiety and depression--that there is considerable overlap in the two disorders Discusses the similarities and dissimilarities of disorders of affect, such as anxiety and depression Examines how theories and treatments (as well as specific assessment instruments) for anxiety and depression can benefit from knowledge of the overlap between the two disorders Integrates views of anxiety and depression, their theoretical constructs and clinical outcomes (Blurb Version #2) While the conceptual and empirical relationship between anxiety and depression has long been a matter of concern, no systematic attempt has been made to examine the interaction between the two disorders. This book is the first such effort. The contributors to the volume were asked to identify the similar and distinctive aspects of these disorders, and to consider the implications of their findings for the theory, diagnosis, and treatment of anxiety and depression.
