PsychoBible
PsychoBible

Author: Armando Favazza

Publisher: Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)

Published: 2014-07-01

Total Pages: 575

ISBN-13: 098528157X

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With 2,000 religious denominations and nearly 500,000 churches and temples in the United States, the Bible is not only doctrinally confusing, but behaviorally confusing, too. Is it a sin to drink alcohol? Will prayer cure the sick? Is homosexuality an abomination? Why is celibacy so highly valued? Do belief and feminism mix? How should the Passion be interpreted? In this enlightening and entertaining work, Armando Favazza, a world-renowned psychiatrist specializing in culture and society, explores these and other questions and examines the impact of the Bible on behavior through time and space—from the Holy Book's gradual formation thousands of years ago to the present day. This is an indispensable work for all those interested in better understanding the foundations of society's—and perhaps even their own—beliefs and behaviors, and is a thought-provoking read for those not afraid to inform their faith.

Psycho Bible
Psycho Bible

Author: J. Barry Wilson

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1615661379

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Upon completing his graduate degree on mental health treatments, therapist and pastor J. Barry Wilson noticed a familiar thread running through each respected model. From Victor Frankle's search for the meaning in life, Albert Ellis's paradigm for changing how we think, and Piaget's developmental models, it dawned on Wilson that the core of all of this psychobabble held acumen and design from the greatest historical influence of all timea "the Bible. Besides Christian practitioners, many psychologists or psychotherapists today may dismiss the Bible as a book of religious storytelling with little or no relevance to the twenty-first century. But in Psycho-Bible, Wilson reveals the timeless wisdom from which much of modern psychotherapy borrows its fundamental models. With a folksy, straightforward writing style that blends the counseling theory with biblical principles, the applications pertinent to mental health in today's hectic world will be at your fingertips. Whether you are an academic or a regular Christian, Wilson reveals with ease the relationship between psychology and biblical reference. Remember: It's not another book of psychobabble; it's Psycho-Bible."

Bodies under Siege
Bodies under Siege

Author: Armando R. Favazza

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2011-05-02

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1421401118

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A quarter century after it was first published, Bodies under Siege remains the classic, authoritative book on self-mutilation. Now in its third edition, this invaluable work is updated throughout with findings from hundreds of new studies, discussions of new models of self-injury, an assessment of the S.A.F.E. (Self Abuse Finally Ends) program, and the Bill of Rights for People Who Self-harm. Armando Favazza’s pioneering work identified a wide range of forces, many of them cultural and societal, that compel or impel people to mutilate themselves. This new edition examines the explosive growth in the incidence of self-injurious behaviors and body modification practices. Favazza critically assesses new and significant biological, ethnological, social, and psychological findings regarding self-injury; presents current understandings of self-injurious acts from cultural and clinical perspectives; and places self-mutilation in historical and contemporary context.

Humanism and Technology
Humanism and Technology

Author: Anthony B. Pinn

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-11-23

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 3319317148

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This book interrogates the ways in which new technological advances impact the thought and practices of humanism. Chapters investigate the social, political, and cultural implications of the creation and use of advanced forms of technology, examining both defining benefits and potential dangers. Contributors also discuss technology’s relationship to and impact on the shifting definitions we hold for humankind. International and multi-disciplinary in nature and scope, the volume presents an exploration of humanism and technology that is both racially diverse and gender sensitive. With great depth and self-awareness, contributors offer suggestions for how humanists and humanist organizations might think about and relate to technology in a rapidly changing world. More broadly, the book offers a critical humanistic interrogation of the concept of “progress” especially as it relates to technological advancement.

Understanding Culture
Understanding Culture

Author: Robert S. Wyer

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 1136642919

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This volume contains contributions from 24 internationally known scholars covering a broad spectrum of interests in cross-cultural theory and research. This breadth is reflected in the diversity of the topics covered in the volume, which include theoretical approaches to cross-cultural research, the dimensions of national cultures and their measurement, ecological and economic foundations of culture, cognitive, perceptual and emotional manifestations of culture, and bicultural and intercultural processes. In addition to the individual chapters, the volume contains a dialog among 14 experts in the field on a number of issues of concern in cross-cultural research, including the relation of psychological studies of culture to national development and national policies, the relationship between macro structures of a society and shared cognitions, the integration of structural and process models into a coherent theory of culture, how personal experiences and cultural traditions give rise to intra-cultural variation, whether culture can be validly measured by self-reports, the new challenges that confront cultural psychology, and whether psychology should strive to eliminate culture as an explanatory variable.

Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Text of Psychiatry
Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Text of Psychiatry

Author: Robert Boland

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published: 2024-03-26

Total Pages: 13606

ISBN-13: 1975175743

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The gold standard reference for all those who work with people with mental illness, Kaplan & Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, edited by Drs. Robert Boland and Marcia L. Verduin, has consistently kept pace with the rapid growth of research and knowledge in neural science, as well as biological and psychological science. This two-volume eleventh edition offers the expertise of more than 600 renowned contributors who cover the full range of psychiatry and mental health, including neural science, genetics, neuropsychiatry, psychopharmacology, and other key areas.

Lost Blood
Lost Blood

Author: Richard Crombleholme

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2014-12-19

Total Pages: 657

ISBN-13: 1491748893

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Simon Fisher and Roderick Hughes have just watched Ian Kemp die at the hands of the cartel. Now they have forty-eight hours to find a beautiful woman for their cartel boss, or they will pay the ultimate price with their lives-all while hiding a dark secret about Kemp, a victim of lost blood. For America and the rest of the world, the threat of nuclear war has passed, thanks to John Raven and Unit Expendable. Unfortunately for Raven, his last mission was one time too many. Now his son and elite Green Beret, John Weller-Raven, is on what he thinks will be a simple mission with his fiancée, Louise, to give the parents of another man killed in the mission his belongings and a photograph of Unit Invincible. But after Weller-Raven is accused of arson and jailed, the president of the United States steps in to secure his release-just as the sheriff secretly discusses a daring plan with a terrorist group. As Weller-Raven joins Unit Expendable to track, seek, and kill, he continues a retaliatory rampage that leads him straight to Fisher and a rescue mission that tests him in ways he never imagined. Lost Blood is the continuing tale of a son's quest to complete his father's mission as he realizes just how dangerous it is to possess lost blood with a vengeance.

Talking with Catholic Friends and Family
Talking with Catholic Friends and Family

Author: James G. McCarthy

Publisher: Harvest House Publishers

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0736916695

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Capturing the heartbeat of the Roman Catholic way of life, "Talking with Catholic Friends and Family" provides an insightful glimpse into the way Catholics think about God, the church, getting to heaven, and the practice of their religion.

Understanding Trauma
Understanding Trauma

Author: Laurence J. Kirmayer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-01-15

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 1139462261

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This book analyzes the individual and collective experience of and response to trauma from a wide range of perspectives including basic neuroscience, clinical science, and cultural anthropology. Each perspective presents critical and creative challenges to the other. The first section reviews the effects of early life stress on the development of neural systems and vulnerability to persistent effects of trauma. The second section of the book reviews a wide range of clinical approaches to the treatment of the effects of trauma. The final section of the book presents cultural analyses of personal, social, and political responses to massive trauma and genocidal events in a variety of societies. This work goes well beyond the neurobiological models of conditioned fear and clinical syndrome of post-traumatic stress disorder to examine how massive traumatic events affect the whole fabric of a society, calling forth collective responses of resilience and moral transformation.