Download or read book Fears Phobias Fantasies written by Patricia Casey and published by Currach Books. This book was released on 2021-07-21 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since mental health problems are common, and range in severity from transient stress reactions to those that impact seriously on day to day living, a book that helps people understand these conditions is required reading.
Download or read book Believing written by Michael McGuire and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new book about brain chemistry, neural systems, and the formation of beliefs from the scientist who brought to light serotonin's many crucial roles in human behavior. Beliefs: What are they? How have evolution and culture led to a brain that is seemingly committed to near endless belief creation? And once established, why are most beliefs so difficult to change? Believing offers answers to these questions from the perspective of a leading neuroscientist and expert in brain-behavior research. Combining personal anecdotes and the latest research, Dr. McGuire takes the novel approach of focusing on the central and critical role of brain systems and the ways in which they interact with the environment to create and maintain beliefs. This approach yields some surprising and counterintuitive conclusions: • The brain is designed for belief creation and acceptance. • It is biased in favor of its own beliefs and is highly insensitive to disconfirming evidence. • It prefers beliefs that are pleasurable and rewarding to those that are unfavorable. • Beliefs are "afterthoughts" of unperceived brain activities; they don't cause behavior. • Our consciousness has minimal influence on the neural systems that create beliefs. Based on these observations, McGuire concludes that for the foreseeable future people will continue to hold a multitude of beliefs, many of them intransigent.
Download or read book Fears and Fantasies written by D. B. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fin de Sicle Fin du Globe written by John Stokes and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-11-20 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internationally distinguished scholars who have contributed to this timely book were asked to take part in a collaborative act of demystification: a reconsideration of the eschatological ideas of the last fin de sicle, the 1890s, in the light of the critical thought of the 1990s. Their essays draw upon a range of approaches, and are broadly interdisciplinary. All are characterised by the realisation that, with a century's hindsight, the late 1800s should be seen not so much as a period of decadence as of discovery and growth.
Download or read book Fears and Fantasies written by Joan Westley and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grade level: 1, 2, 3, p, e, k, t.
Download or read book Fear and Fantasy in a Global World written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when the mass media insist on bombarding us with news about natural, political and economic disasters, words, ideas and images associated with such “crises” and “catastrophes” shape to a great extent collective memory and current imagination. Fear and Fantasy in a Global World seeks to stir the debate on the processes and meanings of, as well as on the relations between, fear and fantasy in the globalized world. Collective fears and fantasies are analysed from a number of cross-disciplinary perspectives, promoted by the epistemological underpinnings of comparative literature. In various ways and from different disciplinary angles, the 17 essays here gathered respond to and scrutinize key questions related to the imaginaries of fear and fantasy, as well as their relations to trauma, crisis, anxiety, and representations of both the conscious and the unconscious. Contributors: Alexandra Hills, Ana Filipa Prata, Brecht de Groote, Christin Grunert, Christopher Bollas, Daniela Di Pasquale, David Vichnar, Edith Beltrán, Gero Guttzeit, Hande Gurses, Harriet Hulme, James Rushing Daniel, João Pedro da Costa, Margarita García Candeira, Marija Sruk, Martijn Boven, and Ortwin de Graef.
Download or read book Fantasy Islands written by Julie Sze and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The rise of China and its status as a leading global factory--combined with an increasing worldwide desire for inexpensive toys, clothes, and food--are altering the way people live and consume. At the same time, the world appears wary of the real costs of this desire: toys drenched in lead paint, dangerous medicines, and tainted pet food. Examining sites in China, including the plan for a new eco-city called Dongtan on the island of Chongming, suburbanization projects, and the Shanghai World Expo, JulieSze interrogates Chinese, European, and American 'eco-desire' and the eco-technological fantasies that underlie contemporary development of global cities and mega-suburbs. In doing so, she challenges readers to rethink how cities must undergo alterationsto become true 'eco-cities.' Sze frames her analysis of these case studies in the context of the problems of global economic change and climate crisis, and she explores the flows, fears, and fantasies of Pacific Rim politics that shaped plans for Dongtan. She looks at the flow of pollution from Asia to the United States (ten billion pounds of airborne pollutants annually). Simultaneously, she considers the flow of financial and political capital for eco-city and ecological development between elite powerstructures in the UK and China, and charts how climate change discussions align with US fears of China's ascendancy and the related demise of the American Century. Ultimately, Fantasy Islands examines how fears and fantasies about China and historical and political power change the American imagination."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts written by Sally M. Winston and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are not your thoughts! In this powerful book, two anxiety experts offer proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills to help you get unstuck from disturbing thoughts, overcome the shame these thoughts can bring, and reduce your anxiety. If you suffer from unwanted, intrusive, frightening, or even disturbing thoughts, you might worry about what these thoughts mean about you. Thoughts can seem like messages—are they trying to tell you something? But the truth is that they are just thoughts, and don’t necessarily mean anything. Sane and good people have them. If you are someone who is plagued by thoughts you don’t want—thoughts that scare you, or thoughts you can’t tell anyone about—this book may change your life. In this compassionate guide, you’ll discover the different kinds of disturbing thoughts, myths that surround your thoughts, and how your brain has a tendency to get “stuck” in a cycle of unwanted rumination. You’ll also learn why common techniques to get rid of these thoughts can backfire. And finally, you’ll learn powerful cognitive behavioral skills to help you cope with and move beyond your thoughts, so you can focus on living the life you want. Your thoughts will still occur, but you will be better able to cope with them—without dread, guilt, or shame. If you have unwanted thoughts, you should remember that you aren’t alone. In fact, there are millions of people just like you—good people who have awful thoughts, gentle people with violent thoughts, and sane people with “crazy” thoughts. This book will show you how to move past your thoughts so you can reclaim your life! This book has been selected as an Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Self-Help Book Recommendation—an honor bestowed on outstanding self-help books that are consistent with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) principles and that incorporate scientifically tested strategies for overcoming mental health difficulties. Used alone or in conjunction with therapy, our books offer powerful tools readers can use to jump-start changes in their lives.
Download or read book Fantasies of Neglect written by Pamela Robertson Wojcik and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our current era of helicopter parenting and stranger danger, an unaccompanied child wandering through the city might commonly be viewed as a victim of abuse and neglect. However, from the early twentieth century to the present day, countless books and films have portrayed the solitary exploration of urban spaces as a source of empowerment and delight for children. Fantasies of Neglect explains how this trope of the self-sufficient, mobile urban child originated and considers why it persists, even as it goes against the grain of social reality. Drawing from a wide range of films, children’s books, adult novels, and sociological texts, Pamela Robertson Wojcik investigates how cities have simultaneously been demonized as dangerous spaces unfit for children and romanticized as wondrous playgrounds that foster a kid’s independence and imagination. Charting the development of free-range urban child characters from Little Orphan Annie to Harriet the Spy to Hugo Cabret, and from Shirley Temple to the Dead End Kids, she considers the ongoing dialogue between these fictional representations and shifting discourses on the freedom and neglect of children. While tracking the general concerns Americans have expressed regarding the abstract figure of the child, the book also examines the varied attitudes toward specific types of urban children—girls and boys, blacks and whites, rich kids and poor ones, loners and neighborhood gangs. Through this diverse selection of sources, Fantasies of Neglect presents a nuanced chronicle of how notions of American urbanism and American childhood have grown up together.
Download or read book The Madness of Knowledge written by Steven Connor and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many human beings have considered the powers and the limits of human knowledge, but few have wondered about the power that the idea of knowledge has over us. The Madness of Knowledge is the first book to investigate this emotional inner life of knowledge – the lusts, fantasies, dreams and fears that the idea of knowing provokes. There are in-depth discussions of the imperious will to know, of Freud’s epistemophilia, or love of knowledge, and the curiously insistent links between madness, magical thinking and the desire for knowledge. Steven Connor also probes secrets and revelations, quarreling and the history of quizzes and ‘general knowledge’, charlatanry and pretension, both the violent disdain and the sanctification of the stupid, as well as the emotional investment in the spaces and places of knowledge, from the study to the library. In an age of artificial intelligence, alternative facts and mistrust of truth, The Madness of Knowledge offers an opulent, enlarging and sometimes unnerving psychopathology of intellectual life.
Download or read book Fears and Fantasies written by Andy Griffiths and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1997-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents Scared Stiff Judith Clarke, Selina's Star Signs Jay Linden, The Maniac David Metzenthen, The Pale Pink Ford Cortina Fiona Farrell, The Map Table Meredith Costain, The Day My Bum Went Psycho Andy Griffiths, Bluebeard's Daughter Margaret Wild, The Missing Finger Christine Harris, Pink Bow Tie Paul Jennings, Red Brian Caswell, Glow-Worms Pat Quinn, Shark Bait Dyan Blacklock Blasters: Fears and Fantasies, Animal Tails and Risks and Challenges are the first three titles in a series of theme-based short story collections designed to have maximum appeal for lower secondary students. The stories have also been selected with the needs of busy teachers in mind-teachers who require high-interest material that will entertain students as well as develop their awareness of particular issues and provoke further thought and discussion. Key features: stories range in length from 1000 to 1500 words-short enough to be read by most students in a single lesson, all the stories have been selected for maximum appeal for lower secondary students, stories have a sense of humour and are not afraid to take chances, a wide range of writing styles and subject matter is covered, each volume includes a range of stories suitable for students of all abilities, the stories are written by some of the best Australian and New Zealand writers for this age group, including a number of up-and-coming writers.
Download or read book The Culture of the Internet and the Internet as Cult written by Philippe Breton and published by Litwin Books Llc. This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, French author Philippe Breton looks at the Internet and the culture surrounding it through the lens of its cultural background. Central in his insightful analysis of "the Internet as cult" are Teilhard de Chardin and the New Age, but he looks also at the fears, passions and pathologies of Alan Turing and Norbert Wiener, the imagined worlds of Isaac Asimov, William Gibson, J.G. Ballard and Timothy Leary, the prognostications and confessions of Bill Gates, Nicolas Negroponte and Bill Joy, and the philosophies of Saint-Simon, McLuhan and Pierre Levy. Dreams of a transparent and unmediated world, a world in which neither time nor space are relevant, a world without violence, without law, without a distinction between the public and the private, Breton contrasts with the reality of propaganda, computer viruses and surveillance, the world in which "sociality in the sense of mutuality disappears in favor of interactivity," where "experience with another and with the world in general is replaced by brief reactionary relations that hardly engage us at all." This English language translation is by David Bade."
Download or read book The City s End written by Max Page and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From nineteenth-century paintings of fires raging through New York City to scenes of Manhattan engulfed by a gigantic wave in the 1998 movie Deep Impact, images of the city’s end have been prolific and diverse. Why have Americans repeatedly imagined New York’s destruction? What do the fantasies of annihilation played out in virtually every form of literature and art mean? This book is the first to investigate two centuries of imagined cataclysms visited upon New York, and to provide a critical historical perspective to our understanding of the events of September 11, 2001. Max Page examines the destruction fantasies created by American writers and imagemakers at various stages of New York’s development. Seen in every medium from newspapers and films to novels, paintings, and computer software, such images, though disturbing, have been continuously popular. Page demonstrates with vivid examples and illustrations how each era’s destruction genre has reflected the city’s economic, political, racial, or physical tensions, and he also shows how the images have become forces in their own right, shaping Americans’ perceptions of New York and of cities in general.
Download or read book Fears Fantasies Freedom written by Krylios Clarke and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-12-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fears, Fantasies and Freedom is an anthology that takes you on a high-flying (sometimes low-lying) epic journey as it explores power, passion, perseverance, love, loss, laughter, magic, mayhem, madness, and what it truly means to find your freedom. Includes 'Leave the Door Open' which was adapted into the fan-favorite stage play of the same name. Krylios' Leave the Door Open first opened in Baltimore, Maryland in 2022. Stories include: Ave Maria Plotting in the Pines Snow and Magma Keep Your Head Up Leave the Door Open The Caribbean Tree That Used To Be His Beach Power and Purity Coming Out on the Other Side
Download or read book Arousal written by Michael J. Bader and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-01-18 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual fantasies. Everyone has them, but no one knows what they mean. People are curious about and often confused by the things that arouse them, yet they are often too ashamed to reveal their most private fantasies to their partners or even their therapists. In this fascinating and provocative book, Dr. Michael J. Bader offers a groundbreaking new theory of sexual desire, one that will liberate men and women and enable them to better understand their sexual preferences. Drawing on his twenty-five years as a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, Dr. Bader demonstrates that rather than being programmed by biology or society, sexual fantasies and preferences are really psychological antidotes to unconscious dangers. Armed with this novel theory, men and women will no longer need to feel ashamed about what arouses them or confused about what arouses others. Dr. Bader sensitively tells the stories of his patients and explains the meaning of their sexual fantasies. In terms refreshingly free of jargon, he reveals how his profound new theory can be used to decipher a wide variety of sexual fantasies and behavior, ranging from ordinary preferences about positions in bed to flamboyant scenarios worthy of the Marquis de Sade. And yet, Dr. Bader's exciting new theory transcends the realm of individual psychology. Readers will come away with a radically new understanding of such issues as sexual chemistry and boredom, cybersex, pornography, and the differences in how men and women get excited. Both erudite and accessible, Arousal: The Secret Logic of Sexual Fantasies is an important landmark in the literature of sexuality.
Download or read book Fantasies and Fears written by C. C. Zwick and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fantasies and Fears" - - - In this book you will meet: PUMPKIN FACE, who wanted nothing more than to grow among his companions in the garden. But someone cut him off from the vine, gave him a hideous appearance, and on Halloween eve he became an unwitting hero. In THE MAN WHO CAME BACK Jim Bedford takes a very unusual trip that goes horribly wrong, and involves his best friend in murder. MYSTERY IN STONE is another case of unsolved murder in a closed room. He is Dracula and his story goes on and on in legends and books, but when he meets the woman of his wildest dreams, SO LET IT END. Jake Spangler built his house with loving care, brick by brick, and he lived in it happily for forty years. But now someone else is living there and he wants them out. How could he do that when he was dead and living ANOTHER LIFE. What was ANGELA, a deviate, masochist, spawn of hell? But what can you do when you meet her and she makes you want her? It can sink you into the lowest depravity and make your life a living hell. Two young lovers want to be TOGETHER always, but a fatal car accident sends them into a hellish nightmare that tears them apart. IT COMES AT MIDNIGHT, and Jenny is young, full of imagination and desire, and she prepares to meet it. He is a giant among giants and the people of Camfield are afraid of him. When a huge storm arises they seek his help. BOGGLES AND THE TORNADO engage in a mighty struggle that leaves him hurt and unappreciated and has him bent on revenge. Commander Vig and two of his companions of the US Space Fleet never expected to meet THE GODDESS OF ALDOR on a distant planet, nor were they prepared to discover who she was. Four teenagers are eager for adventure on Halloween eve and find themselves trapped in HENDERSON HOUSE HORROR. ALICE had been merely a fellow student long, long ago, but now Roy Smelser was a tired, lonely old man and he goes looking for her. Auralia Denton is an irascible old woman who constantly provokes husband John. He would like nothing better than to shut her up once and for all time. One wintry evening she hears NIGHT SOUNDS in their basement and demands he investigate. What he discovers arouses long suppressed yearnings. When he returns to the bedroom his thoughts are far from sleeping. She lives in an enchanted world, but the many LOVES OF FLORABELLA tell us something about ourselves. Xlibris web site listing C. C. Zwick is a writer and artist contributing to small press journals. His horror novel, THE CULT OF AAI, published in 1999 by Pentland Press Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina. ISBN: 1-57197-146-7. Author Web Site Bio, etc. Born at Quincy, Illinois, of immigrant German father and Polish-American mother. Two brothers. Educated at boy's academy by Franciscan friars. Courses in art and writing. Tried free-lancing, unsuccessful at both. Spent three years in Chicago in litho industry. Transferred to St. Louis, married twelve years, divorced, took custody of four teen boys. Retired after forty years in printing, returned to early loves of art and writing. Cartoons, illustrations, cover designs in many small press journals. Watercolor paintings in private collections. Group of children's clay fantasy sculptures in collection of St. Louis County, Missouri, Library. Fiction, non-fiction and verse also in print. Author of THE CULT OF AAI, a horror novel, published by Pentland Press Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina, ISBN: 1-57197-146-7. Available in book store and from the internet, amazon.com. Fantasy novel currently in progress. Hobbies include travel, gardening and golf.
Download or read book Just My Type written by Michael J. Rosen and published by Twenty-First Century Books (Tm). This book was released on 2016 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personality tests have become increasingly popular in the digital age. Examine a wide variety of online personality assessments, and learn how to distinguish useful applications from biased typecasting.
