Download or read book Unholy Madness written by Seth Farber and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly four decades social critics such as Philip Rieff and Christopher Lasch have bemoaned the "triumph of the therapeutic" in our "culture of narcissism." But whatever their level of uneasiness about the psychologizing of reality, most Christians have made some degree of peace with the reigning power of psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic outlooks. Seth Farber is not one of those Christians. In his estimation psychotherapy has become "a replacement for involvement in the spiritual life of the church," with pastors and other Christian leaders too quickly deferring to psychiatrists and other mental health professionals. Unholy Madness is prompted by Farber's passionate insistence that Christianity and psychiatry are nothing less than competing faiths. Farber's radical argument cuts to the root of the mental health system and challenges the church to consider how much it may have constricted its own vision and neglected its unique responsibilities in its accomodation to that system. Taking on giants from Augustine to Freud, wide-ranging and never boring, Unholy Madness is not likely to persuade all its readers. But none will be able to see these issues in the same way again. -- Publisher.
Download or read book Apocalypse and or Metamorphosis written by Norman O. Brown and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the final volume of Norman O. Brown's trilogy on civilization and its discontents, on humanity's long struggle to master its instincts and the perils that attend that denial of human nature. Following on his famous books Life Against Death and Love's Body, this collection of eleven essays brings Brown's thinking up to 1990 and the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe. Brown writes that "the prophetic tradition is an attempt to give direction to the social structure precipitated by the urban revolution; to resolve its inherent contradictions; to put an end to its injustice, inequality, anomie, the state of war . . . that has been its history from start to finish." Affiliating himself with prophets from Muhammad to Blake and Emerson, Brown offers further meditations on what's wrong with Western civilization and what we might do about it. Thus the duality in his title: crisis and the hope for change. In pieces both poetic and philosophical, Brown's attention ranges over Greek mythology, Islam, Spinoza, and Finnegan's Wake. The collection includes an autobiographical essay musing on Brown's own intellectual development. The final piece, "Dionysus in 1990," draws on Freud and the work of Georges Bataille to link the recent changes in the world's economies with mankind's primordial drive to accumulation, waste, and death.
Download or read book S T Coleridge written by Sunil Kumar Sarker and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2001 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coleridge Was One Of The Few Harbingers Of Romanticism In England, And The Enunciator Of Psychological Criticism. One Will Certainly Miss English Romanticism Of About 150 Years, If He Does Not Interest Himself In Coleridge. One Of The Most Loving And Suffering Souls Of English Literature, Coleridge Was Not Only A Great Poet Of The Supernatural, But Also A Great Critic And Prosodist.In This Book, The Objective Of The Author Has Been To Present Coleridge In His Essentials (As The Content Of The Book May Show), Against The Back-Drop Of English Romanticism, In Plain Terms And Without Any Presumptions. Seventeen Select Poems Of The Poet Have Been Discussed, To Some Extent Threadbare, And The Texts Of Those Poems Have Been Given For Facility.
Download or read book Verse written by Godfrey Egremont and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Schizophrenia written by Orna Ophir and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the world, schizophrenia is a diagnosis now in decline, representing a radical shift in our historical and medical understanding of madness and mental distress. But what does this medical term, first coined by a Swiss psychiatrist in 1908, mean? And why is it increasingly unpopular among patients and the medical establishment? Historian and clinician Orna Ophir unearths the stories of patients and doctors as they struggle to make sense of this debilitating condition. At different times, patients have been depicted as possessed by demons, or simply “inspired,” as hearing voices, suffering from a “split-mind,” or merely having difficulty in “integrating” experiences. Now, a century after its birth, schizophrenia is increasingly viewed not as a radical, abnormal disease defined by an ever-changing cluster of symptoms, but the extreme end of a spectrum on which we are all located. The story Ophir tells is a hopeful one: As patients and doctors sought to overcome stigma and improve therapeutic outcomes, they have shown ever-greater sensitivity to diversity and difference. Schizophrenia: An Unfinished History gestures toward a future in which clinicians and patients will collaborate in the search for better outcomes.
Download or read book The Limits of Ferocity written by Daniel Fuchs and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-30 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful critique of the revolutionary mentality and sexual aggression represented in the works of authors including D. H. Lawrence, Georges Bataille, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer.
Download or read book Lee Roy s Heaven written by Big Brother Earl Roberts and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author Big Bro. Earl Roberts like many others has been on a spiritual quest for understanding for many years. His new book (first novel) of spiritual fiction had been in the process of becoming for many years. Lee Roys Heaven is an attempt to convey to the masses the possibility of and necessity of people having more love and compassion in their lives. Perhaps, looking at some traditional religious doctrines in a whole new way and concluding that what we dont know about Gods truth is just as important as that which we believe we do know. This story of the adventures of a young (deceased) dope-seller tripping through his after death existence forces the readers to contemplate their lives, true love, forgiveness, patience and tolerance for other human beings that we judge as evil, sick with sinful natures, or strangely different then ourselves.
Download or read book The Poetical Works of the Rev H H Milman written by Henry Hart Milman and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coleridge and the Abyssinian Maid written by Geoffrey Yarlott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1967, this book seeks to show the causes which led to Coleridge’s breakdown in 1802 and to indicate how his views on poetry changed as a result of it. The approach is selective in that it only focuses on one part of Coleridge’s life (roughly 1793-1810); however the author attempts to relate a number of different areas of his activity and to trace his emotional and moral development more closely than might be possible in a full-scale biography. The account of Coleridge’s life ends in 1810, when his relationship with the two key figures in his life Asra and Wordsworth had ruptured, as this reflected which of Coleridge’s Notebooks were available at the time.
Download or read book The Poetical Works of H H Milman The fall of Jersulem The martyr of Antioch Belshazzar written by Henry Hart Milman and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Be a Villain written by Neil Zawacki and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-01-27 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jumpstart your evil enterprise with this deviously clever step-by-step guide to joining the forces of darkness. Villains may never win, but they sure have more fun. Who doesn’t want to hatch a master plan for world domination or set up an evil hideout? In How to Be a Villain, Neil Zawacki answers all the most urgent questions: Should I go with a black or red theme? Do I invest in an army of winged monkeys or ninja warriors? And should I learn to play the pipe organ or just get a weird cat? Whether readers choose to pursue a career as a Criminal Mastermind, Mad Scientist, Corporate Bastard, or just a Wanna-be Evil Genius, they are sure to find plenty of tips for getting started. Cheaper than attending the annual Bad Guy Conference and way more fun than being good, How to Be a Villain is guaranteed to elicit deep-throated evil laughs across the land.
Download or read book The martyr of Antioch Belshazzar written by Henry Hart Milman and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Martyr of Antioch A New Edition written by Henry Hart Milman and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Missions Addiction written by David Shibley and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2001 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God is calling out eleventh-hour workers for His harvest -- people like you who are desperately in love with Jesus and who are passionately committed to see Him loved by every people and nation. In these action-packed pages, you will discover a Global Jesus Generation that is creating discomfort in the church and change in missions worldwide. God is injecting a missions serum into spiritual bloodstreams. He is calling you to become part of a contagious epidemic of missions-hearted believers who will bring global fame to His name! David Shibley draws from a rich wealth of missions history, calling a new generation to become anchored radicals with the missions addiction! Book jacket.
Download or read book Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors written by Anonymous and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tales from the German" is a collection of the 17 most famous German tales from such renowned authors as Friedrich Schiller, E.T.W. Hoffman, and J.W. Goethe. The tales were selected and translated by John Oxenford and C.A. Feiling and first published in London in 1844.
Download or read book Courage and Conviction written by Anthony J. Gittins and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, many Christians, concerned and challenged by contemporary trends in society and religion, are bewildered and perhaps tempted to leave the Church and manage on their own. Courage and Conviction is addressed to discerning adult Christians who seek something between high theology and pious platitudes. Ranging from consideration of Christian identity, via the challenge of faith-filled living in a world of diversity, to suggestions for mature discipleship today, these reflections—building on Scripture studies, cultural anthropology, and life experience—are offered by way of support, encouragement, and perhaps further enlightenment.
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