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MEMORIAL CANDLES: CHILDREN CL (International Library of Group Psychotherapy and Group Process)

Dina Wardi

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As the children of Holocaust surivors reach adulthood they often need professional help in establishing a new identity and self-esteem because, during their childhood, their parents have unconsciously transmitted to them so much of their own trauma, investing them with all their memories and hopes, so that they become the living 'memorial candles' of the title. Memorial Candles combines verbatim transcriptions of dialogues in individual and group psychotherapy sessions, with analysis of dreams, fantasies and childhood memories. Starting with the disruption of the inter-generational chain resulting from the parents' abrupt separation from their families, the reader is led through their hasty marriages after the war and the birth of their first children, intended as 'memorial candles' to their families. Diana Wardi examines the children's infancy in the dense atmosphere of survivor families and their conflictual separation upon maturity. Wardi also examines identity disturbances peculiar to second-generation Holocaust survivors including identification with death, and particular problems with self-esteem and sexual identity.

The Anthropology of Self and Behavior

Gerald M. Erchak

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In this engaging book in the field of psychological anthropology, Gerald Erchak argues that culture shapes the human self and behavior, and that the self and behavior are in turn adapted to culture. After defining basic concepts and debates in the field, Erchak takes up the topics of socialization, gender, sexuality, collective behavior, national character, deviance, behavioral disorders, cognition, and emotion. Erchak includes more material about sexuality and gender than other books in this field. For Erchak, psychocultural adaptation is basic to human life. Culture plays a central role in our behavior and survival. Each chapter reviews the literature, providing an overview of central issues in the field, and includes ethnographic case material, some of which comes from Erchak's own work on West African socialization and initiation, American alchoholism, and other important topics. His examples are drawn from the U.s. as well as non-Western cultures. Erchak addresses himself to students in the field, but also to specialists who want a clearly presented yet provocative approach. This book will be of particular interest to teachers looking for new texts for undergraduate courses in anthropology and psychology. Gerald M. Erchak is a professor of anthropology at Skidmore College.

Impasse of the Angels: Scenes from a Moroccan Space of Memory

Stefania Pandolfo

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The image of the ethnographer in the field who observes his or her subjects from a distance while copiously taking notes has given way in recent years to a more critical and engaged form of anthropology. Composed as a polyphonic dialogue of texts, Stefania Pandolfo's Impasse of the Angels takes this engagement to its limit by presenting the relationship between observer and observed as one of interacting equals and mutually constituting interlocuters.

Impasse of the Angels explores what it means to be a subject in the historical and poetic imagination of a southern Moroccan society. Passionate and lyrical, ironic and tragic, the book listens to dissonant, often idiosyncratic voices—poetic texts, legends, social spaces, folktales, conversations—which elaborate in their own ways the fractures, wounds, and contradictions of the Maghribî postcolonial present. Moving from concrete details in a traditional ethnographic sense to a creative, experiential literary style, Impasse of the Angels is a tale of life and death compellingly addressing readers from anthropology, literature, philosophy, postcolonial criticism, and Middle Eastern studies.

Wax Tablets of the Mind: Cognitive Studies of Memory and Literacy in Classical Antiquity

Jocelyn P Small

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Wax Tablets of the Mind explores the relationship between literacy, orality and memory in classical antiquity, not only from the point of view of antiquity, but also from that of modern cognitive psychology. Jocelyn Penny Small examines how ancient techniques for improving memory continued well into the era of print. This volume represents a timely insight into the topical areas of literacy and memory, and provides a controversial and challenging analysis of the cognitive processes and their modes of display and retrieval.

Cultural Formulation: A Reader for Psychiatric Diagnosis

Giovanni Caracci

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This Reader is a rich collection of chapters relevant to the Cultural Formulation originally published in the DSM-IV, that covers the Cultural Formulation's historical and conceptual background as well as its development and characteristics. In addition, the Reader proffers reflections on and prospects of the Cultural Formulation, and provides clinical case illustrations of the utility of the Cultural Formulation in diagnosis and treatment.

Psychological Anthropology Reconsidered (Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology)

John M. Ingham

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John Ingham reviews recent developments in pyschological anthropology and argues for an eclectic approach that finds room for psychoanalytic, dialogical, and social perspectives on personality and culture. The argument is developed with special reference to human nature, child development, personality, and mental disorder, and it draws on studies set in many different cultures. He also shows the relevance of some recent work in psychoanalysis and child development to current concerns in anthropology with agency and rhetoric.

Prisoners of Our Past: A Critical Look at Self-Defeating Attitudes Within the Black Community

James Davison

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A REAL PAGE BURNER 1 out of 5 stars.
2 of 7 people found this review helpful.

THERE'S A REASON WHY THIS BOOK IS ONLY 6 CENTS--IT SUCKS--HARD.
JAMES DAVIDSON WOULD HAVE BEEN A GOOD HOUSE NEGRO BACK IN THE SLAVERY DAYS.
HE'S BASICALLY TELLIN' BLACK PEOPLE TO FORGET ABOUT THE PAST AND MOVE FOR-
WARD. AS A PEOPLE WE SHOULD MOVE FORWARD,BUT WE SHOULD NEVER FORGET.
DOES HE UNDERSTAND SLAVERY AND OPPRESSION SCARED US MENTALLY? WHITE AMER-
ICA IS RESPONSIBLE FOR A LOT OF OUR WOES. WE WERE KEPT BACK, WRONGFULLY IM-
PRISONED, KILLED,MOCKED, ATTACKED,ECT.....ALL FOR BEING BLACK! WE HELPED BUILD THIS COUNTRY, AND DIED FOR THIS COUNTRY. WHITE PEOPLE HAVE ALL THE
LAND AND POWER, WHICH THEY THEY ROBBED AND KILLED FOR. THERE IS NO HONOR
IN HOW WHITES RISEN TO POWER. ALL WE ASK IS FOR OUR FAIR SHARE OF THE PIE, AND
THE GREEDY ANGLO-SAXION DOESN'T EVEN WANT TO GIVE THAT UP.
HIS ANALYST OF BLACK PEOPLE IS RIDICULOUS. IN ONE PARAGRAPH HE WRITES THAT
BLACK WOMEN TEND TO OVERLOOK A GOOD BLACK MAN FOR A BAD BOY. FIRST OF ALL
ALL FEMALES,BLACK & WHITE,TEND TO FALL FOR THE BAD BOYS AND OVERLOOK THE
NICE GUYS. FURTHER MORE, THERE ARE A LOT OF SISTERS WILLING TO DATE GOOD
BROTHERS. BUT SEE MR. DAVISON IS MARRIED TO A WHITE WOMEN,WHICH HE STATES
IN HIS BOOK,WHICH MAY EXPLAIN HIS THESIS. HE PROBLABLY WAS REJECTED BY A
FEW SISTERS FOR HIS UNCLE TOM-NESS WHICH MADE HIM VEXED.
IMAGINE A PERSON BEING WRONGFULLY IMPRISONED FOR ABOUT 15 YEARS AND THEN
HE'S SET FREE,THE PEOPLE WHO JAILED HIM ADMITS THAT THEY WERE WRONG BUT
DOESN'T WANNA GIVE HIM COMPENSATION FOR WHAT WAS DONE TO HIM. HOW DO YOU
THINK THAT PERSON SHOULD FEEL? SHOULD HE BE HAPPY HE'S OUT JAIL, OR
PISSED -OFF ABOUT WHAT WAS DONE TO HIM? HE'S LOST A LOT OF TIME AND MAY
NOT FUCTION WELL IN SOCIETY. THAT'S THE DILEMA.
ALSO THE BLACK COMMUNITY IS MAINLY MADE UP OF HARD WORKING PEOPLE. SO WHAT
IF A BLACK POSTAL WORKER OR TRUCK DRIVER COMPLAINS ABOUT HOW THE WHITE
TREATED US --HE HAS A RIGHT TO.
IN CLOSING I GOT LIKE HALFWAY THRU THIS BOOK AND THEN BURNED IT. THIS BOOK COULD HAVE EASILY BEEN WRITTEN BY A RACIST WHITE MAN.

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Exploring the racial rhetoric, intimidation, and guilt that plague the African-American community, a study of the victim mentality among blacks in the United States recommends fundamental changes in attitude. National ad/promo.

Crossing Cultures in Therapy: Pluralistic Counseling for the Hispanic

Elaine Sue Levine

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Indigenous Psychologies: Research and Experience in Cultural Context (Cross Cultural Research and Methodology)

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Fourteen different cultures from five continents are represented in this volume, which asks Western psychologists to rethink the premises of their discipline and conceptualize a new universal psychology. With examples from Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and North America, contributors emphasize that psychology has traditionally meant Western psychology. However, psychology practised in other parts of the world raises alternative views of human behaviour.

Contributors argue that indigenous psychology requires each culture to be understood within its own frame of reference and examined in terms of its own social and ecological context. They present aspects of their own indigenous psychology, demonstrating the diversity and wealth of psychological knowledge to be obtained when attention is paid to indigenous research traditions.

Are We Not Men?: Masculine Anxiety and the Problem of African-American Identity

Phillip Brian Harper

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In 1995, popular anxieties about black masculinity became evident in public reactions to the conclusion of the OJ Simpson trial and the Million Man March on Washington. The nation's divided response to the OJ verdict, together with the controversy surrounding Louis Farrakhan's call to black men to come together for a "day of atonement" brought issues of race and gender to the forefront of national debate.
In his timely and incisive book Are We Not Men?, Phillip Brian Harper explores issues of race and representation and shows that ideas about black masculinity have always played a troubled role both in the formation of African-American identity and in the mass media at large. What is at stake when a picture of OJ Simpson is darkened on the cover of Time magazine? Why is AIDS still seen as a white gay disease when a quarter of deaths from AIDS from 1981-1991 were among black males? Using examples from a variety of cultural contexts, ranging from sports and pop music to literature and television, Harper investigates these questions in an effort to show the ways in which narrow definitions of black manhood have failed to acknowledge real differences within the African-American community--to grave social and political effect. He examines recent phenomena, such as reactions to ABC anchorman Max Robinson's AIDS-related death and Magic Johnson's HIV status, as well as the homophobia and chauvinism of the Black Arts movement of the '60s and '70s, the construction of black "crossover" identity from Motown and Diana Ross to Run-DMC and MTV and the way that "street" authenticity is incorporated into Michael Jackson's choreography. He unravels the gender politics behind the "passing" novels of the Harlem Renaissance, scrutinizes black masculinity as seen through the eyes of the white protagonist of the 1961 autobiographical narrative Black Like Me and explores early representations of African Americans on television shows like "Julia" and "Room 222." Upholding the recent success of drag performer RuPaul, who demonstrates the limits of traditional notions of black masculinity by openly defying them, Harper suggests that popular culture is able to transcend its own representations and points to a future in which "black male" is no longer a homogenizing term.
An original, far-reaching and ultimately humane work of cultural criticism, Harper's book argues convincingly that there are no innocent texts, and forces us to reexamine the culture that surrounds us. Are We Not Men? will find a wide audience among those interested in American and African-American cultural studies, gender studies and gay/lesbian studies.