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“alan roland”

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  • In Search of Self in India and Japan

    Toward a Cross-Cultural Psychology

    by Alan Roland ...
    Drawing on work with Indian and Japanese patients, a prominent American psychoanalyst explores inner worlds that are markedly different from the Western psyche. A series of fascinating case studies illustrates Alan Roland's argument: the "familial self," rooted in the subtle emotional hierarchical relationships of the family and group, predominates in Indian and Japanese psyches and contrasts ... Read more

    $51.89 USD

  • Cultural Pluralism and Psychoanalysis

    The Asian and North American Experience

    by Alan Roland ...
    Cultural Pluralism and Psychoanalysis explores the creative dialogue that the major psychoanalysts since Freud have had with the modern Northern European/North American culture of individualism and tries to resolve major problems that occur when psychoanalysis, with its cultural legacy of individualism, is applied to those from various Asian cultures. Roland examines the theoretical issues ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Class Struggle in the New Testament

    by Christina Petterson, Taylor Weaver, Bruce Worthington, Robert J. Myles, James G. Crossley, Robyn Faith Walsh, Christopher B. Zeichmann, Roland Boer, Alan H. Cadwallader, Neil Elliott0, Deane Galbraith1, Sarah E. Rollens2 ...
    Class Struggle in the New Testament engages the political and economic realities of the first century to unmask the mediation of class through several New Testament texts and traditions. Essays span a range of subfields, presenting class struggle as the motor force of history by responding to recent debates, historical data, and new evidence on the political-economic world of Jesus, Paul, and the ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

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    Meaning in a Material World

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  • Religious Experience Reconsidered

    A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things

    by Ann Taves ...
    How the sciences of the mind can advance the study of religionThe essence of religion was once widely thought to be a unique form of experience that could not be explained in neurological, psychological, or sociological terms. In recent decades scholars have questioned the privileging of the idea of religious experience in the study of religion, an approach that effectively isolated the study of ... Read more

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  • Unitary Caring Science

    Philosophy and Praxis of Nursing

    by Jean Watson ...
    Unitary Caring Science: The Philosophy and Praxis of Nursing takes a profound look at conscious, intentional, reverential caring-healing as sacred practice/praxis and as a necessary turn for survival. Jean Watson posits Unitary Caring Science for the evolved Caritas-conscious practitioner and scholar. A detailed historical discussion of the evolution from Caring Science toward Unitary Caring ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Translating Happiness

    A Cross-Cultural Lexicon of Well-Being

    by Tim Lomas ...
    How embracing untranslatable terms for well-being—from the Finnish sisu to the Yiddish mensch—can enrich our emotional understanding and experience.Western psychology is rooted in the philosophies and epistemologies of Western culture. But what of concepts and insights from outside this frame of reference? Certain terms not easily translatable into English—for example, nirvāṇa (from Sanskrit), or ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Emotions in the Field

    The Psychology and Anthropology of Fieldwork Experience

    Edited by James Davies, Dimitrina Spencer ...
    As emotion is often linked with irrationality, it's no surprise researchers tend to underreport the emotions they experience in the field. However, denying emotion altogether doesn't necessarily lead to better research. Methods cannot function independently from the personalities wielding them, and it's time we questioned the tendency to underplay the scientific, personal, and political ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Subject to Change

    Jung, Gender and Subjectivity in Psychoanalysis

    by Polly Young-Eisendrath ...
    What can psychotherapy and psychoanalysis teach us about turning human misery into insight and personal freedom? Polly Young-Eisendrath offers a response that opens new vistas in our understanding of ourselves within the complexity of a postmodern world.Subject to Change is a collection of essays spanning a twenty-year period of theorising and practice of a highly regarded senior Jungian analyst. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Philosophy East / West

    Exploring Intersections between Educational and Contemplative Practices

    Edited by Oren Ergas, Sharon Todd ...
    Series series Journal of Philosophy of Education
    Philosophy East/West showcases new scholarship in the philosophy of education and contemplative studies, paying particular attention to the intersection of mindfulness, evidence-based science, and wisdom traditions.Moves beyond simplistic explanations of “Eastern” and “Western” to explore the complexity and diversity of various wisdom traditionsInvestigates the effect of mindfulness-based ... Read more

    $36.25 USD

  • The Psychology of Mature Spirituality

    Integrity, Wisdom, Transcendence

    Edited by Polly Young-Eisendrath, Melvin Miller ...
    At the threshold of the 21st Century many people are faced with a spiritual dilemma, where neither secularism nor religion seem adequate.The Psychology of Mature Spirituality addresses this dilemma. In each of the book's three sections - integrity, wisdom, and transcendence - distinguished contributors describe and analyse a mature form of spirituality that will be a hallmark of future years. This ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Bodhisattva's Brain

    Buddhism Naturalized

    by Owen Flanagan ...
    This fascinating introduction to the intersection between religion, neuroscience, and moral philosophy asks: Can there be a Buddhism without karma, nirvana, and reincarnation that is compatible with the rest of knowledge?If we are material beings living in a material world—and all the scientific evidence suggests that we are—then we must find existential meaning, if there is such a thing, in this ... Read more

    $15.99 USD