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Psychosis, Psychiatry and Psychospiritual Considerations

Engaging and Better Understanding the Madness and Spiritual Emergence Nexus

By: Brian Spittles

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Psychosis, Psychiatry and Psychospiritual Considerations

Engaging and Better Understanding the Madness and Spiritual Emergence Nexus

By: Brian Spittles

From a psychiatric perspective, psychosis is generally viewed as a psychopathological and often incomprehensible mental disorder of biological cause. In his book, Brian Spittles argues that this represents a rather limited view, and that a psychospiritual investigation of psychosis may enable a better understanding of its nature and determinants. His aim is not to negate the discipline of psychiatry, but to demonstrate the viability and efficacy of incorporating psychospiritual considerations into psychosis research. Within these pages, Spittles challenges several core psychiatric beliefs, and calls for the discipline to extend its investigative parameters beyond the limited epistemological bounds of materialism. The book uses an open-ended heuristic approach that enables the systematic examination and critical appraisal of views on psychosis across the materialist-to-metaphysical spectrum. This is structured in four 'Focal Settings' that sequentially examine the construal of psychosis within different paradigms of psychospiritual understanding, which provide a historical overview of evolving understandings of psychosis within the tradition of psychiatry, in which psychospiritual matters are generally not considered.

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Aeon Books

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1801520593

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9781801520591

John Ford

By: Brian Spittles

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John Ford

By: Brian Spittles

John Ford is a monumental figure in Hollywood and world cinema. Throughout his long and varied career spanning the silent and sound era, he produced nearly 150 films of which Iron Horse (1924), Stagecoach (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Searchers (1956) and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) are classics of cinema. Ford was also an influential figure in developing, and extending Hollywood's traditions. Stylistically Ford was instrumental in developing new camera techniques, atmospheric lighting and diverse narrative devices. Thematically, long before it became conventional wisdom, Ford was exploring issues that concern us today, such as gender, race, the treatment of ethnic minorities and social outcasts, the nature of history and the relationship of myth and reality. For all these reasons, John Ford the man and his films reward thought and study, both for the general reader and the academic student. Ford's pictures express the world in which they were made, and have contributed to making what Hollywood is today. This book illustrates the excitement, importance, influence, creativity, deviousness and complexity of the man and his films.

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Routledge

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1317875117

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Joseph Conrad: Text and Context

By: Brian Spittles

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Joseph Conrad: Text and Context

By: Brian Spittles

This book is essential reading for an understanding of Conrad's fiction both as a product of the political, social and intellectual forces dominating the period 1870-1920, and of the pressures and influences in Conrad's own life. A knowledge of the period is not taken for granted, but explanations of the relevant events and ideas are woven into discussion of the stories and novels. Full use is made of letters, diaries, newspaper reports, magazine articles and the popular fiction of the day, in addition to detailed analysis of Conrad's fiction. This study puts Conrad into a new perspective, providing stimulating material for students, teachers and general readers.

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208

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1349222054

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9781349222056

The Tax Man - The True Story of the Hardest Man in Britain

By: Brian Cockerill

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The Tax Man - The True Story of the Hardest Man in Britain

By: Brian Cockerill

Over the last two decades, Brian Cockerill has ruled his world with an iron fist. Using nothing but his hands as weapons, he has patrolled the streets, clubs and raves of Britain in order to keep order and to 'tax' those whose ill-gotten gains he sees fit to take a share of. Drug dealers and shady club promoters everywhere know that, if The Taxman is in town, it's time to pay up or get out. All know of the appalling violence this man can exert on his enemies, and of the incredible presence of body and mind that he possesses. Yet despite his appalling record of aggression, Brian is a man who lives by rules and respect - balanced yet unpredictable, he has never used weapons, and those who have used arms against him have barely lived to regret it. The facts of his life are as amazing and awe-inspiring as they are true.

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Kings Road Publishing

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1782192549

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9781782192541

The Helliconia Trilogy

Helliconia Spring, Helliconia Summer, and Helliconia Winter

By: Brian W. Aldiss

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The Helliconia Trilogy

Helliconia Spring, Helliconia Summer, and Helliconia Winter

By: Brian W. Aldiss

From a Science Fiction Grand Master: The sweeping epic of a planet veering from one extreme atmosphere to another—and the humans trying to survive on it. Helliconia Spring introduces us to a tumultuous world that follows an eccentric orbit around a double-star system—and the satellite from Earth secretly monitoring it. Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Brian W. Aldiss then explores the social and religious divisions keeping the planet’s population in conflict even as they’re devastated by plague in Helliconia Summer, and concludes the trilogy with Helliconia Winter, which recounts both the threat of a looming, frigid age of decay and the hope of a new future. The Helliconia Trilogy is both a riveting story and a thought-provoking examination of how our destinies are shaped by the environment around us. Aldiss’s study of fields from astronomy to climatology to geobiology endow all three novels with rich details of the planet Helliconia. This riveting, century-spanning saga is a timely exploration of what climate change can mean for our own planet. “Brian Aldiss’s towering imagination places his Helliconia Trilogy far above standard science fiction” (Daily Mail).

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Open Road Media

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1504041372

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9781504041379

Helliconia Summer

By: Brian W. Aldiss

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Helliconia Summer

By: Brian W. Aldiss

The Grand Master of Science Fiction’s “monumental” epic continues as Helliconia nears its larger star—and a strange visitor joins its civilization (The Times, London). A handful of centuries on, Helliconia is close to the larger star in its binary system, and the Phagors have been driven into exile, but conflicting religions and hostility to science keep human civilization fragmented and constantly fighting wars over petty power and fertile land as a plague devastates populations. However, everything changes when a secret visitor from the observer satellite from Earth accepts a slow death in order to visit the planet and spend his time in the sunlight and open air. More than thirty years after the original publication of Helliconia Spring, the first volume of the Helliconia Trilogy, the series is newly available, now with a map, an afterword, and an introduction by the author.

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Open Road Media

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1497608325

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9781497608320

Psychosis, Psychiatry and Psychospiritual Considerations

Engaging and Better Understanding the Madness and Spiritual Emergence Nexus

By: Brian Spittles

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Aeon Books

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John Ford

By: Brian Spittles

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Routledge

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1317875125

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Metamorphosis by Decree

The Beginning

By: Brian Pigg

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Metamorphosis by Decree

The Beginning

By: Brian Pigg

Living in the city of Theopolis, Kate, a young and disillusioned priestess in the Temple of Mirsha, watches the other women of the cloister dishonor their vows while receiving warnings in her dreams that the gods are coming. Meanwhile, she is haunted by shadows that listen in while she is awake. One morning, however, Kate is visited by Mirsha herself. The goddess charges her with a quest to bring about change in the world. To do this, Kate must recover the lost Tablets of Markinet, ancient relics currently held by an evil force. No one has seen the relics for centuries, but the only promise Kate receives is that the world will change. Now the young priestess must recruit a group of adventurous misfits to help her on her goddess-given task. If they can overcome the prejudices of the past and succeed, the cost may be high, but the harsh molds of the ancient system that keeps them bound may finally break and allow new light to come into the world. In this fantasy novel, a priestess receives a mission from a goddess and gathers a group of adventurers to help her change the world.

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iUniverse

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1491799498

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9781491799499

George Eliot

Godless Woman

By: Brian Spittles

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George Eliot

Godless Woman

By: Brian Spittles

By quoting extensively from George Eliot's own writings - all the novels, letters, essays, poetry - and from contemporary Victorian sources - feminist journals and tracts, novels by other female writers, newspapers, magazines, speeches, poetry, scientific theories - this book allows the age to present its own dynamic self-portrait." "The conflicts illustrated by that picture are also central to Eliot's work, and no understanding of either the society or the novels can be achieved without an appreciation of the other. Sexual conduct as actually practised challenged the notions of conventional morality; the oppression and deprivation of women ran counter to the spirit of increasing democracy; class war threatened political stability; financial greed and the demands of an expanding economy confronted Christian ethics and the idea of a just society; the need for religious faith appeared to be undermined by new scientific thinking." "As this clearly written and lucidly argued book shows George Eliot's novels deal with all these enduring personal and social problems. Both Eliot and the society in which she lived emerge from this investigation as complex but irresistibly fascinating subjects with a relevance for all time."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Palgrave Macmillan

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0312095295

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9780312095291

Britain Since 1960

An Introduction

By: Brian Spittles

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Britain Since 1960

An Introduction

By: Brian Spittles

This book is essential reading for anyone studying A level History or Sociology, British Politics, the British Constitution, or British Studies. It is also extremely interesting and valuable reading for anyone who wants to understand how Britain developed after the second world war to how, and what, it is now. It treats history as enjoyment, and takes no knowledge for granted. All events and ideas are explained in ordinary language, and quotations from contemporary newspapers give a lively sense of the atmosphere of the recent past. The book covers political events, economics and social movements, charting the dynamic changes occurring in British society since 1960.

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0333607848

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9780333607848

Some Lives of Brian

By: Brian Stuart

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Some Lives of Brian

By: Brian Stuart

An only child living in Aldershot, Brian Stuart has always been in touch with the arts. When his father was called up to the army in 1940 his mother decided to take in boarders who performed weekly in the Hippodrome.

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Pen Press

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190717284X

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Psychosis, Psychiatry and Psychospiritual Considerations

Psychosis, Psychiatry and Psychospiritual Considerations

John Ford

John Ford

Joseph Conrad: Text and Context

Joseph Conrad: Text and Context

The Tax Man - The True Story of the Hardest Man in Britain

The Tax Man - The True Story of the Hardest Man in Britain

The Helliconia Trilogy

The Helliconia Trilogy

Helliconia Summer

Helliconia Summer

Psychosis, Psychiatry and Psychospiritual Considerations

Psychosis, Psychiatry and Psychospiritual Considerations

John Ford

John Ford

Metamorphosis by Decree

Metamorphosis by Decree

George Eliot

George Eliot

Britain Since 1960

Britain Since 1960

Some Lives of Brian

Some Lives of Brian

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