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Ego

Development and Psychopathology

By: David Paul Ausubel

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Ego

Development and Psychopathology

By: David Paul Ausubel

Ego Development and Psychopathology" presents an original theoretical underpinning for classification and interpretation of the major mental disorders, one based largely on the author's clinical experience. Ausubel's central thesis is that the most significant and crucial factors predisposing persons to mental disorders are critical developmental defects that arise at vital transitional phases of ego development. He sees both normal and pathological personality functioning as most cogently explained in terms of an individual's ego structure at a given point in the life cycle. Ausubel relates his developmental theory to the phenomenology and related clinical problems of psychiatric diagnosis. He classifies mental disorders in terms of their developmental history. Such factors, in his opinion, offer the most precise delineation of etiological, functional, and phenomenological similarities and differences among the various psychiatric syndromes. He provides an overview of ego development, as well as major variants of the norm. He also discusses development of conscience and moral values, as well as psychopathological considerations that follow from deficiencies, defects, failure, and distortions in ego development. He examines at length classification of mental disorders, such as anxiety states, psychotic depression and mania, schizophrenia, autism, antisocial and narcissistic personality disorders, and defense mechanisms. Ausubel is careful to point out that ego development is not the only significant determinant of normal and aberrant personality. Genetic predispositions, situational stress, and sociocultural factors must always be taken into consideration since mental disorder is always a product of multiple causality. However, he believes ego development is by far the most critical factor, and hence offers the most for classification of mental illness. This intriguing study will be of interest to professionals as well as educated and concerned practitioners in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, child psychotherapy, and social work.

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1560002662

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9781560002666

Death and the Human Condition

By: David P. Ausubel

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Death and the Human Condition

By: David P. Ausubel

This is an interdisciplinary work on the somewhat culturally-tabooed topic of death—psychological, psychiatric, historical, developmental, biogenetic, biomedical, and theological—its nature, consequences, and implications as explored and conceptualized by current living Americans. Included also among its hypothesized and associated concepts is the doctrine of an afterlife, as well as various attitudes and reactions to death as the perceived chief limiting factor of the human condition (denial, avoidance, anger, etc.). Unlike its handling by other books on death, the close relationship of death as a terminating phenomenon of life is thoroughly explored in the context of such central concepts of Christian moral theology as salvation, justification, free will, justice, love, anger, sin, expiation, forgiveness, retribution, etc. This book is undoubtedly discriminably different from other serious works of non-fiction if only because it deals with the culturally-tabooed topic of death. Nevertheless, many individuals in all cultures are at least privately or secretly interested in this topic because of the mystery surrounding it, but usually more so, because it inevitably involves themselves in the loss of their own identities in their own culture, and also, very relevantly, stimulates much speculation about their own fate in the hereafter. All of the controversial issues in this book are examined both for and against the Christian theistic view by presenting material by a Christian non-believer as well as by a Christian believer.

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0595231977

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9780595231973

Judevine

By: David Budbill,Dermot McGuigan,Beverly Jacobson

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Judevine

By: David Budbill,Dermot McGuigan,Beverly Jacobson

The long-awaited year 2000 is upon us, and with it comes unprecedented uncertanties related to how computers worldwide will handle the transition in their embedded clocks. How did some of our supposedly brighteset technicians inadvertently design the electronic scourge called "the Millennium Bug" or Y2K? And can Y2K really disrupt the infrastructures that provide us with food, energy, and water? No one knows. This book will lift your spirits by explaining how to be warm and comfortable, with sufficient food, water, and electric power to get you throught any teimporary emergency. It even shows the silver lining of Y2K, the opportunity to re-establish community ties lost in the rush toward globalization.

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1890132268

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9781890132262

Ego

Development and Psychopathology

By: David Paul Ausubel

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