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Torture, Psychoanalysis and Human Rights

By: Monica Luci

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Torture, Psychoanalysis and Human Rights

By: Monica Luci

Torture, Psychoanalysis and Human Rights contributes to the development of that field of study called ‘psycho-social’ that is presently more and more committed to providing understanding of social phenomena, making use of the explicative perspective of psychoanalysis. The book seeks to develop a concise and integrated framework of understanding of torture as a socio-political phenomenon based on psychoanalytic thinking, through which different dimensions of the subject of study become more comprehensible. Monica Luci argues that torture performs a covert emotional function in society. In order to identify what this function might be, a profile of ‘torturous societies’ and the main psychological dynamics of social actors involved – torturers, victims, and bystanders – are drawn from literature. Accordingly, a wide-ranging description of the phenomenology of torture is provided, detecting an inclusive and recurring pattern of key elements. Relying on psychoanalytic concepts derived from different theoretical traditions, including British object relations theories, American relational psychoanalysis and analytical psychology, the study provides an advanced line of conceptual research, shaping a model, whose aim is tograsp the deep meaning of key intrapsychic, interpersonal and group dynamics involved in torture. Once a sufficiently coherent understanding has been reached, Luci proposes using it as a groundwork tool in the human rights field to re-think the best strategies of prevention and recovery from post-torture psychological and social suffering. The book initiates a dialogue between psychoanalysis and human rights, showing that the proposed psychoanalytic understanding is a viable conceptualisation for expanding thinking of crucial issues regarding torture, which might be relevant to human rights and legal doctrine, such as the responsibility of perpetrators, the reparation of victims and the question of ‘truth’. Torture, Psychoanalysis and Human Rights is the first book to build a psychoanalytic theory of torture from which psychological, social and legal reflections, as well as practical aspects of treatment, can be mutually derived and understood. It will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and Jungians, as well as scholars of politics, social work and justice, and human rights and postgraduate students studying across these fields.

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1317439244

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Torture, Psychoanalysis and Human Rights

By: Monica Luci

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By: Monica Luci

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1317439236

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Torture Survivors in Analytic Therapy

Jung, Politics, Culture

By: Monica Luci

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Torture Survivors in Analytic Therapy

Jung, Politics, Culture

By: Monica Luci

This important new book introduces and discusses the underpinning of psychodynamic psychotherapy for torture survivors in a clinical setting and incorporates concepts from analytical psychology and other theoretical bases in order to provide readers with a deeper understanding of this complex trauma. Using the concepts of analytical psychology, relational psychoanalysis, and neuroscience, and relying on the theoretical basis of her book Torture, Psychoanalysis and Human Rights (Routledge, 2017), Luci focuses on three key clinical cases and illustrates the therapeutic paths that the therapeutic dyad explore and experiences in order to get out of the patient’s inner prison created or aggravated by the experience of torture. The book discusses the role of the therapist when working with torture survivors, the requirement of a slow and cautious approach when dealing with such trauma, and the importance of a careful and respectful consideration of issues of identity, politics, and culture. Featuring a useful guide, this book will be of great interest to mental health professionals, psychotherapists and students practicing in services that provide assistance to torture and war trauma survivors.

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1000583686

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Knit Your Own Murder

By: Monica Ferris

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Knit Your Own Murder

By: Monica Ferris

In the USA Today bestselling Needlecraft Mysteries, Betsy Devonshire has her hands tied between running her needlework shop and turning her sharp eye for deduction to solve a knotty murder at a local fund-raiser… The Monday Bunch and other local knitters are participating in a fund-raising auction to save a community center, creating a growing pile of stuffed animals and toys right in front of the auctioneers as the audience bids. Among those contributing the most knitted goods is temperamental businesswoman Maddy Hanover—who keels over halfway through the event. After she is pronounced DOA, an autopsy reveals that Maddy had been poisoned. But how? And by whom? One of the prime suspects is her ruthless business rival, Joe Mickels, who lost a bitterly contested property bid to Maddy. When Mickels pleads his innocence to Betsy, she reluctantly believes him. But if Betsy is going to uncover the real murderer’s identity, she must first untangle the knots Maddy made in her relationships throughout her life… FREE KNITTING PATTERN INCLUDED

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306

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Penguin

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0425270130

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9780425270134

Grammar and Syntax

Developing School-Age Children's Oral and Written Language Skills

By: Monica Gordon-Pershey

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Grammar and Syntax

Developing School-Age Children's Oral and Written Language Skills

By: Monica Gordon-Pershey

Grammar and Syntax: Developing School-Age Children's Oral and Written Language Skills provides insight for clinical speech-language pathologists (SLPs) as well as students and faculty in communication sciences and disorders programs. Offering a practicing speech-language pathologist’s perspective on school-age language development, this professional reference book focuses on later language development and the crucial role oral grammar and syntax plays in successful academic performance. This resource synthesizes the four main components of professional expertise for SLPs: academic and theoretical knowledge, strategies for gathering diagnostic evidence, the ability to seek, understand, and apply evolving scientific evidence, and the application of therapeutic strategies. Designed to encourage creative approaches to curriculum-based speech-language therapy practices, Grammar and Syntax: Developing School-Age Children's Oral and Written Language Skills provides the foundation SLPs need to help children and adolescents achieve academic success. Key Features: * Anticipation guides at the beginning of each chapter stimulate readers to prepare for reading * Bolded key terms and a comprehensive glossary improve retention of material * Related resources in addition to cited sources provide jumping off points for deeper understanding * Tables of language development references to use at-a-glance * An evidence-based approach that references many primary and historical sources, including the “big names” in each content area * A unique combination of the perspectives of language development and language disorders with literacy development and literacy difficulties

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405

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Plural Publishing

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1944883568

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9781944883560

Sins and Needles

By: Monica Ferris

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Sins and Needles

By: Monica Ferris

Owner of the Crewel World needlework shop and part-time sleuth, Betsy Devonshire must help clear Jan Henderson's name when her wealthy aunt is found dead, courtesy of a double-zero knitting needle. Just like the kind Jan knits with. And an embroidered map of Lake Minnetonka, found among the aunt's effects, could lead Betsy to a buried treasure-or to a secret that someone would kill to keep buried.

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465

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Penguin

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110120608X

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9781101206089

Pacific Coast Highway in California

By: Carina Monica Montoya

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Pacific Coast Highway in California

By: Carina Monica Montoya

More commonly known as Pacific Coast Highway, State Route 1 ribbons along or near the Pacific Ocean from Northern California at Leggett in Mendocino down to Southern California at San Juan Capistrano in Orange County. Its construction began in 1913 and was done incrementally, largely because of funding issues, shortage of labor, legal challenges, deep canyons, steep mountains, solid rock, and unstable earth. A true modern marvel, its unique and extraordinary construction allows easy access to some of the country's most famous and historical places and picturesque sights. Thousands of pounds of dynamite were used to blast through granite, marble, and sandstone to build a highway following near or along the coastline. Among the 33 bridges along the route is the remarkable Bixby (Rainbow) Bridge at Big Sur. The highway wends its way through some of the most magnificent and scenic landscapes and historical places found between Ventura and Humboldt Counties, making it more than just a road. It is a destination.

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128

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467127515

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La MaMa Experimental Theatre – A Lasting Bridge Between Cultures

The Dialogue with European Theater in the Years 1961–1975

By: Monica Cristini

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La MaMa Experimental Theatre – A Lasting Bridge Between Cultures

The Dialogue with European Theater in the Years 1961–1975

By: Monica Cristini

This book focuses on the role of La MaMa Experimental Theatre within Avant-garde theater during the 1960s and 1970s. This study investigates the involvement of the Off-Off Broadway circuit in the Avant-garde experimentations both in the United States (New York specifically) and in Europe. This exploration shows the two-way influence – between Europe and the United States – testified by documents gathered in years of archival research. In this relevant artistic exchange, La MaMa (and Ellen Stewart as its founder and artistic director) emerges as a key element. La MaMa’s companies brought to Europe the American culture and the New York underground culture, while their members learnt European training techniques by attending workshops or taking part in the research of Eugenio Barba, Jerzy Grotowski, and Peter Brook, and brought their principles back to the United States. This book goes through a chronological path that presents some key cases of collaboration between the above-mentioned European masters and some La MaMa’s artists and companies: Tom O ’Horgan and La MaMa Repertory Troupe, the Open Theatre, Andrei Serban and The Great Jones Repertory Company, La MaMa Plexus. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theater and performance studies.

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217

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Taylor & Francis

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1000995577

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9781000995572

The Light From Within

By: Monica Minati Andrea Comari

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The Light From Within

By: Monica Minati Andrea Comari

Endri Kosturi was born in Tirana, Albania, in 1980. When he was only 7 years old, one of his first large-scale painting, Spring, was shown at the National Art Gallery in Tirana. In 1990 his family moved to Italy where he later studied fine arts. Kosturi is earlier influenced by the masters of figurative painting, but ultimately developed his own evocative and conceptual abstract style. Endri is moved by the universal idea of Love manifesting an extraordinary sensitivity to colour. As the ubiquitous windows motif remains his signature theme in his work. Kosturi lives and works in London. He has exhibited in solo and collective shows in London, Paris, Rome, Milan and Trieste. The book has text both in English and Italian language.

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Lulu.com

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1471616010

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An Existential and Phenomenological Approach to Coaching Supervision

By: Monica Hanaway

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An Existential and Phenomenological Approach to Coaching Supervision

By: Monica Hanaway

As the methodology for coaching supervision has grown and developed in recent years, so too has the need for comprehensive engagement with the needs of supervisees. This ground-breaking and much-needed new book from Monica Hanaway presents a unique existential approach to coaching supervision. This book includes an introduction to the model, with emphasis on the philosophical focus of the existential coaching approach and concepts such as uncertainty, freedom, emotions, values and beliefs, meaning, and relatedness. Hanaway offers supervisors ways of working with their supervisees on each of the key existential themes, as well as a comparison with other coaching supervision models. This book describes how a supervisor can bring an existential approach into their work, both with existential coaches and with those working in different modalities who are interested in adding to their portfolio of service. It will be of immense value to academics and students of coaching psychology.

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1000439739

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A Stitch in Time

By: Monica Ferris

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A Stitch in Time

By: Monica Ferris

When a damaged tapestry is discovered in a small-town church closet, needleworkers join to stitch together the clues which lead to a crafty crime. "Entertaining...Fans of Jessica Fletcher will devour this book." --Rendezvous

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1101495715

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Early Modern Drama and the Eastern European Elsewhere

Representations of Liminal Locality in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

By: Monica Matei-Chesnoiu

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Early Modern Drama and the Eastern European Elsewhere

Representations of Liminal Locality in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

By: Monica Matei-Chesnoiu

This study explores how Eastern European spaces and meanings are constituted in specific cultural contexts in early modern English drama. Focusing on the ways in which these texts integrate the articulation of Eastern European space and geography into a variety of interpretative conventions, the book develops ways of thinking critically and reflexively about the production of knowledge and identity in Shakespeare and his contemporaries through representations of space in drama.

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Associated University Presse

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0838641954

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9780838641958

VideoHound's Independent Film Guide

By: Monica Sullivan

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VideoHound's Independent Film Guide

By: Monica Sullivan

The only video guide devoted exclusively to movies made outside the Hollywood studio system. Here are reviews of 1,000 films, many of which have moved out of the art houses and into mainstream theaters. The book brims with attitude and humor, trivia, 50 intriguing sidebars of information, and approximately 100 photos.

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1578590183

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Torture Survivors in Analytic Therapy

Jung, Politics, Culture

By: Monica Luci

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Jung, Politics, Culture

By: Monica Luci

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Book's by Monica Luci

Torture, Psychoanalysis and Human Rights

Torture, Psychoanalysis and Human Rights

Torture, Psychoanalysis and Human Rights

Torture, Psychoanalysis and Human Rights

Torture Survivors in Analytic Therapy

Torture Survivors in Analytic Therapy

Knit Your Own Murder

Knit Your Own Murder

Grammar and Syntax

Grammar and Syntax

Sins and Needles

Sins and Needles

Pacific Coast Highway in California

Pacific Coast Highway in California

La MaMa Experimental Theatre – A Lasting Bridge Between Cultures

La MaMa Experimental Theatre – A Lasting Bridge Between Cultures

The Light From Within

The Light From Within

An Existential and Phenomenological Approach to Coaching Supervision

An Existential and Phenomenological Approach to Coaching Supervision

A Stitch in Time

A Stitch in Time

Early Modern Drama and the Eastern European Elsewhere

Early Modern Drama and the Eastern European Elsewhere

VideoHound's Independent Film Guide

VideoHound's Independent Film Guide

Torture Survivors in Analytic Therapy

Torture Survivors in Analytic Therapy

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