This book explores the analyst’s countertransference experience in clinical settings from a number of theoretical perspectives in order to develop a transtheoretical definition of countertransference. Stemming from an examination of the definition of countertransference itself, the author utilizes a philosophical hermeneutic approach to ask how pathological countertransference develops, how analysts separate themselves from the patient’s experience, and what analysts should do to prevent their countertransference response from interfering with treatment. Through the unique hermeneutic methodology, philosophical themes within selected writings are explored as a way of gaining a deeper meaning and understanding of countertransference. By re-interpreting these selected writings in a new light, the book develops a transtheoretical definition and approach to countertransference. As such, the author offers a timely reassessment of the meaning and understanding of countertransference as it has evolved over the past century, going from being considered an obstacle to treatment brought on by the analyst’s unconscious conflicts to being understood as a way of communicating and understanding the patient’s unconscious material. It also provides a unique pathway through various depth psychological, therapeutic, and theoretical approaches to countertransference, foregrounding the significance and therapeutic value of the concept and seeking a new transtheoretical definition. This volume will appeal to scholars and researchers of psychology and mental health.
Was versteht eine Maschine unter „Unsterblichkeit“? Cobb Anderson hatte die ersten Roboter gebaut, die über ein eigenes Bewusstsein verfügten, und freute sich, als sie revoltierten und auf dem Mond ihre eigene Gesellschaft errichteten. Dafür wollen sie sich nun bei ihrem Schöpfer revanchieren: Sie versprechen ihm Unsterblichkeit – für einen siebzigjährigen Anarchisten nach einer Herztransplantation ein verlockendes Angebot. Die Roboter haben Cobb allerdings darüber im Unklaren gelassen, was sie unter „Unsterblichkeit“ verstehen. Für sie zählt nur die Software: die persönlichen Erinnerungen, die Art des Denkens, das Ich-Bewusstsein. Das alles würde für die Ewigkeit in die elektronischen Speicher eingehen und sorgsam bewahrt werden. Schließlich ist es vollkommen unlogisch, dass jemand – und sei er noch so alt – an diesem hinfälligen, ständig defekten, schrottreifen Anhängsel aus kohlenstoffhaltigen Verbindungen hängt ...
(Bio-)Mechanische Evolution Die Roboter haben sich auf dem Mond verschanzt, Asimovs Robotergesetze aus ihren Speichern gelöscht und machen jetzt Front gegen die Menschen. Die Menschheit kann sie nicht einfach vernichten, denn sie hat sich zu lange auf die Dienste der Roboter blind verlassen. Sie auszuradieren hieße, fast das gesamte technische Wissen zu verlieren. Die Roboter entwickeln Androiden, die sich optisch nicht von Menschen unterscheiden und in der Lage sind, sich mit menschlichen Frauen fortzupflanzen. So soll die Gesellschaft auf der Erde unterwandert werden. Die Menschen hingegen entwickeln die sogenannte Chip-Hefe, die wichtige Schaltkreise und Hardware überwuchert. Die Evolution endet vorerst in einem Patt ...
This book unabashedly explains and defends the doctrinal and dogmatic tenets of the Christian Catholic faith, and attempts to reveal, as well, the obvious corollary attached thereto, namely, the untenability of the various protesting and schismatic Christian bodies who find themselves outside the pale of the original and ancient Catholic Church of Christ.
Roman Jakobson's writings range over the entire field of general linguistics, as well as embracing Slavic linguistics and literature theory. Jakobson has had a tremenduous influence on the development of linguistic theory. He was a founder of and prime mover in the Prague Linguistic Circle. On the basis of the new structuralist concepts, he set forth bold theories of general linguistics and illustrated them with brilliant demonstrations based on Slavic and other languages. Taking a leading role in the elucidation of the structural linguistic field of phonology, Jakobson used these insights to develop new trends in historical phonology. Altogether, his linguistics appears to incorporate the technical design of modern theoretical concepts, but at the same time transcends purely formal modeling through its interdisciplinary focus upon historical and poetic matters. Jakobson was enormously successful in presenting innovative theoretical insights and relating them to possible practical applications. Specifically, his work on the general processes of language acquisition and loss, on child language and aphasia, opened up entirely new methods for linguists and doctors alike. The series Selected Writings represents the whole range of Roman Jakobson's field of research.
A complete, progressive course that teaches musicians how to notate music from audio examples, held on downloadable resources. Basic melodic dictation is followed by progressively more complex scores, in classical, jazz, and popular styles. Designed for the two year undergraduate sequence, Strategies and Patterns for Ear Training offers valuable strategies to students and teachers alike.
Koshar argues that in Germany, memory landscapes have taken shape according to four separate paradigms - the national monument, the ruin, the reconstruction, and the trace - which he analyzes in relation to the changing political agendas that have guided them over time."--BOOK JACKET.
The Medieval book, both religious and secular, was regarded as a most precious item. The traces of its use through touching and handling during different rituals such as oath-taking, is the subject of Kathryn Rudy’s research in Touching Parchment. Rudy presents numerous and fascinating case studies that relate to the evidence of use and damage through touching and or kissing. She also puts each study within a category of different ways of handling books, mainly liturgical, legal or choral practice, and in turn connects each practice to the horizontal or vertical behavioural patterns of users within a public or private environment. With her keen eye for observation in being able to identify various characteristics of inadvertent and targeted ware, the author adds a new dimension to the Medieval book. She gives the reader the opportunity to reflect on the social, anthropological and historical value of the use of the book by sharpening our senses to the way users handled books in different situations. Rudy has amassed an incredible amount of material for this research and the way in which she presents each manuscript conveys an approach that scholars on Medieval history and book materiality should keep in mind when carrying out their own research. What perhaps is most striking in her articulate text, is how she expresses that the touching of books was not without emotion, and the accumulated effects of these emotions are worthy of preservation, study and further reflection.
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