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Normality Does Not Equal Mental Health

The Need to Look Elsewhere for Standards of Good Psychological Health

By: Steven James Bartlett

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Normality Does Not Equal Mental Health

The Need to Look Elsewhere for Standards of Good Psychological Health

By: Steven James Bartlett

How do you define good mental health? This controversial, counterintuitive, and altogether fascinating book argues that "psychological normality" is neither a desirable nor an acceptable standard. Normality Does Not Equal Mental Health: The Need to Look Elsewhere for Standards of Good Psychological Health is a groundbreaking work, the first book-length study to question the equation of psychological normality and mental health. Its author, Dr. Steven James Bartlett, musters compelling evidence and careful analysis to challenge the paradigm accepted by mental health theorists and practitioners, a paradigm that is not only wrong, but can be damaging to those to whom it is applied—and to society as a whole. In this bold, multidisciplinary work, Bartlett critiques the presumed standard of normality that permeates contemporary consciousness. Showing that the current concept of mental illness is fundamentally unacceptable because it is scientifically unfounded and the result of flawed thinking, he argues that adherence to the gold standard of psychological normality leads to nothing less than cultural impoverishment.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313399328

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9780313399329

CRITIQUE OF IMPURE REASON

Horizons of Possibility and Meaning

By: Steven James Bartlett

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CRITIQUE OF IMPURE REASON

Horizons of Possibility and Meaning

By: Steven James Bartlett

The Critique of Impure Reason: Horizons of Possibility and Meaning comprises a major and important contribution to philosophy. It inaugurates a revolutionary paradigm shift in philosophical thought by providing compelling and long-sought-for solutions to a wide range of philosophical problems. In the process, the massive work fundamentally transforms the way in which the concepts of reference, meaning, and possibility are understood. The book includes a Foreword by the celebrated German philosopher and physicist Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker. In Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason we find an analysis of the preconditions of experience and of knowledge. In contrast, but yet in parallel, the new Critique focuses upon the ways—unfortunately very widespread and often unselfconsciously habitual—in which many of the concepts that we employ conflict with the very preconditions of meaning and of knowledge. This is a book about the boundaries of frameworks and about the unrecognized conceptual confusions in which we become entangled when we attempt to transgress beyond the limits of the possible and meaningful. We tend either not to recognize or not to accept that we all-too-often attempt to trespass beyond the boundaries of the frameworks that make knowledge possible and the world meaningful. The Critique of Impure Reason proposes a bold, ground-breaking, and startling thesis: that a great many of the major philosophical problems of the past can be solved through the recognition of a viciously deceptive form of thinking to which philosophers as well as non-philosophers commonly fall victim. For the first time, the book advances and justifies the criticism that a substantial number of the questions that have occupied philosophers fall into the category of “impure reason,” violating the very conditions of their possible meaningfulness. The purpose of the study is twofold: first, to enable us to recognize the boundaries of what is referentially forbidden—the limits beyond which reference becomes meaningless—and second, to avoid falling victims to a certain broad class of conceptual confusions that lie at the heart of many major philosophical problems. As a consequence, the boundaries of possible meaning are determined. Bartlett, the author or editor of more than 20 books, is responsible for identifying this widespread and delusion-inducing variety of error, metalogical projection. It is a previously unrecognized and insidious form of erroneous thinking that undermines its own possibility of meaning. It comes about as a result of the pervasive human compulsion to seek to transcend the limits of possible reference and meaning. Based on original research and rigorous analysis combined with extensive scholarship, the Critique of Impure Reason develops a self-validating method that makes it possible to recognize, correct, and eliminate this major and pervasive form of fallacious thinking. In so doing, the book provides at last provable and constructive solutions to a wide range of major philosophical problems. CONTENTS AT A GLANCE Preface Foreword by Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Acknowledgments Avant-propos: A philosopher’s rallying call Introduction A note to the reader A note on conventions PART I WHY PHILOSOPHY HAS MADE NO PROGRESS AND HOW IT CAN 1 Philosophical-psychological prelude 2 Putting belief in its place: Its psychology and a needed polemic 3 Turning away from the linguistic turn: From theory of reference to metalogic of reference 4 The stepladder to maximum theoretical generality PART II THE METALOGIC OF REFERENCE A New Approach to Deductive, Transcendental Philosophy 5 Reference, identity, and identification 6 Self-referential argument and the metalogic of reference 7 Possibility theory 8 Presupposition logic, reference, and identification 9 Transcendental argumentation and the metalogic of reference 10 Framework relativity 11 The metalogic of meaning 12 The problem of putative meaning and the logic of meaninglessness 13 Projection 14 Horizons 15 De-projection 16 Self-validation 17 Rationality: Rules of admissibility PART III PHILOSOPHICAL APPLICATIONS OF THE METALOGIC OF REFERENCE Major Problems and Questions of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Science 18 Ontology and the metalogic of reference 19 Discovery or invention in general problem-solving, mathematics, and physics 20 The conceptually unreachable: “The far side” 21 The projections of the external world, things-in-themselves, other minds, realism, and idealism 22 The projections of time, space, and space-time 23 The projections of causality, determinism, and free will 24 Projections of the self and of solipsism 25 Non-relational, agentless reference and referential fields 26 Relativity physics as seen through the lens of the metalogic of reference 27 Quantum theory as seen through the lens of the metalogic of reference 28 Epistemological lessons learned from and applicable to relativity physics and quantum theory PART IV HORIZONS 29 Beyond belief 30 Critique of Impure Reason: Its results in retrospect SUPPLEMENT The Formal Structure of the Metalogic of Reference APPENDIX I: The Concept of Horizon in the Work of Other Philosophers APPENDIX II: Epistemological Intelligence References Index About the author

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886

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Studies in Theory and Behavior

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0578886464

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9780578886466

Lemkin on Genocide

By: Steven Leonard Jacobs

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Lemkin on Genocide

By: Steven Leonard Jacobs

Providing an annotated commentary on two unpublished manuscripts written by international law and genocide scholar Raphael Lemkin, Steven L. Jacobs offers a critical introduction to the father of genocide studies. Lemkin coined the term "genocide" and was the motivating force behind the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide. The materials collected here give readers further insight into this singularly courageous man and the issue which consumed him in the aftermath of the Second World War. It is a welcome addition to the library of genocide and Holocaust Studies scholars and students alike.

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431

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Lexington Books

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0739145282

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9780739145289

General Biology Lab Manual

Investigations Into Life's Phenomena

By: Russell Skavaril,Mary Finnen,Steven Lawton

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General Biology Lab Manual

Investigations Into Life's Phenomena

By: Russell Skavaril,Mary Finnen,Steven Lawton

This laboratory manual, suitable for biology majors or non-majors, provides a selection of lucid, comprehensive experiments that include excellent detail, illustration, and pedagogy.

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412

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Brooks/Cole

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0030326125

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9780030326127

Earth Science

By: Steven I. Dutch,James Stewart Monroe,Joseph M. Moran

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Earth Science

By: Steven I. Dutch,James Stewart Monroe,Joseph M. Moran

One of the few texts to integrate earth systems approach with impact of humans on the planet, this volume focuses on modern science and how it works. This approach gives students the tools they need for critical thinking, problem solving, and inquiry into the study of geology, oceanography, and astronomy. With everyday observations and examples, this text is highly readable and engaging.

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Wadsworth Publishing Company

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0314201114

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9780314201119

Exploring American Histories, Volume One

A Survey with Sources

By: Nancy A. Hewitt,Steven F. Lawson

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Exploring American Histories, Volume One

A Survey with Sources

By: Nancy A. Hewitt,Steven F. Lawson

Exploring American Histories guides you through the nation’s history, giving voice to an extraordinary variety of Americans, while teaching you to work with historical documents in the same way as professional historians.

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Macmillan Higher Education

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1319409768

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9781319409760

What Do I Read Next?

A Reader's Guide to Current Genre Fiction 1996

By: Gale Group,Barron,Barton,Steven A. Stilwell

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What Do I Read Next?

A Reader's Guide to Current Genre Fiction 1996

By: Gale Group,Barron,Barton,Steven A. Stilwell

This annual selection guide covers new novels in the mystery fiction, science fiction, fantasy, horror, western fiction and romance genres. By identifying similarities in various books, it seeks to help readers to independently choose titles of interest published during 1995 - 1996. Entries are arranged by author within six genre sections, and provide: publisher and publication date; series name and number; description of characters; time/geographical setting; review citation; genre and setting notations; and related books.

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Gale Cengage

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0787610488

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9780787610487

Exploring American Histories, Combined Volume

A Survey with Sources

By: Nancy A. Hewitt,Steven F. Lawson

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Exploring American Histories, Combined Volume

A Survey with Sources

By: Nancy A. Hewitt,Steven F. Lawson

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1319409741

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Black Painted Fingernails

By: Steven Herrick

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Black Painted Fingernails

By: Steven Herrick

A captivating story of tender new friendship and self-discovery from the author of Kissing Annabel "How about we toss a coin? Heads, it's west and a lift. Tails, it's still west, but no lift." James is heading into the country on his first teacher-training round when a mysterious girl asks him for a ride. Sophie has him all worked out: "You live with your parents and they bought you this car, and a very nice car it is too." At first James can't see past her wild hair and attitude, but when Sophie trusts him with a secret she's been keeping too long, she changes his direction completely. Steven Herrick masterfully reveals the essence of his characters in this tough and tender story about opening up to love and living a life that's true.

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Allen & Unwin

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1742691749

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