Dismantling the Structure of the Ego

Dismantling the Structure of the Ego
Author: Jacqui Derbecker
Publisher: BalboaPress
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2013-02-15
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1452566267

Dismantling the Structure of the Ego exposes how the ego is currently being dismantled and the re-alignment of your true self is emerging. This is a time of restructuring yourself and the beginning of the realization of who you truly are. This book explains and details the specifics of ego dismantling as they apply to every aspect of your life. This book was created through Jacqui by the process of automatic writing, in which the words flowed from her pen onto the paper. Allow this book to read you and help you to recognize where in your life ego beliefs are being dismantled.

Implementing Ecological Integrity

Implementing Ecological Integrity
Author: Philippe Crabbé
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9401158762

This book contains some of the papers which were presented at the NATO Science, Environmental Security, Advanced Research Workshop on "Implementing Ecological Integrity: Restoring Regional and Global Environmental and Human Health" held in Budapest from June 26 to July 1, 1999. All papers presented are summarized in the Introduction and, in some cases, shorter versions are published. A mUltidisciplinary core of American and Western European participants had met over the preceeding years to discuss the concept of ecological integrity. The term "ecological integrity" is found in environmental policy documents but, generally, is not defined. It competes with other recent terms, or environmental narratives, such as "ecosystem health" and "sustainable development" and also with older ones such as "conservation". Therefore, it is deemed important not only to sort out the definitions of these concepts but also to find out whether their practical implications differ. Moreover, it was interesting to find out whether participants from Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) and, more generally, from NATO partner countries would be, first, responsive to this concept and, second, would hold different views of it. This explains the broad, albeit not always consistent, range oftopics which are covered in this book. The core group learned that CEEC and other NATO partners participants were responsive to the concept but that they were less exclusive of human influence.

Progress in Self Psychology, V. 10

Progress in Self Psychology, V. 10
Author: Arnold I. Goldberg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1134889216

The tenth volume in the Progress in Self Psychology series begins with four timely assessments of the selfobject concept, followed by a section of clinical papers that span the topics of homosexuality, alter ego countertransference, hypnosis, trauma, dream theory, and intersubjective approaches to conjoint therapy. Section III, "A Dialogue of Self Psychology," offers Merton Gill's astute appreciation of "Heinz Kohut's Self Psychology," followed by commentaries by Leider and Stolorow and Gill's reply. The concluding section offers Stolorow and Atwood's "The Myth of the Isolated Mind," followed by discussions by Gehrie and the Shanes. A forum for the kind of spirited, productive exchanges that have long found a home within the self-psychological community, A Decade of Progress builds on the past in responding to the theoretical and clinical challenges of the present.

Dismantling the Racism Machine

Dismantling the Racism Machine
Author: Karen Gaffney
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2017-11-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351712098

While scholars have been developing valuable research on race and racism for decades, this work does not often reach the beginning college student or the general public, who rarely learn a basic history of race and racism. If we are to dismantle systemic racism and create a more just society, people need a place to begin. This accessible, introductory, and interdisciplinary guide can be one such place. Grounded in critical race theory, this book uses the metaphor of the Racism Machine to highlight that race is a social construct and that racism is a system of oppression based on invented racial categories. It debunks the false ideology that race is biological. As a manual, this book presents clear instructions for understanding the history of race, including whiteness, starting in colonial America, where the elite created a hierarchy of racial categories to maintain their power through a divide-and-conquer strategy. As a toolbox, this book provides a variety of specific action steps that readers can take once they have developed a foundational understanding of the history of white supremacy, a history that includes how the Racism Machine has been recalibrated to perpetuate racism in a supposedly "post-racial" era.

Self, Social Structure, and Beliefs

Self, Social Structure, and Beliefs
Author: Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2004-09-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520241374

This is an exploration of the creative work done by leading sociologists who were inspired by the scholarship of Neil Smelser.

Remains of a Self

Remains of a Self
Author: Cathrine Bjørnholt Michaelsen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2021-06-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 153815336X

From the twentieth century in the twenty-first, psychoanalysis and deconstruction have challenged, and continue to challenge, our conceptions of subjectivity and selfhood. Psychoanalysis revealed that even in our innermost households we are never quite alone; rather, instances of “otherness” incessantly interfere in our most intimate relation to ourselves, forcing us to adapt continuously. Deconstruction, inheriting both this psychoanalytic disclosure and Heidegger’s destruction of the history of metaphysics, went to the foundations of the Western constructions of “the subject” and “the self,” only to find how a destabilizing otherness was always already haunting them. What, if anything, remains of the self in the aftermath? Early on in the wake of deconstruction, a certain misconceived and simplified notion of the “death of the subject” was proclaimed and in recent years more or less successful attempts have been made at reviving the notions of “the subject,” “the self,” and “agency.” In contrast to these attempts at revival, this book offers a two-pronged approach: On the one hand, it argues that neither psychoanalysis nor deconstruction propounds a simple annihilation of the subject or liquidation of the self; on the other hand, however, neither do they pave the way for a “return to the subject” or “resurrection of the self” that would allow us once again to become confident about our presence to ourselves. Instead, this book suggests that if we set ourselves the task of taking up the heritage from psychoanalysis and deconstruction in a serious manner, we are obliged to retrace the subject and the self as undergoing perpetual auto-deconstruction.

Leading the Self-Managing School

Leading the Self-Managing School
Author: Brian J. Caldwell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2005-08-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135387672

This work is a sequel to The Self-Managing School and deals with leadership responsibilities on two levels - as head of a school responsible for loca management and as a director in a Local Education Authority responsible

The Will to Empower

The Will to Empower
Author: Barbara Cruikshank
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2019-06-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1501733915

How do liberal democracies produce citizens who are capable of governing themselves? In considering this question, Barbara Cruikshank rethinks central topics in political theory, including the relationship between welfare and citizenship, democracy and despotism, and subjectivity and subjection. Drawing on theories of power and the creation of subjects, Cruikshank argues that individuals in a democracy are made into self-governing citizens through the small-scale and everyday practices of voluntary associations, reform movements, and social service programs. She argues that our empowerment is a measure of our subjection rather than of our autonomy from power. Through a close examination of several contemporary American "technologies of citizenship"—from welfare rights struggles to philanthropic self-help schemes to the organized promotion of self-esteem awareness—she demonstrates how social mobilization reshapes the political in ways largely unrecognized in democratic theory. Although the impact of a given reform movement may be minor, the techniques it develops for creating citizens far extend the reach of govermental authority. Combining a detailed knowledge of social policy and practice with insights from poststructural and feminist theory, The Will to Empower shows how democratic citizens and the political are continually recreated.

Assembling Alternatives

Assembling Alternatives
Author: Romana Huk
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2003-04-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780819565402

First anthology to examine the national borders of postmodern poetry.