Scared Sick

Scared Sick
Author: Robin Karr-Morse
Publisher:
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2012-01-03
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0465013546

"In Scared Sick, childhood expert and therapist Robin Karr-Morse and lawyer and strategist Meredith Wiley propose that chronic fear experienced in infancy and early childhood lies at the root of numerous diseases as well as emotional and behavioral pathologies in adults."--Jacket.

Scared Sick

Scared Sick
Author: Robin Karr-Morse
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2012-01-03
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0465028128

The first years of human life are more important than we ever realized. In Scared Sick, Robin Karr-Morse connects psychology, neurobiology, endocrinology, immunology, and genetics to demonstrate how chronic fear in infancy and early childhood -- when we are most helpless -- lies at the root of common diseases in adulthood. Compassionate and based on the latest research, Scared Sick will unveil a major public health crisis. Highlighting case studies and cutting-edge scientific findings, Karr- Morse shows how our innate fight-or-flight system can injure us if overworked in the early stages of life. Persistent stress can trigger diabetes, heart disease, obesity, depression, and addiction later on.

Synchrony and Diachrony

Synchrony and Diachrony
Author: Anna Giacalone Ramat
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2013-05-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027272077

The focus of this volume is on the relation between synchrony and diachrony. It is examined in the light of the most recent theories of language change and linguistic variation. What has traditionally been treated as a dichotomy is now seen rather in terms of a dynamic interface. The contributions to this volume aim at exploring the most adequate tools to describe and understand the manifestations of this dynamic interface. Thorough analyses are offered on hot topics of the current linguistic debate, which are all involved in the analysis of the synchrony-diachrony interface: gradualness of change, synchronic variation and gradience, constructional approaches to grammaticalization, the role of contact-induced transfer in language change, analogy. Case studies are discussed from a variety of languages and dialects including English, Welsh, Latin, Italian and Italian dialects, Dutch, Swedish, German and German dialects, Hungarian. This volume is of great interest to a broad audience within linguistics, including historical linguistics, typology, pragmatics, and areal linguistics.

Illness and Irony

Illness and Irony
Author: Michael Lambek
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2004
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781571816740

Theories of illness and therapy since Freud have included the possibility that sufferers are complicit in their conditions. The studies in this volume explore the ways in which illness and therapy may be characterized as sites at which ironies of the human condition are produced, encountered, acknowledged – or discounted in favor of more literal readings. They ask what these sites can teach us about questions of human agency and about the broader importance of irony for theory. Encompassing a variety of perspectives, the contributors included in Illness and Irony apply theories of irony to a myriad of cultural contexts, ranging from Freud’s consulting room and the Lacanian clinics of Buenos Aires to fright illness in a Yemeni village and spirit possession on the island of Mayotte. An introductory chapter by Michael Lambek establishes a contextual viewpoint on irony, arising from the writings of Thomas Mann, Alexander Nehamas and others. Vincent Crapanzano concludes the volume by linking the contributions to current debates about irony in rhetoric, linguistics and comparative literature.

Bear Feels Sick

Bear Feels Sick
Author: Karma Wilson
Publisher: ABDO
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2009
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781599614861

When Bear is too sick to play, his animal friends go to his cave to make him soup and tea and keep him company.

A Sick Day for Amos McGee

A Sick Day for Amos McGee
Author: Philip C. Stead
Publisher:
Total Pages: 18
Release: 2018-01-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250171105

The 2011 Caldecott Medal winner is now available as a board book, perfect forthe youngest of readers. Full color.

Facing Mighty Fears About Throwing Up

Facing Mighty Fears About Throwing Up
Author: Dawn Huebner
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2022-06-13
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1787759261

No one like to throw up, but emetophobia is different, turning disgust into dread. Facing Mighty Fears About Throwing Up presents techniques to help shrink this common fear. Fun Facts about vomit engage children, while a Note to Parents and Caregivers and supplemental Resource section make this the perfect guide for parents and mental health professionals. This book is part of the Dr. Dawn's Mini Books About Mighty Fears series, designed to help children ages 6-10 tackle their fears and live happier lives.

Ghosts from the Nursery

Ghosts from the Nursery
Author: Robin Karr-Morse
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0802196330

An “ominous and persuasive” study of when violence starts in child development—and the preventive measures to stop it (The New York Times Book Review). This new, revised edition incorporates significant advances in neurobiological research and includes a new introduction by Dr. Vincent J. Felitti, a leading researcher in the field. When Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence was first published, it was lauded for providing scientific evidence that violence can originate in the womb and become entrenched in a child’s brain by preschool. The authors’ groundbreaking conclusions became even more relevant following the wave of school shootings across the nation including the tragedies at Columbine High School, Sandy Hook Elementary School, and shocking subsequent shootings. Following each of these, media coverage and public debate turned yet again to the usual suspects concerning the causes of violence: widespread availability of guns and lack of mental health services for late-stage treatment. Discussion of the impact of trauma on human life—especially early in life during chemical and structural formation of the brain—is missing from the equation. Karr-Morse and Wiley continue to shift the conversation among parents and policy makers toward more fundamental preventative measures against violence. “Karr-Morse and Wiley boldly raise some tough issues . . . [They] start with a grim question—why are children violent?—and they forge a passionate and cogent argument for focusing our collective energies on infancy and parenthood to stop the cycle of ruined lives.” —The Seattle Times

Scared to be Sick

Scared to be Sick
Author: Samantha Watkins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2018
Genre: Emetophobia
ISBN: 9781788083171

The Play Within the Play

The Play Within the Play
Author: Gerhard Fischer
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9042022574

The thirty chapters of this innovative international study are all devoted to the topic of the play within the play. The authors explore the wide range of aesthetic, literary-theoretical and philosophical issues associated with this rhetorical device, not only in terms of its original meta-theatrical setting - from the baroque idea of a theatrum mundi onward to contemporary examples of postmodern self-referential dramaturgy - but also with regard to a variety of different generic applications, e.g. in narrative fiction, musical theatre and film. The authors, internationally recognized specialists in their respective fields, draw on recent debates in such areas as postcolonial studies, game and systems theories, media and performance studies, to analyze the specific qualities and characteristics of the play within the play: as ultimate affirmation of the 'self' (the 'Hamlet paradigm'), as a self-reflective agency of meta-theatrical discourse, and as a vehicle of intermedial and intercultural transformation. The challenging study, with its underlying premise of play as a key feature of cultural anthropology and human creativity, breaks new ground by placing the play within the play at the centre of a number of intersecting scholarly discourses on areas of topical concern to scholars in the humanities.