Art, Crime and Madness explores the relationship between creative innovation, deviance and morbidity. To innovate, one has to be able to view the medium and the object of creativity in a different, hitherto unexplored manner. The essence of art is creative innovation, coupled with an ability, in varying degrees, to transcend the boundaries of ...
These psychological dynamics are presented by way of the developmental and relationship experiences we have with the outside world - alternations between conflict and a striving to revert back to earlier developmental phases. At any given moment of our lives there is a gap between our desires for participation and our subjectively defined distance ...
There is an unbridgeable controversy between the functionalist sociologist who anchors his theories on society and the group, and the existentialist who bathes his thoughts on the individual. Durkheim and Parsons, as well as many contemporary American sociologists, are adjustment based in the sense that all those individuals who rock the boat ...
'At the outset of the twenty-first century, more than 9 million people are held in custody in over 200 countries around the world' - from the essay "Prisons and Jails" by Ron King. The first comparative study of this increasingly integral social subject, "International Handbook of Penology and Criminal Justice" provides a comprehensive and ...
In this text, Shoham presents existentialist and object-relationship personality theory using mythology as a projection of human behaviour. He highlights the biological parameter of the personality and the thought of Kierkegaard and Rabbi Nachman of Brazlav.
A learning experience of the first order, encyclopedically rich in its coverage, Shoham puts myth, religion, literature and psychology into an easily understandable analytic perspective. This book traces the influence of Gnosis in European culture.
This is not a work on physics, nor is it a tract on personality, but rather an effort to link them together in order to examine the cognitive relationship of humans with their surroundings. We explore the interaction between the human mind and energy-matter; the adoption of quantum mechanics allows us to bridge the distinction between physics and ...
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