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  • Psychoanalytic Explorations into the Primal Relationship in Japan and India

    by Osamu Kitayama, Jhuma Basak ...
    Series series Psychoanalysis and Women Series
    In this landmark collaboration, Osamu Kitayama and Jhuma Basak chronical their long-standing collaboration and cultural exchange to survey the importance of familial relationships in Japan and India, exploring primal relations through a cross-cultural psychoanalytic lens.Divided into three sections, Psychoanalytic Explorations into the Primal Relationship in Japan and India looks at each country’s ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Psychoanalytic and Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Women in India

    Violence, Safety and Survival

    Edited by Jhuma Basak, Gertraud Schlessinger-Kipp, Paula Ellman ...
    Series series Psychoanalysis and Women Series
    This important book provides a bridge between psychoanalytic perspectives and socio-cultural issues to shine a spotlight on the experiences of women in India today.Women’s well-being and security has often depended upon their gender positioning while other binaries like rural-urban, class, and caste have also played a crucial role globally and especially in India. Historically, women have been ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

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  • Why We Need Religion

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  • The Wondering Brain

    Thinking about Religion With and Beyond Cognitive Neuroscience

    by Kelly Bulkeley ...
    The explosion of new research in cognitive neuroscience has revealed fascinating dimensions of the human brain/mind system. But even as it brings us closer to understanding how the mind works, science is producing more, and perhaps even larger questions. What further powers and abilities are latent within us? The Wondering Brain argues that the profound questions raised by cognitive neuroscience ... Read more

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  • Religion

    What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters

    by Christian Smith ...
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  • Translating Happiness

    A Cross-Cultural Lexicon of Well-Being

    by Tim Lomas ...
    How embracing untranslatable terms for well-being—from the Finnish sisu to the Yiddish mensch—can enrich our emotional understanding and experience.Western psychology is rooted in the philosophies and epistemologies of Western culture. But what of concepts and insights from outside this frame of reference? Certain terms not easily translatable into English—for example, nirvāṇa (from Sanskrit), or ... Read more

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  • Affliction

    Health, Disease, Poverty

    by Veena Das ...
    Series series Forms of Living
    Affliction inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, it stitches together three different sets of issues.First, it examines the different trajectories of illness: What are the circumstances under which illness is absorbed within the normal and when does it exceed the normal—putting ... Read more

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  • The Arabic Freud

    Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt

    by Omnia El Shakry ...
    The first in-depth look at how postwar thinkers in Egypt mapped the intersections between Islamic discourses and psychoanalytic thought.In 1945, psychologist Yusuf Murad introduced an Arabic term borrowed from the medieval Sufi philosopher and mystic Ibn 'Arabi— al-la-shu'ur—as a translation for Sigmund Freud's concept of the unconscious. By the late 1950s, Freud's Interpretation of Dreams had ... Read more

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  • Ways of Knowing

    Science and Mysticism Today

    by Chris Clarke ...
    The world faces a crisis of meaning. The old stories - whether the exclusive claims of rival religions or the grand schemes of perennial philosophy - seem bankrupt to many. The editorial stance of this book is that mysticism and science offer a way forward here, but only if they abandon the idol of a single logical synthesis and acknowledge the diversity of different ways of knowing. The ... Read more

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    A Manifesto

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  • Emotions in the Field

    The Psychology and Anthropology of Fieldwork Experience

    Edited by James Davies, Dimitrina Spencer ...
    As emotion is often linked with irrationality, it's no surprise researchers tend to underreport the emotions they experience in the field. However, denying emotion altogether doesn't necessarily lead to better research. Methods cannot function independently from the personalities wielding them, and it's time we questioned the tendency to underplay the scientific, personal, and political ... Read more

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