This text provides an invaluable and accessible overview of the rapidly developing field of integration. In order to convey the essential components of integrative therapy, the authors combine a broad review of the field of integration with a specific model. In the first section they explore the philosophical, historical and research background to the integrative movement, culminating in a discussion of the key components of a theory of integration. In the second section they provide an example of the theory and application of a coherent model of integration. This 'developmental relational' model draws together aspects of humanistic psychology and contemporary psychoanalysis. The final section focuses on particular ethical, training and professional considerations pertinent to the integrative practitioner.
University of Virginia Press
What happens, asks Patrick Riley, when a life transformed becomes an autobiography? What is the relationship between the subjective upheaval of conversion and the representation of character? Who, then, is this "self" writing the narrative of a life? Thinking of conversion as a radical turning point or fulcrum on which incompatible configurations of character are precariously balanced, Riley examines both historically and tropologically the paradoxes of identity and life writing that conversion raises. While conversion can motivate the writing of an autobiography that ties together threads of a life story, it also implies a fragmentation of character. As it creates a unified framework for the subject's history, it also disrupts any stable conception of the self...
This book argues that correspondence theories of truth fail because the relation that holds between a true thought and a fact is that of identity, not correspondence. Facts are not complexes of worldly entities which make thoughts true; they are merely true thoughts. According to Julian Dodd, the resulting modest identity theory, while not defining truth, correctly diagnoses the failure of correspondence theories, and thereby prepares the ground for a defensible deflation of the concept of truth.
"Humorous yet touching, Performing Femininity challenges traditional and feminist perspectives on gender. As ""a woman whose brand of feminism is suspect,"" Lesa Lockford places herself in the most shameful, the most abject, circumstances; an image obsessed weight watcher, an exotic dancer and a theatrical performer. By exposing herself to the abject she reclaims her body's symbolic value from society. This experimental autoethnography provides practical advice to the ethnographer and insight to the student of gender studies."
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