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5 dni temu · The 1960s saw a resurgence of “crisis literature” and the emergence of a more positive connotation of the concept in U.S.-American experimental psychology, when it was connected with Thomas Kuhn’s ideas of scientific “revolutions” and “paradigm shifts.”. Since that time, psychological crisis literature has revolved around the ...
3 dni temu · Mourning and Melancholia will endure as an example of how a person, through crisis, can mobilise self-healing and creative forces. The description and understanding of the dynamics behind pathological grief are highly relevant in modern medicine and psychiatry, and the condition has finally been recognised as a separate diagnostic unit.
5 dni temu · Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis. Despite repeated criticisms, attempted refutations, and qualifications of Freud’s work, its spell remained powerful well after his death and in fields far removed from psychology as it is narrowly defined.
2 dni temu · Principle 2: If we are trying to create (or rediscover) a form of philosophy and an activity of philosophising that is alive, then we need to be alive ourselves, and our life needs to be in the form. This does not mean confessional or autobiographical philosophy (though it can be that too, if it wants).
4 dni temu · In addition to creating a thoroughgoing and rich portrait of the life of a small early 19th-century town, Eliot produced an essentially modern novel, with penetrating psychological insights and moral ambiguity. Eliot also broke with convention by refusing to end the work with the inevitable happy ending, as women writers of romance fiction were ...
3 dni temu · Drawing on the legitimacy theory, this study investigates the mediating role of legitimacy and the moderating effect of psychological distance in the relationship between information quality and consumers’ participation intention.
5 dni temu · Freud’s work on hysteria had focused on female sexuality and its potential for neurotic expression. To be fully universal, psychoanalysis—a term Freud coined in 1896—would also have to examine the male psyche in a condition of what might be called normality.
