In recent years, Peter N. Stearns has established himself as a historian of American emotional life. Now Stearns reveals the dichotomy at the heart of the national character: a self-indulgent hedonism and the famed American informality on the one hand, and a repressiveness on the other.
`I was impressed with the accessibility of the book, offering a guided tour through the history, context and purposes of reminiscence therapy, the range of applications from promoting social and emotional stimulation to reminiscence as psychotherapy. It also provides a brief overview of its theoretical underpinnings... As a book for health professionals interested in reminiscence work, it is a must for the shelf... most importantly it emphasizes the need for adequate training and supervision for those undertaking this type of work... the authors [also] provide a very good working guide to the assessment process' - Aging and Health In this practical and accessible book, leading exponents of reminiscence work describe the purposes and techniques of reminiscence and set out detailed guidelines on how to implement and conduct a wide range of reminiscence activities with different types of client. Highlighting its tremendous diversity and potential - and its special ability to allow people of all ages and abilities to communicate deeply about their lives - the authors separate out the different aims of reminiscence, which include intellectual or social stimulation, allowing people to leave behind them a cultural legacy, or a means of intergenerational communication. They show clearly how each can be directly beneficial either to clients or their carers, or for improving the culture of the arena in which the activity is being carried out.
Often hours and days telescope as life seems to be flitting past, whilst at other times the minutes drag by. This work attempts to ascertain how phenomena such as suffering, violence, danger, boredom, exhilaration, concentration, shock and novelty influence the perception of time.
An up-to-date study of language use & commun ication skills in alternative populations, this text address es questions on the essence of language, how it is shaped by normal constraints, and how it can be rehabilitated when co nstraints are abnormal. '
Integrating multidisciplinary findings into proposals for coherent treatment, legal and social policies and practice, Trauma and Memory provides state-of-the-art da ta from the most current research on memory by acknowledged experts in the field. '
This work demonstrates that a full analysis of human reasoning and behaviour requires an understanding of both cognitive and metacognitive activities. The international team of contributors addresses key questions related to metacognition, including: are metacognitive activities similar to standard cognitive processes or do they represent a ......
Is repressed memory fact or fiction? What role should therapists play in determining the truth? Here, doctors, therapists, victims, researchers, and others search for answers in seven major areas: memory and its recovery, childhood trauma, repression and amnesia, hypnosis, suggestibility, professional problems and ethical issues.
Visual Thinkers, Gifted People With Dyslexia and Other Learning Difficulties, Computer Images and the Ironies of Creativity
Some of our most original intellects Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Lewis Carroll, and Winston Churchill relied heavily on visual modes of thought, processing information in terms of images instead of words or numbers. This work probes data on dyslexics to see how computers enhance the creative potential of visual thinkers.
