Cultural Existential Psychology

Author : Daniel Sullivan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107096863
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural-Existential Psychology written by Daniel Sullivan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging cultural and experimental existential psychology, this book offers a synthetic understanding of how culture shapes psychological threat.

Author : Louis Hoffman
Publisher : University Professors Press
ISBN 13 : 1939686334
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Existential Psychology East-West (Volume 1 - Revised and Expanded Edition) written by Louis Hoffman and published by University Professors Press. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existential Psychology East-Westis a collection of chapters exploring existential psychology in a cross-cultural context. The original version was published in preparation for the First International Conference on Existential Psychology held in Nanjing, China in 2010. This revised and expanded edition includes several updated chapters as well as four new chapters. The book consists of three sections. The first section provides an introduction to existential-humanistic psychotherapy along with a case illustration. Section two contains 13 chapters from Eastern and Western scholars exploring the theory of existential psychology. The third section contains 10 chapters building from Rollo May's work on myth. Each chapter explores the existential themes of a myth embedded within a particular cultural context. The book concludes with an Annotated Bibliography of important works in existential psychology. Existential Psychology East-Westis an important contribution to the field with many influential Eastern and Western scholars including Kirk Schneider, Xuefu Wang, Ilene Serlin, Mark Yang, Ed Mendelowitz, Heyong Shen, Erik Craig, Myrtle Heery, Alan G. Vaughan, Louis Hoffman, and Nathaniel Granger, Jr.

Author : Jeff Greenberg
Publisher : Guilford Publications
ISBN 13 : 1462514790
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology written by Jeff Greenberg and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social and personality psychologists traditionally have focused their attention on the most basic building blocks of human thought and behavior, while existential psychologists pursued broader, more abstract questions regarding the nature of existence and the meaning of life. This volume bridges this longstanding divide by demonstrating how rigorous experimental methods can be applied to understanding key existential concerns, including death, uncertainty, identity, meaning, morality, isolation, determinism, and freedom. Bringing together leading scholars and investigators, the Handbook presents the influential theories and research findings that collectively are helping to define the emerging field of experimental existential psychology.

Author : Michael B. Salzman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319694200
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Psychology of Culture written by Michael B. Salzman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thought-provoking treatise explores the essential functions that culture fulfills in human life in response to core psychological, physiological, and existential needs. It synthesizes diverse strands of empirical and theoretical knowledge to trace the development of culture as a source of morality, self-esteem, identity, and meaning as well as a driver of domination and upheaval. Extended examples from past and ongoing hostilities also spotlight the resilience of culture in the aftermath of disruption and trauma, and the possibility of reconciliation between conflicting cultures. The stimulating insights included here have far-reaching implications for psychology, education, intergroup relations, politics, and social policy. Included in the coverage: · Culture as shared meanings and interpretations. · Culture as an ontological prescription of how to “be” and “how to live.” · Cultural worldviews as immortality ideologies. · Culture and the need for a “world of meaning in which to act.” · Cultural trauma and indigenous people. · Constructing situations that optimize the potential for positive intercultural interaction. · Anxiety and the Human Condition. · Anxiety and Self Esteem. · Culture and Human Needs. A Psychology of Culture takes an uncommon tour of the human condition of interest to clinicians, educators, and practitioners, students of culture and its role and effects in human life, and students in nursing, medicine, anthropology, social work, family studies, sociology, counseling, and psychology. It is especially suitable as a graduate text.

Author : Allan Køster
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000528316
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural, Existential and Phenomenological Dimensions of Grief Experience written by Allan Køster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative volume examines the phenomenological, existential and cultural dimensions of grief experiences. It draws on perspectives from philosophy, psychology and sociocultural studies to focus on the experiential dimension of grief, moving beyond understanding from a purely mental health and psychiatry perspective. The book considers individual, shared and collective experiences of loss. Chapters explore the intersections between the profound existential experiences of bereavement and how this is mediated by sociocultural norms and practices. It points to new directions for the future conceptualization and study of grief, particularly in the experiential dimension. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, this important book will appeal to academics, researchers and students in the fields of death and bereavement studies, wellbeing and mental health, philosophy and phenomenological studies.

Author : Daniel Sullivan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131656519X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural-Existential Psychology written by Daniel Sullivan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural psychology and experimental existential psychology are two of the fastest-growing movements in social psychology. In this book, Daniel Sullivan combines both perspectives to present a groundbreaking analysis of culture's role in shaping the psychology of threat experience. The first part of the book presents a new theoretical framework guided by three central principles: that humans are in a unique existential situation because we possess symbolic consciousness and culture; that culture provides psychological protection against threatening experiences, but also helps to create them; and that interdisciplinary methods are vital to understanding the link between culture and threat. In the second part of the book, Sullivan presents a novel program of research guided by these principles. Focusing on a case study of a traditionalist group of Mennonites in the midwestern United States, Sullivan examines the relationship between religion, community, guilt, anxiety, and the experience of natural disaster.

Author : Eero Tarasti
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253028531
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Existential Semiotics written by Eero Tarasti and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-22 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existential semiotics involves an a priori state of signs and their fixation into objective entities. These essays define this new philosophical field.

Author : Bastiaan T. Rutjens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138070806
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belief Systems and the Perception of Reality written by Bastiaan T. Rutjens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the social psychology of belief systems and how they influence perceptions of reality. The expert editors and contributors examine how beliefs lead to conflict and disagreements over values, and how those values are enacted.

Author : Louis Hoffman
Publisher : University Professors Press
ISBN 13 : 1939686415
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Existential Psychology East-West (Volume 2) written by Louis Hoffman and published by University Professors Press. This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existential-Psychology East-West (Volume 2) emerged from continued dialogues on existential psychology, particularly existential-humanistic psychology, in Southeast Asia. This volume includes authors from Southeast Asia, India, Africa, Europe, and the United States, including Xuefu Wang, Louise Sundararajan, Mark Yang, Louis Hoffman, Al Dueck, Albert Chan, Donna Rockwell, Ilene Serlin, Rainbow Tin Hung Ho, Rochelle Suri, Meili Pinto, and Anthony K. Nkyi. The book is divided into three sections: 1) Theory and Practice, 2) Applications and Case Illustrations, and 3) Existential Perspectives on Cultural Myths. The first three chapter focus on Zhi Mian Therapy, an indigenous Chinese approach to existential psychology. These chapters are the most comprehensive overview of Zhi Mian Therapy in English to date. Other theory chapters include a discussion of international psychology from an existential-humanistic perspective, the concept of Sui Wu Fu Xing, men’s violence against women, Sunyata, and the concept of savoring. The second section focuses on a variety of case illustrations to illuminate the practice of existential therapy in different cultural contexts. The final section expands upon existential perspectives of myths as developed in Rollo May’s The Cry for Myth and Existential Psychology East-West (Volume 1). Seven myths from different cultural contexts are examined from an existential perspective. Along with Volume 2, Existential-Psychology East-West (Volume 2) represents a landmark contribution to the existential psychology literature.

Author : Jeff Greenberg
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9781593850401
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology written by Jeff Greenberg and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2004-05-26 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social and personality psychologists traditionally have focused their attention on the most basic building blocks of human thought and behavior, while existential psychologists pursued broader, more abstract questions regarding the nature of existence and the meaning of life. This volume bridges this longstanding divide by demonstrating how rigorous experimental methods can be applied to understanding key existential concerns, including death, uncertainty, identity, meaning, morality, isolation, determinism, and freedom. Bringing together leading scholars and investigators, the Handbook presents the influential theories and research findings that collectively are helping to define the emerging field of experimental existential psychology.