The Revolting Self

Author : Paul G. Overton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429922043
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Revolting Self written by Paul G. Overton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-disgust (viewing the self as an object of abhorrence) is somewhat of a novel subject for psychological research and theory, yet its significance is increasingly being recognised in the clinical domain. This edited collection of articles represents the first scholarly attempt to engage comprehensively with the concept of self-directed disgust as a potentially discrete and important psychological phenomenon. The present work is unique in addressing the idea of self-disgust in depth, using novel empirical research, academic review, social commentary, and informed theorising. It includes chapters from pioneers in the field of psychology, and other selected authorities who can see the potential of using self-disgust to inform their own areas of expertise. The volume features contributions from a distinguished array of scholars and practising clinicians, including international leaders in areas such as cognition and emotion, psychological therapy, mental health research, and health and clinical psychology.

Author : Paul G. Overton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780429483042
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Revolting Self written by Paul G. Overton and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Self-disgust (viewing the self as an object of abhorrence) is somewhat of a novel subject for psychological research and theory, yet its significance is increasingly being recognised in the clinical domain. This edited collection of articles represents the first scholarly attempt to engage comprehensively with the concept of self-directed disgust as a potentially discrete and important psychological phenomenon. The present work is unique in addressing the idea of self-disgust in depth, using novel empirical research, academic review, social commentary, and informed theorising. It includes chapters from pioneers in the field of psychology, and other selected authorities who can see the potential of using self-disgust to inform their own areas of expertise. The volume features contributions from a distinguished array of scholars and practising clinicians, including international leaders in areas such as cognition and emotion, psychological therapy, mental health research, and health and clinical psychology. This collection of papers offers a stimulating and timely investigation of that which the authors refer to as "the revolting self"; it is an invaluable handbook for all those academics and clinicians who want to understand and explore the concept of self-disgust further."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Rachel Herz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393076474
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion written by Rachel Herz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-01-23 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disgust originated to prevent humans from eating poisonous food, but this simple safety mechanism has since evolved into a uniquely human emotion that dictates how people treat others, shapes cultural norms, and even has implications for mental and physical health. This book illuminates the science behind disgust, tackling such colorful topics as cannibalism, humor, and pornography to address larger questions including why sources of disgust vary among people and societies and how disgust influences individual personalities, daily lives, and values. It turns out that disgust underlies more than we realize, from political ideologies to the lure of horror movies.

Author : Martin Gurri
Publisher : Stripe Press
ISBN 13 : 1953953344
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium written by Martin Gurri and published by Stripe Press. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How insurgencies—enabled by digital devices and a vast information sphere—have mobilized millions of ordinary people around the world. In the words of economist and scholar Arnold Kling, Martin Gurri saw it coming. Technology has categorically reversed the information balance of power between the public and the elites who manage the great hierarchical institutions of the industrial age: government, political parties, the media. The Revolt of the Public tells the story of how insurgencies, enabled by digital devices and a vast information sphere, have mobilized millions of ordinary people around the world. Originally published in 2014, The Revolt of the Public is now available in an updated edition, which includes an extensive analysis of Donald Trump’s improbable rise to the presidency and the electoral triumphs of Brexit. The book concludes with a speculative look forward, pondering whether the current elite class can bring about a reformation of the democratic process and whether new organizing principles, adapted to a digital world, can arise out of the present political turbulence.

Author : Philip A. Powell
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030844862
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Disgust Research written by Philip A. Powell and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the world's leading experts on disgust to fully explore this understudied behavior. Disgust is unique among emotions. It is, at once, perhaps the most “basic” and visceral of feelings while also being profoundly shaped by learning and culture. Evident from the earliest months of life, disgust influences individual behavior and shapes societies across political, social, economic, legal, ecological, and health contexts. As an emotion that evolved to prevent our eating contaminated foods, disgust is now known to motivate wider behaviors, social processes, and customs. On a global scale, disgust finds a place in population health initiatives, from hand hygiene to tobacco warning labels, and may underlie aversions to globalization and other progressive agendas, such as those regarding sustainable consumption and gay marriage. This comprehensive work provides cutting‐edge, timely, and succinct theoretical and empirical contributions illustrating the breadth, rigor, relevance, and increasing maturity of disgust research to modern life. It is relevant to a wide range of psychological research and is particularly important to behavior viewed through an evolutionary lens, As such, it will stimulate further research and clinical applications that allow for a broader conceptualization of human behavior. The reader will find: Succinct and accessible summaries of key perspectives Highlights of new scientific developments A rich blend of theoretical and empirical chapters

Author : Kathleen LeBesco
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolting Bodies? written by Kathleen LeBesco and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines a number of sites of struggle over the cultural meaning of fatness. It is grounded in scholarship on identity politics, the social construction of beauty, and the subversion of hegemonic medical ideas about the dangers of fatness.

Author : Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 159376314X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book That's Revolting! written by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2008-04-22 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the gay mainstream prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value, writes Matt Bernstein Sycamore, aka Mattilda, editor of That's Revolting! . This timely collection shows what the new queer resistance looks like. Intended as a fistful of rocks to throw at the glass house of Gaylandia, the book challenges the commercialized, commodified, and hyperobjectified view of gay/queer identity projected by the mainstream (straight and gay) media by exploring queer struggles to transform gender, revolutionize sexuality, and build community/family outside of traditional models. Essays include “Dr. Laura, Sit on My Face,” “Gay Art Guerrillas,” “Legalized Sodomy Is Political Foreplay,” and “Queer Parents: An Oxymoron or Just Plain Moronic?”

Author : C. D. Payne
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0741434172
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Young and Revolting written by C. D. Payne and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revolt (and laughs) continue as Nick and Sheeni escape to Paris. Soon things go seriously (and hilariously) amiss. Oui, America's most dangerous teenager may be too outrageous for Europe.

Author : Adam Chromy
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0806535202
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Please Fire Me: written by Adam Chromy and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-01-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you work in the kind of place where your boss's door is always open, the coffee is always refilled, and professionalism reigns, then kindly put down this book and throw yourself off something very tall. If years of being frustrated by arrogant douche bags and mental pygmies have left you ready to burn the world to the ground while laughing, then prepare to discover someone actually has it worse. Inspired by the hugely popular website, Please Fire Me is "A venting ground for the malemployed." --Thrillist "A really funny, bitchy co-worker." --The L Magazine Read hilarious workplace horror stories and follow the PFM guide to surviving the corporate machine. "Your boss is illiterate, your co-worker eats her own hair--whine it all out on Please Fire Me."--Details.com "Read Please Fire Me and be happy your job isn't that bad." --Smart Pretty and Awkward "Hilarious." --Times & Transcript

Author : Antonio Damasio
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307379493
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self Comes to Mind written by Antonio Damasio and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading neuroscientist explores with authority, with imagination, and with unparalleled mastery how the brain constructs the mind and how the brain makes that mind conscious. Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years researching and and revealing how the brain works. Here, in his most ambitious and stunning work yet, he rejects the long-standing idea that consciousness is somehow separate from the body, and presents compelling new scientific evidence that posits an evolutionary perspective. His view entails a radical change in the way the history of the conscious mind is viewed and told, suggesting that the brain’s development of a human self is a challenge to nature’s indifference. This development helps to open the way for the appearance of culture, perhaps one of our most defining characteristics as thinking and self-aware beings.