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Product DescriptionIn Bloodlines, Vamik Volkan, a world-renowned psychiatrist specializing in international relations, explores ethnic violence by examining history and diplomacy through a psychoanalytic lens. Dr. Volkan leads the reader on investigative tours of battlegrounds in the Middle East, Russia, Turkey, Cyprus, the Baltics, and the Balkans. In Serbia, he discovers that the Battle of Kosovo, fought in 1389, is the rallying cry for modern nationalists, who view the past as prophecy. In Turkey, PKK terrorist leader Apo reveals that he still considers himself an unloved child and orders his army of Kurdish women to remain virgins because of his own disgust with “unclean” adult…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionCross-Cultural Psychology is a comprehensive overview of cross-cultural studies in a number of substantive areas–psychological development, social behavior, personality, cognition, and perception–and covers theory and applications to acculturation, work, communication, health, and national development. Cast within an ecological and cultural framework, it views the development and display of human behavior as the outcome of both ecological and socio-political influences, and it adopts a “universalistic” position with respect to the range of similarities and differences in human behavior across cultures. Basic psychological processes are assumed to be species-wide,…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionAre divisive political forces the source of the historical persistence of racism and its alarming recurrence in contemporary society? Or are there also subtler, more intractable reasons for racism’s irrational power and historical persistence? This collection of essays takes the study of racism into a radically new direction­­that of unconscious fantasies and identities­­offering perspectives from a variety of leading figures in many fields. The Psychoanalysis of…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionThis practical guide for developing and using culture-centered counseling and interviewing skills is by well-known authorities on the subject. This guide examines culturally learned assumptions that all of us employ in managing and interacting with others and uses models of synthetic cultures for students, teachers, professional counselors, and interviewers in raising questions, interpreting, focusing on and mediating in multicultural situations. Culture-Centered Counseling and Interviewing Skills: A Practical…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionThrough close readings of literary and film texts, Seshadri-Crooks demonstrates that race is a system of differences organized around a privileged term: Whiteness. Contra “Whiteness Studies,” she argues that Whiteness should not be understood as the bodily or material property of a particular group, but as a term that makes the logic of race thinking possible. Desiring Whiteness: A Lacanian Analysis of Race…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionA retrospective of 15 years, this book brings together, for the first time, Oliva Espin’s previously published articles and conference papers. Primarily focusing on the experiences of Latina women, gleaned from psychotherapy practice and research, the book presents discussions on experience as a source of theory and method in psychology, issues relevant to immigrant women and girls, and similar topics. Latina Realities: Essays On Healing, Migration, And Sexuality…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionExplores the interrelationship of mind, self, emotion and the development of moral consciousness in the Nepalese city of Bhaktapur. The author investigates how the citizens have developed moral awareness in the context of cultural life. Moral Knowing in a Hindu Sacred City: An Exploration of Mind, Emotion, and…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionChallenges existing paradigms of knowledge as they relate to Asian Americans. A Postmodern Psychology of Asian Americans: Creating Knowledge of a Racial Minority…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionThis collection of writings aims to show how culture and ethnicity play a role in the influence of human social behaviour. An overview of the current psychological knowledge about African-Americans, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders, American Indians/Alaska Natives and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States, the book addresses basic concepts in the field: race, ethnic identity, acculturation and biculturalism. In addition to examining the sociodemographic characteristics and history of these groups, psychosocial conditions such as crime, delinquency, psychopathologies and clinical and treatment issues are also explored. Readings in Ethnic…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionRecasting Ritual explores how ritualized action diversifies in response to varying cultural, political and physical contexts. The contributors look at how issues such as globalization and technology affect ritual performance and how minorities often utilize performances to affirm their own identities while also speaking to outsiders.The contributors examine the relationship between ritual meaning and social identity through case studies drawn from the Pacific, Scandinavia, the Mediterranean, Latin America, Indonesia, and East and West Africa. Study of the theoretical underpinnings of social action affirms the independence of anthropology as a discipline from cultural,…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionWhile most studies of the stresses experienced by minorities, migrants, and refugees focus on North America, this work assumes an unusually broad scope. African-Americans, Latin Americans, Hutterites, Southeast Asians, and Native Americans are all considered in the context of the U.S. and Canada. However, separate chapters also discuss North Africans in France, Turks in Belgium, native culture in New Zealand, Jews inside and outside Israel, Gypsies in Europe, and Germans migrating west in their newly united nation. This unique look at the stresses facing such groups is an important resource for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in clinical…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionIn Anthropology and Psychoanalysis the contributors, both practising anthropologists and psychoanalysts, explore in detail the interface between the two disciplines and locate this within the history of both anthropology and psychoanalysis. In particular, they deal with the distinctive reactions of British, French and American anthropology to psychoanalysis and the way in which the present fracturing of each of these national traditions and their post-modern turn has led to a new willingness to investigate the relationships between the disciplines and the role of the unconscious in cultural life. They also address important issues of methodology, and present a…. Click Here to Read More