The Icarus Project
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The Risk Factor
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Author : Andrew Cooper
language : en
Publisher: Demos
Release Date : 2003
The Risk Factor written by Andrew Cooper and has been published by Demos this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
The Spiritual Gift Of Madness
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Author : Seth Farber
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-04-17
The Spiritual Gift Of Madness written by Seth Farber and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-17 with Psychology categories.
A bold call for the “insane” to reclaim their rightful role as prophets of spiritual and cultural transformation • Explains how many of those diagnosed as schizophrenic, bipolar, and other forms of “madness” are not ill but experiencing a spiritual awakening • Explores the rise of Mad Pride and the mental patients’ liberation movement • Reveals how those seen as “mad” must embrace their spiritual gifts to help the coming global spiritual transition Many of the great prophets of the past experienced madness--a breakdown followed by a breakthrough, spiritual death followed by rebirth. With the advent of modern psychiatry, the budding prophets of today are captured and transformed into chronic mental patients before they can flower into the visionaries and mystics they were intended to become. As we approach the tipping point between extinction and global spiritual awakening, there is a deep need for these prophets to embrace their spiritual gifts. To make this happen, we must learn to respect the sanctity of madness. We need to cultivate Mad Pride. Exploring the rise of Mad Pride and the mental patients’ liberation movement as well as building upon psychiatrist R. D. Laing’s revolutionary theories, Seth Farber, Ph.D., explains that diagnosing people as mad has more to do with social control than therapy. Many of those labeled as schizophrenic, bipolar, and other kinds of “mad” are not ill but simply experiencing different forms of spiritual awakening: they are seeing and feeling what is wrong with society and what needs to be done to change it. Farber shares his interviews with former schizophrenics who now lead successful and inspiring lives. He shows that it is impossible for society to change as long as the mad are suppressed because they are our catalysts of social change. By reclaiming their rightful role as prophets of spiritual and cultural revitalization, the mad--by seeding new visions for our future--can help humanity overcome the spiritual crisis that endangers our survival and lead us to a higher and long-awaited stage of spiritual development.
Recovery Of People With Mental Illness
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Author : Abraham Rudnick
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-08-30
Recovery Of People With Mental Illness written by Abraham Rudnick and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-30 with Medical categories.
It is only in the past 20 years that the concept of 'recovery' from mental health has been more widely considered and researched. Before then, it was generally considered that 'stability' was the best that anyone suffering from a mental disorder could hope for. But now it is recognised that, throughout their mental illness, many patients develop new beliefs, feelings, values, attitudes, and ways of dealing with their disorder. The notion of recovery from mental illness is thus rapidly being accepted and is inserting more hope into mainstream psychiatry and other parts of the mental health care system around the world. Yet, in spite of conceptual and other challenges that this notion raises, including a variety of interpretations, there is scarcely any systematic philosophical discussion of it. This book is unique in addressing philosophical issues - including conceptual challenges and opportunities - raised by the notion of recovery of people with mental illness. Such recovery - particularly in relation to serious mental illness such as schizophrenia - is often not about cure and can mean different things to different people. For example, it can mean symptom alleviation, ability to work, or the striving toward mental well-being (with or without symptoms). The book addresses these different meanings and their philosophical grounds, bringing to the fore perspectives of people with mental illness and their families as well as perspectives of philosophers, mental health care providers and researchers, among others. The important new work will contribute to further research, reflective practice and policy making in relation to the recovery of people with mental illness.It is essential reading for philosophers of health, psychiatrists, and other mental care providers, as well as policy makers.
Recovery Of People With Mental Illness
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Author : Abraham Rudnick
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2012-08-30
Recovery Of People With Mental Illness written by Abraham Rudnick and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-30 with Medical categories.
It is only in the past 20 years that the concept of 'recovery' from mental health has been more widely considered and researched. Before then, it was generally considered that 'stability' was the best that anyone suffering from a mental disorder could hope for. But now it is recognised that, throughout their mental illness, many patients develop new beliefs, feelings, values, attitudes, and ways of dealing with their disorder. The notion of recovery from mental illness is thus rapidly being accepted and is inserting more hope into mainstream psychiatry and other parts of the mental health care system around the world. Yet, in spite of conceptual and other challenges that this notion raises, including a variety of interpretations, there is scarcely any systematic philosophical discussion of it. This book is unique in addressing philosophical issues - including conceptual challenges and opportunities - raised by the notion of recovery of people with mental illness. Such recovery - particularly in relation to serious mental illness such as schizophrenia - is often not about cure and can mean different things to different people. For example, it can mean symptom alleviation, ability to work, or the striving toward mental well-being (with or without symptoms). The book addresses these different meanings and their philosophical grounds, bringing to the fore perspectives of people with mental illness and their families as well as perspectives of philosophers, mental health care providers and researchers, among others. The important new work will contribute to further research, reflective practice and policy making in relation to the recovery of people with mental illness.It is essential reading for philosophers of health, psychiatrists, and other mental care providers, as well as policy makers.
Psychiatry
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Author : Jessica Wright
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2024-12-12
Psychiatry written by Jessica Wright and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-12 with History categories.
Is psychiatry a distinctively modern approach to mental difference and distress, or is it a continuation of ancient Greek ideas – in the realm not only of medicine (consider 'melancholia'), but also of philosophy (source of the idea of 'therapeutics of the soul') and tragic drama (inspiration for, among other concepts, the 'Oedipus complex')? This volume examines how psychiatry, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy have been shaped by classical antiquity (and ideas about antiquity), and it explores the stories told about what this relationship between the psy disciplines and ancient Greece might mean. Taking as a starting point the debate about what exactly mental illnesses might be, Jessica Wright explores how contemporary tensions and debates reflect efforts to smooth over inconsistencies and discontinuities between ancient and modern ideas about illnesses affecting the mind. The volume goes on to investigate key concepts that bridge classical antiquity and modern psychiatry, showing how these ideas have been adapted and repurposed for new circumstances, analysing how they are deployed to negotiate the legitimacy of current theories, and demonstrating how the roles they play in psychiatry reshape our understandings of antiquity itself. What emerges above all is how the process of examining the connections between modern psychiatry and classical antiquity, whether historical, constructed or imagined, can illuminate modern ideas about mental illness, approaches to treating it, and its place in contemporary society and culture.
Organizing Anarchy
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Author : Jeffrey Shantz
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-01-20
Organizing Anarchy written by Jeffrey Shantz and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-20 with Political Science categories.
Organizing Anarchy details the remarkable growth and diversity of anarchist organizational practice in a range of spheres of activity from community centers and social spaces to online activism to labor and workplace militancy—and beyond—over the first decades of the twenty-first century. These projects involve innovative approaches by which anarchists resist current forms of exploitation and oppression while building anarchist relations for the future post-capitalist world in the present. In direct action and solidarity they make anarchism real, rather than a beautiful goal. Organizing Anarchy critically examines the possibilities and problems facing attempts to build radical real world projects, which seek to pose effective challenges to capitalist forms of exploitation and control. The work also engages theoretical developments around these emerging political practices, particularly in terms of social movement theories that tend to downplay, overlook, or misunderstand anarchist movements and forms of organizing.
Introduction To Rocket Propulsion For Astronautics
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Author : Dora Musielak
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2025-04-29
Introduction To Rocket Propulsion For Astronautics written by Dora Musielak and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-29 with Science categories.
This book discusses the basic principles, performance, and technologies unique to the propulsion systems that power space vehicles. It is intended as a stimulating and accessible way in to the subject, aiming for a clear understanding of basic principles, providing a description of propulsion key physical mechanisms, and emphasizing the current state of technologies for the different applications such as launch vehicles, and space probes. The seven chapters comprise the wide scope of space rocket propulsion, filtered to highlight the main ideas without sacrificing the most important results.
A Plan For A Research Program On Aerosol Radiative Forcing And Climate Change
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Author : Panel on Aerosol Radiative Forcing and Climate Change
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 1996-05-01
A Plan For A Research Program On Aerosol Radiative Forcing And Climate Change written by Panel on Aerosol Radiative Forcing and Climate Change and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-05-01 with Science categories.
This book recommends the initiation of an "integrated" research program to study the role of aerosols in the predicted global climate change. Current understanding suggest that, even now, aerosols, primarily from anthropogenic sources, may be reducing the rate of warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to specific research recommendations, this book forcefully argues for two kinds of research program integration: integration of the individual laboratory, field, and theoretical research activities and an integrated management structure that involves all of the concerned federal agencies.
Madness And The Demand For Recognition
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Author : Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-24
Madness And The Demand For Recognition written by Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-24 with Medical categories.
Madness is a complex and contested term. Through time and across cultures it has acquired many formulations: for some, madness is synonymous with unreason and violence, for others with creativity and subversion, elsewhere it is associated with spirits and spirituality. Among the different formulations, there is one in particular that has taken hold so deeply and systematically that it has become the default view in many communities around the world: the idea that madness is a disorder of the mind. Contemporary developments in mental health activism pose a radical challenge to psychiatric and societal understandings of madness. Mad Pride and mad-positive activism reject the language of mental 'illness' and 'disorder', reclaim the term 'mad', and reverse its negative connotations. Activists seek cultural change in the way madness is viewed, and demand recognition of madness as grounds for identity. But can madness constitute such grounds? Is it possible to reconcile delusions, passivity phenomena, and the discontinuity of self often seen in mental health conditions with the requirements for identity formation presupposed by the theory of recognition? How should society respond? Guided by these questions, this book is the first comprehensive philosophical examination of the claims and demands of Mad activism. Locating itself in the philosophy of psychiatry, Mad studies, and activist literatures, the book develops a rich theoretical framework for understanding, justifying, and responding to Mad activism's demand for recognition.
Earth Observation Navigation Law And Technology
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Author : Marlena Jankowska
language : en
Publisher: Instytut Prawa Gospodarczego Sp. z o.o.
Release Date : 2017-12-01
Earth Observation Navigation Law And Technology written by Marlena Jankowska and has been published by Instytut Prawa Gospodarczego Sp. z o.o. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-01 with Law categories.
"Earth observation & navigation. Law and technology" jest publikacją wydaną przez Wydawnictwo Ius Publicum przy współpracy z Institute of Intellectual Property. Książka została wydana pod redakcją naukową dr Marleny Jankowskiej (Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach) oraz Profesora Mirosława Pawełczyka (Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, Prezes Fundacji Ius Publicum), a także Profesora Sławomira Augustyn (Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna) i Doktora Marcina Kulawiaka (Politechnika Gdańska). Książka dotyczy tematyki obserwacji Ziemi i nawigacji. Zagadnienia te zostały omówione zarówno od strony technicznej, jaki i prawnej. Redaktorzy oraz autorzy książki wyszli z założenia, że dla zrozumienia tej problemami koniecznej jest zwrócenie naukowej uwagi na obie sfery obserwacji Ziemi i nawigacji.