Death is a much avoided topic. Literature on mourning exists, but it focuses chiefly upon the death of others. The inevitable psychic impact of one's own mortality is not optimally covered either in this literature on mourning or elsewhere in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The Wound of Mortality brings together contributions from distinguished psychoanalysts to fill this gap by addressing the issue of death in a comprehensive manner. Among questions the contributors raise and seek...

Manual of Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy for Children (RFP-C) with Externalizing Behaviors: A Psychodynamic Approach offers a new, short term psychotherapeutic approach to working dynamically with children who suffer from irritability, oppositional defiance and disruptiveness. RFP-C enables clinicians to help by addressing and detailing how the child’s externalizing behaviors have meaning which they can convey to the child. Using clinical examples throughout, Hoffman, R...

Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting: Keeping the Child’s Mind in Mind describes the Center for Reflective Parenting and techniques developed at the Center for helping parents to be able to understand and reflect on their children’s emotional states, as a way of helping them to be more effective parents. Discussion of neurobiological correlates of “reflective parenting,” and of similar techniques used at the Pacella Child Center and in other settings, places the clinical technique...

This volume offers very specific illustrations of psychoanalytic ways of thinking and working in both clinical and pedagogical contexts with children. It is designed for professionals who work with infants, children, and adolescents, and who are seeking modes of working that respects emotions, that embrace context, and that privilege imagination and possibility. For professionals who already practice in ways that are sympathetic to these modes of working, the scholarly underpinning of this...

With the push toward accountability and test performance in schools there has been a decline in emphasis on creativity, imagination, and feelings in schools. Psychodynamic Perspectives on Working with Children, Families, and Schools is designed for students and professionals who are interested in restoring such values to their work with children.There is an absence of psychoanalytic ways of thinking in conventional professional discourses of schooling. With a few notable exceptions...

In einer spannenden Spionage-Geschichte kreuzen sich die Schicksale dreier Männer: Felix Hoffman, niederländischer Botschafter in Prag, der seinen leiblichen und metaphysischen Hunger mit Essen und Spinoza stillt, Freddy Mancini, Zeuge einer Entführung, John Marks, amerikanischer Ostblockspezialist. Zugleich die Geschichte von Europa 1989, das sich eint und berauscht im Konsum. Ein Rausch, der nur in einem Kater enden kann.Leon de Winter, geboren 1954 in 's-Hertogenbosch als Sohn n...

Un giovane uomo, poco meno che trentenne, sta seduto su una sedia, in un tempo e in un luogo lontani dal mondo. È bloccato, e si trova in una situazione di stallo. Da qui prende avvio il racconto dell’io narrante da cui si dipanano tre storie principali, che ripercorrono il tempo passato, il presente e il futuro. Tutto ruota attorno alla voce del protagonista, intervallata da quella degli altri personaggi delle sue storie, fino al ricongiungimento finale all’interno del cinema Hoffman, sto...

In The War Machines, Danny Hoffman considers how young men are made available for violent labor both on the battlefields and in the diamond mines, rubber plantations, and other unregulated industries of West Africa. Based on his ethnographic research with militia groups in Sierra Leone and Liberia during those countries’ recent civil wars, Hoffman traces the path of young fighters who moved from grassroots community-defense organizations in Sierra Leone during the mid-1990s into a...

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.

The essential oral history of hip-hop, from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its reign as the most powerful force in pop culture—from the award-winning journalist behind All the Pieces Matter, the New York Times bestselling oral history of The Wire“The Come Up is Abrams at his sharpest, at his most observant, at his most insightful.”—Shea Serrano, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hip-Hop ...

En los Andes, campesinos, afrodescendientes, mestizos e indígenas hacen de las mingas prácticas de colaboración, reflexión, movilización y construcción comunitaria. A partir de estas metodologías relacionales, presentamos este libro, en el cual las imágenes poéticas, éticas y estéticas pasan de mano en mano, palabrandando otros posibles posibles. En Mingas de la imagen, que reúne múltiples contribuciones de diecinueve países, tres continentes, quince pueblos indígenas y una veintena de uni...

Seit Huck Finn und Tom Sawyer bei ihrem letzten Abenteuer einen Schatz gefunden haben, sind sie steinreich. Als Hucks Vater, ein Landstreicher und Tunichtgut, auftaucht und Anspruch auf Hucks Vermögen erhebt, gelingt Huck gemeinsam mit dem Sklaven Jim eine abenteuerliche Flucht. Beide genießen auf einem selbst gebauten Floß auf dem Mississippi ihr freies Leben. Doch neue Probleme lassen nicht lange auf sich warten...Mit den Stimmen von Leon Seidel, Jack Ido, August Diehl, Henry Hüb...