This text examines human sexuality through psychoanalytic theory and modern ego psychology, which looks at emotional meaning and its organization in symbolic representations of affect as organized by the ego.It starts with an exploration of how symbolic representations are applied to the sensory experience of the body in human sexuality, both in reality and in fantasy. Next, the author delves into the phenomenon of romance as an important self-state in human growth and development....

Psychosis and Near Psychosis offers a psychoanalytically-based approach to an integrated treatment of psychosis and near psychosis, achieved by organizing psychotherapy, medication, hospital and milieu interventions into a powerful therapeutic tool. The author navigates confidently between psychiatric and psychoanalytic approaches, between biological evidence and psychological assessments. According to Dr. Eric Marcus, since the past, so-called heroic psychoanalyses with p...

Narrative medicine is a fresh discipline of health care that helps patients and health professionals to tell and listen to the complex and unique stories of illness. The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine expresses the collective experience and discoveries of the originators of the field. Arising at Columbia University in 2000 from roots in the humanities and patient-centered care, narrative medicine draws patients, doctors, nurses, therapists, and health activists toge...

"Rich and often moving . . . at times shocking, but often enlightening and inspiring: oral history at its most potent and rewarding." — Kirkus ReviewsA completely revised and updated edition of the classic volume of oral history interviews with high-profile leaders and little-known participants in the gay rights movement that cumulatively provides a powerful documentary look at the struggle for gay rights in America.From the Boy Sc...

Christianity Today Book Award—Biblical StudiesForeword INDIES Book of the Year Award Honorable MentionSOLA Network's Asian American Book Awards Honorable MentionIn a first-of-its-kind volume, The New Testament in Color offers biblical commentary that is:MultiethnicDiverseContextual

According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, in our lifetimes 80 percent of us will have some up-close experience with the suicide of someone we know. And more than 20 percent of us will have a family member die by suicide. Journalist Eric Marcus knows this better than most people. In 1970, his father took his life at the age of 44. In 2008, his 49-year-old sister-in-law took her life as well.In a completely revised and updated edition of the landmark original ...

Das Metaverse ist eine virtuelle Welt, in der Menschen zusammenkommen und miteinander interagieren können. Teilweise wird auch von einer neuen Generation des Internets gesprochen, die sowohl die Arbeitswelt als auch viele Bereiche der Freizeit verändern wird und immer mehr an wirtschaftlicher Bedeutung gewinnt.Im Metaverse stellen sich rechtliche Fragen aus unterschiedlichen Bereichen, wie insbesondere IPR und allgemeines Zivilrecht, Zivilprozessrecht, Arbeitsrecht, Gesellschaftsrec...

**A history making memoir of the first openly gay professional athlete in North America, now the producer of Fellow Travelers and My Policeman“Rogers made history.” —Sports Illustrated**Robbie Rogers knows better than most that keeping secrets can crush you. But for much of his life Robbie lived in paralyzing fear that sharing his big secret would cost him the love of his family and his career as a professional soccer player. So he never told anyo...

"Three thoughtful contributions . . . attempt to deepen and extend an emerging discussion about the limits to African American freedom and autonomy." — Slavery & AbolitionPresident Abraham Lincoln freed millions of slaves in the South in 1863, rescuing them, as history tells us, from a brutal and inhuman existence and making the promise of freedom and equal rights. This is a moment to celebrate and honor, to be sure, but what of the darker, more troubling s...

Four experts with the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University provide the essential—and now newly updated—guide to becoming a more effective crisis leader while equipping yourself with the tools for everyday transformative leadershipToday, every leader must be ready to lead through a crisis. In You’re It, the faculty from the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University draws on their expansive field research ...

Kirche ist die Hoffnung der Welt. Doch wie sieht ihre Zukunft aus? In diesem Buch stellen Kirchen und Gemeinden aus der Schweiz, Deutschland und Österreich ihre Vision vor, die sich in der Wirklichkeit stets neu bewähren muss. Kleine Gemeinden und größere, Landes- und Freikirchen, Jugend- und Kommunitätskirche: sie alle verbindet, dass sie mitten im Alltag der Menschen leben. Ihre Vielfalt und die spürbare Ehrlichkeit, mit der die Autoren jeweils Kontext, Vision, aber auch Herausforderunge...

The answers to all the questions you've ever had about sexual orientation but were afraid to ask. Eric Marcus provides insightful, no-nonsense answers to hundreds of the most commonly asked questions about same-sex orientation. Offering frank and accepting insight on everything you've always wanted-and needed-to know about same-gender relationships, coming out, family roles, politics, and much more, including:How do you know if you're gay or lesbian?What should you do if yo...