Radical Claims in Freudian Psychoanalysis: Point/Counterpoint, edited by M. Andrew Holowchak, features pro and con essays on some of the most extreme Freudian claims, including the Freudian unconscious and the Oedipus complex. Holowchak collects the writings of critical scholars in the fields of psychology and philosophy who have distinguished themselves in the area through prior publications.This edited collection comprises six parts that address the topics—the Oedipus complex, dr...

This International Conference on Systems Engineering Research, CSER 2025, showcases how Augmented Intelligence is beginning to play an increasingly important role in both systems engineering and engineered systems. The volume presents the latest research in augmented intelligence and its role in accelerating systems engineering processes and enhancing the performance of human-machine systems. It contains a compendium of articles that systems engineering and AI professionals will find inval...

Rollo May draws on the insights of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, and other great thinkers to offer a helpful roadmap of the ideas and techniques of existential psychotherapy.He pays particular attention to the causes of loneliness and isolation, and to our search for stability in an age of anxiety.

Systems Engineering for the Digital AgeComprehensive resource presenting methods, processes, and tools relating to the digital and model-based transformation from both technical and management viewsSystems Engineering for the Digital Age: Practitioner Perspectives covers methods and tools that are made possible by the latest developments in computational modeling, descriptive modeling languages, semantic web technologies, and descr...

Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award!Reading Freud provides an accessible outline of the whole of Freud's work from Studies in Hysteria through to An Outline of Psycho-Analysis. It succeeds in expressing even the most complex of Freud's theories in clear and simple language whilst avoiding over-simplification.Each chapter concentrates on an individual text and includes valuable background information, relevant biographical and historical de...

Dive into the fascinating world of Digital Twins, Simulation, and the Metaverse, where the virtual/digital and physical worlds collide and reshape industries. This book offers an insightful exploration of the revolutionary applications of these technologies, promising to ignite your imagination and inspire innovation.The topics described in this book represent a groundbreaking exploration of the synergistic relationship between digital twins, simulation, and the metaverse,...

The Dictionary of Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling is a comprehensive lexicon of existential terms, their meaning and application. With over 350 entries(cross-referenced throughout), the book is the ideal companion to studying the the ideas of existential pioneers, such as Kierkegaard, Heidegger and Sartre.Drawing on their experience as existential practitioners, Emmy van Deurzen and Raymond Kenward achieve the difficult task of ma...

The 22nd International Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER 2024) pushes the boundaries of systems engineering research and responds to new challenges for systems engineering.CSER was founded in 2003 by Stevens Institute of Technology and the University of Southern California. In 2024 the conference was hosted by the University of Arizona, home to the first-ever established Department of Systems Engineering.The following foundational research topics are included...

Trauma and Human Existence effectively interweaves two themes central to emotional trauma - the first pertains to the contextuality of emotional life in general, and of the experience of emotional trauma in particular, and the second pertains to the recognition that the possibility of emotional trauma is built into the basic constitution of human existence.This volume traces how both themes interconnect, largely as they crystallize in the author’s personal experience of tr...

This book systematically presents the application of Human-Centered Explainable Anomaly Detection (HCXAD) in Smart Manufacturing (SM). This book addresses HCXAD as an approach that places the human at the center of technology design, aiming to bridge the gap between Explainable AI (XAI)and its real-world impact. The book will also cover the applications of HCXAD in SM, including predictive maintenance, cybersecurity of Industrial Internet of Things(IIoT) systems, fault detection, and reli...

This volume comprises papers from the 18th Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER). The theme of this volume, “Recent Trends and Advances in Model-Based Systems Engineering,” reflects the fact that systems engineering is undergoing a transformation motivated by mission and system complexity and enabled by technological advances such as model-based systems engineering, digital engineering, and the convergence of systems engineering with other disciplines. This conference is focuse...

Utilizing the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and the ethics of Emmanuel Lévinas, The Suffering Stranger invigorates the conversation between psychoanalysis and philosophy, demonstrating how each is informed by the other and how both are strengthened in unison. Orange turns her critical (and clinical) eye toward five major psychoanalytic thinkers – Sándor Ferenczi, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, D. W. Winnicott, Heinz Kohut, and Bernard Brandchaft – investigating the hermeneutic appro...