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Examining the popular discourse of nerves and stress, this book provides a historical account of how ordinary Britons understood, explained and coped with the pressures and strains of daily life during the twentieth century. It traces the popular, vernacular discourse of stress, illuminating not just how stress was known, but the ways in which that knowledge was produced. Taking a cultural approach, the book focuses on contemporary popular understandings, revealing continuity of ideas about work, mental health, status, gender and individual weakness, as well as the changing socio-economic contexts that enabled stress to become a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the century. With accounts from sufferers, families and colleagues it also offers insight into self-help literature, the meanings of work and changing dynamics of domestic life, delivering a complementary perspective to medical histories of stress.
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In today’s work environment, which is dominated by high pressure, many professionals are experiencing chronic stress, some even "burn out". This guide provides information about the connection between occupational stress and burnout. It presents scientifically sound and proven strategies for counteracting chronic stress. The model of the “gratification crisis”, which states that an imbalance between professional engagement and the obtained gratifications, e.g. salary and appreciation, leads to persistent stress and an increased risk of physical and mental illness, is the focus of this guide. Based on case studies and concrete instructions, readers are supported in reviewing their own situation. The guide goes on to present coping strategies, e.g. how important decisions can be made in high stress situations, how to avoid vague assessments, how to strengthen the ability to distance oneself after work, and how to improve quality of leisure time. This title can be used as a stand-alone guide as well as supplemental material to coaching or therapy. Target Group: psychotherapists, specialists for psychiatry and psychotherapy, specialists for psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy, clinical and health psychologists, occupational and organizational psychologist, rehabilitation psychologist, coaches, students and teachers of psychology, supervisors
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When you have autism, you probably have to cope with stress on a daily basis. Often, people with autism do not know how to recognize stress, what causes stress, and what they can do to reduce it. More peace, less stress offers a useful step-by-step plan. In seven steps, the reader learns what causes stress, how to recognise stress signals, and what they can do to feel more at ease. The book includes practical exercises so new knowledge can be applied right away. Being more at ease means to be able to: have better relationships with a partner, family, friends and colleagues, focus attention to get things done more easily, have a grip on life, instead of experiencing chaos, restlessness and insecurity and feel more powerful and have more self-esteem.
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Der Versuch über Kafka Beschreibung einer Form ist Martin Walsers Dissertation, sie erschien erstmals 1961 und ist eine bemerkenswerte Einführung in das Werk Franz Kafkas, das eine so tiefe und nicht nachlassende Wirkung ausübt.
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Inquiry Based Stress Reduction is the name of the method which was developed by Byron Katie as ‘the Work’. Byron Katie is the author of very well-known self-help books. However, until now there was no manual available which explains the application of this method and the methodological and scientific evidence which can be given to support it. This book provides a comprehensive and exhaustive overview of how the method can be used by therapists in psychotherapeutic settings in mental health care, business coaches and coaches in other fields of life. As well as providing an extremely precise description of the working method for each step of the protocol, all these steps are clarified by means of practical examples and case studies. Target Group: psychologists, therapists and coaches.
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This manual was produced by the author (herself a neuroscientist) specifically for her coaching courses and is based on her own experiences. Psychotherapists and other professionals who want to address the emergence of stress and ways of coping with it will find all the help they need in this text. This program is particularly suitable for preventive sessions and outpatient groups. The book includes a clear account of the relevant neurobiological facts, which can be incorporated into the work with clients to deepen their understanding. Holistic therapies and their neurobiological effects in stress management are an important aspect of this approach. For: psychotherapists and coaches who wish to include basic neurobiological facts as part of their group therapy for the prevention of stress or burnout
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“Yuck!” says the little dung beetle, turning away. With playfulrhymes and colorful animal antics, this picture booktackles picky eating with humor and heart. Perfect for easingmealtime stress, it also includes a science-based guidefor caregivers with practical tips to foster curiosity – withoutpressure. • Fun rhyming story about picky eaters• Lighthearted support for family mealtimes• Expert-backed advice for caregivers included
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This collection brings together scholars from disciplines including Children's Literature, Classics, and History to develop fresh approaches to children's culture and the uses of the past. It charts the significance of historical episodes and characters during the long nineteenth-century (1750-1914), a critical period in children's culture. Boys and girls across social classes often experienced different pasts simultaneously, for purposes of amusement and instruction. The book highlights an active and shifting market in history for children, and reveals how children were actively involved in consuming and repackaging the past: from playing with historically themed toys and games to performing in plays and pageants. Each chapter reconstructs encounters across different media, uncovering the cultural work done by particular pasts and exposing the key role of playfulness in the British historical imagination.
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Air empire is a fresh study of civil aviation as a tool of late British imperialism. The first pioneering flights across the British empire in 1919-20 were flag-waving adventures that recreated an era of plucky British maritime exploration and conquest. Britain's development of international air routes and services was approved, organised and celebrated largely in London; there was some resistance in and beyond the subordinate colonies and dominions. Negotiating the financing and geopolitics of regular commercial air service delayed its inception until the 1930s. Technological, managerial and logistical problems also meant that Britain was slow into the air and slow in the air. Propaganda concealed underperformance and criticism. The study uses archival sources, biographies, industry magazines and newspapers to chronicle the disputed progress toward air empire. The rhetoric behind imperial air service offers a glimpse of late imperial hopes, fears, attitudes and style. Empire air service had emotional appeal and symbolic value, but disappointed in practice.
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People with complex post-traumatic stress disorder often find themselves in a pattern of loss of control, helplessness, and dependency. A therapy that focuses on individual symptoms such as depression or a “simple” post-traumatic stress disorder often does not do them justice. Even more so when the wrong diagnosis is made due to false assumptions or a lack of information. What all must be ensured for the diagnosis to be made: is there a threat of intrafamilial or external violence? Is existential stability guaranteed during therapy? Are there investigations of legal proceedings in the background? With brilliantly structured overviews, this book helps even experienced diagnosticians to keep track of the variety of diagnostic options to be considered or ruled out and not to overlook anything.Axis I: Personality disordersAxis II: Specific stress-related disordersAxis III: Structural dissociation of personality: dissociativeand partial dissociative identity disorderAxis IV: Dissociative symptomsAxis V: Comorbid disorders For:• psychiatrists• psychologists• psychotherapists specializing in PTSD
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Der oder das Kalkül? Der Titel dieses Buches läßt die Frage bewußt offen. Der Kalkül stellt auf das von der Logik bereitgestellte Instrument zur Durchführung von Berechnungen ab. Das Kalkül meint die Berechnung selbst im Hinblick auf ein anderes, im Kalkül selbst nicht Erfaßtes. In den Beiträgen dieses Bandes geht es um G. Spencer Browns »Gesetze der Form« im doppelten Sinne der Form eines Kalküls, der eingesetzt wird und Berechnungen ermöglicht, in denen er selbst noch einmal vorkommt als das, was er nicht erfaßt. Der Band enthält die allererste Besprechung der »Gesetze der Form«, die Heinz von Foerster für die kalifornische Ökofibel »Whole Earth Catalog« geschrieben hat, sowie Beiträge, die Spencer Brown im Kontext des optionalen Konstruktivismus, der modernen sowohl zwei- wie mehrwertigen Logik und einer Theorie des Paradoxen lesen.
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In this book, the complexity and the significance of the foods we eat are analysed from a variety of perspectives, by sociologists, economists, geographers and anthropologists. Chapters address a number of intriguing questions: how do people make judgments about taste? How do such judgments come to be shared by groups of people?; what social and organisational processes result in foods being certified as of decent or proper quality? How has dissatisfaction with the food system been expressed? What alternatives are thought to be possible? The multi-disciplinary analysis of this book explores many different answers to such questions. The first part of the book focuses on theoretical and conceptual issues, the second part considers processes of formal and informal regulation, while the third part examines social and political responses to industrialised food production and mass consumption. Qualities of food will be of interest to researchers and students in all the social science disciplines that are concerned with food, whether marketing, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, human nutrition or economics.
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Gibt es also doch etwas wie »Gesetze der Form«? Die Interpretation, die G. Spencer Brown seinem Kalkül der Form mit auf den Weg gibt, tut ihr Bestes, um diesen Eindruck zu erwecken. Freilich tut sie auch alles, um diesen Eindruck, kaum ist man bereit, ihm zu folgen, wieder zu dementieren. Beides zusammen macht Spencer Browns Formbegriff für eine Soziologie interessant, die aus der Vermutung, daß noch die Aufhebung der Gesetze Gesetzen folgt, eine Wissenschaft macht. Der Band versammelt Beiträge, die die Möglichkeiten des Formen- und Indikationskalküls zur Beobachtung der Dynamik von Bezeichnungen in Abhängigkeit von Unterscheidungen nutzen. Das reicht von frühen Entdeckungen des Formproblems im Roman und im Drama, in der Logik und in der Sprache über Rekonstruktionen des Zeichen-, Latenz- und Spielverständnisses bis zu Beschreibungen des Geldes, der Universität, des Staates, der sozialen Bewegungen, der Karriere und der Krankheit.
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In seiner Monographie über Lessings Dramen erarbeitet Peter Pütz den kognitiven Mehrwert der dramatischen Form gegenüber abschöpfbaren ›Aussagen‹ und ›Lehren‹, zeigt - in ständigem Vergleich mit einschlägigen Beispielen diskursiver Darlegungen aus dem 18. Jahrhundert - die spezifische Erkenntnisleistung künstlerischer Darstellung, holt sie - nie im Abstrakt-Allgemeinen sich verlierend - durch präzise Textanalysen ein. Grundlegend erörtert das Buch Probleme der literarischen Form und schafft sich mit der begrifflichen Differenz von ›Darlegung‹ und ›Darstellung‹ eine tragfähige Basis für die nachfolgenden Interpretationen der Lessingschen Dramen, die schließlich auch neue Aufschlüsse geben über ideen- und sozialgeschichtliche Befunde der Aufklärung.
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The years between 1830 and 1852 were turbulent ones in French politics - but were also a golden age for French political caricature. Caricature was wielded as a political weapon, so much so that in 1835 the French politician Adolphe Thiers claimed that 'nothing was more dangerous' than graphic satire. This book is the first full study of French political caricature during the critical years of the July Monarchy (1830-48) and the Second Republic (1848-52). Focusing on the crucial question of republicanism, it shows how caricature was used - by both republicans and anti-republicans - to discuss, define and articulate notions of republican identity during this highly significant period in modern French and European history. ;
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Spanning a period which stretches from the 19th century to the present day, this book takes a novel look at the British labour movement by examining the interaction between trade unions, the Labour Party, other parties and groups of the Left, and the wider working class, to highlight the dialectic nature of these relationships, marked by consensus and dissention. It shows that, although perceived as a source of weakness, those inner conflicts have also been a source of creative tension, at times generating significant breakthroughs. The book brings together labour historians and political scientists who provide a range of case studies as well as more wide-ranging assessments of recent trends in labour organising. It will therefore be of interest to academics and students of history and politics, as well as to practitioners, in the British Isles and beyond.
