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Traditional Chinese medicine in the United States in search of spiritual meaning and ultimate health / by Wu, Emily S., 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Contextualization -- History of local TCM -- Medical training and identity formation -- TCM healers in the Chinese community -- TCM as complementary medicine -- TCM as alternative medicine -- Creating a space for psychic healing -- Going to the culturally authentic -- Environmentalism and lifestyle changes -- The happenings in an acupuncture clinic -- The embodied spirituality of Qi -- Ideal body and the concept of health -- Concluding analysis.…”
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Traditional Chinese medicine in the United States in search of spiritual meaning and ultimate health / by Wu, Emily S., 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Contextualization -- History of local TCM -- Medical training and identity formation -- TCM healers in the Chinese community -- TCM as complementary medicine -- TCM as alternative medicine -- Creating a space for psychic healing -- Going to the culturally authentic -- Environmentalism and lifestyle changes -- The happenings in an acupuncture clinic -- The embodied spirituality of Qi -- Ideal body and the concept of health -- Concluding analysis.…”
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Mesmerists, monsters, and machines : science fiction and the cultures of science in the nineteenth century / by Willis, Martin, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Hoffmann and the magic of mesmerism -- Mary Shelley's electric imagination -- The human experiments of Edgar Allan Poe -- Verne's deep-sea investigations on dry land -- Villiers de L'Isle-Adam's invention of psychical research -- H.G. Wells in the laboratory -- Conclusion : the progress of literature and science; or, a refrain on interdisciplinarity.…”
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Mesmerists, monsters, and machines : science fiction and the cultures of science in the nineteenth century / by Willis, Martin, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Hoffmann and the magic of mesmerism -- Mary Shelley's electric imagination -- The human experiments of Edgar Allan Poe -- Verne's deep-sea investigations on dry land -- Villiers de L'Isle-Adam's invention of psychical research -- H.G. Wells in the laboratory -- Conclusion : the progress of literature and science; or, a refrain on interdisciplinarity.…”
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Unbecoming subjects Judith Butler, moral philosophy, and critical responsibility / by Thiem, Annika

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part one : Challenges to the subject -- Subjects in subjection : bodies, desires, and the psychic life of norms -- Moral subjects and agents of morality -- Part two : Responsibility -- Responsibility as response : Levinas and responsibility for others -- Ambivalent desires of responsibility : Laplanche and psychoanalytic translations -- Part three : Critique -- The aporia of critique and the future of moral philosophy -- Critique and political ethics : justice as a question.…”
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Unbecoming subjects Judith Butler, moral philosophy, and critical responsibility / by Thiem, Annika

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part one : Challenges to the subject -- Subjects in subjection : bodies, desires, and the psychic life of norms -- Moral subjects and agents of morality -- Part two : Responsibility -- Responsibility as response : Levinas and responsibility for others -- Ambivalent desires of responsibility : Laplanche and psychoanalytic translations -- Part three : Critique -- The aporia of critique and the future of moral philosophy -- Critique and political ethics : justice as a question.…”
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James Carey a critical reader /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction/The problem of journalism history, 1996 / Michael Schudson -- pt. 3. Introduction/Famed psychic's head explodes : James Carey on the technology of journalism / Carolyn Marvin -- pt. 4. …”
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Clint Eastwood and issues of American masculinity by Cornell, Drucilla

Table of Contents: “…Writing the showdown: what's left behind when the sun goes down -- Dancing with the double: reaching out from the darkness within -- Ties that bind: the legacy of a mother's love -- Psychic scars: transformative relationships and moral repair -- Parables of revenge and masculinity in Mystic river / Roger Berkowitz and Drucilla Cornell -- Militarized manhood: shattered images and the trauma of war -- Shades of recognition: privilege, dignity, and the hubris of white masculinity -- Conclusion: the last take.…”
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The social life of fluids blood, milk, and water in the Victorian novel / by Law, Jules David, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : dark ecologies : A tale of two cities and "The cow with the iron tail" -- Disavowing milk : psychic disintegration and domestic reintegration in Dickens's Dombey and son -- A river runs through him : Our mutual friend and the embankment of the Thames -- Perilous reversals : fluid exchange in George Eliot's early works -- Merging with others : destiny and flow in Daniel Deronda -- Tempted by the milk of another : the fantasy of limited circulation in Esther Waters -- Ever-widening circulations : Dracula and the fear of management.…”
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The new wounded from neurosis to brain damage / by Malabou, Catherine

Table of Contents: “…Cerebral auto-affection -- Brain wounds: from the neurological novel to the theater of absence -- Identity without precedent -- Psychoanalytic objection: can there be destruction without a drive of destruction -- What is a psychic event? -- The "libido theory" and the otherness of the sexual to itself: traumatic neurosis and war neurosis in question -- Separation, death, the thing, Freud, Lacan, and the missed encounter -- Neurological objection: rehabilitating the event -- The equivocity of reparation: from elasticity to resilience -- Toward a plasticity of the compulsion to repeat -- The subject of the accident.…”
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Clint Eastwood and issues of American masculinity by Cornell, Drucilla

Table of Contents: “…Writing the showdown: what's left behind when the sun goes down -- Dancing with the double: reaching out from the darkness within -- Ties that bind: the legacy of a mother's love -- Psychic scars: transformative relationships and moral repair -- Parables of revenge and masculinity in Mystic river / Roger Berkowitz and Drucilla Cornell -- Militarized manhood: shattered images and the trauma of war -- Shades of recognition: privilege, dignity, and the hubris of white masculinity -- Conclusion: the last take.…”
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The social life of fluids blood, milk, and water in the Victorian novel / by Law, Jules David, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : dark ecologies : A tale of two cities and "The cow with the iron tail" -- Disavowing milk : psychic disintegration and domestic reintegration in Dickens's Dombey and son -- A river runs through him : Our mutual friend and the embankment of the Thames -- Perilous reversals : fluid exchange in George Eliot's early works -- Merging with others : destiny and flow in Daniel Deronda -- Tempted by the milk of another : the fantasy of limited circulation in Esther Waters -- Ever-widening circulations : Dracula and the fear of management.…”
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The new wounded from neurosis to brain damage / by Malabou, Catherine

Table of Contents: “…Cerebral auto-affection -- Brain wounds: from the neurological novel to the theater of absence -- Identity without precedent -- Psychoanalytic objection: can there be destruction without a drive of destruction -- What is a psychic event? -- The "libido theory" and the otherness of the sexual to itself: traumatic neurosis and war neurosis in question -- Separation, death, the thing, Freud, Lacan, and the missed encounter -- Neurological objection: rehabilitating the event -- The equivocity of reparation: from elasticity to resilience -- Toward a plasticity of the compulsion to repeat -- The subject of the accident.…”
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James Carey a critical reader /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction/The problem of journalism history, 1996 / Michael Schudson -- pt. 3. Introduction/Famed psychic's head explodes : James Carey on the technology of journalism / Carolyn Marvin -- pt. 4. …”
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Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American narratives / by Hogue, W. Lawrence, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American subjectivity -- Multiple representations of Philadelphia and John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia fire -- The trickster, African American virtual subject and Percival Everett's erasure -- Using jazz music and aesthetics to re-describe the African American in Toni Morrison's jazz -- Revolting to sustain psychic life: Bonnie Greer's hanging by her teeth and the encounter with the other -- Virtual-actual reality and Clarence Major's reflex and bone structure -- The Jungian/African collective unconscious, jazz aesthetics, and Xam Cartier's Muse-echo blues -- Conclusion.…”
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Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American narratives / by Hogue, W. Lawrence, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American subjectivity -- Multiple representations of Philadelphia and John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia fire -- The trickster, African American virtual subject and Percival Everett's erasure -- Using jazz music and aesthetics to re-describe the African American in Toni Morrison's jazz -- Revolting to sustain psychic life: Bonnie Greer's hanging by her teeth and the encounter with the other -- Virtual-actual reality and Clarence Major's reflex and bone structure -- The Jungian/African collective unconscious, jazz aesthetics, and Xam Cartier's Muse-echo blues -- Conclusion.…”
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Moments of uncertainty in therapeutic practice interpreting within the matrix of projective identification, countertransference, and enactment / by Waska, Robert T.

Table of Contents: “…Containing, translating, and interpretive acting out : the quest for therapeutic balance -- Slippery when wet : the imperfect art of interpretation -- Interpretive acting out : unavoidable and sometimes useful -- Enactments, interactions, and interpretations -- Kleinian couple's treatment : a complicated case -- Failures, successes, and question marks -- Different ways of controlling the object -- Taming, restoring, and rebuilding, or sealing off, burying, and eliminating the object : two ways of controlling the other -- Two varieties of psychic retreat : the struggle with combined paranoid and depressive conflicts -- Trapped in an emotional foxhole : coping with paranoid and depressive conflicts -- Discussion.…”
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Moments of uncertainty in therapeutic practice interpreting within the matrix of projective identification, countertransference, and enactment / by Waska, Robert T.

Table of Contents: “…Containing, translating, and interpretive acting out : the quest for therapeutic balance -- Slippery when wet : the imperfect art of interpretation -- Interpretive acting out : unavoidable and sometimes useful -- Enactments, interactions, and interpretations -- Kleinian couple's treatment : a complicated case -- Failures, successes, and question marks -- Different ways of controlling the object -- Taming, restoring, and rebuilding, or sealing off, burying, and eliminating the object : two ways of controlling the other -- Two varieties of psychic retreat : the struggle with combined paranoid and depressive conflicts -- Trapped in an emotional foxhole : coping with paranoid and depressive conflicts -- Discussion.…”
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Possessed : A Cultural History of Hoarding / by Falkoff, Rebecca R., 1976-

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Possessed : A Cultural History of Hoarding / by Falkoff, Rebecca R., 1976-

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