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Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology After Lacan
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Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology After LacanFreud as Philosopher: Metapsychology After Lacan

Using Jacques Lacan's work as a key, Boothby reassesses Freud's most ambitious-and misunderstood-attempt at a general theory of mental functioning: metapsychology
 
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Tags: Freud, Lacan, metapsychology, functioning, mental, Metapsychology, Philosopher, After
Handbook of Adult Mental Health
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Handbook of Adult Mental Health

This Handbook gathers together empirical and theoretical chapters from leading scholars and clinicians to examine the broad issue of adult mental health. The contributors draw upon data from a variety of contexts to illustrate the multiple ways in which language as action can assist us in better understanding the discursive practices that surround adult mental health. Conversation and discourse analysis are useful, related approaches for the study of mental health conditions, particularly when underpinned by a social constructionist framework.
 
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Robert Frost in Context
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Robert Frost in ContextRobert Frost in Context

This new critical volume offers a fresh, multifaceted assessment of Robert Frost's life and works. Nearly every aspect of the poet's career is treated: his interest in poetics and style; his role as a public figure; his deep fascination with science, psychology, and education; his peculiar and difficult relation to religion; his investments, as thinker and writer, in politics and war; the way he dealt with problems of mental illness that beset his sister and two of his children; and, finally, the complex geo-political contexts that inform some of his best poetry.
 
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Tags: Robert, Frost, politics, problems, mental, Context, writer
Train Your Brain: A Year's Worth of Puzzles
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Train Your Brain: A Year's Worth of Puzzles

Many people start the day with physical exercise but few seem to be so concerned with exercising the most human of organs-the brain. This book provides you with entertaining and challenging mental exercises for every week of the year. Whether you are a high school student eager to sharpen your brain, or someone older who would like to retain your mental agility, you will find your brain getting sharper and more agile as you solve the puzzles in this book. Read a few puzzles every week, think about them, solve them, and you will see the results. And on the way to a sharper mind, you will enjoy every step.
 
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Handbook of School Mental Health: Advancing Practice and Research
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Handbook of School Mental Health: Advancing Practice and Research

Turn to this book for practical guidance in attending not only to routine mental health needs of students, but also in responding quickly and effectively to traumatic events.
 
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Tags: School, Handbook, events, traumatic, Mental