Drawing upon a wide range of narrative and archival sources, Rubin explores the famous yet understudied criminal trial of the alleged murder of the former sultan Abdülaziz and its representations in contemporary public discourse and subsequent historiography.
A collection of essays that chronicles the author's long campaign against the orthodoxies of psychiatry. From ""Medicine to Magic"" to ""Medicine as... Læs mere
Beginning with Buber's seminal essay on mysticism, this book offers texts down the centuries from oriental, pagan, Gnostic, Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, Jewish... Læs mere
Karl Kraus was an Austrian writer and satirist who wrote on the abuse of language by psychiatrists, psychoanalysts and journalists. This is an introduction to Kraus's life and work and his place in cultural history, followed by translations of his selected works on psychiatry.
This volume covers Martin Buber's views on psychology and psychotherapy, exploring the work of practitioners such as Freud and Jung. Contents include: distance and relation; healing through meeting; Buber and Jung; elements of the interhuman; and guilt and guilt feelings.
Has globalization neutralized the institution of ""nation""? This text focuses on attempts to build ""nation"" through landscape;... Læs mere
Since the fourteenth century, Eastern Woodlands tribes have used delicate purple and white shells called ""wampum"" to... Læs mere
In this timely volume, Zhu and Xiao offer an examination of the ways in which Chinese feminist ideas have developed since the mid-1990s. By juxtaposing the plural... Læs mere