Even Paranoids Have Enemies: New Perspectives on Paranoia and Persecution
Author: Stella Pierides File Type: pdf Even paranoids have enemies is the reply Golda Meir is said to have made to Henry Kissinger who, during the 1973 Sinai talks, accused her of being paranoid for hesitating to grant further concessions to the Arabs. It is used as part of the title of this book to highlight the complex relationship between paranoia and persecution. The politics of the Middle East, the pressures within Japanese society, the dynamics of the drug scene, racism, and the effects of mechanical thinking in institutions and cultures all serve to illustrate in this book the intimate connections between paranoia and persecution. Contributors examine the ways in which paranoia and persecution are experienced at the individual, institutional and macrosocial level. They draw on theoretical perspectives from a range of disciplines in an exploration of both the psychological impact of paranoid processes and the extent to which these processes are rooted in political and cultural exigency.**ReviewThis is a very stimulating book that makes an important and valuable contribution to the understanding of the subject of paranoia and persecution ... I would whole heartedly recommend this very thoughtful book. - The book club of the British Analytical SocietyAbout the Author Joseph H. Berke and Stella Pierides are Director and Associate Director, respectively, of the Arbours Crisis Centre, London. Andrea Sabbadini is a psychoanalyst in private practice in London and Stanley Schneider is Professor of Psychology and Social Work at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Even paranoids have enemies is the reply Golda Meir is said to have made to Henry Kissinger who, during the 1973 Sinai talks, accused her of being paranoid for hesitating to grant further concessions to the Arabs. It is used as part of the title of this book to highlight the complex relationship between paranoia and persecution. The politics of the Middle East, the pressures within Japanese society, the dynamics of the drug scene, racism, and the effects of mechanical thinking in institutions and cultures all serve to illustrate in this book the intimate connections between paranoia and persecution. Contributors examine the ways in which paranoia and persecution are experienced at the individual, institutional and macrosocial level. They draw on theoretical perspectives from a range of disciplines in an exploration of both the psychological impact of paranoid processes and the extent to which these processes are rooted in political and cultural exigency. **
Author: Robert Graysmith
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font face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 14pxWho was the anthrax killer?spanfontspan 14px DejaVu Sans, serifSix days after the 911 attacks, a new terror began to spread...spanspan 14px DejaVu Sans, serifSeptember 17, 2001 A Florida tabloid receives a love letter addressed to Jennifer Lopez. The papers photo editor opens it--and, unknowingly, inhales thousands of toxic spores. By 105 hes dead.spanspan 14px DejaVu Sans, serifOctober 12, 2001 NBC anchor Tom Brokaws assistant tests positive for cutaneous anthrax, a result of exposure to a powder in an envelope she inhaled three weeks before.spanspan 14px DejaVu Sans, serifIn the days that followed, 28 more people tested positive for anthrax, plunging an entire country into the frontlines of an insidious bioterror.spanspan 14px DejaVu Sans, serifThe anthrax war had begun.spanspan 14px DejaVu Sans, serifThis is the most comprehensive work to date about the plague of terror that arose in the wake of 911--and the relentless scientific manhunt to answer the question of who the anthrax killer was.spanfont face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 14pxbAbout the Authorbspanfontp DejaVu Sans, serif 14px p DejaVu Sans, serif 14pxRobert Graysmith is the New York Times bestselling author of seven true crime books including Zodiac, Zodiac Unmasked, The Sleeping Lady, Auto Focus, and Amerithrax. He was a San Francisco Chronicle Journalist and cartoonist for twenty years, during the time of the Zodiac killings. In addition to being a bestselling author, he has been a Foreign Press Club Award winner, a Pulitzer Prize nominee, a prize winning syndicated political cartoonist, and a gold medal illustrator. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area.
Author: Stefanie von Schnurbein
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Norse Revival offers a thorough investigation of Germanic Neopaganism (Asatru) through an international and comprehensive historical perspective. It traces Germanic Neopaganisms genesis in German ultra-nationalist and occultist movements around 1900. Based on ethnographic research of contemporary groups in Germany, Scandinavia and North America, the book examines this alternative Neopagan religions transformations towards respectability and mainstream thought after the 1970s. It asks which regressive and progressive elements of a National Romantic discourse on Norse myth have shaped Germanic Neopaganism. It demonstrates how these ambiguous ideas about Nordic myth permeate general discourses on race, religion, gender, sexuality, and aesthetics. Ultimately, Norse Revival raises the question whether Norse mythology can be freed from its reactionary ideological baggage.
Author: David Feldman
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Did you ever wonder why you never see baby pigeons? Or why a thumbs-up gesture means OK? At last the solutions to some of lifes most baffling questions are gathered here in one volume. Written in an informative and entertaining style and illustrated with drawings that are clearly to the point, Imponderables gets to the bottom of everyday lifes mysteries, among themul lWhy is a mile 5,280 feet?l lWhich fruits are in Juicy Fruit gum?l lWhy does an X stand for a kiss?l lWhy dont cats like to swim?l lWhy do other people hear our voices differently than we do?l ulDictionaries, encyclopedias, and almanacs dont have the answers --Imponderables does! And in answering such questions, it touches on an astonishing variety of subjects, including sports, science, history, politics, television, radio, and much more. No trivial pursuit, Imponderables takes a surprising, illuminating, and humorous look at ourselves and the world around us.**From Publishers WeeklyFeldman, a media consultant and lover of the obscure, here addresses scores of questions that one may have contemplated, but to which no answers are readily forthcomingwhy certain traffic jams occur and clear up without apparent reason, why the word Filipino is spelled with an F and not a Ph, why unleaded gasoline costs more than leaded. In an engaging, sometimes jocular manner, Feldman communicates an impressive amount of information a piece on popcorn develops into an examination of the economics of running a movie theater the answer to a question on laundry bleach is worthy of an encyclopedia. Occasionally, Feldman offers such a fresh way of looking at a phenomenonas when he discusses why people cry at happy endingsthat he makes us see it as if for the first time. This is an entertaining collection of trivial and not so trivial information. Illustrations not seen by PW. 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. About the Author David Feldman is the author of twelve books, including the Imponderables series -- Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?, When Do Fish Sleep?, Do Penguins Have Knees?, and others -- as well as Who Put the Butter in Butterfly? and How to Win at Just About Everything. He has a masters degree in popular culture from Bowling Green State University in Ohio and consults and lectures on the media. He lives in New York City.
Author: Peter O'Leary
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How do poets use language to render the transcendent, often dizzyingly inexpressible nature of the divine? In an age of secularism, does spirituality have a place in modern American poetry? In Thick and Dazzling Darkness, Peter OLeary reads a diverse set of writers to argue for the existence and importance of religious poetry in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature. He traces a poetic genealogy that begins with Whitman and Dickinson and continues in the work of contemporary writers to illuminate an often obscured but still central spiritual impulse that has shaped the production and imagination of American poetry. OLeary presents close and comprehensive readings of the modernist, late-modernist, and postmodern poets Robinson Jeffers, Frank Samperi, and Robert Duncan, as well as the contemporary poets Joseph Donahue, Geoffrey Hill, Fanny Howe, Nathaniel Mackey, Pam Rehm, and Lissa Wolsak. Examining how these poets drew on a variety of traditions, including Catholicism, Gnosticism, the Kabbalah, and mysticism, the book considers how modern and contemporary poets have articulated the spiritual in their work. OLeary also argues that an anxiety of misunderstanding exists in the study and writing of poetry between secular and religious impulses and that the religious nature of poets works is too often marginalized or misunderstood. Examining the works of a specific poet in each chapter, OLeary reveals their complexity and offers a defense of the value and meaning of religious poetry against the grain of a secular society. **
Author: H. P. Adams
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This book, originally published in 1940, is primarily intended to tell the English reader what is contained in the earlier works of Marx, with emphasis on what seemed to throw most light on the man and his systematic thought. As such, it is an invaluable contribution to the study of Marx and Marxism. **
Author: Kathryn Hurlock
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Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage, c.11001500 examines one of the most popular expressions of religious belief in medieval Europefrom the promotion of particular sites for political, religious, and financial reasons to the experience of pilgrims and their impact on the Welsh landscape. Addressing a major gap in Welsh Studies, Kathryn Hurlock peels back the historical and religious layers of these holy pilgrimage sites to explore what motivated pilgrims to visit these particular sites, how family and locality drove the development of certain destinations, what pilgrims expected from their experience, how they engaged with pilgrimage in person or virtually, and what they saw, smelled, heard, and did when they reached their ultimate goal. **From the Back Cover Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage, c.11001500examines one of the most popular expressions of religious belief in medieval Europefrom the promotion of particular sites for political, religious, and financial reasons to the experience of pilgrims and their impact on the Welsh landscape. Addressing a major gap in Welsh Studies, Kathryn Hurlock peels back the historical and religious layers of these holy pilgrimage sites to explore what motivated pilgrims to visit these particular sites, how family and locality drove the development of certain destinations, what pilgrims expected from their experience, how they engaged with pilgrimage in person or virtually, and what they saw, smelled, heard, and did when they reached their ultimate goal. About the Author Kathryn Hurlock is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She is the author of Wales and the Crusades, c.10951291 (2011), Britain, Ireland and the Crusades, 10001300 (2013), and several articles on aspects of Welsh, crusading, and pilgrimage history.
Author: Ian Stewart
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Symmetry is an immensely important concept in mathematics and throughout the sciences. In this Very Short Introduction, Ian Stewart demonstrates symmetrys deep implications, showing how it even plays a major role in the current search to unify relativity and quantum theory. Stewart, a respected mathematician as well as a widely known popular-science and science-fiction writer, brings to this volume his deep knowledge of the subject and his gift for conveying science to general readers with clarity and humor. He describes how symmetrys applications range across the entire field of mathematics and how symmetry governs the structure of crystals, innumerable types of pattern formation, and how systems change their state as parameters vary. Symmetry is also highly visual, with applications that include animal markings, locomotion, evolutionary biology, elastic buckling, waves, the shape of the Earth, and the form of galaxies. Fundamental physics is governed by symmetries in the laws of nature--Einsteins point that the laws should be the same at all locations and all times. About the SeriesOxfords Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects--from Islam to Sociology, Politics to Classics, Literary Theory to History, and Archaeology to the Bible. Not simply a textbook of definitions, each volume in this series provides trenchant and provocative--yet always balanced and complete--discussions of the central issues in a given discipline or field. Every Very Short Introduction gives a readable evolution of the subject in question, demonstrating how the subject has developed and how it has influenced society. Eventually, the series will encompass every major academic discipline, offering all students an accessible and abundant reference library. Whatever the area of study that one deems important or appealing, whatever the topic that fascinates the general reader, the Very Short Introductions series has a handy and affordable guide that will likely prove indispensable.About the AuthorIan Stewart is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University. He is the author of over 80 books, including Does God Play Dice? The New Mathematics of Chaos, Flatterland, From Here to Infinity, and several collections of his highly popular math columns from Scientific American. He won the Michael Faraday Prize in 1995 and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2001.
Author: Sebastián Carassai
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In The Argentine Silent Majority, Sebastian Carassai focuses on middle-class culture and politics in Argentina from the end of the 1960s. By considering the memories and ideologies of middle-class Argentines who did not get involved in political struggles, he expands thinking about the era to the larger society that activists and direct victims of state terror were part of and claimed to represent. Carassai conducted interviews with 200 people, mostly middle-class non-activists, but also journalists, politicians, scholars, and artists who were politically active during the 1970s. To account for local differences, he interviewed people from three sites Buenos Aires Tucuman, a provincial capital rocked by political turbulence and Correa, a small town which did not experience great upheaval. He showed the middle-class non-activists a documentary featuring images and audio of popular culture and events from the 1970s. In the end Carassai concludes that, during the years of la violencia, members of the middle-class silent majority at times found themselves in agreement with radical sectors as they too opposed military authoritarianism but they never embraced a revolutionary program such as that put forward by the guerrilla groups or the most militant sectors of the labor movement. **Review The Argentine Silent Majority is a monumental piece of scholarship that powerfully illuminates a crucial period in Argentinas recent history. Sebastian Carassais researchhis thorough reading of the press, his analysis of key mass cultural works, his reconsideration of now obscure opinion polls, and, most impressively, the large number of interviews that he conducted in three distinct research sitesconstitutes a major contribution to our understanding of the 1970s in Argentina. (Matthew Karush, author of Culture of Class Radio and Cinema in the Making of a Divided Argentina, 19201946) This fabulous work recasts debate on fundamental issues in Argentine history. On the most basic level, it employs innovative methods and imaginative insights to transform our perception of class and politics in the years between the emergence of guerrilla movements and the return of democracy. A rich exploration of the mental world of Latin Americas largest middle class, The Argentine Silent Majority is a tour de force work of research, theory, and analysis. It will become required reading for anyone interested in class, violence, and memory. (Mark Healey, author of The Ruins of the New Argentina Peronism and the Remaking of San Juan after the 1944 Earthquake) Sebastian Carassais work is undoubtedly a welcome contribution to the scholarly literature due to the authors exhaustive examination of the complex and shifting relationship between the average Argentine and violence. . . . [T]he book helps readers to understand how middle-class disapproval of armed violence perpetrated by the revolutionary Left was not mirrored in the middle-class response to the terrorist state and in the ways in which collective memories of Peronism and violence continue to shape Argentina even today. (Cara Levey Journal of Latin American Studies) The Argentine Silent Majority offers a fine-grained portrait of middle class attitudes. This study merits careful consideration by specialists interested in contemporary Argentine history, class formation, and the ColdWar era. (Eduardo Elena Hispanic American Historical Review 2015-11-01) Carrassais study is a fantastic experiment in pushing the boundaries of traditional historical methodology, and it is as informative as it is entertaining to read. This work will serve well to set a new agenda for memory studies of this period. (Jessica Stites Mor American Historical Review 2015-10-01) ...The Argentine Silent Majority is a splendid book that greatly advances our understanding of Argentina during the 1970s, while also contributing to the study of middle-class formation and ideological change more generally. (Matthias vom Hau Social Forces 2016-03-22) About the Author Sebastian Carassai is Research Associate at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Buenos Aires, member of the Center of Intellectual History in the National University of Quilmes, and Professor in the Sociology Department of the University of Buenos Aires.