Author: Mario Maj File Type: pdf This series acknowledges the substantial gap that still exists in psychiatry between research evidence and clinical practice clinicians are sometimes incompletely aware of research findings, or regard them as biased, not convincing or not relevant to their practice. By using systematic reviews with accompanying commentaries this volume is able to assess the evidence and experiences to give a critical and objective account of the relevant issues, while focusing on key topics. This comprehensive book addresses schizophrenia through a systematic review of the available rearch evidence. This book ...was a pleasure to review. One can dip in and out of it at random to find an important aspect of schizophrenia summarised in a few paragraphs. The reviews are all well written, balanced and up-to-date. It is designed for an international readership, and come commentaries, such as those on continental concepts of schizophrenia, or experience of stigma in the less industrialised world, are rarely found together in one volume. British Journal of Psychiatry, 2001

Author: Alain Badiou File Type: pdf Logics of Worlds is the long-awaited sequel to Alain Badious much heralded masterpiece, Being and Event. Fifteen years after Badious groundbreaking work first appeared in French, the greatest and most influential contemporary French philosopher finally presents his readers with a truly remarkable follow-up, answering many of the questions posed by his critics and continuing the development of his fascinating theories of truth, subject and event. Appearing in French for the first time in 2006, this hugely important new book is set to make a significant and controversial contribution to contemporary philosophical thought. This brand new translation will make available to an English-speaking audience for the first time a book that is essential reading for Badious considerable following and anyone interested in contemporary Continental philosophy.ReviewThis time its true this really IS the book we have been waiting for. Since the publication of his magisterial Being and Event, we have been impatient to see what could not be foreseen the way worlds look, according to Badiou. Logics of Worlds delivers a powerful theory of the uncanny appearance of truths a rigorous polemic against the tedious nominalist-historicist materialism of our day and a phenomenology every bit as impressive as Badious justly celebrated ontology. - Professor Joan Copjec, University at Buffalo, USA... [provides] a comprehensive understanding of the French authors philosophical views... Responding to the problems raised in postmodern French thought, Alain Badious book offers an original rational scenario of interpreting them in a new key. (, ) About the AuthorAlain Badiou teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure and at the College International de Philosophie in Paris, France. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works. Alberto Toscano is a lecturer at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the editor and translator, with Ray Brassier, of Alain Badious Theoretical Writings (London Continuum, 2004). Logics of Worlds is the long-awaited sequel to Alain Badious much-heralded masterpiece, Being and Event. Tackling the questions that had been left open by Being and Event, and answering many of his critics in the process, Badiou supplements his pioneering treatment of multiple being with a daring and complex theory of the worlds in which truths and subjects make their mark - what he calls a materialist dialectic. The radical recasting of ontology in Being and Event is followed and complemented here by a thoroughgoing transformation in our very understanding of logic, conceived as a theory not of being but of appearing. Unafraid to resurrect and reinvent the classical themes of philosophy, Badiou gives new meaning to concepts such as object, body and relation, mobilising them in arresting studies that range from the architectural planning of Brasilia to contemporary astronomy, and confronting himself with towering philosophical counterparts (Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Lacan, Deleuze). The book culminates in an impassioned call to live for an Idea. **Review This time its true this really IS the book we have been waiting for. Since the publication of his magisterial Being and Event, we have been impatient to see what could not be foreseen the way worlds look, according to Badiou. Logics of Worlds delivers a powerful theory of the uncanny appearance of truths a rigorous polemic against the tedious nominalist-historicist materialism of our day and a phenomenology every bit as impressive as Badious justly celebrated ontology. - Professor Joan Copjec, University at Buffalo, USA ... [provides] a comprehensive understanding of the French authors philosophical views... Responding to the problems raised in postmodern French thought, Alain Badious book offers an original rational scenario of interpreting them in a new key. (Sanford Lakoff) About the Author Alain Badiou teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure and at the College International de Philosophie in Paris, France. In addition to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works. Alberto Toscano is Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the editor and translator, with Ray Brassier, of Alain Badious Theoretical Writings (London Continuum, 2004).