Columbia University Press: 2355 books
Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression in Social Work Practice
Working with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
This volume offers an invaluable resource for both social work educators and practitioners working with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) clients and their families. It is the first such work to specifically address issues affecting bisexual and transgender people as well as the larger...
The Custom-Made Brain
Cerebral Plasticity, Regeneration, and Enhancement
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Two leading neuroscientists introduce the concepts of "cerebral plasticity" and the "regenerating brain," describing what we know now about the processes through which the brain constantly reconstructs itself and the potential benefits this knowledge could have in addressing concerns...
People, Parasites, and Plowshares
Learning from Our Body's Most Terrifying Invaders
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Dickson D. Despommier's vivid, visceral account of the biology, behavior, and history of parasites follows the interplay between these fascinating life forms and human society over thousands of years. Despommier focuses on long-term host-parasite associations, which have evolved to avoid or even subvert...
The Task Planner
An Intervention Resource for Human Service Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2000
A comprehensive, A-to-Z set of task planners for more than one hundred psychosocial problems from alcoholism and anxiety to domestic violence and sexual abuse. Each entry includes a menu of actions the client can undertake to affect resolution, a guide to the practitioner's role in facilitating these...
by Elisabeth Roudinesco
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2004
Why do some people still choose psychoanalysis-Freud's so-called talking cure-when numerous medications are available that treat the symptoms of psychic distress so much faster? Elisabeth Roudinesco tackles this difficult question, exploring what she sees as a "depressive society": an epidemic...
Haunting Legacies
Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
From mass murder to genocide, slavery to colonial suppression, acts of atrocity have lives that extend far beyond the horrific moment. They engender trauma that echoes for generations, in the experiences of those on both sides of the act. Gabriele Schwab reads these legacies in a number of narratives,...
Death and Mastery
Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
The first philosophers of the Frankfurt School famously turned to the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud to supplement their Marxist analyses of ideological subjectification. Since the collapse of their proposed "marriage of Marx and Freud," psychology and social theory have grown...
Sibling Action
The Genealogical Structure of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
The sibling stands out as a ubiquitous—yet unacknowledged—conceptual touchstone across the European long nineteenth century. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, Europeans embarked on a new way of classifying the world, devising genealogies that determined degrees of relatedness by tracing...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The Origins of Schizophrenia synthesizes key findings on a devastating mental disorder that has been increasingly studied over the past decade. Advances in epidemiology, translational neuroscience technology, and molecular and statistical genetics have recast schizophrenia's neurobiological nature,...
Race and the Genetic Revolution
Science, Myth, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Do advances in genomic biology create a scientific rationale for long-discredited racial categories? Leading scholars in law, medicine, biology, sociology, history, anthropology, and psychology examine the impact of modern genetics on the concept of race. Contributors trace the interplay between genetics...
Childhood, Youth, and Social Work in Transformation
Implications for Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2009
Social workers today not only face competing claims concerning the rights and needs of children and youth, but they also confront contradictions between policy and practice. Social workers are expected to fight for the best interests of the child, even though financial support for children's welfare...
Attachment and Dynamic Practice
An Integrative Guide for Social Workers and Other Clinicians
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Contemporary attachment theory both enriches our understanding of human development and informs clinical practice. Examining the relational bonds between young children and their caregivers, it traces its origins to several scientific and social fields, most notably psychoanalysis, social work, behaviorism,...
Sport
A Biological, Philosophical, and Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Sports are as varied as the people who play them. We run, jump, and swim. We kick, hit, and shoot balls. We ride sleds in the snow and surf in the sea. From the Olympians of ancient Greece to today's professional athletes, from adult pickup soccer games to children's gymnastics classes, people at...
The Theory That Changed Everything
"On the Origin of Species" as a Work in Progress
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Few people have done as much to change how we view the world as Charles Darwin. Yet On the Origin of Species is more cited than read, and parts of it are even considered outdated. In some ways, it has been consigned to the nineteenth century. In The Theory That Changed Everything, the renowned cognitive...