Dissociative Retreat and Addiction presents a new theoretical and clinical model for understanding and treating addiction. Giuseppe Craparo examines how addictive behaviors develop as the result of complex psychic and physical conditions, working in conjunction with a specific drug object, and explores factors including poor relational and developmental history, strong emotional pain and psychopathological conditions including anxiety, depression, personality disorders and psychosis. Craparo's clinical, developmental-relational model conceptualizes addictive symptoms as reenactments of traumatic memories and observes how drug objects are used as defensive somato-psychic retreats from the intense emotions associated with traumatic memories. The book provides a full overview of the model with clinical examples and theoretical underpinnings. Dissociative Retreat and Addiction will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and other professionals working with addiction and trauma.

A Critical Companion to Bion is an introduction to the extraordinary contributions of W.R. Bion, providing a close and detailed reading of his work, anchored in systematic critical expositions of the arguments in his four main theoretical studies (1962-1970).

The complex reality of Bion's texts and public talks is studied in depth, placing them in sharp contrast to the phenomena of Bion's subsequent influence. Building on this analysis, the book goes on to explore the reasons for the striking gap between what Bion said and what professional psychoanalysis tends to imagine he meant. The author argues that the psychoanalytic profession has cultivated the charismatic authority of Bion's posthumous "psychoanalytic personality" in the service of both clinical innovation and conservative psychoanalytic identifications. A careful reading of the Bion opus provides essential insight into the history of psychoanalytic thought and the chronic institutional problems still facing the psychoanalytic movement.

With a careful, detailed analysis of Bion's work and a clear vision of how it can be applied to theoretical and clinical work, this is key reading for all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, and will also be of interest to cultural historians and critical theorists.

Who am I, and where am I going in life? This book explores the fascinating study of identity development, addressing how people navigate these fundamental questions throughout their lives. In an increasingly complex and globalized world, where choices and information abound, the book provides a comprehensive introduction to the foundations, theories, and applications of identity development, offering readers valuable insights into how we form our understanding of who we are.

Readers will gain essential knowledge on identity development, including its foundations, key theories, and methods of measurement, with opportunities to try widely used questionnaires themselves. The book also examines how identity research informs policy and addresses current and emerging topics in the field. By connecting identity development to interpersonal relationships, mental health, career choices, and professional growth, readers will discover how this knowledge can be applied to enhance their understanding of themselves and others.

This book is ideal for students in psychology, youth studies, pedagogical science, child study and human development, and family studies programs. It provides an accessible and engaging introduction to identity development, making it a valuable resource for anyone seeking to understand the lifelong process of navigating life paths and making meaningful choices.

Emotions play a crucial role in the design process, yet junior design students often struggle to manage their emotional changes while creating. This title bridges the gap in design education by illuminating how emotional intelligence serves as a powerful tool for inspiration and decision-making. This investigation takes a new perspective on emotions in design projects, contrasting it with traditional approaches that prioritise technical skills and reasoning over emotional awareness. The focus of this title is to deliver accessible strategies to monitor and manage the reader's emotional responses during projects.

This book presents a Phase-by-Phase Emotional Configuration Model alongside a taxonomy of tactics for concept creation, selection and prototyping. Through empirical research, 40 essential emotions linked to design were identified and validated using advanced emotion tracking techniques, including mobile applications and facial expression analysis. Case studies and reflective activities provide practical guidelines for emotional self-regulation throughout the design journey. By integrating these tools into their practice, readers will develop the ability to harness emotions as creative catalysts rather than obstacles, ultimately producing more resonant and effective design solutions.

Guiding Emotions: An Emotion-Tracking Approach to Rectify Design Experience and Process is for professionals, educators, students and researchers of design, human factors and creative industries.

Explore evidence-based counseling theories to improve client outcomes across diverse populations

Mental health practitioners must choose from numerous therapeutic approaches while serving diverse clients. Counseling and Psychotherapy Theories in Context and Practice: Skills, Strategies, and Techniques, Fourth Edition provides comprehensive coverage of major theories alongside practical guidance for ethical, culturally sensitive application. This resource connects theoretical knowledge with real-world practice, explaining how to apply the latest evidence-based theory with actual clients.

The book systematically covers eleven major theoretical perspectives, from psychoanalytic and Adlerian through person-centered, behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, feminist, constructive, family systems, and third wave therapies. Each chapter explores foundational principles, practical techniques, and applications for diverse populations. Readers discover how neuroscience illuminates therapy mechanisms and learn contemporary perspectives including Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality.

This comprehensive resource also includes:

• Reflection exercises that encourage self-examination and help readers identify their natural theoretical orientations before formal training influences their preferences
• Brain Boxes explaining neuroscience concepts including neurogenesis, epigenetics, and the bidirectional relationship between therapeutic experiences and brain changes
• Practical guidance on ethics including competence, informed consent, cultural humility, confidentiality, and avoiding potentially harmful therapies
• Research-supported strategies for maximizing positive outcomes through progress monitoring, role induction, and practice-based evidence
• Putting It in Practice sections with case examples demonstrating how to apply theoretical concepts in clinical settings with diverse clients

Whether you're a student or practicing mental health professional, this book equips you with the theoretical foundation and practical skills needed to provide effective, ethical, culturally sensitive therapy. Counseling and Psychotherapy Theories in Context and Practice explains how to help clients achieve meaningful change.

The remarkable life and work of the French philosopher and activist Simone Weil has fascinated scholars from many disciplines, with no less than Albert Camus calling her the "only great spirit of our times". Although contemporaneous with the rise of existentialism and educated alongside contemporaries such as Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the creative and restless nature of Weil's thought set her apart. Equally adept at thinking across politics, philosophy, theology, ethics, literature, and science, Weil stands distinct in the canon of twentieth-century Western thought as a highly unique and controversial figure.

The Routledge Companion to Simone Weil is an outstanding survey of her thought. Thirty-seven chapters by an international team of expert contributors are divided into six clear parts:

• Contextualising Weil
• Philosophical Sources
• Key Concepts
• Politics and Society
• Interactions with Religion
• Conversations

Within these sections key thinkers and topics central to Weil's philosophy are addressed, including Plato, Kant, Marx, God, attention, love, beauty, labour and work, the body, slavery, rootedness, colonialism, fascism, Catholicism, Judaism, Indic thought, phenomenology, existentialism, feminism, literature, and many more.

The Routledge Companion to Simone Weil is an invaluable resource for anyone studying or researching Weil's thought, whether in philosophy and religious studies or related disciplines such as political theory, French literature, and Jewish studies.

Exploring a wide range of written discourse on early modern brewing and the material features and practices contributing to those conversations, this book demonstrates the considerable role that discussions of drink played in defining the boundaries of human life and action in England and beyond.

The social meaning of drink was an ever-contested cultural site in the early modern Atlantic. From complaints about watered-down ale to suspicions around ingredients and imported foreign wines to the moral blame assigned to alehouses and inns for drunkenness and raucous behavior, early modern writers saw the fermentation process as just one of many sites in which drink signified change. Discussing beer and brewing meant defining the limits of human rationality, markers of individual and collective identity, and the nature of responsibility. This book's interdisciplinary approach draws upon texts as varied as brewing manuals, manuscript receipt books, plays, broadside ballads, and joke books to show the two-way conversation between these complex cultural works and the materiality of fermented drink as a cultural artifact.

This book will be useful for graduate students and scholars of early modern English literature and early American literature, food studies, food history, and material culture.

Knowledge Diplomacy and African Higher Education explores the emergent and dynamic global model of the aid-driven, research-intensive African university as a potential panacea for national and economic development in rapidly shifting contexts. Anchored in the concept of knowledge diplomacy, the book interrogates the logics and practices that shape development agencies' interventions, revealing how emergent forms of aid, research and doctoral education are being institutionalised within African higher education systems.

Based on a study of Swedish aid-driven research co-operation and empirical data from interviews with staff and students from universities in Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi and Ethiopia, this is the first comprehensive analysis to move beyond deterministic colonial, neo-colonial and neo-liberal explanations of university transformation in offering a more nuanced account of how African universities are being reinvented - from predominantly teaching-oriented institutions into research-driven, globally engaged universities - through the agentic moral and intellectual leadership of African scholars themselves.

This highly original book challenges readers to re-examine comfortable assumptions about the promises and paralysis of foreign aid-driven research co-operation and its articulation with development in African higher education. This book will appeal to scholars of comparative and international education, higher education, development practitioners, diplomats and policymakers engaged in strengthening science systems and international research collaboration.

A comprehensive resource on the nature and value of African religious life

Portrayals of African spirituality have been tainted in the past by harmful stereotypes and negative judgments or have altogether ignored African religions. Very few scholarly works have encompassed the depth of how spiritual care is conceptualized and practiced in African and African diasporic communities.

Spiritual Care in African Religious Cultures offers insights into the nature and value of African religious life while also giving persons of different religious persuasions information about African beliefs and practices. This book reveals how practitioners of African traditional religions and people who engage in African spirituality draw on their own spiritual traditions to help them live satisfying and productive lives. Lartey addresses key beliefs about the divine realm, ancestors, evil, health, death, and life, as well as practices such as ceremonies, manifestation of spirit, naming, and healing rites inherent in African and African Heritage religions, which are utilized in providing care for persons amid the challenges of living. He invites us to go beyond maligning and misrepresenting African religions and to enter into the therapeutic and life-giving realities of African life and thought.

Spiritual Care in African Religious Cultures is a comprehensive resource on African understandings of spiritual care and has the potential to enhance communal relationships for multicultural communities.

Synthetic Intelligence in Education introduces the groundbreaking concept of synthetic intelligence, referring to a harmonious blend of human and artificial intelligence. Yufeng Qian explores how today's generative AI and future systems can create a progressive learning environment where human cognition and AI capabilities work together, fostering co-learning experiences that surpass the possibilities of previous technological eras.

Arriving at a critical moment, this volume addresses the urgent need for a fundamental shift in mindset, pedagogical vision, and professional practice. As AI becomes increasingly integrated into educational tools and practices, many educators and learners still rely on outdated methods and lack the frameworks to engage with AI meaningfully. Synthetic Intelligence in Education provides a clear and accessible roadmap for educators, researchers, and policymakers to navigate the evolving landscape of AI in education.

The book examines the theoretical foundations of synthetic intelligence, emphasizing the cognitive and pedagogical principles that support meaningful human-AI collaboration. Through practical examples and actionable strategies, it shows how synthetic intelligence can be applied across diverse educational contexts.

Social studies teachers cannot avoid teaching about war. They must consider how they can teach about war and related topics meaningfully instead of relegating wars to a body of facts, such as dates, places, names, or casualties. Teaching about war helps students comprehend (de)colonization, cultivates their critical thinking skills, and facilitates student understanding of conflict and peace.

In Teaching about War in International Contexts, the contributors adopt the literal meaning of war-a state of armed conflict between nations, states, or groups within a country or state. While there are books out there focusing on how to teach a specific war, such as the Vietnam War or the Korean War, no books highlight the pedagogical practices of teaching global wars. Thus, Teaching about War in International Contexts fills the gap in the existing literature.

This edited book is an invaluable pedagogical resource highlighting the teaching of war in an international context in secondary (grades 6-12 or equivalent) social studies classrooms worldwide. Featuring the voices of classroom teachers, graduate students who used to be classroom teachers, and teacher educators, this book provides readers with classroom-tested practices for teaching about war. Readers will find examples of lesson planning, teaching strategies, teachers' reflections, and further teaching resources on specific wars. This edited volume is an invaluable resource for secondary social studies classroom teachers, graduate and undergraduate social studies education students, and social studies curriculum and instruction experts.

Private schooling continues to be a divisive issue. In Britain, there has been a rapid expansion of overseas branches being opened by elite British private schools. Private Schools and Cultural Capital offers insight into the workings of private schools that continue to provide an advantage for their students. Author Rachel Louise Stenhouse reports on the role played by teachers' social and cultural capital in reproducing privilege in private schools and how this capital is transmitted to students through their preparation for application to elite universities.

Drawing on data from interviews with teachers, observations of lessons and teachers' own reflections to provide an insight into the workings of one private school in England, Stenhouse contributes to an understanding of how private schools are able to continue to reproduce the privilege that their students enjoy. Using the theories of Pierre Bourdieu as a fitting framework in which to understand how private school privilege is reproduced, the chapters also provoke discussion about the prominence of "cultural capital" in the Ofsted school inspection framework and the role played by teachers in private schools in developing cultural capital in their students.

A timely addition to the literature on private school advantage, this is a compelling resource for international readers working in policy, academia, or education with an interest in social inequality and in particular the workings of private schools.

Witches, ghosts, fairies. Late medieval and early modern Europe was seemingly filled with these and other threatening and disturbing figures. For many contemporary authors, the devil appeared to lurk behind them all. Were his powers real or mere trickery? What limits did God place on them? Could reports from this hidden demonic netherworld be trusted? Physicians, lawyers, and theologians, writing at different times and places, gave very different answers and often disagreed bitterly.

This updated and enlarged second edition examines individual authors from across Europe and its colonies to reveal the many purposes to which the devil could be put - in the late medieval fight against heresy, the age of Reformations, and beyond. It follows the devil's trajectory from his emergence in the 1300s and 1400s as a bodily figure who made pacts with humans, through the comprehensive surveys that coincided with the witch-hunts' most deadly phase, to the end of the seventeenth century, when the science of demons met new challenges in both Old World and New.

This book is essential reading for students, researchers, and anyone interested in the history of the supernatural in medieval and early modern Europe, as well as those exploring the intersections of theology, science, and society during this transformative period.

Teaching Culture in the 21st Century presents the Process Model for Teaching and Understanding Culture (PMTUC), a practical framework for developing cultural competence that moves beyond lists of dos and don'ts, dimensions, and holiday activities. Treating culture as a system of beliefs and meanings, this book shows how cultural assumptions shape interpretation, communication, and decision-making. It offers educators a clear, coherent way to make these dynamics visible and discussable in their courses and programs.

Grounded in more than 30 years of higher education teaching, including 18 years of teaching culture at the doctoral level and experience working with international students from over 30 countries, this book links theory to practice. It introduces the theoretical foundations of PMTUC, including cultural syndromes, dimensional frameworks, and metaphorical perspectives, and explains how these concepts support phases of learning: self-awareness, comparative analysis, and metaphor construction. Through examples, activities, and illustrations, readers can see how to design curricula, facilitate dialogue, and assess growth in cultural understanding. This book addresses academic, professional, and community contexts and includes guidance for in-person, online, and hybrid environments.

Designed for teacher educators, classroom teachers, and corporate or military trainers, this book provides a flexible process that can structure courses, workshops, and institutional initiatives. By centering systems of belief and inviting learners to construct their own cultural metaphors, the book helps learners move from passive recipients of cultural information to active meaning-makers who are prepared to navigate the complexities of intercultural engagement. It is suited to courses on culture, diversity, leadership, and education today.

This proceedings compilation celebrates the power of education, culture, and communication in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Quality Education (SDG 4). Through interdisciplinary dialogue, it explores how innovation, inclusion, and global citizenship learning shape today's educational and social landscapes, bridging boundaries between language, culture, and human well-being.

This volume is organized around three major strands - Language, Culture & Communication; Curriculum & Instruction; and Gender, Health, Wellness & Well-being in Education. The papers delve into themes of multilingual identity, cultural hybridity, digital and media literacy, and creative pedagogy. Other works investigate teacher professional development, technology-enhanced instruction, and the use of AI and machine learning for improving educational quality and self-regulated learning. In alignment with SDG 4, many contributions emphasize equitable access, lifelong learning, and the cultivation of 21stcentury skills like critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity. Collectively, these studies illuminate how education and the humanities can empower individuals and communities toward resilience, empathy, and sustainable global progress.

It is designed for educators, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners in education, humanities, and social sciences. It offers evidence-based insights and practical reflections for those committed to promoting inclusive, high-quality learning, strengthening teacher capacity, and fostering cultural understanding in pursuit of sustainable and equitable futures.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

An immersive analysis of camp life and soldiers' well-being during the Civil War

The Civil War was a watershed in public awareness of the many health-related issues soldiers faced while living in camps. Sanitarians among civilians and regular army officers attempted to meet those challenges by addressing a range of topics associated with preventive healthcare in the volunteer army. The US Sanitary Commission, a nongovernmental agency sanctioned by the Federal government, created a massive campaign to study conditions in semipermanent camps and advise unit commanders how to avoid unnecessary illness and curb soldier deaths by disease. Commission inspectors, mostly civilian physicians, examined camps from 1861 to early 1864 and filed more than 1,400 reports of their findings.

Earl J. Hess delves deeply into 280 of those reports, shedding new and startling light on camp conditions. Addressing camp situation, shelter, clothing, personal cleanliness, garbage disposal, latrines, food, cooking, water, alcohol, morale, recruit examination, smallpox vaccination, regimental hospitals, and officer supervision, the camp inspection returns are unique snapshots of what it was like to live in a Union army camp. The reports reveal that sanitation varied widely from unit to unit and across time periods. Volunteer regimental officers and surgeons were often unable to take sanitary principles seriously, and disposing of garbage and human waste was often nonexistent. Overall, the volunteer regiments did well enough to get by, but they did not achieve high marks for military effectiveness when it came to preventive healthcare.

Civil War Camps and Soldier Health is a thought-provoking, impeccably researched volume that enriches our understanding of the sanitation challenges facing the Union army camps as well as how these challenges were recorded and examined by early researchers.

In contemporary India, new Hindu religious movements are reshaping spiritual landscapes and challenging traditional boundaries of faith, identity, and social practice. This groundbreaking ethnographic study examines two influential movements-Brahma Kumaris and Ramakrishna Movement-each offering distinct cosmologies and visions of human transformation that attract millions of followers across diverse social backgrounds.

Through rich, comparative analysis, this book explores the socio-cultural forces driving the rise of these movements and their profound impact on devotees' lives. Who joins these communities and why? How do charismatic founding leaders' legacies evolve across generations? The study reveals how new religious identities form through intensive socialisation processes that transform everything from daily routines to fundamental worldviews. Employing a phenomenological perspective, the author demonstrates how bodies become sites of cultural inscription and potential social change. They uncover striking differences between the movements regarding food practices, clothing choices, celibacy, and marriage-revealing how religious imagination translates into lived experience. From the Brahma Kumaris' emphasis on spiritual purity and gender equality to the Ramakrishna Movement's synthesis of traditional and modern values, each movement creates distinct pathways to transcendence. The book offers crucial insights into how contemporary Hindu movements navigate modernity while preserving spiritual authenticity, creating new forms of religious belonging that challenge conventional social boundaries.

Essential reading for scholars and students of the sociology of religion, cultural studies, religious studies, anthropology, and South Asian studies, this work provides an unprecedented understanding of religious innovation in modern India.

This book provides a one-stop research-informed professional learning guide for teacher educators to support their work-based development of values, pedagogy and scholarship.

Drawing on international research and professional development initiatives, it provides a scholarly but action-orientated text. This practical guide supports the professional learning and career development of teacher educators, showing how to learn in and through the workplace. Key areas of focus include pedagogy for teacher education and development, partnership and consultancy, advanced scholarship and research.

Meeting the needs of both new and experienced teacher educators, this is an inspiring, internationally relevant, professionally focused resource.

Case Studies in School Psychology comprehensively introduces the NASP Practice Model through active discussion of real-life, school-based examples of issues facing school psychologists.

Incorporating all ten domains of practice, these true-to-life scenarios span individual child, class-wide, school-wide, and district/community-wide organizational levels across multiple age and developmental ranges. This updated second edition features new cases on reading interventions, teleconsultation, promotion of diversity and inclusion, and equity in disciplinary practices. It includes updated data charts and references, and it opens each case with new descriptions of a given NASP Domain while closing with discussion questions and advanced applications.

Graduate students will better understand their expansive roles and potential avenues to make positive impacts as school psychologists in children's academic, social, emotional, and behavioral development.

Provides comprehensive guidance on harnessing artificial intelligence for neuroscience research and clinical applications

The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) has created new opportunities for advancing the study of the brain. While recent scholarship has focused on how neuroscience can inform the design of AI systems, there is a growing need for resources that demonstrate how AI can be applied to support neuroscience research and practice. Artificial Intelligence in Neuroscience offers a detailed introduction to AI technologies and their transformative potential for fields ranging from neuroimaging and genetics to mental healthcare and neuro-oncology.

Structured around four major areas, the book begins by exploring the shared history of AI and neuroscience, from single-neuron modeling and action potentials to contemporary learning mechanisms. It then examines how AI can be used as a data analysis tool in genetics, proteomics, histology, cognition, and population health, before turning to clinical applications such as biologically plausible cognitive models, connectionist frameworks, and reinforcement learning. Additional chapters consider emerging applications, including robotics, drug screening, brain-computer interfaces, and language models. The volume concludes with a critical discussion of ethical and privacy issues, ensuring readers are equipped to navigate the responsibilities that accompany technological innovation.

Wide in scope and filled with practical insights, Artificial Intelligence in Neuroscience:

• Explores the historical intersections between AI and neuroscience to contextualize current innovations
• Demonstrates applications of AI in neuroimaging, genetics, and population health research
• Details clinical applications of AI models, including reinforcement learning and connectionist frameworks
• Highlights novel uses of AI in robotics, brain-computer interfaces, and drug discovery
• Integrates technical depth with applied case studies for both academic and clinical contexts

Artificial Intelligence in Neuroscience is ideal for graduate students, early career researchers, and established professionals in neuroscience, psychology, computer science, and medicine. It is well-suited for courses in computational neuroscience, AI in healthcare, and neuroinformatics within advanced degree programs in neuroscience, biomedical sciences, data science, and clinical psychology.

Drawing on case studies from around the world, this book explores how different professionals, organisations and agencies can and do intervene during the course of the dementia journey, from diagnosis to death, to ensure that care is integrated, coordinated and person-centred.

Dementia impacts greatly on the health and social care needs for the person with dementia and their families and carers, and there is evidence that integrated and coordinated care with collaboration from different organisations and agencies can lead to better quality of life outcomes. This innovative text critiques and challenges contemporary practice, providing examples of good practice globally and reflecting on how their inclusion within policy and practice could prevent the fragmentation of care. It includes chapters exploring collaborative care strategies in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Japan, Qatar, the Philippines and Australia, each with a different thematic focus such as organising and planning care, education for practitioners, and multi-sectoral and community collaboration. Two further chapters draw on personal narratives of caring.

Providing a unique collection of best practice ideas for collaborative dementia care, this book is an essential resource for a wide range of health and social care practitioners, researchers, educators and students involved in dementia care and research.

Examining anthropocentric assumptions and arguments in care ethics literature, this book argues that caring for plants represents a moral obligation and vital relationship between human carers and plant cared-fors.

By exploring the moral value in plants and their capabilities for caring relationships, the book demonstrates that this type of care is already in practice and discusses three case studies of human-plant contexts: bonsai, tomato plants, and giant sequoias. Brelje reasons that plants should be included in care ethics based on the human carers and plant cared-fors ability to meet the core requirements of caring relationship: carers' valuing-attitudes for plants, caring affect towards plants, human-plant interdependency, responsive interactivity between humans and plants, and plant success conditions. This theory is applied to real life caring relationships between human carers and plant cared-fors through interviews with bonsai practitioners, tomato plant farmers, native caretakers, and parks personnel, providing sketches of contemporary human-plant care relationships. Each case offers context-relevant challenges based on plant type and use, aesthetic, and consumption, while highlighting the common ethical care patterns.

Plant-Inclusive Care Ethics will be useful for students, instructors, and practitioners in environmental ethics, plant humanities, critical plant studies, and plant-related artistic work.