Rough and tumble [[electronic resource] ] : aggression, hunting, and human evolution / / Travis Rayne Pickering

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462580203321
• Autore: Pickering Travis Rayne
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2013
• ISBN: 0-520-95512-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (223 p.)
• Disciplina: 599.9
• Soggetti: Hunting, Prehistoric; Hunting and gathering societies; Fossil hominids; Human evolution; Social evolution; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Man among Apes -- 2. Prehistoric Bloodsport -- 3. Tamping the Simian Urge -- 4. Conceiving Our Past -- 5. Death from Above -- Coda -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Travis Rayne Pickering argues that the advent of ambush hunting approximately two million years ago marked a milestone in human evolution, one that established the social dynamic that allowed our ancestors to expand their range and diet. He challenges the traditional link between aggression and human predation, however, claiming that while aggressive attack is a perfectly efficient way for our chimpanzee cousins to kill prey, it was a hopeless tactic for early human hunters, who-in comparison to their large, potentially dangerous prey-were small, weak, and slow-footed. Technology that evolved from wooden spears to stone-tipped spears and ultimately to the bow and arrow increased the distance between predator and prey and facilitated an emotional detachment that allowed hunters to stalk and kill large game. Based on studies of humans and of other primates, as well as on fossil and archaeological evidence, Rough and Tumble offers a new ; perspective on human evolution by decoupling ideas of aggression and predation to build a more realistic understanding of what it is to be human.

Complicated grief : scientific foundations for health care professionals / / edited by Margaret Stroebe, Henk Schut and Jan van den Bout

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462925203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 0-203-10511-7; 1-136-25243-6
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): SchutHenk, Prof; StroebeMargaret S; Van den BoutJan
• Disciplina: 155.9/37
• Soggetti: Grief; Grief therapy; Loss (Psychology); Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; PART I Introduction; 1 Introduction: outline of goals and scope of the book; PART II The nature of complicated grief: conceptual approaches; 2 Complicated grief: philosophical perspectives; 3 The concept of complicated grief: lessons from other cultures; 4 On achieving clarity regarding complicated grief: lessons from clinical practice; 5 On the nature and prevalence of uncomplicated and complicated patterns of grief; 6 Complicated grief in children; PART III Diagnostic categorization: scientific, clinical, and societal implications7 Prolonged grief disorder as a new diagnostic category in DSM-5; 8 Is complicated/prolonged grief a disorder? Why the proposal ; to add a category of complicated grief disorder to the DSM-5 is conceptually and empirically unsound; 9 Lessons from PTSD for complicated grief as a new DSM mental disorder; 10 Complicated grief in the context of other psychiatric disorders: PTSD; PART IV Contemporary research on risk factors, processes, and mechanisms; 11 Prospective risk factors for complicated grief: a review of the empirical literature12 Repetitive thought: rumination in complicated grief; 13 Autobiographical memory processes in complicated grief; 14 Attachment insecurities and disordered patterns of grief; 15 Physiological mechanisms and the neurobiology of complicated grief; PART V Treatment of complicated grief: principles, paradigms, and procedures; 16 Prolonged grief disorder: cognitive-behavioral theory and therapy; 17 Internet-based bereavement interventions and support: an overview; 18 Family therapy for complicated grief; 19 Brief group therapies for complicated grief: interpretive and supportive approaches20 Complicated grief after violent death: identification and intervention; PART VI Conclusions; 21 Complicated grief: assessment of scientific knowledge and implications for research and practice; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: How can complicated grief be defined? How does it differ from normal patterns of grief and grieving? Who among the bereaved is particularly at risk? Can clinical intervention reduce complications?Complicated Grief provides a balanced, up-to-date, state-of-the-art account of the scientific foundations surrounding the topic of complicated grief. In this book, Margaret Stroebe,Henk Schut and Jan van den Bout address the basic questions about the concept, manifestations and phenomena associated with complicated grief. They bring together researchers fro