1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461759903321

Autore

Smail D. J (David John)

Titolo

The origins of unhappiness : a new understanding of personal distress / / David Smail

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2018

ISBN

0-429-90740-0

0-429-48263-9

1-78241-394-4

Edizione

[1st]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Disciplina

152.4

Soggetti

Depression, Mental

Melancholy

Sadness

Emotions

Affective disorders

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: London: HarperCollins, 1993.

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; 1: Psychology and Distress - The Story So Far; 2: 'When I was Little' - The Experience of Power; 3: Bodies and Worlds - The Field of Power; 4: Case Study: The 1980's; 5: Help; 6: A Rational Faith; Appendix; Index

Sommario/riassunto

It is the main argument of this book that emotional and psychological distress is often brought about through the operation of social-environmental powers which have their origin at a considerable distance from those ultimately subjected to them. On the whole, psychology has concerned itself very little with the field of power which stretches beyond our immediate relations with each other, and this has led to serious limitations on the explanatory power of the theories it has produced. To illustrate this, typical cases of patient distress in the 1980's are examined. The decade when the right...



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780262603321

Autore

Hollrah Patrice E. M. <1949-, >

Titolo

"The old lady trill, the victory yell" : the power of women in Native American literature / / Patrice E.M. Hollrah

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-93892-X

1-138-97744-6

1-135-93893-8

1-280-01974-3

0-203-50783-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (195 p.)

Collana

Native Americans : interdisciplinary perspectives

Disciplina

813.009/352042

Soggetti

American literature - Indian authors - History and criticism

Women and literature - United States

Indian women - Intellectual life

Indian women in literature

Women in literature

Indian women

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-189) and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter 1 Introduction: “Writing Is Different from Tribe to Tribe” -- chapter 2 “The Old Lady Trill, the Victory Yell” -- chapter 3 “We Must Be Masters of Our Circumstances” -- chapter 4 “The Men in the Bar Feared Her” -- chapter 5 “Women Are Strong, Strong, Terribly Strong” -- chapter 6 “‘I’m Talking Like a Twentieth-Century Indian Woman’” -- chapter 7 Conclusion: “Indian Women Were and Are Powerful”.

Sommario/riassunto

Covering the work of four of the 20th century's Native American authors, this text argues that a tribal construct of gender relations, where the relationship between male & female roles is complementary rather that hierarchical, accounts for the existence of empowered female characters in literature.