1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797377603321

Autore

Magestro Molly Ann <1982->

Titolo

Assault on the small screen : representations of sexual violence on prime-time television dramas / / Molly Ann Magestro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-4422-5398-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Disciplina

791.4508996073

Soggetti

Television broadcasting - Social aspects - United States

Television series - United States

Violence on television

Sex on television

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

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 “She Got Herself Raped and Killed�""; ""2 “Don�t Tell Her She�s Lucky�""; ""3 “She�s Evidence�""; ""4 “Does Anyone Think Rape Isn�t a Major Crime?�""; ""5 “As Damaged as Me�""; ""6 “These Are Their Stories�""; ""7 “Separate Yet Equally Important�""; ""8 “If It Forces You to Prosecute�""; ""Conclusion""; ""Episode Index""; ""Index""; ""About the Author""

Sommario/riassunto

Over the last few decades, television programs have attempted to depict some of the more troubling elements of society with a more conscientious approach. Issues that networks were once reluctant to broadcast-such as sexual abuse, sexual assault, and rape-have become frequent plot points for many popular shows. Narratives that portray important social issues could potentially affect the ways individual viewers understand such incidents in the real world, so it is important to pay close and critical attention to the stories about rape that are broadcast to mass audiences. In Assault on the Smal



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910957486003321

Titolo

The roar of awakening : a Whiteheadian dialogue between Western psychotherapies and Eastern worldviews / / George Derfer, Zhihe Wang, Michel Weber (eds.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt, : Ontos Verlag, 2009

ISBN

3-11-032816-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Collana

Process Thought ; ; 20

Altri autori (Persone)

DerferGeorge

WangZhihe

WeberMichel

Disciplina

100

Soggetti

Philosophy, Comparative

Process philosophy

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.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Notes -- I. The View from the East -- Consciousness: The Vedantic Approach to Life and Reality / Anthony, Francis-Vincent -- Dual Aspect Framework for Consciousness and Its Implications: West meets East for Sublimation Process / Vimal, Ram Lakhan Pandey -- The Paradoxes of Radical Asceticism: Jainism as a Therapeutic Paradigm / Long, Jeffery D. -- Yoga Therapeutics: Philosophical, Scientific, and Humanistic Approaches / Malhotra, Ashok Kumar -- Can Indian Spiritual Practices Be Used in Psychotherapy? / Kapur, R. L. -- II. Transcultural Dialogue -- Ineradicable Frustration and Liberation in Tiantai Buddhism / Ziporyn, Brook -- An Exploration and Analysis of Chinese Traditional Psychotherapy: On the Integration of Whitehead's Organic Philosophy / Gao, Fengqiang / Chen, Yingmin -- The Kyoto School and Self-Awareness in the Field of the Absolute Nothingness. A Comparison with Whitehead's Philosophy / Hanaoka, Eiko -- Jung and Hisamatsu Re-envisioning Religiosity: Jungian Psychotherapy and the Kyoto School / Nobuhara, Tokiyuki -- Reconstructing the Meaning of Being Human: A Reinterpretation of Frankl in the Framework of Whitehead's Philosophy / Hayashi, Yoshihiro -- The Development of Binswanger's Daseinsanalysis / Muramoto, Shoji



-- The Intercultural and Daseinanalytical Psychiatry of Kimura Bin / Stevens, Bernard -- A Certain Form of Psychotherapy (Kenosis, Prajna, Jung, and Hillman) / Bradford, David T. -- Vedanta, Process, and Psychotherapy / Grange, Joseph -- On Zen Buddhism / Sherlock, Clive -- Table of Contents -- Process Thought

Sommario/riassunto

The primary goal of this volume is to describe the contemporary state of affairs in Western psychotherapy, and to do so in a Whiteheadian spirit: with genuine openness to the relative ways in which creativity, beauty, truth, and peace manifest themselves in various cultural traditions. This Whiteheadian Dialogue explores afresh an important cross-elucidatory path: what have we, and what can be learned from a dialogue with Eastern worldviews? In order to generate meaningful contrasts between these different systems of thought, all the papers address common core issues. On one hand, how does the