Chimes of Time
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This book represents an ambitious project that unites various fields in a multidisciplinary venture drawing on a diverse range of academics and clinicians from medicine, psychology and the educational sciences. The volume presents a plethora of essays and reviews by clinicians and academics, including highly personal contributions, some emotive and some self-confessional. Other contributors disclose details of their own personal pain and suffering in relation to critical life events, including illnesses, but also share their own resources and strengths, drawing on reflections and insights…mehr

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This book represents an ambitious project that unites various fields in a multidisciplinary venture drawing on a diverse range of academics and clinicians from medicine, psychology and the educational sciences. The volume presents a plethora of essays and reviews by clinicians and academics, including highly personal contributions, some emotive and some self-confessional. Other contributors disclose details of their own personal pain and suffering in relation to critical life events, including illnesses, but also share their own resources and strengths, drawing on reflections and insights derived from literature, arts and psychology as well as medicine. Subsequently, these ideas lead to the creation of models for encouraging personal development: coping despite adversity and eventually finding meaning towards recovery both physically and psychologically. The authors are all very reflective, providing valuable advice for young practitioners and "afflicted" alike. The revelations of these distinguished contributors highlight the powerful role of psycho-history and biography in understanding which persons have influenced our lives, and what events have shaped us, and how may these have influenced our personal and working lives. Few scientific books address the wide spectrum of challenges required to resolve such developmental issues. This psychological battleground allows us to share and capitalise on the wealth and diversity of personal encounters with what often appears to be insurmountable obstacles, but which are wounds healed through patience and continued practice. This collection of essays is an attempt to bridge theoretical and research concepts and findings with clinical practice, adopting an interdisciplinary and crosscultural perspective. Accordingly, this book will be relevant and useful for practitioners and researchers, but also for laymen and social policy makers. The intended readership thus represents a very broad and diverse audience to include those interested in health psychology, sociology, anthropology, public health and mental health sciences. The book contains contributions by the following authors: Bruce Kirkcaldy, Arnold Weinstein, Peter K. Chadwick, Robert Miller, David Lukoff, Frederick J. Frese, Gordon Claridge, Neus Barrantes-Vidal, Nisha Dogra, Thandi Haruperi, Aleksandra Tokarz, Emile A. Allen, Amanda K. Ekdawi, Adrian Furnham, Michael W. Eysenck and Peter R. Breggin.Chimes of Time Introduction: When, why and how healers can profit from their own vulnerability?Bruce KirkcaldyThe Wounded Healer in LiteratureArnold WeinsteinBefore and After Psychosis: Is there anything positive to be gained from the experience?Peter K. ChadwickSteps Towards Better Collaboration Between Stakeholders to Promote Mental Health and to Alleviate Disablement due to Mental IllnessRobert MillerA Contemporary Shamanistic Initiatory CrisisDavid LukoffSchizophrenia - Prodromal Signs and Symptoms - A Personal PerspectiveFrederick J. FreseCreativity: a healthy side of madnessGordon Claridge & Neus Barrantes-Vidal"Intoxicating happiness" - the blazing trail of maniaBruce KirkcaldyCancer: An illness, nothing more, nothing lessNisha DograRecreating self: A personal journeyThandi HaruperiOn the meaning of self-knowledge, creativity and personal resources in a case of coping with a cancerAleksandra TokarzScars of the Wounded HealerEmile A. AllenIdentification and Separation - Career Choice Following Parental Death in AdolescenceAmanda K EkdawiWorkaholismAdrian FurnhamLost in Shadows?Michael W. EysenckEmpathy, Woundedness, Burn Out, and How to Love Being a TherapistPeter R. Breggin
Autorenporträt
Bruce Kirkcaldy has academic degrees in psychology from the Universities of Dundee and Giessen, as well as postgraduate professional training as a Behavioural Therapist and Clinical Psychologist. He is Director of the International Centre for the Study of Occupational and Mental Health, and runs his own psychotherapy practise specializing in the treatment of anxiety and depressive disorders and psychosomatic ailments.