Reconstructing Identity : a Transdisciplinary Approach /: a Transdisciplinary Approach. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nicholas Monk, Mia Lindgren, Sarah McDonald, Sarah Pasfield-Neofitou, editors.
• Editors: Monk, Nicholas
• Other Names: Lindgren, Mia; McDonald, Sarah; Pasfield-Neofitou, Sarah E
• Contents: Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures ; 1: Introduction; Forms of Identity Module; References; Section 1: Biological Identity; 2: If My Brain Is Damaged, Do I Become a Different Person? Catherine Malabou and Neuro-identity; Introduction; Destructive Plasticity; "Gage Was No Longer Gage"; The Hidden Plasticity of Apophaticism; Conclusion; References; 3: Identity and Psychiatric Disorders; Introduction; Psychiatry and Its Identity as Part of Medicine; The Identity of the Psychiatrist and the Person Who Becomes Mentally Unwell; What Is Personal Identity? Psychological Continuity Theory Physiological Continuity Theory; Personal Identity and Mental Illness; Disorders of Psychosis and Schizophrenia; Case Vignette ; Discussion; Mood (Affective) Disorder; Case Vignette ; Discussion; Personality Disorder; Case Vignette ; Discussion; Disorders of Memory; Case Vignette ; Discussion; Conclusion; References; 4: Biological Identity; Introduction; My Identity; Reproduction and You; A Starting Place for Considering Biological Identity; Stripping Back Humans; Genes, DNA, and You; Our Cellular Identity: The DNA Code. Our Faces Are Unique to Each of Us Our Sexual Identity: The Role of the Chromosomes; Determining Our DNA Code; DNA Individuality; Twins, Epigenetics, and Our Changing DNA Landscape; Biometrics: Measuring Identity; Last Comments; References; Glossary; Meta-analysis I; Section 2: Structures of National and Personal Identity; 5: Outside in the House of Colour: A Second Look at Postcolonial and Transnational Feminisms; Introduction; Terminal Trouble: A Short, Selective History of Race Consciousness and Racial Categories in the US in the Twentieth Century. Race, Postcolonialism, and South Asianness Conclusion; References; 6: Gendering the Favela: Brazilian National Identities on Screen; Introduction; References; 7: Queering Identity: Becoming Queer in the Work of Cassils; Introduction; Disrupting the "Normal": A Queer Project; From Identity Politics to a Politics of Identity; The Gendered/Sexed Body: New Ways for Bodies to Matter?; Queer Temporalities; Cassils and the (Queer) Body: Representation and Becoming; Becoming an Image: The Politics of Queer Witness; Conclusion: "For the Hope of Liveable Worlds"; References. 8: Forms of Self-TranslationIntroduction; Migration, Translation, Identity; "Language Acts Are Acts of Identity" (Gustavo Pérez Firmat); An Exemplary Case; Names, Place, and Identity; Identity Unbound; Conclusion; References; Section 3: Creating and Mediating Identity; 9: Autoethnographic Journalism: Subjectivity and Emotionality in Audio Storytelling; Introduction; Autoethnography as a Method for Sense-Making; The Power of Storytelling; Journalism and the Personal; Storytelling in the Audio Media; Objectivity and Managing Journalistic Emotions. Losing My Identity, Context for the Case Study.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (333 pages)
• Subjects: 155.2; Psychology; Identity (Philosophical concept); PSYCHOLOGY -- Reference; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- General; PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- General; PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- Lifespan Development; PSYCHOLOGY -- General; Identity (Philosophical concept); Psychology -- Psychotherapy -- General; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Social Science -- General; Social Science -- Gender Studies; Psychotherapy; Sociology; Society & culture: general; Psychology of gender; Self; Applied psychology; Developmental psychology; Psychology -- Personality; The self, ego, identity, personality; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319584270; 3319584278
• Related ISBNs: 331958426X; 9783319584263
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