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Hass, Rue Anne. EFT for the highly sensitive temperament. Santa Rosa: Energy Psychology Press, 2009.

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Hass, Rue Anne. EFT for the highly sensitive temperament. Santa Rosa: Energy Psychology Press, 2009.

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Menschliche Sensibilität: Inspiration und Überforderung. Weilerswist: Velbrück, 2008.

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Blushing and the social emotions: The self unmasked. New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2006.

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Castoldi, Alberto, Gianni Iotti, and Maria Grazia Porcelli. Il corpo e la sensibilità morale: Letteratura e teatro nella Francia e nell'Inghilterra del XVIII secolo. Pisa: Pacini, 2011.

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Phaneuf, Yvan. Les masques des hommes: Comment et pourquoi les hommes cachent-ils leurs émotions? Drummondville, Québec: Éditions Dahlia, 2000.

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Others in mind: Social origins of self-consciousness. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Lo, Imi. Emotional sensitivity and intensity: How to manage emotions as a sensitive person. 2018.

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Esoteric empathy: A magickal & metaphysical guide to emotional sensitivity. Llewellyn Publications, 2016.

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The Sensitive Person's Survival Guide: An Alternative Health Answer to Emotional Sensitivity & Depression. Writers Club Press, 2000.

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The Sensitive Person's Survival Guide: An Alternative Health Answer to Emotional Sensitivity and Depression. Ansuz Press, 2001.

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Strength of Sensitivity: Understanding Empathy for a Life of Emotional Peace and Balance. Llewellyn Publications, 2016.

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Gocek, Elif. Mothers' mental state language and emotional availability in clinical vs. nonclinical populations. 2007.

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Klug, Arin. Emotional arousal and information processing: Examining transient and learning-related changes in perceptual sensitivity. 2006.

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Pessoa, Luiz. Attention, Motivation, and Emotion. Edited by Anna C. (Kia) Nobre and Sabine Kastner. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199675111.013.001.

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The first part of the chapter describes effects of motivation on attention at the behavioural and physiological levels. For example, reward increases detection sensitivity (dprime) in both endogenous attention and exogenous attention tasks, enhances stimulus coding, and influences the filtering of task-irrelevant stimuli. These recent findings are surprising insofar as traditional psychological models have described motivation as a fairly unspecific ‘force’. The results reviewed are far from global. Instead they reflect specific mechanisms that are manifested selectively both at behavioural and neural levels. The second part of the chapter describes the role of attention when emotion-laden visual stimuli are processed. When one considers the bulk of the evidence, emotional processing is revealed to be capacity-limited. Yet, emotional processing is prioritized relative to that of neutral items.
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Elliott, Stephanie H. HANDLING CHRONIC ILLNESS WHEN YOU'RE OLD: RELATIONSHIPS OF PURPOSE IN LIFE, EMOTIONAL SENSITIVITY, ANXIETY, NEUROTICISM AND HUMOR TO HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION IN AN ADVANCED AGE POPULATION. 1988.

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Dirks, Evelien. The Development of Young Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190880545.003.0018.

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Early parent–child interactions influence children’s later linguistic, social-emotional, and cognitive development. Since deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children are more at risk for difficulties in their development than hearing children, the caregiving environment is an important context to enhance their development. This chapter describes different aspects of parent–child interactions that are related to the development of young DHH children. Parental language input, mental state language, and sensitivity are related to young DHH children’s language skills, social-emotional development, and executive functions. The chapter addresses parent-based interventions to promote DHH children’s linguistic, social-emotional, and cognitive development.
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Kelly, Megan M., and Mark Kent. The Relationship Between Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder. Edited by Katharine A. Phillips. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190254131.003.0035.

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Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) and social anxiety disorder (SAD) are highly comorbid disorders that share high levels of social anxiety, social avoidance, and rejection sensitivity. In addition, in emotional processing studies, patients with BDD and SAD both show a heightened sensitivity to hostility. However, BDD and SAD differ in many important ways, including key phenomenologic and clinical differences as well as treatment approaches. This chapter reviews similarities and differences between BDD and SAD across demographic, clinical, biologic, and other domains. Future research directions for work that may further elucidate the relationship between these two disorders are also discussed.
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Breyer, Jason. Empath - a Highly Sensitive Person - Develop Your Gift, Use Emotional Intelligence to Turn Your High Sensitivity into a Superpower: Overcome Negative Mindsets and Master Your Social Skills. Independently Published, 2019.

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Mesich, Kyra. Guia De Autoayuda Para La Persona Sensible/ the Sensitive Person's Survival Guide: Una Respuesta Alternativa De Salud a La Sensibilidad Emocional Y La ... to Emotional Sensitivity and Depression. Panorama Mexico, 2004.

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Simmons, Rachel A., and Katharine A. Phillips. Core Clinical Features of Body Dysmorphic Disorder : Appearance Preoccupations, Negative Emotions, Core Beliefs, and Repetitive and Avoidance Behaviors. Edited by Katharine A. Phillips. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190254131.003.0006.

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This chapter reviews core clinical features of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) and presents two cases. Individuals with BDD are preoccupied with perceived flaws in their appearance that they view as ugly or abnormal (but that other people view as slight or nonexistent), to the point of experiencing significant distress or impairment in psychosocial functioning. The preoccupation with perceived ugliness triggers a cascade of negative emotions and behavioral responses that are intended to alleviate the appearance concerns but often do not. These responses include repetitive behaviors to check, fix, obtain reassurance about, or hide disliked body areas as well as avoidance of social situations. BDD is associated with high levels of emotional distress and a range of painful emotions, such as depression, anxiety, social anxiety, and shame. Core beliefs often focus on feeling unlovable, inadequate, or worthless. Associated features include high rejection sensitivity and perceived stress and low assertiveness.
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Nutt, David J., and Liam J. Nestor. Key elements of addiction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198797746.003.0003.

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Addiction is characterized by the compulsion to seek and take a substance, the loss of control in limiting substance intake, and the emergence of a negative emotional state (e.g. dysphoria, anxiety) when substance intake is prevented. Importantly, there are elements of addiction that emerge during the addiction trajectory (e.g. liking, wanting, habit, craving) that are a reflection of key changes in the homeostasis of brain networks that control different behaviours. These homeostatic changes ultimately lead to 1) a decreased sensitivity for natural rewards, 2) an enhanced sensitivity for conditioned substance cues and the expectation of substance use rewards, 3) a weakened control over substance use urges and substance-taking behaviour, and 4) substance tolerance and withdrawal. Significantly, these changes are targets for pharmacological and psychological treatment interventions in addiction.
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Interpersonal Sensitivity - Entering Others' Worlds. Taylor & Francis Group, 2007.

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Teaching Children Sensitivity. Ballantine Books, 1987.

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Bateman, Anthony W., and Roy Krawitz. Borderline personality disorder. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med:psych/9780199644209.003.0001.

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Chapter 1 outlines borderline personality disorder (BPD), the history of BPD, its epidemiology, diagnosis and a thorough discussion of the elements of the DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria for BPD, and explores individual factors to help understand a person’s BPD (biological vulnerability theory, emotional sensitivity, mentalizing vulnerability, Beck’s core schemas, dichotomous (all or nothing) thinking, fluctuating competence, active passivity), and co-occurring conditions (depression, bipolar disorder, psychotic symptoms, dissociation, personality disorders). The chapter also discusses etiology (biological factors, psychological factors, nature and nurture, sociocultural factors), self-harm, prognosis, and psychosocial treatment outcome studies.
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Nye, Rebecca. The spiritual strengths of young children. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198747109.003.0008.

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This chapter outlines childhood’s spiritual strengths and needs. Psychological theories and empirical research suggest that spiritual capacity is a natural condition of early childhood, arising in everyday experience. Contemporary scholarship identifies key strengths that underpin childhood spirituality. These include children’s heightened sensitivity to non-verbal, embodied, and emotional ways of knowing, and a less dominating verbal and intellectual approach to experience. This privileges children’s spiritual capacity for ‘relational consciousness’, and is evident in attention to mystery, delight, despair, wonder, the present moment, a sense of place, and connotative meaning-making. Without sensitive approaches to nurture in education and care, these capacities are vulnerable to erosion. Four areas of spiritual need are proposed: for child-led listening, for adult presence and humility, for space (physical, emotional, and auditory), and a need for imaginative play. Together, these can provide safe ways to explore the profound existential issues common in even the youngest children.
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Amun: Indigenous Storytelling Powerful with Emotion and Sensitivity. Exile Editions, Limited, 2020.

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TENS for pain management. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199673278.003.0002.

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Pain is a sensory and emotional experience often related to tissue damage. Pain requiring medical attention is common, with pain assessment and management often challenging. TENS is offered within primary, secondary, and tertiary care settings because it has a favourable utility profile compared with pain-relieving medication. Evidence suggests that most individuals who try TENS report meaningful pain relief in the short-term, but this positive response declines over time. The purpose of this chapter is to contextualise the role of TENS in the management of pain by covering what pain is, the challenges faced in its management, the physiology of the nociceptive system, including states of sensitivity, electrophysical techniques for pain and rehabilitation, including invasive electrical stimulation techniques, the extent of use of TENS, and some discussion of the clinical experience of using TENS.
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History of Emotions, 1200-1800. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

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History of Emotions, 1200-1800. Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.

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Donskis, Leonidas, and Zygmunt Bauman. Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity. Polity Press, 2013.

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Donskis, Leonidas, and Zygmunt Bauman. Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity. Polity Press, 2014.

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Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity. Polity, 2013.

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Colombetti, Giovanna, and Neil Harrison. From physiology to experience: Enriching existing conceptions of “arousal” in affective science. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198811930.003.0013.

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This chapter examines the notion of “arousal”, an influential notion in affective science referring to the degree of an individual’s “activation” or “excitement” during an emotional state. It considers this notion specifically in relation to interoception, defined broadly as “sensitivity to stimuli arising inside the organism.” “Physiological arousal” is distinguished from “experienced arousal” and it is argued that both need to be characterized more broadly than commonly done. Physiological arousal cannot be reduced to sympathetic activation, as it involves complex interactions between multiple functionally distinct pathways within sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions of the autonomic nervous system, as well as endocrine and immune systems, and even the gut microbiota. Relatedly, experienced arousal does not reduce to the perception of changes in the body sensed by visceral afferents in response to autonomic nervous system activity but also includes humorally mediated interoceptive pathways, somatic sensations of various kinds, and “background” bodily feelings.
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Conscience and Self-Conscious Emotions: Theory and Diagnostics. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Willer, Jan. Could it be Adult ADHD? Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med:psych/9780190256319.001.0001.

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One out of every 10 adult psychotherapy clients—or more—probably has attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). When psychotherapists miss the ADHD, treatment is frustrating and less effective. This book is for the general mental health professional who wishes to learn how to recognize, assess, and treat adult ADHD. Adults with ADHD are very different, developmentally and symptomatically, from children. ADHD affects adults of all races, gender identities, and backgrounds, and obvious hyperactivity is rarely part of the adult clinical picture. This book provides a full description of adult ADHD symptoms, based on the most current research, including executive functioning problems, emotional dysregulation, atypical reward sensitivity, and problems with time perception. Complete guidance to recognizing adult ADHD is provided, including behavior displayed during psychotherapy, developmental issues, educational challenges, and adaptive functioning problems. Depression, anxiety, self-image issues, and substance abuse are addressed, since these mental health problems are commonly associated with adult ADHD. Guidance is provided to help the mental health practitioner provide psychoeducation about cognitive differences in ADHD, which is essential for client self-acceptance and adaptive functioning. Common psychotherapy problems with ADHD clients are addressed, including chronic lateness to sessions, missed appointments, motivation problems, difficulties with homework, and tangentiality. The principles of cognitive-behavioral treatment of ADHD are provided, along with case examples to illustrate the implementation of these techniques. An overview of medications for ADHD is provided, including their benefits, contraindications, and side effects. Nontraditional treatments are reviewed for their effectiveness.
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Lackey, Jennifer, ed. Academic Freedom. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791508.001.0001.

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Academic freedom, which allows members of institutions of higher learning to engage in intellectual pursuits without fear of censorship or retaliation, lies at the heart of the mission of the university. Recent years have seen growing concerns about threats to academic freedom, many brought about from the changing norms of, and demands on, the university. A number of new issues—including content warnings, safe spaces, social media controversies, microaggressions, and no platforming—have given rise to loud cries, in both scholarly and popular contexts, that academic freedom is under serious attack. Despite this, there is surprisingly little philosophical work on the topic of academic freedom, and even less that directly takes up some of these new challenges. The present volume fills both of these gaps in the current literature by bringing together leading philosophers from a wide range of areas of expertise to weigh in on both traditional and timely issues involving academic freedom. The volume includes an introduction and ten previously unpublished essays, divided into four main sections: The Rationale for Academic Freedom, on the fundamental values that undergird the case for academic freedom; The Parameters of Academic Freedom, on when and where academic freedom applies; Silencing and Beyond: Microaggressions, Content Warnings, and Political Correctness, on some of the new challenges to academic freedom grounded in sensitivity to the political and emotional needs of an increasingly diverse academy; and Protests, Civil Disobedience, and No Platforming, on conflicts between academic freedom and the enforcement of laws and regulations governing the functioning of the university.
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Bateman, Anthony W., and Roy Krawitz. Structured clinical management: core treatment strategies. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med:psych/9780199644209.003.0004.

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Chapter 4 explores the core treatment strategies of structured clinical management (SCM) as a treatment for borderline personality disorder (BPD). It includes nonspecific interventions (interviewing, clinician attitude, authenticity and openness, empathy, validation, positive regard, advocacy) and specific interventions (problem-solving skills, tolerance of emotions, mood regulation, impulse control, sensitivity and interpersonal problems, self-harm).
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This is Awkward: How Life's Uncomfortable Moments Open the Door to Intimacy and Connection. Thomas Nelson, 2016.

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Kershner, Betty Jane. An examination of the centrality of maternal sensitive behaviour: Sensitivity versus internal representations and perceptions of infant emotion as predictors of child empathy. 1993.

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McGrath, Matthew. Pragmatic Encroachment. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198758709.003.0009.

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The thesis of pragmatic encroachment about knowledge holds that whether a subject knows that p can vary due to differences in practical stakes, holding fixed the strength of the subject’s epistemic position with respect to p. Accepting pragmatic encroachment about knowledge brings with it a significant explanatory burden: if knowledge varies with the stakes, why does knowledge show so many signs of staying fixed with variations in the stakes? This chapter argues that explanatory burdens of this general kind are harder to avoid than is commonly thought: even if you deny the stakes-sensitivity of knowledge, you will be stuck accepting the stakes-sensitivity of other statuses which, like knowledge, show the same signs of staying fixed with variations in the stakes. The chapter discusses two such statuses: reason-worthiness and emotion-worthiness. If the arguments succeed, then, the problems of pragmatic encroachment are everyone’s problems.
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Numerow, Susan Randi. Children's sensitivity to conflicting facial and vocal cues to emotion: understanding of the determination of conflicting cues and responses to their perceptions. 1993.

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Kershner, Betty Jane. An examination of the centrality of maternal sensitive behaviour : sensitivity versus internal representations and perceptions of infant emotion as predictors of child empathy. 1993.

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Pham, Ngoc Tung. Nonverbal communication and Vietnamese students in Canada: a study of their sensitivity to Canadian facial expressions of fundamental emotions and gestures and their emblematic hand signals. 1994.

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McCarthy, Danielle E., Jessica W. Cook, Teresa M. Leyro, Haruka Minami, and Krysten W. Bold. Affective Determinants of Smoking. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190499037.003.0013.

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Cigarette smoking remains a leading preventable cause of death and disease. Prominent drug motivation models posit that affective processes are important drivers of continued and renewed tobacco use. Negative affect and anhedonia are core components of nicotine withdrawal that are thought to motivate smoking and prompt smoking relapse. Individual differences in affective processing, such as anhedonia, anxiety sensitivity, distress intolerance, and emotion dysregulation enhance risk for tobacco use and moderate affect–smoking relations. The strength of affect–smoking relations seems to depend on methodological and contextual factors in important ways. Extant and developing treatments targeting affective processes show promise as tobacco cessation interventions. Theoretical models and empirical evidence support the importance of affective processes in smoking and suggest potential affect-focused interventions.
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von Bonsdorff, Pauline. Children’s aesthetic agency: The pleasures and power of imagination. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198747109.003.0007.

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This chapter perceives the aesthetic sensibilities and creativity of young children through the lens of aesthetic theory and childhood studies. Understanding the aesthetic as encompassing sensitivity, emotion, imagination, and thought, I discuss how children make sense of their world, become familiar with social norms and expressive media, and create their self (including self–other relationships) through imaginative play. Aesthetic agency combines receptive and productive activity, or awareness in action—particularly evident in childhood, but not its privilege. Remembering that many pleasures of childhood relate to make-believe, I include ‘deceit’ and ‘lying’—how playful practices enlarge, change, test, and form alternatives to children’s self-conceptions and life-worlds. A moral and political perspective on make-believe (including a defence of lying) acknowledges that children’s social position is ultimately one of subordinates. Examples from research, novels about or for children (especially the work of Astrid Lindgren), and first-hand experiences emphasize the need for contextual and situated understanding.
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Bakan, Michael B. Dotan Nitzberg. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190855833.003.0006.

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Dotan Nitzberg’s hands fly across the piano keyboard at lightning speed, bringing to life a musical work that he believes captures the essence of his Asperger’s mind. “Liszt’s etude, ‘Dance of the Gnomes,’ ” he explains, “is a fast paced piece. It is very mercurial and sparkling. It correlates since my brain is so mercurial . . . . [Z]illions of thoughts are traveling at the speed of light and sometimes it causes confusion . . . . [T]he absorption is quick but the classification process is slower, [and] this gap is hampering.” At the piano, however, Dotan is not hampered in the least. There, he is fully in his element, and this too, he says, is a product of his Asperger’s mind: “[A]t the moment Aspergers tackle a piece they recognize the character and ‘emotion’ right away. It’s instilled there, [but] only people with [a] sixth sense—that is, endowed with sensitivity beyond the average—can catch it.”
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Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari. Demonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198850465.001.0001.

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This book focuses on conceptualizations of lived religion by analysing significant case studies from canonization processes (c. 1240–1450). Geographically it covers Western Europe and one of its aims is to compare Northern and Southern material and customs. ‘Lived religion’ is both a thematic approach and a methodology: a focus on rituals, symbols, and gestures as well as sensitivity to nuances and careful contextualizing of the sources are constitutive elements of the argumentation. Demonic possession was a spiritual state that often had physical symptoms. The main argument developed throughout is, however, that demonic possession was a social phenomenon which should be understood with regard to the community and culture. Each set of sources formed its own specific context, in which demonic presence derived from different motivations, reasonings, and methods of categorization. Rituals, gestures, emotions, and sensory elements in constructing demonic presence reveal negotiations over authority and agency. In the argumentation, the hierarchy between the ‘learned’ and ‘popular’ within religion is contested, as is a strict polarity between individual and collective religious participation. Cases of demonic possession demonstrate how the personal affected the communal, and vice versa, and how they were eventually transformed into discourses and institutions of the Church; that is, definitions of the miraculous and the diabolical. Alterity and inversion of identity, gender, and various forms of corporeality and the interplay between the sacred and diabolical are themes running throughout the volume.
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