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Donka, Farkas, ed. Intentional descriptions and the romance subjunctive mood. New York: Garland Pub., 1985.
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Goede bedoelingen en modern wonen: Fotonotities over de Bijlmer = Good intentions and modern housing : photo notes on an Amsterdam suburb. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2010.
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Borrow, George Henry. La Biblia en España, o Viajes, aventuras y prisiones de un inglés en su intento de propagar por la península las Sagradas Escrituras. Sevilla: Centro de Estudios Andaluces, 2011.
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Borrow, George Henry. La Biblia en España, o Viajes, aventuras y prisiones de un inglés en su intento de propagar por la península las Sagradas Escrituras. Sevilla: Centro de Estudios Andaluces, 2011.
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Schwenkler, John. Anscombe's Intention. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190052027.001.0001.
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This book provides a careful, critical, and appropriately contextualized presentation of the main lines of argument in G.E.M. Anscombe’s seminal book, Intention, at a level appropriate to the advanced undergraduate but also capable of benefiting specialists in action theory, ethics, and the history of analytic philosophy. It begins by situating Anscombe’s project in relation to the controversy she initiated over the decision by the University of Oxford to award an honorary degree to Harry Truman, and the connection she saw between her Oxford colleagues’ willingness to excuse Truman’s murderous actions and the situation of moral philosophy at the time. It also documents many of the ways Anscombe drew on the thought of Aristotle, Aquinas, and Wittgenstein, as well as the points at which her argument engages with the work of then-contemporary authors, especially R.M. Hare and Gilbert Ryle. Against this background, the primary focus of the book is on presenting Anscombe’s arguments and assessing the plausibility and philosophical power of the position she develops. Topics that receive especially close attention include: Anscombe’s argument that the primary role of the concept of intention is in the description of what happens in the world, and not of an agent’s state of mind; her account of action as a teleological unity; the relation between rationalizing explanation and causal explanation; the difference between practical and theoretical reasoning; and the possibility of non-observational self-knowledge of what one intentionally does.
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Millikan, Ruth Garrett. Linguistic Signs. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198717195.003.0013.
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The semantic meaning of a linguistic form is its intentional content. Parts of sentence meaning that have traditionally been thought to be determined by speaker intentions—the resolution of ambiguity and vagueness, the reference of proper names, indexicals, demonstratives, and anaphors—are actually settled by public semantics. True descriptive language carries natural information that matches semantic content, so it can be understood by an interpreter in the same way that ordinary non-intentional infosigns are understood; no recognition of speaker intentions is required. But true descriptive language also carries much additional information the understanding of which is supplied by speakers and hearers from their own prior knowledge.
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Pryce, Paula. Sacristy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190680589.003.0006.
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A contribution to the field of lived religion, Chapter 6 critiques the idea of ritual as a reified category separate from ordinary life. Contemplative Christians sought to lead lives of “ceaseless prayer” by learning to “keep attention” in their everyday activities with contemplative awareness techniques, including keeping a monastic daily rhythm and practicing “conscious work.” The chapter illustrates their efforts with an ethnographic example describing how Wisdom School participants treated a flu epidemic as an opportunity to engage contemplative ways of being. It also includes reports of individual practitioners’ “intentional living” in the privacy of their homes. Summarizing the significance of the ritualization of everyday life in this community, one woman’s charismatic description of the contemplative aspects of kitchen work leads to a theoretical analysis of how ordinary tasks can prompt “transformation” through practitioners’ combination of attention, intention, unknowing, and ritualized action.
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Hagberg, Garry L. The ensemble as plural subject. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199355914.003.0025.
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Group jazz improvisation at the highest levels can achieve a kind of cooperative creativity that rises above the sum total of the contributions of the individuals. This phenomenon is widely recognized, but has resisted description beyond metaphors that refer to ‘special chemistry’ and the like. Some recent work in the philosophy of social action, on collective intention and group cognition, and on what has been helpfully called a ‘plural subject’, is brought together in this chapter with a close listening to the Stan Getz Quartet’s performance of the classic standard ‘On Green Dolphin Street’. As with discussions of group action in recent philosophical writings, here it emerges that qualities of the improvised performance are not reducible to individuated intentional content, and the notion of the plural subject provides both an analysis of it and the language for it.
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Davies, Patricia. Wound care. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199642663.003.0012.
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It is imperative that the surgical nurse has a good understanding of wound care, as all surgical patients will have a wound of some description. Prevention of surgical site infection begins with a pre-operative assessment and continues post-operatively with the assessment of the wound dressing and the surgical site. This chapter discusses the physiology of wound healing, wound assessment, and dressings for primary- and secondary-intention wounds. This chapter also outlines the prevention of surgical site infections, and common wound infections and their treatment.
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Hugh, Beale, Bridge Michael, Gullifer Louise, and Lomnicka Eva. Part II Description of Interests, 4 Types of interest. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198795568.003.0004.
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This chapter examines how, under English law, there is a major conceptual divide between security interests and absolute interests. In relation to personal property, absolute interests are either ownership or possession. These are both rights in rem: they are enforceable against the whole world, including the liquidator or trustee in bankruptcy of a person against whom the right is asserted. Security interests are also rights in rem, but because they are given as security for an obligation, they are limited by being defeasible upon performance of that obligation. While English law will normally give effect to the intentions of the parties as expressed in the contract, there are some limits to the extent that the parties can change the nature of interests, and it is at this point that the court will recharacterize a transaction or an interest.
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Bailey, Doug. Cutting Space. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190611873.003.0010.
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This chapter presents a detailed description and discussion of the tagli and buchi made by Italian artist Lucio Fontana in the middle of the twentieth century. Discussion examines the origins of these series in the artist’s career, with particular emphasis on the method of creation and the artist’s intentions. Investigation includes Fontana’s concept of Spatialism, fourth-dimensional art, infinity, and the role that light played in the works that he created. The chapter concludes with a discussion of how Fontana’s works and philosophy can help the reader see the pit-houses at Măgura in terms of perspective, light, gesture, and display.
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Brunsson, Nils. Politicization and ‘Company-ization’ – On Institutional Affiliation and Confusion in the Organizational World. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198296706.003.0004.
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This chapter argues that individual organizations are generally constructed in a way that combines elements from more than one institution. This creates what can be called institutional confusion. It also presents some possible explanations of such confusion. It focuses on two institutions: the political organization and the company. It describes them as they find expression in laws, scientific theories, and the ideas that prevail inside and outside organizations. The intention is to separate and clearly differentiate between the institutions, producing descriptions of what we could perhaps call institutional ideal types. From a multitude of ideas and perceptions, the chapter attempts to construct two logically consistent types. It then discusses how actual organizations relate to these types.
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Froerer, Adam S., and Elliott E. Connie. SFBT in Action. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190607258.003.0009.
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This chapter begins by providing an overview of some important definitions related to substance use and abuse based on the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders, fifth edition (DSM 5). Next, a description of the current statistics regarding use among school-aged persons is provided. This is followed by an overview of research showing the effectiveness of SFBT when working with a substance-abusing populations. Finally, a case example is provided illustrating how a school social worker may work with a school-aged client who is using illicit substances. This case example will be supplemented with commentary to aid the reader in understanding the purposes of the SFBT language used in the session and the intentions of the school social worker conducting the session.
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Jaffan, Abdel Aziz A. Balloon Occlusion of Subintimal Tract to Assist Distal Luminal Re-entry During Subintimal Recanalization of Chronic Total Occlusions. Edited by S. Lowell Kahn, Bulent Arslan, and Abdulrahman Masrani. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199986071.003.0017.
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The balloon occlusion of subintimal tract (BOST) technique may be used to assist in regaining luminal re-entry in difficult cases during subintimal recanalization of chronic total occlusions in the femoropopliteal artery. Subintimal recanalization or percutaneous intentional extraluminal recanalization (PIER) is an established technique used in endovascular recanalization of chronically occluded arteries of the peripheral circulation. The primary limitation of PIER is the high technical failure rate. Failure is mainly due to the inability to re-enter the patent true lumen distal to the site of the occlusion. The BOST technique can help overcome this limitation. This chapter provides a description of the technique.
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Haroon, Sana. Competing Views of Pashtun Tribalism, Islam, and Society in the Indo-Afghan Borderlands. University of California Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520294134.003.0008.
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This chapter explores descriptions of Pashtun tribes and their religious predisposition in 20th century Urdu literature associated with strategic mobilization of the Pashtun regions, and highlights the inconsistency of this discourse with other twentieth-century nationalist projects in colonial India and Afghanistan. In the first instance, the 1914-36 writings of a group called the Jama‘at-i Mujahidin were at variance with the Pashtun and Muslim nationalist positions of the Khuda’i Khidmatgars and the Jamʻiyyat al-‘Ulama-yi Hind, and with the officially sanctioned geographies of the Afghan state. In the second instance, writings published in Pakistan during the period of the anti-Soviet Afghan jihad contradicted USAID- and Kabul-funded demographic and cartographic studies of the 1970s. Such descriptions of Pashtun religious predisposition, tribal valor, resistance and autonomy must be understood as intentional and disruptive interventions in knowledge production about, and political organization in, the Pashtun regions.
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Astington, Janet Wilde, and Claire Hughes. Theory of Mind. Edited by Philip David Zelazo. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199958474.013.0016.
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The chapter begins with an explanation of key foundational concepts in theory of mind, such as mental representation and false belief. We then discuss the history and current broad scope of the term, proposing a developmental-componential view that incorporates intuitive and reflective aspects of theory of mind. We continue with a comprehensive description of the developmental progression of theory of mind: from infants’ intuitive understanding of ordinary actions as reflecting others’ attention and intentions, through toddlers’ appreciation of world-inconsistent goals and preschool developments in understanding representational mental states, to school-age children’s mastery of an interpretative and complex theory of mind. We consideren passantindividual differences in development, as well as atypical development, such as in autism. Finally, new directions for research are explored, in the areas of neurology, education, and deontic reasoning.
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Martin, Jeffrey J. Athletic Identity. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190638054.003.0014.
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Some of the first research in disability sport focused on athletic identity using the Athletic Identity Measurement Scale (AIMS). A large body of research has supported a robust finding that athletes with disabilities view themselves as legitimate athletes, whereas they believe that others (e.g., the able-bodied public) do not view them as athletes as strongly. This chapter examines descriptive and correlational research completed with the AIMS. Descriptive work indicates Paralympians relative to recreational athletes have stronger athletic identities. Correlational research indicates that athletes with strong athletic identities are more competitive and confident and have stronger sport intentions. At the same time, athletes with exclusive athletic identities may be at risk for experiencing negative affect when unable to play. Athletes may disinvest in sport and an athletic identity as their skills wane and they anticipate no longer participating in sport. While a disinvestment in athletic identity can be viewed as a self-esteem protective strategy it might also have negative performance ramifications.
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Millikan, Ruth Garrett. Out-Side Pragmatics. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198717195.003.0016.
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Out-side pragmatics concerns cases in which the referent of a construction is not fixed by the intentional content of the utterance but is a “natural referent,” fixed by the construction’s informational content. Examples are incomplete definite descriptions, clauses with unrestricted quantifiers, possessives. In these cases the linguistic sign contains a marker that conventionally directs a hearer to look outside of semantic content for a natural referent. Other times, although its referent is semantically determinate, the construction’s surface form is ambiguous in a way that requires looking outside for its natural referent, as is the case when someone starts talking about “Jane” or “Mary” without supplying any conventional indication of which Jane or Mary they are talking about.
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Jones, Charlotte. Realism, Form, and Representation in the Edwardian Novel. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198857921.001.0001.
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‘The real represents to my perception the things that we cannot possibly not know, sooner or later, in one way or another,’ wrote Henry James in 1907. This description, riven with double negatives, hesitation, and uncertainty, encapsulates the epistemological difficulties of realism, for underlying its narrative and descriptive apparatus as an aesthetic mode lies a philosophical quandary. What grounds the ‘real’ of the realist novel? What kind of perception is required to validate the experience of reality? How does the realist novel represent the difficulty of knowing? What comes to the fore in James’s account, as in so many, is how the forms of realism are constituted by a relation to unknowing, absence and ineffability. Realism, Form, and Representation in the Edwardian Novel recovers a neglected literary history centred on the intricate relationship between fictional representation and philosophical commitment. It asks how—or if—we can conceptualize realist novels when the objects of their representational intentions are realities that might exist beyond what is empirically verifiable by sense data or analytically verifiable by logic, and are thus irreducible to conceptual schemes or linguistic practices—a formulation Charlotte Jones refers to as ‘synthetic realism’. In new readings of Edwardian novels (including Conrad’s Nostromo and The Secret Agent, Wells’s Tono-Bungay, and Ford’s The Good Soldier), Jones revises and reconsiders key elements of realist novel theory—metaphor and metonymy; character interiority; the insignificant detail; omniscient narration and free indirect discourse; causal linearity—to uncover the representational strategies by which realist writers grapple with the recalcitrance of reality as a referential anchor, and seek to give form to the force, opacity, and uncertain scope of realities that may lie beyond the material. In restoring a metaphysical dimension to the realist novel’s imaginary, Realism, Form, and Representation in the Edwardian Novel offers a new conceptualisation of realism both within early twentieth-century literary culture and as a transhistorical mode of representation.
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Smith, Christopher J. Dancing Revolution. University of Illinois Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042393.001.0001.
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This book is a social history, theorizing participatory dance in New World public spaces as a tool that has enabled subaltern communities’ political resistance to hegemonic control. Drawing upon musicology, ethnomusicology, iconography, anthropology, dance studies, and folklore, and spanning examples from the eighteenth through the twenty-first century, it identifies recurrent strategic patterns in the music, movement, and “noise” that political minorities--including persons of color, economic underclasses, women, gays, and other resistance movements--have employed to oppose, contest, and transgress dominant cultures’ social control. The book applies multidisciplinary analytical practices to movement and sound in historical idioms, little documented by period scholarship, whose data are indirect, inferential, and reconstructive. Case studies include frontier Pentecostalism; Native American resistance; Shakerism; African American communities; the English- and French-speaking Caribbean; film and theatrical dance; the Stonewall Uprising and Chicago 1968 protests; twentieth-century noise ordinances; and punk-rock, hip hop, and twenty-first-century global protest movements. Examples in diverse media, from prose description to watercolor to film, are selected in order to showcase the consistency of these political understandings across diverse situations and to demonstrate the synthesis of analytical approaches, which this topic mandates. The book argues for understanding participatory music and motion--bodies and sound interacting in contested public spaces--as a central, intentional, effective, and recurrent resistance strategy in American social history.
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Burazin, Luka, Kenneth Einar Himma, and Corrado Roversi, eds. Law as an Artifact. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198821977.001.0001.
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In this volume leading scholars from both the continental and analytic schools examine how their respective theoretical positions relate to the artifactual nature of law. It offers a complete analysis of what the claim that law—and its units: legal systems, legal norms, and particular legal institutions—is an artifact, in fact, ontologically entails and what consequences, if any, this claim has for philosophical accounts of law. Examining the artifactual nature of law draws attention to the role that intention, function, and action play in the ontological structure of law, and how these attributes interact with rules. It puts the role of author and authorship at the center of its analysis of legal ontology, and widens the scope that functional analysis can legitimately have in legal theory, emphasizing how the content of law depends on how it is used. Furthermore, the appeal to artifacts brings to the fore questions about the significance of concepts for the existence of law, and makes available new tools for legal interpretation. The notion of artifactuality offers a starting point from which to approach the basic dilemma of whether it is meaningful to search for essential, necessary, and sufficient features of law, a question that in current legal theory is put when deciding what kind of enterprise legal theory is from a methodological point of view, namely whether it is descriptive or prescriptive. This volume unearths insights and observations of value to all those looking to deepen their understanding of how the law is understood and experienced.
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Schoeman, Kobus, ed. Churches in the mirror: Developing contemporary ecclesiologies. SunBonani Scholar, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/9781928424710.
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Ecclesiology is the study of the church and has two focal points; the one is the historical and doctrinal perspective on the church, and the other is the church as situated in a local context in the sense of the local practices of actual congregations. The ecclesiology or, more correctly, the ecclesiologies of this volume mainly focuses on the second aspect, i.e., understanding the local congregation or parish as a community of believers. A congregation may firstly be described by posing a theological question: What is the local missional church or congregation all about? This question may be answered from different perspectives, but it remains essential to answer it from a theological perspective. The first five chapters in this book focus mainly on a theological understanding of the congregation. This is done from different disciplines within the study field of theology. Congregations are, secondly, social realities and should be described and analysed through an analytical or empirical lens, or, to answer the question attached to the first empirical-descriptive task of practical theology, “What is going on?”. The remaining chapters use a quantitative and qualitative lens and give an empirical analysis of the congregation. The intention is to critically reflect on the church and congregations’ ecclesiology from a theological and analytical perspective with an emphasis on the South African context. It wants to map markers for the development of contemporary ecclesiologies, and the different chapters are meant as mirrors to look in and reflect on the theological and contextual relevance of denominations and congregations in South Africa.
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Conoley, Collie W., and Michael J. Scheel. Goal Focused Positive Psychotherapy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190681722.001.0001.
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Goal Focused Positive Psychotherapy presents the first comprehensive positive psychology psychotherapy model that optimizes well-being and thereby diminishes psychological distress. The theory of change is the Broaden-and-Build Theory of positive emotions. The therapeutic process promotes client strengths, hope, positive emotions, and goals. The book provides the foundational premises, empirical support, theory, therapeutic techniques and interventions, a training model, case examples, and future directions. A three-year study is presented that reveals that Goal Focused Positive Psychotherapy (GFPP) was as effective as cognitive-behavioral therapy and short-term psychodynamic therapies, which fits the meta-analyses of therapy outcome studies that no bona fide psychotherapy achieves superior outcome. However, GFPP was significantly more attractive to the clients. Descriptions are provided of the Broaden-and-Build Theory, therapy goals based upon clients’ values and personal meaning (i.e., approach goals and intrinsic goals), identification and use of clients’ personal strengths (including client culture), centrality of hope and hope theory, the implicit theory of personal change or the growth mindset, and finally Self-Determination Theory. The techniques and interventions of GFPP as well as the importance of the therapist’s intentions during therapy are presented. GFPP focuses upon the client and relationship while not viewing psychotherapy as a set of potent scripted treatments that acts upon the client. Goal Focused Positive Supervision is presented as a new model that supports the supervisee’s strength-based self-definition rather than a pathological one or deficit orientation. Training that includes the experiential learning of GFPP principles is underscored.
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Hamkins, SuEllen. The Art of Narrative Psychiatry. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199982042.001.0001.
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Narrative psychiatry empowers patients to shape their lives through story. Rather than focusing only on finding the source of the problem, in this collaborative clinical approach psychiatrists also help patients diagnose and develop their sources of strength. By encouraging the patient to explore their personal narrative through questioning and story-telling, the clinician helps the patient participate in and discover the ways in which they construct meaning, how they view themselves, what their values are, and who it is exactly that they want to be. These revelations in turn inform clinical decision-making about what it is that ails them, how they'd like to treat it, and what recovery might look like. The Art of Narrative Psychiatry is the first comprehensive description of narrative psychiatry in action. Engaging and accessible, it demonstrates how to help patients cultivate their personal sources of strength and meaning as resources for recovery. Illustrated with vivid case reports and in-depth accounts of therapeutic conversations, the book offers psychiatrists and psychotherapists detailed guidance in the theory and practice of this collaborative approach. Drawing inspiration from narrative therapy, post-modern philosophy, humanistic medicine, and social justice movements - and replete with ways to more fully manifest the intentions of the mental health recovery model - this engaging new book shows how to draw on the standard psychiatric toolbox while also maintaining focus on the patient's vision of the world and illuminating their skills and strengths. Written by a pioneer in the field, The Art of Narrative Psychiatry describes a breadth of nuanced, powerful narrative practices, including externalizing problems, listening for what is absent but implicit, facilitating re-authoring conversations, fostering communities of support, and creating therapeutic documents. The Art of Narrative Psychiatry addresses mental health challenges that range from mild to severe, including anxiety, depression, despair, anorexia/bulimia, perfectionism, OCD, trauma, psychosis, and loss. True to form, the author narrates her own experience throughout, sharing her internal thoughts and decision-making processes as she listens to patients. The Art of Narrative Psychiatry is necessary reading for any professional seeking to empower their patients and become a better, more compassionate clinician.