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In the middle of the twentieth century, leading cultural critics and visionaries-Erik Erikson, Lionel Trilling, Herbert Marcuse, and many others-turned to psychoanalysis as a measure of human personal and cultural fulfillment. Now, as we enter a new millennium, Nancy J. Chodorow, well known as a feminist theorist and psychoanalyst, takes her place in this line of eminent thinkers and revitalizes their project. Psychoanalysis, she claims, offers in its clinical goals and its vision of possibility insight into the nature of subjectivity and the quality of good relations with others. It continues centuries of reflection and imagination about the good life.In this pathbreaking book, Chodorow draws upon her broad knowledge and background in social theory, her feminism, and her experience as a psychoanalyst. In extensively elaborated chapters on psychoanalytic theory, she argues that a psychoanalysis that takes as its starting point the immediacy of unconscious fantasy and feeling found in the clinical encounter can illuminate our understanding of individual subjectivity and potentially transform all sociocultural thought. Creating a dialogue between feminism, anthropology, and psychoanalysis, she holds that feminism, anthropology, and other cultural theories require that psychoanalysts take seriously how cultural meanings help to constitute psychic life. At the same time, psychoanalysis demonstrates that contemporary theories of meaning cannot neglect the unconscious realm, which has just as much power as culture does to create meaning for the individual. Chodorow acknowledges postmodern accounts of the decentering and fragmentation of individuality but argues that psychoanalysis gives us an account of subjectivity that incorporates forms of wholeness and depth of experience, without which we cannot have a meaningful life.

Gender Identity. --- Cultural Characteristics --- Psychoanalysis. --- Emotions --- Psychodynamic Analysis --- Analyses, Psychodynamic --- Analysis, Psychodynamic --- Psychodynamic Analyses --- Gender --- Gender Identities --- Identity, Gender --- Transgender Persons --- Ethnic Boundary Maintenance --- Boundary Maintenance, Ethnic --- Boundary Maintenances, Ethnic --- Characteristic, Cultural --- Characteristics, Cultural --- Cultural Characteristic --- Ethnic Boundary Maintenances --- Maintenance, Ethnic Boundary --- Maintenances, Ethnic Boundary --- physiology.

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Internal medicine. --- Medicine. --- Health Workforce --- Medicine, Internal --- Medicine --- Hispanic Americans --- Manners and customs. --- Hispanic or Latino --- Mental Health ǂx ethnology --- Population Groups, US --- Cultural Characteristics --- Psychiatry --- Mental health services. --- Mental Health --- ethnology --- Salut mental --- Assistència psiquiàtrica --- Nord-americans d'origen llatinoamericà

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The collective, inclusive, and intersectional framework used in this book speaks to the significance of understanding aging across diverse cultures from multiple perspectives, but still as a shared human experience.   The underlying message of the book is that although we are unique and different in our aging processes, we are ultimately connected through this physical, mental and spiritual experience of aging.  Thus, regardless of whether we are service providers, service recipients, educators or merely fellow human beings, it is important that we approach the aging experience through a collective lens for discovering and sharing resources as we age; honoring the past while simultaneously accepting that the future is here.  A few select examples of key findings from this collaborative work are as follows.  First, despite progress in the field, certain issues remain to be addressed including the challenges of racism and sexism, mistreatment, the digital divide, poverty, and other social and economic crises in urban and rural communities as they relate to our aging population.  Second, the need for sustaining a sense of independence among the aged and interdependence among supportive systems is warranted.  Third, our elders continue to benefit from culturally competent services community-based health interventions and social services that addresses normative and emerging challenges for them.  Fourth, spirituality in both indigenous and contemporary perspectives remains important for our elders’ development and quality of life. .

Culture. --- Future life -- Buddhism. --- Reincarnation -- Buddhism. --- Spirit. --- Aging --- Older people --- Culture --- Growth and Development --- Adult --- Sociology --- Socioeconomic Factors --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Population Characteristics --- Physiological Processes --- Age Groups --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Physiological Phenomena --- Health Care --- Persons --- Anthropology --- Named Groups --- Phenomena and Processes --- Aged --- Social Conditions --- Cultural Characteristics --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Gerontology --- Social aspects --- Cross-cultural studies --- Social conditions --- Social aspects. --- Social conditions. --- Social sciences. --- Geriatrics. --- Aging. --- Cultural studies. --- Social Sciences. --- Geriatrics/Gerontology. --- Cultural Studies. --- Age --- Ageing --- Senescence --- Developmental biology --- Longevity --- Age factors in disease --- Medicine --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Physiological effect --- Diseases --- Health and hygiene --- Research. --- Ageing. --- Study and teaching. --- Cultural studies

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By exploring psychotherapy & counseling as a science-based cultural enterprise, this book expands the understanding of culture in terms of the politics of identity, symbolic & practice meanings, moral ontology, & global realities.

Cultural psychiatry --- Psychotherapy --- Counseling --- Cross-Cultural Comparison. --- Cultural Diversity. --- Counselling --- Helping behavior --- Psychology, Applied --- Clinical sociology --- Interviewing --- Personal coaching --- Social case work --- Cross-cultural psychiatry --- Psychiatry --- Psychiatry, Cross-cultural --- Transcultural psychiatry --- Cross-cultural studies --- Cultural Pluralism --- Multiculturalism --- Pluralism --- Cultural Diversities --- Diversities, Cultural --- Diversity, Cultural --- Multiculturalisms --- Pluralism, Cultural --- Pluralisms --- Ethical Relativism --- Transcultural Studies --- Comparison, Cross-Cultural --- Comparisons, Cross-Cultural --- Cross Cultural Comparison --- Cross-Cultural Comparisons --- Studies, Transcultural --- Study, Transcultural --- Transcultural Study --- Cultural Characteristics --- Culture --- methods. --- Counseling - Cross-cultural studies. --- Cultural psychiatry. --- Psychotherapy - Cross-cultural studies. --- Culture and psychiatry --- Ethnopsychiatry --- Psychiatry, Cultural --- Psychiatry and culture --- Ethnopsychology --- Social psychiatry

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While menopause is a universal fact of life, the physiological and psychological effects for women are not the same in all cultures. In this comparative and cross-cultural ethnographic study, Beyene examines the concept and experience of menopause among Greek and Mayan peasant women, uncovering some startling information. Available research and experience thus far suggests that non-Western, nonindustrialized women often do not have the same psychological or physiological reactions to menopause as Western, industrialized women do.By comparing the reproductive histories of one group of peasant women to another, the author makes it possible to isolate historical, cultural and environmental factors relating to variations or similarities in response to menopause. Her findings underscore the plasticity of the human aging experience, particularly among women. The book presents a biocultural view linking the experience of menopause to diet and fertility patterns, and provides new insights and hypotheses on the reproductive cycle and aging in women.

Menopause --- Menarche --- Maya women. --- Women --- Sex role --- Women peasants --- Nature and nurture. --- Cross-Cultural Comparison. --- Menarche. --- Menopause. --- Change of Life, Female --- Transcultural Studies --- Comparison, Cross-Cultural --- Comparisons, Cross-Cultural --- Cross Cultural Comparison --- Cross-Cultural Comparisons --- Studies, Transcultural --- Study, Transcultural --- Transcultural Study --- Cultural Characteristics --- Culture --- Environment and genetics --- Environment and heredity --- Genetics and environment --- Heredity and environment --- Nature --- Nature versus nurture --- Nurture and nature --- Genetics --- Heredity --- Human beings --- Peasant women --- Peasants --- Rural women --- Mayan women --- Mayas --- Women, Maya --- Menstruation --- Puberty --- Change of life in women --- Female change of life --- Female climacteric --- Climacteric --- Nurture --- Effect of environment on --- Women's Rights --- Social Science --- Political Science --- Women's rights --- Social science --- Political science