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"Racism is a treacherous phenomenon with many faces that allow it a remarkable capacity to co-exist with support for ethnic and cultural diversity. In both its subtle and virulent forms, racist states of mind reveal a bewildering mix of anxieties, feelings and fantasies about the real complexities of life and living that a recognition of difference and diversity can potentially bring forth. These are often expressed in a nostalgic gaze that is infused with a toxic interplay of grievance, murderous rage, and vengeful feelings and fantasies that have resulted from a real or imagined narcissistic injury to the self, group, or nation. In a racist state of mind grief and mourning for such losses are replaced by manic omnipotent states which aim to triumph over feelings of powerlessness through an inflated sense of self that claims superiority over others who are made to become the bearers of inadequacy or inferiority. The compensatory excitements of hatred, cruelty, and violence can lead to a collapse of a triangular mental space that damages the capacity for curiosity and concern for others. The tragic consequences of this psychic assault is a rupture at the very core of identity and the self which aims to thwart the desires and emotional freedom of others. In this book the author explores the quality of thinking in racist states of mind and suggests that the fantasy dramas of the primal scene provide an essential framework in which racial and racist fantasies exist as deep structures of thought and feeling. These are intrinsic to psychic life and functioning, universally present in contemporary culture as well as the consulting room where they constitute the passions of the transference. The author explores the predicaments and challenges of engaging with these states of mind in the consulting room, group, organisational, and societal life."--Provided by publisher.

Curiosity. --- Exploratory behavior --- Inquisitiveness --- Interest (Psychology)

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Attraction, Distraction and Action

Attention --- Distraction (Psychology) --- Divided attention --- Human information processing --- Perception --- Concentration (Psychology) --- Flow (Psychology) --- Apperception --- Arousal (Physiology) --- Educational psychology --- Memory --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Interest (Psychology)

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This is an innovative course for groups of children aged 2-4. Each group session is planned around a theme e.g. 'The Zoo', providing an anchor for the children to gain meaning from the activities that will help them learn to sit still, not talk, look at the speaker and think about the words - all vital skills in good listening.

Attention. --- Listening. --- Concentration (Psychology) --- Flow (Psychology) --- Apperception --- Arousal (Physiology) --- Educational psychology --- Memory --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Distraction (Psychology) --- Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Interest (Psychology) --- Auding --- Attention --- Comprehension --- Hearing

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Francisco Aboitiz earned a PhD in Neuroscience at UCLA in 1991 analyizing the fiber composition of the human corpus callosum. After a period of postdoctoral training in the Mental Retardation Research Center of this same University, he returned to the University of Chile where he became Chairman of the Morphology Program at the Institute for Biomedical Sciences. In 2002, he moved to the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical School of the "Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile", where he directs the Center for Neurobiological Studies (http://www.neuro.cl) and has been recently appointed as Full Professor. He has published some 70 ISI articles and 15 book chapters of neuroanatomy, comparative neurobiology and cognitive neuroscience. Diego Cosmelli obtained in 2004 his PhD in Cognitive Science from the École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, studying the relation between phenomenological accounts, signal analysis methods and neurodynamical patterns during binocular rivalry. After a postdoctoral work on enactive approaches to consciousness at York University in Toronto, Canada, he returned to Chile. He is an Associate Researcher at the Center for Neurobiological Studies of the Psychiatry Dep. at the P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Since March 2008 he is Associate Professor of the School of Psychology of the same university. His current research is centered on the relation between biological organization, sensorimotor processes and the dynamics of human experience. Back cover text In addition to asking what attention actually is, decomposing and analyzing its varieties or revealing its neurobiological mechanisms, a full-fledged theory of attention must consider its workings in the context of motivated, goal-directed and environmentally constrained organisms. The essays compiled in this volume are aimed at making a contribution towards this end. Specifically, the main conclusion that can be drawn is that fundamental links exist between attention and two key processes that are crucial for adapted conduct: goal-directed behavior and cognitive control. Importantly, both the mechanisms underlying these processes, and the actual relations that exist between them, can and must be explored at multiple levels, including neurodynamical, neurochemical, evolutionary and clinical. In doing so, it is apparent that several methodological challenges arise which are worth considering and pursuing, particularly when an ecological take on these questions seems ever more necessary. The reader will find here an invitation to explore these numerous connections, through a selection of contributions that range from basic mechanisms of attention at the neuronal level to developmental aspects of cognitive control and its impairments.

Attention. --- Interest (Psychology). --- Psychology. --- Mental Processes --- Motivation --- Arousal --- Psychophysiology --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Cognition --- Intention --- Attention --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Neurology --- Physiological aspects. --- Concentration (Psychology) --- Flow (Psychology) --- Medicine. --- Neurosciences. --- Biomedicine. --- Psychology --- Apperception --- Arousal (Physiology) --- Educational psychology --- Memory --- Thought and thinking --- Distraction (Psychology) --- Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Interest (Psychology) --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system

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"In this book, Carlos Montemayor and Harry Haladjian consider the relationship between consciousness and attention. The cognitive mechanism of attention has often been compared to consciousness, because attention and consciousness appear to share similar qualities. But, Montemayor and Haladjian point out, attention is defined functionally, whereas consciousness is generally defined in terms of its phenomenal character without a clear functional purpose. They offer new insights and proposals about how best to understand and study the relationship between consciousness and attention by examining their functional aspects. The book's ultimate conclusion is that consciousness and attention are largely dissociated. Undertaking a rigorous analysis of current empirical and theoretical work on attention and consciousness, Montemayor and Haladjian propose a spectrum of dissociation--a framework that identifies the levels of dissociation between consciousness and attention--ranging from identity to full dissociation. They argue that conscious attention, the focusing of attention on the contents of awareness, is constituted by overlapping but distinct processes of consciousness and attention. Conscious attention, they claim, evolved after the basic forms of attention, increasing access to the richest kinds of cognitive contents. Montemayor and Haladjian's goal is to help unify the study of consciousness and attention across the disciplines. A focused examination of conscious attention will, they believe, enable theoretical progress that will further our understanding of the human mind"--MIT CogNet.

Consciousness. --- Attention. --- Concentration (Psychology) --- Flow (Psychology) --- Apperception --- Arousal (Physiology) --- Educational psychology --- Memory --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Distraction (Psychology) --- Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Interest (Psychology) --- Mind and body --- Perception --- Philosophy --- Spirit --- Self --- COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General --- PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Mind/General