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This collection of papers is the seventh volume in the Comparative Austronesian series. The papers in this volume focus on societies from Sumatra to Melanesia and examine the expression and patterning of Austronesian thought and emotions.

Austronesian languages. --- Ethnopsychology. --- Interpersonal relations. --- Human relations --- Interpersonal relationships --- Personal relations --- Relations, Interpersonal --- Relationships, Interpersonal --- Social behavior --- Social psychology --- Object relations (Psychoanalysis) --- Cross-cultural psychology --- Ethnic groups --- Ethnic psychology --- Folk-psychology --- Indigenous peoples --- National psychology --- Psychological anthropology --- Psychology, Cross-cultural --- Psychology, Ethnic --- Psychology, National --- Psychology, Racial --- Race psychology --- Psychology --- National characteristics --- Malay-Polynesian languages --- Malayo-Polynesian languages --- austronesian --- asia pacific --- anthropology --- Emotion --- Empathy --- Ethnography --- Iban people --- Kinship --- Tetum language --- Toraja

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Genes, Memes, Culture, and Mental Illness: Toward an Integrative Model Hoyle Leigh What produces mental illness: genes, environment, both, neither? The question has been asked in various forms, and answers debated, for many centuries. According to a groundbreaking new book, the answer can be found in memes—replicable units of information linking genes and environment in the memory and in culture—whose effects on individual brain development can be benign or toxic. The latest work from pioneering psychiatrist Hoyle Leigh, Genes, Memes, Culture, and Mental Illness reconceptualizes mental disorders as products of stressful gene x meme interactions, and introduces a biopsychosocial template for meme-based diagnosis and treatment. A range of therapeutic modalities, both broad-spectrum (e.g., meditation) and specific (e.g., cognitive-behavioral), for countering negative memes and their replication are considered, as are possibilities for memetic prevention strategies. With characteristic depth and accessibility, the author: Outlines the roles of genes and memes in the evolution of the human brain. Elucidates the creation, storage, and evolution of memes within individual brains. Examines culture as a carrier and supplier of memes to the individual. Examines the exchange of memes between the individual and surrounding culture. Proposes mental health as a democracy of memes within individual brains. Provides specific examples of gene x meme interactions that can result in anxiety, depression, and other disorders. Proposes a multiaxial gene x meme model for diagnosing mental illness. Details broad-spectrum and specific meme-oriented treatment strategies. Identifies areas of meme-based prevention for at-risk children. Defines specific syndromes in terms of memetic symptoms, genetic/memetic development, and meme-based treatment. For psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists, physicians, medical students, and graduate students interested in culture and mental health and illness, Genes, Memes, Culture, and Mental Illness will enhance their theoretical knowledge and daily practice as well as stimulate new discussion on some of the most enduring issues in their fields.

Memes. --- Memetics. --- Mental illness --Genetic aspects. --- Mental illness --- Genetic aspects. --- Memes, Study of --- Medicine. --- Psychiatry. --- Sociology. --- Clinical psychology. --- Cross-cultural psychology. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Clinical Psychology. --- Sociology, general. --- Cross Cultural Psychology. --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Contagion (Social psychology) --- Idea (Philosophy) --- Memes --- Memetics --- Psychology, clinical. --- Applied psychology. --- Applied psychology --- Psychagogy --- Psychology, Practical --- Social psychotechnics --- Psychology --- Medicine and psychology --- Mental health --- Psychology, Pathological --- Psychiatry --- Psychology, Applied --- Psychological tests --- Cross-cultural psychology --- Ethnic groups --- Ethnic psychology --- Folk-psychology --- Indigenous peoples --- National psychology --- Psychological anthropology --- Psychology, Cross-cultural --- Psychology, Ethnic --- Psychology, National --- Psychology, Racial --- Race psychology --- National characteristics --- Social theory --- Social sciences

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This Open Access Brief analyzes the dynamics in which children’s selves emerge through their everyday activities of meaning construction, both in their relationships with family and within school education. It begins with a discussion of new psychological inquiries into children's selves and builds upon the innovative theoretical notion of the Presentational Self, developed by the author over the last decade. The book illustrates how the observation of children’s meaning construction in their everyday lives becomes a starting point for theoretical and empirical inquiries into child development and gives a framework that promotes new inquiries in this area. The book describes the Presentational Self Theory as a sense of how the notion of the Self is being worked upon in everyday life encounters. Chapters feature in-depth analyses of exchanges between adults and children in the Japanese cultural context. Meaning-Making for Living will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in the fields of cognitive, social, developmental, educational, and cultural psychology. .

Psychological methodology --- Child & developmental psychology --- Social, group or collective psychology --- Cognition & cognitive psychology --- The self, ego, identity, personality --- Educational psychology --- Cognitive psychology. --- Developmental psychology. --- Self. --- Identity (Psychology). --- Educational psychology. --- Education—Psychology. --- Cross-cultural psychology. --- Psychology—Methodology. --- Psychological measurement. --- Cognitive Psychology. --- Developmental Psychology. --- Self and Identity. --- Educational Psychology. --- Cross Cultural Psychology. --- Psychological Methods/Evaluation. --- Education --- Psychology --- Personal identity --- Personality --- Self --- Ego (Psychology) --- Individuality --- Consciousness --- Mind and body --- Thought and thinking --- Will --- Development (Psychology) --- Developmental psychobiology --- Life cycle, Human --- Psychology, Cognitive --- Cognitive science --- Measurement, Mental --- Measurement, Psychological --- Psychological measurement --- Psychological scaling --- Psychological statistics --- Psychometry (Psychophysics) --- Scaling, Psychological --- Psychological tests --- Scaling (Social sciences) --- Cross-cultural psychology --- Ethnic groups --- Ethnic psychology --- Folk-psychology --- Indigenous peoples --- National psychology --- Psychological anthropology --- Psychology, Cross-cultural --- Psychology, Ethnic --- Psychology, National --- Psychology, Racial --- Race psychology --- National characteristics --- Measurement --- Scaling --- Methodology --- Cognitive psychology --- Developmental psychology --- Identity (Psychology) --- Education—Psychology --- Psychology—Methodology