The aim of Language for those who have Nothing is to think psychiatry through the writings of Mikhail Bakhtin. Using the concepts of Dialogism and Polyphony, the Carnival and the Chronotope, a novel means of navigating the clinical landscape is developed.  Bakhtin offers language as a social phenomenon and one that is fully embodied. Utterances are shown to be alive and enfleshed and their meanings realised in the context of given social dimensions. The organisation of this book corresponds with carnival practices of taking the high down to the low before replenishing its meaning anew. Thus early discussions of official language and the chronotope become exposed to descending levels of analysis and emphasis.  Patients and practitioners are shown to occupy an entirely different spatio-temporal topography. These chronotopes have powerful borders and it is necessary to use the Carnival powers of cunning and deception in order to enter and to leave them. The book provides an overview of practitioners who have attempted such transgression and the author records his own unnerving experience as a pseudopatient. By exploring the context of psychiatry's unofficial voices: its terminology, jokes, parodies, and everyday narratives, the clinical landscape is shown to rely heavily on unofficial dialogues in order to safeguard an official identity.

Language for Those Who Have Nothing: Mikhail Bakhtin and the Landscape of Psychiatry (Cognition and Language: A Series in Psycholinguistics)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Good, Peter

Mental Health

Springer

The aim of Language for those who have Nothing is to  think psychiatry through the writings of Mikhail Bakhtin. Using  the concepts of Dialogism and Polyphony, the Carnival and the  Chronotope, a novel means of navigating the clinical landscape is  developed.   Bakhtin offers language as a social phenomenon and one that is fully  embodied. Utterances are shown to be alive and enfleshed and their  meanings realised in the context of given social dimensions. The  organisation of this book corresponds with carnival practices of  taking the high down to the low before replenishing its meaning anew.  Thus early discussions of official language and the chronotope become  exposed to descending levels of analysis and emphasis.   Patients and practitioners are shown to occupy an entirely different  spatio-temporal topography. These chronotopes have powerful borders  and it is necessary to use the Carnival powers of cunning and  deception in order to enter and to leave them. The book provides an  overview of practitioners who have attempted such transgression and  the author records his own unnerving experience as a pseudopatient. By  exploring the context of psychiatry's unofficial voices: its  terminology, jokes, parodies, and everyday narratives, the clinical  landscape is shown to rely heavily on unofficial dialogues in order to  safeguard an official identity.

Language for Those Who Have Nothing: Mikhail Bakhtin and the Landscape of Psychiatry

Plenum Publishing Corporation

East India Company in Persia, The: Trade and Cultural Exchange in the Eighteenth Century

<p>In 1747, the city of Kerman in Persia burned amidst chaos, destruction and death perpetrated by the city's own overlord, Nader Shah. After the violent overthrow of the Safavid dynasty in 1722 and subsequent foreign invasions from all sides, Persia had been in constant turmoil. One well-appointed house that belonged to the East India Company had been saved from destruction by the ingenuity of a Company servant, Danvers Graves, and his knowledge of the Company's privileges in Persia. This book explores the lived experience of the Company and its trade in Persia and how it interacted with power structures and the local environment in a time of great upheaval in Persian history. Using East India Company records and other sources, it charts the role of the Navy and commercial fleet in the Gulf, trade agreements, and the experience of Company staff, British and non-British living in and navigating conditions in 18th-century Persia. By examining the social, commercial and diplomatic history of this relationship, this book creates a new paradigm for the study of Early Modern interactions in the Indian Ocean.</p>

History

Europe

I.B.Tauris

<p>50 Proven Ways to Build More Profitable Menus: Tested Ideas From the Leading Speakers &amp; Consultants in the Hospitality Industry Edited by William R. Marvin (Hospitality Masters Series)</p>

50 Proven Ways to Build More Profitable Menus

Clarke, Susan

Marvin, BILL

Feltenstein,Tom

Cohen, Barry

Marshall, Phyllis Ann

Yudd, Ron

Miick, Rudy

Main, Bill

Laube, Jim

Cutson, Howard

Boileau, Gloria

Hospitality Masters Press

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Murder, as you know, comes in all shapes and sizes. It also comes at inconvenient times. Christmas, for example. Season of goodwill, peace to all men (and women too, of course), homely jollity round the turkey and mince-pies. A time of family reunion and celebration, of good cheer, recollection and renewal. And of unexpected death. Lock the doors. Draw the curtains. Settle down in your armchair. Pour yourself a drink. And enjoy ten stories by masters of the genre. Georgian England. 1960s and 1980s England. Twenty-first-century Africa, Canada, the USA. Murder by meat-hook, piano-wire, scarf, knife, hammer, golf-club, bullet, syringe … Dear, oh, dear.  And naturally all the classic motives: blackmail, revenge, disappointment in love, greed, anger, a perverted sense of duty ... Murders of men by women, and of women by men. Murders committed on impulse and murders carefully planned. A catalogue of weakness, hatred and villainy. It’s all here, at your elbow. And there’s more! Humour, intrigue, history, suspense … and of course Christmas sparkle! So, cheers! And Happy Christmas! Contributing Authors: Annie Coyle Martin, Julius Falconer, Peter Good, Peter Hodgson, Neal James, Andrew Malloy, James McCarthy, Steve Morris, Harry Riley, Derek Rosser P. S. The writers are all published crime authors who have contributed a new story especially for this Pneuma Springs anthology.

An Anthology of Christmas Murders - Terror, Tinsel and Turkey

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Falconer, Julius

Martin, Coyle Annie

Mystery

Pneuma Springs Publishing

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