Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study. But what if researchers viewed the brain not as the foundation of life, rather as a mediating organ? Ecology of the Brain addresses th
Amsterdam, sometimes called the 'biggest small town in the world', is a city with many different facets. It is the entertainment district of the Western world, a vibrant centre for international trade
Digby’s Hollywood Story is a novella set in Hollywood in the years 1946-1949. The eponymous Digby is a cop on a movie-studio security force dealing with, among others, an aspiring actress who is unrel
2013 sees the centenary of Jaspers' foundation of psychopathology as a science in its own right. In 1913 Karl Jaspers published his psychiatric opus magnum - the Allgemeine Psychopathologie (General P
An examination of human precarity through Petra Sterry's text-based drawings In her drawings and text-based works, Austrian artist Petra Sterry (born 1967) probes the psychological sensitivities tha
Recent accounts of cognition attempt to overcome the limitations of traditional cognitive science by reconceiving cognition as enactive and the cognizer as an embodied being who is embedded in biologi
Ruprecht von Kaufmann (b. Munich, 1974; lives and works in Berlin)is widely regarded as a leading exponent of contemporary narrativepainting. When he began work on his series of portraits Inside theOu
Our experience of other individuals as minded beings goes hand in hand with the awareness that they have a unique epistemic and emotional perspective on the experienced objects and situations. The sam
In this book, international scholars examine the basic psychopathological concepts of Karl Jaspers and their anthropological roots in light of modern research paradigms. It offers new perspectives for
There is a growing interest in embodied approaches to psychotherapy internationally. This volume focuses on the respective focal professions of dance movement psychotherapy (DMP) and body psychotherap
