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Hunting al Qaeda: A Take-No-Prisoners Account of Terror, Adventure, and Disillusionment
When the citizen-soldiers of Beast 85 went off to fight the enemy, they could not have imagined that the largest obstacle they would face was not the suffocating heat, disease, or even the enemy itself, but an increasingly risk-averse high command and the modern American military’s culture of ""playing it safe."" Even while being shot at, they were not allowed to shoot back, ending up sitting on their hands for days and weeks on end. Then, the men of Beast 85 did what Green Berets do; they found a way to get the job done. They hunted, cornered, and captured some of the highest-level terrorists in Afghanistan, including 1) one of the Taliban’s top generals, 2) the man responsible for a brutal ethnic-cleansing campaign, and 3) a key player in the assassination of Ahmed Shah Massoud (the ""Lion of Panjshir"")—a man who struck fear into Osama bin Laden’s own cold and murderous heart. But their actions only seemed to rile the military’s play-it-safe leadership, who at every turn let the bad guys slip away to fight another day. That did not deter Beast 85, who proved themselves collectively to be one of the gutsiest and bravest units in the war. Written by the men who were there, Hunting al Qaeda takes no prisoners in its critical look at what went right (plenty, when they were allowed to do their job), what went wrong (plenty more), and what happens when Green Berets are unleashed in the most hostile place on the planet. .
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Beyond Burnout: Helping Teachers, Nurses, Therapists and Lawyers Recover From Stress and Disillusionment
Each year thousands of people enter one of the helping professions. The work they do affects how we live, how we feel, even who we become. Yet an increasingly critical public believes that many of these professionals lack idealism and commitment. BeyondBurnout explores the source of this problem. Based on a unique, in-depth, longitudinal study, this book follows a group of social workers, teachers, psychologists, nurses and poverty lawyers over a period of 12 years, beginning with their first year of practice. These professionals describe in their own words what happened to them when their idealism collided with the realities of their work. Through their stories, Cary Cherniss describes both the process of burnout as well as the factors that allow professionals to recover from burnout. He traces the changes that occurred in the professionals' attitudes and values and the resulting positive and negativeeffects. He also suggests practical policy changes to enhance professional caring in the human services. Beyond Burnout will be of particular interest to those engaged in a helping occupation, but will also be valuable reading for anyone concerned with the quality of education and human service in contemporary society..
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The Ability to Mourn: Disillusionment and the Social Origins of Psychoanalysis
Peter Homans offers a new understanding of the origins of psychoanalysis and relates the psychoanalytic project as a whole to the sweep of Western culture, past and present. He argues that Freud's fundamental goal was the interpretation of culture and that, therefore, psychoanalysis is fundamentally a humanistic social science. To establish this claim, Homans looks back at Freud's self-analysis in light of the crucial years from 1906 to 1914 when the psychoanalytic movement was formed and shows how these experiences culminated in Freud's cultural texts. By exploring the "culture of psychoanalysis," Homans seeks a better understanding of what a "psychoanalysis of culture" might be. Psychoanalysis, Homans shows, originated as a creative response to the withering away of traditional communities and their symbols in the aftermath of the industrial revolution. The loss of these attachments played a crucial role in the lives of the founders of psychoanalysis, especially Sigmund Freud but also Karl Abraham, Carl Jung, Otto Rank, and Ernest Jones. The personal, political, and religious losses that these figures experienced, the introspection that followed, and the psychological discovery that resulted are what Homans calls "the ability to mourn." Homans expands this historical analysis to construct a general model of psychological discovery: the loss of shared ideals and symbols can produce a deeper sense of self (psychological structure-building, or individuation) and can then lead to the creation of new forms of meaning and self-understanding. He shows how Freud, Jung, and other psychoanalysts began to extend their introspection outward, reinterpreting the meanings of Western art, history, and religion. In conclusion, Homans evaluates Freud's theory of culture and discusses the role that psychoanalysis might play in social and cultural criticism. Throughout the book, Homans makes use of the many histories, biographies, and psychobiographies that have been written about the origins of psychoanalysis, drawing them into a comprehensive sociocultural model. Rich in insights and highly original in approach, this work will interest psychoanalysts and students of Freud, sociologists concerned with modernity and psychoanalysis, and cultural critics in the fields of religion, anthropology, political science, and social history. .
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My Further Disillusionment In Russia
y Further Disillusiosiment By Emma Goldman Being a Continuation of Miss Goldmans Experiences in Russia as given in My Disillusionment in Russia C r T 4l fi If M I 3 - I, Garden City New York Doubleday, Page Company 1924 y ITE IN THE UNiria STATE AT THE COUNTRY LIFE , CARDEK CITV, . Y. Hr st Edition PUBLISHERS NOTE SOME years ago Emma Goldman was de ported from this country and went to Russia to investigate personally what she believed to be the nearest approach to a Utopia which the world had yet produced. Her experiences so thoroughly disillusioned her that she conceived it to be her duty to set forth these experiences and her conclusions, which she did in a book entitled My Disillusionment in Russia The rights in this material she sold to an American newspaper syndicate from whom we purchased the book rights, and by whom we were furnished with the copy for the book. We published the book under date of October 26, 1923, and not until it was in circulation did we learn that it was minus the last twelve chapters which had never been turned over to us by the newspaper syndicate, nor had any intimation been given us that the copy turned over to us was incomplete. While the conclusion of the book as we published it was abrupt it was not 64521122 vi PUBLISHERS 5 NOTE more so than is frequently the case and, there fore, there was no internal evidence to indicate its incompleteness. We are now rectifying this serious error by the publication in a separate volume of the twelve missing chapters under the title, My Further Disillusionment in Russia. This material is even more important in its revelations and of even greater interest than that already pub lished. PREFACE THE annals of literature tell of books expurgated, of whole chapters eliminated or changed beyond recognition. But I believe it has rarely happened that a work should be published with more than a third of it left out and without the reviewers being aware of the fact. This doubtful distinction has fallen to the lot of my work on Russia. The story of that painful experience might well make another chapter, but for the present it is sufficient to give the bare facts of the case. My manuscript was sent to the original pur chaser in two parts, at different times. Subse quently the publishing house of Doubleday, Page Co. bought the rights to my work, but when the first printed copies reached me I dis covered to my dismay that not only had my original title, My Two Years in Russia been changed to My Disillusionment in Russia, but that the last twelve chapters were entirely missing, including my Afterword which is, at least to myself, the most vital part. vii viii PREFACE There followed an exchange of cables and letters, which gradually elicited the fact that Doubleday, Page Co. had secured my MSS. from a literary agency in the good faith that it was complete. By some conspiracy of circum stances the second instalment of my work either failed to reach the original purchaser or was lost in his office. At any rate, the book was pub lished without any ones suspecting its incom pleteness. The present volume contains the chapters missing from the first edition, and I deeply ap preciate the devotion of my friends who have made the appearance of this additional issue pos sible in justice to myself and to my readers. The adventures of my MSS. are not without their humorous side, which throws a peculiar light on the critics. Of almost a hundred Amer ican reviewers of my work only two sensed its incompleteness. And, incidentally, one of them is not a regular critic but a librarian. Rather a reflection on professional acumen or conscientiousness. It were a waste of time to notice the criti cism of those who have either not read the book or lacked the wit to realize that it was unfin ished. Of all the alleged reviews 1 only two PREFACE ix deserve consideration as written by earnest and able men those of Henry Alsberg and H. L. Mencken. Mr....
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THREE SOLDIERS - KINDLE EDITION [ENG]
Three Soldiers is a 1920[1] novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the key American war novels of the First World War, and remains a classic of the realist war novel genre. H.L. Mencken, then practising primarily as an American literary critic, praised the book in the pages of the Smart Set. "Until Three Soldiers is forgotten and fancy achieves its inevitable victory over fact, no war story can be written in the United States without challenging comparison with it--and no story that is less meticulously true land of fat will stand up to it. At one blast it disposed of oceans of romance and blather. It changed the whole tone of American opinion about the war; it even changed the recollections of actual veterans of the war. They saw, no doubt, substantially what Dos Passos saw, but it took his bold realism to disentangle their recollections from the prevailing buncombe and sentimentality." Source: Wikipedia.org.
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My Disillusionment in Russia
As a young woman in America, Goldman campaigned for eight-hour work days and abolition of the draft. Because of her revolutionary activities, she was deported to Russia in 1919. She left that country in 1921 and set down her thoughts, speaking passionately about political harassment and forced labor, industrial militarization, and the persecution of anarchists. .
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Illusion and Disillusionment: Core Issues in Psychotherapy
Mourning the loss of core illusions and coping with the impact of disillusionment are critical issues in psychotherapy. In this informative and readable book, Teitelbaum explores this therapeutic issue in depth from a developmental, theoretical, and clinical perspective and emphasizes its particular importance in the treatment of depressed and narcissistic patients..
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Disillusionment: A Dialogue of Lacks
This current volume by a successful consultant to leading organizations and institutions combines two of his recent papers. The first one looks at the phenomenon of illusion and disillusion in organizations. He believes illusions construct us, as opposed to us believing we create them. This is Gutmann’s hypothesis which he examines in the book with help of examples from a personal and institutional point of view. He claims we can learn to recognize our own illusions and learn from them and this is the process he calls "disillusionment". The Dialogue of Lacks paper is a follow-up from the first paper and further elaborates on the process that is disillusionment and discusses the effects of the "lack of dialogue". "The trudging that each of us is engaged in -- over a shorter or longer distance -- whilst grappling with our own illusions is a fundamental journey, intimate and unique, passing through our own construction and touching on the very essence of our life. It is not only about knowing whether we are being manipulated, nor just how far these illusions can obscure our judgement, our rational and reasonable mind. Our freedom is at stake. It is about understanding where the boundary lies between survival (and its frantic analogue all too frequent these days that we refer to as "hyperlife") and a life of desire and creation. Our intention here is to formulate a starting hypothesis and to begin to unfold it in order to discover its consequences. It is based on our experience as advisers in leadership which invites us to work regularly with this kind of questions with leaders of organisations. Illusion is indeed as much an individual issue as it is a collective and institutional one." -- From the Introduction.
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