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Yet the literature on Internet addiction fails to establish the agent of this presumptive malady, Friedman points out, as well as what it is that users are actually doing or desiring that constitutes an addiction. In her new book, I Internet Addiction: A Critical Psychology of Users i (Routledge, 2021), Emaline Friedman takes on an enormous and weighty task. [Extracted from the article]

Interactivity as performance allows Nash to draw attention to affect and emotion, considering the different forms that interactive documentary engages with embodied performances such as augmented and virtual reality documentary and gaming. Nash acknowledges the fragility of the interactive documentary because of its experimental approach adopting software platforms that are still in development limiting the audience reach, but she remains hopeful throughout the book that the future for the interactive documentary lies ahead, and we have perhaps only scratched the surface. This book shows how interactive documentary appropriates digital technologies in order to find new methods of engaging with realities that often confront contemporary social concerns and the intricacies of truth. [Extracted from the article]

Philip Cushman's collection of papers showcased in his recent book, "Travels with the Self: Interpreting Psychology as Cultural History" coalesce to form a strong critique of psychotherapist/psychoanalytic practitioners, and their compliance with socio-political norms and expectations. As Cushman sees it, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts have gone from being critics of the system to being agents of the system, pushing patients to adjust to social norms. Since Cushman is a hermeneutic philosopher, Heidegger - the founder of ontological hermeneutics - is important to Cushman. [Extracted from the article]

"The Agricultural Dilemma" by Glenn Davis Stone is a book that challenges the dominant narrative surrounding industrial agriculture. Stone argues that the focus on technological development and efficiency in agriculture has led to the capture of public wealth by business interests, while externalizing socio-ecological costs. The book explores the history and impact of industrial agriculture, particularly in relation to fertilizers and seeds, and highlights the racial underpinnings of the productivist ideal. Stone also presents an alternative model of agriculture, called "intensive agriculture," which emphasizes changing practices, labor, and local technology. Overall, the book offers a critical and thought-provoking analysis of the current state of agriculture and presents possibilities for alternative agrarian futures. [Extracted from the article]

The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay's New York documents a transformative period of experimentation in public space design in New York City from 1966 through 1973, under the mayoralty of John Lindsay. Combining rich archival research with captivating storytelling, the book sheds light on this time in which emerging ideas about psychology, participation, and politics were integrated into the design of public environments. It makes a compelling argument for the importance of this time and place in spurring a broad rethinking of the very concept of public space as a site of democracy, participation, and self-actualization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sullivan became known for his pioneering work on an all-male psychiatric unit, where he took some of the ideas contained in Freudian psychoanalysis and modified them for therapy with schizophrenic patients. All the authors in their own ways struggle with what psychoanalysis has to offer, what is useful to patients, and with pursuing authenticity rather than adherence to a theoretical idea or analytic school. The history of psychoanalysis does not unfold in an orderly fashion and is subject, like all history, to the perspective and biases of the historian. [Extracted from the article]

Hewett and Bourelle ([3]) have collected a series of essays aimed to help program administrators (PAs) develop and fine-tune online training and professional development programs in technical and professional communication (TPC). Further, this book can be helpful to the instructors themselves, as many chapters offer practical strategies that instructors should consider when teaching online. A common point in nearly every chapter is the advice to offer instructor training online so that instructors can experience online learning to learn what students may experience while taking a course. [Extracted from the article]

The Hietzing School and Red Vienna: Psychoanalysis and Progressive Social Reform: Freud/Tiffany: Anna Freud, Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham and the "Best Possible School", Edited by E. A. Danto & A. Steiner-Strauss (2019). Published in 2019, this deceptively small volume is a rich source for understanding the significance of the Hietzing School, founded in 1927 Vienna by Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham and Anna Freud. Even though Bob's diary only lasted for 22 days, his lengthy analysis with Anna Freud is described in some detail, and photographs of both Anna Freud and Bob's mother are included in this essay. The third essay in the volume, written by Elizabeth Danto herself, further corroborates how the 1927 opening of the Hietzing School was both symbolic of Red Vienna at that time and also, in retrospect, representative of the beginning of the end of progressive school reforms in that bastion of enlightened culture. [Extracted from the article]

The essays collected by Badalassi and Snyder address their principal subject - the historical significance of the CSCE - from several angles. "If there were a school for foreign secretaries", said the German statesman Hans-Dietrich Genscher, "the CSCE would have to be compulsory reading" (295). Is it generally more accurate to characterize the CSCE as a cause, conditioning agent, or symptom of the beginning of the end of the Cold War in Europe?. [Extracted from the article]