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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 article reviews the exhibition "Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724-1780) Study Day" at the Frick Collection in New York City on January 22, 2008.

The article reviews the Readykeulous exhibit held at the Invisible-Exports Gallery in New York City from January 14 to February 13, 2010, which features feminist and lesbian art.

This paper concerns Black women poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Considered by modern critics to have adopted anachronistic subject matter and to be out of step with the militant race-consciousness of the period, these poets have been largely neglected in discussions of the 1920's, despite the fact that this was the most significant flowering of Black women's writing until the 1960's. I provide an interpretive model that reveals the rebellious messages in this verse, one that helps explain the poets' imaginative choices by placing them in their historical context and liking them to a female poetic tradition. This approach makes clear the affirming nature of Renaissance poetry by women and makes it accessible to us today, anticipating as it does contemporary issues and forging a modern sensibility. [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]