@book{Sereny, author = {Sereny, Gitta}, title = {The Invisible Children. Child Prostitution in America, West Germany and Great Britain, New York (Knopf), 1984, 254 pp.}, language = {en} } @book{Rushdie, author = {Rushdie, Salman}, title = {Language of Truth. Essays 2003-2020, New York (Random House) 2021, 356 pp.}, language = {en} } @book{Romanetto, author = {Romanetto, Matheus}, title = {Critique and Affirmation in Erich Fromm. Humanistic Politics and the Psychoanalytic Clinic, London (Routledge), 2025, 295 pp.}, language = {en} } @book{Poerksen, author = {P{\"o}rksen, Bernhard}, title = {Digital Fever. Taming the Big Business of Desinformation, Cham (Palgrace MacMillan), 2022, 211 pp. [translation of Poerksen_B_2017]}, language = {en} } @book{NyanaponikaMahathera, author = {Nyanaponika Mahathera,}, title = {The Heart of Buddhist Meditation, New York (Samuel Weiser), 1970, 223 pp.}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-38989, title = {Helping the Good Shepherd: Pastoral Counselors in a Psychotherapeutic Culture, 1925-1975, Baltimore (Johns Hopkins University Press) 2009, 301+16 pp. [core.ac.uk/download/534896786.pdf]}, editor = {Myers-Shirk, Susan E.}, abstract = {This history of Protestant pastoral counseling in America examines the role of pastoral counselors in the construction and articulation of a liberal moral sensibility. Analyzing the relationship between religion and science in the twentieth century, Susan E. Myers-Shirk locates this sensibility in the counselors' intellectual engagement with the psychological sciences. Informed by the principles of psychology and psychoanalysis, pastoral counselors sought a middle ground between science and Christianity in advising anxious parishioners who sought their help for personal problems such as troubled children, violent spouses, and alcohol and drug abuse. Myers-Shirk finds that gender relations account in part for the great divide between the liberal and conservative moral sensibilities in pastoral counseling. She demonstrates that, as some pastoral counselors began to advocate women's equality, conservative Christian counselors emerged, denouncing more liberal pastoral counselors and secular psychologists for disregarding biblical teachings. From there, the two sides diverged dramatically. Helping the Good Shepherd will appeal to scholars of American religious history, the history of psychology, gender studies, and American history. For those practicing and teaching pastoral counseling, it offers historical insights into the field.}, language = {en} } @book{MorelockZiottiNarita, author = {Morelock, Jeremiah and Ziotti Narita, Felipe}, title = {The Society of the Selfie. Social Media and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy, London (University of Westminster Press) 2022, 191 pp. [eISBN 978-1-914386-26-8] [doi.org/10.16997/book59]}, abstract = {This book explores how the Internet is connected to the global crisis of liberal democracy. Today, self-promotion is at the heart of many human relationships. The selfie is not just a social media gesture people love to hate. It is also a symbol of social reality in the age of the Internet. Through social media people have new ways of rating and judging themselves and one another, via metrics such as likes, shares, followers and friends. There are new thirsts for authenticity, outlets for verbal aggression, and social problems. Social media culture and neoliberalism dovetail and amplify one another, feeding social estrangement. With neoliberalism, psychosocial wounds are agitated and authoritarianism is provoked. Yet this new sociality also inspires resistance and political mobilisation. Illustrating ideas and trends with examples from news and popular culture, the book outlines and applies theories from Debord, Foucault, Fromm, Goffman, and Giddens, among others. Topics covered include the global history of communication technologies, personal branding, echo chamber effects, alienation and fear of abnormality. Information technologies provide channels for public engagement where extreme ideas reach farther and faster than ever before, and political differences are widened and inflamed. They also provide new opportunities for protest and resistance.}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-38977, title = {Critical Theory and Authoritarian Populism, London/UK (University of Westminster Press) 2018, 259 pp. , English. [pdf-ISBN 978-1-912656-05-9] [doi.org/10.16997/book30]}, editor = {Morelock, Jeremiah}, abstract = {After President Trump's election, BREXIT and the widespread rise of far-Right political parties, much public discussion has intensely focused on populism and authoritarianism. In the middle of the twentieth century, members of the early Frankfurt School prolifically studied and theorized fascism and anti-Semitism in Germany and the United States. In this volume, leading European and American scholars apply insights from the early Frankfurt School to present-day authoritarian populism, including the Trump phenomenon and related developments across the globe. Chapters are arranged into three sections exploring different aspects of the topic: theories, historical foundations, and manifestations via social media. Contributions examine the vital political, psychological and anthropological theories of early Frankfurt School thinkers, and how their insights could be applied now amidst the insecurities and confusions of twenty-first century life. The many theorists considered include Adorno, Fromm, L{\"o}wenthal and Marcuse, alongside analysis of Austrian Facebook pages and Trump's tweets and operatic media drama. This book is a major contribution towards deeper understanding of populism's resurgence in the age of digital capitalism.}, language = {en} } @book{May, author = {May, Rollo}, title = {Love and Will, New Yorl (Dell Publishing), 1969, 352 pp.}, language = {en} } @book{Hughes, author = {Hughes, Ian}, title = {Disordered Minds. How Dangerous Personalities are Destroying Democracy, Washintin (Cero Books), 2018, 189 pp.}, language = {en} }