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Family therapy training and systemic intervention with families

Dr. Imber-Black (1988) claims that family therapist originated with the idea that an individual's problem begins to make the different kind of sense when examined in the context of the nuclear and extended family.

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Design and messaging in Bank of America's annual report

The Internet has enhanced communication in myriad ways. Now people throughout the world can tap into information and communicate with people, which even a decade ago would have been impossible.

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Tim Kasser's research on materialism and human happiness

In his book The High Price of Materialism Tim Kasser asks what initially seems to be a philosophical, subjective question: what makes people happy? Kasser applies his knowledge of psychological methodology and data-gathering to this age-old query.

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Stringent immigration enforcement and worker protection in the United States

Immigration is often presented as an issue of bias: opponents of liberal immigration policies are depicted in the media as prejudiced against legal and illegal immigrants because of immigrants' 'alien' or foreign status.

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Justifiable murder in "The Lottery" and "The Most Dangerous Game"

A reader of both Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" must decide when can murder be an acceptable action. Is the tradition of an annual stoning acceptable? Is murder as a game acceptable? Is murder as self-defense acceptable?

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Psychoanalysis, cognitive therapy, and behavioral therapy approaches

"Psychology is not about "getting rid" of symptoms. Unlike politics, and even unlike medicine, psychology is not about waging war or getting control of anything. Instead, it's about making peace with -- by listening to and understanding -- your symptoms.

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Anna Mahler: Spanish professor bridging Southern and Latin American literature

She may not walk around barefoot, but Anna Mahler does like to hold classes outside on sunny days. The second-year Spanish professor comes to Emory from Alabama via the University of Pittsburgh.

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Hewlett Johnson's economic theories: Soviet utopia versus unemployment solutions

I do not agreed with the first Johnson article "The Socialist Sixth of the World," but the piece "The Impact of Unemployment" has more merit. The article describing the Soviet Union as some sort of workers' utopia is riddled with faulty assumptions.

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Reason and instinct in Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game"

Hunter or Hunted? In his story, "The Most Dangerous Game," Richard Connell breaks down the stereotypes between man and beast. Throughout the novel he poses reason against instinct.

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Free will and determinism in psychological theories and practice

Free will asserts that humans control their own destiny; Determinism, that events are determined by causal factors. A belief in one or the others of these concepts effects psychology drastically. It is the problem of nature vs. nurture.

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