| An Unchanged Mind: The Problem of Immaturity in Adolescence Contributor(s): McKinnon, John A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1590561244 ISBN-13: 9781590561249 Publisher: Lantern Books OUR PRICE: $21.85 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2008 Annotation: A practicing psychiatrist discusses the "forgotten" diagnosis of arrested development in teenagers, and how it is useful in practice and treatment today. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Psychiatry - Child & Adolescent - Psychology | Developmental - Adolescent |
| Dewey: 616.890 |
| LCCN: 2008014165 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (0.85 lbs) 258 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
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| Publisher Description: Until the last decade of the twentieth century, the abusive or cruel treatment of animals had received virtually no attention among academicians. Since then, however, empirical studies of animal abuse, and its relation to other forms of violence toward humans, have increased not only in number but in quality and stature. Sociologists, criminologists, social workers, psychologists, legal scholars, feminists, and others have recognized the myriad reasons that animal abuse is worthy of serious scholarly focus. In his overview of contemporary sociological understanding of animal abuse, Clifton Flynn asks why studying animal abuse is important, examines the connections between animal abuse and human violence, surveys the theses surrounding the supposed link between abuse of animals and humans, and lays out some theoretical perspectives on the issue. The book offers recommendations for policy and professionals and directions for future research. Ultimately, Understanding Animal Abuse challenges the reader to consider animal abuse as not limited just to harmful acts committed by individuals. It asks us to extend our notion of abuse to the systemic cruelty of factory farms and vivisection laboratories. |
Contributor Bio(s): McKinnon, John: - John A. McKinnon, M.D., was educated at Harvard, Cambridge University, Case Western Reserve University, Yale, and Norwich University. He taught at the University of California, San Francisco, and directed psychiatry hospital programs in Texas and Montana. Disgusted with the mediocrity of "managed" care, he left traditional medical centers to co-found Montana Academy, a therapeutic school for troubled teenagers on a remote ranch near Glacier Park. His co-founder and wife, Rosemary, is also a therapist, and they have three daughters. |