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Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a psychiatric condition that affects nearly 2% of the general population, predominantly women. Symptoms of BPD include impulsivity, mood swings, unstable intense relationships and feelings of chronic emptiness. Research on BPD has lagged behind that on other mental health conditions, such as depression and...

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Safir's monograph develops a theory about the role of anaphora in the formulation of general syntax. He presents the following proposals: firstly, that the complementary distribution of forms that support anaphoric readings is not accidental; secondly, that dependent identity relations are always possible where they are not prohibited by a...

Cultures of Plague highlights this most feared epidemic, one that threatened Italy from 1575 to 1578 and unleashed an avalanche of plague writing. In the heartland of Counter-Reformation Italy, physicians, along with those outside the profession, questioned the foundations of Galenic and Renaissance medicine, even the role of God....

Unlike any other species, humans can learn and use language. This book explains        how the brain evolved to make language possible, through what Michael Arbib calls        the Mirror System Hypothesis. Because of mirror neurons, monkeys, chimps, and humans        can learn by imitation, but only "e;complex imitation,"e; which humans...

First published in 2002, the landmark Psychotherapy Relationships That Work broke        new ground by focusing renewed and corrective attention on the substantial research        behind the crucial (but often overlooked) client-therapist relationship. This        thoroughly revised edition brings a decade of additional research to the same...