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The chorus of the Christian hymn "Amazing Grace" reads, "I once was lost, but now am found, / Was blind but now I see." Composed by a minister who formerly worked as a slave trader, the song expresses his experience of divine intervention that ultimately caused him to see the error of his ways. This theme of personal awakening is a feature of countless stories throughout history, where the "lost" and the "blind" are saved from darkness and despair by suddenly seeing the light. In Seeing the Light, Thomas DeGloma explores such accounts of personal awakening, in stories that range from the discovery of a religious truth to remembering a childhood trauma to embracing a new sexual orientation. He reveals a common social pattern: When people discover a life-changing truth, they typically ally with a new community. Individuals then use these autobiographical stories to shape their stances on highly controversial issues such as childhood abuse, war and patriotism, political ideology, human sexuality, and religion. Thus, while such stories are seemingly very personal, they also have a distinctly social nature. Tracing a wide variety of narratives through nearly three thousand years of history, Seeing the Light uncovers the common threads of such stories and reveals the crucial, little-recognized social logic of personal discovery.
Autonomy (Psychology) --- Self-actualization (Psychology) --- Religious awakening. --- Awakening, Religious --- Awakening (Religion) --- Religion --- Growth, Personal --- Personal growth --- Self-improvement --- Self-realization (Psychology) --- Humanistic psychology --- Mental health --- Motivation (Psychology) --- Freedom (Psychology) --- Independence (Psychology) --- Self-determination (Psychology) --- Self-direction (Psychology) --- Dependency (Psychology) --- Ego (Psychology) --- Emotions --- personal discovery, sociology, social thought, divine intervention, awakening, religious truth, religion, faith, change, childhood trauma, sexual orientation, gender and sexuality, life-changing, community, child abuse, war, patriotism, political ideology, humanity, autonomy, self-actualization, autobiography, cultural studies, divided, plato, freud.
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This is the moving and improbable story of Claire Ferchaud, a young French shepherdess who had visions of Jesus and gained national fame as a modern-day Joan of Arc at the height of World War I. Claire experienced her first vision after a childhood trauma in which her mother locked her in a closet to break her stubborn willfulness. She developed her visionary gifts with the aid of spiritual directors and, by the age of twenty, she had come to believe that Jesus wanted France consecrated to the Sacred Heart. Claire believed that if France undertook this devotion, symbolized by adding the image of the Sacred Heart to the French flag, it would enjoy rapid victory in the war. From her modest origins to her spectacular ascent, Claire's life and times are deftly related with literary verve and insight in a book that gives a rare view of the French countryside during the Great War.
World War, 1914-1918 --- Sacred Heart, Devotion to --- Religious aspects --- Catholic Church. --- History of doctrines --- Ferchaud, Claire, --- apotheosis. --- biography. --- childhood trauma. --- christianity. --- claire ferchaud. --- discussion books. --- downfall. --- european history. --- french countryside. --- french peasant. --- french war. --- historical nonfiction. --- historical visionaries. --- illustrated. --- jesus christ. --- joan of arc. --- life story. --- national fame. --- religious visions. --- sacred heart. --- spiritual development. --- spiritual directors. --- spiritual patronage. --- tragic history. --- visionary gifts. --- visions of jesus. --- war. --- world war i. --- wwi.
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Suzanne Farrell Smith’s father was killed by a drunk driver when she was six, and a devastating fire nearly destroyed her house when she was eight. She remembers those two—and only those two—events from her first nearly twelve years of life. While her three older sisters hold on to rich and rewarding memories of their father, Smith recalls nothing of him. Her entire childhood was, seemingly, erased. In The Memory Sessions, Smith attempts to excavate lost childhood memories. She puts herself through multiple therapies and exercises, including psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, somatic experiencing, and acupuncture. She digs for clues in her mother’s long-stored boxes. She creates—with objects, photographs, and captions—a physical timeline to compensate for the one that’s missing in her memory. She travels to San Diego, where her family vacationed with her father right before he died. She researches, interviews, and meditates, all while facing down the two traumatic memories that defined her early life. The result is an experimental memoir that upends our understanding of the genre. Rather than recount a childhood, The Memory Sessions attempts to create one from research, archives, imagination, and the memories of others. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Memory disorders --- Autobiography --- Psychic trauma in children --- Fathers --- Fires --- Impairment, Memory --- Memory, Disorders of --- Memory impairment --- Paramnesia --- Cognition disorders --- Dads --- Men --- Parents --- Househusbands --- Child psychopathology --- Autobiographies --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- Buildings --- Conflagrations --- Fire losses --- Accidents --- Disasters --- Fire --- Patients --- Authorship --- Psychological aspects --- Death --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Fires and fire prevention --- Farrell Smith, Suzanne --- Smith, Suzanne Farrell --- Childhood and youth. --- Mental health. --- memoir, memory loss, amnesia, traumatic memory, childhood memory, parental loss, childhood trauma, loss of father, memory recovery, writers' memoir, transformative memoir, immersion writing, cognition, memory, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, autobiography, mind, brain, experimental autobiography.
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Devoted to research and scholarship in areas of traumatic injury and psychological trauma research.
injury control --- physical disability --- practice of trauma surgery --- early childhood trauma --- medical trauma --- complex trauma --- Wounds and injuries --- Post-traumatic stress disorder --- Bullying --- Bullying in schools --- Bullying in the workplace --- Bullying in universities and colleges --- Psychic trauma --- Psychological Trauma --- Complications --- psychology --- physical trauma --- sport injuries --- orthopaedic trauma --- medical trauma --- emotional trauma --- psychological trauma --- Trauma, Psychological --- Emotional trauma --- Injuries, Psychic --- Psychic injuries --- Trauma, Emotional --- Trauma, Psychic --- Psychology, Pathological --- Mobbing, Workplace --- Workplace bullying --- Workplace mobbing --- Work environment --- School bullying --- Schools --- Bullyism --- Aggressiveness --- Posttraumatic stress disorder --- PTSD (Psychiatry) --- Stress disorder, Post-traumatic --- Traumatic stress syndrome --- Anxiety disorders --- Stress (Psychology) --- Traumatic neuroses --- Intrusive thoughts --- Human beings --- Injuries --- Trauma, Physical --- Wounds --- Surgical emergencies --- Traumatology --- Universities and colleges --- Critical care medicine --- Emergency medical services --- Wounds and Injuries --- Emergency Treatment --- Critical Care --- Traumatologie --- Soins intensifs --- Lésions et blessures --- Services des urgences médicales --- Lésions et blessures. --- Soins intensifs. --- Surgical Intensive Care --- Intensive Care --- Intensive Care, Surgical --- Care, Critical --- Care, Intensive --- Care, Surgical Intensive --- Emergencies --- Emergency Therapy --- Therapy, Emergency --- Emergency Therapies --- Emergency Treatments --- Therapies, Emergency --- Treatment, Emergency --- Treatments, Emergency --- Injuries and Wounds --- Injuries, Wounds --- Research-Related Injuries --- Wounds and Injury --- Wounds, Injury --- Trauma --- Injuries, Research-Related --- Injury --- Injury and Wounds --- Injury, Research-Related --- Research Related Injuries --- Research-Related Injury --- Traumas --- Wound --- First Aid --- Emergency health services --- Emergency medical care --- Emergency medicine --- Medical care --- Rescue work --- Accident medicine --- Trauma medicine --- Surgery --- Wounds and injuries. --- Post-traumatic stress disorder. --- Bullying. --- Bullying in schools. --- Bullying in the workplace. --- Bullying in universities and colleges. --- Psychic trauma.
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