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Bringing together Luce Irigaray's early psychoanalytically orientated writings with her more recent and more explicitly political writings, this book weaves together the ontological, political and ethical dimensions of Irigaray's philosophy of sexuate difference in imaginative ways.

Luce Irigaray argues that the way to overcome the culture of narcissism in the Western tradition is to recognize sexuate difference and to refigure subjectivity as sexuate. This article is an attempt to unpack how Irigaray's philosophical refiguring of love as an intermediary works in this process of reimagining subjectivity as sexuate. If we trace the moments in Irigaray's philosophy where she engages with Hegel's dialectic, and rethinks this dialectical process via the question of sexual difference and a refiguring of love, a clearer reading of her work as groundbreaking and ultimately refiguring our (Western) ontological structures becomes possible. Consequently, if we do not understand Irigaray's radical reformulation of love, we will miss her larger ontological project and fail to properly appreciate her comments on other types of difference—for example, differences of race, tradition, religion. This article argues that as we begin to appreciate the ways in which Irigaray refigures both love and thought as the intermediary, an intermediary that fundamentally disrupts phallocentric binary logic, we can begin to imagine how refiguring the most intimate human experience of love can lead us toward the realization of an ethical political community in which difference in all forms is nourished.

New ways of understanding the brain - its nature, its capacities, its function, and its dysfunction - hold great promise for human wellbeing. Novel therapeutics spurred by this understanding have important roles addressing many clinical conditions, including Alzheimer Disease, depression, addiction, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. This unique title explores a wide range of groundbreaking sciences and clinical practices for brain-based conditions, including deep brain stimulation, optogenetics, technology-delivered therapies, predictive testing, and new clinical uses of ketamine, cannabis, and other psychoactive substances. An introduction to the imperative to develop new treatments for devastating brain disorders and the state of current therapeutics in psychiatry, addiction, and behavioral disorders is presented, and chapters from leading physician-scientists and neuroethicists outline the clinical and the ethical issues arising in innovation and in the creation of new therapeutics for brain diseases. Written by renowned thought leaders in their fields, the book presents tightly written contributions on novel qualitative and quantitative data from stakeholders in the field, including neuroscientist-clinicians, people living with mental illness and/or addictions, and oversight/policy stakeholders. Concise, anticipatory, and centered on the principles governing human biomedical research and innovation in developing novel therapeutics for brain disorders, Ethics and Clinical Neuroinnovation will be of great value to clinicians, researchers, and students from a vast array of backgrounds, including neuroethics, neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, philosophy, entrepreneurship, and the law

With engaging insight, the author deftly reviews the nuances of ethics fundamentals. She then discusses with guest contributors ethical dilemmas and approaches to clinical work with children and youth, veterans, patients from culturally distinct backgrounds, HIV/AIDS patients, those at the end of life, patients living with addictions, and more.

Respect for persons, beneficence, and justice are the principles that collectively form the ethical basis of human research . These three principles find expression in Community-Based Participatory Research for Improved Mental Healthcare, or CBPR `a systematic approach for engaging specially-defined groups of people in a process of inquiry and social change. In the Community-Based Participatory Research, a panel of renowned authors provide a step-by-step approach for conducting CBPR, providing all the conceptual and methodological guidelines needed to implement this important and extremely fruitful research approach. As early career investigators use this mode of collaborative inquiry in the service of society, an exciting and entirely new capacity for ethically sound and more rigorous and consequential science can be built. An indispensable resource that will be of great interest to researchers from a wide array of disciplines, the Community-Based Participatory Research for Improved Mental Healthcare is a major addition to the literature and certain to become the gold standard reference in the field.

This article documents our collaborative ongoing struggle to disrupt the reproduction of the coloniality of knowledge in the teaching of Gender Studies. We document how our decolonial feminist activism is actualised in our pedagogy, which is guided by feminist interpretations of 'wonder' (Irigaray, 1999; Ahmed, 2004; hooks, 2010) read alongside decolonial theory, including that of Ramón Grosfoguel, Walter D. Mignolo and María Lugones. Using notions of wonder as pedagogy, we attempt to create spaces in our classrooms where critical self-reflection and critical intellectual and embodied engagement can emerge. Our attempts to create these spaces include multiple aspects or threads that, when woven together, might enable other ways of knowing-being-doing that works towards disrupting feminist complicity with coloniality in the Australian context.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I: Advancing Professional Calling and the Culture of Wellbeing in Medicine -- Chapter 1: Calling, Compassionate Self, and Cultural Norms in Medicine -- Medical Cultural Norms -- Deferring Personal Needs to Serve Others -- Shaming Intolerance of Error -- Compassion in Addressing Personal Well-Being and Health-Care Quality Improvement -- Compassion in Addressing Personal Wellbeing -- Compassion in Health-Care Quality Improvement -- References -- Chapter 2: Creating a Culture of Wellness -- Barriers to a Culture of Wellness Common in Medical Training and Practice -- Belief that Deferring Self-Care Equals Dedication to Patients -- Belief that Shaming and Punishment in Response to Errors Promote Safety in Health Care -- Stigma Suggesting that Physicians Who Seek Mental Health Help Are Less Fit for Duty -- Promoting Specific Culture of Wellness Factors for Physician WellBeing -- Psychological Safety -- Inclusive Leadership Style -- Leadership Support -- Values Alignment -- Appreciation and Gratitude -- Fairness/Equity -- Flexibility and Work-Life Integration -- Peer Support -- Community/Collegiality -- Conclusion -- A Culture of Wellness Is Achievable -- References -- Chapter 3: Compassion Cultivation -- Introduction -- How Is Compassion Cultivated -- Compassion Training Programs -- Cognitively-Based Compassion Training -- Compassion Cultivation Training -- Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) -- Being with Dying (BWD) -- Brief Compassion Training for Physician Well-Being: A Case Study in Program Design -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Recognizing Threats to Physician Wellbeing -- Chapter 4: Mistreatment -- Introduction -- History and Prevalence -- Types of Mistreatment -- Sources of Mistreatment -- The Interplay of Wellness and Mistreatment -- Impact on Learners -- Impact on Mistreater -- Solutions.