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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Aporiae of Meaning -- 1 The Origins of Totalitarianism-477 Pages Wrong -- 2 Bare Life and the End of History -- 3 Thinking History through Time -- 4 The Science of History as Ideology -- 5 Performative Self -- 6 The Temporal Conflicts of the Mind -- 7 The Contingency and Decline of History -- 8 The Beauty of the Past -- 9 Redemption of Contingency -- 10 Pieces of the Past -- Conclusion: In Praise of Inconsistency -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Central Europe is a vague and ambiguous term, more to do with outlook and a state of mind than with a firmly defined geographical region. In the immediate aftermath of the collapse of the Iron Curtain, Central Europeansconsideredthemselvesto beculturally part of the West, which had been politically handicapped by the Eastern Soviet bloc. More recently, and with European Union membership, Central Europeans are increasingly thinking of themselves as politically part of the West, but culturally part of the East. This book, with contributions from a large number of scholars from the region, explores the concept of Central Europe and a number of other political concepts from an openly Central European perspective. It considers a wide range of issues including politics, nationalism, democracy, and the impact of culture, art and history. Overall, the book casts a great deal of light on the complex nature of Central Europe.

The Polish Chamber of Physicians and Dentists (Naczelna Izba Lekarska) and the regional chambers of physicians and dentists (Okręgowe Izby Lekarskie) are the organisational bodies of the professional self-government of physicians and dentists in Poland. They are responsible for supervising the proper and conscientious exercise of the medical professions, determining the principles of professional ethics and deontology, and representing and protecting the medical professions. The history of Polish medical self-government dates back to the end of the nineteenth century. The development of the chambers was stopped in 1950 by the communist regime when the authorities decided to dissolve them. This article, which is partly based on unpublished sources, presents the efforts of Polish doctors to regain their professional self-government. It shows how these efforts were linked to the democratisation processes of Poland in 1989.

Abstract: Aim: The article presents the basic tenants of dialectical phenomenological psychopathology (DPP) of temporal experience in substance-related disorders. Results: DPP examines the conditions of possibility of lived experiences. It goes beyond mere qualitative descriptions of subjective psychological states to identify their pre-reflective structures. The modifications of these structures are considered essential to mental disorders, including additions. The paper argues that the phenomenon of addiction arises when there is a failure of the dynamic process of temporal balances and imbalances between the dimensions of lived past, present, and future. In such an altered state, the present pathologically dominates over past and future. Personal history and future consequences of intoxicated behaviour are disregarded. The future in particular loses its 'normal' characteristic of a probable horizon of present experience and becomes 'actualized' as present continuous. At the same time, a part of the future 'dissociates' from the present objective situation and becomes improbable. To substantiate these claims, the article presents four case vignettes of clients suffering from such pathological entanglement of temporal dimensions. Conclusions: DPP may be seen as an invaluable approach to examine the dialectical structure of human experience. As such, it constitutes a promising paradigm for the 21st century person-centered psychiatry.

AbstractThe goal of this paper is to introduce Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences' thematic issue on disordered temporalities. The authors begin by discussing the main reason for the neglect of temporal experience in present-day psychiatric nosologies, mainly, its reduction to clock time. Methodological challenges facing research on temporal experience include addressing the felt sense of time, its structure, and its pre-reflective aspects in the life-world setting. In the second part, the paper covers the contributions to the thematic issue concerning temporal experience in anxiety, depression, mania, addiction, post-traumatic stress disorder, autism, and in recovery from psychosis. The authors argue in favor of integrative and cross-disciplinary approaches. In conclusion, they present time as a significant aspect of human suffering.