Multidisciplinary perspectives on the psychology of exclusion : from rejection to personal and social harmony / Agnieszka Wilczynska.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilczynska, Agnieszka, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marginality, Social.

Youth--Psychology.

Youth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 264 pages) : illustrations (black and white

Place of Publication:

Abingdon : Routedge, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part I Understanding social exclusion p. 1

What do people crave most? p. 5

Social rejection and social exclusion p. 6

Where does exclusion come from? p. 8

The power of group dynamic processes p. 8

The case of Mark p. 9

2 The roots of social exclusion: a disliked topic p. 12

Why do Homo sapiens exclude others? p. 14

The brain, the heart and the mind p. 18

Identifying our hidden minds p. 19

3 Psychosocial issues of social exclusion: special psychological phenomena in our societies p. 23

The model of situational awareness p. 24

Stigmatisation and the systemic bearing of stigma p. 26

Modern increases in the rates of depression and attempted suicides p. 28

Changing the perspective on depression p. 31

Self-exclusion 2020 and the pandemic of fear p. 31

Loneliness versus aloneness p. 33

Masculinity, femininity, partnership and marriage p. 36

Binge-watching; belonging to virtual reality p. 39

4 The experience and impact of exclusion p. 43

Separation from emotion p. 44

The psychophysiological experience of the pain of exclusion p. 46

Reduction of prosocial behaviours p. 47

Self-destructive and aggressive behaviours p. 48

Fear of loneliness in the future p. 51

Mental and physical desensitisation processes p. 52

Decreased experience of pain p. 53

The sensation of physical cold p. 54

Part II Experiences of exclusion p. 57

5 How young people cope with stress p. 59

Stress and strain versus coping p. 59

Growing up as discovering oneself among others p. 62

Analysis of stress behaviours p. 64

Functions of coping with social exclusion p. 66

What do adolescents get stressed about? p. 66

Adolescents' ways of coping with the stress of exclusion p. 68

Strategies of positive change p. 72

6 Teenagers at risk of social exclusion p. 74

The aim and the implementation of the research project p. 76

The nature of the studied variables p. 77

The risk of social exclusion p. 78

The need to belong p. 79

The sense of belonging p. 79

Experiential and strategic emotional intelligence p. 80

Mood and positive emotions p. 81

Self-esteem p. 82

Anger expression p. 83

Coping in difficult and stressful situations p. 84

Description of our study of Polish youths p. 84

Psychological tools p. 85

Research design and statistical procedures p. 88

Results uncover four different youth groups p. 89

The socially included: the feeling of relevance and belonging p. 90

The invisible kids p. 92

The rejected, frozen and needy p. 97

The unneedy loiterers p. 101

7 The orphan: notes from a psychodynamic therapy p. 105

Consultation p. 106

Collecting data p. 107

Identifying the focal theme p. 110

Establishing the contract in the relationship with the patient p. 112

Therapy in the context of transference phenomena p. 113

The course versus the assumptions of therapy p. 115

Understanding and diagnosing the patient p. 117

Part III Multidisciplinary perspectives on exclusion p. 121

8 Transgenerational trauma, trust and emotional exclusion p. 123

What is in our genes and ancestral memory? p. 124

Learning to exclude others p. 125

'Inheriting' the experience of exclusion from our ancestors p. 126

Inheriting trauma p. 127

Reaching beyond the 'imprinted' information p. 128

Code of upbringing p. 128

9 Attachment and exclusion: can a wounded attachment be salvaged? p. 131

Painful childhood experiences: attachment and trauma p. 132

Dissociation as an effect of a childhood trauma p. 133

Attachment and the experience of exclusion: what is attachment? p. 134

Avoidant attachment and the sense of exclusion p. 136

Anxious attachment and an ongoing threat of losing relationships p. 138

Disorganised attachment: 'I don't know who I am and I don't know who I am not' p. 139

10 Non-attachment factors in the forming of relationships: the new generation and the old influences p. 141

Intergenerational transmission of trauma p. 143

The baggage of the collective unconscious p. 145

How to recognise the mind in the body p. 146

Microkinesitherapy: maps of experiences in the body p. 146

11 Biopsychosocial factors: biochemical processes, the mind and the body p. 148

Components of the mind p. 151

Understanding the significance of fatty acids in our lives p. 153

The phospholipids concept and the role of the red blood cells p. 154

12 The mind in the body or the body in the mind: where is the mind located? p. 157

Separate brains and the shared mind p. 159

Darwin or Lamarck? p. 161

The genius of phospholipids and the location of the mind p. 162

What are those mysterious phospholipids? p. 164

Our mind is being recorded in biological matrices p. 165

From Columbus to Copernicus p. 166

Fatty acids versus speech and thinking p. 168

Part IV Building belonging p. 171

13 Building self-belonging in schools: work with teachers p. 173

School as a friendly place to build the sense of belonging p. 174

14 Prevention and self-soothing: self-compassion and mindfulness for psychological well-being p. 177

A compassion-focused approach p. 178

Belonging as a resource and as a process p. 179

Kindness to oneself as a member of a collective p. 182

Recognising one's own system of emotions and behavioural responses p. 184

The threat and protection system p. 184

The drive and achievement system p. 186

The soothing and commitment system p. 186

15 Working therapeutically with socially excluded adolescents: a case study p. 189

The therapeutic facility-based study p. 190

The studied variables p. 191

The unexpected results of the experiment p. 192

The ideas behind the hedonistic interventions p. 195

The aims of the eudaimonic interventions p. 198

Conclusions and recommendations from our research on the development of the sense of belonging in adolescents p. 201

16 Positive individual human development: adults, experience, role and responsibilities p. 205

Spiral human development p. 205

Healing old wounds p. 206

When child and mother are one p. 208

Why a loving dad must be around p. 209

The model of maleness p. 211

At home: how children learn from adults p. 212

Am I worth as much as I matter to my friends? p. 213

For what reasons does the group exclude some kids? p. 214

Maturity and building one's own life p. 215

Why may our ancestors' approach to femininity and masculinity help? p. 216

Is our sense of exclusion imprinted? p. 218

17 Recognising memories, emotions, feelings and thinking: transformation and thriving p. 221

Restructuring of defence mechanisms: changes in Boolean gates in the heart p. 223

Reorganisation: how the mind organises behaviour change p. 226

Self-awareness and readiness for thriving p. 228

Personal and social harmony p. 229

A brighter psychology for tomorrow p. 231

Separation versus community and development p. 233.

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