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1. Why Things Matter

   The Place of Values in Science, Psychoanalysis and Religion

   By David M. Black

   In this book, David M. Black asks questions such as 'why do we care?' and 'what gives our values power?' using ideas from psychoanalysis and its adjacent sciences such as neuroscience and evolutionary biology in order to do so. Why Things Matter explores how the comparatively new scientific...

   Published April 5th 2011 by Routledge
2. Psychoanalysis and Religion in the 21st Century

   Competitors or Collaborators?

   Edited by David M. Black

   Series: The New Library of Psychoanalysis

   What can be gained from a dialogue between psychoanalysis and religion? Freud described religion as the universal obsessional neurosis, and uncompromisingly rejected it in favour of "science." Ever since, there has been the assumption that psychoanalysts are hostile to religion. Yet, from the...

   Published March 29th 2006 by Routledge
3. Peake's Commentary on the Bible

   Edited by M. Black, H.H. Rowley

   Now available in paperback, this classic commentary, drawing on the expertise of over sixty scholars, gives students of the Bible a thorough grounding in the origin and meaning of all the books of the Bible.Special attention is given to how the teaching of Scripture has been affected by archaeology...

   Published June 27th 2001 by Routledge
4. Children's Informal Ideas in Science

   Edited by P. J. Black, A. M. Lucas

   The ideas that children have about science concepts have for the past decade been the subject of a wealth of international research. But while the area has been strong in terms of data, it has suffered from a lack of theory. Children's Informal Ideas in Science addresses the question of whether...

   Published July 21st 1993 by Routledge
5. Advocacy and Empowerment

   Mental Health Care in the Community

   By Bruce L. Black, Stephen M. Rose

   Relevant and thought-provoking, describes a new and imaginative approach to the needs of de-institutionalised people returning to care in the community. It shows that there is a challenging but dynamic contribution to be made by all community mental health workers in restoring dignity to the lives...

   Published November 6th 1985 by Routledge