In the last30 years, new technology, fashion, and social set-ups have spawned new cliches galore. Everything on the internet is available at the "click of a mouse," TV hosts ask the audience to "give it up" when they want them to applaud, call centerssay "we value your call" even though "all our operators are busy." And if someone "gobsmacked" by all this they may be told to "get a life," "chill out," or "whatever."This collectionsifts through all aspects of modern life to find the most prevalent, ubiquitous, and downright irritating cliches of our age."
In the last30 years, new technology, fashion, and social set-ups have spawned new cliches galore. Everything on the internet is available at the "clic...
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World War II brought together a group of psychiatrists and clinical and social psychologists in the British Army where they developed radical, action-oriented innovations in social psychiatry. They became known as the "Tavistock Group" since the core members had been at the pre-war Tavistock Clinic. They created the post-war Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and expanded on their wartime achievements by pioneering a new mode of relating theory and practice, called in these volumes, "The Social Engagement of Social Science." There are three perspectives: the socio-psychological, the...
World War II brought together a group of psychiatrists and clinical and social psychologists in the British Army where they developed radical, action-...
World War II brought together a group of psychiatrists and clinical and social psychologists in the British Army where they developed radical, action-oriented innovations in social psychiatry. They became known as the "Tavistock Group" since the core members had been at the pre-war Tavistock Clinic. They created the post-war Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and expanded on their wartime achievements by pioneering a new mode of relating theory and practice, called in these volumes, "The Social Engagement of Social Science." There are three perspectives: the socio-psychological, the...
World War II brought together a group of psychiatrists and clinical and social psychologists in the British Army where they developed radical, action-...