The brief introduction ponders and speculates about the reasons that the evolutionary perspective, which has made significant advances in many subfields of psychology, has not made a similar progress in developmental psychology. It highlights some of the crucial differences between developmental psychology and evolutionary psychology. The introduction then concludes by briefly introducing and highlighting the individual contributions to the volume.

This introductory chapter discusses how archaeologists have studied and represented pastoralism, often in ways that parallel the tropes that the film Grass introduced. Despite decades of work and varied approaches associated with different theoretical traditions, archaeologists largely have not written histories of pastoralism that address continuity and change. The archaeology of pastoralism faces four longstanding problems that contribute to an ongoing tendency to see pastoralists as changeless: (1) conceptual conflation, (2) misuse of ethnographic analogy, (3) a paucity of direct data, and (4) separate regional traditions of research.

Sir Thomas More’s Utopia provides an occasion to delve into how fiscal policy and administrative activity constitute forms of worldmaking. This chapter argues that More’s Utopia places the challenges of defining and funding security at the center of its project, both in Book One’s critique of contemporary rule and in Book Two’s thought experiment about how to govern security. Utopia, as an alternative to contemporary Europe, can be seen as an attempt to resolve the fiscal security dilemmas besetting European governments by eliminating private property and money. The presence of other polities, though, complicates the effort to imagine a world in which security is distributed equitably, a world without fiscal conflict or the violence that monarchical wealth enables. Utopia thus provides both a powerful diagnosis of the shortcomings of contemporary governmental practice and a meditation on the limits of the ability to govern security.

The chapter examines global risks that are exceedingly complex and characterized by the long time horizons entailed in their governance. It argues that the dynamics of climate change, biodiversity loss, pandemics, and other system-spanning challenges are now forcing pragmatists and skeptics alike to push their thinking beyond the kinds of experiments in risk governance discussed in previous chapters. They suggest the need for profound socioeconomic transformation, eventually forcing deep structural political change at the system level. Complex and slow-moving crises with transnational dimensions will not be managed successfully by nation-states assigning priority to their own autonomy. The essential question comes back to the fore. Might the “insuring instinct” today be harnessed in zones that stretch the limits of risk calculation quickly enough to sustain more ambitious forms of collaborative governance? More specifically, can existing political authorities in vital and inherently complex policy arenas effectively deploy insurance narratives to move beyond voluntary and reversible intergovernmental arrangements without provoking self-defeating backlashes? The chapter reviews current analyses of key cases where private insurance reach their limits, but insurance metaphors promise to be politically useful.

Chapter 2 examines, often through the eyes and voices of aspirant learners, the varied paths that adults and children from a range of social classes took to learn stringed instruments, and the nature of the instruction they obtained. Through discussion of the violin trade, it addresses the affordability of instruments and accessories, arguing also that commerce powered the spread of violin culture geographically by creating a functional infrastructure. The chapter’s major concern is with the role of inexpensive group instruction in widening participation among the working classes through opportunities for learning in adult-education institutes in major cities, and in elementary schools, where the commercial “Maidstone” teaching program reached remarkable numbers of children. It highlights the persistence of Victorian values in these projects and reveals that group instruction subsequently became embedded nationally in many lower-profile string-teaching initiatives run by private teachers or as small academies. It further posits that the Maidstone movement had an impact on the subsequent development of classical-music audiences in Britain.

In her chapter, Heather Laird examines twenty-first century commemorations, such as the bicentennial of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and the centennial of the Easter Rising of 1916. From the time of the peak era of Revival to the present, a vision of Ireland has emerged that values tradition but that also reckons with the failures of tradition to govern modern lives. The statues and exhibitions that arose in preparation for these celebrations are the visible signs of the very future envisioned in 1798 and 1916. Laird’s examination of twenty-first century commemorations of the Dublin Lockout of 1913 and the commemoration of it in 2013 suggests that revivalism resists this idea of cultural salvage and actively serves a world to come. She discusses two 2013 commemoration projects, Living the Lockout and the 1913 Lockout Tapestry, latter-day manifestations of a persistent revivalist impulse to make the past productive of the future.

Chapter 5 augments existing scholarship on the music profession by providing a wide-ranging discussion of what piecing together a freelance living as a string player entailed, decentering the success stories of high-profile violinists to examine the unglamorous, often mundane, work that most string players undertook. The chapter develops two interrelated themes. One concerns string players’ expectations and strategies for finding employment and achieving stable earnings in an overcrowded market, including the practice of “double jobbing.” The other considers how the new women players negotiated the social, economic, and institutional constraints of the patriarchal workplace and its gatekeepers. The chapter also illuminates how the job market changed and diversified in response to the new mass entertainment, retail, and catering industries, and highlights the commercial benefits that ensued from attracting consumers with live music, especially string sounds. These openings in turn brought violin culture into public earshot, raising awareness of its ubiquity.

The chapter will help you to be able to explain the structure of CBT as a whole, including the purpose of each stage of therapy, effectively structure a treatment session of CBT, so as to ensure the best possible experience for patients, and develop a strong therapeutic alliance with this process, based on active collaboration and genuine empathy, warmth and unconditional positive regard

The overview of the book’s argument provides a framework for understanding the relationship between fiscal policy, sovereignty, and Renaissance English literature. It examines the challenges of sovereign authority in the period, especially the fiscal responsibilities of rulers and the potential for political instability due to taxation. The chapter draws parallels between historical and contemporary debates on taxation, emphasizing fiscal policy’s role in shaping collective security and wellbeing. It delves into the complexities of funding sovereignty in early modern England, highlighting the tension between necessary taxation and perceived fiscal aggression. The chapter introduces the idea of a "fiscal security dilemma," in which efforts to ensure security through taxation can paradoxically create insecurity and concludes with an overview of the book’s chapters and the variety of ways literary writers engaged with the struggle over fiscal policy as central to defining political community and governance in Renaissance England.

This chapter presents a comprehensive workflow for applying network machine learning to functional MRI connectomes. We demonstrate data preprocessing, edge weight transformations, and spectral embedding techniques to analyze multiple brain networks simultaneously. Using multiple adjacency spectral embedding (MASE) and unsupervised clustering, we identify functionally similar brain regions across subjects. Results are visualized through abstract representations and brain-space projections, and compared with established brain parcellations. Our findings reveal that MASE-derived communities often align with known functional and spatial organization of the brain, particularly in occipital and parietal areas, while also identifying regions where functional similarity doesn’t imply spatial proximity. We illustrate how network machine learning can uncover meaningful patterns in complex neuroimaging data, emphasizing the importance of combining algorithmic approaches with domain expertise to motivate the remainder of the book.

Chapter 31 covers the topic of borderline personality disorder. Through a case vignette with topical MCQs for consolidation of learning, readers go through the management of a patient with borderline personality disorder from from first presentation to subsequent complications of the condition and its treatment. Topics covered include symptoms and diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, risk factors, co-morbidities, non-pharmacological management involving different psychotherapies and pharmacolgical management.

Chapter 51 covers the topic of old age psychiatry. Through a case vignette with topical MCQs for consolidation of learning, readers are brought through the management of elderly patients with psychiatric disorders from first presentation to subsequent complications of the conditions and its treatment. Things covered include the general principles of prescribing in elderly patients with psychiatric disorders, the use of covert administration of medications, the use of medications in patients with neurocognitive disorders and variations in the presentation of depression.

Laurence Steinberg, one of Jay Belsky’s oldest friends and someone who has known Belsky longer than virtually anyone else, recounts the history of their friendship and collaboration over half a century.

Chapter 17 covers the topic of pica and rumination disorder. Through a case vignette with topical MCQs for consolidation of learning, readers are brought through the diagnosis and treatment of a patient with pica and rumination disorder. topics covered inlcude diagnosis and co-morbidities of pica and the diagnosis of rumination disorder.

Question 1: Martin recently got into a car accident three weeks back. He comes into the psychiatric clinic for difficulties in sleeping and recurrent nightmares, with themes surrounding the car accident. He gets frequent flashbacks of the car accident when getting into the driver’s seat. This results in difficulties in driving, and he has avoided driving since. What is the most likely diagnosis?