Books

Making Contact: Promoting Social Interaction for Individuals with Communicative Impairments
Edited by Suzanne Zeedyk
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
All humans have an innate need and ability to communicate with others and this book presents successful approaches to nurturing communicative abilities in people who have some type of communication impairment

Edited by Dr Suzanne Zeddyk the book looks at a wide range of approaches including Intensive Interaction, Co-creative Communication, Sensory Integration and Music Therapy for a variety of impairments including autism, profound learning disabilities, deaf blindness, severe early neglect and dementia.

This wide perspective provides insight into what it feels like to struggle with a communicative impairment and how those who work with and care about such individuals can and should think more creatively about how to make contact with them.

Covering both the theory and practical implementation of different interventions this book will be invaluable for health and social work professionals, psychologists, psychotherapists, counsellors, speech and language therapists as well as researchers, teachers and students in these fields.

Dr Suzanne Zeedyk is a Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology within the College of Arts and Social Sciences.

Gilles Deleuze's Logic of Sense: A Critical Introduction and Guide
James Williams
Edinburgh University Press
This book offers the first critical study of The Logic of Sense, Gilles Deleuze's most important work on language and ethics, as well as the main source for his vital philosophy of the event.

Deleuze's philosophy has always promised a revolution in ethical theories and in our understanding of the relation between language, thought and action. This book develops a critical reading of Deleuze's work in order to convey the potential and risks of his new approaches to questions of how to live an intense life in response to the excitement and danger of events.

This interpretation covers all aspects of Deleuze's book, including engagements with phenomenology, with analytic philosophy of language, with stoicism, with literary theory and with psychoanalysis.

Its aim is to open new debates and develop current ones around Deleuze's work in philosophy, politics, literature, linguistics and sociology.

Professor James Williams is Professor of European Philosophy in the School of Humanities. He is the author of numerous books including Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: A Critical Reader and Guide and Lyotard: Thinking the Political.