Not exact matches
They point to other destructive aspects
of television that have been stressed by television researchers and theorists; the privatization
of experience at the expense
of family and social interaction and rela - tionships; (33) the promotion
of fear as the appropriate attitude to life: (34) television's cultural levelling effects which blur local, regional, and national differences and impose a distorted and primarily free - enterprise, competitive and capitalistic picture
of events and their significance; (35) television's suppression
of social dialogue; (36) its distorted and exploitative presentation
of certain social groups: (37) the increasing
alienation felt by most viewers in relation to this central means
of social communication; (38) and its negative effects
on the development
of the full range
of human potential.
The first half hour is an excellent, deadpan comedy
of alienation that
feels like a 21st century riff
on THE GRADUATE; momentum slowly fades away as the script yields originality to the conventions
of the romantic comedy genre.
Cults pray
on those
of us who suffer from excessive
feelings of disconnection and
alienation.
It's not like I travelled
on a ship here or anything, but the very real
feelings of homesickness and sudden
alienation upon returning home hit very close to real life.
Blind for significantly longer — 20 years, brought
on by an abusive mother — the feisty heroine
of Michael Apted's under - appreciated Blink (1993), Emma Brody (Madeleine Stowe), may be more connected to the outside world than Susy and Sarah but her loneliness and
alienation from living in perpetual darkness make her existence
feel just as contained.
Disregarding its overly explanatory director's cut, Richard Kelly's debut is less
of a straight science - fiction film than a metaphysical meditation
on teenage
alienation,
on that
feeling like neither you nor anything you do matters.
There's a lot
of issues with
Alienation, but I
feel like I'm unfairly piling them
on.
Featuring: Amna Asghar, Dana Davenport, Umber Majeed, Tammy Nguyen, Ke Peng, Sahana Ramakrishnan, Sheida Soleimani Amna Asghar speaks
on the construction and translation
of disparate references, cultures, geographies, and generations from Pakistan and America; Dana Davenport addresses the complexity
of interminority racism within her own community and institutions from her experiences as a Black Korean American; Umber Majeed's practice attempts to unpack the temporalities within South Asia as site, familial archival material, popular culture, and modern national state narratives; Tammy Nguyen interrogates natural sciences and non-human forms to explore racial intimacies and US military involvement in the Pacific Rim; Ke Peng documents the
feeling of alienation and disorientation from urbanization and immigration by taking a journey into an imagined childhood in China, Hunan, where she was born and Shenzhen, a modern city where her family relocates to; Sahana Ramakrishan explores myths and religion from Buddhist and Hindu tales to speak upon the magic
of childhood and the power dynamics
of sexuality, race, and violence; Sheida Soleimani is an Iranian - American artist and a daughter
of political refugees, making work to highlight her critical perspective
on the historical and contemporary socio - political occurrences in Iran.
The pain
felt by rejected parents is acute, these cases evoke a great deal
of empathy
on the part
of counsel and it is extraordinarily difficult to suppress one's natural urge to rail against the evil and injustice
of alienation.
This
feeling of alienation can also bring
on other
feelings.
At this point I did not
feel the need to elaborate
on the fact that Anthony Douglas, Chief Executive
of Cafcass recognises parental
alienation, but that his actual Cafcass practitioners do not.
Therefore, instead
of seeing this resistance to the «all - bad» parent as intentional parental
alienation or abuse which justifies a child
feeling estranged from a parent, the driving force appears to be much more
of an unconscious outgrowth
of insecure or disorganized attachments which the child is trying to resolve based
on the most fundamental biological drives for survival.
Its really hard to discuss this anywhere without hearing «Oh your just trying to turn him against his mother» I know that happens alot and i know men and women are both guilty
of it but in fact i had never heard
of the term «parental
alienation syndrome» until a couple days ago, i was actually starting to think based
on everyones reaction when i brought up my
feelings that it was all in my head and even my son told me i was dillusional right before he stopped talking to me and cut all contact.His mother moved him away to another state when he was 4 basically without more than a few days noticed after i had relocated closer to him to spend more time together, there was no history
of abuse and i was paying support so that was a red flag anyway but hes 29 now and i
feel like ive pretty much lost him forever.im in another location i moved to be able to see him more after my parents died in 2008 (about a month apart) but that has turned into a disaster since he no longer wants contact.He has a half brother here by myself and my present wife but my youngest son is mentally disabled and unable to take care
of himself, myself and my 2 sons are all that is left
of my family i have no other relatives anymore and i
feel horrible for anyone else who has to go through this.
Parental separation may also expose children to loss
of social, economic and human capital.4, 14 Other explanatory factors may derive from characteristics typical
of separating parents such as lower relationship satisfaction and higher conflict levels also before the separation.4 The rising numbers
of children with JPC have concerned child clinicians as well as researchers
on the subject.20, 21 Child experts have worried about children's potential
feelings of alienation from living in two separate worlds, 20 — 22 increased exposure to parental conflict12, 22 and other stressors that JPC may impose
on a child.22 Such daily stressors may be long distances to school, friends and leisure activities, lack
of stability in parenting and home environment and a need to adjust to the demands
of two different family lives.12, 22 The logistics
of travelling between their homes and keeping in contact with friends has been stated as a drawback
of JPC in interview studies with children.23 — 25 Older adolescents, in particular, indicated that they preferred to be in one place.23