Masato Tanaka

Oltre 150 concetti e teorie dei 96 psicologi più influenti del pensiero occidentale tradotti in immagini vivide e innovative, per rendere le complesse trame della psiche comprensibili a tutti. Dalla teoria delle tre parti dell'anima di Platone all'inconscio di Freud e all'archetipo di Jung, dal condizionamento di Pavlov alla teoria dello sviluppo cognitivo di Piaget, da quella dell'attaccamento di Bowlby al test di Rorschach, fino alle ultimissime scoperte in ambito psicologico, un volume da leggere, regalare, sfogliare e studiare per scoprire finalmente i segreti della mente. Nascita della psicologia; Comportamentismo; Psicologia della Gestalt; Psicoanalisi; Psicologia clinica; Cognitivismo; Psicologia dello sviluppo; Psicologia delle relazioni; Psicologia sociale; Psicologia della personalità.

I think enough time has passed now that we can all admit that the 1980's were basically a bad idea, but the Decade Of Excess did manage to produce some great cultural relics (deliberately or not). A new one for my list is SUKEBAN DEKA. Originally a Manga and then a TV show, and finally a movie in 1985, SUKEBAN DEKA is the story of a special (and secret) branch of the police which employs Japanese schoolgirls to fight crime… with yoyos! The reasons for this are presumably explained somewhere, but the audience of this film is assumed to be familiar with the history. The main star of the film is apparently the actress from the first series, but to fight a particularly villainous megalomaniac high school principal she has to enlist the help of two other Sukeban Dekas and her buddy Marble Girl! The plot is quite entertaining, with a high school for delinquents on a Japanese island that's secretly training the pupils to be obedient soldiers - vague shades of BATTLE ROYALE - and our gang of teenagers basically on a mission to stop them, and kick their asses. The weapon of choice for a Sukeban Deka is a yoyo made out of a super-dense compound so that it deals unfeasible amounts of damage to whatever they swing it at - how cool is that? Cool enough for Quentin Tarantino to rip it off for Go-Go Yubari in KILL BILL, at least ;-) The film is quite violent, very melodramatic and cheesier than Switzerland - which makes for great fun viewing… in a 1980's sorta way :) Recommended!