This article focuses on the novel Les villes assassines ( 2011 ) by Martinican writer Alfred Alexandre that shows his decolonial and critical vision of politics indirectly established from France overseas territories. The author paints a topography misery where mafia, drugs prostitution reign, showing mechanisms control subjection popular minorities, belonging to «urban mangrove», whose only wa...

Evidence is presented supporting a dimension of defensive reactivity that varies across the anxiety disorder spectrum and is defined by physiological responses during threat-imagery challenges that covary with objective measures of psychopathology. Previous imagery studies of anxiety disorders are reviewed, highlighting that, regardless of contemporary diagnostic convention, reliable psychophys...