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2. Relational Self Psychology: Could There Be Any Other Kind? A Discussion of Magid, Fosshage & Shane's Paper, The Emerging Paradigm of Relational Self Psychology: A Historical Perspective.
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Guss Teicholz, Judy
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SELF , *PSYCHOLOGICAL literature , *PSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
In this paper I discuss Magid, Fosshage and Shane's impressive overview of the contributions to Relational Self Psychology in the psychoanalytic literature, contributions they see as having emerged for the most part after Kohut's death and therefore as having been carried out almost entirely by Kohut's followers. But while the authors see Kohut's work as having hewed closely to a one-person psychology, I use my discussion to highlight what I see as the two-person themes in Kohut's own writings, suggesting that he may have been more relational in his thinking than initially meets the eye. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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3. Self Psychology in a Pluralistic World: A Position Paper.
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Gossmann, Martin
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PSYCHOLOGY , *SELF , *PSYCHOTHERAPY , *NARCISSISTIC personality disorder , *STRAINS & stresses (Mechanics) , *NARCISSISM - Abstract
In this article the author outlines his understanding of self-psychology as an independent psychoanalytic treatment paradigm created by the late Heinz Kohut and initially geared toward the psychoanalytic treatment of narcissistic disorders. Since then, self-psychology theory and practice have been enriched by new theoretical and clinical considerations and have been introduced into other forms of psychotherapy, counseling, and education, for example. One important conceptual contribution to developmental theory was Heinz Kohut's differentiation of separate narcissistic and "object love" related developmental tasks. Today, new paradigms as i.e. relational analysis stress the value of human relationships and of the value of mutual recognition. This warrants a revisiting of the clinical value of the self-psychological understanding of narcissism. According to the author it lies in the nature of unattended narcissistic needs that when unattended they take primacy over relational aspects and demand adequate attention in order to open up the space for mutuality, reciprocity et cetera. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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4. A Discussion of Darren Haber's Paper: Through The Lens of Intersubjective Self Psychology.
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Paul, Harry
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PSYCHOLOGY , *TREATMENT of addictions , *SELF , *PSYCHOTHERAPY , *INTERSUBJECTIVITY - Abstract
Two principal resources will be used to discuss Darren Haber's paper Simulated Selfhood, Authentic Dialogue: An Intersubjective Systems Look at Treating Addiction. They are Intersubjective Self Psychology: A Primer and Narcissus in Wonderland: The Self Psychology of Addiction and its Treatment. Both of these resources provide a different and more complete way of understanding this excellent case presentation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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5. Memory and the Jungian Unconscious in J. G. Ballard's Autobiographical Narratives.
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Hart, Kevin
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PSYCHOLOGY , *KINDNESS - Abstract
This paper offers a comparative analysis of J. G. Ballard's Empire of the Sun, The Kindness of Women, and Miracles of Life in their engagements with the psychological theory of Carl Jung. The first half of the paper explores Jung's suggestions that psychology is to some extent ethnically determined and Eastern and Western consciousness in many ways antonymous. Challenging this view, Empire resists essentialist notions of psychology which argue that the individual psyche is in part separate from the social environment in which it forms. In Empire individual psychology changes with changing power relations and is unable to escape imperialist systems of thought. In this manner, the novel resists national and ethnic categories for the understanding of human psychology, and instead turns its focus to the effect of political structures on mental activity and self-conception. Turning from Empire to Kindness and Miracles, the second part of the paper reads Ballard's broader fictional and nonfictional autobiographies for their representation of memory as a radically constructive function of mind. In this manner, Ballard's autobiographical projects foreground the slippage between fact and fiction in the process of remembering, and challenge the conception of mind as an inelastic or deterministic structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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6. Theory of planned behavior and value-belief norm theory as antecedents of pro-environmental behaviour: Evidence from the local community.
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Batool, Nusrat, Wani, Mehraj Din, Shah, Shamim Ahmad, and Dada, Zubair Ahmad
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ENVIRONMENTAL health , *POLICY sciences , *RESIDENTIAL patterns , *STRUCTURAL equation modeling , *SOCIAL theory , *PSYCHOLOGY , *HEALTH behavior , *THEORY , *FACTOR analysis - Abstract
Native residents are indispensable participants in developing and conserving the natural environment. Specifying the factors that lead to responsible behavior among the local people can help increase sustainability. This paper aims to investigate the pro-environmental behavior among the local residents of the Kashmir region defined by the components of Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and Value Belief Norm (VBN) Theory. To analyze the data, Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) has been used as research methods. The results reveal that the three components of TPB (general environmental attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavior control) have a positive and significant impact on the pro-environmental behavior of residents. Moreover, the findings also demonstrate that the factors of VBN (altruistic, egoistic and biospheric values) significantly influence the general environmental attitude which in turn impacts the pro-environmental behavior of local residents. The paper seeks to contribute to the existing literature by adding local community insights based on the explanations given by socio-psychological theories within the context of natural environment. The study will help policymakers to understand better the residents' intentions and pro-environmental behavior so that they can develop strategies to manage and combat the environmental problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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7. Positive organisational psychology 2.0: Embracing the technological revolution.
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van Zyl, Llewellyn E., Dik, Bryan J., Donaldson, Stewart I., Klibert, Jeff J., di Blasi, Zelda, van Wingerden, Jessica, and Salanova, Marisa
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CORPORATE culture , *MEDICAL technology , *DIFFUSION of innovations , *GROUP dynamics , *PSYCHOLOGY , *WELL-being - Abstract
Positive Organisational Psychology (POP) has experienced significant growth in the past two decades, contributing to our understanding of work-related well-being and performance. However, the discipline is now on the cusp of a new wave of research and innovation that may reshape its discourse. This paper introduces the concept of 'Positive Organisational Psychology 2.0' (POP 2.0) as an evidence-based, data-driven field that utilizes technological advancements and human-centred design to understand and enhance positive characteristics of individuals, organisations, and society for optimal psychological functioning, wellbeing, and performance. The paper begins with an overview of POP's emergence, highlighting its key characteristics and exploring the factors behind its rapid growth and declining relevance. We then conceptualize POP 2.0, outline its defining features, and advocate for a broader scope, expanded focal audience, enhanced methodologies, and transformative role shifts for practitioners. We conclude by outlining opportunities, challenges and perspectives for the next wave of innovative research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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8. Critical posthumanisms, postqualitative inquiry, and conventional qualitative research: some interrogations and contemplations on their entangled identities and futurities.
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Camiré, Martin
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Work conducted in the critical posthumanisms and postqualitative inquiry (i.e., the posts) has expanded in many fields, including psychology. Despite claims that the posts can help inquirers venture beyond the purported limits of conventional qualitative research (i.e., the conventional), the posts are not absolved of questioning. The present paper experiments with cascade questioning to interrogate what
is with the intent to instigate whatcould be by contemplating the entangled identity politics of the conventional/posts. The paper begins with an introductory anecdote, followed by conjectures on identity and politics. Six interrogations/contemplations are then offered. The first five interrogations/contemplations present key criticisms that have been attributed to the conventional and the posts. The paper subsequently adopts a more conciliatory tone, with the sixth interrogation/contemplation (i.e., envisioning entangled futurities for methodology) positioning the conventional/posts not as antagonists but as always already entangled in their coarticulated becomings. Implications for the human subject and for psychology are offered, followed by concluding thoughts. Ultimately, if the posts are to fulfil their political promise, they must remain nimble and open for debate by constantly challenging the identities they erect and the futurities they create relative to the conventional. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2024
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9. Fear and loathing, love and othering: the legacy of early Oedipal struggles as manifest in racialised dynamics in the consulting room.
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de Rementeria, Alexandra
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FEAR , *CONCEPTUAL models , *SOCIAL justice , *INTERPERSONAL psychotherapy , *GROUP identity , *COUNTERTRANSFERENCE (Psychology) , *ANGER , *SOCIAL alienation , *RACISM , *PSYCHOLOGY , *ATTITUDE (Psychology) , *LOVE , *PSYCHOANALYTIC theory , *CHILD psychology - Abstract
This paper takes as its premise the idea that transferential phenomena emerge out of the endless interactions between the wider social context, including myriad social injustices, and the inter and intra psychic events psychoanalytic therapists are more familiar with thinking about. Freud's was a neuro-psycho-social model of development, with the interrelationship between internal life and social practices carefully mapped in 'Totem and Taboo' (1913) and 'Civilisation and Its Discontents' (S. Freud, 1930). However, what Freud left undone, and is still only nascent in its development, is the work of mapping how this interaction between internal and external, between psycho and social, manifests in the consulting room. Focusing on race, as one aspect of identity that powerfully impacts transferential phenomena, the paper presents accounts of clinical events, one disguised, one fictionalised, to explore the meaning of the author's own Whiteness in this context. Using a Kleinian and post-Kleinian understanding of very early Oedipal struggles, 'Whiteness' is formulated as an anti-developmental merger with the ideal breast. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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10. Discussion of “Emmy Grant: Immigration as Repetition of Trauma and as Potential Space”: Commentary on Paper by Veronica Csillag.
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Tummala-Narra, Pratyusha
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REPETITION (Philosophy) , *EMIGRATION & immigration & psychology , *EMIGRATION & immigration , *LIFE , *GROUP identity , *PSYCHOLOGY ,SOCIAL aspects - Abstract
This commentary is a response to Veronica Csillag’s exploration of the influence of historical and transgenerational trauma on the lives of immigrants, and on the psychoanalytic process (this issue). Dr. Csillag’s paper deepens our understanding of the intrapsychic life of immigrants who have suffered collective trauma pre-migration and continue to suffer from “ghosts” from the past. Her ideas are critical to examining not only the specific traumas incurred in Europe related to the Nazi Holocaust and totalitarian and socialist regimes but also to contemporary traumas related to social identity and position in the United States. In this commentary, I elaborate three primary areas within Dr. Csillag’s contribution: (a) the illusion of choice in traumatic migration, (b) secrecy and privacy, and (c) experience of the outsider and the insider. My discussion underscores the importance of engaging with historical and ongoing trauma in psychoanalytic psychotherapy as a path to healing within individual and collective dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2017
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11. Simply the best? Bridging perfectionism in psychology and girlhood studies.
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Blackburn, Melissa, Molnar, Danielle S., and Zinga, Dawn
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Perfectionism has been a popular topic of interest in psychological research over the last three decades, with research focusing on youth emerging in the early 2000s. However, the term ‘perfectionism’ is rarely used outside of a psychological framework. Despite lexical differences, girlhood studies researchers have employed a sociocultural lens to study ‘supergirls’: teenage girls who strive to have it all, at all costs. Although these literatures seem to explore a similar phenomenon, they tend to remain disparate. Consequently, this paper argues for the utility of a multidisciplinary framework for studying youth perfectionism to bridge these two seemingly opposite, yet mutually informing, literatures. First, disciplinary understandings of youth who strive for perfection in psychology and girlhood studies, respectively, are summarized. In the following section, a multidisciplinary reading of the extant literature is applied to offer a nuanced account of who a teenage perfectionist may be and how perfectionism might manifest among diverse youth. This article concludes with a call for researchers from both psychological and sociocultural backgrounds to embrace a multidisciplinary framework for research with perfectionistic youth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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12. Understanding and mitigating risks in social commerce: an empirical study from the perspective of signalling theory.
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Chen, Xiayu, Ding, Ruolin, Wei, Shaobo, and Wang, Panpan
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SOCIAL media , *SCALE analysis (Psychology) , *ELECTRONIC commerce , *RESEARCH funding , *CRONBACH'S alpha , *QUESTIONNAIRES , *EMPIRICAL research , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *CELLULAR signal transduction , *UNCERTAINTY , *PSYCHOLOGY , *THEORY ,RESEARCH evaluation - Abstract
This paper constructs a risk reduction model based on signalling theory to investigate how the platform- and user-oriented signals affect perceived risks, which in turn affect users' actual engagement and purchase behaviours in social commerce. The moderating effects of perceived effectiveness of social commerce institutional mechanisms (PESIM) on the relationships between signals and perceived risks are also considered. Longitudinal data from 226 users of Xiaohongshu were collected to test the proposed hypotheses. We identify signals oriented from platforms and users significantly influence users' perceptions of commerce and participation risks. We also demonstrate that commerce and participation risks influence users' actual engagement and purchase behaviours, respectively. Furthermore, we also verify that PESIM negatively moderates the relationship between signals and perceived risk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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13. The string and the abyss: an autistic child's experience of space.
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Fonseca, Vera Regina J.R.M.
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AUTISM in children , *ATTACHMENT behavior , *ANXIETY , *CAREGIVERS , *MOTIVATION (Psychology) , *PSYCHOLOGY , *COMMUNICATION , *CHILD development , *THEORY , *INTIMACY (Psychology) - Abstract
The author presents the issue of the development of internal space, as a function of the relationship of intimacy and synchrony with the caregiver, with the purpose of rendering more tolerable the experience of space outside the body. This paper argues that if this relationship does not stabilise by the end of the first year of life, an absence of representation of an internal space in the unidimensional realm might ensue. The psychoanalytic treatment of autistic children offers windows to certain developmental challenges associated with the representation of both internal and external spaces, the consequent development of dimensionality and its deviations. The case of a young autistic child in the first year of her four-session-a-week analysis is described as an illustration of the child's struggle to overcome precipitation anxiety around the experience of falling by using her movements in the external space. The child's autistic defences and deficits at first functioned to keep her in a liquid state, and later denied gravity by means of repetitive movements of her body while exploring the space of the analyst's room. Her mouth was experienced as a hole to be completely blocked with either food or a pacifier, preventing exchanges with the analyst. Her subsequent compulsive use of strings in activities revealed at the same time the search for links, and her difficulty connecting and establishing communication. At the end, the analyst realised an archaic equivalence between their room and body, as a 'concrete transference', revealing the child's attachment and motivation to explore it, which could be interpreted as an affective link between the analyst and patient. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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14. The integrated process model of loss and grief - An interprofessional understanding.
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Guldin, Mai-Britt and Leget, Carlo
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INTERPROFESSIONAL relations , *CONCEPTUAL models , *DEATH , *EMOTIONS , *PSYCHOLOGY , *SOCIAL skills , *SPIRITUALITY , *GRIEF , *LOSS (Psychology) , *COGNITION , *SUFFERING - Abstract
Despite the vast developments in research on loss and grief, dominant grief models fall short in reflecting the comprehensive issues grieving persons are facing. Three causes seem to be at play: grief is usually understood to be connected to death and other types of loss are under-researched; the majority of research is done from the field of psychology and on pathological forms of grief, hardly integrating research from other disciplines; and the existential suffering related to grief is not recognized or insufficiently integrated in the dominant models. In this paper, we propose an integrated process model (IPM) of loss and grief, distinguishing five dimensions of grief: physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and spiritual. The integrated process model integrates therapies, tools, and models within different scientific theories and paradigms to connect disciplines and professions. The comprehensive and existential understanding of loss and grief has relevance for research, clinical settings and community support. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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15. Inhibition and shifting across the weight status spectrum.
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Mas, Marine, Chambaron, Stéphanie, Chabanet, Claire, and Brindisi, Marie-Claude
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WEIGHT loss , *EXECUTIVE function , *RESPONSE inhibition , *BODY mass index , *NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL tests - Abstract
Executive functioning (EF) is of major interest in the study of cognitive factors involved in obesity. Among EF, shifting is related to behavioral flexibility, and inhibition to the ability to refrain from impulsive behavior. A deficit in those two EF could predict individual difficulties to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Weak evidence of deficits in shifting and inhibition in individuals of higher Body Mass Index (BMI) have been observed. The objective was to clarify the relationship between inhibition and shifting regarding weight status group differences in healthy adults. Two neuropsychological tests from the Test of Attentional Performance (TAP) battery were used to measure EF performance of three groups of men and women: normal-weight (NW, n = 38), overweight (OW, n = 40) and obesity (OB, n = 37). The results show that individuals with higher BMI have lower inhibition capacities and that classically used weight status categories might not capture cognitive variability. No differences in shifting were observed concerning weight status nor BMI. This paper provides new insights on cognitive factors in obesity by presenting data from healthy individuals with overweight and obesity. The results support that assessing inhibition capacities might be of interest in a clinical setting for patients with difficulties to lose weight. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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16. The intersection of self-determination theory and workplace spirituality: an innovative framework for advancing social work administration.
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Susmerano, Exxon B.
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EMPLOYEE psychology , *CORPORATE culture , *SOCIAL workers , *PROFESSIONAL practice , *SOCIAL services , *PSYCHOLOGY , *SOCIAL case work , *JOB satisfaction , *MOTIVATION (Psychology) , *SOCIAL work research , *SPIRITUALITY , *THEORY , *HEALTH promotion , *WELL-being ,SOCIAL service associations - Abstract
This conceptual article aims to explore how self-determination theory can be utilized in integrating workplace spirituality in social work administration to help address issues such as those related to employee well-being, job satisfaction, and motivation. The paper examines the interconnection between self-determination theory, workplace spirituality, and social work administration through a review of pertinent literature on these interrelated concepts. The complementation of self-determination theory and workplace spirituality in the realm of administration hopes to create a spiritually sensitive environment that boosts self-determination and promotes the well-being of social workers for them to become healthy and productive members of human service organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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17. The Jung-Hisamatsu Dialogue: A Closer Look and Commentary.
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Sibilla Jr., Warren W.
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JUNGIAN psychology , *COLLECTIVE unconscious , *ZEN Buddhism , *PSYCHOLOGY , *SELF - Abstract
In 1958 Japanese Zen master and professor of philosophy Shin'ichi Hisamatsu and C. G. Jung held a historic meeting at Jung's home in Küsnacht, Switzerland. Hisamatsu was touring the world and meeting with leading figures in the disciplines of psychology and philosophy, not unlike the traditional practice of accomplished Zen masters taking extended pilgrimages to test, deepen, and refine their enlightenment experiences. This meeting has received scant professional attention at least in part because Jung asked that it not be formally published. Nonetheless, Hisamatsu did publish their dialogue in Japanese and, thereafter, several translations followed. Commenting on their dialogue many months afterward, Hisamatsu summarized the meeting by highlighting three central areas of interface between Zen Buddhism and analytical psychology: 1) The relationship between "No Mind" in Zen and the unconscious; 2) The similarities and differences in what is meant by the "Self/self" in both disciplines; and 3) The means of identifying and seeking to relieve human suffering. This paper looks more closely at these junctures by briefly highlighting their theoretical implications and, in doing so, seeks to further the dialogue between Zen Buddhism and analytical psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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18. Logic and Discrimination.
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Ficara, Elena
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LOGIC , *DISCRIMINATION (Sociology) , *PSYCHOLOGY , *SOCIAL psychology - Abstract
The paper is about the connection between logic and discrimination, with special focus on Plumwood's ideas in her groundbreaking article 'The Politics of Reason. Towards a Feminist Logic' (1993). Although Plumwood's paper is not focused on the notion of discrimination, what she writes is useful for illuminating some basic mechanisms of thought that are at the basis of discriminatory practices. After an introductory section about the concepts of logic and discrimination and their possible interconnections, I present Plumwood's ideas in 1993 with a special focus on their relevance for understanding the nature of discrimination. More specifically, I use examples of discriminatory practices that make the connection between logical operations and oppression envisaged by Plumwood clear. I focus especially on two questions: Can logic produce discrimination? Can logic contribute to the fight against discrimination? If so, how? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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19. The darkest field of medicine? The integration of psychological knowledge into medical education in the Habsburg Monarchy (1780s–1840s).
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Kovács, Janka
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MEDICINE , *MEDICAL education , *MONARCHY , *ANTHROPOLOGY , *PHILOSOPHY - Abstract
This paper focuses on a specific aspect of the emergence of psychology and psychiatry as scientific disciplines in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It examines how psychological knowledge, which was scattered across different fields of knowledge such as philosophy and anthropology, as well as medical subfields such as physiology, pathology and state medicine, was filtered into medical education in three medical faculties of the Habsburg Monarchy: Vienna, Prague and Pest. As education was the primary arena of producing authoritative medical knowledge, the three institutions played a key role in the transfers of knowledge within the Monarchy and in shaping 'official' medical practices acknowledged by the state. These in turn could be used to validate different measures to normalize or optimize its population. Through the lens of education and the underlying tension between the different approaches to psychological knowledge that constituted a type of 'arcane knowledge' in the period, with fluid and often dubious boundaries and questionable applicability, the article points at the epistemological uncertainty and transitory nature of the psychological field. The paper also looks at how it was nevertheless integrated into medical education with varying success by the 1840s as part of the professionalization of psychiatry and with the pronounced aim of training specialists who could cooperate in creating functioning spaces for the mad where they could not only be kept, but also normalized and (re)integrated into society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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20. Approaching the self: alternative perspectives of selfwork in education.
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Allan, Julie and Harwood, Valerie
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MENTAL health of youth , *HIGHER education , *HEGEMONY , *PSYCHIATRY , *PSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
In this paper we respond to this special issue's critical focus on mental health in education by considering the medicalised and homogenising approaches to the mental health of young people and the severely negative consequences for young people. Our argument is underpinned by the need to destabilise the hegemony of the current dominant discourses and practices of mental health used in education. The problem with these discourses and practices, informed by particular forms of psychiatry and psychology, is precisely their dominance and their popularised proxy take-up of these. We firstly outline this problem, explore the emergence and saturation of a 'damaged self' in education and consider the impact on young people. We offer counter-narratives that involve a reframing of the self in relation to ethics, politics, capability and the arts and can assist in countering the psy-dominance in education. The paper concludes with some reflections on how teachers might work against the damaging effects of the psy-disciplines and instead support young people in finding their counter-narrative selves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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21. Toward a queered psychology of the self: Empathy and passibility from the margins to the center.
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Guzzardi, Sam
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PSYCHOLOGY , *SELF , *EMPATHY , *LGBTQ+ studies , *AMERICAN dramatists , *COMMUNITY psychology - Abstract
Beginning with Kohut's classic 1959 paper on the subject, empathy has been conceptualized as a process of finding something in one's self (introspection) that has resonance with one's experience of the other. This paper, inspired by advances in queer studies, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the Black American theater, identifies the limitations of this understanding. By putting Kohut's ideas about empathy in dialogue with French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard, Black American playwrights Jeremy O. Harris, Michael R. Jackson, and James Ijames, and the author's own clinical experience, a queered empathy is theorized that relies less on self-reference and more on passibility. The theoretical and clinical implications of this shift are explored, and the possibilities for a queered Psychology of the Self that contain a heightened possibility for responsiveness to marginalized experience are suggested. The hope of this paper is that the reader, from a multidisciplinary perspective, will be inspired to imagine a psychoanalysis and Self Psychology for all that has the potential to flourish for generations to come. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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22. Supporting self-determination among internationally educated nurses: a discussion.
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Randall, Paige S. and De Gagne, Jennie C.
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RACISM , *WELL-being , *OCCUPATIONAL roles , *SOCIAL support , *NURSING , *SELF-perception , *DISCRIMINATION (Sociology) , *PSYCHOLOGY , *FOREIGN nurses , *SOCIAL isolation , *PSYCHOSOCIAL factors , *THEORY , *AUTONOMY (Psychology) , *NURSES , *INTERPERSONAL relations , *PATIENT safety - Abstract
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the global nursing shortage. As the shortage worsens, reliance on internationally educated nurses is expected to increase, presenting challenges and opportunities for health care systems and nurse leaders worldwide. While internationally educated nurses bring cultural and ethnic diversity to domestic workforces, they face significant hurdles in successfully integrating due to racism, discrimination, and isolation, which can have a negative impact on their self-determination. The challenges encountered by internationally educated nurses can not only affect their self-determination, but they can also pose risks to patient safety. Objectives: This purpose of this paper was to examine the extant literature to describe the experiences of internationally educated nurses through the lens of Ryan and Deci's Self-Determination Theory. Another aim was to offer nurse managers and administrators strategies for supporting internationally educated nurses within their health care facilities. Design: Discussion Paper. Conclusions: Health care organizations should allocate time and resources to facilitate the professional transition of internationally educated nurses, promoting their psychological well-being and self-determination by fostering autonomy, competence, and relatedness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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23. ‘This is real now because it’s a piece of paper’: texts, disability, and LGBTQ parents.
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Gibson, Margaret F.
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PARENTS of children with disabilities , *GAY parents , *SERVICES for people with disabilities , *MEDICAL care , *DOCUMENTATION , *PARENTS , *HUMAN services , *ADOPTION , *BIRTH certificates , *DISCRIMINATION (Sociology) , *HEALTH services accessibility , *INTERVIEWING , *MEDICAL records , *RESEARCH funding , *QUALITATIVE research , *LGBTQ+ people , *SOCIAL attitudes , *PARENT attitudes , *ATTITUDES toward sex , *PSYCHOLOGY ,MEDICAL care for people with disabilities - Abstract
What role do texts play in LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) parents’ experiences of disability service systems? In interviews with 15 LGBTQ parents of disabled children in Toronto, Canada, participants selected documents to be used as a focus for discussion. Parents considered how LGBTQ identity and other intersectional identities influenced their experiences of institutional texts including adoption certificates, intake forms, and assessments. Findings suggest that documentation practices can operate as forms of systemic gatekeeping. LGBTQ identity was sometimes very significant in parents’ accounts, and sometimes less central than other aspects of their families' identities and experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2016
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24. EquiP – the first European association for qualitative researchers in psychology.
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Demuth, Carolin, Santiago-Delefosse, Marie, Tseliou, Eleftheria, and Del Rio Carral, María
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In 2018, the Association of European Qualitative Researchers in Psychology (EQuiP) was founded – a society that aims to create bridges among qualitative researchers in psychology across Europe – between researchers from different European countries but also between different traditions of qualitative inquiry in psychology, and bridges between academics and practitioners. In this paper, we will present the work of EQuiP in order to make it known do a wider audience. We will start by providing an overview of the history of EQuiP and the aims it pursues. We will also present an update on past and present activities and events of the association, including an outlook on the upcoming international conference in 2024 in Milano. We invite scholars to join us in our endeavour not only to strengthen qualitative research in psychology across Europe but also to highlight the plurality and heterogeneity that are inherent to this kind of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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25. Resilience enhancing programs in the U.S. military: An exploration of theory and applied practice.
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McInerney, Sarah A., Waldrep, Edward, and Benight, Charles C.
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PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience , *COST control , *MENTAL health , *PSYCHOLOGY of military personnel , *PSYCHOLOGY , *EMOTIONAL trauma , *MILITARY service , *PSYCHOLOGICAL stress , *HEALTH promotion , *THEORY - Abstract
U.S. service members are at an enhanced risk for developing mental disorders. To address these challenges, while promoting operational readiness and improving mental health outcomes, the Department of Defense directed each service component to develop and implement universal resilience enhancing programs. This paper provides a review of theoretical approaches conceptualizing resilience to trauma, including the theoretical foundations of programs currently in place. The resilience programs of U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps are described, and available program effectiveness data are reviewed. Gaps between theory and practice are identified and an alternative method of assessing psychological readiness in Army units that is informed by resilience theory is offered as one way to address these gaps and scientific concerns. By comprehensively assessing the stressors affecting Soldiers at regular intervals, military leaders may be able to better identify and mitigate stressors in a systematic way that bolsters individual and unit psychological fitness. An enhanced psychological readiness metric stands to strengthen the validity of current resilience programs, bring clarity to the mechanisms of resilience, and provide a novel way for leaders to promote readiness in their units. Application of this metric within the infrastructure of existing reporting systems stands to improve mental health outcomes for Service Members, enhance the psychological readiness of the force, and reduce healthcare costs over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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26. Web of well-being: re-examining PERMA and subjective well-being through networks.
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Merritt, Sean H., Heshmati, Saeideh, Oravecz, Zita, and Donaldson, Stewart I.
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MENTAL health , *POSITIVE psychology , *PSYCHOLOGY , *SOCIAL networks , *RESEARCH , *PSYCHOMETRICS , *THEORY , *INTERPERSONAL relations , *WELL-being - Abstract
While positive psychology has been in development for more than 20 years, positive psychologists still face the challenge of finding optimal measurements of well-being. The PERMA framework provides a new understanding of well-being based on years of research. However, whether it adds value in terms of being distinct from the already established measures of Subjective Well-Being (SWB) has recently been under debate. Certain characteristics of PERMA make it unsuited for traditional factor analysis and data analysis techniques. In this paper, we argue that a network approach is more suitable for understanding the interrelated nature of PERMA components. We then show how the components of PERMA and SWB are distinct using exploratory graphical analysis. Our results show that while PERMA predicts SWB, PERMA provides us a more nuanced way to understand the interrelated antecedents of well-being, which we refer to as the web of well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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27. Persons in a posthuman world.
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Brinkmann, Svend
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Are we becoming ‘posthuman’, and, if so, what does that mean for our understanding of ourselves as persons? In this paper, I argue that we have good reasons to retain a notion of personhood despite posthuman claims, but that the science of psychology, which ought to be well-equipped to study and defend human personhood, has – with some notable exceptions – failed to develop illuminating ideas of what persons are and how they come into the world phylogenetically, ontogenetically, and sociogenetically. First, I articulate a short history of the concept of the person from antiquity and to the Enlightenment. Second, I describe four current challenges to these modern approaches to personhood. Third, I argue that personhood is inescapable in psychology and human life as such, and that a qualitative psychology should try to find a way of preserving the insights of posthuman thinking and its critiques without thereby abandoning personhood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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28. Twelve tips for integrating podcasts into medical education curricula.
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Chaiklin, Charlotte, Onyango, Joshua, Heublein, Molly, Gielissen, Katherine, and Kryzhanovskaya, Irina
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CURRICULUM , *MEDICAL education , *TEACHING methods , *PSYCHOLOGY , *STREAMING media , *COLLEGE teacher attitudes , *TEACHER-student relationships , *COGNITION - Abstract
Engagement with medical education podcasts among health professions learners has been increasing steadily over the last several years. Prior '12 Tips' publications have focused on helping medical educators create and publish their own podcasts. However, there is a gap in available resources to help educators incorporate an already existing and growing library of medical education podcasts into their curriculum rather than create their own. In this paper, the authors provide medical educators '12 Tips' on how to integrate podcasts into their teaching sessions grounded in fundamental principles of curriculum development, cognitive science, and accessibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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29. The role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in moral cognition: A value-centric hypothesis.
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Garr, Anna K.
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PREFRONTAL cortex , *MORAL judgment , *INFORMATION processing , *EMOTIONS , *COGNITION , *PSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
Trends in moral psychology largely support the role that emotion plays in moral cognition with human lesion studies offering the most compelling evidence to date. Specifically, data from ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) patients on moral judgment tasks has suggested the necessity of having intact emotion to behave in morally appropriate ways. However, patients with vmPFC damage also have deficits in a variety of complex judgment and decision-making tasks, regardless of whether emotion is involved. This paper argues that a basic information processing perspective of vmPFC functionality is a better interpretation of vmPFC patient deficits, specifically with the vmPFC being necessary for value assessment rather than being specific to emotion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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30. Integrating Subjective Recovery and Stigma Resistance in Individuals with Schizophrenia: A Narrative Review and Theoretical Integration.
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Swistak, MSc, Zosia, Sookoo, MA, Susan, and Jewell, PhD, Tom
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SELF-efficacy , *MENTAL health services , *SCHIZOPHRENIA , *PSYCHOLOGY , *CONVALESCENCE , *CONCEPTUAL structures , *SOCIAL support , *SOCIAL stigma , *HOPE , *SELF-perception - Abstract
Stigmatised attitudes are known to be associated with negative outcomes in schizophrenia, yet there is little focus on the role of stigma in the recovery process. Attempts to develop interventions to reduce self-stigma in schizophrenia have not been found effective. This paper presents a theoretical integration based on a narrative review of the literature. PsycINFO, Medline and Embase databases were searched up to the 11th December 2023. Studies were included if they were: i) empirical studies using qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods studies investigating mental health stigma; ii) included participants based in the United Kingdom, fluent in English, between the ages of 16 and 70, meeting criteria for a schizophrenia spectrum diagnosis. Fourteen studies were included. In Part 1, we propose a novel theoretical model derived from a synthesis of service-user perspectives on the relationship between stigma and schizophrenia. Stigmatised attitudes were commonly perceived to be caused by a lack of education and further exacerbated by disinformation primarily through the media and cultural communities. Stigma led to negative self-perceptions, negative emotional responses, social isolation and increased symptom severity, ultimately acting as a barrier to recovery. In Part 2, we identify several factors that ameliorate the impact of stigma and promote clinical and subjective recovery among service-users: education, empowerment, self-efficacy, self-acceptance, hope and social support. We argue that the notion of stigma resistance may be helpful in developing new interventions aimed at promoting recovery in individuals with schizophrenia. Wider implications are discussed and recommendations for future research and practice are explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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31. Harm reduction and self psychology in tandem: A case of crystal meth addiction.
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Jones, D. Bradley
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HARM reduction , *METHAMPHETAMINE , *SUBSTANCE abuse , *ADDICTIONS , *PSYCHOLOGY , *SELF - Abstract
This paper shows the theoretical similarities between Harm Reduction Psychotherapy and Heinz Kohut's Self Psychology, and delineates how each of these clinical perspectives complement and enhance one another. Using these two theories in tandem provides further opportunities for clinicians to treat a larger proportion of the substance using population not yet ready for cessation or abstinence. A case involving crystal meth addiction is presented, and aspects of the treatment are explicated including identifying the self-regulatory and symbolic functionality of substance use, and working with the patient's own ambivalence about his behavior. A self- object "twinship" is also highlighted as having an important mutative impact on the treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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32. A kaleidoscope of well-being to authentically represent the voices of children and young people with complex cerebral palsy: a case study series.
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Pickering, Dawn M., Gill, Paul, and Reagon, Carly
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PLAY , *PARENTS , *QUALITATIVE research , *RESEARCH funding , *INTERVIEWING , *DRAWING , *CEREBRAL palsy , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *EMOTIONS , *JUDGMENT sampling , *NONVERBAL communication , *THEMATIC analysis , *PSYCHOLOGY , *QUALITY of life , *INTENTION , *RESEARCH , *CONCEPTUAL structures , *CASE studies , *THEORY , *COMPARATIVE studies , *SELF advocacy , *SOCIAL support , *WELL-being , *SOCIAL participation , *CHILDREN - Abstract
This paper authentically represents the voices of non-verbal children with cerebral palsy using a case study design. Policy suggests that children should have the right to play and leisure opportunities, however non-verbal children with cerebral palsy have fewer choices. Additionally, children with communication, learning and mobility limitations are usually excluded from research. The aim of this research was to capture the voices of non-verbal children by exploring their well-being impact in terms of their experiences and choices about their level of participation in recreational activities. A qualitative case series study included interviews, observations, photographs and diaries. Where possible, the diaries were completed by both caregivers and children. Data were analysed thematically, and the lens of positioning theory applied. Seven children aged nine to sixteen years participated. The findings showed how equipment, people and environments enabled or hindered the children's participation. The children also advocated as champions for their own well-being. Positioning theory was applied across the data and was adapted offering a way to better understand the children's well-being responses. The findings demonstrate how these children were able to self-advocate, demonstrating their well-being by their intentional behaviours from their level of participation in a recreational activity. The voices of non-ambulant and non-verbal children are underrepresented in the literature. This study offers an innovative approach to highlight their voices using visual data. The images project the narrative about their choices for participation in recreational activities. The proposed kaleidoscope of well-being offers a way to demonstrate the fluctuations in their emotional responses from their participation. Choices for participation in recreational activities remains limited for non-ambulant and non-verbal children with cerebral palsy. Designers and policy makers should consider how equipment and environments can be adapted or created to increase the choices for non-ambulant and non-verbal children with cerebral palsy. Practitioners in health and social care should consider how to listen to the voices of non-verbal and non-ambulant children with cerebral palsy and their parents/guardians and work towards jointly setting participation goals to affirm their strengths. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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33. Schleiermacher on recognition.
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Saarinen, Risto
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SENTIMENTALISM , *CONSCIOUSNESS , *PSYCHOLOGY , *MIND & body - Abstract
This paper investigates Friedrich Schleiermacher's (1768–1834) use of recognition (Anerkennung) terminology, focusing on the early On Religion (1799) and the late Glaubenslehre (1830). While the term occurs only rarely in On Religion, Schleiermacher speaks of the "recognition of otherness" (Anerkennen des Fremden) in a distinctive fashion in this work. In Glaubenslehre, recognition terminology is frequently used. Here, Schleiermacher considers that the doctrine of justification should be considered as an event in which God recognizes human beings. Recognition is compared with the adoption terminology of the Roman law (agnitio filii). Schleiermacher's use of the term is to some extent indebted to Johann Joachim Spalding and Johann Gottlieb Fichte. As Schleiermacher highlights the role of feeling, he also participates in the sentimentalist current of the Enlightenment. In theological contexts, however, his view is highly original, replacing the older upward model of a servant recognizing the Lord frequently with downward and horizontal models of religious recognition. Philosophically, Schleiermacher does not embrace Hegelian recognition but moves within the pre-Hegelian models of Fichte and sentimentalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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34. Digitally mediated psychotherapy: Intimacy, distance, and connection in virtual therapeutic spaces.
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Tucker, Ian
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PSYCHOTHERAPY , *DIGITAL technology , *COVID-19 pandemic , *PSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
This paper is a commentary on the articles in this Technology, AI Bots and Psychology Special Issue. The Special Issue presents a range of conceptual, practice-based and empirical reflections on digitally mediated therapy. This includes looking back to a significant shift in digital engagement due to the COVID-19 pandemic, along with anticipations regarding the landscape of future therapeutic practices mediated by digital technologies. I will discuss key themes resonating across the Special Issue, along with attending to some of the nuance and diversity of the potential and real implications of a greater integration of digital technologies in current and future therapeutic practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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35. Using occupational therapy principles and practice to support independent message generation by individuals using AAC instead of facilitated communication.
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McMahon, Loren F., Shane, Howard C., and Schlosser, Ralf W.
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FACILITATED communication , *SPEECH therapy , *SOCIOLOGY , *EDUCATION , *PSYCHOLOGY , *PEDIATRICS , *OCCUPATIONAL therapy , *COMMUNICATIVE disorders , *COMMUNICATION , *ASSISTIVE technology - Abstract
Facilitated communication (FC) has been a heavily debated and documented topic across multiple disciplines, including sociology, education, psychology, pediatrics, speech-language pathology, and disability studies. Although many professionals from various disciplines and advocates have offered opinions, suggestions, and research on the topic, there has been minimal input from the occupational therapy (OT) profession. The lack of OT input is noteworthy as OTs are experts in enabling upper extremity performance and independence through a variety of training, adaptation and modification strategies, and use of external supports. Because of their professional code of ethics and a specific knowledge base, OTs are uniquely positioned to provide a host of ethical and evidence-based strategies that enable independent access to communication technology. The consideration of multiple access options is contrary to the typical facilitated encounter where facilitators exclusively choose to manipulate an upper extremity in order for letters to be selected on a display or keyboard. The purpose of this paper is threefold: (a) To offer insight into the standard of care by OTs including their ethical standards; (b) to identify varied accommodations that enable access using a feature-matching standard of care that eliminates the need for a facilitator; and (c) to highlight how to increase independent assistive technology/augmentative and alternative communication access, thus dissuading the need or use of facilitated access to letters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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36. Clinical social work practice in organizational settings: a psychodynamic systems approach.
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Morey, Cathleen M.
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PROFESSIONAL practice , *ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc. , *ORGANIZATIONAL structure , *PSYCHOLOGY , *SYSTEMS theory , *CONCEPTUAL structures , *THEORY , *SOCIAL services , *TRANSFERENCE (Psychology) , *COUNTERTRANSFERENCE (Psychology) , *GROUP dynamics , *THERAPEUTIC alliance - Abstract
Clinical social work practice in organisational settings is complex and challenging. Effective practice is contingent on knowledge and skills that are particular for systems-based work involving multiple interprofessional mental health practitioners and clients interacting in a relational matrix. Yet, not all social work theories and constructs that were developed for application in individual, group, and family modalities are directly transferable to the practice environment of a treatment system. This paper offers a conceptual framework that synthesises contemporary psychodynamic theory with systems theory – referred to as a psychodynamic systems approach – to inform and advance knowledge of systems-based social work practice. This approach considers the interplay of dynamic processes among the four levels of the socially co-constructed system which constitute the system as a whole. It examines how five key clinical phenomena – transference, countertransference, splitting, projective identification and enactment – are actualised in systems. Definitions of these phenomena formulated from a dyadic perspective and a contemporary psychodynamic systems approach are offered, and their similarities and differences are discussed. A composite case example is provided to illustrate how several of these phenomena manifest in clinical practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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37. A biobehavioural and social-structural model of inflammation and executive function in pediatric chronic health conditions.
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King, Kathryn P., Humiston, Tori, Gowey, Marissa A., Murdaugh, Donna L., Dutton, Gareth R., and Lansing, Amy Hughes
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EXECUTIVE function , *CHRONIC diseases , *INFLAMMATION , *STRUCTURAL models , *MATHEMATICAL models , *CHILDHOOD obesity , *PSYCHOLOGY , *TYPE 1 diabetes , *SEVERITY of illness index , *CONCEPTUAL models , *THEORY , *HEALTH behavior , *HEALTH equity , *HEALTH promotion - Abstract
Evidence indicates that pediatric chronic health conditions (CHCs) often impair executive functioning (EF) and impaired EF undermines pediatric CHC management. This bidirectional relationship likely occurs due to biobehavioural and social-structural factors that serve to maintain this feedback loop. Specifically, biobehavioural research suggests that inflammation may sustain a feedback loop that links together increased CHC severity, challenges with EF, and lower engagement in health promoting behaviours. Experiencing social and environmental inequity also maintains pressure on this feedback loop as experiencing inequities is associated with greater inflammation, increased CHC severity, as well as challenges with EF and engagement in health promoting behaviours. Amidst this growing body of research, a model of biobehavioural and social-structural factors that centres inflammation and EF is warranted to better identify individual and structural targets to ameliorate the effects of CHCs on children, families, and society at large. This paper proposes this model, reviews relevant literature, and delineates actionable research and clinical implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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38. The Relationship between Money and Cooperation: Evidence from Economics and Psychology.
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Pagliarani, Stefano
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INCENTIVE (Psychology) , *INTRINSIC motivation , *COOPERATION , *PSYCHOLOGY , *MONETARY incentives , *FIELD research - Abstract
This paper addresses the non-linear effect that money has on cooperative behavior. In economic theory, money is assumed to have a positive effect on cooperation, by providing incentives to agents. The evidence from field experiments indicates instead that small positive incentives can be detrimental to cooperation, crowding out intrinsic motivation, while larger incentives crowd it back in. The same happens, in the opposite direction, with negative incentives. By reviewing the existing qualitative evidence from economics and psychology, the paper proposes a possible mechanism that can lead to this non-linear effect, based on the methodology and the experimental results from economics and psychology. Money increases mutual benefits but decreases altruism, having a negative effect on cooperation when introduced in lesser amounts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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39. Reflections on Janine Puget's Paper.
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Rozmarin, Eyal
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PATHOLOGICAL psychology , *PSYCHOLOGY , *INTERPERSONAL relations , *SOCIAL psychology , *EMOTIONAL environment - Abstract
In my discussion of Janine Puget's deeply thought-provoking paper, I focus on her central argument that the subject's interior world and the world of intersubjective relationships answer to different logics and evolve along separate developmental paths. Puget's argument hinges on a notion of the other, and of otherness as disruptive and traumatic to the subject. My discussion aims to problematize this notion on two fronts. First, I suggest that otherness is not only external to the subject. I point to some ways in which psychoanalysis conceives of otherness and of the other as integral to the constitution and development of the subject. Further, I argue that individuals sometimes desire and actively seek otherness. I engage in this context the question of social displacement and immigration, Puget's other main concern in her paper. Life tourists, as Puget calls them, are a paradox of will and necessity, where the prospect of confronting otherness and being othered is both a threat and a life-affirming recourse. Yet there seems to be more involved in immigration than the psychology of individuals or their relationships. Drawing on my personal and clinical experience as an immigrant working with other immigrants, I suggest that beyond the self-other relation, we can recognize otherness on a third dimension, that of collective, socio-political, normative discourse. Looking at the psychoanalytic notion of Oedipus, I suggest the possibility that Puget's view of the subjective and intersubjective as disparate captures the effect this third, social dimension of human life on the construction of subjectivity and of human relating. I argue that the fault line Puget recognizes may be understood as the effect, within subjectivity, of social power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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40. Ferenczi and Winnicott: Why We Need Their Radical Edge: Commentary on Paper by Michael Parsons.
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Berman, Emanuel
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PSYCHOANALYSIS , *POLITICAL autonomy , *PSYCHOLOGY , *COUNTERTRANSFERENCE (Psychology) - Abstract
Parsons's paper, “An Independent Theory of Clinical Technique,” is discussed. Agreement is expressed with many of the theoretical points made by Parsons, and the creative and freeing historical role of the British Independent tradition (recently attacked by Kleinian authors such as Segal) is praised. However, the author sees some of the clinical examples in the paper as expressing a traditionalist conception of psychoanalytic practice, with a strong one-sided emphasis on the analyst as a knowledgeable expert offering deep interpretations. Parsons does not question the nature of the actual intersubjective relationship in each dyad, with its fluctuations and its subtle nuances, which can go far beyond the proclaimed roles of the two partners, at times even reversing them. More radical points of view can be found in the work of Ferenczi and Winnicott, two authors who are significant both for Parsons and for the author; for example, Ferenczi's emphasis on the patient's capacity to interpret the analyst's countertransference, and the experiments with the setting both made in their search for an adaptation to the unique 'analysand's needs. In conclusion, the paper calls for continued departure from standard techniques of any kind, critically deconstructing all traditional assumptions regarding the analytic process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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41. The Body and Mind (Including of the Analyst) in the Treatment of a Psychotic State: Some Reflections: Commentary on Paper by Riccardo Lombardi.
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Williams, Paul
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MIND & body therapies , *PSYCHOSES , *PSYCHIATRIC treatment , *SHAME , *MENTAL health , *PSYCHOANALYSIS , *PSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
Riccardo Lombardi's paper is considered from a British (Independent) object relations perspective. Although the paper deals with the experience of shame and its relationship to fantasies about sex and death and how these are experienced (including in the body), shame is also a profoundly object related mental state, perhaps one of the most damaging when suffered in infancy, leading to reflexive functioning. The nature of shame is touched upon and its impact on personality development, and how this is handled in the transference and countertransference by Riccardo Lombardi with his particular patient. Although the patient's struggle to own his own hate is Lombardi's principal focus in the clinical account, this author suggests that Lombardi was attuned primarily to the patient's developmental failings due to the impact of shame and, by working primarily in the countertransference, was able to facilitate growth of certain personality functions for the first time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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42. Commentary on Paper by Steven Cooper.
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Ilahi, M.Nasir
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PSYCHOTHERAPIST-patient relations , *PSYCHOANALYSIS , *PSYCHOLOGY , *PSYCHOANALYSTS , *INTERPERSONAL relations - Abstract
In this discussion of Steven Cooper's paper, it is argued that, although Cooper's desire to hold himself "accountable" in his work with patients is laudable, the "pluralistic third" approach that he employs gives rise in his doing so to several difficulties in the way that it is described in the paper. The vivid clinical material that Cooper provides to illustrate his approach is used as a starting point to offer an understanding of what transpired between analyst and patient, which although convergent with Cooper's formulations in some respects nevertheless follows a very different line of thinking in other areas. Broadly speaking, it is suggested that although these divergences arise from many sources—a discussion of which is beyond the scope of this contribution—one particular issue involved is a rather different understanding of the role of early internalized object relations in the patient's psychic life and the way these get lived out at many levels in the treatment situation. It is further argued that Cooper's conceptualization of the approaches of schools different from his own appears somewhat circumscribed and this detracts from his desire to make an authentic comparison between his way of working and those of other schools, something that is called for by his proposed pluralistic third method of keeping himself accountable. This is not considered surprising given the difficulties inherent in our becoming adequately familiar, in more than just an intellectual way, with the approaches of schools different from our own, especially when wide divergences are involved between schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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43. Internet Administration of Three Commonly Used Questionnaires in Panic Research: Equivalence to Paper Administration in Australian and Swedish Samples of People With Panic Disorder.
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Austin, David W., Carlbring, Per, Richards, Jeffrey C., and Andersson, Gerhard
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PANIC disorders , *AGORAPHOBIA , *QUESTIONNAIRES , *INTERNET , *PSYCHOMETRICS , *PSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
This study assessed the degree of equivalence between paper and Internet administration of three measures of panic and agoraphobia-related cognition and behavior: Body Sensations Questionnaire (BSQ), Agoraphobic Cognitions Questionnaire (ACQ), and Mobility Inventory (MI). Participants were 110 people with panic disorder who had registered for an Internet-based treatment program in Sweden (n = 54) or Australia (n = 56). Participants were randomly assigned to complete the questionnaires via the differing administration formats in a counterbalanced order. Results showed broadly equivalent psychometric properties across administrations, with strong significant intraclass correlations between them, and comparable Cronbach's alpha coefficients. A significant mean difference between administration formats was found for the BSQ only. In contrast to previous research, Internet administration did not generate higher scores than paper administration. No effect was found for order of administration. The findings suggest that each questionnaire can be validly administered via the Internet and used with confidence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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44. Movement Requires Nothing: Commentary on Paper by Becker and Shalgi.
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Gonzalez, FranciscoJ.
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PSYCHOLOGY of movement , *PSYCHOANALYSIS , *PSYCHOLOGY , *NOTHING (Philosophy) , *PERSPECTIVE (Art) , *PHENOMENOLOGY - Abstract
first measure of freedom In this discussion of Mitchel Becker and Boaz Shalgi's paper “On Being, Disappearing, and Becoming: A Journey of Surrender,” I briefly discuss the context of the idea of negation and the negative in psychoanalytic thinking, and suggest the need for a more nuanced and specific language to distinguish the multiple kinds of being and not-being the authors invoke. I suggest, for example, that there are constitutive kinds of negation and traumatic ones. I resonate with the authors’ emphasis on flows and movement and the necessity of tolerating nothingness in the process of change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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45. Messages Conveyed in Supervision: Commentary on Paper by Dana L. Castellano, Psy.D.
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Buechler, Sandra
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SUPERVISORS , *PSYCHOANALYSIS , *SUPERVISION , *MENTAL health , *PSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
In this discussion I emphasize that the medium is the message in psychoanalytic supervision. But as supervisors, our approach often fails to communicate the clinical values we strive for in our work with patients. I speculate as to why this happens so frequently. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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46. Mazzola's response to Wiggins’ position paper.
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Mazzola, Guerino
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MUSIC -- Mathematics , *PHILOSOPHY of mathematics , *MATHEMATICAL analysis , *REALITY , *PSYCHOLOGY , *THOUGHT & thinking - Abstract
This text contains Mazzola's comments on Geraint A. Wiggins’ position paper Music, mind and mathematics: Theory, reality and formality. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2012
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47. Commentary on Victoria Todd's Paper "Saving the Treatment: Affect Intolerance in a Boy, His Parents, the Mental Health Community, and His Analyst".
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MALBERG, NOREA T.
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TOLERATION , *MOTHER-child relationship , *CHILD psychology , *MENTAL health , *COUNTERTRANSFERENCE (Psychology) , *CHILD psychoanalysts , *PSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
Ms. Todd's paper illustrates both the value of the analytic frame and the relevance of a flexible approach in response to the external reality. In this case, the impingement of the outside environment became an ongoing threat to the analysts thinking and to the development of a safe and predictable therapeutic relationship. Ms. Todd's narrative of Joey's three-and-a-half-year analysis emphasizes the impact of external interference on the analyst's capacity to experience difficult affects with and for the patient. In addition, it highlights the importance of recognizing and working through one's countertransference resistance. This commentary focuses on Ms. Todd's work with Joey, so I will only refer to her work with his parents and other providers as it is reflected in her analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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48. The Radical Cure: Commentary on Paper by Eyal Rozmarin.
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Kafka, Ben
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PSYCHOANALYSIS , *LOGIC , *PSYCHOLOGY , *PSYCHOTHERAPY - Abstract
This commentary on Eyal Rozmarin's paper 'To Be Is to Betray' considers the place of history in the psychoanalytic encounter. Examining texts by Adorno and Ferenczi, the author cautions against 'radical cures' that conflate political values with analytic ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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49. Commentary on Paper by Philip A. Ringstrom.
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Clement, Carolyn
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CRITICISM , *PSYCHOANALYSIS , *PSYCHOLOGY , *PARADIGMS (Social sciences) , *PHENOMENOLOGICAL psychology - Abstract
In comparing psychoanalytic models there is always the danger of reducing one or more critical elements in at least one of the paradigms under consideration. This commentary aims to elaborate aspects of the intersubjectivist position, most especially at the clinical/phenomenological level, which I believe are overly reduced or underrepresented in Ringstrom's paper, thus losing much of their original significance. I also suggest a self psychological/intersubjectivist form of mutual recognition that potentially enriches, rather than challenges, this key element within the relational model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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50. One Envy or Many?: Commentary on Paper by Julie Gerhardt.
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Oelsner, Robert
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ENVY , *PSYCHOANALYSIS , *COMPARISON (Philosophy) , *PSYCHOLOGY - Abstract
The article presents the author's commentary on a paper by Julie Gerhardt regarding the aspects of envy. In this article, the author attempts not to make an argument for or against theoretical positions but rather try to outline the frames that each position belongs to in order to analyze in depth their degrees of consistency, their similarities, and differences. He also highlights the concept of envy in its relation to gratitude and love and its developmental and clinical implications.
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- 2009
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