Ludwig Binswanger’s Comments on Hermann Rorschach’s Psychodiagnostik

This article presents an introduction to Ludwig Binswanger’s Comments on Hermann Rorschach’s Psychodiagnostik, published in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis in 1923, after Rorschach’s death in 1922. Binswanger, one of the most distinguished psychiatrists of the twentieth century and a close professional colleague and compatriot in the Swiss Psychiatric and Psychoanalytic Societies, was blazing new trails by incorporating turn-of-the-century phenomenology and experimental psychology into Swiss psychiatry. His comments, which have been noted for over 100 years but never before translated, are a critical review of Rorschach’s monograph, highlighting the undeveloped status of the test theory and philosophical foundations. Binswanger’s comments illuminate philosophical, conceptual and scientific pathways not taken in the development of the test following Rorschach’s untimely demise.

Wound and Travel – Sophocles’s 193 Philoctetes and Homer’s Odyssey in Inflammation du verbe vivre (Inflammation of the Verb To Live) by Wajdi Mouawad

In her article, the author analyses an example of a text and its staging brought about by the sudden death of a member of the playwright’s creative team. In his solo performance Inflammation du verbe vivre (Inflammation of the Verb To Live), created at the Paris Théâtre National de la Colline in 2015, Canadian-Lebanese playwright, director and actor Wajdi Mouawad interwove the ancient Greek literary and mythological heritage with a personal confession about the loss of his friend and professional colleague Robert Davreu, upgrading it with a socially critical depiction of the situation in today’s Greece. The performance was made as the penultimate part of a staging cycle of Sophocles’s seven preserved tragedies under the common title Le dernièr jour de sa vie (The Last Day of his Life). Mouawad had intended to direct the cycle in new translations by Davreu. Mouawad thus connected the process of mourning the death, which stopped the project, with the documentation of the writing process of the text that he later also directed and performed in the form of a peculiar theatre elegy. He fused the character of Philoctetes with the character of Odysseus; not the Odysseus from Sophocles’s tragedy who plots to steal Philoctetes’s bow, but the one from Homer who seeks his way home to Ithaca for ten years after the conquer of Troy and visits Tiresias’s shade in the underworld.

Social and personal aspects of single motherhood: pedagogical and social contexts

The article addresses the issue of single motherhood for women in individual, social and pedagogical aspects. The personality and social conditions of single motherhood were analysed. Two main contexts of experiencing motherhood by contemporary women were pointed out, which are social norms and cultural patterns as well as individual, intrapsychic conditions of perceiving oneself as a mother. Social references and pedagogical conditions of single motherhood were shown. It was pointed out that the way women experience motherhood depends to a large extent on family, professional, colleague situations and random events. While discussing the issues of loneliness and solitude, the pedagogical aspect of this phenomenon and the multitude of possible attitudes and references to motherhood experienced were pointed out. The article indicates that social expectations for single mothers imply how women perceive their motherhood and how it affects the pedagogical dimension of its implementation. Motherhood as a conscious decision of a woman and as an undesirable state, as a consequence of events over which the woman-mother has no influence – these are other versions of motherhood described and analysed in the article. The article ends with considerations on the pedagogical dimension of the implementation of motherhood, and therefore on the role and place of children and family as the closest environment of women-mothers. The final part also indicates the need for institutional support for single mothers and their families.

ALEXEY VLADIMIROVICH BARKOV: ORIGINAL SCIENTIST, TALENTED EDUCATOR AND TEACHER, PROFESSIONAL COLLEAGUE (TO THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF A.V. BARKOV)

The article formulates some reasoning about Alexey Vladimirovich Barkov as an original scientist, teacher, professional colleague, competent specialist in the field of social entrepreneurship, who made a significant contribution to the development of the doctrine of business law, in particular, the theory of socially oriented entrepreneurship. Purpose: scientific and practical understanding of Alexei Vladimirovich Barkov’s years of work, dedicated to social entrepreneurship in Russia. The methodological basis of this article is general scientific methods of cognition of legal phenomena, such as synthesis, the method of analogy, formal logic, deduction, and others. Results: The authors note the high theoretical and practical significance of Alexei Vladimirovich Barkov’s scientific achievements for private law and business law. The authors emphasize the invaluable, innovative and bold contribution to the development and improvement of national civil science and the law enforcement implementation of norms.

How One Physics Teacher Changed his Algebraic Thinking

By his own admission, Mike Smith, Worthington Christian High School's physics teacher, has dramatically changed his concept of mathematics. Although I was the researcher in this study, the story that follows is Mike's story. Because Mike is a professional colleague, I want him to be recognized and credited for his contributions to educational reform (see Shulman [1990]). I prefer to tell his story with full recognition of who he is and where be works.

The ward sister - Some aspects of her role and function

First-line manager, clinician, educator, custodian and advocate of the patient, professional colleague and team partner to the doctor and other members of the health team describes the multidimensional role of the ward sister.