scholarly journals Clinical Holistic Medicine: The Case Story of Anna. II. Patient Diary as a Tool in Treatment

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 2006-2034 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sören Ventegodt ◽  
Birgitte Clausen ◽  
Joav Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Childhood Abuse ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
Existential Therapy ◽  
Existential Crisis ◽  
Patient Diary ◽  
Choice Of Life ◽  
Therapeutic Tools ◽  
Suicidal Crisis ◽  
Insight Into

In spite of extreme childhood sexual and violent abuse, a 22-year-old young woman, Anna, healed during holistic existential therapy. New and highly confrontational therapeutic tools were developed and used to help this patient (like acceptance through touch and acupressure through the vagina). Her vulva and introitus were scarred from repeated brutal rape, as was the interior of her mouth. During therapy, these scars were gently contacted and the negative emotional contents released. The healing was in accordance with the advanced holistic medical toolbox that uses (1) love, (2) trust, (3) holding, and (4) helping the patient to process and integrate old traumas.The case story clearly revealed the philosophical adjustments that Anna made during treatment in response to the severe childhood abuse. These adjustments are demonstrated by her diary, where sentences contain both the feelings and thoughts of the painful present (the gestalt) at the time of the abuse, thus containing the essence of the traumas, making the repression of the painful emotions possible through the change in the patient’s philosophical perspective. Anna's case gives a unique insight into the process of traumatization (pathogenesis) and the process of healing (salutogenesis). At the end of the healing, Anna reconnected her existence to the outer world in a deep existential, suicidal crisis and faced her choice of life or death. She decided to live and, in this process, assumed existential responsibility, which made her able to step out of her mental disease. The advanced holistic toolbox seems to help patients heal even from the worst childhood abuse. In spite of the depth of the existential crisis, holistic existential therapy seems to support existential responsibility well and thus safe for the patients.

scholarly journals Statistics in historical-philosophical perspective

1983 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-109
Author(s):  
J. C. Geertsema
Keyword(s):  
Special Relationship ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
Philosophical Background ◽  
Insight Into

The philosophical background against which statistics as a science developed, is discussed. The discussion shows that statistics is not isolated from the society within which it is practised and that an understanding of these influences provides insight into statistics. It is also shown that there should be a special relationship between statistics and philosophy since the problems which are considered are closely related. Unfortunately there is little evidence of interaction in practice.

scholarly journals An Insight into Female Serial Killers: A Product of Childhood Abuse and Trauma?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayesha Salman
Keyword(s):  
Childhood Abuse ◽  
Serial Killers ◽  
Modus Operandi ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Insight Into

The main purpose of this research is an in-depth look into how childhood can affect a person in any way, in particular serial killers. There are a few different types of abuse: psychological, physical, etc., and each of these different types has its own unique effects on a child. However, sometimes patterns can be observed which can link a serial killer’s patterns to his/her victim pool and modus operandi. The paper will observe two female serial killers up close and examine the psychological motives behind their heinous crimes and how their childhoods can be linked to their M.O. and victim pool. The paper cites that while there are many differences between these two women, there are also many similarities, some of which can not be directly observed.

scholarly journals Zeichenlandschaften. Religiöse Semiotisierungen im interdisziplinären Diskurs

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
Insight Into

Ob »spatial« oder »topographical turn« – »Raum« erfreut sich in den Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften gegenwärtig hoher Aufmerksamkeit. Er wird als »Semiosphäre« der Einschreibung wahrgenommen – auch und gerade in Bezug auf religiöse Bedeutungen. Die Beiträge im Sammelband widmen sich aus theologischer und philosophischer Perspektive, aber auch in interdisziplinärer Hinsicht Raumkonstellationen religiöser Semiosen – unter anderem der theologisch produktiven topologischen Repräsentation des Unräumlichen. Indem die Beiträge exegetische, systematische und praktische Disziplinen christlicher und jüdischer Theologie mit der Archäologie, der Philosophie und der Soziologie ins Gespräch bringen, setzen sie die Reflexion des Raumes in mehrfache Richtung in Bewegung: Sie legen »Zugänge« zu Glaubens- und Lebensräumen offen oder verfolgen »Grenzgänge«, auf denen Theologinnen und Theologen die Unsagbarkeit Gottes bzw. des Göttlichen erkunden. Und sie zeichnen die »Ausgänge« der spezifischen Urbanität jüdischer und christlicher Eschatologie nach. Ortsbeschreibungen historischer und mythischer Räume, sowie »Personalisierungen« einzelner Herrschaftsfiguren und ihrer raumprägenden Machtansprüche runden das Panorama des Bandes ab. So entsteht ein repräsentativer Einblick in die ganz verschiedenen Weisen, wie Theologien sowie Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften die Zeichenlandschaften des Raumes lesbar machen. "Space" currently gets high attention in the humanities and cultural studies. It is perceived as a "semiosphere" of inscription - also and especially in relation to religious meanings. The contributions in this book are dedicated to spatial constellations of religious semioses from a theological and philosophical perspective, but also from an interdisciplinary point of view. The articles are reflecting space in multiple ways by combining exegetical, systematic, and practical disciplines of Christian and Jewish theology with archaeology, philosophy, and sociology. This offers a representative insight into the very different ways in which theologies as well as humanities and cultural studies explore religiously coded landscapes.

“I am an adult now”

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew T. Prior
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
North America ◽  
Childhood Abuse ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Membership Categorization Analysis ◽  
Immigrant Identity ◽  
Membership Categorization ◽  
Research Interview ◽  
Young Old ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract This narrative-based study employs membership categorization analysis to address the following question: How does a victim of abuse formulate and manage various categories and related descriptive details to story past trauma in ways that bring about new endings or insights in the present? Drawing on data taken from a larger research project on immigrant identity, the analysis centers on a Cambodian-Vietnamese man’s narrative of childhood abuse and adulthood confrontation. It shows how the teller, by recalibrating person (e.g., ‘father-son’, ‘victim-abuser’), age (e.g., ‘young-old’), place (e.g., ‘North America-Vietnam’), and other categorial resources, re-stories people and events and their psycho-social and moral inferences and outcomes. By tracing how this narrative teller reconstitutes himself from ‘victim’ to ‘hero’, this study offers insight into how a local interactional event (e.g., a research interview) may be transformed into a therapeutic exchange. Insights for therapeutic (re)storying, narrative research, and second language (L2) research are discussed.

scholarly journals MECHANISMS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY: MicroRNA in diagnostics and therapy of thyroid cancer

2016 ◽  
Vol 174 (3) ◽  
pp. R89-R98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Wójcicka ◽  
Monika Kolanowska ◽  
Krystian Jażdżewski
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Thyroid Cancer ◽  
Personalized Medicine ◽  
Human Diseases ◽  
Follicular Cell ◽  
Thyroid Carcinomas ◽  
Therapeutic Tools ◽  
Potential Use ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Diagnostics And Therapy

MicroRNAs, short non-coding regulators of the gene expression, are subjects of numerous investigations assessing their potential use in the diagnostics and management of human diseases. In this review, we focus on studies that analyze the utility of microRNAs as novel diagnostic and therapeutic tools in follicular cell-derived thyroid carcinomas. This very interesting and promising field brings new insight into future strategies for personalized medicine.

scholarly journals Suicide from a Holistic Point of View

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 759-766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Ventegodt ◽  
Joav Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Existential Therapy ◽  
Eastern Culture ◽  
Experienced Child ◽  
Good Living ◽  
Choice Of Life

Suicide has been honoured and respected in the eastern culture, especially in Japan with the famous tradition of Hara-kiri, or seppuku, while in most western societies suicide has been seen negatively and many contemporary physicians tend to consider suicide the most self-destructive and evil thing a human being can do and something that should be avoided at all cost. Religions also have different viewpoints on suicide, but from a philosophical point of view we believe that considering the choice of life and dead to be extremely relevant for a good living. The choice of life and dead is real, since responsibility for life is necessary in order to live life and even the best physician cannot keep a patient alive, who deep inside wants to die. In this chapter, we present parts of a story of a young girl who had experienced child sexual abuse. In holistic existential therapy, it is our experience, when the patient is well supported in the confrontation of the fundamental questions related to assuming responsibility for the coherence, that this confrontation will almost always lead to a big YES to life. Without confronting the fundamental question of “to be or not to be”, life can never be chosen 100% and thus never be lived fully.

Targeting Long Non-Coding RNAs in Nervous System Cancers: New Insights in Prognosis, Diagnosis and Therapy

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (30) ◽  
pp. 5649-5663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikos Malissovas ◽  
Elpinickie Ninou ◽  
Artemis Michail ◽  
Panagiotis K. Politis
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Malignant Tumors ◽  
Biological Processes ◽  
Tumor Treatment ◽  
Protein Molecules ◽  
Non Coding Rnas ◽  
Therapeutic Tools ◽  
Potential Use ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Gaining Insight

: Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) constitute one of the most broad and diverse classes of cellular transcripts, playing key roles as regulatory molecules in many biological processes. Although the biology of lncRNAs is a new and emerging field of research, several studies have already shown that alterations in the expression of lncRNAs are associated with the development and progression of cancer in different organs and tissues, including central and peripheral nervous system. In this review, we summarize the oncogenic and tumor suppressive roles of lncRNAs in malignant tumors of the nervous system, such as glioma and neuroblastoma, focusing on their functional interactions with DNA, other RNA and protein molecules. We further discuss the potential use of lncRNAs as biomarkers for diagnosis, prognosis and tumor treatment. Gaining insight into the functional association between nervous system malignancies and lncRNAs could offer new perspectives to the development of promising therapeutic tools against cancer.

scholarly journals Co-occurrence of severe PTSD, somatic symptoms and dissociation in a large sample of childhood trauma inpatients: a network analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonhard Kratzer ◽  
Matthias Knefel ◽  
Alexander Haselgruber ◽  
Peter Heinz ◽  
Rebecca Schennach ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Childhood Abuse ◽  
Somatic Symptoms ◽  
Treatment Target ◽  
Symptom Level ◽  
Poor Treatment ◽  
Treatment Plans ◽  
Mental And Physical Health ◽  
Full Network ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Combine Evidence

AbstractCo-occurrence of mental disorders including severe PTSD, somatic symptoms, and dissociation in the aftermath of trauma is common and sometimes associated with poor treatment outcomes. However, the interrelationships between these conditions at symptom level are not well understood. In the present study, we aimed to explore direct connections between PTSD, somatic symptoms, and dissociation to gain a deeper insight into the pathological processes underlying their comorbidity that can inform future treatment plans. In a sample of 655 adult inpatients with a diagnosis of severe PTSD following childhood abuse (85.6% female; mean age = 47.57), we assessed symptoms of PTSD, somatization, and dissociation. We analyzed the comorbidity structure using a partial correlation network with regularization. Mostly positive associations between symptoms characterized the network structure. Muscle or joint pain was among the most central symptoms. Physiological reactivation was central in the full network and together with concentrations problems acted as bridge between symptoms of PTSD and somatic symptoms. Headaches connected somatic symptoms with others and derealization connected dissociative symptoms with others in the network. Exposure to traumatic events has a severe and detrimental effect on mental and physical health and these consequences worsen each other trans-diagnostically on a symptom level. Strong connections between physiological reactivation and pain with other symptoms could inform treatment target prioritization. We recommend a dynamic, modular approach to treatment that should combine evidence-based interventions for PTSD and comorbid conditions which is informed by symptom prominence, readiness to address these symptoms and preference.

Calibration problems in hydrogen luminosities

1966 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 322-330
Author(s):  
A. Beer
Keyword(s):  
Galactic Structure ◽  
B Stars ◽  
Insight Into

The investigations which I should like to summarize in this paper concern recent photo-electric luminosity determinations of O and B stars. Their final aim has been the derivation of new stellar distances, and some insight into certain patterns of galactic structure.

Therapy and prevention for mental health: What if mental diseases are mostly not brain disorders?

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. A. Ioannidis
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
Brain Disorders ◽  
Social Stressors ◽  
Labor Education ◽  
Mental Diseases ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
Political Decisions

AbstractNeurobiology-based interventions for mental diseases and searches for useful biomarkers of treatment response have largely failed. Clinical trials should assess interventions related to environmental and social stressors, with long-term follow-up; social rather than biological endpoints; personalized outcomes; and suitable cluster, adaptive, and n-of-1 designs. Labor, education, financial, and other social/political decisions should be evaluated for their impacts on mental disease.

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