Children who Poison Themselves I. A Clinical Comparison with Psychiatric Controls

SummaryFifty schoolchildren, admitted as medical emergencies after poisoning themselves, were compared with 50 matched controls, resident in the same area of London, referred for psychiatric help for other reasons. The dependent measures were based upon systematically recorded clinical information in both groups. The self-poisoners showed more psychiatric symptoms and more disturbed family relationships than did the psychiatric group; they were more likely to meet criteria for depressive disorder and to come from families showing little warmth. This form of self-injury is not trivial or wholly culturally determined, and it warrants psychiatric intervention.

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Fluxus and the Absurd (1961–62)

10.1093/oso/9780199381999.003.0005 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Benjamin R. Levy

Keyword(s):

Second Life ◽

The Self ◽

Major Work ◽

The Future ◽

To Come ◽

The Impact

After John Cage’s 1958 Darmstadt lectures, many European composers developed an interest in absurdity and artistic provocation. Although Ligeti’s fascination with Cage and his association with the Fluxus group was brief, the impact it had on his composition was palpable and lasting. A set of conceptual works, The Future of Music, Trois Bagatelles, and Poème symphonique for one hundred metronomes, fall clearly into the Fluxus model, even as the last has taken on a second life as a serious work. This spirit, however, can also be seen in the self-satire of Fragment and the drama and irony of Volumina, Aventures, and Nouvelles Aventures. The sketches for Aventures not only show the composer channeling this humor into a major work but also prove to be a fascinating repository of ideas that Ligeti would reuse in the years to come.

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Hemicrania Continua Headache in a Veteran with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder without Traumatic Brain Injury

Case Reports in Psychiatry ◽

10.1155/2012/937217 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2012 ◽

pp. 1-3

Author(s):

Brandon A. Kohrt ◽

Erica Duncan

Keyword(s):

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ◽

Major Depressive Disorder ◽

Depressive Disorder ◽

Posttraumatic Stress ◽

Stress Disorder ◽

Psychiatric Symptoms ◽

Hemicrania Continua ◽

Major Depressive ◽

High Flow Oxygen ◽

Psychopharmacological Intervention

Hemicrania continua is a headache characterized by chronic unremitting unilateral pain associated with ipsilateral autonomic findings. This type of headache responds to high-flow oxygen and indomethacin. This case report describes a male veteran with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depressive disorder who suffers from comorbid hemicrania continua. The psychiatric symptoms were recalcitrant to psychopharmacological intervention. However, when the patient's hemicrania continua was treated appropriately, the patient's psychiatric symptoms also abated. This case demonstrates the need to address physical comorbidities that may exacerbate psychiatric disorders, such as PTSD.

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Let the Witness Speak: From Archi-writing to the Community to come

Derrida Today ◽

10.3366/e175485000900058x ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 260-270

Author(s):

Francesco Vitale

Keyword(s):

The Self ◽

The Other ◽

Political Tradition ◽

Metaphysics Of Presence ◽

The Absolute ◽

To Come ◽

The One ◽

The Sacrifice

The paper aims to present a reading of the question of Testimony rising in Derrida's later works (from Faith and Knowledge to Poetics and Politics of Witnessing): the experience of Testimony as the irreducible condition of the relation to the Other, of every possible link among living human singularities and, thus, of the thinking of a community to come. This thinking is able to divert the community from the economy grounding and structuring it within our political tradition governed by the metaphysics of presence, which demands the sacrifice of the Other in its multiple theoretical and practical forms. We intend to read this proposal and to point out its rich perspectives by bringing it into the articulation of an ethical-political archi-writing. So we suggest going back to Derrida's early analyses of phenomenology and to De la grammatologie in order to present a reading of archi-writing as the irreducible condition of the relation to otherness and, thus, of the experience through which a living human singularity constitutes itself, a singularity different from the one our tradition compels us to think of within the pattern of the absolute presence to the self, free from the relation to the other.

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Locating Medieval Armenia at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Journal of Medieval Worlds ◽

10.1525/jmw.2019.120005 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 77-82

Author(s):

Heather Badamo

Keyword(s):

Visual Culture ◽

Religious Culture ◽

The Self ◽

Medieval Art ◽

Global Context ◽

Metropolitan Museum Of Art ◽

Christian Communities ◽

Trading Partners ◽

Art And Culture ◽

To Come

Spanning 13 centuries, the exhibition “Armenia!” brings together some 140 objects to present the medieval art and culture of the Armenian peoples in a global context. Armenia has often existed at the borders of medieval art in contemporary scholarship, due to its complex history and continuously shifting borders, which undermine basic understandings of empires and polities. This exhibition seeks to “locate” Armenia through the twin themes of religion and trade, documenting the myriad ways in which Armenians employed visual culture to construct images of the self and community. The works on display demonstrate the distinctive qualities of the Armenian artistic and religious culture, while also documenting contact with an ever-shifting and expanding group of neighbors and trading partners. At once complimenting and extending the reach of the exhibition, the catalog provides scholars with a trove of insightful essays and catalog entries that are, characteristically, deeply researched and will serve as a touchstone in the field for decades to come. Together, this exhibition and catalog calls on medievalists to rethink the way we study and teach medieval art, recognizing the inner diversities, interlocking histories, and extraordinary artistic achievements of Christian communities in the east.

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Afterword Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea

To Turn the Whole World Over ◽

10.5622/illinois/9780252042317.003.0013 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 257-272

Author(s):

Michael O. West

Keyword(s):

Social Contract ◽

The United States ◽

The Self ◽

Declaration Of Independence ◽

The Social ◽

The Us ◽

The Republic ◽

To Come ◽

A Charge

It is a truism that black folk in the United States are an international people. From the beginning of the republic, they were compelled by force of domestic (national) circumstances to internationalize their struggle for liberation, the founders having excluded them from the US social contract. The initial affidavit of exclusion is right there in the inaugural document of the social contract, the Declaration of Independence, which, ever so cryptically, damned the king of England for having “excited domestic insurrections amongst us.” This was an attack on the self-emancipatory activities of the enslaved descendants of Africa, who were exploiting the chaos caused by the anticolonial rebellion to claim their freedom, sometimes in cahoots with the British colonialists. Unable or unwilling to confront their own contradictions, the authors of the Declaration of Independence condemned the self-determination of the slaves as the doing of outside agitators, a charge that would be hurled at African American movements and activists for generations to come—up to the present time, in fact....

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Introduction

Orthodox Radicals ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190912369.003.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

Matthew C. Bingham

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Early Modern ◽

The Self ◽

Men And Women ◽

Self Identity ◽

English Revolution ◽

The World ◽

Central Argument ◽

To Come ◽

Considerable Body

Ushering the reader into both the world of early modern radical religion and the considerable body of scholarly literature devoted to its study, the introduction offers a précis of what is to come and a backward glance to explain how the proposed journey contributes to ongoing scholarly conversations. After orienting readers to the basic methodological boundaries within which the book will operate and briefly situating the book within the wider historiography, the introduction adumbrates the shape of the work as a whole and encapsulates its central argument. The introduction contends that the mid-seventeenth-century men and women often described as “Particular Baptists” would not have readily understood themselves as such. This tension between the self-identity of the early modern actors and the identity imposed upon them by future scholars has significant implications for how we understand both radical religion during the English Revolution and the period more broadly.

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Gandhi’s Marvellous Revolution

Revolution and Non-Violence in Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Mandela ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198863694.003.0003 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 87-119

Author(s):

Imraan Coovadia

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Social Change ◽

Social Transformation ◽

The Self ◽

To Come ◽

And Control

The chapter examines Gandhi’s mature conceptions of decolonization and social change, which he developed alongside his interpretation of Tolstoy and Tolstoy’s understanding of colonialism. Gandhi seems to have expected social transformation to come immediately, as a kind of miracle of consciousness, yet he also imagined change as an indefinitely protracted process, dominated by delay and reversion, as a counter to the clarity and swiftness of revolutionary upheaval. He was particularly concerned with conversion of the adversary and control of the self as the motors of social change. The chapter considers the arguments of Hind Swaraj and the ways in which Gandhi referred to the example of South Africa even when in India, as well as the extent to which questions posed by Tolstoy in the ‘Letter to a Hindoo’ shaped Gandhi’s thinking.

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Territorial Integrity

Near Abroad ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190253301.003.0010 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Gerard Toal

Keyword(s):

Mobile Phone ◽

Air Force ◽

The Self ◽

Territorial Integrity ◽

Russian Media ◽

The Government ◽

To Come ◽

Russian Military ◽

The City ◽

The Town

On the Evening of August 7, 2008, Inal Pliyev was working late at his office in the center of Tskhinval(i). A former journalist, Pliyev was head of communications for the self-declared South Ossetian Republic. Earlier in the evening, Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili had declared a unilateral ceasefire after days of skirmishes between Georgian forces and South Ossetian militias. Pliyev, however, was still in the office because of information about increasing Georgian artillery and armor concentrations near the town. “First we heard what sounded like grenade launchers—after the years of conflict everyone here knows what sound is made by which weapon. I did not pay much attention to that.” But when he heard the first sounds of Grad missiles, Pliyev turned off his computer and ran for his life. “All parts of the city came under fire simultaneously. It was so intense, that you couldn’t even register a fraction of time between explosions, there were multiple explosions every second. The fire was non-stop. Electricity and gas supplies were cut off during the first minute of the shelling, and for the most part phone service was also cut off.” One shell fell next to the government building where Pliyev and his colleagues huddled. “The building shook so much that part of the ceiling bent down, and we ran into an underground bunker in a nearby non-government building. Explosions were becoming louder and even more frequent. We could not leave our hideout, and everyone was getting ready to die. Even more we feared being taken prisoner by Georgian soldiers. It was especially terrifying when we heard machine gun fire. Our only thought was to avoid being taken prisoner at any cost. Our only hope was for the Russian air force, we were waiting for it to come, so that Georgians would leave our city. But it wasn’t coming.” Pliyev had his mobile phone, and as its battery ran out he spoke to various Russian media outlets pleading for Russian military help.

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Harm minimisation after repeated self-harm: development of a trust handbook

Psychiatric Bulletin ◽

10.1192/pb.bp.106.012070 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 32 (2) ◽

pp. 60-63 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Nicky Pengelly ◽

Barry Ford ◽

Paul Blenkiron ◽

Steve Reilly

Keyword(s):

The Self ◽

Service Users ◽

Harm Minimisation ◽

Suicidal Intent ◽

Self Help ◽

Self Injury ◽

Safe Limits ◽

Self Harm ◽

Voluntary Organisations ◽

Effective Treatments

Repeated self-harm without suicidal intent occurs in approximately 2% of adults (Meltzer et al, 2002). Service users report that professionals can respond to self-harm with unhelpful attitudes and ineffective care. Although evidence for effective treatments is poor (Hawton et al, 1999), this therapeutic pessimism is not found in the self-help approaches promoted by voluntary organisations such as Mind: ‘If you feel the need to self-harm, focus on staying within safe limits' (Harrison & Sharman, 2005). User websites frequently offer advice on harm minimisation: ‘Support the person in beginning to take steps to keep herself safe and to reduce her self-injury – if she wishes to. Examples of very valuable steps might be: taking fewer risks (e.g. washing implements used to cut, avoiding drinking if she thinks she is likely to self-injure)’ (Bristol Crisis Service for Women, 1997).

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