Anxiety States Occurring at the Involutional Period

1920 ◽  
Vol 66 (274) ◽  
pp. 274-282
Author(s):  
D. K. Henderson
Keyword(s):  
General Condition ◽  
General Health ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
The Other ◽  
General Knowledge ◽  
Poor General Health ◽  
Anxiety States ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
History Of ◽  
Anxious Apprehension

A widower, set. 69, was admitted recently to the Glasgow Royal Mental Hospital in an anxious, apprehensive, excited, restless state. The history of the case showed that he had come of a good stock, and that he had been a strong, healthy man. For a period of forty-six years he had been employed by the same firm of lawyers, and latterly had been their cashier. He had married twice; there were four children from the first marriage and two from the second. He had divorced his second wife on account of her unfaithfulness. In January, 1919, he resigned his position, sold his home, and made plans to live with his daughter. Three days after his home and furniture had been sold he made a determined attempt on his life by cutting his throat. One month later he was admitted to the Glasgow Royal Mental Hospital. Following his admission he continued in a state of abject misery, he moaned and groaned, wrung his hands, resented any interference, and was very restless. He realised that he was in a hospital, but his mind was so occupied by his depressive thoughts and he was so miserable that he would not assist in a satisfactory mental examination. Physically he was in poor general health, his pulse was irregular and intermittent, and he had peripheral arterio-sclerosis. During the next few months he gradually improved in strength and general condition but mentally panics of anxious apprehension supervened from time to time, in which he became self-accusatory, and expressed hopeless feeling as regard his prospect of recovery. At the same time he was perfectly oriented, and his memory, general knowledge, and personality were all well retained. No particular attempt was ever made at psycho-analysis (his age seemed to preclude such a procedure), but nevertheless casual conversations* were sufficient to allow him to give expression to his fears, and incidentally to show where his conflicts and difficulties lay. He complained of the other patients, said that they looked as if they could tear his bones out, that they wished to do him an injury, that they slandered him, that they accused him of incest with his daughter. At this point he began to defend himself with great warmth and emphasis, and said, quite unnecessarily, that the only thing that supported him was the consciousness of his own rectitude, that nothing had been further from his thoughts, etc. These matters were never argued out with him, but he was encouraged always to say what he had to say, and eventually six months after admission he was discharged as recovered.

HISTORY AND MEMORY OF THE ITALIAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS

1997 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMES WALSTON
Keyword(s):  
Historical Memory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
General Knowledge ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

The history of fascism in Italy has been extensively covered while fascist Italy's role in colonies before the war, and occupied areas during it, have only been touched upon. There has been little or no coming to terms with fascist crimes comparable to the French concern with Vichy or even the Japanese recognition of its wartime and pre-war responsibilities. This article uses Italy's internment policy in Africa before the war and in the Balkans and Italy during the war to illustrate the repression of historical memory. On the one hand, foreign Jews were interned to protect them from deportation by German, Croatian or Vichy French forces. The reasons were political and humanitarian. On the other, Balkan civilians were interned in conditions that led to the death of thousands. Similar and worse policies had been carried out in Africa before the war. There is some excellent specialist work on Africa which is not part of general knowledge; the Balkans have not even been covered by specialists. This article puts forward some explanations for the repression of the recent past.

The Leeuwenhoek Lecture, 1965 Some controversial aspects of bacterial sexuality

1966 ◽  
Vol 165 (998) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Cells ◽  
John Locke ◽  
The Other ◽  
Coarse Grain ◽  
General Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Attitude ◽  
History Of ◽  
Antony Van Leeuwenhoek ◽  
Christopher Wren ◽  
Circulation Of The Blood

'I must say to you, as I’ve oft-times said already, that ’tis not my intention to stick stubbornly to my opinions, but as soon as people urge against them any reasonable objections, whereof I can form a just idea, I’ll give mine up, and go over to the other side.’ (A. van Leeuwenhoek: see Letter 81, 19 March 1694.) As these words of his testify, Antony van Leeuwenhoek had a very forthright and truly scientific attitude to controversy. Born 333 years ago this year, in the same year as John Locke, Christopher Wren and Jan Vermeer, there can have been few men, if indeed any in the history of science, whose observations and ideas were more in advance of the general knowledge of their times. In his hundreds of letters, over a period of fifty years to this Society, of which he was a Fellow, he unfolded the existence of a new and undreamt-of world of living creatures which ranged in size as far below the limit of unaided vision as the largest mammals extended above it. In fact, by his own computation, a thousand million of the smallest of his little creatures, the bacteria, were no bigger than a coarse grain of sand (Letter 33, to R. Hooke, 12 November 1680). Not only was he the first man to see bacteria, with lenses and microscopes made with his own hands, but he described virtually all the morphological varieties of bacteria that we recognize today. However, Leeuwenhoek’s lasting contributions to knowledge go far beyond his discovery of protozoa and bacteria. He carried out researches on red blood cells, which he accurately measured and often used as a standard of size; not only this, but he also observed their movement through the capillaries, thus completing the story of the circulation of the blood, established earlier by his contemporary, William Harvey. His comparative observations on his own spermatozoa and those of animals and his understanding of their role in procreation led him to speculate imaginatively, if somewhat wildly and erroneously, on the mechanism of fertilization and inheritance.

Variables Affecting the Decision Making of a Review Panel

1985 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 577-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Higenbottam ◽  
B. Ledwidge ◽  
J. Paredes ◽  
M. Hansen ◽  
C. Kogan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Group Membership ◽  
Discharge Planning ◽  
The Other ◽  
Psychiatric History ◽  
Review Panel ◽  
Case Summary ◽  
History Of

This study was designed to identify the variables that influence a review panel's decision to discharge or detain an involuntary patient. A group of fifty patients consecutively discharged by the review panel of a provincial mental hospital were compared according to thirty-five variables, with a group of forty-five patients consecutively detained by the panel. The variable set included information on the patient's psychiatric history, current hospitalization and treatment as well as ratings of dangerousness, insight and psychopathology, as reflected in the attending physician's case summary prepared for the review panel. The released and detained groups were found to be remarkably similar. They differed on ten of the thirty-five variables measured, but they did not differ on some variables that one would expect to form the basis of the panel's decision, including diagnosis and a history of suicide attempts. On the other hand, when the predictive value of the variable set as a whole was examined using discriminant analysis, the results indicated that there was a substantial amount of predictability to the review panel process. The group membership of 77.5% of the patients can be predicted from only nine variables that contribute to the discriminant function. The results will be of interest to clinicians who deal with review panels on a regular basis and the findings have implications for other practical issues including discharge planning and readiness for community living.

Evolution of the continental crust

1979 ◽  
Vol 291 (1381) ◽  
pp. 257-268 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Continental Crust ◽  
The Other ◽  
Crustal Evolution ◽  
General Knowledge ◽  
Geological History ◽  
Uranium Deposits ◽  
Precambrian Rocks ◽  
Irregular Distribution ◽  
The Earth ◽  
History Of

At a time when it has been suggested that a large part of the resources of uranium available in readily accessible areas near the surface of the Earth may already have been found, and faced as we are by a demand which is likely to increase several-fold by the end of the century, it seems sensible to place any discussion of the geology of uranium on a very broad basis. No student of the Precambrian, and it is in this capacity that I speak, can fail to be fascinated by some of the remarkable discoveries made during the search for uranium deposits over the last four decades. The close connection, as Bowie has pointed out on more than one occasion (Bowie 1970, 1977), that exists between many deposits and the presence of Precambrian rocks in their vicinity, the general lack of deposits in the very oldest Precambrian and the irregular distribution both in space and in time of workable accumulations of uranium, are all findings which bear on the evolution of the crust. Almost certainly an understanding of such questions as these, thrown up by the work of the mining geologist and geochemist, will in turn make our comprehension of crustal evolution that much clearer. In the other direction, the very fact that uranium deposits are not distributed regularly through time and space suggests that there are some fundamental rules to be found, clues to which lie in our general knowledge of the geological history of the crust, particularly through the Precambrian.

Theodor W. Adorno

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colby Dickinson
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
History Of Thought ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

In his somewhat controversial book Remnants of Auschwitz, Agamben makes brief reference to Theodor Adorno’s apparently contradictory remarks on perceptions of death post-Auschwitz, positions that Adorno had taken concerning Nazi genocidal actions that had seemed also to reflect something horribly errant in the history of thought itself. There was within such murderous acts, he had claimed, a particular degradation of death itself, a perpetration of our humanity bound in some way to affect our perception of reason itself. The contradictions regarding Auschwitz that Agamben senses to be latent within Adorno’s remarks involve the intuition ‘on the one hand, of having realized the unconditional triumph of death against life; on the other, of having degraded and debased death. Neither of these charges – perhaps like every charge, which is always a genuinely legal gesture – succeed in exhausting Auschwitz’s offense, in defining its case in point’ (RA 81). And this is the stance that Agamben wishes to hammer home quite emphatically vis-à-vis Adorno’s limitations, ones that, I would only add, seem to linger within Agamben’s own formulations in ways that he has still not come to reckon with entirely: ‘This oscillation’, he affirms, ‘betrays reason’s incapacity to identify the specific crime of Auschwitz with certainty’ (RA 81).

The World after the End of the World

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kas Saghafi
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
End Of The World

In several late texts, Derrida meditated on Paul Celan's poem ‘Grosse, Glühende Wölbung’, in which the departure of the world is announced. Delving into the ‘origin’ and ‘history’ of the ‘conception’ of the world, this paper suggests that, for Derrida, the end of the world is determined by and from death—the death of the other. The death of the other marks, each and every time, the absolute end of the world.

Med. Dr. Adalbert Wraný (1836–1902) – doctor of medicine, mineral collector and donor to the National Museum in Prague

2019 ◽  
Vol 188 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-146
Author(s):  
Martin Bohatý ◽  
Dalibor Velebil
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
The Other ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Industrial Chemistry ◽  
Pediatric Pathology ◽  
Geological Institute ◽  
History Of ◽  
Precious Stones

Adalbert Wraný (*1836, †1902) was a doctor of medicine, with his primary specialization in pediatric pathology, and was also one of the founders of microscopic and chemical diagnostics. He was interested in natural sciences, chemistry, botany, paleontology and above all mineralogy. He wrote two books, one on the development of mineralogical research in Bohemia (1896), and the other on the history of industrial chemistry in Bohemia (1902). Wraný also assembled several natural science collections. During his lifetime, he gave to the National Museum large collections of rocks, a collection of cut precious stones and his library. He donated a collection of fossils to the Geological Institute of the Czech University (now Charles University). He was an inspector of the mineralogical collection of the National Museum. After his death, he bequeathed to the National Museum his collection of minerals and the rest of the gemstone collection. He donated paintings to the Prague City Museum, and other property to the Klar Institute of the Blind in Prague. The National Museum’s collection currently contains 4 325 samples of minerals, as well as 21 meteorites and several hundred cut precious stones from Wraný’s collection.

Analisa Wacana Pemberitaan Kasus Korupsi E-KTP Pada Media Kompas.com Terhadap Pembentukan Opini Publik

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Neri Widya Ramailis ◽  
Dede Nopendri
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Control ◽  
The Other ◽  
Main Function ◽  
General Knowledge ◽  
Visual Method ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Private Entrepreneurs

Discourse is a series of sentences that relate and connect one proposition with the other propositions to from a unity. The main function of the news is not to warn, instruct, and make the public stunned, the main function of the news is to inform and then it is upto the public to utilize the news. There are two ways for the news to be useful to the public, the first to effort news as general knowledge and the second to effort the news a tool of social control. E-Ktp corruption cases are one of the biggest corruption cases that occurered in Indonesia. Therefore, many mass media reported heavilly on E-Ktp corruption cases, one of which was the kompas.com. furthermore, to find out how the writer gets the source the writer gets the source of data and information the writer uses the criminology visual method and then analyzes it using criminology newsmaking theory. However, the results of this study illustrate that the aspect highlighted are those of actors suspected of being involved in E-Ktp corruption cases. Where the media only emphasizes one institution, namely the people’s representative council, even though in this case the involved parties are not only the legislature but case the involved parties are not only the legislature but also from various institutions such as the interior ministry, state-owned enterprises, and private entrepreneurs. In the aspect of media projection Kompas.com make the bulk of the news about E- Ktp corruption cases as news headline and a tranding topic.

La ética del Otro: una introducción al pensamiento de Emmanuel Lévinas

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Carlos Alvaréz Teijeiro
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
The Other ◽  
Western Philosophy ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Essential Question ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
First Philosophy

Emmanuel Lévinas, the philosopher of ethics par excellence in the twentieth century, and by own merit one of the most important ethical philosophers in the history of western philosophy, is also the philosopher of the Other. Thereby, it can be said that no thought has deepened like his in the ups and downs of the ethical relationship between subject and otherness. The general objective of this work is to expose in a simple and understandable way some ideas that tend to be quite dark in the philosophical work of the author, since his profuse religious production will not be analyzed here. It is expected to show that his ideas about the being and the Other are relevant to better understand interpersonal relationships in times of 4.0 (re)evolution. As specific objectives, this work aims to expose in chronological order the main works of the thinker, with special emphasis on his ethical implications: Of the evasion (1935), The time and the Other (1947), From the existence to the existent (1947), Totality and infinity: An essay on exteriority (1961) and, last, Otherwise than being, or beyond essence (1974). In the judgment of Lévinas, history of western philosophy starting with Greece, has shown an unusual concern for the Being, this is, it has basically been an ontology and, accordingly, it has relegated ethics to a second or third plane. On the other hand and in a clear going against the tide movement, our author supports that ethics should be considered the first philosophy and more, even previous to the proper philosophize. This novel approach implies, as it is supposed, that the essential question of the philosophy slows down its origin around the Being in order to inquire about the Other: it is a philosophy in first person. Such a radical change of perspective generates an underlying change in how we conceive interpersonal relationships, the complex framework of meanings around the relationship Me and You, which also philosopher Martin Buber had already spoken of. As Lévinas postulates that ethics is the first philosophy, this involves that the Other claims all our attention, intellectual and emotional, to the point of considering that the relationship with the Other is one of the measures of our identity. Thus, “natural” attitude –husserlian word not used by Lévinas- would be to be in permanent disposition regarding to the meeting with the Other, to be in permanent opening state to let ourselves be questioned by him. Ontology, as the author says, being worried about the Being, has been likewise concerned about the Existence, when the matter is to concern about the particular Existent that every otherness supposes for us. In conclusion it can be affirmed that levinasian ethics of the meeting with the Other, particular Face, irreducible to the assumption, can contribute with an innovative looking to (re)evolving the interpersonal relationships in a 4.0 context.

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