Thwarting Repair: Gutter, Stutter, Are You My Mother?

differences ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-92
Author(s):  
Chase Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Health ◽  
Surface Level ◽  
Comic Drama ◽  
Donald Winnicott ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theories

Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama (2012) presents an interesting challenge to literary critics: as an object that extensively theorizes itself, it leaves little room for interpretation beyond its surface-level claims. This article reads against the grain of Are You My Mother? ’s own analysis in order to make room for readings that resist taking the text at its word. Although Are You My Mother? proclaims loyalty to the psychoanalytic theories of Donald Winnicott, Bechdel employs the metaphor of the mirror and the formal qualities of comics to complicate the reductive assertions of her avatar’s own narration. Ultimately, despite all its surface-level attachments to Winnicott’s version of mental and emotional health, Are You My Mother? ’s formal strategies end up revealing Bechdel’s deep ambivalence toward concepts like reparation, authenticity, and psychic wholeness.

Between Instincts and Intelligence: The Precarious Sciences of Child Identity in Twentieth-Century Britain

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-192
Author(s):  
Bonnie Evans
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Intelligence Testing ◽  
Mental Deficiency ◽  
Emotional Engagement ◽  
Child Psychoanalysis ◽  
New Models ◽  
History Of ◽  
Donald Winnicott ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theories

The psychoanalysis of children began to flourish in the 1920s. In exactly the same period, the technique of intelligence testing also began to expand. Yet the relation between these two theoretical advances is often overlooked and misunderstood. This article focuses on the British context and considers why it is vital to consider the history of child psychoanalysis in relation to intelligence testing. The first half considers the growth of child psychoanalysis from the 1920s and reflects on how psychoanalytically informed thinkers such as Jean Piaget, Susan Isaacs and Donald Winnicott considered children's intellectual capacities in relation to emotional engagement. The second half considers major changes in approaches to mental health and ‘mental deficiency’ in the late 1950s, and explores how this led to a mounting criticism of psychoanalytic theories of ‘autistic’ and ‘psychotic’ thought. The article concludes with a reflection on how political change in the 1970s and 1980s influenced new models of child development and encouraged new psychoanalytic work.

Physical and Emotional Health, Depression and Physical Activity Adoption

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather J. Adamus-Leach ◽  
Scherezade K. Mama ◽  
Erica G. Soltero ◽  
Rebecca E. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Emotional Health

Emotional Health Scale

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan-Richard C. Cummins ◽  
Marjorie Ireland ◽  
Michael D. Resnick ◽  
Robert Wm. Blum
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Health

‘Behind the Poetic Fiction’: Freud, Schnitzler and Feminine Subjectivity

2004 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-223
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Goodstein
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
Arthur Schnitzler ◽  
Feminine Subjectivity ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
Poetic Fiction ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theories

In 1922 Sigmund Freud wrote to fellow Viennese author and dramatist Arthur Schnitzler: ‘I believe I have avoided you out of a sort of fear of my double’. Through a series of reflections on this imagined doubling and its reception, this paper demonstrates that the ambivalent desire for his literary other attested by Freud's confession goes to the heart of both theoretical and historical questions regarding the nature of psychoanalysis. Bringing Schnitzler's resistance to Freud into conversation with attempts by psychoanalytically oriented literary scholars to affirm the Doppengängertum of the two men, it argues that not only psychoanalytic theories and modernist literature but also the tendency to identify the two must be treated as historical phenomena. Furthermore, the paper contends, Schnitzler's work stands in a more critical relationship to its Viennese milieu than Freud's: his examination of the vicissitudes of feminine desire in ‘Fräulein Else’ underlines the importance of what lies outside the oedipal narrative through which the case study of ‘Dora’ comes to be centered on the uncanny nexus of identification with and anxious flight from the other.

Modern approaches to the prevention and treatment of alterations in reproductive health in women with somatoform disorders and autonomic homeostasis

2016 ◽  
pp. 98-101
Author(s):  
Vl.V. Podolsky ◽  
◽  
V.V. Podolsky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Hormonal Regulation ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Somatoform Disorders ◽  
Emotional Health ◽  
Uterine Fibroids ◽  
Reproductive Function ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Prevention And Treatment ◽  
Artificial Abortion

The objective: the developing of a system of preventive measures and principles of pregravid preparation for women with somatoform disorders and violation of autonomic homeostasis (VAH), in which observed changes in reproductive health (CRH) in the shape of states after undergoing artificial abortion, infertility and uterine fibroids. Patients and methods. Conducted clinical and epidemiological studies in the population of women of fertile age (WFA) allowed identifying for further examination of women with CRH in the form of state after undergoing artificial abortion, infertility and uterine fibroids in women with VAH. Further women were examined, in particular the conducted clinical and instrumental methods of research; determined the state of autonomic homeostasis and psycho emotional health of the biotopes of the organism, immunity; analyzed the hormonal regulation of the menstrual cycle; performed genetic studies and determined the morphofunctional state of reproductive system. Results. The most frequent complications during pregnancy in women who had CRH in history in the form of abortions, infertility and uterine fibroids and in the background of the PAF, there was a threat of interruption of pregnancy (often in I and II trimester – 56%) and preterm delivery (21%). The study of the catamnesis of further reproductive health found that in the case of well-conducted therapeutic measures in women undergoing artificial abortion, had infertility and uterine leiomyoma in the background of VAH, restore reproductive function, and in 82% of cases occurred a pregnancy. Conclusion. The the provided study of reproductive health, and state of various organs and systems of fertile aged women with somatoform disorders and violations of the autonomic homeostasis allowed to develop preventive measures for these women and pregravid preparation with the inclusion to the therapy Magnesium and vitamins (Magne-В6®). Key words: somatoform disorders, violation of autonomic homeostasis, changes in reproductive health, prevention and treatment, women of fertile age, Magne-В6®.

Less is more: Simple stimuli provoke more variable search strategies.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Nowakowska ◽  
Alasdair D F Clarke ◽  
Jessica Christie ◽  
Josephine Reuther ◽  
Amelia R. Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Line Segment ◽  
Search Strategies ◽  
Complex Objects ◽  
Search Behaviour ◽  
Line Segments ◽  
Surface Level ◽  
Efficient Search ◽  
Less Is More ◽  
Dramatic Shift

We measured the efficiency of 30 participants as they searched through simple line segment stimuli and through a set of complex icons. We observed a dramatic shift from highly variable, and mostly inefficient, strategies with the line segments, to uniformly efficient search behaviour with the icons. These results demonstrate that changing what may initially appear to be irrelevant, surface-level details of the task can lead to large changes in measured behaviour, and that visual primitives are not always representative of more complex objects.

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