scholarly journals The Regressive Magic of Words in Psychoanalytic Treatment

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-37
Author(s):  
Irina Adomnicai
Keyword(s):  
Human Subject ◽  
Fundamental Issue ◽  
Defence Mechanisms ◽  
The Past ◽  
Analytic Relationship ◽  
Clinical Forms ◽  
Clinical Vignettes ◽  
Psychoanalytic Treatment

Abstract The clinical vignettes evoked in this text open up, I hope, new lines of thinking and reflection, necessary in approaching the following fundamental issue: what does the archaic aspect of the analytic relationship consist of, considered a determining element for the changes and transformations induced by the psychoanalytical protocol? An indispensable question for the deepening of means of evolution for the psychoanalytical technique, directly determined by the diversity of personality structures and defence mechanisms which the method has been confronted with the past years. All the more so that what can be brought to light from the past never represents a faithful witness of the prehistoric age, but rather a heterogeneous product to the extent that every stage of life traversed by the human subject modifies in its turn « primitive » experiences. This is also the reason for which states of pathogenic regression do not allow an exact reconstitution of original situations. Especially since there is not much said about origin. Only the paradox can be noticed, that the origin is different from the archaic. An archaic that continues to produce meaning in the present, forcing psychoanalytical practice and its practitioners to adapt to modernity, thorough the strangest and most unexpected clinical forms thus convoked.

Mental Health Triage Tools for Medically Cleared Disaster Survivors: An Evaluation by MRC Volunteers and Public Health Workers

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald E. Brannen ◽  
Robert Barcus ◽  
Mark A. McDonnell ◽  
Andrea Price ◽  
Corey Alsept ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Health Resources ◽  
The Past ◽  
Clinical Vignettes ◽  
Interclass Correlation ◽  
Disaster Survivors ◽  
Public Health Workers ◽  
Better Than

AbstractObjectivePsychological assessment after disasters determines which survivors are acutely distressed or medically compromised and what kind of assistance is needed (whether practical or psychological). A mental health triage tool can help direct more people to the appropriate type of help. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the Fast Mental Health Triage Tool (FMHT) and the Alsept-Price Mental Health Scale (APMHS) among public health workers and Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) volunteers in conducting mental health triage. Both tools screen for ability to follow simple commands, chronic medical conditions, mental health conditions and services, occult injuries, and traumatic events in the past year. Both were designed for use in disasters where mental health resources are scarce and survivors are already medically triaged.MethodsVolunteers (n = 204) and workers (n = 66) were randomized into 3 groups, with 79 participating. Fifty-nine raters completed 20 each of 1180 mental health clinical vignettes of disaster survivors.ResultsThe survey presenting the vignettes was highly reliable at 0.771; the study model was parallel between baseline and treatment; and the interclass correlation among the raters was high at 0.852. Each rater triaged the same cases, but the rater was randomly assigned to use FMHT, APMHS, or no tool or scale. Between-subject effect for the tools used was significant (P = .039). The FMHT was significantly better than no tool in correct mental health triage, 67.3% to 51.5% (P = .028).ConclusionThe incorporation of a temporal component should be evaluated for potential inclusion in existing mental health triage systems. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2013;7:20-28)

Recursion, Supplementarity, and the Limits of Subjectivity in John Barth’s “Menelaiad”

KronoScope ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 35-48
Author(s):  
Marc Singer
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Look Back ◽  
Poststructuralist Theory

Abstract“Menelaiad,” an experimental short story from John Barth’s Lost in the Funhouse, consists of a series of multiply nested narratives in which each layer recursively generates the next, chronologically earlier one. The story presents narrative and memory as supplemental processes that look back in time to recover or replace a lost moment of presence and completion. Barth suggests these supplements are imperfect and self-defeating means of recapturing the past, however, as they further separate the narrator from his tale’s irretrievable origins. The story structures human subjectivity along similarly self-deferring lines, portraying the self not as an essential whole but as a sequence of narrative supplements organized around an absence that no supplement can redress. Paralleling contemporary developments in poststructuralist theory yet not inspired by, beholden to, or even necessarily aware of them, “Menelaiad” delivers an original illustration of the recursive and supplemental processes that, Barth believes, define and demarcate the human subject.

scholarly journals Endocrine and Bone Complications inβ-Thalassemia Intermedia: Current Understanding and Treatment

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adlette Inati ◽  
MohammadHassan A. Noureldine ◽  
Anthony Mansour ◽  
Hussein A. Abbas
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Treatment ◽  
Current Understanding ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Thalassemia Intermedia ◽  
The Past ◽  
Clinical Forms ◽  
Molecular Features ◽  
Hb E ◽  
Hb H Disease ◽  
Bone Complications

Thalassemia intermedia (TI), also known as nontransfusion dependent thalassemia (NTDT), is a type of thalassemia where affected patients do not require lifelong regular transfusions for survival but may require occasional or even frequent transfusions in certain clinical settings and for defined periods of time. NTDT encompasses three distinct clinical forms:β-thalassemia intermedia (β-TI), Hb E/β-thalassemia, andα-thalassemia intermedia (Hb H disease). Over the past decade, our understanding of the molecular features, pathophysiology, and complications of NTDT particularlyβ-TI has increased tremendously but data on optimal treatment of disease and its various complications are still lacking. In this paper, we shall review a group of commonly encountered complications inβ-TI, mainly endocrine and bone complications.

History on the Move: Reimagining Historical Change and the (Im)possibility of Utopia in the 21st Century

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juhan Hellerma
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Current Regime ◽  
The Past ◽  
Main Ideas

Abstract In his meticulously researched and conceptually innovative book, Zoltán Boldizsár Simon aims to capture the historical sensibility emergent during the postwar period broadly conceived, spanning from the 1940s to our present moment. Attending particularly to the debates concerning ecological and technological outlooks, Simon theorizes that our historical horizon is increasingly shaped by the expectations of an unprecedented event that challenges the sustainability of the human subject as known today. Arguing that the concept of unprecedented change can best be explained against the backdrop of a modern processual temporal configuration originating in the eighteenth century, Simon likewise probes the same concept to illuminate a distinct relationship with the past. Elaborating on the main ideas of the book, the paper will interrogate critically Simon’s assertion whereby the novel postwar temporality is inherently dystopian, and will negotiate Simon’s engagement with presentism, which he questions as an inaccurate representation of our current regime of historicity.

Beyond Realism

Renascence ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-19
Author(s):  
Maurizio Ascari ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Subject ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
World War Two ◽  
World War ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Literary Character ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Human Condition

A complex and controversial novel, Atonement is at the core of a lively critical debate, opposing those who focus on the impossibility of Briony’s atonement – also in relation to the author’s atheist views – to those who conversely explore the redemptive quality of her “postlapsarian” painful self-fashioning. Far from concerning simply the destiny of a literary character, this debate has to do with the impact Postmodernist relativism has on both the conception of the human subject and the discourses of the past, from memory to history and fiction. Discarding any potentially nihilistic interpretations of Atonement as disempowering, this article delves into Ian McEwan’s multi-layered text in order to comprehend its ambivalences, its subtle investigation of the human condition, and its status as a postmemory novel reconnecting us to the events of World War Two.

scholarly journals Re-thinking the validity of the past. Deconstructing what authenticity and integrity mean to the fruition of cultural heritage

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Antonio García-Esparza
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Visual Experience ◽  
Fundamental Issue ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
The Past ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Heritage Studies ◽  
Inside View ◽  
Critical Heritage ◽  
Heritage Discourse

<p class="Abstracttext-VITRUVIO"><span lang="EN-GB">There is a lively ongoing debate on Critical Heritage Studies and the Authorised Heritage Discourse, but quite a few authors have viewed the issue from a canonical perspective where the wider Cultural Built Heritage visual experience is assessed and valued in relation with authenticity and integrity. The terms static authenticity and dynamic authenticity appear in this text as dependent on heritage connectivity. Two main arguments are developed in this study. Firstly, a general overview of the context is proposed in order to understand the vernacular internationally. Secondly, the article offers an inside view intended to provide an accurate interpretation of how the vernacular is scrutinised and understood. A fundamental issue discussed in this paper is how cultural heritage is ruled, protected, enhanced, experienced and managed on different scales.</span></p>

scholarly journals Droit de la mer : La contribution du Canada au nouveau concept de la zone économique

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georges Antoine Léger
Keyword(s):  
Marine Environment ◽  
Functional Approach ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
Geographical Proximity ◽  
Fundamental Issue ◽  
Fishing Rights ◽  
Coastal State ◽  
The Past ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Delegation Of Powers

The decade-long process of negotiation leading to a new regime of Oceans Law is drawing to a close. One of its major achievements to date is the elaboration of an entirely new concept in ocean space, the exclusive economic zone. Canada has played a leading role in bringing about consensus on the main elements of this zonal approach, a bridge linking certain features of the territorial sea regime with a number of safeguards derived from the exercise of high seas rights. Canada 's contribution was based generally on a novel application of the functional approach which has been prevalent in Canada 's treatment of Law of the Sea issues over the past few years. The idea was to apply the principles of delegation of powers to those of functionalism, in order to foster a zonal approach whereby certain functional rights and obligations (pertaining, for instance, to fisheries or to the marine environment) would be carried out by the coastal state on behalf of the international community. In recognition of its exercise of this mandate, and in regard to its geographical proximity to the ocean space it managed, the coastal state would be granted a preferential (and for most purposes an exclusive) access to the resources of the zone. One of the best examples of this approach can be found in Canada 's earliest efforts to deal with the fundamental issue of fishing rights at the Conference. Bringing a multi-disciplinary focus to bear on the need to distinguish between different species of fish in the coastal areas, the Canadian delegation, with the co-sponsorship of a number of like-minded countries, brought forward proposals tailored to the management and exploitation of these species.

Therapeutic Technique in Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

1992 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward M. Weinshel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
The United States ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy ◽  
Therapeutic Technique ◽  
The Past ◽  
Psychoanalytic Treatment

As the distinctions between what we consider to be psychoanalysis and what we consider to be psychoanalytic psychotherapy have become more uncertain and more blurred, it follows that it is equally difficult to designate the techniques that would be appropriate and specific for each modality. The problem has been compounded by the fact that in recent years psychoanalysis in the United States has become considerably less homogeneous than in the past and the ego-psychological structural model is no longer the only point of view in the psychoanalytic marketplace. Further, with alterations in the criteria for analyzability, cases which, generally, had not been viewed as suitable for analysis, have been appearing with increasing frequency on psychoanalysts' couches. We have also recognized that the degree of congruence between our expectation from and the results of psychoanalytic treatment was often less than anticipated. It appears that analysis have become considerably less arbitrary about what psychoanalysis is and how a psychoanalysis can be carried out. The author is unable to delineate one technique that is intrinsic to and limited to psychoanalysis. There are, however, differences in degree and emphasis in the ways in which various techniques are applied in the therapy of psychoanalysis as compared to the therapy of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Special attention is given to the role of a psychoanalytic process and the central place the analysis of resistance plays in psychoanalytic therapy.

scholarly journals Nostalgic Constitutional Identity

2020 ◽  
pp. 95-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał Stambulski
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Defence Mechanisms ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Emotion ◽  
Temporal Structures ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
Constitutional Identity ◽  
Point Of Reference ◽  
The Eu

The paper deals with the link between the notions of constitutional identity and nostalgic collective memory. Starting from the notion of nostalgia of postmodern society as used in social theory, it shows that this cultural condition is reflected in in constitutions. The point of reference for contemporary political projects is no longer the future but the past. Longing for a lost homeland becomes a dominant social emotion. The author shows that this vision of the past is present in constitutions, especially in post-communist countries. It influences constitutional identity and, due to different temporal structures, is in conflict with the constitutional identity of the EU. The article ends with an analysis of the consequences of such a politics of nostalgia and the possible defence mechanisms against it.

scholarly journals Post conflict water management: learning from the past for recovery planning in the Orontes River basin

2016 ◽  
Vol 374 ◽  
pp. 17-21
Author(s):  
Myriam Saadé-Sbeih ◽  
François Zwahlen ◽  
Ahmed Haj Asaad ◽  
Raoul Gonzalez ◽  
Ronald Jaubert
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Balance ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Fundamental Issue ◽  
Balance Assessment ◽  
Recovery Planning ◽  
Management Learning ◽  
The Past ◽  
Post Conflict

Abstract. Water management is a fundamental issue in post-conflict planning in Syria. Based on historical water balance assessment, this study identifies the drivers of the profound changes that took place in the Lebanese and Syrian parts of the Orontes River basin since the 1930s. Both drastic effects of the conflict on the hydro-system and the strong uncontrolled anthropization of the river basin prior to the crisis have to be considered in the design of recovery interventions.

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