Micro-separations: how to traumatise your spouse on a daily basis

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-88
Author(s):  
Brett Kahr
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Couple Relationship ◽  
Couple Relationships ◽  
John Bowlby ◽  
Frequent Flyer ◽  
Mobile Telephones ◽  
Severe Psychopathology ◽  
Traumatic Impact

Back in 1917, Professor Sigmund Freud highlighted the role of loss and bereavement in the development of melancholia. During the 1930s and 1940s, pioneering psychoanalysts such as Dr John Bowlby and Dr René Spitz underscored the ways in which profound separations might contribute to the genesis of depression, delinquency, and other forms of severe psychopathology. But what impact do brief, or even tiny, separations— micro-separations —have upon individuals and, moreover, upon partners in intimate couple relationships? In this essay, we shall offer a typology of the micro-separations which occur between the members of long-established couples, ranging from fleeting moments of misattunement, to periods of vanishing into laptops and mobile telephones, to those of a more overtly dramatic nature. We shall also explore the "frequent-flyer couple", in which one or both members of the pair might travel extensively for work. Above all, we will consider the cumulative traumatic impact of micro-separations upon the atmosphere and dynamics of the couple relationship and we will discuss how the powerful attentivity of the psychotherapeutic situation both exposes and heals this potentially toxic and, often, invisible pathogen.

Bad Dreams and Secret Artists: Translating Freud into Literature

2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Ordinary Language ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
Popular Approach ◽  
English Reader ◽  
Creative Writer ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Way

This article addresses the increasingly popular approach to Freud and his work which sees him primarily as a literary writer rather than a psychologist, and takes this as the context for an examination of Joyce Crick's recent translation of The Interpretation of Dreams. It claims that translation lies at the heart of psychoanalysis, and that the many interlocking and overlapping implications of the word need to be granted a greater degree of complexity. Those who argue that Freud is really a creative writer are themselves doing a work of translation, and one which fails to pay sufficiently careful attention to the role of translation in writing itself (including the notion of repression itself as a failure to translate). Lesley Chamberlain's The Secret Artist: A Close Reading of Sigmund Freud is taken as an example of the way Freud gets translated into a novelist or an artist, and her claims for his ‘bizarre poems' are criticized. The rest of the article looks closely at Crick's new translation and its claim to be restoring Freud the stylist, an ordinary language Freud, to the English reader. The experience of reading Crick's translation is compared with that of reading Strachey's, rather to the latter's advantage.

scholarly journals Supranational Assessment of the Quality of Probiotics: Collaborative Initiative between Independent Accredited Testing Laboratories

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 1456
Author(s):  
Jean-Pol Warzée ◽  
Marina Elli ◽  
Abdoulaye Fall ◽  
Daniela Cattivelli ◽  
Jean-Yves François
Keyword(s):  
Daily Basis ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Close Collaboration ◽  
Quality Label ◽  
Accredited Laboratories ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Quality Of Food ◽  
The Eu

Recent acquisitions about the role of the microbiota in the functioning of the human body make it possible to envisage an increasing use of beneficial microbes, and more particularly of probiotics as well as their metabolites, as nutritional supplements. National and EU authorities are engaged in assuring the safety and quality of food supplements and in defining rules to assess and communicate their efficacy on human health. The quality of probiotics, intended as strains’ identification, viability, and stability over time, is a crucial factor of credibility with consumers and health professionals. Analytical technologies for the quality control of probiotics must also be adapted to new preparations, such as those including new multistrains complex combinations. Accredited laboratories face this relevant challenge on a daily basis. Through its close collaboration with the laboratory commissioned to produce the specifications for its ESLP quality label (identification and quantitative analyses) together with its scientific committee, the ESLP has been focusing on this issue for 10 years. Recently, as part of the internationalization of the ESLP quality label, a new and unique initiative in Europe for the evaluation of the quality of probiotic preparations has been carried out. The collaboration between two accredited laboratories in Belgium and in Italy represented a concrete example of supranational collaboration in the assessment of the quality of probiotic preparations. Results show that both laboratories are in line as expected in terms of performance. Common approaches to the qualitative assessment of probiotic preparations, especially for complex and composite recipes, in terms of number of strains and included substances, should be encouraged and promoted all over the EU.

The Role of Individual and Dyadic Planning in Couples’ Daily Goal Pursuits

2021 ◽  
pp. 014616722199763
Author(s):  
Ophir Katzenelenbogen ◽  
Nina Knoll ◽  
Gertraud Stadler ◽  
Eran Bar-Kalifa
Keyword(s):  
Daily Basis ◽  
Goal Achievement ◽  
Daily Diaries ◽  
Goal Progress ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Individual Planning ◽  
Goal Pursuits ◽  
Complementary Strategy

Planning promotes progress toward goal achievement in a wide range of domains. To date, planning has mostly been studied as an individual process. In couples, however, the partner is likely to play an important role in planning. This study tested the effects of individual and dyadic planning on goal progress and goal-related actions. Two samples of couples ( N = 76 and N = 87) completed daily diaries over a period of 28 and 21 days. The results indicate that individual and dyadic planning fluctuate on a daily basis and support the idea that dyadic planning is predominantly used as a complementary strategy to individual planning. As expected, individual and dyadic planning were positively associated with higher levels of action control and goal progress. In Sample 2, dyadic planning was only associated with goal progress on days in which individuals felt that they were dependent upon their partners’ behaviors to achieve their goals.

scholarly journals ALL IS NOT SEXUALITY THAT LOOKS LIKE IT

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 239-247
Author(s):  
DAGMAR HERZOG
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Vital Signs ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Master Narrative ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Rescue Operation ◽  
French Studies ◽  
Textual Interpretation

I am grateful for the observations of these five wonderful and thought-provoking interlocutors: Camille Robcis, Todd Shepard, Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg, Regina Kunzel, and Michal Shapira. They have prompted me to read a whole range of clarifying texts—from Jacques Derrida's reflections on Friedrich Nietzsche to the work of classicist James Davidson on Michel Foucault and George Devereux (as well as more writings by Devereux) to historian Chris Waters's recovery of Edward Glover, and from literary scholar Shoshana Felman's brilliant Jacques Lacan-inspired rescue operation for psychoanalytic textual interpretation (in the special issue of Yale French Studies she edited in 1977) to Charles Shepherdson's turn-of-the-millennium revisionist take on Lacan and Foucault in Vital Signs. They have prompted me, too, to reconsider key texts by Sigmund Freud. And I am glad that the interlocutors challenge me with questions. These include: why the Left abandoned psychoanalysis (Robcis); how I have come to think about practices and desires and the relationships between “the sexual” and other realms of human existence (Shepard and Stewart-Steinberg, each in their own way); how a more integrated and comprehensive master narrative of psychoanalysis might be written, connecting the first and second halves of the twentieth century (Shapira); and how to delve more deeply into the role of analysands in shaping what counts as psychoanalysis (Kunzel).

Ethical and Social Issues in Medicine

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Springer Loewy ◽  
Erich H. Loewy ◽  
Faith T. Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Ethics Committees ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Moral Authority ◽  
Health Care Ethics ◽  
Good Medicine ◽  
Personal Morality ◽  
Online Access

So rapidly has the field of health care ethics continued to grow that, when recently “googled,” the term produced 28.2 million hits. The challenge is to address the ethical and social issues in medicine in this very limited article space. It remains an impossible task to present more than a superficial discussion of these complex issues and the complicated cases in which they are to be found. Like good medicine, good ethics cannot be practiced by algorithm. The authors have opted to provide an operational guide to help clinicians sort through the ethical and social quandaries they must face on a daily basis. To that end, the authors have chosen to divide this chapter into the following sections: 1. A brief description of the biopsychosocial nature of ethics and how it differs from personal morality 2. A method for identifying and dealing with ethical issues 3. A discussion of the role of bioethicists and ethics committees 4. The professional fiduciary role of clinicians 5. Listings of some of the common key bioethical and legal terms (online access only) 6. A very brief discussion of the terms cited in the above listings (online access only) This reviews contains 4 tables, 8 references, 1 appendix, and 20 additional readings. Keywords: Ethical, social, right, wrong, good, bad, obligation, moral authority, critically reflective, and multiperspectival activity, Curiosity, Honesty, Patience, Open-mindedness

Ethical and Social Issues in Medicine

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Springer Loewy ◽  
Erich H. Loewy ◽  
Faith T. Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Ethics Committees ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Moral Authority ◽  
Health Care Ethics ◽  
Good Medicine ◽  
Personal Morality ◽  
Online Access

So rapidly has the field of health care ethics continued to grow that, when recently “googled,” the term produced 28.2 million hits. The challenge is to address the ethical and social issues in medicine in this very limited article space. It remains an impossible task to present more than a superficial discussion of these complex issues and the complicated cases in which they are to be found. Like good medicine, good ethics cannot be practiced by algorithm. The authors have opted to provide an operational guide to help clinicians sort through the ethical and social quandaries they must face on a daily basis. To that end, the authors have chosen to divide this chapter into the following sections: 1. A brief description of the biopsychosocial nature of ethics and how it differs from personal morality 2. A method for identifying and dealing with ethical issues 3. A discussion of the role of bioethicists and ethics committees 4. The professional fiduciary role of clinicians 5. Listings of some of the common key bioethical and legal terms (online access only) 6. A very brief discussion of the terms cited in the above listings (online access only) This reviews contains 4 tables, 8 references, 1 appendix, and 20 additional readings. Keywords: Ethical, social, right, wrong, good, bad, obligation, moral authority, critically reflective, and multiperspectival activity, Curiosity, Honesty, Patience, Open-mindedness

scholarly journals A Contribution by John Bowlby

1981 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-4
Author(s):  
John Pippard
Keyword(s):  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Formal Training ◽  
Child Psychiatrist ◽  
Childhood Experience ◽  
College Hospital ◽  
Medical Background ◽  
John Bowlby ◽  
Medical Qualification

In giving a brief account of salient events in my professional life I will start in 1937 when I was aged 30 and had just completed my formal training as a child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Apart from a medical background and an interest in psychology, my choice of career had been determined by what I had seen and heard during the six months that I had spent in a school for disturbed children between my preclinical training at Cambridge, where I had also read natural sciences and psychology, and completing my medical qualification at University College Hospital. During my time at the school I had worked with children and adolescents whose difficulties I know now to be typical of much personality disorder, and had been exposed to hypotheses, derived from the ‘new psychology’ emanating from Vienna, regarding the role of childhood experience in their origin. Accordingly I had decided to train as a psychoanalyst. This I began before qualifying medically and continued whilst spending eighteen months at the Maudsley, learning the psychiatry of adults as one of Aubrey Lewis's early students. This proved a productive relationship, not least because on many questions we agreed to differ.

scholarly journals Multilingual practices in late medieval Swedish writing

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-252
Author(s):  
Steffen Höder
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Low German ◽  
Text Production ◽  
Old Swedish ◽  
Swedish Text ◽  
Regional Languages

Abstract Late medieval Sweden was a multilingual society. At least three languages ‐ namely Old Swedish, Low German, and Latin ‐ were in use, beside other regional languages. While the influence of Low German is easily detectable in all parts of the Swedish language system and has been investigated rather thoroughly from a historical sociolinguistic point of view (cf. Braunmüller 2004), the role of Latin has been rather marginalized in traditional Swedish language historiography, focusing on the earlier stages of Old Swedish, which are described as its classical form (cf. Pettersson 2005). Starting out as the language of religion, administration, diplomacy and, to some extent, trade, Latin was the dominant language of text production in Sweden until the 14th century, which saw Written Old Swedish gain some domains as well, resulting in a more balanced diglossic relation between the two languages. The emerging written variety of Swedish, however, was heavily influenced by the multilingual practices of scribes, in large part clerics who were used to using at least Swedish and Latin on a daily basis for a variety of communicative purposes (Höder 2010). These multilingual practices, ranging from ad hoc translations via code-switching to the application of Latin stylistic, textual, and syntactic norms in Swedish text production (Höder 2018), had a lasting impact on the later development of a Swedish proto-standard, and are still reflected in conservative text types today. This contribution approaches this development from a historical sociolinguistic and contact linguistic perspective, concentrating on the establishment of multilingual practices.

scholarly journals Experimental Investigation on the Performance of DJI Phantom 4 RTK in the PPK Mode for 3D Mapping Open-Pit Mines

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Le VAN CANH ◽  
Cao XUAN CUONG ◽  
Nguyen QUOC LONG ◽  
Le THI THU HA ◽  
Tran TRUNG ANH ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mines ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Surface Model ◽  
Test Field ◽  
Open Pit Mines ◽  
Ground Control Points ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Topographic Surveys

Open-pit coal mines’ terrain is often complex and quickly and frequently changes. Therefore, topographic surveys of open-pit mines are undertaken on a daily basis. While these tasks are very time-consuming and costly with traditional methods such as total station and GNSS, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based method can be more efficient. This method is a combination of the “Structure from motion” (SfM) photogrammetry technique and UAV photogrammetry which has been widely used in topographic surveying. With an increasing popularity of RTK-enabled drones, it is becoming even more powerful method. While the important role of ground control points (GCP) in the accuracy of digital surface model (DSM) generated from images acquired by “traditional” UAVs (not RTK-enabled drones) has been proved in many previous studies, it is not clear in the case of RTK-enabled drones, especially for complex terrain in open-pit coal mines. In this study, we experimentally investigated the influence of GCP regarding its numbers and distribution on the accuracy of DSM generation from images acquired by RTK-enabled drones in open-pit coal mines. In addition, the Post Processing Kinematic (PPK) mode was executed over a test field with the same flight altitude. DSM generation was performed with several block control configurations: PPK only, PPK with one GCP, and PPK with two GCPs. Several positions of GCPs were also examined to test the optimal locations for placing GCPs to achieve accurate DSMs. The results show that the horizontal and vertical accuracy given by PPK only were 9.3 and 84.4 cm, respectively. However, when adding at least one GCP, the accuracy was significantly improved in both horizontal and vertical components, with RMSE for XY and Z ranging between 3.8 and 9.8 cm (with one GCP) and between 3.0 and 5.7 cm (with two GCPs), respectively. Also, the GCPs placed in the deep areas of the open-pit mine could ensure the cm-level accuracy.

CRA University – School of Clinical Trial Monitors: 10 years of success

2021 ◽  
pp. 4-8
Author(s):  
V. L. Semenov-Tyan-Shanskiy ◽  
◽  
A.S. Bal’tserovich ◽  
A.N. Sazonova ◽  
O.A. Loginovskaya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trial ◽  
Educational Program ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Electronic Systems ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Personal Attitude ◽  
Online Format

This article presents the history and structure of the school of clinical trials monitors in Russia, the reasons for its opening in 2011, as well as the results of a survey of graduates. The authors discuss in detail what tasks they faced in creating a high-quality, modern, interactive educational program that is sustainable in the long term. Shows the important role of collaboration between academic institutions and business companies directly involved in clinical research on a daily basis. The structure of the course is presented, as well as teaching materials and electronic systems and technologies are used. Separately, the experience of operating a school during the COVID-19 pandemic is given, an analysis of the course functioning in fully online format, the positive and negative aspects of this approach. The second part of the article presents the results of a survey of graduates of the course for 9 years: from their satisfaction with training, to their further professional career (a total of 8 questions). In conclusion, the authors present their personal attitude to this educational project.

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