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While Schelling's anticipation of Freudian psychoanalysis is well established, it has thus far gone unnoticed that Schelling's ideas also proved fruitful in the context of a distinctively philosophical theory of the psyche developed by a younger contemporary of Freud. During the 1920s Helmuth Plessner, a key figure of philosophical anthropology, outlined a complex conception of the psyche as an individualized, inner region of reality. Although Plessner did not present his philosophical psychology in a systematic form, its building blocks can be found in The Unity of the Senses, The Limits of Community, and Levels of Organic Life and the Human, among other writings. Moreover, Plessner left a clue as to how these building blocks fit together, which suggests that Plessner viewed his philosophical psychology as structurally analogous to the model of personality outlined in Schelling's 1809 treatise on human freedom. I propose that Plessner sought to formulate an alternative to both idealism and realism about the psyche that might reconcile the insights motivating these rival positions. Schelling provided Plessner with a workable model for such a reconciliation. After reviewing textual evidence for my hypothesis, I sketch Schelling's predecessor theory. Based on the Schellingian template, I then reconstruct Plessner's non-reductively naturalistic theory of the psyche, which aligns the real bodily ground of the psyche with its ideal existence. Highlighting the strengths of Plessner's philosophical psychology against the foil of Paul Ricoeur's and John McDowell's relevant arguments, I argue that the theory reconstructed here deserves contemporary consideration as a plausible contender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay is an attempt to propose an outline of a new respiratory animal philosophy. Based on an analysis of the forgetting of breath in Western philosophy, it aims to gesture towards a future, breathful and compassionate world of co-sharing and co-breathing. In the first part, the basic features of forgetting of breath are explained based on David Abram's work in respiratory ecophilosophy. This part also introduces an important contribution to modern philosophy by Ludwig Klages. The second part is dedicated to reflections on what I understand as an unfortunate transition from soul and pneuma to spirit and Geist. Based on these analyses, I proceed towards an idiosyncratic thought on the nocturnal mystery of pneuma, with references to ancient Upanishadic and 20th-century phenomenological Levinasian thought. Based on these teachings, I argue that, at the bottom of her existence, the subject is a lung partaking in an immense external lung (Merleau-Ponty). In the fourth part of the essay, I extend my reflections toward comparative animal respiratory phenomenology and argue for the immense compassion for all our fellow breathing beings. Finally, in the concluding, fifth part of this essay, I am arguing for a future biocentric and breathful environment, signifying and bringing a new compassionate-respiratory alliance into the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jungian psychotherapist Dr. Edward Tick has worked with American veterans of foreign wars for decades. During that time, he learned that one of the most effective paths to healing was to guide Vietnam veterans back there to retrieve their souls that had been left behind, often for decades. He took the acronym PTSD and translated it as Post-traumatic Soul Distress. Those in the medical profession worked with the physical injuries of traumatized veterans; however, they overlooked the trauma to the souls of these returning warriors. Tick and his wife, Kate Dahlstedt, founded Soldier's Heart () in order to travel more deeply into the mythology, spirituality, and psychology of woundedness. He continues his work today in branching out to a larger population suffering the wounds of a society itself in need of soul intervention. There, too, he deepens his interest in ancient forms of healing in the tradition of the ancient healer Asklepios, by guiding pilgrims to ancient healing sites in Greece. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The One, by theoretical physicist Heinrich Pas, reviews the history of monism from the Greeks to the modern period. Pas proposes a monism he calls "the One." His One follows from quantum mechanics. It is a universal wave function. He is then faced with how our everyday world arises. To answer he relies on a version of Evert's many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and a process of decoherence that results in a dualism of consciousness and the quasi-classical world of space, time, and matter. C. G. Jung proposed a dual-aspect monism influenced by synchronicity. A comparison between Pas's monism and dualism and Jung's finds some apparent differences, but in the end they are found to be remarkably similar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

OBJECTIVE: Patients with depression during labor display dysregulated patterns of oxytocin release and this may impact second stage of labor. The objective of this study was to evaluate the association between maternal preconception and antenatal depressive disorders on the duration of second stage of labor and perinatal outcomes. STUDY DESIGN: Secondary analysis of patients enrolled in the Behavioral and Mood in Mothers, Behavior in Infants study who reached the second stage of labor. Participants were assigned to: pre-conception only major depressive disorder (MDD), prenatal major depressive disorder, and non-depressed controls. Primary outcome was prolonged second stage of labor. Secondary outcomes included perinatal morbidities. RESULTS: 172 patients were included. 24.4% (42/172) participants had preconception-only MDD, 42.4% (73/172) patients had prenatal MDD, and 33.1% (57/172) patients had as non-depressed controls. The adjusted pair-wise analysis between groups showed no significant difference in the duration of second stage. No statistically significant differences were noted between groups for adverse neonatal outcomes. CONCLUSION: Maternal depressive disorders did not impact length of second stage of labor or immediate perinatal outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Katherine Olivetti has a conversation with Museum Sage Laurie Phillips about the origin of Museum Sage, a game of psychological imagination she created, and the process of intuitively dialoging with art to answer personal questions. They talk about her own experience of wanting to leave a corporate job as a graphic designer and being guided by her deeper wisdom, which she accessed through dialoging with an image, to stay until she had brought all of herself to work. Museum Sage opens the door to an expansive and deep engagement with both art and psyche. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this work, we intend to present a reading of current society as the extinction society. Extinction society here means the characterization, both social and individual, of a highly developed reality, especially in terms of personal freedom, unable to face global collective threats, first of all the climate disaster. This involves the risk, within a few generations, of the extinction of both the type of society that at least in the West we have been accustomed to for a few hundred years, and in the apocalyptic perspective of the species. The attempt to represent this question is addressed here by referring to some recent authors of cultural studies and sociology, to try and understand the principles of this extinction process. Following the analysis of what is in fact a process of individual liberation, that is, of increasingly advanced individualization, we proceed by looking at the macro‐themes of consumption, politics and psyche. This is in order to understand the possible outcomes of this process and the overall sense of an extinction of the current society if not of the species. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Interim Editor Katherine Olivetti interviews John Beebe, founding editor of what was originally The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, on his motivations for creating the journal and the gifts it has brought to both the Institute and wider Jungian community over the years. They also discuss his hopes and vision for the future of Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Diva was a French film released to European audiences in 1981 and American ones in 1982. Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, this film comes from the 1970s cinéma du look movement that used striking imagery to portray social outsiders and express their alienation from society. This article summarizes the film, its characters, cinematography, and innovative musical score by Vladimir Cosma. Recurring motifs in the film emphasize a tenuous fragmentation that not only depicts life struggles for those who felt marginalized during the early 1980s, but also suggests an avant-garde possibility for conceptualizing the psyche. Rather than emphasizing static forms of identity, or identifying categories, Diva helps viewers appreciate the multiplicity of human experience and also its fragility. The author reviews Jung's experimentation with mandalas and discusses his writings about them as illustrations of the psyche, in particular, the self trying to represent a kind of psychological order. Although Diva could be considered a type of film mandala, the author suggests that the term mosaic is more accurate—that it is a film mosaic. Further, he extends this interpretation to propose an updated view of human psyche as mosaic, a dynamic form with many disparate parts that we hope to hold together but often cannot. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The NASA Psyche mission's program to engage university undergraduates and the public in the mission is inspired by and built upon the extensive foundation of public engagement, educational outreach activities, and expertise of NASA and mission partner institutions. The program leverages the enthusiasm and contributions of undergraduates nationwide to the benefit of the mission, the students and their institutions and communities, and the broader public. Psyche Student Collaborations consists of four main programs, two (Psyche Capstone and Psyche Inspired) are available solely to undergraduates enrolled at universities or community colleges in the United States and its territories and two (Innovation Toolkit free online courses and Science Outreach Interns and Docents) invite broader participation by engaging the talents and creativity of undergraduate interns to help create content and events to reach the public and lifelong learners. Together, these offerings provide multiple entry points and a spectrum of intensity of experiences, numbers of participants, disciplinary diversity, and mode of delivery. Involving undergraduates in all phases of the program supports the development of the next generation of explorers, contributes to the nation's workforce preparation, and complements NASA's existing undergraduate offerings by providing long-term opportunities for students to participate with the mission through established postsecondary education structures like capstone courses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of the Psyche Magnetometry Investigation is to test the hypothesis that asteroid (16) Psyche formed from the core of a differentiated planetesimal. To address this, the Psyche Magnetometer will measure the magnetic field around the asteroid to search for evidence of remanent magnetization. Paleomagnetic measurements of meteorites and dynamo theory indicate that a diversity of planetesimals once generated dynamo magnetic fields in their metallic cores. Likewise, the detection of a strong magnetic moment (> 2 × 10 14 Am 2 ) at Psyche would likely indicate that the body once generated a core dynamo, implying that it formed by igneous differentiation. The Psyche Magnetometer consists of two three-axis fluxgate Sensor Units (SUs) mounted 0.7 m apart along a 2.15-m long boom and connected to two Electronics Units (EUs) located within the spacecraft bus. The Magnetometer samples at up to 50 Hz, has a range of ± 80 , 000 nT , and an instrument noise of 39 pT axis − 1 3 σ integrated over 0.1 to 1 Hz. The two pairs of SUs and EUs provide redundancy and enable gradiometry measurements to suppress noise from flight system magnetic fields. The Magnetometer will be powered on soon after launch and acquire data for the full duration of the mission. The ground data system processes the Magnetometer measurements to obtain an estimate of Psyche's dipole moment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In our dialogues over the nature of archetypes, essence, psyche, and world, I further respond to Erik Goodwyn's recent foray into establishing an ontological position that not only answers to the mind-body problem, but further locates the source of Psyche on a cosmic plane. His impressive attempt to launch a neo-Jungian metaphysics is based on the principle of cosmic panpsychism that bridges both the internal parameters of archetypal process and their emergence in consciousness and the external world conditioned by a psychic universe. Here I explore the ontology of experience, mind, matter, metaphysical realism, and critique Goodwyn's turn to Neoplatonism. The result is a potentially compatible theory of mind and reality that grounds archetypal theory in onto-phenomenology, metaphysics, and bioscience, hence facilitating new directions in analytical psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author finds immigration adds complexity to the individuation process. She reflects on how her family's history, as well as Japan's trials after World War II, had an impact on her desire to come to the United States. The author also contrasts herself with her mother who struggled with Japanese traditions and social restrictions including trauma from World War II. Jung said home is an inner and outer space to celebrate the mysteries of life and spirit. After many years of inner struggles, the author finds a home where she can embrace both cultures in her own unique ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The NASA Psyche mission will explore the structure, composition, and other properties of asteroid (16) Psyche to test hypotheses about its formation. Variations in radar reflectivity, density, thermal inertia, and visible to near‐infrared (VNIR) reflectance spectra of Psyche suggest a highly metallic composition with mafic silicate minerals (e.g., pyroxene) heterogeneously distributed on the surface in low abundance (<10 vol.%). The Psyche spacecraft's Multispectral Imager is designed to map ≥80% of the surface at high spatial resolution (≤20 m/pixel) through a panchromatic filter and provide compositional information for about ≥80% of the surface using seven narrowband filters at VNIR wavelengths (∼400–1,100 nm) and at spatial scales of ≤500 m/pixel. We analyzed 359 reflectance spectra from samples consistent with current uncertainties in Psyche's composition and compared them to published reflectance spectra of the asteroid using a chi‐square test for goodness of fit. The best matches for Psyche include iron meteorite powder, powders from the sulfide minerals troilite and pentlandite, and powder from the CH/CBb chondrite Isheyevo. Comparison of absorption features support the interpretation that Psyche's surface is a metal‐silicate mixture, although the exact abundance and chemistry of the silicate component remains poorly constrained. We convolve our spectra to the Imager's spectral throughput to demonstrate preliminary strategies for mapping the surface composition of the asteroid using filter ratios and reconstructed band parameters. Our results provide predictions of the kinds of surface compositional information that the Psyche mission could reveal on the solar system's largest M‐type asteroid. Plain Language Summary: Current observations of the asteroid (16) Psyche suggest it to be metal‐rich, but not entirely made of metal. We compared reflected light from a wide variety of Psyche‐relevant materials to measurements of reflected light from the asteroid. This analysis confirms that Psyche's composition could be less metal‐rich than previously thought. Other materials with reflectance properties similar to Psyche are metal‐rich carbonaceous chondrites and sulfide minerals. We show how an instrument on the Psyche spacecraft, which will study the asteroid in detail, can resolve some uncertainties about the surface composition of the asteroid. Key Points: Visible to near‐infrared spectra of (16) Psyche are consistent with meteorites (irons and metal‐rich chondrites) and sulfidesThe Psyche mission's Multispectral Imager can identify and potentially discriminate such materials if present on the surface of PsycheImager‐convolved data indicate that the instrument can accurately recover absorption band parameters in certain metal‐silicate mixtures [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on a historical ethnography of how Brazil's post-dictatorial psychiatric reforms have shaped young people's lives, this paper builds on Eve Sedgwick's analysis of the hermeneutics of suspicion to show that narrow applications of Foucault's biopower concept nurture forms of resistance to bio-reductionism centred primarily on epistemic deconstruction. To unsettle this hermeneutic, I put young people's theories of power into conversation with Georges Canguilhem's concept of the milieu and with feminist scholars' work on prefigurative politics. I introduce the concepts of threading and unthreading to consider how one subject of biopower, the child-like biobehavioural figure, was continuously being threaded within a specific milieu and in relation to another key figure: the elite angst-ridden 'storm-and-stress' adolescent. Young people's subsequent unthreading and reweaving politics, flourishing in co-construction with what I call the politicizing clinic, illustrate how decolonial pedagogies can incrementally change the patterning of social life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Great stories articulate the movement of the individual and collective psyche and withstand the tests of time, location, cultural and gender distinctions. Through the study of myth, we recognize our shared humanity and the particularities that inform a life. As a depth psychotherapist, I come to archetypal stories with expectancy, hoping to re-cognize myself and my clients within the action of the other. The Biblical story of Jacob and Esau (Genesis 25-35) offers the scholar boundless opportunity for theological, ethical and historical analysis. However, this story of familial relationships requires of me a different kind of telling. This essay is intended not as a scholarly examination of a myth, but rather as a mythic exploration of self. Using Jacob as my guide, I will explore how the archetypal movements of longing, envy and love; deception, separation and reconciliation inform and reveal underlying themes within my life story, and in particular, how my relationship with my father determined much of the course of my life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This two-part article, "Integral Relational Practice of Dreaming the Caesura," describes an integral relational practice of "dreaming the caesura," with an illustration of this specific practice through the author's dreaming of her great, great, great, great grandmother, Charlotte Small Thompson, a Métis Cree woman who traveled across Canada with her husband from 1799–1812. The contemplative practice, a method of nonduality, is anchored in compassion and will expand the practitioner's capacity to be with suffering. The 1st person, 2nd person, and 3rd person perspectives of integral experience are viewed through their separate and also their linked and embedded relationships to one another, thus constituting the caesuras of contemplation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What is a spiritual psyche, and what does it mean to be or have one? What distinguishes a living psyche from a relatively dead one? The author considers key characteristics of psyche's nature and dynamics, contrasting our physical material world with the experiential worlds of psyche and spirit. Four touchstones are explored: rhythm, no beginning or end, reversal, and mystery. Parallels, overlaps, and distinctions between psyche and soma are considered, along with psyche's capacities for intuition, imagination, and creativity that elude even the most sophisticated computers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The reviewed guidelines for welfare in horse sport, published by the ministry of nutrition and agriculture, Germany, in July 2020, shall consider comprehensively the topical knowledge resulting from science and practice at its best. These guidelines shall give help for orientation of the interpretation of the general regulations of the animal welfare law. They shall support all people, handling horses, the responsible authorities, and courts, regarding decisions about whether the use of horses corresponds to the prescriptions of the animal welfare law (BMEL, 2020). These guidelines newly take up the examination (and judgement) of the psychic strength of racehorses. New as well: the psychic and physical strength of racehorses from now on shall be established by a qualified veterinary surgeon not only before the first start, but also before the training begins. The recent wording of the guidelines puts at question, whether and how the psychic (and physical) strength can be identified. The following text will especially deal with the question, if, with the help of the results of behaviour tests, statements about the psychic strength are possible. As result of the appraisal of the recent scientific knowledge the following can be stated: The term (“psychic strength”) can only be applied very limited regarding the background of the recent stance of science. In other words, it is about to be a linguistic curtailment, without concrete conceivable content. “Psychic strength” currently can not (and perhaps will not in near future) be understood by current examination protocols or test methods. Behaviour is apprehensible (also in certain situations, i.e., tests). Behaviour does provide indicators, about the current emotional state as well. (Emotional state, understood as control mechanism, which functions as an appeal for preservation or correction of the situation of existence, namely of the own behaviour or the circumstances.) Behaviour tests do not allow for a statement about the prospective behaviour, nor do they about “psychic strength”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the Hellenistic period the value of philosophical systems was to be judged by a metaphilosophical criterion, i.e., by their ability to lead practitioners towards the pursuit of good or happiness, albeit treating pain and sorrow, since all human beings are supposed to be able to reach the state of happiness via their own efforts. By emphasizing the role of thoughts or judgments, Stoics placed cognition in the intermediate phase between an event and the reaction that somebody has due to the event, rendering it both the cause and the cure of emotional disorders. This viewpoint is also fundamental in modern cognitive psychotherapy, although the parallelism goes beyond theory to the practical character in both approaches. Rational and non-rational aspects of human psychology cannot be isolated from each other, allowing thus adults to actively engage in their moral development by altering their beliefs. In this frame, cognitive distancing, the practice of awareness, attention to the present moment, and the Socratic dialogue become valuable tools in structuring emotional selfregulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Moment-to-moment dialogue between analyst and patient opens themes relating to psychic depths, inhibitions, and support for a need to grow. The therapy partners grow together as they engage psychic contact and explore elements that previously forced the patient to be hospitalized. A result is appreciation for ways contact with the depths can aid more playful, caring, and resourceful ways of being together and working with oneself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study's significance lies in the multitude of challenges facing individuals today, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, military conflicts like the war in Ukraine, and the escalating rates of cancer morbidity and mortality. These factors contribute to the onset of anxiety and depressive disorders, disrupting various aspects of individuals' mental functioning and social interactions. Addressing these disorders effectively necessitates a comprehensive approach, combining pharmacological interventions with psychotherapeutic strategies under the guidance of specialized professionals. In this regard, the study is aimed at identifying aspects and features of the development of psychological problems and personality disorders in the modern world filled with various stressors. The leading methods of studying this problem are analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, comparison, experiment and systematisation of approaches that will help determine a wide range of mental disorders. Theoretical methods were used to analyze the literature and summarize theoretical material on anxiety and depressive disorders. Diagnostic methods were used to assess the psychological state of the study population. The study examines significant clinical syndromes and vegetative disorders that disrupt normal lifestyle, hinder daily activities, and impede professional growth. It evaluates the roles of psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers in assisting individuals with anxiety disorders. It outlines preventive measures for anxiety and depression, while also delving into various types of anxiety disorders. The research proposes diverse methods to prevent emotional anxiety and instability. It underscores the importance of devising novel strategies for diagnosis and therapy, emphasizing a comprehensive approach involving psychotherapeutic support, medical intervention, and adaptive behavioral techniques. The findings of the study hold both practical and theoretical significance for professionals in psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and sociology who provide support for individuals with anxiety and depressive disorders. Furthermore, the insights provided may be pertinent to researchers and scholars investigating the psychological well-being of contemporary society amidst adverse external circumstances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a narrower sense, neuropsychology is a discipline that deals with the relationship between neuroscience and psychology. Here he mainly examines the connections between the central nervous system and the human psyche. This characteristic corresponds to the narrow interdisciplinary conception of this scientific field. However, in a deeper search of current professional published literature, one can find works that document the transcendence of this discipline into other medical and some social disciplines. In the form of a literary review, this work set itself the task of examining the professional literature published on this topic and selecting representative literary sources that document the interdisciplinary nature of this scientific discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The asteroid (16) Psyche may be the metal-rich remnant of a differentiated planetesimal, or it may be a highly reduced, metal-rich asteroidal material that never differentiated. The NASA Psyche mission aims to determine Psyche's provenance. Here we describe the possible solar system regions of origin for Psyche, prior to its likely implantation into the asteroid belt, the physical and chemical processes that can enrich metal in an asteroid, and possible meteoritic analogs. The spacecraft payload is designed to be able to discriminate among possible formation theories. The project will determine Psyche's origin and formation by measuring any strong remanent magnetic fields, which would imply it was the core of a differentiated body; the scale of metal to silicate mixing will be determined by both the neutron spectrometers and the filtered images; the degree of disruption between metal and rock may be determined by the correlation of gravity with composition; some mineralogy (e.g., modeled silicate/metal ratio, and inferred existence of low-calcium pyroxene or olivine, for example) will be detected using filtered images; and the nickel content of Psyche's metal phase will be measured using the GRNS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to link art and archetypal psychology in the exploration of the psychic suffering of a population that has been forced to undertake a journey. It speaks of the power exercised by the collective over our psyche. I use a series of bronze sculptures called the bipedal migrant suitcase as a symbol of the migratory process, an image of the journey of those who must venture beyond the veil of the known to the unknown. A journey that addresses mysterious forces that restore the balance lost in the traveller, leading him to a destination that favours the presence of life-or-death forces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Detailed mapping of topography is crucial for the understanding of processes shaping the surfaces of planetary bodies. In particular, stereoscopic imagery makes a major contribution to topographic mapping and especially supports the geologic characterization of planetary surfaces. Image data provide the basis for extensive studies of the surface structure and morphology on local, regional and global scales using photogeologic information from images, the topographic information from stereo-derived digital terrain models and co-registered spectral terrain information from color images. The objective of the Psyche topography and geomorphology investigation is to derive the detailed shape of (16) Psyche to generate orthorectified image mosaics, which are needed to study the asteroids' landforms, interior structure, and the processes that have modified the surface over geologic time. In this paper we describe our approaches for producing shape models, and our plans for acquiring requested image data to quantify the expected accuracy of the results. Multi-angle images obtained by Psyche's camera will be used to create topographic models with about 15 m/pixel horizontal resolution and better than 10 m height accuracy on a global scale. This is slightly better as global imaging obtained during the Dawn mission, however, both missions yield resolutions of a few m/pixel locally. Two different techniques, stereophotogrammetry and stereophotoclinometry, are used to model the shape; these models will be merged with the gravity fields obtained by the Psyche spacecraft to produce geodetically controlled topographic models. The resulting digital topography models, together with the gravity data, will reveal the tectonic, volcanic, impact, and gradational history of Psyche, and enable co-registration of data sets to determine Psyche's geologic history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Psyche mission's Oxidation-Reduction Working Group is focused on understanding, determining, and applying the redox state of (16) Psyche to understand the origin of a metal-rich world. The oxidation-reduction state of an asteroid, along with its temperature, parent body size, and composition, is a key parameter in determining the history of an asteroid. Determining the redox state from spacecraft data is most easily done by examining potential metal-oxide buffer pairs. The occurrence of Ni, Fe, C, Cr, P and Si, in that order, in the metal or sulfide phase of an asteroidal body indicates increasingly reduced conditions. Key observations by the Imager and Gamma-Ray and Neutron Spectrometer (GRNS) of Psyche can bracket the redox state using metal-oxide buffers. The presence of Fe,Ni metal can be confirmed by the ratios of Fe/O or Fe/Si and the concentration of Ni variability in metal across the asteroid can be determined by GRNS. The FeO concentration of silicates is complementary to the Ni concentration of metal and can be constrained using filters on the Imager. The presence of FeO in silicates from ground-based observations is one of the few measurements we already have of redox state, although available data permit a wide range of silicate compositions and mineralogies. The presence of C, P or Si concentrated in the metallic, Fe-rich portion of the asteroid, as measured by GRNS, or Ca-sulfide, determined by imaging, would indicate increasingly reducing conditions. Linkage to known types of meteorites, whether metal-rich chondrites, stony-irons or irons, expands the mineralogical, chemical and isotopic data not available from remote observations alone. Redox also controls both silicate and metal mineralogy, influencing differentiation, solidification, and subsolidus cooling, including the relative abundance of sulfur in the core and possible magnetic signatures. The redox state of Psyche, if a fully-differentiated metallic core, might constrain the location and timing of both the formation of Psyche and any oxidation it might have experienced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Great stories articulate the movement of the individual and collective psyche and withstand the tests of time, location, cultural and gender distinctions. Through the study of myth, we recognize our shared humanity and the particularities that inform a life. As a depth psychotherapist, I come to archetypal stories with expectancy, hoping to re-cognize myself and my clients within the action of the other. The Biblical story of Jacob and Esau (Genesis 25-35) offers the scholar boundless opportunity for theological, ethical and historical analysis. However, this story of familial relationships requires of me a different kind of telling. This essay is intended not as a scholarly examination of a myth, but rather as a mythic exploration of self. Using Jacob as my guide, I will explore how the archetypal movements of longing, envy and love; deception, separation and reconciliation inform and reveal underlying themes within my life story, and in particular, how my relationship with my father determined much of the course of my life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bledin makes the point that antisemitism had been around long before the discourse that allowed, or created, the Holocaust and even before the colonizations that created the Boers' racist discourse. This point is his major difference with our thoughts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses mainly on the advantages and disadvantages of this way of working, as well as its impact on the psyche and performance of employees and, last but not least, its impact on a company's finances. It uses the synthesis of data found on the internet, from selected reliable sources dealing with the same or similar issues. From these sources it is evident that the effects of working from home are rather negative. The most frequently mentioned advantage is the saving of time, caused mainly by the absence of commuting to the office. The most frequently mentioned disadvantage is the absence of personal contact with co-workers. The disadvantage that a company could feel the most is the extension of the length of communication between employees, and thus the extension of work processes. At first glance, it might seem that a company will save money using this form of work, but the reality is that the company's costs may even increase. This is due to the fact that most companies have chosen to work from home only partly, so the costs of running the offices remain the same or slightly reduced at best, and legislation states that the company must reimburse workers for costs incurred by this form of work. It follows from this contribution that, if possible, workers and employers should avoid the practice of working from home, even though it has a positive effect on the pandemic. The potential for further research could be to compare the results of this work with the same research conducted outside of the pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Latin languages, based on words and concepts that had already been coined and used in the Greek language to render the term "psyche", after the 15th-16th century, under the influence of the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment, adopted the word "mental" to mean exclusively a process of the mind. In Greek, the word "psyche", despite its original variety of meanings, has continued, from the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire until to the present day, to be a prisoner of theocratic concepts. The rendering of the word "psyche" in such a context is to the detriment of the psychiatric patient, but also psychiatry itself, since the general meaning of "psyche" may underestimate the clinical condition of the patient and impede access to biological means of recovery. To deal with this condition, it is suggested that physicians must be aware of this history, and should defend the semantic richness of the medical terms produced by science but will also protect their patients, respecting the various different abilities that society shows in the assimilation of new knowledge within these terms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a discussion on the relationship between psyche, education and its reflections on humanity, produced from the opinion of 27 teachers who were asked about the need to rethink the educational processes in the face of the harms that affect society. Here, the concepts are framed in the theory of complexity, so that we can harmoniously connect what has been separated. The inquiry is carried out with the transmethod, the critical analysis of discourse as transmethods, plus the modernist statutes of investigating. We note: along with investments in school infrastructure, the idea of better preparing teachers is a consensus to alleviate the harms of education. In the end, we advocate a reform of thinking through disconnection and reconnection that can lead to stagnation if its own dynamics are not revised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We report on a 48-year-old patient with X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy with slowly progressive leg-accentuated spastic paraparesis, vegetative dysfunction with bladder and sexual dysfunction, and primary adrenal insufficiency. The diagnosis of adrenomyeloneuropathy, the adult form of adrenoleukodystrophy, and Addison's disease was made at the age of 20 by evidence of an increased concentration of long-chain fatty acids in the plasma. The therapy is symptom-oriented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Critical discussions of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and The Third Life of Grange Copeland have particularly focused on the intention(s) of the authors and on the assumed meaning(s) of the texts. Little or no attention has been paid to the factors which necessitated the transformation/renewal of the lives experienced by the characters in the texts. However, these two texts construct an individual identity directed and supported by African-American communal values and expounded by the female voice. Therefore, this paper concerns itself with the task of investigating the issues evident in the texts which yielded the grand renewal of lives in its different forms as it is witnessed in the novels. It adopts Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality development as its theoretical framework. From our analysis, it has been discovered that sublimation and its attendant productivity is central to the characters’ transformation/renewal and also that there is a shift from the death instinct to life instinct in the psyche of the characters in both narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The archetypal images of separation and dissociation are very present in Jung's model of individuation, and Jung proposed a dynamic relationship between conscious and unconscious parts of the psyche of analyst and analysand. In addition, numerous contemporary authors emphasize the multiplicity of the self and the emergence of the field created by both participants, allowing for symbolization and transformation. I describe here my attempts to reach the encapsulated psychic split of a client. Defeated in my search for any conscious, developed self-state that could readily match his, I had to nurture the field of our relationship, where a child was imprisoned and allow space for daydreaming. The field ultimately supported the emergence of a primitive part of me matching his, which he required to safely mirror his experience. In staying and dreaming within this field of longing, we reconstructed his initial trauma. The defeat of my ego and the response to the multiplicity of Mark's states through the sustained reverie of holding a child, a single archetypal image, stirred the good mother in me, forged a container for non-rational, affective somatic psychic splits, and initiated psychic changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper considers the topic of the 'good' within the literature and in clinical work. Milder forms of the good which arise on the personal level generate defences against personal vulnerability. More powerful forms of the good, which the author calls the 'truly good', arise on an archetypal level and overwhelm the ego, generating fear, even terror. The 'truly good' invokes defences against the dissolution of an intact sense of self. In both mild and intense forms, the good will arise in every analysis, will challenge boundaries of both client and analyst, and touch the core of the analytic relationship. It demands acknowledgement. Within these two categories, the author identifies five forms of the good that may arise in containable and uncontainable intensities: beauty, intimacy, becoming, love, and encounters with the divine. Exploring encounters with the good in its various forms expands the range of tolerable human experience - one of the fundamental goals of analysis. Living the good, or at times suffering the truly good, furthers individuation as it enlarges access to experiences of profound meaning, including the divine or the numinous. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Understanding that the essential subject matter of psychology is not an object, thing or self-enclosed entity, this article presents the Buddhist psychology of non-self as a phenomenology of self-experiencing. Through the dizzying interaction of five psychic constituents (skandhas), emotional reactivity and mental fixation reify a self-entity where there is none. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Alan G. Vaughan and Andrew Samuels, both Jungian analysts, met earnestly during the Analysis and Activism Conference first held in London in 2014. Impressed with the presentation of new paradigms and applications of principles of analytical psychology beyond the consulting room in communities of ethnically and economically diverse populations, their conversations increased through email exchanges and sharing ideas. In August 2017, they met in person during the International Association of Jungian Studies (IAJS) Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, the birthplace of Nelson Mandela. The exchanges were spirited and rich, the rapport genuine. Analytical psychology, analysis and activism, politics, economics, the African Diaspora, and the prevalence of the psychopathology of racism were discussed. Their conversations continued, in the Oakland hills of California, on December 17, 2017. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a new paradigm that claims the existence of the psyche in the human being from the moment of conception. The author invites the reader to reconsider the outlook adopted up to now, which considers the brain the only unit of reference useful for understanding the mind and its functioning. A global vision of man cannot overlook the existence of the psyche, seen also as the soul. The human being could not live without it. In fact, the psyche appears to be present and functioning with its individual character from the moment of conception. In order to understand this new perspective, we need to look at not only what happens outside us, but also, and above all, what happens inside us, in our interiority. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay historicizes cultural and psychic economies in the postwar United States under the sign of material scarcity. It situates the proliferation of plastic flowers in domestic space within a context of bureaucratic anxieties surrounding natural resource scarcity, and trends toward 'outdoor living' that were an offshoot of the ideology of economic growth. Interrogating repeated, if relatively unexamined, invocations of 'anxious' suburban subjects in descriptions of postwar society, the essay suggests that plastic flowers shored up a sense of stability and permanence at a time when nuclear annihilation, Cold War paranoia, and population growth combined to render life uncertain and potentially unsustainable. The essay concludes by reflecting on how legacies of that epoch – and the fiction of permanence offered by plastic flowers – endure in contemporary fantasies of limitless progress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

'Psyche' has no independent existence as an entity. It is a portmanteau term in which one function ('psyche' = breath) among those specified by Aristotle as indicating life – respiration, is used metonymically (pars pro toto) to signify just that: life; animation. Most of these functions are present in life forms from bacteria up; in humans Aristotle included perception and imagination. The acquisition of 'mind' and the conversion of affect into what is familiar to a particular culture as 'emotion' is largely social and a function of parental mediation. Where this is absolutely absent as in Ceaușescu's orphanages both brain development and the acquisition of mind are severely compromised. Less catastrophic failures induce lesser failures, and the resulting expressions may take somatic form, as they may have affects in cultures which have no equivalent semantic concept. I suggest that this might be better expressed in terms of somatapsychic expression than psychosomatic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In psycho-therapy, methods of therapy have been more richly developed and better understood than the subject matter - psyche - they endeavour to treat. This paper clarifies the ontological nature of psyche by considering its core etymological meaning, Heidegger's understanding of self as Dasein and the Buddhist notion of self as non-self. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The prevalence of psychological disorders in patients with common skin diseases was assessed in a large representative sample of the French adult population. General health, as measured by the EQ5D score, was significantly lower if patients reported having rosacea, atopic dermatitis, urticaria, fungal infections, psoriasis or acne. The proportions of participants reporting being extremely anxious or depressed were higher in those who reported having rosacea, atopic dermatitis or contact dermatitis. Difficulties in sexual and conjugal life were frequently reported by people with psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, contact dermatitis, urticaria and, in particular, acne. Sleep disorders were present in 30-50% of those who reported having acne, rosacea, eczema, psoriasis or urticaria. Sleep disorders may be related not only to pruritus, but also to disfiguring skin diseases. Anxiety and depression complications were mainly reported by those with disfiguring diseases. Sexual and conjugal dysfunctions were associated with all dermatoses (with the exception of warts). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) process is an important synthesis route to acquire clean liquid fuels through modern coal chemical industry, which converts syngas (CO and H 2) into hydrocarbon, and also generates oxygenates discharged as the F-T waste-water. These oxygen-containing compounds in F-T waste-water have the similar molecular weight and some are even isomers of each other. Hence, it is necessary to develop rapid and efficient analysis tools to obtain identification and quantitative information of the F-T waste-water. The pure shift NMR techniques provided only chemical shift information in one-dimension 1H NMR spectra, without homonuclear J H-H coupling. In this work, we tested and compared three pure shift NMR techniques (including Zangger-Sterk, PSYCHE and TSE-PSYCHE methods) in the analysis of two F-T waste-water model mixtures, genuine waste-water and two alcohol isomer mixtures. The results show that J H-H coupling multiplicities are collapsed into singlets corresponding to individual chemically distinct protons of the compound. For some severely overlapped signals in the pure shift NMR spectra, the chemical shift selective filters with TOCSY (CSSF-TOCSY) experiments were conducted to assist the signal assignment. Thus, pure shift NMR approaches can identify most signals of components, and CSSF-TOCSY can extract the signal of a specific compound. The combination of these two NMR techniques offers a powerful tool to analyze the F-T waste-water or other complex mixtures including isomer mixtures. Image 1 • 1D pure shift NMR methods were first time applied to analyze the Fischer-Tropsch wastewater mixtures, which simplifies the spectroscopy assignment by suppressing the homonuclear coupling. Three pure shift NMR methods (Zangger-Sterk, PSYCHE and TSE-PSYCHE) were tested and compared. • CSSF-TOCSY was applied to extract the unambiguous individual 1H NMR spectrum effectively. • The combination of the pure shift NMR and CSSF-TOCSY provides a versatile, rapid and efficient tool for the analysis of the complex mixtures, such as the F-T wastewater and isomer mixtures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper lists the problems that philosophical therapy deals with and tries to provide a definition of philosophical therapy. In particular, we find references to Homeric psychology, contemporary therapeutic trends, and examples of the use of philosophical therapy (observation records after individual sessions of philosophical therapy or group work). This article develops the connections between philosophical therapy and the ancient understanding of philosophy (ancient spiritual exercises). The focal point of our considerations concerns the application of philosophical therapy to the process of becoming a person. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"The Strawman" is a short story employing archetypal imagery and an understanding of psychoanalytic theory that explores the relationship between a lonely young woman and her partner; a man made of straw. Reader's comments provide evidence that although the imagery is interpretable, the emotional content of the piece has elements of universality and may induce experiences of empathy, compassion, or identification within the reader. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Beginning from embryological development, skin and psyche are closely related to physiological state regardless of age. Altering the homeostasis of one of these components impacts on the other, thereby substantiating that the relationship between itch and psyche is bilateral. Itch has a complex pathogenesis, which involves the peripheral and central nervous systems, as well as various inflammatory mediators. This paper reviews key aspects of itch pathogenesis, relevant associations with stress, the contagiousness of itch, psychological and psychiatric considerations related to itch, and the burden of itch with respect to impairment of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and stigmatization. Despite the fact that itch--psyche associations still pose many questions, current knowledge supports the role of a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to these patients in order to improve their well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper firstly explores Aristotle's moral vision of eudaimonia or 'happiness' in Ethica Nichomachea (EN). The ensuing discussion points out that the life of excellence (arête) in all classical Greek philosophy culminates in the attainment of eudemonic being, equivocating likeness to the divine to the highest possible degree. The paper goes on to disclose significant differences concerning happiness between the moral and political philosophy of Aristotle and that of his predecessors, Socrates, and Plato. In turn, the present inquiry explores Aristotle's claim in EN that the education of a sufficient number of citizens of superior refinement best accomplishes human flourishing in both the private and public spheres. According to Aristotle, the paramount achievement of eudaimonia in individuals and the city-state happens through the moral and intellectual education of citizens of refinement in political science (politike episteme). Consequently, the present exploration carefully investigates the crux of Aristotle's vision of educating citizens of quality as this aspect of his ethics best illumines the holistic aim scope and curriculum of his proposed study in politike episteme (the science integrating all sciences). Finally, the present endeavor explores the superiority that Aristotle allots to contemplative or divine theoria in the latter part of his ethical treatise (Book X.7-8), where, he establishes a hierarchy between phrõnesis (practical wisdom) and theoria (contemplative wisdom), ascertaining the higher standing of the latter, a claim that inevitably leads him into paradox. Nevertheless, he also considers that perhaps contemplative wisdom surpasses divine reason, therefore, any form of duality between 'lower' and 'higher' between praxis and theoria. As such, eudaimonia qua contemplation is the constitutive non-dual ground of the human soul that manifests itself in the eudaimon for the sake of happiness. Further, sublime theoria--its root enduring in theos--bears the ontological power of totality, therefore, may irretrievably potentiate complete conversion in the moral and spiritual life of the individual and so doing; appears to unite practical and theoretical wisdom in service to the divine in humans. The moral conversion qua divine theoria is precisely the magnificence that effectually transforms the human psychē to an ennobled and integrated person of subtle self-refinement, in whom both practical excellence and contemplative wisdom cohere and benevolently reconcile, coalescing: into a single virtuous activity (Sophia) that benefits humanity and the whole of the social and political order. This way, Aristotle seems to contend that the divine activity of contemplative wisdom spreading-out for the sake of the whole of human welfare annuls, perhaps, withdraws the appearance of hierarchy. However, his primary purpose in most of the text (from Book I to Book X.6-8) is to disclose ways that moral excellence and the intellectual study of political science may potentially elevate both individual and politeia to a more humane and constitutionally virtuous way of life. He appropriately reminds us that the uncovering of the divine element within us discloses not divine but human happiness (anthrõpinen eudaimonia)-, which given the direction of EN, essentially translates to individual and collective political eudaimonia qua the divine (theion ti). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]