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I was riding my bike on a late Sunday morning of Memorial Day weekend 2020, sensing that the world was coming back to life. The sun was burning through the overcast of the earlier morning, lighting...

This paper is a battle cry for our current moment. In it, we will return to The Two Analyses of Mr. Z and discuss it as a chronicle of self-emergence that implies Kohut’s simultaneous rebellion aga...

This article presents the therapeutic process of transforming a self-protective intent, the reparative quest. In pursuing this intent, patients attempt to repair their experience of the past by trying to eradicate the pain resulting from previous trauma and seeking to ensure against re-traumatization. This intent reflects a disavowal of past trauma and is bound to falter, leading to the patient's need to integrate painful affect from the traumatic past and mourn these experiences. I outline a self psychologically oriented approach of integrating affirmation of the patient's passionate yearning with a willingness to inquire about the patient's underlying anxiety about re-traumatization and a welcoming of the patient's dissociated pain and rage when it emerges. By providing the patient with the “holding environment” that was missing in early development, the therapist enables the patient to integrate previously dissociated affect and mourn the traumatic past. Through engaging in these processes, the patient...

The institutions governing organic farming in Lithuania constitute an unusual mix: relatively low information and support services are coupled with a high level of subsidy and low market prospects in the short to medium term. While the literature emphasizes a complex set of reasons for conversion consisting of personal (financial, health, environmental and other concerns), farm-related, and sometimes institutional factors, the hypothesis for Lithuania is that financial support is the dominant reason for increasing diffusion, not least because adoption numbers match the development of subsidy levels fairly well. To investigate this, and to understand why the majority of farmers still do not convert in face of relatively high financial support, a survey with organic and conventional farmers was conducted during spring and early summer 2005. The results suggest that the main motivations for future in-conversions are primarily connected with economic and farm management reasons. These depend primarily on the farm type; whether farmers believe that it is possible to manage an organic farm effectively; the subsidy, and related to this, the farmers' expectations of effects on land and land-rent prices. The survey points also to substantial farm-support deficits, with a low uptake of extension services in general and low availability of organic farming specific advisory services. By concluding, we recommend to rebalance direct subsidy levels with investments into support infrastructure and market development to increase the effectiveness of the whole organic farming 'system,' Finally, we critically discuss effects of land capitalisation of relatively high direct organic subsidies, which might have distorting effects if they are not linked to production levels.

This response expresses appreciation for the quality of Dr. Hershberg's discussion as it both affirmed my contribution and offered a supplementary perspective. Discussing my case in intersubjective systems terms, she helped me to better appreciate its interactive complexity and to rethink how the patient and I co-constructed this period of clinical momentum as well as the previous period of clinical stasis. Applying her perspective led me to identify the implicit rules that seemed to govern the mutual regulatory system that David and I evolved and to reconsider the multiple effects of my empathic stance. In turn, this reconsideration prompted me to raise questions about the best treatment approach to addictive problems, particularly how therapists may unwittingly reinforce or enable their patients' addictive tendencies. Esta respuesta expresa mi agradecimiento por la calidad de la discusion de la Dra. Hershberg, que da soporte a mi presentacion y al mismo tiempo ofrece una perspectiva adicional. Al discut...

Scanning densitometers, equipped with the flying spot or meander principle of measurement were used to study the partition of iodine vapors Co various lipid classes, such as phospholipids and triacylglycerols. The purpose was to use the densitometer for in situ quantitation of spots on thin layer plates. It was found that the soft visualization procedure of iodine vapors could be applied to the densitometrie evaluation.