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The paper presents an exemplary strategy for interpreting MMPI-2 data. Due to the multitude of diagnostic tools, the complex nature of the questionnaire and the time-consuming analysis of the data obtained, all examples of interpretation may be helpful for a psychologist. Polish reports supporting the broad interpretation of the MMPI-2 are sparse. The presented case study illustrates an interpretative path replicable in any clinical psychological practice. The article is based on the official guidelines of the Psychological Test Laboratory of the Polish Psychological Association. They were developed by Marek Matkowski and Tomasz Kucharski, specialists dealing with the discussed tool, and represent individual diagnostic recommendations created under the supervision of experienced clinicians and a one-time consultation with MSc Andrzej Janiak. Respecting the original copyrights belonging to the Psychological Test Laboratory of the Polish Psychological Association in Poland, I recommend purchasing only official and authorised materials in the above-mentioned Laboratory and familiarising with its official position on the diagnostic path in MMPI-2. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper provides a general overview of the sources of inspiration and main currents in Polish jurisprudence in the 20th century, especially in the post-War and contemporary period. The paper notes that the main sources of inspiration in the early 20th century included Leon Petrażycki, Bronisław Wróblewski, Czesław Znamie-rowski and Jerzy Lande, who exerted a great influence on the first generation of Polish post-War legal theorists. The Lvov-Warsaw school of analytical philosophy also had a huge impact on Polish jurisprudence, as the school to a large extent determined the research questions posed by Polish legal theorists. Indeed, analytical legal theory can be said to have dominated Polish jurisprudence from the 1950s up to the end of the 1980s. After 1989, a broad current of new philosophical approaches to jurisprudence emerged, including legal hermeneutics and philosophies of interpretation, legal ethics, postmodern and critical legal theory, the phenomenology of law as well as an original Polish achievement – the legal theory of 'juriscentrism'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The work discusses using digital media in the processes of communicating and developing interests by the contemporary Polish and Korean youth. The youth's typical behaviour in cyberspace is described together with an interpretation of their behaviour on the basis of selected theories of influence of the mass media on viewers and listeners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes observations and experiences gathered whilst conducting group therapy with trainees in analytical psychology in Poland. The challenges and conflicts around language and translation reflect challenges common to analysis everywhere: accuracy of interpretation, agreements on permission to interpret and the acceptability of interpretation. The way in which archetypal patterns developed and matured suggests this approach to work with trainees may have wider application. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article summarizes the interpretation of Georges Didi-Huberman, an art historian, on the photographs taken during the Holocaust in Auschwitz, Poland. An exhibition in Paris in 2001 displayed pictures of Nazi concentration and extermination camps secretly taken by members of Sonderkommando at Auschwitz's crematory V in August 1944. Didi-Huberman was accused of voyeurism, pagan idolatry and irresponsible aestheticism on his essay "Les temps modernes." The art historian claimed that how can one interpret historical images when historical knowledge dominate imagination. Didi-Huberman denied the images of the extermination that constitute the ultimate refutation of Holocaust denial but confirmed the visual traces of the genocide.

This article explores witnessing from two different angles: bearing witness as a social process that exposes a disavowed reality of evil and suffering and witnessing as a distinct function of the therapist and as a curative element in psychoanalytic treatment. In the first part of the article I examine the meaning of witnessing as a social process that affects the collective memory of a social community and describe its psychological implications for the witness as well as other participants in the testimony. This part draws primarily on my experiences as a witness at Israeli army checkpoints in the Israeli occupied territories of theWest Bank. The second part draws on the description of social witnessing in order to examine the analyst as a witness. I describe the contexts in which witnessing appears to be a central process in psychoanalytic treatment. I argue that witnessing is predicated on recognizing ‘otherness.’ Following Poland (2000), it is suggested that along with holding, containment and interpretation witnessing is a distinct and curative function in which the analyst's involved otherness enablesr ecognition of a denied or dissociated reality of suffering and evil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]