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During the Second World War, a few well-educated Greenlanders from the Danish colonies of Godthåb and Holsteinsborg expressed their sympathy for Nazi Germany. However, the background of the political turmoil within the Greenlandic elite remains largely unknown. This article presents the state of research and previously unknown sources on the Nazi riots in Greenland. In a subsequent step, potential motives for the movement will be discussed. So far, researchers have ruled out that Greenlanders were aware of the true nature of National Socialism. Instead, the scattered pro-German activities along Greenland’s West coast have been played down as spontaneous acts of provocation and mere political calculus. In fact, the Nazis’ ideology and war crimes were well known to the Greenlanders. In addition, German polar researchers made friends with Greenlandic journalists, teachers and catechists after the Nazi seizure of power. Last not least, the article will examine how Danish discrimination against Greenlanders contributed to the Greenlandic chauvinism displayed by a few members of the Inuit elite.

Zusammenfassung An religiöse Traditionen gebundene und klinische Konzepte werden als kulturell verfügbare Container betrachtet, die individuelles Leid fassen und halten sollen. Für das Verständnis individueller Suchbewegungen in sozialen Kontexten werden konvergierende Begriffe aus unterschiedlichen Forschungsbereichen herangezogen: Resonanz als offenes, Disziplinen übergreifendes Konzept, das Veränderungspotenziale und –prozesse in und zwischen Personen und Umwelten in den Blick nimmt, Mentalisierung als klinisches Konzept, das, Kognitionspsychologie, Bindungstheorie und Psychoanalyse verbindend, die Entwicklung der Wahrnehmung eigenen und anderen, fremden, Innenlebens beschreibt, externale Kohärenz als Abstimmung von Erfahrung mit kulturell verfügbaren Konzepten. Anhand einer Fallstudie aus der laufenden religionspsychologischen Langzeituntersuchung „Faith Development revisited: Longitudinal crosscultural and multimethod research on the development of religious styles“ wird gezeigt, wie religiöse und psychotherapeutische Angebote und Diskurse sowie (sub-)kulturelle Szenen als Resonanzsysteme zu unterschiedlichen Zeiten im Leben genutzt werden. Die wiederholte Befragung erlaubt das Vergleichen von konsekutiven Lebensrückblicken im Sinne doppelter Diachronizität: Auf Veränderungen über die Zeit wird zum einen in einem jeweiligen Interview zurück geschaut, zum anderen erfahren Rückblicke selbst Veränderungen. Schließlich werden Veränderungen der Inanspruchnahme kultureller Container hinsichtlich ihrer Bedeutung für Seelsorge im weitesten Sinne diskutiert.

Zusammenfassung. Mit dem OPD-KJ-Konfliktfragebogen (OPD-KJ-KF) können intrapsychische Konflikte gemäß der Operationalisierten Psychodynamischen Diagnostik im Kindes- und Jugendalter (OPD-KJ-2) einfach und zeitökonomisch erfasst werden. Der Fragebogen existiert in zwei Fassungen: als Selbstbeurteilungsinstrument für Jugendliche und als Fremdbeurteilungsinstrument für Therapeutinnen und Therapeuten. In einer Stichprobe stationär behandelter Jugendlicher wurden psychometrische Gütekriterien (interne Konsistenz, Konstruktvalidität, konvergente Validität) des Fragebogens untersucht. Insgesamt ergaben sich uneinheitliche Befunde: Einige Skalen des Fragebogens scheinen geeignet, die entsprechenden intrapsychischen Konflikte zu erfassen, andere sollten hingegen noch einmal einer kritischen Sichtung unterzogen werden. Insbesondere die Konfliktskalen Nähe vs. Distanz und Unterwerfung vs. Kontrolle bedürfen einer Überarbeitung.

Purpose Historically, literacy education and research have been dominated by white supremacist narratives that marginalize and deficitize the literate practices of Black students. As anti-Blackness proliferates in US schools, Black youth suffer social, psychological, intellectual, and physical traumas. Despite relentless attacks of anti-Blackness, Black youth fight valiantly through a range of creative outlets, including multimodal compositions, that enable them to move beyond negative stereotypes, maintain their creativity, and manifest the present and future lives they desire and so deeply deserve. Design/methodology/approach This study aims to answer the question “How do Black students' multimodal renderings demonstrate creativity and love in ways that disrupt anti-Blackness?” The authors critically examine four multimodal compositions created by Black elementary and middle school students to understand how Black youth author a more racially just society and envision self-determined, joyful futures. The authors take up Black Livingness as a theoretical framework and use visual methodologies to analyze themes of Black life, love and hope in the young people’s multimodal renderings. Findings The findings suggest that Black youth creatively compose multimodal renderings that are humanizing, allowing their thoughts, feelings and experiences to guide their critiques of the present world and envision new personal and societal futures. The authors conclude with a theorization of a Black Livingness Pedagogy that centers care for Black youth. Originality/value Recognizing that “the creation and use of images [is] a practice of decolonizing methodology” (Brown, 2013, loc. 2323), the authors examine Black student-created multimodal compositional practices to understand how Black youth author a more racially just society and envision self-determined, joyful futures.

The regulation of public space is generative of new approaches to gender nonconformity. In 1968 in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, a group of people who identified aswadam—a new term made by combining parts of Indonesian words denoting “femininity” and “masculinity”—made a claim to the city's governor that they had the right to appear in public space. This article illustrates the paradoxical achievement of obtaining recognition on terms constituted through public nuisance regulations governing access to and movement through space. The origins and diffuse effects of recognition achieved by those who identified aswadamand, a decade later,wariafacilitated the partial recognition of a status that was legal but nonconforming. This possibility emerged out of city-level innovations and historical conceptualizations of the body in Indonesia. Attending to the way that gender nonconformity was folded into existing methods of codifying space at the scale of the city reflects a broader anxiety over who can enter public space and on what basis. Considering a concern for struggles to contend with nonconformity on spatial grounds at the level of the city encourages an alternative perspective on the emergence of gender and sexual morality as a definitive feature of national belonging in Indonesia and elsewhere.

This paper describes design of solar powered charging station for charging of electric vehicle that solves the key downside of fuel and pollution. While EV charging has traditionally been grid-based, use of solar powered chargers has emerged as an interesting opportunity. As worlds resources are diminishing, government agencies and non-government organization are pushing greener solution through the use of renewable energy sources. In order to reduce the pollution through the motor vehicles, there is a large scope of increase in electric vehicles all over the world. To run the electric vehicle the fuel required is the electricity which can be storable through the use of solar energy. Electric vehicles that run on the Electric vehicle smart charging station which is the promising alternative and environmentally sustainable solution to meet up the energy crisis. This paper investigates the possibility of charging the battery of electric vehicles at a various working place like offices, colleges, hospitals, universities etc in India using solar energy. In this paper, the charging station successfully developed as desired features for electric vehicle from renewable energy resources with solar panel, solar charge controller, batteries storage and DC-DC converter. A laboratory-scale experimental prototype was also developed, and the performance of the proposed charging station was investigated.

Our special issue provides insights into how the principles of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) can fertilise our educational practices in business and management higher education. The articles in the issue analyse teaching practices from various fields of business and management through the lenses of RRI and take us to Bachelor’s, Master’s and MBA levels of HE. As an introduction to this set of conceptual and research articles, we are providing a brief overview of RRI and a conceptual framework of pedagogical approaches as well as a comparative outline of the articles.

This study explores the association between life satisfaction and depression among patients with cardiovascular diseases and whether this association is mediated by self-esteem. A cross-sectional study was conducted in a third-grade hospital. We examined 300 patients with cardiovascular diseases with a mean age of 62.00 years (females, 133). Life satisfaction was associated with depression. Adding self-esteem to the model weakened the strength of the association between the two. Moreover, 34.2% of the effect of life satisfaction on depression could be explained by self-esteem. We found that self-esteem could totally explain the effect of life satisfaction on depression among patients with cardiovascular diseases.

Social work plays a crucial role in defending the human rights of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees from systems of oppression. This paper explores the meanings and challenges of human rights activism and its driving forces among North Korean refugees in the UK. The data are drawn from life history interviews with 10 participants, together with two activists’ public speeches. The findings suggest that gaining awareness of human rights after their escape had significant implications for the activists, giving meaning to their life and sparking on their activism. Simultaneously, they expressed misconceptions and criticisms from other fellow North Korean refugees as one of the greatest difficulties they encountered in their work. I argue that to overcome such challenges human rights activism requires altruism and a creative imagination that envisions better future lives for other North Korean people. Based on this, I propose altruistic political imagination (API) as a concept that captures North Korean activists’ experiences, built on Passy’s (2001) notion of political altruism, to put emphasis on the visionary aspect of their activism. I maintain that the concept of API potentially has a wider appeal to those activists who face similar situations to North Korean activists, as well as social work practitioners who work with forced migrants and/or marginalised communities.

Ziel Ziel der Studie ist es, den spezifischen Versorgungsbeitrag von Krebsberatungsstellen (KBS) sowohl aus Sicht der Ratsuchenden wie aus Sicht der Zuweisenden in den Blick zu nehmen. Methodik Qualitatives Design mittels leitfadengestutzter face-to-face-Interviews mit Krebspatient/innen/Angehorigen und telefonischer Einzelinterviews mit Zuweisenden. Ergebnisse Insgesamt wurden 43 Ratsuchende und 30 Zuweisende befragt. In Bezug auf die Beratungsinhalte werden die psychoonkologische Begleitung und Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe in Kombination mit einer sozialrechtlichen Aufklarung uber zusatzliche Unterstutzungsleistungen als zentrale Merkmale wahrgenommen. In der Gruppe der Zuweisenden scheint jedoch eine gewisse Unsicherheit daruber zu bestehen, was KBS leisten (konnen). Schlussfolgerung Die Ergebnisse verweisen auf der einen Seite auf einen spezifischen Kern des Angebots von KBS, zugleich auch auf mehrdeutige Wahrnehmungen seitens der Befragten. Sie konnen zur weiteren Profilscharfung der KBS und zur Verdeutlichung ihres Stellenwerts in der Gesundheitsversorgung beitragen.

In recent Franco-Vietnamese literature written by descendants of immigrants, the liminality of exile is portrayed in all its complexity through migrant bodies – that of parents’ bodies – and through political and social bodies – linked to History and the Việt Kiều’s positionality in French society. The experience of external movement becomes an internal one, creating porosity between the outside and the body, self and others, places and times. This article argues that, in Minh Tran Huy’s Voyageur malgré lui and Doan Bui’s Le Silence de mon père, by representing their family’s migration, both authors present the silenced histories of the Vietnamese community in France. In order to do so, Tran Huy and Bui first focus on uncovering and writing the stories of their silent fathers: through their embodiment of exilic history, the fathers transmit the wound of their immigrant condition to their daughters. Consequently, daughters come to manifest similar bodily expressions of traumas they have not experienced and know little about. The fathers’ histories are eventually voiced and re-invested by the second generation. This shows how the unearthing of their fathers’ life stories is also about reappropriating a dual identity as well as making Asian diasporic perspectives and histories visible, notably to create new avenues of representation for French individuals of Asian descent.

This article adds to the timely and important argument presented by Bacha, Einhorn and Lieberman (2021): we may all have blind spots in relation to our own racism – and to our own antisemitism. Some antisemitic tropes are repeated so often that they begin to be accepted, unquestioningly, by those who do not consider themselves antisemitic.

Cet article propose une construction originale pour parvenir a substituer une relation de consubstantialite a la relation de codetermination jusqu’ici privilegiee entre les visees scientifiques et technologiques des travaux menes sur la formation des adultes. Il explicite dans un premier temps en quoi d’un point de vue epistemologique chercheurs et professionnels partagent une enquete speculative faisant substance partagee pour eux sans pour autant recouvrir leurs attributs singuliers. Sur cette base, il detaille et justifie les conditions methodologiques de « negociation », de « signification » et de « transformation » necessaires a la realisation de cette enquete. Enfin, il propose une concretisation de ces conditions par la declinaison de choix de methode operants.

Plusieurs colleges publics francais proposent un accompagnement individuel aux eleves a haut potentiel intellectuel (HPI). L’etude de la perception de cet accompagnement (apports sur le plan psychosocial, qualite de la relation avec l’adulte) via des questionnaires proposes a ces collegiens (n = 66) a permis de distinguer quatre profils d’eleves : pour l’un d’entre eux, les apports percus de cet accompagnement etaient positifs avec une relation de tres bonne qualite avec l’adulte accompagnant ; pour les trois autres, les apports percus etaient tres faibles, voire nuls, et ce malgre une (tres) bonne qualite de la relation dans deux profils. Une relation de qualite entre l’adulte et l’eleve, determinante pour la reussite de cet accompagnement, ne semble ainsi pas suffisante pour garantir des apports percus positivement.

There is usually more than one theoretical view of a hypercomplex situation, which may be cognitively complementary, but they bring about different results when used to orient our practice, on account of their underlying assumptions, values, and intentions. The authors compare two approaches to work with groups: Foulkes’s group analysis and Kaës’s psychoanalytic approach to groups, exploring their coincidences and differences, through their respective concepts of the matrix and the group psychic apparatus. Psychoanalysis starts from the assumption of an isolated individual subject, and then constructs the additional dimension of relations and collective life. Group analysis takes as its starting point the assumption of the primary and essential relational and social nature of the human being, and the subject is a secondary construction that emerges from the initial participatory existence. The concept of the internal group in Kaës is strictly intrapsychic and abstract, while in Pichon-Rivière it is experiential and introjective. Psychoanalysis and group analysis are based on two different conceptions of human existence, and this is clearly shown by the authors’ clinical vignette. Studies like this contribute to a better understanding among the various traditions and schools of analytic work with groups.

In recent years, group psychotherapy with children has become increasingly common. Patients referred to such groups often include children and adolescents with autistic spectrum disorders, thereby confronting therapists with the question of whether to create integrated groups, including children with a broad range of difficulties, or exclusive groups for autistic patients. While it is commonly held that autistic patients need structured groups and find it difficult to benefit from an analytic group (Behr and Hearst, 2008), the author wishes to demonstrate the value of establishing mixed, analytically-oriented groups, with autistic and non-autistic members, through the presentation of a year in the life of such a group, comprised of children aged 11 to 13. Alongside group-analytic conceptualizations, the group and its processes are discussed through Alvarez’s concepts of live company and reclamation. In addition, the role of shared free play is addressed as the counterpart of free-floating discussion in an analytic group for adults and its contribution to gaining insight into the group’s dynamics and unconscious processes is explored. Alongside their clinical benefits, the establishment of integrated groups, which include both autistic and non-autistic children, is congruent with the spirit of group analysis, which views the deficiencies and disorders of individuals as essentially embedded in social and cultural contexts, as collective disorders that belong to society at large and should be addressed at that level (Foulkes, 1971).

This article is about suicide and relationships. How suicidal thoughts and behaviours can impact relationships for the suicidal person and those around them. This includes relationships between the suicidal person and other suicidal people as well as the suicidal person and others who are non-suicidal. How the suicidal can impact the other and how the other in turn then impacts the suicidal person back. What effects they have on each other in terms of how they think and feel and then how that effects their transactions with each other. More specifically it examines suicide clusters, suicide pacts, suicidality in the therapeutic relationship and suicidality in family relationships.

The author combines Kandathil's (1978) approach of Triology that combines I, You and Goal, and how these are connected in terms of Identity, Rationality and Relationship, with transactional analysis theories about injunctions and permissions. The result is illustrated as an extended GK Frame to provide a model for analysing how childhood decisions are preventing the current growth of clients. Injunctions and injunctive messages are both considered, and permissions are described in terms of love, hope and trust. A significant link is also made with Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and this in turn prompts some initial considerations about the nature of spiritual growth. A brief case study is included to demonstrate how the resulting framework can assist with analysis that can be shared with clients.

In this article, the first author uses an autobiographical account of a trauma she experienced and shows how, in her understanding, this led to her developing what was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenia. The trauma forced her to accept a distortion of her understanding of reality, which, she explains, caused a split in her ego between the inner truth of the event and the imposed distortion. She considers Freud’s theory of how trauma develops and looks at how it applies to her case. Using Winnicott’s theory of there being a ‘false self’ in psychosis, she shows how a false self was formed out of the distortion. Bion’s understanding of the development of thought applied to trauma is used to give insight into how the mind finds it difficult to process thought when a trauma occurs and, using Brown’s understanding, she indicates how this is similar to what happens in psychosis. She utilizes Winnicott’s explanation of there being a trauma not lived through, as if not experienced, being present in psychosis and how the need to experience, ‘remember’, this trauma is for healing to take place. In conclusion, she argues how the reaching and establishing of the inner truth is what is needed for recovery to happen and for the split in the ego to heal.

The author introduces a psychological game named TAMED – the TA Myth of Explanatory Depth, which she suggests provides an explanation of unhealthy dynamics occurring within transactional analysis membership and professional associations. She illustrates this with four case examples based on personal experiences. She also provides an overview of TA theory about psychological games, the bystander role, the various roles within the drama triangle and extensions of it, and the potency pyramid. She provides a selection of materials by TA and non-TA authors to support the premise that such games are more to do with organisational and group processes than the script of the individual who is seen as the cause of the conflict. The article concludes with some initial thoughts about how TA organisational diagrams need amending to reflect the structure and dynamics of professional associations.

This article features a case study about the author’s two research encounters with an emotionally reluctant male participant who seemed to experience discomfort and who also made the author feel uncomfortable. To make sense of this mutual experience of discomfort, the article explores the intersubjective exchange between the interviewer and her participant through the application of the psychoanalytic concepts of ‘defence’ and ‘(counter-)transference’. The article argues that the mutual discomfort resulted from the participant’s desire to perform masculinity in ways that fit the Vietnamese hegemonic masculinity and from the researcher’s inability to identify this desire during the interviews. By locating the participant’s engagement with hegemonic masculinity within the sociocultural context of contemporary Vietnam, and investigating the resulting discomfort, the article demonstrates how applying a psychosocial approach to a research relationship can be fruitful. It shows that such an approach can help researchers acquire unexpected insights into the psychological and social meanings of research encounters beyond an analysis of just the text, thus adding to methodological discussions about qualitative interviews.

The author addresses the occurrence and implications of passivity within the educational environment. After reviewing the theoretical background within the TA literature, he reports several research studies before identifying helpful approaches to tackling such passivity. He includes three case studies, complete with suggestions and diagrams of ways in which overadaptation may be resolved.

Zusammenfassung. Die Klinische Psychologie ist heute von der Verhaltenstherapie geprägt. Eine Erklärung für diese enge Verbindung liefert die These, dass die Verhaltenstherapie ein genuin psychologisches Verfahren sei: Sie stamme historisch direkt aus der Disziplin Psychologie. Als eigenes Verfahren habe sie der Psychologie die Abgrenzung zur Medizin ermöglicht, die zuvor lange den Bereich der Psychotherapie dominiert habe. Im vorliegenden Artikel soll diese These für den bundesdeutschen Raum untersucht und das Verhältnis zwischen Verhaltenstherapie und Klinischer Psychologie genauer betrachtet werden. Dazu wird eine mikrohistorische Untersuchung vorgenommen, die sich auf den Zeitraum der 1960er und 1970er Jahre des Max-Planck-Instituts für Psychiatrie konzentriert. Dessen psychologische Abteilung unter Johannes Brengelmann gilt in vielen psychologiegeschichtlichen Darstellungen als grundlegend für die Entwicklung der Verhaltenstherapie ebenso wie der Klinischen Psychologie in Deutschland. Anhand von Archivmaterialien sowie Veröffentlichungen der psychologischen Abteilung rekonstruiere ich zwei verschiedene Figuren, mit denen zentrale Protagonist_innen die Beziehung der Verhaltenstherapie zur Psychologie charakterisierten: Zum einen erfolgte teilweise eine Abgrenzung zur Medizin und die Betonung einer eigenen Identität in der Psychologie. Zum anderen kam es immer wieder zu einer Annäherung der Verhaltenstherapie an die Medizin, zu der etwa die Positionierung als methodische Erneuerung der Psychiatrie, die Orientierung an medizinischen Modellen psychischer Erkrankungen und die Zusammenarbeit in der klinischen Praxis zählten. Insgesamt kann die untersuchte These für die deutsche Entwicklung in dieser Phase also nicht bestätigt werden. Vielmehr ist in Bezug auf Verhaltenstherapie von einem komplexen Verhältnis zwischen Psychologie und Medizin auszugehen, das zwischen Kooperation und Konkurrenz changierte.

Zusammenfassung Fragestellung Spiritual Care ist ein etablierter Bestandteil einer ganzheitlichen Betreuung in der Palliativmedizin. Stellen Religiosität und Spiritualität auch eine Ressource in früheren Phasen der Erkrankung von Kopf-Hals-Tumorpatienten (KHT) dar? Material und Methode An der prospektiven Studie nahmen 113 KHT-Patienten (27 Frauen, 84 Männer, 2 divers) teil. Der Fragebogen erfasste die momentane Belastungssituation (NRS), Spiritualität als Ressource (SpREUK-15), spirituelle Bedürfnisse (SpNQ-20), Krankheitsinterpretationen (IIQ) sowie die Lebenszufriedenheit der Patienten (BMLSS-10, BMLSS-Support, WHO-5). 39 Patienten befanden sich aktuell in Therapie, 74 in Langzeitbetreuung. Ergebnisse Nur 31/111 (28 %) Patienten empfinden sich als religiös und/oder spirituell, 72 % als weder religiös noch spirituell. 51/111 Teilnehmer erkennen in der Reflexion über ihre Erkrankung eine Teil-Ressource zur Bewältigung der Lebenssituation. An spirituellen Bedürfnissen beschreiben sie: religiöse 35/112, existenzielle 67/112, innerer Frieden 90/112, Generativität 84/112. Neben der eigenen Religiosität ist das Stadium der Erkrankung eine Einflussgröße auf spirituelle Bedürfnisse und Ressourcen. Patienten mit Kopf-Hals-Tumoren neigen zu depressiven Verstimmungen (WHO-5 ≤ 50 %) und sind mit ihrer Lebens- und Unterstützungssituation tendenziell unzufrieden. Schlussfolgerung 60–90 % der Kopf-Hals-Tumorpatienten haben spezifische spirituelle Bedürfnisse, die aber nicht immer erkannt werden. Moderne Konzepte integrativer Onkologie nehmen diese auf und stärken über diese Ressourcen die Lebensqualität und das Coping der Betroffenen.

Objective Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES), a common phenomenon in neurological settings, are regarded as a paroxysmal type of functional neurological disorder (FND). In a substantial proportion, PNES are disabling with poor long-term outcomes and high economic costs. Despite the clinical and financial consequences of PNES, there is still a lack of controlled clinical trials on the treatment of this challenging disorder. The study aims to evaluate the feasibility and collect first evidence of the efficacy of a group based-intervention in PNES-patients. Methods A pilot randomized controlled feasibility study with a parallel-group design was performed in adult outpatients with PNES to evaluate a new body-focused group therapy (CORDIS) versus guided self-help groups. Self-assessment of dissociation (Dissociation Experience Scale—DES-20) and seizure severity (Liverpool Seizure Severity Scale—LSSS) were assessed two weeks before and two weeks after the treatment intervention and also six months after treatment as primary outcome parameters. Results A total of 53 patients were recruited from a specialized outpatient clinic, and out of those, 29 patients completed either the body-focused group therapy program (n = 15) or a guided self-help group (SHG) therapy (n = 14). When analyzing the ITT sample (n = 22 CORDIS group, n = 20 SHG), both groups showed an effect on seizure severity and level of dissociation. In the per protocol sample (n = 13 CORDIS group, n = 12 SHG), CORDIS was superior to the self-help group for reducing seizure severity 6 months after the treatment. Significance CORDIS is a newly developed body-focused group therapy program for adults with PNES. Further studies should include a multicentric design with a higher number of participants.

Shared reality (SR) is the experience of having an inner state believed to be shared by others. Dyadic responsiveness has been suggested to be a critical process in SR construction. The present study tested the extent to which SR varies in the daily lives of romantic partners and whether this variability is related to responsiveness processes. We predicted that disclosure of personal events to one’s partner as well as perceived partner enacted responsiveness would be associated with daily levels of SR. We further predicted that these associations would be more pronounced when one has low epistemic certainty with respect to the disclosed event. To test these hypotheses, daily diaries were collected from 76 cohabiting romantic couples for a period of 4 weeks. Participants reported the occurrence of daily personal positive and negative events, indicated whether they had disclosed these events to their partner, and described how their partner had responded. As predicted, the disclosure of positive and negative events, as well as the perceptions of partners’ constructive responses to these disclosures, were positively associated with daily SR. A significant interaction was found between epistemic uncertainty (i.e., low perceived social consensus) and responsiveness processes in the context of negative (but not positive) events; specifically, when participants experienced low certainty, the disclosure of the event and the perceived partner’s constructive response were more strongly associated with SR.

Zusammenfassung Hintergrund Bei Personen mit Geschlechtsinkongruenz wird eine Verminderung der Lebensqualität durch zahlreiche Studien belegt. Die hohe psychische Belastung führt zu depressiven Erkrankungen, Angststörungen und gegenüber der Normbevölkerung erhöhter Suizidalität. Auch soziale Limitationen führen zu verminderter Lebensqualität. Die Möglichkeit geschlechtsangleichender Operationen wird zunehmend wahrgenommen, stellt jedoch einen radikalen Eingriff in das Leben dieser Patienten dar.Ob die chirurgischen Maßnahmen die Lebensqualität und Lebenszufriedenheit von Transfrauen und Transmännern nachhaltig verbessern, soll in dieser Übersichtsarbeit untersucht werden. Methoden Es erfolgte eine Literaturrecherche in den Datenbanken PubMed, Embase und Cochrane Library. Berücksichtigt wurden Originalarbeiten, welche retro- und prospektiv die Lebensqualität nach geschlechtsangleichenden Operationen untersuchten. Ergebnisse 27 Studien, davon 20 retrospektive und 7 prospektive Studien, wurden berücksichtigt, wobei bei 4 Studien ausschließlich Transmänner, bei 11 Studien ausschließlich Transfrauen und bei 12 Studien beide Geschlechter analysiert wurden. In der Gesamtheit der Arbeiten wurden 1849 Transfrauen und 869 Transmänner untersucht. Die Veränderungen der Lebensqualität wurden in diesen durch verschiedene validierte Fragebögen erfasst. Hierbei zeigte sich eine signifikante Verbesserung der Lebensqualität in physischen, psychischen und sozialen Bereichen. Die gesteigerte Zufriedenheit mit dem eigenen Körper und Geschlecht sowie der Lebensqualität generell konnten ebenfalls nachgewiesen werden. Vermehrte psychische Störungen und erhöhte Sterblichkeit gegenüber der Norm wurden auch nach geschlechtsangleichenden Operationen festgestellt. Im Vergleich zur Normbevölkerung blieb die Lebensqualität transsexueller Personen vermindert. Schlussfolgerung Durch zahlreiche Studien kann belegt werden, dass geschlechtsangleichende Operationen helfen, den Leidensdruck unter Transfrauen und Transmännern zu lindern. Lebenszufriedenheit, Gesundheit und soziale Kontakte werden durch chirurgische Eingriffe in Kombination mit endokrinologischer und psychologischer Therapie verbessert. Die Lebensqualität bleibt dennoch hinter der der Normbevölkerung zurück.

BACKGROUND: Caning sentence has been applied for over a decade which is performed publicly. Given that emotional features of the defendants of the caning sentence occur, psychological symptoms may have emerged. One of the executions for the defendants is whipping practice that resembles military punishment, in which the penalty could have affected their personality pre and post-execution. CASE REPORT: In this report, a 30-year-old married woman was sentenced to Qanun criminal offense in Aceh due to her despicable relationship to a male individual who is also a husband of someone. As the caning regulation stated that the punishment execution must be performed through whipping in public places, the women demonstrated several mental conditions such as anxiety, sleeping disorders, and unmotivated in the last 3 days before execution. CONCLUSION: Caning practice in Aceh is performed by following the guidance from a medical doctor to prevent unexpected physical damage; however, psychological symptoms that could last for several years in the future might have occurred. Thus, a high prevalence of mental disorders has appeared among the defendants.

The clinical and technical difficulties presented by patients with personality disorders are well documented. This article focuses on the challenges faced by therapists when managing their emotional reactions, that is, their countertransferences, to patients with personality disorders. While leaving room for therapists' unique and idiosyncratic countertransferences to the patient with personality pathology, Kernberg emphasized the role of a more general form of countertransference, one reflective largely of the patient's conflicts and defenses, in the treatments of personality disordered individuals. Here, the nature of the patient's internal and external functioning can be seen to lead to similar reactions among different therapists, opening the possibility of utilizing countertransference to better understand the patient's difficulties. In transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP), countertransferences arising in the patient–therapist interaction are first identified and contained by the therapist and then utilized to clarify and explore how the patient's internal object relations are being enacted in the clinical process. This article describes this process and how TFP therapists work with their countertransference to help illuminate the patient's split representational world, paving the way for interpretation and integration.

This article addresses the topic of ageism through the lens provided by Simone de Beauvoir concerning the subjective “unrealizability” of age. In her book, Old Age, she adopted the terminology of existentialism to argue that old age was one of the “unrealizables”: phenomena that can be grasped only through their “otherness.” Old age, in her view, can only ever be understood as an object position, or rather a multiplicity of object positions, none of which aligns with the experiencing self. This inherent otherness of age provides a ready template for viewing agedness as an undesired, undesirable, and fundamentally alien characteristic. The outwardly ageing subject’s view of him- or herself remains always ageless, distinct from such otherness, experienced as more real than any self-reflected aged other. But while age’s unrealizability may sustain the individual’s subject position as ageless, it risks perpetuating the devaluation of the aged as always a collective other. Rather than demanding a resolution of such object and subject positions, I suggest that a more realizable goal may be to accept this inevitable opposition and focus instead upon improving the objective conditions of later life. Enriching the actual relations of care might constitute such an objectively “realizable” goal, one that is also in keeping with the social intent of de Beauvoir’s book.

L'Autore, dopo una ampia introduzione sulle basi neurobiologiche ed evolutive della sessualità e dell'autoerotismo, si occupa del fenomeno odierno della pornografia in rete e del sesso virtuale, evidenziando come essi siano ormai parte della nostra sessualità a tutte le età e come essi influenzino e siano influenzati dalle nostre fantasie erotiche. Nella relazione analitica con persone inibite e ritirate, può essere cruciale riuscire a fare in modo che gli stati dissociati della mente tipici dell'autoerotismo possano essere nominati e condivisi. Tale condivisione può essere un mezzo per esplorare il mondo degli oggetti interni del paziente in generale e in particolare nei disturbi correlati ai traumi relazionali precoci.

ZusammenfassungDie vorliegende multiparadigmatische und -methodische Pilotstudie widmet sich der Rekonstruktion der gruppentherapeutischen Eingangsphase auf mehreren Ebenen: Zum einen wurden Fallverläufe von etwa 2500 Patient_innen aus der ÖAGG psychotherapeutischen Ambulanz (pta) retrospektiv quantitativ ausgewertet und zwar hinsichtlich der differenzierenden Eigenschaften von patient_innen-, therapeut_innen- und behandlungsspezifischen Variablen. Gruppendiskussionen mit Psychotherapeut_innen der Ambulanz, die dokumentarisch und tiefenhermeneutisch ausgewertet wurden, geben Einblicke in entsprechende Erfahrungen und Interpretationen der Therapeut_innen. Narrative Telefoninterviews mit beteiligten Patient_innen, die ebenso ausgewertet wurden, bilden die Patient_innenperspektive ab.Die Ergebnisse der quantitativen Auswertungen weisen darauf hin, dass eine bestimmte Anzahl an Gruppentherapiestunden notwendig ist, um einen „Therapieerfolg“ zu ermöglichen. Wenn es zu ungeklärten Therapieabbrüchen kommt, so finden diese allgemein sehr früh im Behandlungsverlauf statt. Es zeigen sich Einflüsse des Geschlechterverhältnisses zwischen Therapeut_innen und Patient_innen und komplexe Interaktionseffekte in diesem Bereich. Darüber hinaus zeigt sich, dass junge Patient_innen häufiger vorzeitig die Therapie beenden und dass spezifische Diagnosegruppen sowie die Störungsspezifität der Gruppe die Wahrscheinlichkeit eines frühen Endes beeinflussen. Bezüglich der psychotherapeutischen Methoden des/der Gruppentherapeut_in fanden sich Interaktionseffekte mit dem Patient_innengeschlecht.Die Auswertungen der Gruppendiskussion mit den Therapeut_innen weisen auf die Relevanz des Gruppenprozesses sowie der Geschlechterverteilung für die Aufnahme neuer Patient_innen hin. Die Auswertung der Interviews mit den Patient_innen lässt erste Ansätze einer Typologie von Patient_innen erkennen, die aus einer Gruppentherapie in der Anfangsphase aussteigen.

The author seeks to articulate the philosophical significance of Heinz Kohut's original theory of the self by showing (a) how it explains the basis of our ability to create and be motivated by personal ideals; (b) how it transforms our understanding of ethical life by showing why it is in one's self-interest to become an empathic, respectful person who embodies the moral virtues as articulated by Aristotle; and (c) how it reverberates with profound insights into what it means to be human by some of the most esteemed philosophers in the Western philosophic tradition, especially Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, and Nietzsche. The author concludes by critically responding to the intersubjectivist critique of Stolorow and Atwood that Kohut's notion of “self” is a reified, metaphysical concept.

The physical process of receiving and interpreting sound creates not just an auditory experience through vibrations registering within our bodies; sounds can also evoke feeling and conjure up mental images. This is especially true of acousmatic sounds, which Michel Chion describes as sounds that are heard while their source remains invisible, and such sounds are thus perfect vehicles for conveying one feeling in particular: terror. If one is not able to see what one can hear, the ensuing sense of terror is heightened. Through the use of sound, and indeed the deliberate absence of sound, M. R. James, I would like to argue, is able to concoct in his stories an atmosphere of malevolence, in which his ‘executors of unappeasable malice’ (as Michael Cox describes them) are often heard rather than seen. This emphasis on sound over image, and the manipulation of it, can be traced back to the fact that James was an oral storyteller before he was a writer of fiction, and that his tales were originally intended for a listening audience. A linguist with an ‘ear’ for language and an aptitude for mimetic brilliance, James deploys alien soundscapes and aural disturbance to create sound as a tangible element within rich sonic tapestries that feature unique aural signatures and instances of acoustic chaos. Drawing on the work of David Hendy on ‘the primalness of the auditory’, Leigh Schmidt on ‘sound corporeality’, and Jonathan Sterne on ‘acoustic culture’, this article demonstrates how James utilized auscultation (or the act of listening) to promulgate terror through auditory images as elusive shape-shifters.

This study explores the character of Takezo the ronin in Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa through the psychological perspective of aggression. This research specifically aims to (a) explore Takezo's psychology of aggression as a ronin and (b) the impact of Takezo's aggression on others. The approaches used in this research are the psychology of literacy and the psychology of aggression. The method used is qualitative; it uses data exposure and interpretation. The data source is the novel Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa (translated version in Indonesian). The data used is in the form of text that is relevant to Takezo's psychology of aggression. The data analysis techniques are carried out in five stages, (1) identifying data related to Takezo's psychology of aggression, (2) data classification related to Takezo's psychology of aggression, (3) data presentation related to Takezo's psychology of aggression, and (4) summarizing data related to Takezo's psychology of aggression. The results showed that Takezo's aggressions are represented in the form of thoughts and behaviour. Takezo's aggressive thoughts are wanting to defeat and kill his enemies. Takezo's aggressive behaviour is killing his enemies, who are samurai. Takezo's aggressions cause the impact of physical category, and they are death and disability on the defeated samurai. Besides, in the psychological category, Takezo's aggressions cause fear and hatred in society. It is concluded that Takezo represents ronin, which desires destructive aggression that has a physical and psychological impact on others.

Una Psicologia dell'Io revisionata e ampliata rappresenta la base più solida di una teoria unificata della mente e anche di una sua integrazione con i progressi delle altre discipline. Tra le aree in cui la Psicologia dell'Io richiede una revisione vi sono il riconoscimento del ruolo delle relazioni og-gettuali per lo sviluppo delle funzioni dell'Io, la relativa autonomia delle relazioni oggettuali dalle pulsioni, una adeguata spiegazione della comprensione interpersonale e una adeguata teoria degli affetti con un riconoscimento del loro ruolo motivazionale. Vengono anche discusse le implica-zioni di una Psicologia dell'Io revisionata e ampliata per la concezione della psicopatologia e del trattamento. Persino nella teoria freudiana il principale scopo della terapia espresso nel motto freudiano «dove c'era l'Es, deve subentrare l'Io» - Introduzione alla psicoanalisi (nuova serie di lezioni) (1932). Opere, 11, p. 190 - è tanto un arricchimento dell'"Io", cioè dell'esperienza soggettiva, quanto una acquisizione di insight e conoscenza di sé.

This paper contends that sociotherapy, a sociologically informed approach to therapy, is a viable alternative to the diagnostic model recognized by the College of Registered Psychotherapists in Ontario (CRPO). The Psychotherapy Act (2007) along with the Regulated Health Professions Act (1991) gives the CRPO authorization to regulate the practice of psychotherapy and to control titles affiliated with the act of psychotherapy. I offer a discussion of sociotherapy and socioanalysis as clinical alternatives to the conservative and normalizing approaches endorsed by the College. I situate sociotherapy and socioanalysis in the discipline of sociology and in relation to Freudian psychoanalysis. I offer my own sociotherapeutic practice as an illustration of how the societal and the psychological, the social, and the psychic must be engaged in concert. I underscore the importance of dialogue, as opposed to diagnostics, interpretation as opposed to assessments and psychosocial contemplation as opposed to cognitive-behavioral treatment in clinical practice.

Appena ci siamo abituati a pensare la nostra epoca in termini di "modernità liquida" con Bauman (2000) e di "ipermodernità" con Lipovetsky (2004), la nascita di Internet 2.0, sempre nel 2004, ci proietta già in una nuova era, resettando radicalmente i parametri biopsicosociali. Le nuove tecno-logie privano il reale della sua consistenza, sostituendolo con la realtà virtuale dei social media. Nel mondo di Facebook, di Instagram e di WhatsApp, la dimensione del non-conscio si sta spo-stando sempre più su una polarità lontana da coordinate simboliche, verso la deriva di un corpo disabitato dalla soggettività e posseduto dai meccanismi occulti di reward-addiction del web. Co-me questa alba del post-human (Braidotti, 2013) sta cambiando la clinica? Gli adolescenti (e non) "digitalmente modificati" rappresentano la sfida a ripensare le categorie cliniche e le logiche della cura?

This essay is part of a project historicizing vernacular theories from Latin America to create dialogues across geopolitical and epistemic borders. This article specifically advances a comparatist analysis of the critical phenomenologies of nudity, truth, and social space by two trans thinkers: Marlene Wayar, an Argentine social psychologist and activist, and Talia Mae Bettcher, a Canadian philosopher and activist based in Los Angeles. Pichon-Rivière argues that a core difference between their approaches stems from different geopolitical and disciplinary regimes of visibility and that these paradigms are not as incompatible as they might seem at first glance. Pichon-Rivière's own theorization seeks to integrate these two perspectives into a shared critical phenomenology of collective truth.

Questo report fa riferimento alle intuizioni della psicoterapia della Gestalt contemporanea e della psicoanalisi intersoggettiva, per esaminare la relazione tra i sentimenti di speranza, paura e dignità all'interno di un processo terapeutico dialogico. Entrambe le scuole di pensiero enfa-tizzano la relazione tra speranza e paura nel processo dialogico, e questo report esplora il modo in cui un senso di dignità emerge dal lavoro dialogico con la speranza e con la paura. Speranza e paura oscillano nel processo di una relazione terapeutica nel momento in cui il paziente ricer-ca la dignità attraverso un dialogo attivo ed autentico. Nel periodo di lockdown causato dal Co-ronavirus il tema del ritrovamento della dignità è passato dallo sfondo in primo piano durante i nostri colloqui terapeutici.

Sexualisierte Gewalt wird häufig als Randerscheinung von Kriegen behandelt und durch triebtheoretische Erklärungsmodelle verharmlost. Zudem wird sie oft nicht deutlich genug von Genozid und ethnischen Säuberungen unterschieden. Eine Vergewaltigung stellt jedoch nicht nur einen massiven Angriff auf körperliche Unversehrtheit und Würde der Frau dar, sondern zerstört ihr soziales Umfeld in einem kaum realisierten Ausmaß. Sozialwissenschaften haben zur Aufklärung sexualisierter Gewalt beizutragen. Am Beispiel der Jugoslawienkriege während der 1990er Jahre sollen deren fatale Auswirkungen für Frauen sowie das soziale Gefüge familiärer und dörflicher Einheiten beschrieben werden. Scham und Tabuisierung erschweren die »Aufarbeitung« und halten einen komplexen Kreislauf aufrecht.

Zusammenfassung Hintergrund und Zielstellung Zahlreiche Studien belegen, dass Psychotherapie wirkt. Sie findet in unterschiedlichsten Settings statt, die Datenlage dazu ist derzeit in Österreich noch ausbaufähig. Verhaltenstherapie stellt im 6‑wöchigen Kurzzeit-Setting der vorgestellten ambulanten medizinisch-psychiatrischen Rehabilitation das zentrale Behandlungselement dar und wird in Hinblick auf Wirksamkeit und Nachhaltigkeit evaluiert. Die Bewertung basiert auf „Patient reported Outcomes“. Weil mehr als ¾ der RehabilitandInnen von einer depressiven Erkrankung betroffen sind, wird das Beck Depressionsinventar als primary Outcome gewählt. Methodik Die Befragung erfolgt schriftlich bei Behandlungs-Beginn und -Ende sowie ein Jahr danach. Von 837 PatientInnen (64 % weiblich, ø 45,25 Jahre alt) leiden 76,6 % unter einer depressiven Erkrankung, dabei haben 47,2 % einen chronischen und 29,4 % einen nicht-chronischen Verlauf. Ergebnisse Differenziert nach Ausgangsbelastung zeigen sich ein Jahr nach Behandlungsende große, aber unterschiedliche Effekte. Bei PatientInnen mit stärkerer Ausgangssymptomatik finden sich größere Effekte. Die Nachhaltigkeit ist jedoch bei chronifizierten PatientInnen etwas geringer. Ein Fünftel der PatientInnen erfüllt bei Behandlungsende und ein Jahr später das Kriterium der klinischen Signifikanz und kann als „geheilt“ klassifiziert werden. Zusätzlich sind am Ende der Behandlung 23 % und ein Jahr später 18 % signifikant gebessert. Bei einem kleinen Teil kommt es zu Verschlechterungen, diesen PatientInnen sollte verstärkt Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt werden. Fazit Verhaltenstherapeutische Gruppen- und Einzeltherapien in Kombination mit weiteren therapeutischen Angeboten in der ambulanten psychiatrischen Rehabilitation sind nachhaltig wirksam. Auch wenn ein Jahr nach Ende der Behandlung bei anfangs stark depressiven RehabilitandInnen immer noch große Effekte nachweisbar sind, zeigt sich die dringende Notwendigkeit einer nachfolgenden psychotherapeutischen Begleitung im niedergelassenen Bereich oder im Rahmen der Phase 3 Rehabilitation.

A partire dagli anni 1930, la psicoterapia della Gestalt si è sviluppata dalla psicoanalisi attraverso l'integrazione di altre influenze: la psicologia della Gestalt e la prospettiva olistica, la fenomenologia e il pragmatismo americano, le avanguardie artistiche berlinesi e in seguito newyorkesi, l'attivismo sociale e politico. Due concetti centrali di questo approccio sono la concezione del sé come processo emergente e la prospettiva di campo. In quest'ottica, l'esperienza del terapeuta e del paziente sono influenzate delle tensioni intrinseche alla situazione, cioè dalle intenzionalità del campo, che tendono a completare il processo di assimilazione di quanto non è stato attraversabile. La psicopatologia emerge nell'incontro come assenza, cioè difficoltà a essere pienamente presenti. Il processo terapeutico implica una partecipazione patica e corporea da parte del terapeuta, che lascia emergere quanto spinge per prender forma ed essere integrato. Viene presentata una vignetta clinica per illustrare i tre paradigmi (mono-personale, bi-personale e di campo) utilizzabili per descrivere il cambiamento in terapia, e viene discussa una seduta terapeutica alla luce della teoria del campo.

A new version of an article on on-line psychotherapy written in the 1990s, and published in issue no. 4/2003 of the Italian journal Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane, is presented. The debates on on-line psychotherapy and psychoanalysis that we have witnessed since 2020, following the lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, show widespread misunderstandings of theory of technique;these misunderstandings may lead to technical errors also in “normal”, off-line psychotherapy. In fact, many psychotherapists have looked at on-line therapy with suspicion, without understanding that it is nothing but one of the many applications of a general theory of psychotherapy and that can be useful in various situations. These debates therefore have a sociological, not a theoretical interest, also because the theoretical and clinical problems of distance therapy had already been addressed in depth in the early 1950s with regard to “telephone analysis”, that was even more advanced since it did not include the video. This article was written way back, more than twenty years ago, when there were many prejudices against on-line psychotherapy, and in Italy the National Board of Psychology (CNOP) originally had even banned Internet psychotherapy. Copyright © FrancoAngeli.

"Giocare" in analisi ha a che fare con a) l'ascoltare il discorso dell'inconscio come se virtualmente qualsiasi cosa riflettesse il sogno della coppia o del campo analitico, b) l'interpretare il processo dell'analisi non come un rettificare le distorsioni di transfert ma come un promuovere trasformazioni, c) l'adoperare uno stile semplice, diretto e spontaneo di conversazione con il paziente. Nel nuovo paradigma della psicoanalisi, che si può definire non più epistemico ma ontologico, cioè diretto non tanto a svelare contenuti rimossi ma a promuovere nuove funzioni, la psicoanalisi dei bambini, in cui il gioco ha un posto così rilevante, fa da modello alla psicoanalisi degli adulti. I concetti di attività, vitalità, intensità, curiosità, piacere, esplorazione, spontaneità, apertura, ecc. diventano elementi che idealmente dovrebbero essere presenti in qualsiasi analisi. Nel gioco tutto è finzione e si gioca in due. Giocare serve a far crescere la mente passando per momenti di sintonizza zione emotiva (at-one-ment). Da qui la necessità per l'analista di disporre di concetti aggiornati per intuire cosa succede sul piano inconscio e condiviso della relazione.

Introduction: World Health Organization recognizes online game addiction as a mental health condition. The rise of excessive online gaming is emerging in the Philippines, with 29.9 million gamers recorded in the country. The incidence of depression is also increasing in the country. The current correlational analysis evaluated the association between online game addiction and depression in Filipino adolescents. Methods: A paper-and-pencil self-administered questionnaire assessing depression and online game addiction was distributed from August to November, 2018. The questionnaire included socio-demographic profiles of the respondents, and the 14-item Video Game Addiction Test (VAT) (Cronbach's α=0.91) and the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (Cronbach's α=0.88) to determine levels of online game addiction and depression, respectively. Multiple regression analyses were used to test the association between depression and online game addiction. Results: Three hundred adolescents (59% males, 41% females) participated in the study. Fifty-three out of 300 respondents (12.0% males, 5.7% females) had high level of online game addiction as reflected in their high VAT scores. In this study, 37 respondents (6.7% males, 5.7% females) had moderately severe depression and 6 (2.0%) females had severe depression. Online game addiction was positively correlated with depression in this study (r=0.31; p

The Al-Aqsa Intifada was the second Palestinian uprising that took place in 2000–2005. The dramatic record of the Intifada expressing itself in waves of recurring terror attacks and the construction of the separation wall on the border between Israel and Palestine overturned the Israeli-Palestinian relationship and triggered international public opinion. The article aims to determine how those events influenced the art scene. The study performs an overview of activities and artistic phenomena which occurred from 2000 through 2015 and problematized the events of the Second Intifada in various ways. The author focuses on individual works of art by both Israeli and international artists as well as art events and exhibitions of the leading kind. The analysis shows the extensive impacts of the Intifada on the artistic environment of that time and leads the author to the conclusion of the Intifada’s prevailing role in shaping politically engaged Israeli art at the beginning of 21 century. The dramatic events came up in creating a new aesthetic of the conflict, resulted in expanding a cultural boycott of Israel as well as challenged the position of politically engaged artists of Israel.