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This contribution aims to highlight the theoretical and epistemological premises of the co-writing experience, a practice where a clinician and a patient are mutually engaged in jointly or collaboratively writing a narrative related to the patient’s experience. Unlike a typical set of therapeutic techniques, co-writing is based on sharing perspectives and meanings about the experience of crisis, recovery, and the therapeutic process. The paper identifies and briefly describes four non-clinical epistemological paradigms on which it is grounded: ethnography, values-based practice, narrative care, and phenomenology. Although they differ in several ways, at the same time, they seem to share some common features that the paper investigates and comments. For clinicians, nurses, researchers and Mental Health Service managers, attention to the users and to the improvement of their active roles represents not only a strategy for the empowerment of results, but also the access door to a different perspective which relies on a renewed conceptualization of the mental disease nature that may lead to overcoming the epistemic asymmetry between the ‘expert’ and the ‘other’ in favor of intersubjective dialogue.

Monitoring is known to be the basis for coastal planning and management studies, for verifying the interventions effects and for forecasting the future state of beaches. There are several proxies that must be considered in the definition of a monitoring plan, such as the spatial and temporal extension of the monitoring activities, the types of data and their required accuracy values, the acquisition frequency of the data and perhaps the available budget to invest are among the most important aspects. The present paper presents the first results of the monitoring activity with integrated and complementary techniques applied to a stretch of coast near the city of Riccione, North Italy, within the framework of the research project STIMARE, financed by the MATTM and of the project POR FESR TAO. The site is protected by non-traditional defense works, and the on-going activities aim to monitor the shoreline evolution by using videocameras, with a low-cost hardware system, based on Raspberry Pi components, and the development of on-site software for the survey, correction and georeferencing of data. The monitoring of the emergence and submerged beach is carried out by means of topographic and bathymetric surveys (terrestrial laser scanner, UAV photogrammetry, ASV multibeam), allowing a very high-resolution digital terrain model (DTM) to be obtained. The comparison between successive surveys acquired with different techniques provides information on the response of the coastal stretch to the local regime of waves and currents and on the effects of the defense structures on the seabed, both in the nearfield and in the farfield, with the possibility of quantifying the volumes of eroded or accumulated sand. Finally, the two monitoring approaches are shown to be complementary in terms of time and precision: direct surveys provide data with high spatial precision but not continuous acquisition due to budget and logistics reasons, while video monitoring provides only information on the shoreline, (used as a proxy for the description of coastal dynamics) but with data continuously acquired. The project aims to verify the complementarity and integration of the different techniques adopted in monitoring, and the possible feasibility in other coastal stretches with the purpose of assessing vulnerability.

The increasing quality and resolution of marine seismic reflection data, as well as their availability in digital form within large data sets, require the development and testing of new techniques to improve their interpretation. In this work, we present a case study dealing with application of 3D techniques to a set of 2D shallow-water data, where the effect of lateral reflections/diffractions can be neglected. We show how such techniques can be effective in highlighting geological properties/features of the seafloor and sub-seafloor, including reflectivity analysis of prominent horizons, seismic facies classification based on definition of acoustic properties, and compilation of a "flattened" version of seismic sections, by time shifting a particular reflector to a horizontal reference level. This latter technique enables compilations of pseudo-3D grids of seismic volumes, that could be subsequently sampled (time sliced) allowing for compilation of seismic amplitude and reflectivity maps which could be used to infer geological properties and processes.

The psychopathological validity of the current concept 'bizarre delusion' is questioned. A review of the literature reveals that the traditional category 'ego disorders'--though preferable to 'bizarre delusion'--is also biased, taking into account mainly 'passivity experiences' of the kind of 'Gemacht', eclipsing experiences of active influence on external reality. Although anecdotal records of activity experiences in schizophrenic psychoses have been reported since Kraepelin, any general systematization is lacking.

SeisPrho is an interactive computer program for processing and interpreting high-resolution seismic reflection profiles developed using the Delphi/Kylix multiplatform programming environment. For this reason, it is available under Windows™ and Linux™ operating systems. The program allows the users to handle SEG-Y data files (and other non-standard formats) carrying out a processing sequence over the data to obtain, as a final result, bitmap images of seismic sections. Some basic algorithms are implemented, including filtering and deconvolution. However, the main feature of SeisPrho is its interactive graphic interface, which provides the user with several tools for interpreting the data, such as reflector picking and map digitizing. Moreover, the program allows importing and geo-referencing maps and seismic profiles in the form of digital images. Trace-by-trace analysis of seismic signal and sea-bottom reflectivity is also implemented, as well as other special functions such as compilation of time-slice maps from close-spaced grids of seismic lines. SeisPrho is distributed as public domain software for non-commercial purposes by the Marine Geology division of the Istituto di Scienze Marine (ISMAR-CNR). This paper is an introduction to the program and a preliminary guide to the users.