Popular culture has long used skin conditions to suggest a character’s immorality, deviancy, or to give the reader terror. This is especially obvious in Gothic literature, which utilizes dark themes ...including supernaturalism. Some examples of famous characters from Gothic literature include Frankenstein’s monster creation that has jaundiced skin, Dracula who has albinism, poliosis, and an obvious scar, and finally, Stanton in Melmoth the Wanderer, who has albinism. These skin conditions are reflections of the characters’ inner selves and serve to underline that these characters exist outside the realm of normalcy.
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Australia's treatment of refugees and asylum seekers has been found to constitute a regime of cruelty and neglect that amounts to torture. This article seeks to answer the question: how did Australia ...become a state that uses torture on refugees? It uses Freud's work on mourning and melancholia to suggest the majority of the Australian electorate made a decision to forgo the work of mourning in 1996, to deny the need to bury the myth of the kindly coloniser. This stillborn mourning became melancholia. As a consequence of denying the need to bury the myth of the kindly coloniser, a majority of the electorate reverted to the primitive and defensive split position to create a 'good' compassionate and generous Australia to the 'bad' manipulative refugees. Isolation, propaganda, law as tactic and privatising detention then led to an operationalising of this defensive melancholia, which ultimately culminated in torture.
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Australia's treatment of refugees and asylum seekers has been found to constitute a regime of cruelty and neglect that amounts to torture. This article seeks to answer the question: how did Australia ...become a state that uses torture on refugees? It uses Freud's work on mourning and melancholia to suggest the majority of the Australian electorate made a decision to forgo the work of mourning in 1996, to deny the need to bury the myth of the kindly coloniser. This stillborn mourning became melancholia. As a consequence of denying the need to bury the myth of the kindly coloniser, a majority of the electorate reverted to the primitive and defensive split position to create a 'good' compassionate and generous Australia to the 'bad' manipulative refugees. Isolation, propaganda, law as tactic and privatising detention then led to an operationalising of this defensive melancholia, which ultimately culminated in torture.
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The primary aim of this article is to give a more detailed exposition of the cultural, personal, and theoretical contexts in which the Viennese psychoanalyst, Herbert Silberer's theories were born. ...When assessing the broader picture that this approach offers, it can be concluded that Silberer was an innovative thinker who inspired several of his contemporaries. Recognized in many respects by the society and scholars of this time, he represented quite a different viewpoint that was significantly influenced by several forms of Western esoteric thinking. Yet his main aim was to contribute to the field of psychoanalysis and develop a theory in which rationalistic psychoanalytic interpretations were combined with nonreductive approaches to mystical experiences. Silberer's name is frequently mentioned in a specific context in which his tragic suicide is emphasized rather than his innovations. Upon evaluating the materials recording Silberer's private life, it seems very likely that his suicide was not triggered by the criticism of Freud alone. Silberer's family affairs, his relationship with his father, and his financial and professional struggles could have all contributed to his tragic decision. This paper contends that Silberer's oeuvre deserves greater attention and must be evaluated based upon its own merit.
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Reviews the book, Psychology in the Bathroom by Nick Haslam (see record 2012-22075-000). Psychology in the Bathroom surveys a variety of embarrassing processes, shameful disorders and disgusting ...habits, taking the reader on a tour of the clinical and research literatures on elimination from the early psychoanalysts to the latest In neurogastroenterology. In Psychology in the Bathroom, Nick Haslam argues that human excretion is a topic worthy of serious psychological study because everyone excretes and our own waste products have significant implications for our lives, especially personal and public health. He further argues that, although the psychology of human excretion has largely been excreted from psychology’s academic interests, it is nonetheless, a human function that preoccupies many psychological processes and much human behavior, including jokes, home management (e.g., the number of toilets available for the number of occupants, cleanliness, toilet seat position), businesses and public facilities, gender inequality, race, environmental protection, and overall physical health, among others. Psychoanalysis has produced a body of scholarship on the psychology of the bathroom. In contrast, academic psychology has historically largely ignored excretory activity. Fortunately, that is changing as academic psychologists focus efforts on the psychology of mundane daily life and because of interest in mindbody interactions, including how they manifest in various health conditions. This book was a pleasure reading as someone who is a psychologist and as a psychoanalyst. It fulfills the mission of its title and left me wanting more. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract)
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Background
Cognitive bias modification for interpretations (CBM‐I) is a computerized intervention that has received increasing attention in the last decade as a potential experimental intervention ...for anxiety. Initial CBM‐I trials with clinical populations suggest the potential utility of this approach. However, most CBM‐I experiments have been conducted with unaffected samples, few (one or two) training sessions, and have not examined transfer effects to anxiety‐related constructs such as stress reactivity.
Method
This study compared a 12‐session CBM‐I intervention (n = 12) to an interpretation control condition (ICC; n = 12) in individuals (N = 24) with elevated trait anxiety on interpretation bias, anxiety symptom, and stress reactivity outcomes (electrodermal activity, heart rate, and respiratory sinus arrhythmia).
Results
Compared to the ICC group, participants assigned to CBM‐I experienced significantly greater improvements in interpretation bias and anxiety symptoms by post‐intervention 4 weeks later, with impact on anxiety maintained at 1‐month follow‐up. While CBM‐I and ICC groups did not differ in stress reactivity during an acute stressor at pre‐intervention, the CBM‐I group evidenced improved stress reactivity at post‐intervention compared to ICC on two psychophysiological indices, electrodermal activity and heart rate.
Conclusions
The results of this pilot study suggest that CBM‐I may hold promise for reducing anxiety symptoms, as well as impact psychophysiological arousal during an acute stressor.
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Il deserto rosso Sitney, P Adams
The Psychoanalytic review (1963),
10/2018, Volume:
105, Issue:
5
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Peer reviewed
The color contrast between the story the protagonist tells in Antonioni's Il deserto rosso and the rest of the film points to its oneiric significance. In it the otherwise unaccountable removal of ...the girl's bra is a clue to the repression of masturbation and menstruation latent in the recounted story.
By revisiting the last years of a long psychoanalytic treatment of a female patient, a psychoanalyst reflects on her own development as a clinician and on the changes in her experience of ...psychoanalytic generativity. An increasing ability to understand patient's shifts between creativity and destructiveness brings about a different understanding of the process of mourning, while the shared aging of the analytic dyad highlights the difficulty of ending an analysis that has become a way of life.
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