Aims:
Dementia is being increasingly recognised as a major public health issue for our ageing populations. A critical aspect of supporting people with dementia is facilitating their participation in ...meaningful activities. However, research to date has not drawn on theories of ageing from developmental psychology that would help undergird the importance of such meaningful activity. For the first time, we connect existing activity provision for people with dementia with developmental psychology theories of ageing.
Method:
We reviewed the literature in two stages: first, we narratively searched the literature to demonstrate the relevance of psychological theories of ageing for provision of meaningful activities for people with dementia, and in particular focused on stage-based theories of adult development (Carl Jung and Erik Erikson), gerotranscendence (Tornstam), selective optimisation with compensation (Baltes and Baltes), and optimisation in primary and secondary control (Heckhausen and Schulz). Second, we systematically searched PubMed and PsycINFO for studies with people with dementia that made use of the aforementioned theories.
Results:
The narrative review highlights that activity provision for people with dementia goes beyond mere pleasure to meeting fundamental psychological needs. More specifically, that life review therapy and life story work address the need for life review; spiritual/religious activities address the need for death preparation; intergenerational activities address the need for intergenerational relationships; re-acquaintance with previously conducted leisure activities addresses the need for a sense of control and to achieve life goals; and pursuit of new leisure activities addresses the need to be creative. The systematic searches identified two studies that demonstrated the utility of applying Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development to dementia care.
Conclusion:
We argue for the importance of activity provision for people with dementia to help promote wellbeing among an increasing proportion of older people.
This manuscript was born underground. Following an obsession with roots and soil, these poems appeared one by one—as if pushing up from single seeds, surrounded in dampness. This collection of poetry ...is one that dives into the personal shadow’s archive of past selves. It teems with spirits, both human and natural. It descends into the dark necessarily, as a precursive measure of arching back up for the light; it honors the violence and the beauty within both. Its purpose is to trace a journey of release, return, and rebirth; to witness the divine’s hand in each cycle of growth.
Despite a number of recent developments in broadening of the discipline, the field of Fashion Studies at large to date has been largely predominated by a pair of prevailing paradigms.
One of them is ...to address fashion as a monolithic phenomenon internally undifferentiated by diversity of creators, variety of production and distribution methods, and the evolving aesthetic tendencies. The other is to deny individual seasonal collections presented both in course, and outside the realms of, the international fashion week circuit, the agency to express complex concepts and sophisticated cultural critique through the encompassing medium of a fashion show or presentation in a manner such agency is readily granted to art exhibitions, dance and music performance, or literature. This article departs from both of the former tendencies by specifically addressing a unique seasonal fashion collection and the philosophical and critical questions developed within it. It will analyze the Spring/Summer 2018 Collection by Rodarte, presented as part of the Paris Haute Couture week on July 2, 2017, in the context of Georges Bataille's thesis of the imperative of complimentary dialectic between homogeneity and heterogeneity. Developing this subject, the following text will also approach the broader interrelated issues of eco fetishism and paradoxically co-existing socio-cultural discourses of valorization and denigration of femininity as they were addressed in the collection and its presentation.
In the introduction to The Psychology of the Transference (1946), Carl Jung sketched out a theory of "erotic phenomenology" which condenses his teaching about sexuality and romantic love into a very ...concise summary. But the meaning of this passage is obscured in the English translation given in the Collected Works of C. G. Jung. I propose here a new translation which makes Jung's meaning clearer, along with a commentary which explains it in the context of Freudian drive theory and German 19
century philosophy. Invoking the concepts of instinct, mind, and Eros (both the passion and the divine figure), Jung's theory says that male sexual desire can be cultivated or repressed in four distinct ways, each associated with a female symbolic figure or anima image: Eve, Helen, Mary and Sophia.
•Public relations negotiate professional and individual practitioner identity.•Goffman observes ‘microsociology’ of identity formation as performance.•Jung claims outward identity can marginalise ...inner needs.•Such needs form hidden ‘underbelly’ or ‘backstage’ of identity.•Together, they offer insights into PR's individual and collective identity.
Public relations work involves shaping, reflecting and communicating identity for organisations and individuals, and is in turn shaped by the professional identity both of the field and individual public relations practitioners. This paper explores these issues from the dual perspectives of sociologist Erving Goffman's (1922–1982) reflections on the performance of work and Carl Jung's (1875–1961) concept of Persona, the socially acceptable face of the individual or group. The former explores these issues through observation of external behaviours, the latter by engaging with the psyche. Goffman and Jung, despite their conflicting worldviews, offer a complementary understanding of the operation, internal and external, of professional identity.
The paper, which is conceptual and interpretive, with the objective of building theory, summarises contemporary approaches to professional identity in public relations and other fields, before introducing Goffman, who is often mentioned in this context, and Jung, who is not. Together these two scholars offer insights into the interior and exterior aspects of identity, which is here applied to public relations, raising questions both about the production of identity as a commodity for others and the production of self-image of public relations practitioners. The introduction of Jungian thinking brings the inward or experiential dimension of professional identity to this debate.
Many studies have shown that the appearance of products has a great impact on consumers. In addition to functionality, aesthetics is of paramount importance in many branches of product design. Visual ...appearance includes, among other things, the colour, shape, and pattern of the product. The effect of shapes and colours is often studied, but not much data are available on the emotional impact of patterns. This study specifically examines the impact of geometric patterns, which may be of help in the work of product designers. Interviews and questionnaires based on a newly introduced method revealed, for instance, that the basic geometry that makes up geometric patterns and the way the pattern is arranged fundamentally influence the effect of the pattern on consumers.
This study examines the multi‐level functionalities of social media in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 11 March 2011. Based on a conceptual model of multi‐level story flows of ...social media (Jung and Moro, 2012), the study analyses the multiple functionalities that were ascribed to social media by individuals, organisations, and macro‐level social systems (government and the mass media) after the earthquake. Based on survey data, a review of Twitter timelines and secondary sources, the authors derive five functionalities of social media: interpersonal communications with others (micro level); channels for local governments; organisations and local media (meso level); channels for mass media (macro level); information sharing and gathering (cross level); and direct channels between micro‐/meso‐ and macro‐level agents. The study sheds light on the future potential of social media in disaster situations and suggests how to design an effective communication network to prepare for emergency situations.
‘To navigate against the current, these rare qualities are needed: a spirit of adventure, courage, perseverance and passion’ – Nise da Silveira In a time when lobotomies, electroshock and insulin ...therapies were still the norm in Brazilian psychiatry, Nise da Silveira stood out as a singular voice advocating for a kinder and more relational approach to the treatment of people with mental health conditions. Despite working in an arena dominated by men, she fought passionately against the status quo and was instrumental in establishing occupational therapies as a valid treatment in schizophrenia and other chronic psychiatric conditions in Brazil, changing the way in which rehabilitation was viewed and practised in her native land. The museum has remained in operation to this day and now holds over 350 000 works by patients from the 1940s to today. da Silveira went on to establish the Casa das Palmeiras in 1956, a clinic devoted to the rehabilitation of former patients of psychiatric hospitals which eschewed the institutionalisation and restriction of liberty of its attendees.
Shadow work for leadership development Chappell, Stacie; Cooper, Elizabeth; Trippe, George
The Journal of management development,
06/2019, Letnik:
38, Številka:
5
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to expand upon scholarship exploring the application of Jungian psychological concepts to leadership development.
Design/methodology/approach
This is a conceptual ...paper in which Jungian shadow is explored as a potential bridge between the simplistic conceptualization of good and bad leadership.
Findings
The importance of shadow work to leadership development is explored and activities for shadow work are provided.
Research limitations/implications
Because this paper is not an empirical study, it does not present research information, propositions or hypotheses.
Originality/value
The paper presents a clear and accessible introduction to Jungian psychology and suggests practical exercises for incorporating shadow work into leadership development.
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