The engagement of queer theory with the affective turn, particularly in its divergence from the previous discussions preoccupied with the historical development and poststructuralist critique of ...sexual identity, has generated three distinct yet related strains of affective scholarship: queer negativity, queer temporality, and queer as machinic body. Each of the strains has raises different analytical challenges and potentials for both queer theory and affect theory, which I term respectively feeling down, feeling backward, and feeling machinic. These three types of scholarship describe the varied forms of sociality and levels of intensity that the queer body is affected by and bring three particular contributions to queer theory, including deepening the understanding of cultural processes, shifting epistemology at the temporal scale, and widening sexual ontology beyond its spatial privileging of the Euro-American experience.
While public commentators herald the arrival of the Canadian “student debt crisis,” psychological research into postsecondary student debt proliferates. This study explored the ways in which indebted ...students themselves understand the meanings and implications of student debt in their own lives, by means of semistructured interviews with nine indebted university students. A hermeneutic phenomenological approach to analysis yielded six themes: indebted by necessity; haunted by distressing thoughts and feelings about debts; living under the pressure to repay debts; living a constrained life; feeling alienated from others; and uncertainty about the meaning of university education. Findings suggest that student debt is characterized by the experience of feeling unable to “live one’s life,” and of looking toward a fragile future after university. By grounding the psychological experience of debt in the socially embedded, historical realities of students’ everyday lives, this work suggests implications for critical psychological understandings of financial subjectivation.
This interdisciplinary special issue explores the synergy between psychotherapy and filmmaking—particularly how film can serve as a powerful healing function by bringing voice, representation, and ...light to the all-too-often overlooked and shadowed aspects of psychological and cultural life, similar to the work of psychotherapy. To understand the culturally therapeutic aspects of filmmaking, this issue features psychological and cinematic insights from two fields of experts and their crafts: scholars and their writing and filmmakers and their films. The unique approach of this special issue provides new possibilities for interdisciplinary collaboration between psychologists and filmmakers to explore the therapeutic function of film for society as well as avenues for film to address, heal, and transform the pressing cultural issues of our times.
The concept of epistemological violence and recommendations on how to avoid it have been extensively developed by Thomas Teo. The objective of this article is to elaborate a conceptual proposal to ...investigate the relationship between ethics and the epistemology of empirical research in psychology. It is contended that some concepts of Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition strengthen the ethical scope of the concept of epistemological violence. This article presents the concept of epistemological violence and shows how the production of psychological knowledge can have negative consequences for groups and individuals. The relevance of broadening the ethical dimension of the concept, theorizing the negative consequences of knowledge as probabilities of misrecognition, is discussed. To this end, central aspects of the theory of recognition are developed that will allow the consideration of epistemological violence as an accomplice in the practice of social injustices.
A common criticism of qualitative research is that it lacks the possibility of making generalizations. In this article, however, we describe how informal generalization on the one hand is ...inextricably linked to the use of method and theory, whereas on the other hand, several formal methodological considerations in relation to the particular, qualitative study further ensure that claims can be made on a more general level. As such, a variety of possibilities for generalization exists, each with its own particular scientific legitimacy adapted to the complexity of the different inquiries whereby generalization is an internal, indispensable, and unavoidable aspect of qualitative research.
This text outlines some notes on the curricular periodization in school education. It analyzes the relationship between the production of the curricular object and the treatment of time in the ...educational work process based on historical-critical pedagogy. As a result, on one side, a generalization plan was made to orient in a methodological-theoretical sense the investigation about curricular periodization on school teaching through critical-historical pedagogy; on another side, the social relation that constitute the curricular periodization was analyzed and was based on some of the its components on the educational work process.
Este texto delineia alguns apontamentos sobre a periodização curricular na educação escolar. Analisa a relação entre a produção do objeto curricular e o tratamento do tempo no processo de trabalho educativo a partir da pedagogia histórico-crítica. Como resultado, por um lado, elaborou-se um plano de generalização para orientar teórico-metodologicamente a investigação sobre a periodização curricular na educação escolar a partir da pedagogia histórico-crítica; por outro, analisou-se a relação social que constitui a periodização curricular e configurou-se alguns de seus componentes no processo de trabalho educativo na educação escolar.
Este texto esboza algunas notas sobre la periodización curricular en la educación escolar. Analiza la relación entre la producción del objeto curricular y el tratamiento del tiempo en el proceso de trabajo educativo a partir de la pedagogía histórico-crítica. Como resultado, por un lado, se elaboró un plan de generalización para orientar teórico-metodológicamente la investigación sobre la periodización curricular en la educación escolar a partir de la pedagogía histórico-crítica; por otro lado, analizamos la relación social que constituye la periodización curricular y configuramos algunos de sus componentes en el proceso de trabajo educativo en la educación escolar.
This article will begin by outlining a taken-for-granted individualistic subject at the heart of Western psychotherapeutic theory and practice. It will offer a brief survey of critiques aimed at this ...foundational understanding of the psychological subject, from philosophical and theoretical domains. Next, the article will explore three different modes of psychotherapeutic praxis that work toward recognizing and engendering a more contextual, relational, and ecological figure of subjectivity in therapeutic settings. Narrative therapy, feminist therapies, and ecotherapies will be explored for their value in working against an individualistic conception of human being, toward an embedded and contextualized notion of the subject which considers social, political, economic, and natural world vectors of influence. It will be argued that each of these forms of practice has something to offer to an alternative, anti-individualistic psychotherapeutic praxis, which may intersect with greater personal, collective, and ecological well-being.
Se realiza una lectura sintomal de Freud para desentrañar otra psicología de las masas diferente de la desplegada en su discurso manifiesto. Esta otra psicología debería permitir superar los ...cuestionamientos que ha recibido la teoría freudiana por su generalización de lo patriarcal en Malinowski y Lacan, por su correlativa familiarización edípica de lo social en Deleuze y Guattari y por su resultante represión de cualquier lucha colectiva para transformar el mundo y liberarse en Holzkamp. La otra psicología freudiana de las masas, verdaderamente social-comunitaria y no individual-familiar, se considera heredera de lo que el comunismo enseñó a Paul Federn.
Long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) can increase survival time and relieve symptom burden in patients with COPD and chronic hypoxemia. The Department of Respiratory Medicine at Odense University Hospital ...invites patients with LTOT and COPD to the out-patient clinic for treatment evaluation every 6 months to regulate or terminate treatment and support patients' treatment adherence. The out-patient clinic, however, experiences many absences or cancellations from patients. For that reason, patients were offered virtual consultation as an alternative to physical attendance. This study was initiated to uncover reasons for absences and the patients' experiences of virtual consultation to promote a more patient-centered clinical practice for patients with COPD and LTOT.
A qualitative study encompassing semi-structured interviews with 20 subjects was conducted in the winter of 2021. The subjects had tried or been given the opportunity of virtual consultation. Data were analyzed inspired by Kvale and Brinkmann focusing on the subject's perspectives on virtual consultation.
The analysis resulted in 3 main themes: limitations and vulnerabilities, independence and quality of life, and personal strategies. Subjects expressed that everyday life with LTOT and COPD was characterized by limited resources in terms of energy, oxygen, and time. LTOT was perceived as a necessary means to maintain a sense of independence and quality of life. However, LTOT also meant additional limitations due to cumbersome equipment and feelings of isolation. Most subjects considered the virtual consultation to be oxygen-, energy-, and time-preserving, as it meant avoiding stressful transportation and handling of oxygen cylinders, COVID-19 exposure, waiting time, and not having to involve others for help.
The subjects' perspective showed that follow-up on LTOT as a virtual consultation was considered a valuable offer. The chosen method was found to be relevant in uncovering subjects' attitudes toward clinical practice procedures.
Issues concerning competence of practicing psychologists have not been critically investigated in Ghana. This study used the three-dimensional cube model of core competencies as a framework to ...explore competencies of professional psychologists in active clinical health practice in Ghana. Sixteen clinical psychologists with 1 to 20 years of practicing experience were interviewed on adequacy of their graduate training for practice as well as maintaining post-training competence. The results suggested that training equipped the practitioners mainly for research and teaching but less so for clinical practice. Reflective practice was underdeveloped leading to critical challenges in emotional and cultural competencies. Structural support for continuous professional development was limited. Implications for professional psychology training, research and practice are discussed. This study is the first to explore competence issues in professional psychology practice in Ghana, and it contributes to the global discourse on continuous competence in psychology.
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