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The Non‐Professional Virtues of the Hospice Volunteer

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Volunteers have long played a significant role in hospice care. Much of the care volunteers provide consists of weekly hour‐long in‐home visits. Home‐visiting hospice volunteers are not professionals, nor are they strangers or intimates. Hospice volunteers will not typically face moral dilemmas, nor be called upon to make dramatic decisions ...
Michael B. Gill
wiley   +1 more source

Autobiographical Memory Disturbances in Depression: A Novel Therapeutic Target?

open access: yesNeural Plasticity, 2015
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is characterized by a dysfunctional processing of autobiographical memories. We review the following core domains of deficit: systematic biases favoring materials of negative emotional valence; diminished access and ...
Cristiano A. Köhler   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Autobiographical Authority and the Politics of Narrative

open access: yesStudies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 1991
Autobiographical narratives, which include autobiography, autobiographical novel, memoir, and chronicle, constitute a major genre in African francophone literature. Informed by history, they do not celebrate personal accomplishment, but rather accentuate
Renée Larrier
doaj   +1 more source

The Author As The Novel Self: Shirley Lim’s Sister Swing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
While authorial omniscience is denied the biographer, I argue that Lim as novelist takes this advantage in Sister Swing as a tool through which to explore the development of self-identity through characterizations of three sisters that in combination ...
Dillon, Denise B
core   +1 more source

Giving Up

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Philosophical accounts of long‐term goals focus predominantly on the rationality of perseverance, examining when agents should persist despite evidence of failure. Arguably, these accounts consider that giving up is devoid of value. Conversely, this article argues that giving up has a different epistemic function: generating information about ...
Mario I. Juarez‐Garcia
wiley   +1 more source

Experiencing 50 Years of Synergistic Development in Structural Biology and Enzymology

open access: yesJournal of the Chinese Chemical Society, EarlyView.
Picture of Sunney Chan with Academia Sinica (AS) President James C. Liao and three Vice Presidents: Shin‐Kun Peng (left one), Tang K. Tang (right one), and Mei‐Yin Chou (right 2), taken at the annual Chinese New Year's Banquet of AS, February 7, 2025. This was likely Sunney's last appearance in formal activities of AS.
Ming‐Daw Tsai
wiley   +1 more source

IDEOLOGY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN NIKO BARTULOVIĆ’S NOVELS

open access: yesFluminensia: Journal for Philological Research, 2006
Niko Bartulović is nowadays a completely forgotten writer. Although he is the author of two novels, two plays and several collections of short stories, he is nowadays only a parenthetical fact in historiography overviews. He is usually not even mentioned
Ivan Bošković
doaj  

Why are we not flooded by involuntary autobiographical memories? Few cues are more effective than many [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Recent research on involuntary autobiographical memories (IAMs) has shown that these memories can be elicited and studied in the laboratory under controlled conditions.
Hanczakowski, Maciej   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Using Virtual Reality Social Environments to Promote Outcomes' Generalization of AVATAR Therapy for Distressing Voices: A Case Study

open access: yesJournal of Clinical Psychology, Volume 81, Issue 6, Page 516-525, June 2025.
ABSTRACT AVATAR therapy (AT) works by facilitating a ‘face‐to‐face’ dialog between the person and a digital representation (avatar) of their persecutory voice. Although there is cumulative evidence of this way of working with voices, enhancing the therapeutic focus on improved confidence and a sense of control of the voices in social situations ...
Mar Rus‐Calafell   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

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