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Personality Functioning Cannot Only Be One Thing: A Call for Theoretical Pluralism. [PDF]

Personal Ment Health
ABSTRACT Since its origins in recent diagnostic perspectives, the concept of personality functioning has been exclusively defined as a general factor of personality (pathology). Researchers have justified this definition by appealing to descriptive empirical findings (e.g., positive correlations among various personality disorder indicators) or ...
Zavlis O.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Freudian theory and consciousness: a conceptual analysis**.

Mens Sana Monogr, 2011
This paper aims at taking a fresh look at Freudian psychoanalytical theory from a modern perspective. Freudian psychology is a science based on the unconscious (id) and the conscious (ego). Various aspects of Freudian thinking are examined from a modern perspective and the relevance of the psychoanalytical theory of consciousness is projected.
De Sousa A.
europepmc   +3 more sources

‘Mere Amateurs’? Elementary Teachers and the Making of Scientific Authority in the British Child Study Movement

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers new perspectives on the relationship between elementary teaching, scientific expertise and the professionalization of the human sciences. Previous scholarship has demonstrated the ready existence of ‘amateur’ science societies in the nineteenth century where cross‐class exchanges were common.
Julia Gustavsson
wiley   +1 more source

‘It is no longer a problem’—An examination of the evolution of psychoanalytic ideas in relation to male homosexuality using interpretative phenomenological analysis

British Journal of Psychotherapy, EarlyView.
Abstract The historical treatment of homosexuality in psychoanalysis has ranged from pathologization to discrimination. Despite recent attempts at inclusion, gay analysts and patients still report bias within the field. This study explored the experiences of gay and heterosexual psychoanalysts regarding the discipline's attitude towards homosexuality ...
René Cané Molinari, Kai J. Jonas, Sarah E. Stutterheim, Louis van den Hengel   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Magical Realist Hauntings in Children's Everyday Encounters With Death, or, How to Believe in Impossible Things

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern deaths have become reiterations. That is, despite exhibiting a seemingly high‐level of diversity in death's representations in everyday lives, death suffers from a particular onto‐epistemological poverty that prevents it from being imagined otherwise.
Zhaoxi Zheng, Rebecca E. Olson, Sally Staton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Retrieving Your Concepts: Iris Murdoch on Original Sin

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract In The Sovereignty of Good, Iris Murdoch argues that our moral thinking will be impoverished until it possesses a secular conception of original sin. Such a notion would need to remove unacceptable Christian baggage while retaining a genuine claim to be a descendant of the original Christian concept.
Samuel Filby
wiley   +1 more source

Governing Through Criminal Selectivity and Lawfare: Non‐Democratic Politics to Entrench Authoritarian Populist Imagination

International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Across much of the Global South and increasingly in the Global North, authoritarian populist imagination blurs boundaries between legality and illegality, weaponising law to suppress dissent while tolerating violence by allied actors. This imagination establishes a symbolic boundary mechanism between punitive/eliminative violence for political
Erman Örsan Yetiş
wiley   +1 more source

Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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Jacques Maritain, Maurice Blondel, and the Ends of Art

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reconsiders Jacques Maritain's philosophical poetics by situating it within his longstanding debate with Maurice Blondel over the nature and unity of intellect. I argue that Maritain's influential defence of artistic autonomy, first articulated in Art et scolastique (1920), is ultimately unsound.
Steven Toussaint
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Black British African and Caribbean peoples' experiences of self‐harm and accessing support

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction It is important to understand the underrepresented experiences of self‐harm and accessing support among Black British African and Caribbean individuals because of the low uptake of support from formal healthcare providers. This study aimed to explore Black British individuals' thoughts, feelings and experiences of self‐harm, and ...
Olivia Alleyne, Vyv Huddy
wiley   +1 more source