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‘All of It Was Hard. And All of It Was Necessary’: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis of Service User Experience of Group Schema Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder

Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, Volume 26, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Group Schema Therapy is supported by a good evidence base as an effective treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder. Though we are continuing to learn about its mechanisms of change and how it is experienced, published research has not yet explored the experiences of service users in UK Tier 3 mental health services.
Kathleen McGlynn, Emma Smith
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Windy Metropolis—Part 1: Animation as method

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.
Abstract Based on fieldwork in Stuttgart from 2022 to 2025, the animation Wind Witnesses is a fictionalization of the sweeping wave of microclimate protests in the 2000s, demanding the protection of fresh air corridors (Frischluftschneisen) as nonhuman entities threatened by the conversion of ostensibly empty spaces into buildings. This companion essay
Indrawan Prabaharyaka
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The Eco‐Digital Dimension in Children's and Young Adult Literature for Early Childhood and Primary Teacher Education: An Exploratory Inquiry

European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Although ecological topics are gaining increasing relevance in children's and young adult literature, the intersection between environmental sustainability and digital media remains under‐researched. The two main research questions of this qualitative exploratory study are: how the eco‐digital dimension manifests within contemporary children's
Stefania Carioli
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Meaning‐in‐Action: A Theory of Symbolic Causality

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Theories of social behaviour often acknowledge that action is meaningfully organised, but they remain less precise about how meanings become causally efficacious in practice. This article develops a critical realist account of meaning‐in‐action.
Matthew Coetzee
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Mental Illness: A Deviation from Phenomenological, Rather than Moral, Norms? [PDF]

J Med Philos
Downey A.
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Habitus, Reflexivity, and Micro‐Hysteresis: An Experimental Dialogue Between Bourdieu's Praxeology and Pragmatist Theories of Action

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT The article explores an analytical strategy through which Bourdieu's theory of practice and (neo)pragmatist theories of action, especially Dewey's, may be synthesised into an integrated model of the subjective motors of social conduct, one capable of granting due explanatory weight to both habitual dispositions and reflexive processes.
Gabriel Peters
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The scope of the global history of science: an essay on James Poskett's Horizons. [PDF]

Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
Serrano-Juarez JD +7 more
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The Form of Agency

Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 4, Page 875-889, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Philosophers often think agency is essentially connected with rationality, intention, or control. However, Minimalists argue that agency is just the power to cause a change; acids and boulders are agents too. Many philosophers treat Minimalism as a wild outlier, assuming its falsity without argument.
William Hornett
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Evolutionary Theories of Emotion in Italian Psychophysiology: Reception, Critique, and Influence, 1880-1920. [PDF]

J Hist Behav Sci
Ceccarelli D, Canali S.
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Does disease incite a stronger moral appeal than health? [PDF]

BMC Med, 2023
Hofmann B.
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critical realism
causal power
roy bhaskar