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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
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Mentalizing and Attachment From Infancy to Young Adulthood: Insights From the Metera Adoption Study

open access: yesPersonality and Mental Health, Volume 20, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Mentalizing is a socio‐cognitive capacity that develops within early attachment relationships, but institutional care may disrupt this process. Although adoption significantly improves developmental outcomes, it remains unclear whether socio‐cognitive vulnerabilities observed in children persist in adulthood.
Pavlos Zournatzidis   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘It Completely Demolished My Sense of Who I Was’: Navigating Identity in the Aftermath of Sexual Violence

open access: yesJournal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 36, Issue 4, July/August 2026.
ABSTRACT Sexual assault often has significant deleterious consequences for how people see themselves and how they are perceived by others. The purpose of this study was to explore how people make sense of their (social) identity following sexual assault.
Kate A. B. Western   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Being, doing, and play: A theoretical and clinical exploration

open access: yes, 2017
This paper explores the metonymy of the following aphorism, delivered by Winnicott in a 1967 lecture: “From being comes doing, but there can be no do before be.” (1970, p. 25, emphasis in original).
Haskell, Nathan A.
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Measuring the consultative stance among infant and early childhood mental health consultants

open access: yesInfant Mental Health Journal: Infancy and Early Childhood, Volume 47, Issue 4, July 2026.
Abstract Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMHC) is a preventative intervention that is theorized to mediate its impacts through the consultative stance, described as a consultant's “way of being” in relationship. However, limited tools are available to measure the elements of the consultative stance or the degree to which ...
Elly Miles   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mothers' responses to relational savoring as a function of attachment: A qualitative study

open access: yesInfant Mental Health Journal: Infancy and Early Childhood, Volume 47, Issue 4, July 2026.
Abstract A person's state of mind with respect to attachment, measured by the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI), represents how the individual perceives, accesses, and processes attachment‐related content. One's state of mind with respect to attachment is thought to guide behavior in relationships, including caregiving relationships, and thus may have ...
Matthew J. Marvin   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Parental rejection and adolescent problematic social media use: Role of interpersonal strengths and gender dyads

open access: yesFamily Relations, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 1636-1658, July 2026.
Abstract Objective This study examined the role of interpersonal strengths in the association between parental rejection and adolescent problematic social media use (PSMU), with a particular focus on parent–child gender interplay. Background Existing literature has associated parental rejection with adolescent PSMU.
Kaiji Zhou   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘AN AUSTRIAN FATE’: TRAUMA, REPRESSION AND WAR IN ADRIAN GOIGINGER'S DER FUCHS (2022)

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 351-364, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines one of the highest‐grossing films in recent years in Austria, Der Fuchs (Adrian Goiginger, 2022), which focuses on the friendship of the protagonist, a Wehrmacht soldier, with an abandoned fox cub, but in the process elides more than four years of the soldier's wartime experience.
Katya Krylova
wiley   +1 more source

RELATIONAL AMBIVALENCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MASCULINITY: RE‐READING FREUD'S RAT MAN

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 337-350, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article offers a close reading of Freud's 1909 case study ‘Bemerkungen über einen Fall von Zwangsneurose’ (‘Rat Man’). I build on Andrew Webber's observation that both psychoanalytic case studies and the literary genre of the novella use the exceptional case to confirm the norm.
Marie Kolkenbrock
wiley   +1 more source

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