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

Personality and mental 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.
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John Bowlby at the Tavistock [PDF]

, 2007
Bowlby's best know work at the Tavistock Clinic is his foundational research into attachment relationships. This paper describes his other significant contributions, as a clinician interested in family dynamics and the impact of real events in the ...
Rustin, Margaret
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Navigating Ambiguity: Considerations When Making Decisions on Out‐Of‐Home Placement of Siblings

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Policy‐makers and professionals recognize the importance of relationships between children and their family system and between children and their siblings in out‐of‐home placement. However, it is not always possible to keep siblings together; separation may be necessary for the child's normal development and even to protect the child's well ...
Vered Shenar‐Golan, Hadas Doron, Tali‐Noy Hindi   +2 more
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Phallus/Phallocentrism

, 2010
Excerpt: In psychoanalytic theory, the phallus serves as the supreme symbol of masculine power and, concurrently, of feminine lack. “Phallocentrism” is a term used primarily by feminist theorists to denote the pervasive privileging of the masculine ...
Rine, Abigail
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The Capability Approach as the Ethics of Social Work With Child Refugees

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the capability approach (CA) as an ethical framework for social work practice with minor refugees. Drawing on the foundational work of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, as well as its recent application to child welfare contexts, the article argues that conventional rights–based and deficit‐oriented approaches are ...
Gottfried Schweiger
wiley   +1 more source

‘We Are Only Playing’: Reflections on the Pandemic's Effects on Immigrant Preschoolers' Mentalisation and Play During the Sand Play Workshops

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mentalisation and symbolisation are important processes to support children in understanding their lived experience. By expressing what is most salient to them through pretend play, children can normally develop their capacity to mentalise and symbolise, which helps them cope with adversity.
Caroline Beauregard
wiley   +1 more source

Contemporary psychoanalytic applications: Development and its vicissitudes [PDF]

, 2010
The contemporary relevance of psychoanalysis is being increasingly questioned; Off the Couch challenges this view, demonstrating that psychoanalytic thinking and its applications are both innovative and relevant, in particular to the management and ...
Lemma, Alessandra, Patrick, Matthew
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and the Perception of Reality from the Visual Field of the Other: Analysis of the Relation between Ordinary Language Philosophy and Poststructural Critique of Vision

AM: Art + Media, 2016
The first objective of this work is to establish a parallel between the ordinary language philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein as well as the philosophy of Stanley Cavell and poststructuralism and its theories through their apprehension of vision and seeing
Margareta Jelić
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The psychoanalytic session and psychoanalytic clinical facts

Консультативная психология и психотерапия, 2010
In the paper the author discusses epistemological problems one faces in the psychoanalytic research under the special condition of psychoanalytic situation.
Kadyrov I.M.
doaj  

Contested psychiatric ontology and feminist critique : 'female sexual dysfunction' and the diagnostic and statistical manual [PDF]

, 2012
In this article I discuss the emergence of Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD) within American psychiatry and beyond in the postwar period, setting out what I believe to be important and suggestive questions neglected in existing scholarship.
Angel, Katherine
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