Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Oxytocin is a neuropeptide that is active in the central nervous system and is generally considered to be involved in prosocial behaviors and feelings.
Andrea eCLARICI
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Cancer and electromagnetic radiation therapy: Quo Vadis? [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 In oncology, treating cancer with a beam of photons is a well established therapeutic technique, developed over 100 years, and today over 50% of cancer patients will undergo traditional X-ray radiotherapy. However, ionizing radiation therapy is not the only option, as the high-energy photons delivering their cell-killing radiation energy into cancerous
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A Comparison of Psychoanalytic Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety (Panic/Agoraphobia) and Personality Disorders (APD Study): Presentation of the RCT Study Design [PDF]
, 2016 Cord Benecke +7 more
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Misusing Freud: Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Homosexual Conversion Therapy
, 2014 Current ideas of conversion therapy often focus on extremist religious groups that wish to cleanse the world of what they view as an immoral abomination, homosexuality. However, conversion therapy started out as mostly scientific curiosity. Sigmund Freud’
Barrett, Jonathan
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The Use of Dreams in Modern Psychotherapy [PDF]
, 2010 We review theories of dream work. We also review the empirical research about how dreams are used in psychotherapy, as well as the process and outcome of different models of dream work.
Hill, Clara E., Knox, Sarah
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Reading the Music and Understanding the Therapeutic Process: Documentation, Analysis and Interpretation of Improvisational Music Therapy [PDF]
Approaches: Music Therapy & Special Music Education, 2011 This article is concerned primarily with the challenges of presenting clinical material from improvisational music therapy. My aim is to propose a model for the transcription of music therapy material, or “musicotherapeutic objects” (comparable to Bion’s
Deborah Parker
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Personalized Cancer Therapy Design: Robustness vs. Optimality [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 Intermittent Androgen Suppression (IAS) is a treatment strategy for delaying or even preventing time to relapse of advanced prostate cancer. IAS consists of alternating cycles of therapy (in the form of androgen suppression) and off-treatment periods. The level of prostate specific antigen (PSA) in a patient's serum is frequently monitored to determine
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Psychotherapeutic approaches to the elderly: Part Two [PDF]
, 2014 It is not easy to come to terms with retirement, failing bodily functions, increased vulnerability, potential institutionalisation and inevitable death.
Anderson, Daniel, Wattis, John
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Enabling self-identification in intelligent agent: insights from computational psychoanalysis [PDF]
arXivBuilding upon prior framework of computational Lacanian psychoanalysis with the theory of active inference, this paper aims to further explore the concept of self-identification and its potential applications. Beginning with two classic paradigms in psychology, mirror self-recognition and rubber hand illusion, we suggest that imaginary identification ...
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New combinational therapies for cancer using modern statistical mechanics [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 We investigate a new dynamical system that describes tumor-host interaction. The equation that describes the untreated tumor growth is based on non-extensive statistical mechanics. Recently, this model has been shown to fit successfully exponential, Gompertz, logistic, and power-law tumor growths.
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