The operationalized psychodynamic diagnostics system. Clinical relevance, reliability and validity [PDF]
In this paper, we present a multiaxial system for psychodynamic diagnosis, which has attained wide usage in Germany in the last 10 years. First we will discuss the 4 operationalized psychodynamic diagnostics (OPD) axes: illness experience and treatment ...
Bellak L+25 more
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Stages in the Psychological Resolution of Schizophrenia
From the work of Dr. Michael Robbins in Massachusetts, USA, it is known that 9 schizophrenic patients out of a series of 18, and a further schizophrenic patient, treated by him achieved positive outcomes using psychoanalytic methodology.
Gillian Ruth May Steggles
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Computational model for tumor response to adoptive cell transfer therapy [PDF]
One of the barriers to the development of effective adoptive cell transfer therapies (ACT), specifically for genetically engineered T-cell receptors (TCRs), and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells, is target antigen heterogeneity. It is thought that intratumor heterogeneity is one of the leading determinants of therapeutic resistance and treatment ...
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Paradigm clashes and progress: a personal reflection on a 50-year association with ABCT [PDF]
Why is ABCT a successful, vibrant, and growing association when most other professional associations are withering on the vine? Since the first annual meeting of the organization, which I was privileged to attend, I have witnessed repeated changes in ...
Barlow, David H.
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Contested psychiatric ontology and feminist critique : 'female sexual dysfunction' and the diagnostic and statistical manual [PDF]
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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Imaginations of WALL-E : Reconstructing Experiences with an Imagination-Inspired Module for Advanced AI Systems [PDF]
In this paper, we introduce a novel Artificial Intelligence (AI) system inspired by the philosophical and psychoanalytical concept of imagination as a ``Re-construction of Experiences". Our AI system is equipped with an imagination-inspired module that bridges the gap between textual inputs and other modalities, enriching the derived information based ...
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Interpreting the inner world of ADHD children: psychoanalytic perspectives
ADHD is increasingly seen as associated with cerebral dysfunction and caused by it. This development is concomitant with an emphasis on medication, behavioural treatments, and parent training programmes.
Björn Salomonsson
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Playing as a Therapeutic Method: a Theoretical Study
Over the last 30 years it has been possible to observe a large number of authors with works dedicated to child care and parent-infant interactions in different theoretical approaches in psychology.
Marília Bordin Schmidt+1 more
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Alignment is not sufficient to prevent large language models from generating harmful information: A psychoanalytic perspective [PDF]
Large Language Models (LLMs) are central to a multitude of applications but struggle with significant risks, notably in generating harmful content and biases. Drawing an analogy to the human psyche's conflict between evolutionary survival instincts and societal norm adherence elucidated in Freud's psychoanalysis theory, we argue that LLMs suffer a ...
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Applied analytic work in forensic settings: The understanding and treatment of paedophilia. [PDF]
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 ...
Wood, Heather
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