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Treating the untreatable: The evolution of a psychoanalytically informed service for antisocial personality disorder
No full textWith an exile's eye: Developing positions of cultural reflexivity (with a bit of help from feminism)
No full textMedically unexplained symptoms in general practice: Realities and service innovation - The Tavistock psychotherapy consultation model
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Choice and achievement: Inclusion in Barnet
No full textA new sub strategy as part of the Children and Young People Plan for Barnet
Measuring empathizing and systemizing with a large US sample
No full textA large number of people completed one of two versions of the empathizing quotient (EQ) and systemizing quotient (SQ). One version had the negatively phrased items all re-worded. These re-worded items were answered more rapidly than the original items, and for the SQ produced a more reliable scale. Subjects gave self-assessments of empathizing and systemizing, and these were moderately correlated, r≈.6, with their respective quotients. Females had on average higher empathizing scores and males had on average higher systemizing scores. If a female-male pair was chosen at random, the female would have the higher empathizing score about two-thirds of the time, and the males would have the higher systemizing score about two-thirds of the time.
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Evolving patterns of parental containment of a young child communicating through not eating or speaking
No full textCrossing boundaries between inner and outer worlds: Sustaining identity and intention in inter-professional work
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No full textIntrigued by the notion that writers are shaped by and write out of their landscapes, I can easily yearn for wilder, remoter places in contrast to my own suburban existence, albeit that it is an attractive suburbia: an easy walk to the North Downs, yet a reasonable commute to London. This is the landscape that I live in, and usually work in, that has ingrained over thirty years, a pleasing workaday landscape in my eyes. But I have come to the ruggedness of North Wales to this writing workshop, with the intention of exploring my relatedness to the land and to find a means to express it. As Kim Atkinson suggests—to be of the landscape but not bound by it—to allow myself to be a nomad.
This article, part memoir, part nature writing, attempts to explore a relatedness to landscape and the natural world, suggesting an inner landscape viewed through the lens of attachment theory. Links are made with professional development in the context of consulting to change, and the potential for creativity
Identity and inability to mourn in The Skin I Live In
No full textAlthough Vicente does commit violence when he kills Robert and Robert's mother, Marilia, it is not done out of rage or a desire for revenge. When he kisses the photograph of himself in the missing persons section of the news-paper on the desk before shooting Robert, the audience understands that this is something he feels he must do to gain his freedom rather than an act that he relishes or one designed to re-establish an idealized sense of self.
This attitude toward violence is further confirmed when Vicente returns to his mother's dress shop and tells her assistant in a sorrowful tone that he had to kill two people to escape. If we consider the first words spoken by Robert: "Our face identifies us",with the last words in the film spoken by Vera:"I'm Vicente",it seems clear
that Almodvar is hoping to show a contrast between one character who is trapped on the surface of reality and, in a sense, has only a faulty or second skin to hold his identity, with another character who, although changed
completely on the surface, is able to retain his sense of difference between outer appearance and inner reality. Vicente's triumph is that he can suffer tremendous loss without resorting to rage as a means of denying his
vulnerability or his need for internal and external good objects. Thus, he can learn from his experience and, in fact, matures as a result of it. In this way, Almodovar demonstrates that he believes our identity arises from far more than the face that, literally or figuratively, we show to the world. The skin we live in is, in this deeper sense, an ever-evolving container for our deepest hopes, fears, and strivings to develop and grow in spite of the challenges to our humanity that present themselves on a daily basis