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Suction Potential and Water Absorption from Periodic Channels in Different Types of Homogeneous Soils
No full textIn this paper, problems involving infiltration from periodic identical trapezoidal channels into homogeneous soils with root water uptake are considered. The governing equation of infiltration through soil is transformed to a modified Helmholtz equation using Kirchoff transformation with dimensionless variables. A DRBEM with a predictor-corrector scheme is employed to obtain numerical solutions to the modified Helmholtz equation. The proposed method is used to solve infiltration problems in three different types of soil. Results are shown to be physically meaningful.
Combining Expressive Writing with an Affect- and Attachment-Focused Psychotherapeutic Approach in the Treatment of a Single-Incident Trauma Survivor: The Case of "Grace"
No full textThe idea of using a phase-oriented model in the treatment of trauma is an established one. The first phase aims to establish safety, stabilization, and trust before moving onto the second phase, which involves more direct and intensive processing of trauma. The third phase serves to consolidate and integrate the gains made in treatment. The purpose of this study is to determine whether utilizing a phase-oriented model that combines Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), an affect and attachment-focused experiential treatment, with expressive writing enhanced the treatment of "Grace," a single-incident trauma survivor. While both AEDP and expressive writing are well developed methods, their combination has not been tried before. Focusing on a survivor of a single-incident trauma was chosen to best implement the goal of writing about a concrete traumatic event. In line with the three-phase approach, the "AEDP-Writing" model first utilizes AEDP to build a secure attachment as well as affect tolerance, setting the stage for deeper exploration of a patient’s traumatic history. Second, the expressive writing component then builds on this base by directly addressing the traumatic incident and processing it in a deeper and more comprehensive manner. Finally, utilizing both the AEDP and expressive writing approaches, the third phase involves reflection on the work done, consolidation, and celebration of the patient’s true self state of being
Psychotherapy as a Human Science: Clinical Case Studies Exploring the Abyss of Madness
No full textThis paper presents examples of my clinical work that illustrate a phenomenologically, humanistically, existentially, and psychodynamically informed approach to severe psychological disturbances, including both so-called schizophrenia and so-called bipolar disorder. I illustrate how "symptoms" that appear in this realm can be seen not as outward signs of an inward illness, but as reactions to such ongoing experiences as devastating abandonment, felt misunderstanding, and re-traumatization. Following this, I imagine a world of psychiatry and psychology as a human science, one that has escaped the hegemony of the medical model and grounds itself in the study of human lives as they are lived and experienced. In this world, the therapist has a radical engagement with the client, with the therapist’s subjectivity being everywhere present in the psychotherapeutic process. Here, there is no such thing as detached observation; and if a psychotherapeutic dialogue is in any measure successful, it always illuminates and transforms the worlds of both of the people involved
Assimilative Integration in the Treatment of Trauma
No full textErica Pass (2012) presents the case of Grace in which she assimilated Expressive Writing within an Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy approach to the treatment of a young woman reacting to a simple adult traumatic experience. Although the treatment might have been improved by more attention to the patient's angry feelings and cultural background, it was both creative and successful. The treatment provided a good example of the functioning of a Local Clinical Scientist
Editor's Introduction: Combining Pragmatic Case Studies Within a Single Case Experimental Design
No full textThe target article in the current issue of PCSP by Fredrik Folke and associates (2012) documents and interprets six case studies of cognitive-behavioral therapy for Body Dysmorphic Disorder. This introduction places the article in a larger methodological context from my perspective as editor of the PCSP journal. I first review five types of case studies identified by McLeod (2010) in his seminal book on case study research. These include the main type of case study employed in PCSP, the Pragmatic Case Study, and four other kinds, including those that focus on theory-building, the adjudication of truth claims, the narrative experience of the participants, and single-case experimental designs. I then discuss the advantages of combining Pragmatic Case Study designs with these other types. The Folke et al. article is an example of a successful such combination, integrating parallel pragmatic case studies within a single-case experimental design structure.
The Library of the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University: A Resource to New Jersey and Beyond
No full textSir Moses Finley
No full textFinley was an instructor and assistant professor in the history department at Rutgers-Newark from 1948 to 1952. He then went on to Cambridge University for a brilliant career as a classics scholar until his death in 1986. What makes his tenure at Rutgers significant is that he was dismissed by the Board of Trustees in 1952 because he refused to answer questions before the U. S. Senate Internal Security Committee on grounds of the Fifth Amendment. As a suspected communist, he was fired, deemed unfit to teach by the Board of Trustees. It was one of the most famous cases of attacks on academic freedom during the McCarthy era. This article is an edited version of an address given by McCormick (who had defended Finley before the Trustees) at Finley’s memorial service in the Kirkpatrick Chapel on November 8, 1986
