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AFFECT ATTUNEMENT, INTERSUBJECTIVITY, AND COMMUNICATIVE MUSICALITY FOSTER THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP IN INTERACTIVE MUSIC THERAPY: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
No full textA literature search was conducted using various databases, following the inclusion and exclusion criteria outlined in the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) model. The review showed that theories from developmental psychology—such as Daniel Stern's affect attunement, Colwyn Trevarthen's intersubjectivity, and Stephen Malloch's communicative musicality in mother-infant communication—provide significant theoretical foundations for clinical music therapists. These theories inform the use of music and its elements to form relational experiences and therapeutic relationships in interactive music therapy practice
PSYCHOMETRIC EVALUATION OF MINDFULNESS AND WELL-BEING SCALES: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY OF FILIPINO UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
No full textMindfulness and well-being are critical constructs in psychotherapeutic and educational practices, yet their measurement tools remain underexplored in non-Western contexts. This study evaluates the psychometric properties of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) and the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF) among Filipino undergraduate students. A sample of 1,443 psychology and non-psychology majors completed both instruments. While the MHC-SF demonstrated strong psychometric properties and excellent model fit for its three-factor structure, none of the tested models for the FFMQ achieved an adequate fit, indicating structural issues with its five-factor conceptualization in this sample. Additionally, notable differences were observed, with psychology majors excelling in Observing traits and non-psychology majors scoring higher in Non-judging and Emotional well-being. These findings highlight cultural differences in mindfulness conceptualization, emphasizing the need for tailored measurement tools. Thus, this research advances theoretical understanding and practical applications by advocating for culturally sensitive adaptations of mindfulness assessments in diverse populations
Les sources des sermons Sur les femmes myrophores de l’homéliaire patriarcal de Constantinople
No full textThe sermon on the women bearing myrrh, catalogued as pseudochrysostomian (CPG 4940) and belonging to the patriarchal homilary of Constantinople, has two recensions: a long one in homilary I and a shorter one in homilary II. The identification of patristic sources – John Chrysostom, often through Theophylact of Ohrid, but also Eusebius, Athanasius, Basil, Gregory the Theologian, Cyril of Alexandria, Gregory of Antioch, Mark the Monk and the catenae on the Gospels – allows for a detailed comparison of the two recensions, which undoubtedly go back to a common basis: each, in fact, has its own originality. The investigation is followed by a French translation of the second recension
Remediating the Uncanny: Visualizing Unconscious Drives in Hungry Ghost
No full textThis article explores the artistic research behind Hungry Ghost (2022), a short film by first author Guido Devadder that visualizes deep-seated human desire, will (Schopenhauer), and drives (Freud) through the remediation of 19th-century optical devices, such as the phenakistiscope and zoetrope. Given the elusive and unconscious nature of these forces, the film adopts an idiosyncratic creation process, merging live-action and animation through hybrid analog-digital approaches. By leveraging the inherent formal characteristics of historical optical toys, Hungry Ghost expands their structural ‘DNA’ while simultaneously transforming their intrinsic affinity for the uncanny. Applying Bolter and Grusin’s concept of remediation, Hungry Ghost reimagines these seemingly obsolete media in contemporary artistic practice through animated sculptures materialized via 3D printing, filmed in real time, and assembled through spatial and temporal editing. Kaitlin McSweeney’s loop-based soundtrack further amplifies the hypnotic rhythm and compulsive repetition. Through its interplay of materiality, animation, cinematography, and editing, the film itself becomes a metaphor for the unconscious mind—its looping structures, recurring motifs, and temporal disruptions reflecting the tensions between repression and return, the animate and inanimate, the real and imagined. Within this framework, Hungry Ghost employs experimental media archaeology to explore an open-ended, process-oriented methodology guided by intuition and associative thinking. By bridging artistic practice and media-archaeological inquiry, the film demonstrates how re-imagining early moving-image technologies can yield unconventional approaches to visualizing the undercurrents of the human psyche, highlighting the continuing expressive potential of historical media affordances in contemporary expanded filmmaking practices
Βιβλιοκριτική: Ελληνικό Δίκαιο του Διαστήματος: Η Συνεργασία με ένα Αναπτυσσόμενο Διαστημικό Κράτος, της Ανθής Κοσκινά και του Μανώλη Πλειώνη =Koskina Anthi, Plionis Manolis. (2025). Greek space law: Collaborating with a Growing Space-faring Country.
No full textScholia and Glosses on the Heavenly Ladder of John Climacus and Associated Texts in Sinai gr. 417
No full textThis study offers the first edition of the rich collection of scholia and glosses on the Heavenly Ladder of John Climacus preserved in the 10th cent. manuscript Sinaiticus gr. 417. The carefully prepared and beautifully written book contains two sets of scholarly comments in the margins copied by two distinct hands: those written by the main scribe in vermillion ink and the second group added, not much later, in black ink by a copyist using a cursive script. A fairly large number of the scholia from Sin. 417 later found their way into both the (unpublished) 12th cent. commentary on the Ladder by Elias of Crete and the scholia published from a 14th cent. manuscript by Matthew Rader in 1633
Efficacy of tocilizumab in severe COVID-19 infection: a retrospective observational study.
No full textIntroduction: Aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy of adding tocilizumab (TCZ) to standard care in improving survival or the requirement of mechanical ventilation (MV) at 60-day follow-up.Methods: It is a retrospective observational study of all hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19 infection who received TCZ in addition to standard care (TCZ group) and were compared with standard care alone (control group). Results: A total of 39 patients were included in the study (mean age 65±11 years), 20 patients in the TCZ group and 19 in the control group. There was no difference in regards to age, gender, comorbidities and concomitant medications (p0.1). However, more patients in the TCZ group required high flow nasal oxygen supplementation [14 (70%)] compared with the control group [6 (32%)] (p=0.016). More patients died at 60 days in the TCZ group [18 (90%) vs 9 (47%), respectively, p=0.004] and less were discharged [2 (10%) vs 10 (53%), respectively, p=0.004] compared with the control group. The occurrence of death or MV at 14 days did not differ between the two groups (p0.1). The rate of adverse events (infection, sepsis, septic shock, and pulmonary embolism) occurrence did not differ between the two groups (p0.05).Conclusions: Tocilizumab added to standard care in patients with severe COVID-19 respiratory infection could lead to short-term clinical improvement but did not improve survival at 60 days. More studies are needed to establish the clinical efficacy of TCZ and to define in which disease stage could be beneficial
The Citational Practice of Philagathos of Cerami: Apologetic and Rhetorical Appropriations from Makarios Magnes’ Monogenes
No full textPhilagathos of Cerami’s Homilies transmit numerous genuine pagan arguments with unassigned authorship. A prominent source of these citations is the Monogenes of Makarios Magnes, a treatise presumably composed in the final quarter of the 4th century. A recent contribution has documented the existence of several Makarian appropriations in Philagathos’ sermons, “For the Feast of the Holy Apostles, Peter, and Paul” and “On the Man Possessed by a Legion of Demons.” Introducing new evidence, this article unveils a more extensive reliance on Makarios’ Monogenes. It reveals that Philagathos exploited the treatise for scientific explanations, allegorical interpretations, rhetorical brilliance, and the citation of various scriptural difficulties. The article uncovers a citational practice based on associative technique. Inherited from patristic exegesis, this technique hinges on the identification of verbal similarities and allusions within an impressive array of sources in relation to the examined scriptural passages. The analysis indicates that Philagathos cited several pagan arguments transmitted by Makarios’ Monogenes that were used to introduce and expand upon Makarios’ refutation. Overall, the analysis demonstrates that Philagathos invested the Monogenes with sweeping theological and rhetorical authority all but regarding the treatise as a sui generis exegetic ‘manual.
Ancient τέχναι γραμματικαί and Scholarly Treatises on Grammar
No full textThis contribution will be about ancient τέχναι γραμματικαί, with a particular focus on the fragmentary ones found in papyri. In particular, I would like to show evidence that at least some of these works were not low quality ones and their compilers don’t seem to have been ignorant of the scholarly discussions on grammar. For this purpose, I examined examples of points of contacts between some τέχναι on papyrus and theories and treatises of the most important Greek scholars