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No full textAlthough the four articles in this edition of PINS are quite diverse, there is an interlinking thread which runs through them, and it is the idea of identity. While Ronnie Miller's complex and fascinating theoretical account of understanding least easily fits the mould of identity, his account of the agentic elements involved in understanding, non-understanding, and not-understanding, certainly bear on the question of what it means to be a person. Quoting Gadamer who writes that "understanding is possible only if one forgets oneself", Miller engages us in a discursus of who (agent, self, other, ego) does the understanding, and what sort of psychological interaction would understanding entail. Miller's article (the second part of which will appear in PINS 29) re-invigorates the psychological and human (person) dimensions of cognitive psychology, which often seems too ready to escape into a form of abstract individualism. Miller not only avoids the theoreticism of much cognitive psychology, and cognitive science for that matter, but instead thinks through the methodological implications of understanding when he says, "Method is the externalisation or objectification of consciousness and the reason why we cannot deal in neutral facts or theory free data is because to do so is to eliminate consciousness"
Relocating Lenin: Service, R (2000) Lenin: A biography. London: Macmillan. ISBN 0-330-49139-3. 561 pages.
No full textBEING A CHILD IN THE CONTEXT OF HIV/AIDS: Gow, J & Desmond, C, (eds) (2002) Impacts and Interventions: The HIV/AIDS epidemic and the children of South Africa. Pietermaritzburg. UNICEF / University of Natal Press. ISBN 1 86914 019 2 pbk. Pages xvi + 211.
No full textI WRITE WHAT I LIKE: Ratele, K & Duncan, N (2003) Social psychology: Identities and relationships. Cape Town: UCT Press. ISBN 1-919713-83-2 pbk.
No full textEMBODIED IDENTITIES AND POSITIONAL CHOICES: HOW TATTOOEES CONSTRUCT IDENTITY AND NEGOTIATE A TATTOOED STATUS WITHIN SOCIETY
No full textThis study was concerned with the ideological implications of taking on a tattooed status within a hegemonic order that proscribes the limits of bodily expression. A discourse analysis method was used to draw out the ways in which seventeen tattooees made meaning of, and justified, the adoption of a tattooed status, and negotiated everyday life as a visibly marked individual. Participants were interviewed by means of individual interviews, a focus group discussion, and internet correspondence. All represented their choice to become tattooed primarily in terms of an individualist discourse; however, several used their tattoos to augment subcultural identities, thus using their tattoos to express shared values and norms as well as to consolidate personal experience. Participants attempted to create positive social identities as tattooees by stigma management strategies such as dissociating themselves from negative stereotypes, constructing tattoos as a legitimate art form, and intensifying a rebellious stance towards the hegemonic order
SASCI-Mayo Clinic Fellows webinar: Lifelong management of adults with repaired tetralogy of Fallot
No full textThis is the second in our series of South African Society of Cardiovascular Intervention (SASCI)-Mayo Clinic summit webinars to be published. This webinar was hosted by the regular faculty, with Dr Anderson, a congenital heart disease expert from the Mayo Clinic, in attendance. He provides background on the lifetime management of repaired tetralogy of Fallot (rToF), followed by a clinical case (presented by Dr Engelbrecht) spanning 3 distinct phases in the patient’s lifetime. The discussants are cardiology fellows from South African universities.
Objective: This manuscript, arising from the webinar series, summarises a multidisciplinary discussion on the lifelong management of rToF.
Design: Edited transcript of an expert webinar jointly hosted by SASCI and the Mayo Clinic faculty.
Case: The management of a female patient is discussed in three stages at different age points of the patient's lifetime. The patient received a surgical rToF as a 1-year-old girl. She was then followed longitudinally into adulthood. At 19 years old, she was asymptomatic at presentation with severe pulmonary regurgitation (PR), progressive right ventricle (RV) remodelling, and borderline functional capacity. The discussion explored thresholds for intervention, imaging strategies where cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) access is limited, and surgical versus transcatheter valve replacement options. The patient ultimately underwent surgical pulmonary valve replacement (PVR) with a 27 mm bioprosthetic valve. At phase 3, she presented at the age of 29 with degeneration of her bioprosthetic valve. She was evaluated and received a transcatheter valve.
Key messages: (1) Understanding embryology and surgical history informs lifelong surveillance; (2) PRdriven RV remodelling is central to management; (3) objective imaging and functional markers (RV volumes, QRS, cardiopulmonary exercise test [CPET], arrhythmia burden) guide timing more reliably than symptoms alone; (4) procedural choice balances anatomy, concomitant lesions, device availability, and lifetime reintervention planning; and (5) lifelong exercise and structured follow-up are essential.
Online resource: Recorded SASCI fellows webinars (restricted to verified healthcare professionals) are available from: https://www.sasci.co.za/content/page/sasci-educational-videos1
The history of social psychology: Farr, Robert M (1996) The roots of modem social psychology, 1872-1954. Oxford Blackwell Publishers. Pp. xvii, 204. ISBN 0-631-19447-9.
No full textWhy do psychological social psychology and sociological social psychology have so little to say to each other? Why has European social psychology, where it has withstood the onslaught, had so little impact on the dominant American-style of practice? And why is there so little of the social in social psychology? These are the questions that haunt Robert Farr's The roots of modem social psychology. Clearly deeply unhappy with the current state of the discipline, Farr has fashioned a series of essays that seek to use history to suggest both how contemporary social psychology has come to be as it is, and how it might have been different It rs a tactic that makes for a curious book. As a work of pure history, The roots of modem social psychology is highly flawed, exhibiting few of the characteristics that one would expect of a piece of good historical scholarship And as a call to arms, it left at least this reader (admittedly an historian rather than a social psychologist) a bit at sea, wondering whether rewriting the history of a discipline is the most efficacious way in which to reform its current practice
Safe sex and the Rambo/Bimbo divide: A look at the gender Imperative of AIDS: Wilton, T (1997) Engendering AIDS: Deconstructing sex, text and epidemic. London: Sage Publications.
No full textAs a social scientist engaged in researching AIDS and evaluating AIDS prevention programs in southern Africa, I have always been dismayed by the lack of preparatory "ground-work" for understanding the context in which this epidemic was occurring. AIDS prevention/education programs just seemed to spring up everywhere in the past decade, with program directors actually believing that it was only a matter of not having proper knowledge about AIDS. Give them the necessary knowledge and behavioural change would follow. Sadly, it didn't happen. Ten years later we are just coming to grips with the complexity of it all
Vernuwe Die Psigologie: Doen Dit Net Wetenskaplik
No full textRENEW PSYCHOLOGY: ONLY DO IT SCIENTIFICALLY. The
promulgation of Act 5 of 1974 succeeded in elevating the South African psychologist from an ancillary mental health practitioner to the status of an independent, self-sufficient mental health practitioner. It has emerged in practice, however, that there are certain professional anomalies which limit psychology. Looked at critically, it would appear as if South African psychology is manifesting symptoms of professional limitation and enclosure. Central to this problem is an urgent need for an adjusted or new professional, curricular and control model. It is clear that the psychologist has come to confront an inevitable reform initiative in his/her profession. S/he can no longer have resort simply to the subjective, contingent and autocratic decisions of self-appointed and uninformed individuals and/or sub-groups in psychology. Only democratic participation of all the determiners (consumers, practitioners, training agencies and the state) in a professional model, system and curriculum can possibly ensure the establishment of an efficient and relevant mental health practitioner for a new South Africa
Interpreting The Stress of Work
No full textThe study of the psychosocial work environment has burgeoned over the last two decades, much of which has been concerned with the detrimental effect of the workplace on physical and mental health. It has also been recognized as one of the most important sites of social and psychological well-being (Johnson & Johansson, 1991).
The use of interpretative methods in understanding the complex relationships between worker and work settings has seldom been employed, either as a research strategy, or as way of developing a participatory agenda between researcher and subject. This paper reflects the use of an interpretative methodology in understanding the work environment of union organizers and its place in developing a model for participatory research