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Hitchcock’s Conscious Use of Freud’s Unconscious
No full textThis paper explores Alfred Hitchcock’s use of Freudian psychoanalysis in a number of his films, with particular emphasis on Spellbound (1945), Psycho (1960), and Marnie (1964). I argue that the films (and related primary source material) demonstrate that Hitchcock was largely unconvinced of the validity of psychoanalytic theory and practice which he frequently mocked, both on-screen and off. Nonetheless, he greatly appreciated the magnetism of the psychoanalytic process and general charm of Freud’s conceptual world. It is for this reason that he kept returning to Freudian aesthetics throughout his cinematic career. Indeed, understanding how Hitch came to master this love/hate relationship is the key to understanding when and why the films succeed as well as where and how they fail. The paper ends with an analogy between Hitchcock’s attitude to Freud and that of Ludwig Wittgenstein with the further aim of evaluating some of Freud’s most significant ideas
The Efficacy of Cognitive Behavioral Couple’s Therapy (CBCT) on Marital Adjustment of PTSD–diagnosed Combat Veterans
No full textBackground: Impaired marital adjustment has been introduced as one major complication of PTSD. There are controversial results about the role of Cognitive Behavioral Couple’s Therapy (CBCT) on improvement of marital adjustment of PTSD veterans; the efficacy of CBCT on marital adjustment improvement is questioned in some studies and also there are no similar researches about the affect of CBCT on marital adjustment, conducted among Middle Eastern PTSD veterans. These factors motivated us to perform and evaluate our CBCT protocol among Iranian combat veterans. Methods: we enrolled 60 PTSD veterans with low degrees of marital adjustment. They were randomly distributed into intervention and control groups. Both groups have been evaluated for marital adjustment by means of ENRICH scale before and after intervention and the results were analyzed by MANOVA test. Results: The analysis was based on difference of T2 and T1 (T2-T1) where the mean of T2-T1 was -2.63 for control group and 44.9 for intervention group, sum of squares 69552.7, f=95.4 and sig.>000.1. Conclusion: this shows that the prevalence of marital maladjustment is high among PTSD veterans (43%) and the efficacy of CBCT was significant both for veterans themselves and their spouses
The XIV European Conference on Developmental Psychology
No full textThe organizers of the XIV European Conference on Developmental Psychology have a great honour and pleasure of inviting you to take part in this conference to be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, August 18-22, 2009. The conference will focus on the most relevant topics and issues within recent theoretical and methodological advances of developmental psychology, basic research and applied areas and will provide a forum for presentation of a wide range of papers in all aspects of human development in European contexts. Over and beyond basic research, we will put emphasis on the transfer of psychological insights to social policies and programme development. Pre-conference workshops will be held on August 17 – 18, 2009
Emotional Intelligence and Psychological Distress: Testing the Mediatory Role of Affectivity
No full textThe study tested the extent to which positive and negative affect at work mediate emotional intelligence effects on psychological distress. Participants were 200 middle-level managers who completed the Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale, 20-item affectivity scale, and a measure of psychological distress. Results using covariance based structural equation modeling indicated that only negative affect fully mediated the relationship between emotional intelligence and psychological distress. Furthermore, the direct effect of emotional intelligence was stronger for positive affect as compared to its influence on negative affect. Finally, negative affect had a significant direct influence on psychological distress, whereas the relationship between positive affect and psychological distress was insignificant
The 7th Conference of the International Test Commission
No full textJuly 19-21, 2010 Hong Kong Theme: Challenges and Opportunities in Testing and Assessment in a Globalized Economy Sub-Themes - Developments in psychometrics and test theory for international testing - Indigenous, second language, and cross national test development - Geotrends in testing: making use of technology advances in test administration and data management - Issues of policy, ethics, professionalism and training in multinational testing - Test security and privacy concerns when testing internationall
Research and practice in organizational sciences. Interview with Frederick P. Morgeson
No full textStudied under various names such as industrial-organizational psychology, organizational behavior, human resources management etc., organizational sciences share a focus on both research and practice. However, most of the actors in the field chose one over the other. For this issue’s interview, we talked to Dr. Fred Morgeson a prolific researcher who successfully combined science and practice in his work
Chôra: Creation and Pathology. An Inquiry into the Origins of Illness and Human Response
No full textPlato’s dialogue the Timaeus describes not only the making of the cosmos (order), but also the condition of what is not order, neither for the human body nor for the universe. What is disorder in cosmogonic terms it is disease for the human body. Timaeus applies to the concept chôra in discussing the origins of disease as a state of imbalance and shaking, because the cosmogonic chôra is replicated in the human body, more exactly, in the liver. But the liver is also the organ of divination, the gift given to man to have access to some hidden truth. This article attempts to sketch out the relation between the chôra and illness, looking for an answer to the question of what light might shed the relationship between chôra and illness on human creativity. A specific human typology, subject to disturbances taking place in the chôra, is examined: the poet, the diviner and the melancholy artist, manifested as channels of some exceptional inspiration. They are “mantic subjects” because they acquire vision of divination not with reason, but in a state of inspiration, through divine madness (manía) and possession, as in a dream. These subjects turn illness into creativity by facing the drives of chôra
Psych-Aetiology Graph (PAG)
No full textThis paper will introduce the ‘Psych-Aetiology Graph’, PAG for short. The concept of PAG is devised by the author as a way of conceptualising/formalising/summarising the client’s condition. The term ‘Psych-Aetiology’ is used to encompass all the Bio-Psycho-Social factors contributing to the client’s presenting condition. Also, the graph has no arithmetic value and is not based on any particular measurements or calculations. The target of the PAG is the client. Its main aim (amongst many) is to educate and give the client an understanding of factors resulting or contributing to their state. It is subjective, whereby the client and the therapist must cooperate in its formation
What Mindedness Is
No full textRecent advances in theoretical cognitive science can be fruitfully characterized as part of the ongoing attempt to come to grips with the very idea of homo sapiens—an entity at once biological and intelligent—and among the more striking developments has been the emergence of a philosophical anthropology that, contra Descartes and his thinking thing, instead puts doing at the center of human being. This shift to a more “enactive” understanding of human nature is owed proximally to the work of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, but also has clear precursors in such figures as William James and Hegel—and more specifically Marx and Marxist interpreters of Hegel such as Kojève. Naturally, Darwin must be considered as central as any philosopher, and many of the recent developments also echo the Aristotelian sense that being-at-work is the primary way of being anything at all
11th Annual Graduate Conference: “Observing, promoting and resisting social change: Perspectives from the Social Sciences”
No full text21-22 May 2010 London School of Economics and Political Science The Social Psychology Graduate Conference has a tradition dating back to a decade ago. It was born out of the collaboration between graduate students of the LSE, University of Cambridge and Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, who sought a space for sharing ideas, concepts and applications in the field of Social Psychology. Since then, the conference has greatly expanded and attracts graduate students and their academic supervisors from a wide range of disciplines, institutions and countries