81 research outputs found
Is there still a place for the concept of therapeutic regression in psychoanalysis?
No full textThe author uses his own failure to find a place for the idea of therapeutic regression in his clinical thinking or practice as the basis for an investigation into its meaning and usefulness. He makes a distinction between three ways the term ‘regression’ is used in psychoanalytic discourse: as a way of evoking a primitive level of experience; as a reminder in some clinical situations of the value of non-intervention on the part of the analyst; and as a description of a phase of an analytic treatment with some patients where the analyst needs to put aside normal analytic technique in order to foster a regression in the patient. It is this third meaning, which the author terms “therapeutic regression” that this paper examines, principally by means of an extended discussion of two clinical examples of a patient making a so-called therapeutic regression, one given by Winnicott and the other by Masud Khan. The author argues that in these examples the introduction of the concept of therapeutic regression obscures rather than clarifies the clinical process. He concludes that, as a substantial clinical concept, the idea of therapeutic regression has outlived its usefulness. However he also notes that many psychoanalytic writers continue to find a use for the more generic concept of regression, and that the very engagement with the more particular idea of therapeutic regression has value in provoking questions as to what is truly therapeutic in psychoanalytic treatment
Urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children’s exposure to stressful events: a cross-sectional study
No full textLower socioeconomic status has been linked to long-term stress, which can manifest in individuals as physiological stress. The aim was to explore the relationship between low socioeconomic status and physiological stress in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
Gardner-Webb Staffer Publishes Her First Novel
No full textBy day, she’s Annette Spurling, secretary for the communication studies and social sciences departments at Gardner-Webb University. But by night, she’s Margaret Falcon, horror-movie fanatic and author of the new murder-mystery “Triangle,” published last month by iUniverse, Inc. A gripping suspense thriller that keeps readers guessing until the very end, “Triangle,” Falcon’s first novel, is the product of nearly three decades’ patience and perseverance.https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/gardner-webb-newscenter-archive/3016/thumbnail.jp
Prostate cancer cell-intrinsic interferon signaling regulates dormancy and metastatic outgrowth in bone
No full textThe latency associated with bone metastasis emergence in castrate-resistant prostate cancer is attributed to dormancy, a state in which cancer cells persist prior to overt lesion formation. Using single-cell transcriptomics and ex vivo profiling, we have uncovered the critical role of tumor-intrinsic immune signaling in the retention of cancer cell dormancy. We demonstrate that loss of tumor-intrinsic type I IFN occurs in proliferating prostate cancer cells in bone. This loss suppresses tumor immunogenicity and therapeutic response and promotes bone cell activation to drive cancer progression. Restoration of tumor-intrinsic IFN signaling by HDAC inhibition increased tumor cell visibility, promoted long-term antitumor immunity, and blocked cancer growth in bone. Key findings were validated in patients, including loss of tumor-intrinsic IFN signaling and immunogenicity in bone metastases compared to primary tumors. Data herein provide a rationale as to why current immunotherapeutics fail in bone-metastatic prostate cancer, and provide a new therapeutic strategy to overcome the inefficacy of immune-based therapies in solid cancers.Katie L Owen, Linden J Gearing, Damien J Zanker, Natasha K Brockwell, Weng Hua Khoo, Daniel L Roden, Marek Cmero, Stefano Mangiola, Matthew K Hong, Alex J Spurling, Michelle McDonald, Chia-Ling Chan, Anupama Pasam, Ruth J Lyons, Hendrika M Duivenvoorden, Andrew Ryan, Lisa M Butler, John M Mariadason, Tri Giang Phan, Vanessa M Hayes, Shahneen Sandhu, Alexander Swarbrick, Niall M Corcoran, Paul J Hertzog, Peter I Croucher, Chris Hovens, Belinda S Parke
Southern Ornamental Iron Works
No full textA photograph of a group of employees at Southern Ornamental Iron Works. In the back row is Ron Higgenbotham, Bill Prince, Jack Scroggins, Jack Robuck, Wildon Brusten, E. A. Smith, and Lukon Ward. In the second row is Floyd Smith, Bill Fry, Cyrus Jones, Herman Trinkle, J. T. Duning, Hal Grady, Clim Cable, Author Hart, Ed Bowen, C. F. Tubbs, and Olin Spurling. In the front row is A. J. Rud, M. C. Arnold, John Crouch, Jim McRike, Rufus Rinehart, R. G. Sielen, Lewis Thomasson, J. W. Blackwell, and Robert Wilson.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_jwdunlopphotograph/1315/thumbnail.jp
'Characters' in psychoanalytic and interpersonal therapy: a comparison
No full textIn this paper the author considers how the therapist might listen to the characters talked about by his or her patients. In psychoanalytic therapy the emphasis is on listening to the patient’s characters as though they are located in psychic reality and as representatives of the transference relationship, whereas in interpersonal therapy (IPT) the patient’s characters are taken as inhabiting the realm of external reality. It is argued that clinical thinking in IPT would be enhanced by taking more account of psychic reality, which will make clearer the quality of external reality in which the patient’s characters are located. It is also argued that both therapies share an interest in enabling the patient to find characters which can serve as holograms of previously unexpressed affective experience
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