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Delusional beliefs and reason giving
Full text linkDelusions are often regarded as irrational beliefs, but their irrationality is not sufficient to explain what is pathological about them. In this paper we ask whether deluded subjects have the capacity to support the content of their delusions with reasons, that is, whether they can author their delusional states. The hypothesis that delusions are characterised by a failure of authorship, which is a dimension of self knowledge, deserves to be
empirically tested because (a) it has the potential to account for the distinction between endorsing a delusion and endorsing a framework belief; (b) it contributes to a
philosophical analysis of the relationship between rationality and self knowledge; and (c) it informs diagnosis and therapy in clinical psychiatry. However, authorship cannot provide a demarcation criterion between delusions and other irrational belief states
Bertram C. Broome to Horace Kephart, January 11, 1924
No full textIn a letter to Horace Kephart on January 11, 1924, Bertram C. Broome wishes to know the location of a junk shop dealer to purchase a muzzle loading mountaineer rifle in good condition. Mr. Broome describes his gun collection and seeing Woodmansee’s rifles
Letter from Miss M.A. Broome to Hagan
No full textHolograph letter from Miss M.A. Broome 'EdeM', St. Winifred's House, Dublin Street, Kildare, to Hagan, in gratitude for arranging the papal Mass. The demon supplying money to the Freemasons was duly banished and buried in hell. She did not see Mr. Lyons when he was in Ireland. Enclosing four-leaf shamrock (not extant)
Conceptual issues in psychiatric neuroimaging
No full textPURPOSE OF REVIEW: Psychiatric neuroimaging has made a dramatic impact on the understanding of the brain in mental illness in a relatively brief period of time and continues to be evolving in terms of methodology, analysis and utilization of the combination of techniques. Given the level of sophistication of the techniques and the importance of imaging in current academic psychiatry, it is timely to review its conceptual influence on psychopathology. RECENT FINDINGS: The study will review scientific advances in psychiatric neuromaging, around the themes of functional connectivity, diffusion tensor imaging, magnetoencephalography, modality integration, meta-analyses and mega-analyses of data and discuss recent influential findings in contemporary research. We then focus on more conceptual issues relating to biological psychiatry and its relationship with cognitive neuroscience. We discuss the dominant paradigm of scientific psychopathology, namely cognitive neuropsychiatry and how it relates more broadly to imaging and cognitive science and elaborate on the philosophical positions of the paradigm and how it views abnormal mental states. SUMMARY: We conclude that despite the advances in biological psychiatry and the power of the cognitive neuropsychiatry paradigm, its findings are logically contingent upon psychopathology and the normatively defined terms employed therein
Affective dimensions of the phenomenon of double bookkeeping in delusions
No full textIt has been argued that schizophrenic delusions are "behaviourally inert." This is evidence for the phenomenon of "double bookkeeping," according to which people are not consistent in their commitment to the content of their delusions. The traditional explanation for the phenomenon is that people do not genuinely believe the content of their delusions. In the article, we resist the traditional explanation and offer an alternative hypothesis: people with delusions often fail to acquire or to maintain the motivation to act on their delusional beliefs. This may be due to avolition, to emotional disturbances, or to the fact that, given the peculiar content of some delusions, the surrounding environment does not support the agent's motivation to act. © 2012 The Author(s)
Eugene Hunting and Lourie Broome
No full textEugene Gene) Hunting and Lourie Ann Broome are pictured together. They were married in 1978. Eugene is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Oran Hunting. Lourie is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tunny Broome
Broome, Hunter, Stranahan, Merchant Collection
Full text linkFinding Tool created by the West Texas CollectionCollection consists of documents, legal documents such as deeds and liens, photographs, maps, and correspondence pertaining to the Broome, Stranahan, Merchant, and Hunter families and in particular Claude A. Broome, Lizzie Broome (Stranahan), and Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Merchant.Mitzi McKinne
Broome nursing student wins Southern Cross Scholarship
No full textSecond year Broome nursing student Stephen Hayes, is the recipient of the inaugural Southern Cross Nursing Scholarship.
The $5000 scholarship will assist Mr Hayes in the completion of his nursing degree by providing financial assistance for fees, books and accommodation. All first year nursing students from Notre Dame’s Broome campus are eligible to apply for the scholarship.
Mr Hayes is a part-time carer with the Aged & Disability facility Germanus Kent / Bran Nue Dae Care Centre in Broome.
Coordinator of Nursing for the Broome Campus, Elizabeth Mortley said “Stephen was chosen because of his commitment to nursing and care of the aged.”
In Mr Hayes’ acceptance speech he expressed that he thoroughly enjoyed working with the aged and had learned a great deal from the experience.
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History Remembered at Broome Campus
No full textTHE University of Notre Dame Australia Broome Campus library gallery space will begin another event-packed year with an exhibition commemorating the 65th Anniversary of the strafing of Broome entitled, Australians Under Attack.
More than 100 people were killed when Japanese planes flew in over Roebuck Bay on March 3, 1942. In Australia’s second worst air raid, twenty-four aircraft, including sixteen flying boats, were destroyed. Most of the aircraft had just arrived from the Netherlands East Indies carrying refugees who were still on board.
The exhibition will be officially opened on March 2 at 10.30am by a survivor of the air raid, Lieutenant Commander Doorman (Retired) of the Dutch Navy. Lt Cmdr (Retired) Doorman and his family were among the refugees caught in Roebuck Bay during the raid.
The exhibition from the WA Museum will visit the Broome Campus library from March 2 to March 14. The Broome Historical Society will also provide additional strafing memorabilia. The collection of maps, photographs, newspaper articles, relics and documents offer an insight into the experiences of Australians during a perilous time in the town’s history and includes personal accounts of the frightening episodes of the air attacks on Broome and also Darwin.
Broome Campus librarian Mrs Lyn Quince said the exhibition helped to demonstrate how people coped as everyday items such as food, clothing and fuel became scarce.
A presentation by Charles Darwin University maritime archaeologist, Mr Silvano Jung will continue the commemoration at 7pm.
Mr Jung has written a PH.D thesis on the archaeology of the wrecks and was a technical and historical advisor to both the ABC and National Geographic during the filming of two documentaries about the air raids. His presentation will discuss his research into the flying boat wrecks which remain visible during the town’s spring tides.
“The exhibition and evening talk are open to everyone, which should prove an interesting insight into part of the history of Broome,” Mrs Quince said
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