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L'approccio ermeneutico nelle consulenze tecniche in ambito familiare: tra fenomenologia e psicoanalisi
No full textThe present paper, which stems from an expert witness report in which the Authors have been implicated, tries to show the manifest utility of an hermeneutic approach in forensic psychiatry, especially in the field of family and canonical law. Hermeneutics, in the history of Western thought, has been largely spreading, and hermeneutic knowledge has so deepened that it can now be considerated not only as a simple technical tool aimed at the interpretation and comment of any given text, but also mainly as a general way of thinking about the value and the extension of the dynamics that allow to understand the meaning of any narrative. In fact, such approach has yielded a lot of positive and useful results, both in the field of psychiatric clinics, and in the forensic evaluative praxis, and has become the meeting point of psychodynamic and anthropo-phenomenological knowledge, given that both are increasingly intended as “hermeneutical disciplines”, aimed at the search and decodification of “meaning” in the context of interindividual relations.The discovery of the meaning, as result of the narration of an individual life-history (i.e. a story of particular events and motives, intended as “significant” in relation to other individuals), is the aim of both psycho-dynamics (where the relation concerns the individual and his mental objects) and anthropo-phenomenology (where the relation concerns the individual and his life project).
In the expert witness field, given that comprehension of meaning must precede every kind of technical evaluation, the hermeneutical approach allows to appreciate not only the narratives produced by any single person, but also the reciprocal confrontation of the litigants, and, moreover, the overall frame in which the
expert’s evaluative activity situates itself. Such frame, i.e. the judicial situation, is shaped by litigants, attorneys, experts, as well by the overall institutional judicial athmosphere, with its written and unwritten rules.
The evaluative context in which an hermeneutic approch may be useful is that of marital conflict, both in state family law, and in canonical law. In such context, interpersonal dynamics are marked not only by overt conflict, but also by a relevant divergence in the opposite versions about “what” happened in the couple relationship told by the conflicting ex-spouses, often to the point of irreducibility ad unum. It is in such particular situations that the reconstruction of each part’s personal experience, via exhaustive anamnesis and precise evaluation of the story told by each subject, becomes an unique narration framed by the expert, narration which concerns both the past relationship of the couple (intended as the way in which they shaped and articulated their partnership) and the parenting project (seen as the construction of the bond with a third/other generating from the couple itself, but eventually expected to separate from it and to follow his/her own pathway toward autonomy and growth). In such perspective, asking the parts to tell their life history supplies the material not only for the de-codification and interpretation of the meaning attributed to the stories told by the parts (because it throws light on the subjectivity of the storyteller behind the simple exposition of facts), but also for showing that every singular contribution remands to a globality always more complex than the version told by each of the couple members. It turns out from above that an hermeneutic approach offers to the expert the realistic possibility both of restituting to the storyteller a global picture of the situation, which can be useful to him/her in order to progress in self-knowledge and possibly to begin a psychotherapy, and of answering to the questions formulated by the judge in a more precise, more flexible and, moreover, more technically correct way
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Scheda del vol. di C. Barbieri, Gli astri benigni di Agostino Chigi. Peruzzi, Sebastiano e Raffaello nella Loggia della Galatea, Roma-Bristol, «L’Erma» di Bretschneider, 2023, pp. XIV, 255, ill
No full textScheda del volume di C. Barbieri sulla Loggia di Galatea di Villa Farnesina a Rom
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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