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Radici del procedere semeiotico nella clinica psico(pato)logica
No full textThe medical intervention concerning protection and care of both physical and mental health begins with the meeting between the clinician and the patient and with the observation of the personal conditions of the individual with the problem, or put forward himself/herself as a problem. After having shortly outlined the theoretical and methodological evolution of the strictly connected concepts of “illness” and “semeiotica”, from the protohistoric age to nowadays, focus is placed on the reasons triggering the need of a greater epistemological awareness in the use of the semeiotics by the specialist. The usefulness of replacing a “semeiotic of deviation” with a “semeiotic of differences” is also explained, which entails a process of comparison between the semeiotic of the doctor and the patient’s one
Semeiotica e diagnosi psico(pato)logica
Get PDFWith a subjective experience of pain, the patient is at the heart of the medical profession. Even in a psychiatric intervention, the meeting between clinician and patient, mutual observations and interaction reveal details about a certain problem, which - in this context - becomes configured and embodied. Herein, to the authors present arguments on how psychiatric semeiotics must be based on adequately articulated epistemological awarenes
Cenni storici sul controtransfert: da Freud alla scuola inglese delle relazioni oggettuali
No full textContemporary psychoanalysis is characterized by a diversity of models, theories and techniques which were unknown in the past. Some psychoanalytic authors identify a possible common ground in countertransference. This paper presents a descriptive and historical review of the development of the concept of countertransference, focusing on a well defined trend, starting with the original contribution by Freud up to those analysts of the British object relations school who gave – and continue to give – a fundamental contribution in expanding the discussion, necessary for scientific development, on the theoretical and clinical aspects of countertransference
On listening to the dreams of children affected by serious physical illness
Get PDFAuthors would like to draw attention to the dreaming of children affected by serious physical illness, and the consequences that the listening skills of the caregivers (parents, nurses, doctors, teachers etc.) may have. How will an adult, too intensely distressed over the death of a child, be able to approach a child who has a fear of death and be able to offer a space in which to listen and share? Adults can connect with children, their dreams, as well as their drawings and plays, only if they have been able to perceive, tolerate and contain their own emotions, including their personal sufferings, but they must also be able to reconcile the realm of reality with that of their own creativity. This is because the identity of one (the suffering child) can only exist in a more integrated way if in the presence of another person: if I cannot speak to you of my pains and of my fears of dying, I will not exist for you as a living and suffering child
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
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