145 research outputs found
1.23 Ga mafic dykes in the North China Craton and their implications for the reconstruction of the Columbia supercontinent
No full textAbstract not availableWei Wang, Shuwen Liu, M. Santosh, Lifei Zhang, Xiang Bai, Yue Zhao, Shuanhong Zhang, Rongrong Gu
[[alternative]]A Study on a Psychotherapist’s Countertransference during the Process of Psychotherapy
No full text[[abstract]]A Study on a Psychotherapist’s Countertransference during the Process of Psychotherapy
Pey-Ling Shieh
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to explore the countertransference during an ongoing process of psychotherapy. The study is conducted by the phenomenology approach. As a ten-session psychotherapy progressed, the psychotherapist was interviewed within 30 hours after each session. The data were analyzed by a framework retrieved from the data itself. The contextual factors, natures and transformation of the countertransference were all described.
The result yielded 22 units of countertransference experience. When compared with contextual factors, the psychotherapist’s countertransference to the specific client was found to have dual implications and to be more various than her original definition of and previous experiences of countertransference. The related factors of countertransference consisted of the fixed background of the therapist as well as the unique portion of the therapist-client interaction. The four domains of countertransference were classified as ‘feelings or cognitions toward the client’, ‘the role and position of the therapist and psychotherapy’, ’relationship and therapy maintenance’ and ‘distraction with associations’.
Most units of countertransference fall into the category of ‘Feelings or cognitions toward the client’. The therapist had various feelings toward the client and some of those feeling led to cognitions about the client. ‘Role and position of the therapist and psychotherapy’ is the second most frequent category of the countertransference, which happened when the therapist wondered about ‘what is the role of a therapist’ and ’what is the position of psychotherapy’. The feeling of being used and of not being respected would contribute to the discontinuity of therapy. As for the countertransference of ’relationship and therapy maintenance’, therapist’s assessment of the relationship was directly related to the maintenance of therapy. On ‘distraction with associations’, the therapist experienced various association and identification.
During the process of the psychotherapy, the familiarity of the therapist with the client increased. The global trend of understanding moved from stereotype-based and experience-based toward specific issues of the client. The focus of hypotheses-testing moved from ‘content consistency between client’s story and therapist’s experience’ toward ’internal consistency within client’s aspects of story’ or ’consistency between client’s story and hypotheses’. The transformation between sessions fluctuated and was recurrent. All four domains occurred at the initial stage and were intertwined with each other throughout the psychotherapy. process.
Given the findings that the countertransference displayed various natures and was formed by multiple factors, the author suggests some directions about future training and research.
Keywords: countertransference, process of psychotherapy, phenomenology
Dante\u27s Virgils
No full textThe questions brought to a text define the reading of it, questions both invited by the author and assumed by the reader. Dante\u27s Divine Comedy opens with a remarkable ambiguity that calls for an investigation of the questions being brought to the poem:
Midway along the journey of our lifeI woke to find myself in a dark wood,For I had wandered off from the straight path. (Inf 1.1-3)
A Brand-New Simple, Fast, and Effective Residual-Based Method for Radial Basis Function Neural Networks Training
No full textThe radial basis function (RBF) neural network is a type of universal approximator, and has been widely used in various fields. Improving the training speed and compactness of RBF networks are critical for promoting their applications. In the present study, we propose a simple, fast, and effective RBF networks training method, which is based on the residual extreme points and their neighborhoods (thus called the REN method for short in this paper). The REN method calculates RBF centers and widths through a two-level iterative process, and realizes two main functionalities, namely 1) adding multiple centers within one pass through the whole data set, and 2) calculating RBF widths specifically for each center. The use of this algorithm does not need any parameter adjustments, and the models for approximation or classification can be obtained by only one run. The performance of the proposed REN algorithm is compared with the classic and powerful orthogonal least squares (OLS) algorithm. By reaching the same accuracies, the REN algorithm trains RBF networks 50 and 320 times faster, in the chirp (0 50 Hz, 2 s, 1 kHz, 2001 samples) and two-dimensional peaks (2401 samples) signal approximation tasks respectively, than the OLS algorithm does, and the number of centers obtained by the REN algorithm is reduced by half. When incorporating the same number of centers, the REN algorithm achieves accuracies up to 3 orders of magnitude higher than the best results obtained by the OLS algorithm. In the classification task of a real discrete breast cancer data, both methods result in accuracies comparable to many existent methods, but the REN algorithm has the advantages of fast training speeds and no requirements for parameter adjustments. The REN algorithm proposed in this study may potentially be used for tasks with large scale of data or applications that require high model performances
A Spatial Control for Correct Timing of Gene Expression during the Escherichia coli Cell Cycle
No full textabstract: Temporal transcriptions of genes are achieved by different mechanisms such as dynamic interaction of activator and repressor proteins with promoters, and accumulation and/or degradation of key regulators as a function of cell cycle. We find that the TorR protein localizes to the old poles of the Escherichia coli cells, forming a functional focus. The TorR focus co-localizes with the nucleoid in a cell-cycle-dependent manner, and consequently regulates transcription of a number of genes. Formation of one TorR focus at the old poles of cells requires interaction with the MreB and DnaK proteins, and ATP, suggesting that TorR delivery requires cytoskeleton organization and ATP. Further, absence of the protein–protein interactions and ATP leads to loss in function of TorR as a transcription factor. We propose a mechanism for timing of cell-cycle-dependent gene transcription, where a transcription factor interacts with its target genes during a specific period of the cell cycle by limiting its own spatial distribution
High-pressure experimental verification of rutile-ilmenite oxybarometer: Implications for the redox state of the subduction zone
No full textThe more oxidized mantle peridotites above subducting slabs than stable continental areas have been attributed to the
infiltration of some oxidizing fluids released from the subducting slabs. However, knowledge for the redox states of the slabs
itself is very limited. Until now, few oxybarometers can be directly used to constrain the redox states of the subducting slabs.
The rutile-ilmenite oxybarometer was proposed and successfully applied to constrain the oxygen fugacity of mantle assemblages.
However, its application to rocks equilibrated at crustal P-T conditions has been hampered by some uncertainties in an early solid
solution model of ilmenite. With a newly-released solid solution model for the ilmenite, we have conducted high-P experiments
(at 3 and 5 GPa, and 900–1300°C) to test the accuracy of this oxybarometer. The experiments were performed with their oxygen
fugacities controlled by the CCO buffer (i.e., C+O2=CO2). We demonstrated that the oxygen fugacities calculated for our high-P
experimental products by using the rutile-ilmenite oxybarometer were in excellent agreement with the fO2 dictated by the CCO
buffer, suggesting a wide applicability of this oxybarometer to crust rocks. As examples, the rutile-ilmenite oxybarometer has been
used to constrain the oxygen fugacities of some metamorphic rocks such as eclogite, granulite and amphibolite usually observed
from the subduction zone
Evaluation of important buildings anti-terrorism capability based on fuzzy analytic hierarchy process
No full textHomeland Integration
No full textIn this study, the first author narrates his experiences of the challenges of integration into several Chinese universities as a PhD graduate after returning from Australia. His patterns of communication and psychological changes are examined in terms of identity construction and transformation. His insider position as a Chinese native and academic returnee enables him to see the realities of practice in average Chinese universities at close range, yet with the altered vision gained from his overseas experience. This study highlights the challenges for academic returnees in Chinese higher education institutions and may also have resonances for academic returnees in other countries. Wider questions about the assessment of English research writing and the attitudes to academic returnees in Chinese universities are raised, contributing to debate over the future development of Chinese higher education institutions in a globalizing world
Similar spatial patterns of neural coding of category selectivity in FFA and VWFA under different attention conditions
No full textIt has long been debated whether attention alters the categorical selectivity in regions such as the fusiform face area (FFA) and the visual word form area (VWFA). We addressed this issue by examining whether the spatial pattern of neural representations for certain stimulus categories in these regions would change under different attention conditions. Faces. Chinese characters, and textures were presented in a block design fMRI experiment where participants in different runs attended to the stimuli under different conditions of attention. After localizing regions of interest (ROIs) in FFA and VWFA using general linear models, we performed spatial pattern analyses to examine both within- and cross-condition classification in these ROIs. The within-condition results replicated previous findings showing significant classification accuracy reduction when there was less attention compared with more attention. Critically, cross-condition classification in both FFA and VWFA revealed significantly above-chance accuracy for all stimulus categories, suggesting similar spatial neural representations across different attention conditions. Further strengthening this conclusion, when the contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) of the signals was adjusted to increase signal strength, cross-condition classification accuracy for faces in FFA and for Chinese characters in VWFA improved significantly, even approaching within-condition accuracy. This indicates that attention does not modulate the spatial pattern of neural representations involved in category selectivity, but only changes the signal strength relative to the noise level. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
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