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Implementing the AIFMD: Success or failure? ECMI Commentary No. 34, 28 March 2013
Get PDFThis commentary considers the implementation of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) by the European Commission. The AIFMD creates an internal market for asset management and as an endeavour to develop market-based finance is an important piece of legislation for the European economy. The author, Mirzha de Manuel Aramendía, considers the implementation of some of the provisions that raised concern among industry participants. He finds that, on balance, a practical and flexible approach to implementation has been followed that should help secure the success of the framework, which at present is still uncertain. The commentary also considers the remuneration guidelines adopted recently by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). It encourages EU and national authorities to commit to the success of the AIFMD framework, as part of a broader effort to develop capital markets and reduce the historical reliance of the European economy on bank finance
How to Strengthen Patients' Meaning Response by an Ethical Informed Consent in Psychotherapy.
Get PDFHealthcare professionals including psychotherapists are legally and ethically obliged to ensure informed consent for the provided treatments comprising type and duration or potential benefits and possible risks (e.g., side effects) among others. In the present contribution, we argue that as potential benefit, informed consent can foster the patient's meaning response. Moerman's notion of the meaning response as the physiological or psychological effects of meaning in the course and treatment of an illness is a useful concept in explaining the effects of communicating a treatment rationale as part of the informed consent procedure. The more compelling the rational explanation of the targeted treatment effects including an explanatory model and a model of unique and common change mechanisms, the stronger the meaning response is expected to be resulting in increased hope and positive expectations with regard to the treatment
Beyond the Office Walls: Ethical Challenges of Home Treatment, and Other Out-of-Office Therapies
No full textPatient Information on Evidence and Clinical Effectiveness of Psychotherapy
No full textThis chapter focuses on what information should be provided to patients about the evidence base supporting the clinical effectiveness of psychotherapy. In particular, the authors consider whether research on the relative efficacy of different forms of psychotherapy should be provided to patients, as well as whether patients should be provided with information on the relative importance of common factors versus specific factors as the causal agents of clinical improvement. After a critical review and discussion of the relatively few scholarly papers that have previously addressed this question, the authors conclude that patients should be provided with an honest, transparent, and impartial summary of the evidence related to their treatment options including information about the common factors. The authors offer this conclusion even while acknowledging that considerable controversy persists about how to interpret the psychotherapy research evidence base. Finally, the authors strongly support continued research into these questions, especially given the relatively limited scholarly attention they have received to date
Manuel Puig: un destino melodramático
Get PDFEl trabajo es un extracto de una larga investigación en los archivos del escritor argentino Manuel Puig, la génesis de su producción y su relación con el campo intelectual internacional. En este extracto se presenta un estudio del uso del melodrama en la producción 'espectacular' del autor y la publcación de un inédito que incluí como primicia en 1996 en la revista Orbis Tertius No. 2, Centro de Teoría y Crítica Literaria, UNLP.The work is an extract of one long recherch in the archives of the Argentine writer Manuel Puig, the genesis of its production and its relation with international the intellectual field. In this extract is analyzed the use of the melodrama in “the spectacular” production of the author. The publication of an unpublished is included , published for the first time by me in 1996 in the Orbis Tertius Nº 2, Centro de Teoría y Crítica Literaria, UNLP.Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educació
Letter from Manuel E. Ykari [Ikari] to Wayne M. Collins, May 29, 1953
No full textIn this letter to Mr. Wayne M. Collins, Mr. Manuel E. Ykari [Ikari] explains that he will need to pay Mr. Collins in segments. Mr. Collins is a lawyer in San Francisco.Collection of notes, articles, correspondence, photographs, and term papers collected by Yukio Mochizuki, a student at CSU Dominguez Hills, while researching Japanese American incarceration and Japanese Peruvian internment during World War II
The Ethics of Placebo and Nocebo in Psychotherapy
No full textThere is as little doubt as much as there is empirical proof that psychotherapy is an effective intervention for psychological problems and disorders. However, there is ongoing controversy about the mechanisms underlying these often impressive, but also often overestimated effects, reaching back to the very origins of psychotherapy research. While this “great psychotherapy debate” vivifies both psychotherapy research and practice, it finally poses an ethical challenge for both psychotherapists and psychotherapy scholars. Basically, the lack of agreed and validated mechanisms impedes the attempt to inform patients about how changes of psychotherapy are brought about. Thus, even though patients can readily be furnished with possible and expectable benefits, costs and strains, the situation becomes more complex and less certain with regard to the specific mechanisms and determinants of change. In this chapter, psychotherapy scholars’ strivings and troubles for specificity will be briefly covered, touching the uncomfortable relationship with placebo and nocebo and finishing with an ethical plea for transparency in psychotherapy and of psychotherapists
Oral History Interview with Manuel Medrano, June 18, 2015
No full textInterview with Manuel Medrano, an historian and author from Brownsville, Texas. In his interview, Medrano discusses his family background and childhood, education, experiences with discrimination, political activism, and the Chicano movement
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