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La Fontaine and the Psyche Tradition
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Discourse and Psyche: Three Women's Texts of Empire
"While the period of the last fifteen years has seen the publication of numerous analyses of women's writing of empire, the study of colonial women's texts has been limited by critics' working within the theoretical framework of complicity and resistance. Rather than exploring the dynamic psychic …
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An Exploration of the Psyche in "Era of Black"
<p>In this thesis, I propose three parallel projects. The first is an introductory exploration of the narrative conventions that have become, over time, established tropes in Fantasy Fiction as a brief discussion of my conscious strategy to reject the normative structures set in modern fantasy …
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STATUS AND THE PSYCHE: HOW MENTAL HEALTH PARADOXES CHALLENGE THEORIES OF INEQUALITY
Social scientists have documented a set of unexpected sociodemographic patterns they call health paradoxes or epidemiological paradoxes. Like all paradoxes, such findings compel scholars to reconsider their assumptions about the social world—findings are only “paradoxical” when viewed from a …
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The embodied mind: A journey through the “soma” to reach the “psyche”
Background: Recent studies have confirmed a significant comorbidity between eating disorders and self-harm; they linked the presence of self-harm to a more severe and treatment-resistant eating disorder symptomatology. Difficulties with impulse-control were suggested to mediate this association. …
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Permeable boundaries: exploring the architecture of the psyche in cinematic spaces through collage
… readily apparent and is sensed rather than seen. Psyche impacts this experience of lived space, from an individual’s awareness of themselves within it, to the perception of space itself. Film offers a distinctive representation of this subjective experience through its narrative form and command …
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To Whom Occurs the Haunting: A Singular Exploration of a Disturbed Femme Psyche
… trauma and its lasting impact on the present-day psyche of one disturbed female subject - myself. Relying on multiple formats of writing, including but not limited to: memoir, autobiography, diaries, letters, poetry, and prose, as well the incorporation of multiple disciplines including the likes …
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Redefining contra-sexual influence in the human psyche and its implications for heterosexual relations
… of contra-sexual influences in the human psyche may impact on intra-psychic process, as well as interpersonal relationships, between men and women. The thesis also sets out implications for understanding wider social patterns in gender relations, in particular in the home, in schools, in …
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Auswirkungen eines motivationsorientierten Sportprogramms auf die Psyche, die Körperzusammensetzung und den Metabolismus von diabetischen Jugendlichen
… Körperzusammensetzung, den Metabolismus und die Psyche von jugendlichen Typ 1 Diabetikern und stoffwechselgesunden Jugendlichen zu untersuchen. An der Studie nahmen insgesamt 14 Jugendliche teil, 8 mit Diabetes mellitus Typ 1 (männlich/weiblich = 4/4, Durchschnittsalter 14,8 Jahre, …
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Strata, Soma, Psyche: Narrative and the Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century Science of Lyell, Darwin, and Freud
My dissertation, “Strata, Soma, Psyche: Narrative and the Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century Science of Lyell, Darwin, and Freud,” contributes new research to the diverse field mapping the intersections of science and literature in the nineteenth century. Although scholars such as Gillian Beer …
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'THE LOCAL' IN THE HUMANITARIAN PSYCHE: HOW EMOTIONS OF HUMANITARIAN WORKERS MEDIATE THE EVERYDAY PRACTICES OF PARTICIPATION
IR’s ‘practice turn' makes the case for studying IR through the study of international practices – patterns of behavior endowed with social meaning. However, the same pattern of behavior may be endowed with different meanings by different actors, thereby altering the nature of the practice. …
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Italian Psyche and Society: Politics and Networks in Italian Mind and Brain Science and Medicine, 1919–1939
<p>My dissertation argues that in interwar Italy the intellectual landscape of the mind and brain sciences, often marked by a state of creative turmoil, was as much a political and cultural enterprise as a scientific one. The impact of these sciences was far-reaching, as were the consequences of …
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The Machine's Effect on the Psyche of the American Woman: A Dramaturgical Analysis of Machinal by Sophie Treadwell
<p>Sophie Treadwell's style is often associated with the male contemporaries of her time: Eugene O'Neill and Elmer Rice. During the 1920s, these writers were being influenced by German Expressionistic theatre in a way that the American stage had not yet witnessed. Expressionistic drama is …
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Boot Camp for the Psyche: Inoculative Nonfiction and Pre-Memory Structures as Preemptive Trauma Mediation in Fiction and Film
<p>While some theorists have hinted at various social functions served by the gothic genre—such as providing an outlet for grief, anxiety, and violence in their various forms—recent research within the last few decades into sociology, military science, and trauma studies supplies compelling new …
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Psyche in soma: an investigation of the assimilation of conflicts in in two psychotherapy clients with functional abdominal pain
… Findings were related to existing approaches to psyche-soma relationships explored in a cross-disciplinary review of theory, research, and clinical accounts.<br/><br/>Analyses of the findings showed that for these clients, gastrointestinal pain represented more than one meaning. At a …
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"A Multitude of Little Luminosities": Dissociative Multiplicity as an Image of and Invitation to Psyche, through a Case of Dissociative Identity Disorder
… opens therapeutic work to ways of approaching psyche that transcend singular and personal visions of subjectivity, identity, development, health, creativity, agency, etc. In order to invite the project itself to realize its argument, the researcher augmented the case study method with imaginal …
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The persona of rationality
… I use the dialectical structure of the human psyche as a foundation to illustrate some problems that develop when an individual identifies her or himself with the requirements of a rational organization. I argue that the unconscious side of the psyche is not acknowledged, and is in fact …
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The role of values & practical identities in mental wellbeing
… their value systems. Specifically, I present Psyche - a novel computer-based psychological intervention that is designed to help individuals not only better understand what they value but also better align their actions with their values. This thesis posits that such intentionality vis-à-vis …
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