This reflective paper aims to critically analyse two of the most discussed leadership theories to... more This reflective paper aims to critically analyse two of the most discussed leadership theories to identify challenges within healthcare settings. First, it will highlight the "quantum theory", which focus on the reality that environments are constantly changing, the fluidity of roles, and the staff's participation in decision-making to produce effective leadership. Secondly, attention is paid to the Tannembaum-Schmidt model, which connects leadership with exercising power regardless of the position in the hierarchy. The paper will also evaluate the coordination of care processes and the interprofessional collaborations with teams based on a real case scenario and according to one of the values that guide mental health professionals: The provision of patient safety. Thus, the new framework for Medication Safety (Med-Sips) and the reduction of restrictive practices in acute settings (ME-Sips) introduced in 2021 applies to the episode of care introduced in this reflective essay. Finally, the focus will be on the supervision process within the learning environment through active participation.
Los grandes afectos siempre dejan tras de sí grandes complejos. Esto se debe simplemente al hecho... more Los grandes afectos siempre dejan tras de sí grandes complejos. Esto se debe simplemente al hecho de que, por un lado, los grandes complejos incluyen numerosas inervaciones somáticas, mientras que, por otro lado, los afectos fuertes constelan un gran número de asociaciones debido a su estimulación poderosa y persistente del sistema psíquico (Jung, 1928, p. 87).
Advocacy for older adults is a fundamental part of any Mental Health plan. Therefore, clinicians ... more Advocacy for older adults is a fundamental part of any Mental Health plan. Therefore, clinicians must ensure service users have advocacy tools to secure their rights. Advocacy is not a minor issue nowadays. More than 50 years have already passed since Barbara Robb brought to the social arena multiple cases of inadequate care for old adults admitted to psychiatric hospitals and care homes. Thus, Robb’s book (1967) Sans Everything: A case to Answer, was a pioneering work to show how evidence-based research can be used to address the flaws in the provision of care for old adults in a period of history when the ageing population is increasing by leaps and bounds. Indeed, gerontology is a challenging field and entails complex tasks which have often been categorised under the umbrella of negative stereotypes.
there is a big difference in the psychological morbidity of farmers and non-farming populations. ... more there is a big difference in the psychological morbidity of farmers and non-farming populations. Indeed, Northern Ireland has much higher mental health illness levels than the rest of the UK. The number of antidepressant prescriptions and the cases of self-harm are also higher, although it has been investigated that there are often hidden from healthcare professionals. The mentioned situation is mainly happening in rural areas and among farmers. According to the Farm Safety Foundation (2021), over 80% of farmers under 40 rated "poor mental health as the biggest hidden problem that agricultural workers face nowadays". Kolstrup et al. (2013) highlighted global, national, regional and community factors for this epidemic. For instance, farmers are vital workers with more significant financial responsibilities. Introducing new technology (i.e., machinery) has increased their financial burden. This global trend has forced many regular farmers to abandon their jobs and migrate to urban areas in search of unemployment. Furthermore, governments have introduced complex regulatory frames at a national level, which have often reduced the commodities' value. Besides, regionally, there has been a significant decline in rural infrastructure and services, making farming less appealing. Those circumstances have led to the highest rate of suicide among farmers: one suicide per day, according to the Assembly Research Group (2019).
The emotional element belonging to any memory makes the elaboration and production of memorialisa... more The emotional element belonging to any memory makes the elaboration and production of memorialisation biased, fragmented and limited. Remembering is a subjective experience. The lack of instability and liability of memory make the task of complete recalling almost impossible.
Many scholars, especially those coming from the feminist viewpoint, have highlighted the economic... more Many scholars, especially those coming from the feminist viewpoint, have highlighted the economic, social, and cultural and educational components in “the lack of exercise of power over bodies” (Rich, 1976, pp. 21) or as Chodorow (1978, p.11) also put it, “the fragility of precocious bodies”. Feminist theorists were not questioning that teenage motherhood is also a life option that belongs, mainly, to personal, and, subjective dimensions. However, they were claiming “why a woman has the urge to motherhood” as Chodorow (1978, p. 23) suggested. The core of feminist theory, in relation to this subject, relies on the fact that motherhood must also be understood as “an institution”, as Rich (1976) suggests; an institution that represents embodiment, oppression and/or power and which is very far from being just a biological act without social interferences and definitive consequences for the mother and the child.
Death is the space that keeps us in the dark (…) Kristeva's work on psychoanalysis refers to this... more Death is the space that keeps us in the dark (…) Kristeva's work on psychoanalysis refers to this state of being as if 'there is the hidden mark of a scar, a secret wound' (Kristeva, 1988: 5). There is always a particular space of emptiness, an absence, or doubt for which art can offer a 'psychic envelope' (Kohon, 2016) by holding and perpetuating a sense of life that is, momentarily or permanently, repressed. This process is what Freud named the 'the animation of life-less objects (...) the realization of the wish-fulfilments (...) a temptation we are drifted into, to explain certain psychic instances' (Freud,1919: 17-19). Those psychic instances of emptiness and absence are envisaged and revealed through art in very different transformational ways.
The creation of a virtual archive allows a constant re-examination of the answers that are create... more The creation of a virtual archive allows a constant re-examination of the answers that are created by the co-participants. Then, through the archive, it could be analyzed the progress in consciousness towards the social events, embracing new forms of expressions, different thoughts, and emotions but above all, the virtual archive becomes the ultimate place to re-visit the collective memory. CAPTURING SOCIAL EVENTS: THE CREATION OF A VIRTUAL ARCHIVE Living archives are poised to become forces for social change; archives can show the lives of communities by putting their responses on display to support their involvement in social movements, engage others and document all that for the future.
The boundaries which divide life from death
are at best shadowy and vague.
Poe (1844) The Prematu... more The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Poe (1844) The Premature Burial.
There are no certainties about ourselves or our pasts; There is no certainty that something has once been lost, for it now to be recovered.
Kohon, G. (2016) Reflections on the Aesthetic Experience. How is reflected the uncanny in the aesthetic experience? What is the emotional response that brings to the viewer? Moreover, how does the experience of aliveness relate to the uncanny? This paper aims to reflect on those questions using Freud’s idea of the uncanny in one of the most well-known movies by the British film director Alfred Hitchcock. Freud suggests that ‘not everything unfamiliar is frightening.’ Whether the uncanny is something like, metaphorically speaking, wandering in the dark, there are also other features that make the uncanny more recognizable: the factor of involuntary repletion or in other words, the return to the same situation (Freud, 1919, pp. 10-11); the omnipotence of thoughts, and the overestimation of subjective mental processes (Freud, 1919,p. 13); the secret nature of the uncanny that aroused dread, and at last but not least, the penetrating and fearful reaction of the individual to the uncanny (Freud, 1919, p. 16).
People who want to know and judge
any unknown territory correctly, have to put on
the clothing of... more People who want to know and judge any unknown territory correctly, have to put on the clothing of an explorer and observer to study the area from the ground up. Hirschfeld, M. (1913)
Albert Moll (1862-1939) and Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) will change the landscape of sexual psychology for the first time. For both physicians, the acquaintance with sexual human nature was not only a biological matter but also a method to explain the forces by which individuals are driven. For instance, Moll (1912) studied the main components of sexual impulse from which originated two different categories to explain human behavior. ‘Excitement and voluptuous sensation - Moll (1912) quoted in Sauerteig (2012) argued - determine the sexual life of the individual since childhood’ (Sauerteig, 2012, p. 17).
According to the perspective of psychosocial development, life-sustaining sexuality functions develop jointly with the psychic apparatus and that includes a broad range of stages such as in situations of extreme ambivalence (gender dysphoria), infantile regression, stabilization, or sublimation (Erikson, 1959; Freud, 1905). Furthermore, sexuality could be also explained as an organized experience since individuals internalize the restrictions not only imposed by parents and carers during childhood but also by those restrictions established by social institutions and conventions.
The urgency of love comes from the need to avoid experiencing object loss. To be in love means to... more The urgency of love comes from the need to avoid experiencing object loss. To be in love means to place the object as an ego-ideal to try to avoid such an experience. Loss is a precondition of love.
“La abstracción oriental no es tan personal como la occidental, los artistas remiten a un concept... more “La abstracción oriental no es tan personal como la occidental, los artistas remiten a un concepto puramente abstracto, en su proceso de despojamiento del yo. Se liberan del individualismo, tan potenciado en el mundo occidental y entran en comunión con el mundo. Eso es lo que le ocurre a la obra de Chillida, en todas sus manifestaciones artísticas, en sus lurras, en las gravitaciones, en sus tintas y en sus obras públicas” (Galante Rodero, 2011, p. 369).
This dissertation is concerned with the roles of military institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa. Whe... more This dissertation is concerned with the roles of military institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa. Whether the military is a modernising force in these developing countries or whether the military investment in the workforce, machinery, and weapons produce positive non-military side effects are presented as contemporary subjects, the analysis of which can help us to understand better the political dynamics of Sub-Saharan Africa in general and the role of its military institutions in particular. Thus, the paper focuses on the possibility of using the military as an agent for social change. On the other hand, it will identify the primary purposes of the United States military foreign policy towards Sub-Sahara Africa to find out how that new foreign policy can change the shape and features of their military institutions. Specifically, the creation of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) will expand the scope of this research by analysing the political and economic implications of the United States military assistance in Sub-Saharan Africa It also analysed the defence expenditures compared to the GDP and its linkage with the global arms trade in two specific cases: Mauritania and Eritrea. This comparative analysis will show if defence expenditures are a burden in these countries and what, in any case, are the primary side- effects that military spending is causing in its local economies.
Fascism tries to remove any previous pessimistic idea of loss and weakness by highlighting a raci... more Fascism tries to remove any previous pessimistic idea of loss and weakness by highlighting a racial theory as a form of strengthening national identity and superiority. Hence, the effect of the return of the symbolic and, consequently, the displacement of the real is translated as a possibility of extreme destructiveness towards other races or religious minorities. All this machinery of symbols served to nourish the morale of the warriors of fascism.
Fascism is a totemic system since it allows the rise of a leader as a totem and a community devoted to such a leader. The community surrenders to the figure of the archetype of the father-saviour, to the father represented on the idea of a nation. Because the society perceives itself as unable to cope with its frustrations and anxieties, the false security that the father-saviour, who represents law and order against the chaos, makes the community believe that it will be safe or as Freud (1913, p.2) said ‘it will offer immortality and retribution’. However, the promise of obedience to the father does not save them from the father’s hostility. The omnipresent figure of the father and its implementation as a cultural value of the nation facilitate the existence of a very hierarchical social structure.
Manifestations of collective denial, worshipping of the group to the totem, mechanisms that are assumed as characteristic of the primal horde, the collective unconscious and its repercussion in the formation of the Superego are, definitely, a fundamental part of fascism in a greater or lesser degree. Then, Fascism extends the essence of its existence to the same roots of human nature and the nature of groups' unconscious and conscious dynamics.
An integrative mixed-method analysis examined alcohol consumption and role overload associated wi... more An integrative mixed-method analysis examined alcohol consumption and role overload associated with emotional well-being and happiness among adults, both male and female, white ethnicity, resident in the United Kingdom and who have not suffered brain injury. Quantitative (measured scales) variables and qualitative thematic variables generated from open-ended responses served as predictors of happiness-related outcomes. Results indicate that there is no significant increase in happiness due to alcohol consumption. Moreover, alcohol consumption acts as operant conditioning (Skinner, 1938), and as a personal effect-motive (Mulford and Miller, 1960), in cases of role overload. However, the multiple regression shows that alcohol consumption does not increase long-term well-being in circumstances of role overload. As the qualitative thematic analysis demonstrates, the element of reinforcement of alcohol consumption is more due to the incentive of dopamine-stimulation, which brings to the individual a quick reward with non-lasting effects.
Where can be placed concepts such as race, primitivism or non-civilised countries jointly with th... more Where can be placed concepts such as race, primitivism or non-civilised countries jointly with the discourse of liberation of humanity? The development of human sciences and a scientific method is that “of classifying organisms into species”. As humans became the object of scientific knowledge, they started to be equally classified. ‘A race became a specie’, said Boyd (1950: 23).Thus, the dialectic discourse of the Enlightenment with its particular ideas on superior races and nations, the primitive and the civilised or the polarization between the concepts of ‘domestic’ and ‘overseas’ which, ultimately, led to an abhorrent process of colonisation do not allow, once it has been profoundly analysed, a possible and complete idealization of this era and thus, finally, Enlightenment can also be put under scrutiny.
Teamwork in Intensive Care Units: A contemporary subject in reflective practice., 2021
Teamwork is embedded in a specific culture and organizational set of values. Therefore, in relati... more Teamwork is embedded in a specific culture and organizational set of values. Therefore, in relation to teamwork, is paramount to be aware of the transactional culture’s paradigm that has been almost guiding every organization. Thorne and Robinson (1988), quote in Johns (2007), emphasised, decades ago, that the main problem with the transactional culture’s paradigm is “its embodiment with the status quo”, that is to say, its conformity with organisational norms and a tendency to subordinate to managerial perspective and therefore, to suppress minority dissent. The knowledge to be gained is that, probably, a more transformational perspective will enable a learning organisational culture wherein background influences, multiple perspectives and dissent, will be taken, satisfactorily, into account.
Eventually, you will get to know a man
by knowing the ideals and the groups he has adhered to fev... more Eventually, you will get to know a man by knowing the ideals and the groups he has adhered to feverishly by acknowledging his symptoms and the social role he has decided to play if any. The rest of him, it will remain a mystery even, perhaps, for himself. Guadalupe Caceres, London, 2019.
This reflective paper aims to critically analyse two of the most discussed leadership theories to... more This reflective paper aims to critically analyse two of the most discussed leadership theories to identify challenges within healthcare settings. First, it will highlight the "quantum theory", which focus on the reality that environments are constantly changing, the fluidity of roles, and the staff's participation in decision-making to produce effective leadership. Secondly, attention is paid to the Tannembaum-Schmidt model, which connects leadership with exercising power regardless of the position in the hierarchy. The paper will also evaluate the coordination of care processes and the interprofessional collaborations with teams based on a real case scenario and according to one of the values that guide mental health professionals: The provision of patient safety. Thus, the new framework for Medication Safety (Med-Sips) and the reduction of restrictive practices in acute settings (ME-Sips) introduced in 2021 applies to the episode of care introduced in this reflective essay. Finally, the focus will be on the supervision process within the learning environment through active participation.
Los grandes afectos siempre dejan tras de sí grandes complejos. Esto se debe simplemente al hecho... more Los grandes afectos siempre dejan tras de sí grandes complejos. Esto se debe simplemente al hecho de que, por un lado, los grandes complejos incluyen numerosas inervaciones somáticas, mientras que, por otro lado, los afectos fuertes constelan un gran número de asociaciones debido a su estimulación poderosa y persistente del sistema psíquico (Jung, 1928, p. 87).
Advocacy for older adults is a fundamental part of any Mental Health plan. Therefore, clinicians ... more Advocacy for older adults is a fundamental part of any Mental Health plan. Therefore, clinicians must ensure service users have advocacy tools to secure their rights. Advocacy is not a minor issue nowadays. More than 50 years have already passed since Barbara Robb brought to the social arena multiple cases of inadequate care for old adults admitted to psychiatric hospitals and care homes. Thus, Robb’s book (1967) Sans Everything: A case to Answer, was a pioneering work to show how evidence-based research can be used to address the flaws in the provision of care for old adults in a period of history when the ageing population is increasing by leaps and bounds. Indeed, gerontology is a challenging field and entails complex tasks which have often been categorised under the umbrella of negative stereotypes.
there is a big difference in the psychological morbidity of farmers and non-farming populations. ... more there is a big difference in the psychological morbidity of farmers and non-farming populations. Indeed, Northern Ireland has much higher mental health illness levels than the rest of the UK. The number of antidepressant prescriptions and the cases of self-harm are also higher, although it has been investigated that there are often hidden from healthcare professionals. The mentioned situation is mainly happening in rural areas and among farmers. According to the Farm Safety Foundation (2021), over 80% of farmers under 40 rated "poor mental health as the biggest hidden problem that agricultural workers face nowadays". Kolstrup et al. (2013) highlighted global, national, regional and community factors for this epidemic. For instance, farmers are vital workers with more significant financial responsibilities. Introducing new technology (i.e., machinery) has increased their financial burden. This global trend has forced many regular farmers to abandon their jobs and migrate to urban areas in search of unemployment. Furthermore, governments have introduced complex regulatory frames at a national level, which have often reduced the commodities' value. Besides, regionally, there has been a significant decline in rural infrastructure and services, making farming less appealing. Those circumstances have led to the highest rate of suicide among farmers: one suicide per day, according to the Assembly Research Group (2019).
The emotional element belonging to any memory makes the elaboration and production of memorialisa... more The emotional element belonging to any memory makes the elaboration and production of memorialisation biased, fragmented and limited. Remembering is a subjective experience. The lack of instability and liability of memory make the task of complete recalling almost impossible.
Many scholars, especially those coming from the feminist viewpoint, have highlighted the economic... more Many scholars, especially those coming from the feminist viewpoint, have highlighted the economic, social, and cultural and educational components in “the lack of exercise of power over bodies” (Rich, 1976, pp. 21) or as Chodorow (1978, p.11) also put it, “the fragility of precocious bodies”. Feminist theorists were not questioning that teenage motherhood is also a life option that belongs, mainly, to personal, and, subjective dimensions. However, they were claiming “why a woman has the urge to motherhood” as Chodorow (1978, p. 23) suggested. The core of feminist theory, in relation to this subject, relies on the fact that motherhood must also be understood as “an institution”, as Rich (1976) suggests; an institution that represents embodiment, oppression and/or power and which is very far from being just a biological act without social interferences and definitive consequences for the mother and the child.
Death is the space that keeps us in the dark (…) Kristeva's work on psychoanalysis refers to this... more Death is the space that keeps us in the dark (…) Kristeva's work on psychoanalysis refers to this state of being as if 'there is the hidden mark of a scar, a secret wound' (Kristeva, 1988: 5). There is always a particular space of emptiness, an absence, or doubt for which art can offer a 'psychic envelope' (Kohon, 2016) by holding and perpetuating a sense of life that is, momentarily or permanently, repressed. This process is what Freud named the 'the animation of life-less objects (...) the realization of the wish-fulfilments (...) a temptation we are drifted into, to explain certain psychic instances' (Freud,1919: 17-19). Those psychic instances of emptiness and absence are envisaged and revealed through art in very different transformational ways.
The creation of a virtual archive allows a constant re-examination of the answers that are create... more The creation of a virtual archive allows a constant re-examination of the answers that are created by the co-participants. Then, through the archive, it could be analyzed the progress in consciousness towards the social events, embracing new forms of expressions, different thoughts, and emotions but above all, the virtual archive becomes the ultimate place to re-visit the collective memory. CAPTURING SOCIAL EVENTS: THE CREATION OF A VIRTUAL ARCHIVE Living archives are poised to become forces for social change; archives can show the lives of communities by putting their responses on display to support their involvement in social movements, engage others and document all that for the future.
The boundaries which divide life from death
are at best shadowy and vague.
Poe (1844) The Prematu... more The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Poe (1844) The Premature Burial.
There are no certainties about ourselves or our pasts; There is no certainty that something has once been lost, for it now to be recovered.
Kohon, G. (2016) Reflections on the Aesthetic Experience. How is reflected the uncanny in the aesthetic experience? What is the emotional response that brings to the viewer? Moreover, how does the experience of aliveness relate to the uncanny? This paper aims to reflect on those questions using Freud’s idea of the uncanny in one of the most well-known movies by the British film director Alfred Hitchcock. Freud suggests that ‘not everything unfamiliar is frightening.’ Whether the uncanny is something like, metaphorically speaking, wandering in the dark, there are also other features that make the uncanny more recognizable: the factor of involuntary repletion or in other words, the return to the same situation (Freud, 1919, pp. 10-11); the omnipotence of thoughts, and the overestimation of subjective mental processes (Freud, 1919,p. 13); the secret nature of the uncanny that aroused dread, and at last but not least, the penetrating and fearful reaction of the individual to the uncanny (Freud, 1919, p. 16).
People who want to know and judge
any unknown territory correctly, have to put on
the clothing of... more People who want to know and judge any unknown territory correctly, have to put on the clothing of an explorer and observer to study the area from the ground up. Hirschfeld, M. (1913)
Albert Moll (1862-1939) and Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) will change the landscape of sexual psychology for the first time. For both physicians, the acquaintance with sexual human nature was not only a biological matter but also a method to explain the forces by which individuals are driven. For instance, Moll (1912) studied the main components of sexual impulse from which originated two different categories to explain human behavior. ‘Excitement and voluptuous sensation - Moll (1912) quoted in Sauerteig (2012) argued - determine the sexual life of the individual since childhood’ (Sauerteig, 2012, p. 17).
According to the perspective of psychosocial development, life-sustaining sexuality functions develop jointly with the psychic apparatus and that includes a broad range of stages such as in situations of extreme ambivalence (gender dysphoria), infantile regression, stabilization, or sublimation (Erikson, 1959; Freud, 1905). Furthermore, sexuality could be also explained as an organized experience since individuals internalize the restrictions not only imposed by parents and carers during childhood but also by those restrictions established by social institutions and conventions.
The urgency of love comes from the need to avoid experiencing object loss. To be in love means to... more The urgency of love comes from the need to avoid experiencing object loss. To be in love means to place the object as an ego-ideal to try to avoid such an experience. Loss is a precondition of love.
“La abstracción oriental no es tan personal como la occidental, los artistas remiten a un concept... more “La abstracción oriental no es tan personal como la occidental, los artistas remiten a un concepto puramente abstracto, en su proceso de despojamiento del yo. Se liberan del individualismo, tan potenciado en el mundo occidental y entran en comunión con el mundo. Eso es lo que le ocurre a la obra de Chillida, en todas sus manifestaciones artísticas, en sus lurras, en las gravitaciones, en sus tintas y en sus obras públicas” (Galante Rodero, 2011, p. 369).
This dissertation is concerned with the roles of military institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa. Whe... more This dissertation is concerned with the roles of military institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa. Whether the military is a modernising force in these developing countries or whether the military investment in the workforce, machinery, and weapons produce positive non-military side effects are presented as contemporary subjects, the analysis of which can help us to understand better the political dynamics of Sub-Saharan Africa in general and the role of its military institutions in particular. Thus, the paper focuses on the possibility of using the military as an agent for social change. On the other hand, it will identify the primary purposes of the United States military foreign policy towards Sub-Sahara Africa to find out how that new foreign policy can change the shape and features of their military institutions. Specifically, the creation of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) will expand the scope of this research by analysing the political and economic implications of the United States military assistance in Sub-Saharan Africa It also analysed the defence expenditures compared to the GDP and its linkage with the global arms trade in two specific cases: Mauritania and Eritrea. This comparative analysis will show if defence expenditures are a burden in these countries and what, in any case, are the primary side- effects that military spending is causing in its local economies.
Fascism tries to remove any previous pessimistic idea of loss and weakness by highlighting a raci... more Fascism tries to remove any previous pessimistic idea of loss and weakness by highlighting a racial theory as a form of strengthening national identity and superiority. Hence, the effect of the return of the symbolic and, consequently, the displacement of the real is translated as a possibility of extreme destructiveness towards other races or religious minorities. All this machinery of symbols served to nourish the morale of the warriors of fascism.
Fascism is a totemic system since it allows the rise of a leader as a totem and a community devoted to such a leader. The community surrenders to the figure of the archetype of the father-saviour, to the father represented on the idea of a nation. Because the society perceives itself as unable to cope with its frustrations and anxieties, the false security that the father-saviour, who represents law and order against the chaos, makes the community believe that it will be safe or as Freud (1913, p.2) said ‘it will offer immortality and retribution’. However, the promise of obedience to the father does not save them from the father’s hostility. The omnipresent figure of the father and its implementation as a cultural value of the nation facilitate the existence of a very hierarchical social structure.
Manifestations of collective denial, worshipping of the group to the totem, mechanisms that are assumed as characteristic of the primal horde, the collective unconscious and its repercussion in the formation of the Superego are, definitely, a fundamental part of fascism in a greater or lesser degree. Then, Fascism extends the essence of its existence to the same roots of human nature and the nature of groups' unconscious and conscious dynamics.
An integrative mixed-method analysis examined alcohol consumption and role overload associated wi... more An integrative mixed-method analysis examined alcohol consumption and role overload associated with emotional well-being and happiness among adults, both male and female, white ethnicity, resident in the United Kingdom and who have not suffered brain injury. Quantitative (measured scales) variables and qualitative thematic variables generated from open-ended responses served as predictors of happiness-related outcomes. Results indicate that there is no significant increase in happiness due to alcohol consumption. Moreover, alcohol consumption acts as operant conditioning (Skinner, 1938), and as a personal effect-motive (Mulford and Miller, 1960), in cases of role overload. However, the multiple regression shows that alcohol consumption does not increase long-term well-being in circumstances of role overload. As the qualitative thematic analysis demonstrates, the element of reinforcement of alcohol consumption is more due to the incentive of dopamine-stimulation, which brings to the individual a quick reward with non-lasting effects.
Where can be placed concepts such as race, primitivism or non-civilised countries jointly with th... more Where can be placed concepts such as race, primitivism or non-civilised countries jointly with the discourse of liberation of humanity? The development of human sciences and a scientific method is that “of classifying organisms into species”. As humans became the object of scientific knowledge, they started to be equally classified. ‘A race became a specie’, said Boyd (1950: 23).Thus, the dialectic discourse of the Enlightenment with its particular ideas on superior races and nations, the primitive and the civilised or the polarization between the concepts of ‘domestic’ and ‘overseas’ which, ultimately, led to an abhorrent process of colonisation do not allow, once it has been profoundly analysed, a possible and complete idealization of this era and thus, finally, Enlightenment can also be put under scrutiny.
Teamwork in Intensive Care Units: A contemporary subject in reflective practice., 2021
Teamwork is embedded in a specific culture and organizational set of values. Therefore, in relati... more Teamwork is embedded in a specific culture and organizational set of values. Therefore, in relation to teamwork, is paramount to be aware of the transactional culture’s paradigm that has been almost guiding every organization. Thorne and Robinson (1988), quote in Johns (2007), emphasised, decades ago, that the main problem with the transactional culture’s paradigm is “its embodiment with the status quo”, that is to say, its conformity with organisational norms and a tendency to subordinate to managerial perspective and therefore, to suppress minority dissent. The knowledge to be gained is that, probably, a more transformational perspective will enable a learning organisational culture wherein background influences, multiple perspectives and dissent, will be taken, satisfactorily, into account.
Eventually, you will get to know a man
by knowing the ideals and the groups he has adhered to fev... more Eventually, you will get to know a man by knowing the ideals and the groups he has adhered to feverishly by acknowledging his symptoms and the social role he has decided to play if any. The rest of him, it will remain a mystery even, perhaps, for himself. Guadalupe Caceres, London, 2019.
“While the assumption of responsibility brings the patient into the vestibule of change, it is no... more “While the assumption of responsibility brings the patient into the vestibule of change, it is not synonymous with change. And it is change that is always the true quarry, however much a therapist may court insight, responsibility assumption, and self-actualization (…) It is through willing, the mainspring of action, that our freedom is enacted. I see willing as having two stages: a person initiates through wishing and then enacts through deciding” (Yalom, 1989, p. 9).
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Furthermore, governments have introduced complex regulatory frames at a national level, which have often reduced the commodities' value. Besides, regionally, there has been a significant decline in rural infrastructure and services, making farming less appealing. Those circumstances have led to the highest rate of suicide among farmers: one suicide per day, according to the Assembly Research Group (2019).
are at best shadowy and vague.
Poe (1844) The Premature Burial.
There are no certainties about ourselves or our pasts;
There is no certainty that something has once been lost,
for it now to be recovered.
Kohon, G. (2016) Reflections on the Aesthetic Experience.
How is reflected the uncanny in the aesthetic experience? What is the emotional response that brings to the viewer? Moreover, how does the experience of aliveness relate to the uncanny? This paper aims to reflect on those questions using Freud’s idea of the uncanny in one of the most well-known movies by the British film director Alfred Hitchcock.
Freud suggests that ‘not everything unfamiliar is frightening.’ Whether the uncanny is something like, metaphorically speaking, wandering in the dark, there are also other features that make the uncanny more recognizable: the factor of involuntary repletion or in other words, the return to the same situation (Freud, 1919, pp. 10-11); the omnipotence of thoughts, and the overestimation of subjective mental processes (Freud, 1919,p. 13); the secret nature of the uncanny that aroused dread, and at last but not least, the penetrating and fearful reaction of the individual to the uncanny (Freud, 1919, p. 16).
any unknown territory correctly, have to put on
the clothing of an explorer and observer
to study the area from the ground up.
Hirschfeld, M. (1913)
Albert Moll (1862-1939) and Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) will change the landscape of sexual psychology for the first time. For both physicians, the acquaintance with sexual human nature was not only a biological matter but also a method to explain the forces by which individuals are driven. For instance, Moll (1912) studied the main components of sexual impulse from which originated two different categories to explain human behavior. ‘Excitement and voluptuous sensation - Moll (1912) quoted in Sauerteig (2012) argued - determine the sexual life of the individual since childhood’ (Sauerteig, 2012, p. 17).
According to the perspective of psychosocial development, life-sustaining sexuality functions develop jointly with the psychic apparatus and that includes a broad range of stages such as in situations of extreme ambivalence (gender dysphoria), infantile regression, stabilization, or sublimation (Erikson, 1959; Freud, 1905). Furthermore, sexuality could be also explained as an organized experience since individuals internalize the restrictions not only imposed by parents and carers during childhood but also by those restrictions established by social institutions and conventions.
Thus, the paper focuses on the possibility of using the military as an agent for social change. On the other hand, it will identify the primary purposes of the United States military foreign policy towards Sub-Sahara Africa to find out how that new foreign policy can change the shape and features of their military institutions. Specifically, the creation of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) will expand the scope of this research by analysing the political and economic implications of the United States military assistance in Sub-Saharan Africa
It also analysed the defence expenditures compared to the GDP and its linkage with the global arms trade in two specific cases: Mauritania and Eritrea. This comparative analysis will show if defence expenditures are a burden in these countries and what, in any case, are the primary side- effects that military spending is causing in its local economies.
Fascism is a totemic system since it allows the rise of a leader as a totem and a community devoted to such a leader. The community surrenders to the figure of the archetype of the father-saviour, to the father represented on the idea of a nation. Because the society perceives itself as unable to cope with its frustrations and anxieties, the false security that the father-saviour, who represents law and order against the chaos, makes the community believe that it will be safe or as Freud (1913, p.2) said ‘it will offer immortality and retribution’. However, the promise of obedience to the father does not save them from the father’s hostility. The omnipresent figure of the father and its implementation as a cultural value of the nation facilitate the existence of a very hierarchical social structure.
Manifestations of collective denial, worshipping of the group to the totem, mechanisms that are assumed as characteristic of the primal horde, the collective unconscious and its repercussion in the formation of the Superego are, definitely, a fundamental part of fascism in a greater or lesser degree. Then, Fascism extends the essence of its existence to the same roots of human nature and the nature of groups' unconscious and conscious dynamics.
by knowing the ideals and the groups he has adhered to feverishly
by acknowledging his symptoms
and the social role he has decided to play if any.
The rest of him, it will remain a mystery
even, perhaps, for himself.
Guadalupe Caceres, London, 2019.
Furthermore, governments have introduced complex regulatory frames at a national level, which have often reduced the commodities' value. Besides, regionally, there has been a significant decline in rural infrastructure and services, making farming less appealing. Those circumstances have led to the highest rate of suicide among farmers: one suicide per day, according to the Assembly Research Group (2019).
are at best shadowy and vague.
Poe (1844) The Premature Burial.
There are no certainties about ourselves or our pasts;
There is no certainty that something has once been lost,
for it now to be recovered.
Kohon, G. (2016) Reflections on the Aesthetic Experience.
How is reflected the uncanny in the aesthetic experience? What is the emotional response that brings to the viewer? Moreover, how does the experience of aliveness relate to the uncanny? This paper aims to reflect on those questions using Freud’s idea of the uncanny in one of the most well-known movies by the British film director Alfred Hitchcock.
Freud suggests that ‘not everything unfamiliar is frightening.’ Whether the uncanny is something like, metaphorically speaking, wandering in the dark, there are also other features that make the uncanny more recognizable: the factor of involuntary repletion or in other words, the return to the same situation (Freud, 1919, pp. 10-11); the omnipotence of thoughts, and the overestimation of subjective mental processes (Freud, 1919,p. 13); the secret nature of the uncanny that aroused dread, and at last but not least, the penetrating and fearful reaction of the individual to the uncanny (Freud, 1919, p. 16).
any unknown territory correctly, have to put on
the clothing of an explorer and observer
to study the area from the ground up.
Hirschfeld, M. (1913)
Albert Moll (1862-1939) and Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) will change the landscape of sexual psychology for the first time. For both physicians, the acquaintance with sexual human nature was not only a biological matter but also a method to explain the forces by which individuals are driven. For instance, Moll (1912) studied the main components of sexual impulse from which originated two different categories to explain human behavior. ‘Excitement and voluptuous sensation - Moll (1912) quoted in Sauerteig (2012) argued - determine the sexual life of the individual since childhood’ (Sauerteig, 2012, p. 17).
According to the perspective of psychosocial development, life-sustaining sexuality functions develop jointly with the psychic apparatus and that includes a broad range of stages such as in situations of extreme ambivalence (gender dysphoria), infantile regression, stabilization, or sublimation (Erikson, 1959; Freud, 1905). Furthermore, sexuality could be also explained as an organized experience since individuals internalize the restrictions not only imposed by parents and carers during childhood but also by those restrictions established by social institutions and conventions.
Thus, the paper focuses on the possibility of using the military as an agent for social change. On the other hand, it will identify the primary purposes of the United States military foreign policy towards Sub-Sahara Africa to find out how that new foreign policy can change the shape and features of their military institutions. Specifically, the creation of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) will expand the scope of this research by analysing the political and economic implications of the United States military assistance in Sub-Saharan Africa
It also analysed the defence expenditures compared to the GDP and its linkage with the global arms trade in two specific cases: Mauritania and Eritrea. This comparative analysis will show if defence expenditures are a burden in these countries and what, in any case, are the primary side- effects that military spending is causing in its local economies.
Fascism is a totemic system since it allows the rise of a leader as a totem and a community devoted to such a leader. The community surrenders to the figure of the archetype of the father-saviour, to the father represented on the idea of a nation. Because the society perceives itself as unable to cope with its frustrations and anxieties, the false security that the father-saviour, who represents law and order against the chaos, makes the community believe that it will be safe or as Freud (1913, p.2) said ‘it will offer immortality and retribution’. However, the promise of obedience to the father does not save them from the father’s hostility. The omnipresent figure of the father and its implementation as a cultural value of the nation facilitate the existence of a very hierarchical social structure.
Manifestations of collective denial, worshipping of the group to the totem, mechanisms that are assumed as characteristic of the primal horde, the collective unconscious and its repercussion in the formation of the Superego are, definitely, a fundamental part of fascism in a greater or lesser degree. Then, Fascism extends the essence of its existence to the same roots of human nature and the nature of groups' unconscious and conscious dynamics.
by knowing the ideals and the groups he has adhered to feverishly
by acknowledging his symptoms
and the social role he has decided to play if any.
The rest of him, it will remain a mystery
even, perhaps, for himself.
Guadalupe Caceres, London, 2019.