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2025, Mpeke-Ntonga Metila Me Nyodi -Alphonse Mpeke

Juillet 2025-± 3 000 mots Résumé Plus d'un demi-siècle après les indépendances, les Africains et Descendants Africains (ADA) continuent de gravir les échelons de professions jadis réservées aux élites coloniales : police, justice, finance, corps religieux ou armée. Paradoxalement, cette ascension s'accompagne d'une persistance, voire d'une intensification, d'attitudes et de pratiques délétères envers leurs propres communautés. En mobilisant la CEADA/ECAAD-cadre analytique de la Condition Existentielle des Africains et Descendants Africains-et la Coafrwologie, science panafricaine de la restauration de l'ordre universel, cet article démontre que les métiers modernes demeurent des « appareils de conditionnement colonial ». À travers une revue critique de la littérature, des analyses de manuels de formation et des études de cas (police, clergé, magistrature, secteur financier), nous montrons comment les logiques d'habitus (Bourdieu, 1980) interfèrent avec les piliers de la CEADA : sécurité ontologique, souveraineté épistémique et bien-être psychosocial. Nous concluons sur la nécessité d'un ré-ingénierie afro-centrée des parcours professionnels afin de transformer ces métiers en espaces d'émancipation plutôt qu'en relais de domination.

2025, Mpeke-Ntonga Metila Me Nyodi -Alphonse Mpeke

Across the globe, Africans and African Descendants (AAD) who enter state-centred or corporate professions frequently display behaviours that reproduce-rather than resiststructural domination. This article mobilises the CEADA/ECAAD lens (Condition Existentialle des Africains et Descendants Africains) and the emergent discipline of Coafrwology to examine how professional socialisation translates colonial logics into everyday practice. Drawing on decolonial theory, critical sociology and illustrative case vignettes (policing, clergy and finance), the paper argues that modern professions constitute a habitus colonial that erodes ontological security, epistemic sovereignty and psychosocial wellness-the three core axes of CEADA/ECAAD. The article concludes with propositions for an Afro-centric re-engineering of professional training that can subvert systemic and intergenerational subjugation.

2025, "Three Societies Meeting": ESHHS—the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences; CHEIRON—the International Society for the History of the Social and Behavioral Sciences & SHP—the Society for the History of Psychology, APA division 26.

Oral presentation The global circulation of science and knowledge in the 21st century raises fundamental questions about how scientific disciplines take root in local contexts. The intensified globalization of the human sciences compels historians to reconsider the historical and sociocultural specificities that shape knowledge transfer and its local repercussions. Psychoanalysis, alongside psychology and psychiatry, represents a Western psychological science that has expanded beyond its European and North American origins to East Asia, particularly China, South Korea, and Japan. However, professional psychoanalysts who adhere to an internalist approach often interpret this expansion purely from within the discipline, invoking Freud's "spirit of the conqueror" to justify it. Their analyses frequently rely on binary oppositions such as Orient/Occident or Global/Local and tend to overlook the infrastructural and technological mediations that have either facilitated or constrained the dissemination of psychoanalysis in different regions. This analysis is grounded in a range of primary sources, including internal publications of the Korean Association of PsychoAnalysis (KAPA), unpublished documents from its 40-year institutional archive, and correspondence between KAPA members and international psychoanalytic associations. Both Korean-and English-language materials were used to trace these transnational exchanges.

2025, Cultural Relativism in Psychosocial Recovery during Human-Made Crises

An emergency or disaster can be described as an event that disrupts regular functioning of everyday systems and practices and infrastructure. The shock of these events, especially when unexpected, can have severe psychosocial impacts on the affected populations. An intentional hazard is defined as an event that occurs intentionally, at the hands of humans, for a purpose that may be social or political. This can take shape in the form of terrorist attacks or war. These events can be a one-time event or occur over an extended period of time. They may include acts, such as torture, killings, kidnapping, and sexual violence. These events can impact all segments of society, but these segments may have different risks and experiences during the event. Therefore, research has observed differential impacts across different groups, based on age, gender, culture, etc. provided by humanitarian agencies. However, research has debated on the efficacy of these practices in culturally different societies. As Honwana, a social anthropologist notes, "mental health is closely linked to culture because the way in which people express, experience, and give meaning to their afflictions are tied to specific social and cultural contexts… psychological distress and trauma have a social and cultural dimension." (Honwana, 2001, as cited in Bourasssa, 2009, p. 750). This paper explores the psychosocial needs during intentional hazard events, the methods historically used in resolving psychosocial impacts of these events, and the efficacy of these methods.

2025, KAWISTARA

Social service and social security for elderly in 2010 only covered 143.131 person (Direktorat PSLU, 2010) from expectation to serve 2,4 million elderly, whether it is poor and neglected elderly (BPS, 2010). Government capacity to serve social service and social security is limited, so it needs a new strategy to keep the sustainability of elderly's life. We must have alternative way to assist them to solve their psychosocial and physical vulnerability through empowerment scheme. The psychosocial vulnerability of elderly is vulnerability that comprise from economic, social and psychological aspects so that it needs comprehensive understanding to make a program for them. Empowering the elderly will create activity that will be advantageous for them to use the leisure, create social relationship, decrease felt of loneliness, keep reciprocal relationships with their social environment, increase income, and build their capacity in both health and skills. The development of a sense of empowerment must consider several aspecteds, including environmental characteristics, social-demographic structures, and cross-generational actors. Alternatives for empowerment programs include productive activities (care housing and non-care housing) and social activities (volunteering).

2025, Social science & medicine (1982)

Syndemic theory describes the clustering and synergistic interaction of disease driven by contextual and social factors, which worsen health outcomes for a population, and has been applied to men who have sex with men (MSM) and their risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Recent reviews, however, have critiqued prevailing approaches in syndemic studies that assess only additive associations without evaluation of synergy. Following these suggestions, we compared the traditional additive approach with a test for synergistic association of 5 syndemic conditions (alcohol dependence, illicit drug use, depression, intimate partner violence (IPV), and childhood sexual abuse (CSA)) with unprotected anal intercourse (UAI) and active syphilis infection among 11,771 MSM recruited through respondent driven sampling from 12 cities in India. UAI was assessed via self-report and active syphilis infection was diagnosed by RPR and THPA tests. An additive association was explored usi...

2025, International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies:

An increasing number of videos on the social media platform TikTok show individuals who allegedly have or are recovering from an eating disorder. The videos depict particular performances and aestheticisations of eating disorders which are analyzed in detail in this article through an interdisciplinary perspective of psychoanalysis as well as media and communication studies. This analytical perspective focusses upon the dialectic of content and aesthetic form, while also taking into account the technical features of the platform. The guiding question is whether eating disorders can be analyzed using the psychoanalytic concept of hysteria which is applied to further unpack common qualities of the videos around performances of reinterpreting and remodeling of inner and psychosocial reality as a pseudo-solution of conflicts. We argue that eating disorders staged and performed in the videos by the young women can be regarded as different forms of externalization in hysterical modes: attempting triangulation; repeating and acting out; representing a punishing super-ego. We conclude that hysteria remains a vital and critical concept for understanding contemporary representations of the body in the context of mental health on digital platforms.

2025

El presente trabajo se propone el estudio de la vivencia del desarraigo con la que se enfrentan un grupo de adolescentes, por la decisión de emigrar a Capital Federal para continuar sus estudios universitarios. El desarraigo es una experiencia compleja que convoca una pluralidad de mecanismos vinculados a la capacidad de duelo y de tolerar la frustración, como también la capacidad de recurrir a estrategias que permitan afrontar esta vivencia. El afrontamiento es un fenómeno complejo y su análisis responde a la necesidad de conocer los modos en que los adolescentes afrontan situaciones estresantes en un contexto sociocultural distinto. El objetivo de este trabajo es explorar cuáles son las estrategias de afrontamiento más usuales que utilizan las adolescentes que viven el desarraigo. La metodología escogida para la investigación corresponde al enfoque cuantitativo. La muestra final fue de 25 adolescentes mujeres de 18 años de edad. A pesar del tamaño muestral, los resultados arrojaron que aquellas adolescentes que implementan estrategias de afrontamiento más adaptativas como invertir en amigos íntimos, buscar apoyo social, buscar ayuda profesional, distracción física, concentrarse en resolver el problema, esforzarse y tener éxito, tienen mayores posibilidades de vivir la experiencia del desarraigo en forma más positiva. This paper deals with a particular group of adolescents who go through an uprooting experience when they migrate to the City of Buenos Aires in order to continue their undergraduate studies. Uprootedness is a complex experience that involves many mechanisms linked with the ability to tolerate anguish and frustration as well as the ability to use different strategies that help students to deal with this kind of situations.The aim of this paper is to investigate which are the most common coping strategies used by adolescents that must face uprootedness. This is achieved using an empirical research design that is elaborated with a sample of twenty five 18 years old female teenagers. Several quantitative and qualitative instruments are applied. Despite the tied sample size the study results are pretty consistent; they show that those adolescents who are implementing more adaptive coping strategies as investing in close friends, seeking social support, seeking professional help, seeking physical distractions, focusing in solving the problem, trying and succeeding, deal with the displacement experience in a healthier way.

2025, Global Inequality Rethinking Sociology in the 21st Century

The possibility of human beings to work through their conflicted pasts was always unequally distributed. Nonetheless, in a context of mounting global inequalities we tend to overlook this dimension. Drawing from a body of trauma theory that lies in the intersection of sociological and psychoanalytical understandings, I begin with a psychosocial theorization of trauma as a boundary concept. Then I examine the socio-structural conditions of contemporary capitalism that disturb the possibility of trauma processing both horizontally and vertically. Next, I build and expand on the class model proposed by the German sociologist Andreas Reckwitz, concluding with what I call the new class divide between the popular classes and the upper/new middle classes. This leads me to the final argument of this chapter: the traumatogenic fabric of late modern capitalism is inextricably linked with the new class divide. Although a vision of a world without traumas (which means a harmonistic, totalized, and immobile world) would be chimeric and overtly dangerous, we could and should envisage a world with enough room for trauma processing, particularly for those who need it most.

2025

Investment in the look is not as privileged in women as in men. More than any other sense, the eye objectifies and it masters ... In our culture the predominance of the look over smell, taste, touch and hearing has brought about an impoverishment of bodily relations. Luce Irigaray 1 Early minimalist art challenged the privileging of the gaze by foregrounding art's relation to its surrounding space and the viewer's corporeal experience. 2 Luce Irigaray's critique of the privileged gaze is similarly subverted on many levels by Mona Hatoum. We can feel and hear her works-well-nigh even taste and smell them-and one of them literally even touches us. They are insistently corporeal, experienced viscerally within our guts. The materials she uses-cold steel, human detritus, dead skin, strands of hair, nail clippings, plastic, glass, soap and the like-play a highly potent role in the intricate signification process in which she embroils the viewer/experiencer. The first time I sa...

2025

Introduction: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) profoundly affects physical, psychological, and social aspects of life, yet these issues often remain unaddressed. Patient-Reported Outcomes Measures (PROM) have the potential to address these issues by promoting person-centered communication. However, their impact in COPD practice remains uncertain. This study aimed to investigate how patients with COPD perceive the usefulness of a new holistic PROM for general palliative care (PRO-Pall) before and during outpatient consultations.
Methods: Semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted with patients diagnosed with moderate to very severe COPD, 2-5 days after consultation at a respiratory outpatient clinic in Denmark. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed inductively using qualitative content analysis.
Results: Nine patients (five males; mean age: 66 years) participated in the study with four themes emerging: (1) Unlocking thoughts: Completing PRO-Pall stimulated patients’ self-reflection, which revealed previously overlooked COPD-related issues, particularly psychosocial challenges. (2) Unmasking concerns: Patients felt encouraged to be honest, rather than concealing their concerns. (3) Breaking the ice: PRO-Pall responses enabled direct questioning by healthcare professionals during consultations, initiating discussions on patients’ sensitive yet vital COPD-related matters. (4) Deepening the dialogue: Healthcare professionals’ targeted and attentive approach fostered more holistic and meaningful discussions, providing most patients with a deeper understanding of psychosocial issues affecting their well-being.
Conclusion: Completing PRO-Pall prior to outpatient consultations prompted most patients with COPD to unveil previously unacknowledged psychosocial challenges. During consultations, addressing these challenges initiated open discussions on individual concerns, enhancing most patients’ understanding of the multifaceted burden of COPD.

2025

Background: Substance use among populations displaced by conflict is a neglected area of public health. Alcohol, khat, benzodiazepine, opiate, and other substance use have been documented among a range of displaced populations, with wide-reaching health and social impacts. Changing agendas in humanitarian response-including increased prominence of mental health and chronic illness-have so far failed to be translated into meaningful interventions for substance use. Methods: Studies were conducted from 2006 to 2008 in six different settings of protracted displacement, three in Africa (Kenya, Liberia, northern Uganda) and three in Asia (Iran, Pakistan, and Thailand). We used interventionoriented qualitative Rapid Assessment and Response methods, adapted from two decades of experience among non-displaced populations. The main sources of data were individual and group interviews conducted with a culturally representative (non-probabilistic) sample of community members and service providers. Results: Widespread use of alcohol, particularly artisanally-produced alcohol, in Kenya, Liberia, Uganda, and Thailand, and opiates in Iran and Pakistan was believed by participants to be linked to a range of health, social and protection problems, including illness, injury (intentional and unintentional), gender-based violence, risky behaviour for HIV and other sexually transmitted infection and blood-borne virus transmission, as well as detrimental effects to household economy. Displacement experiences, including dispossession, livelihood restriction, hopelessness and uncertain future may make communities particularly vulnerable to substance use and its impact, and changing social norms and networks (including the surrounding population) may result in changed -and potentially more harmful-patterns of use. Limited access to services, including health services, and exclusion from relevant host population programmes, may exacerbate the harmful consequences. Conclusions: The six studies show the feasibility and value of conducting rapid assessments in displaced populations. One outcome of these studies is the development of a UNHCR/WHO field guide on rapid assessment of alcohol and other substance use among conflict-affected populations. More work is required on gathering population-based epidemiological data, and much more experience is required on delivering effective interventions. Presentation of these findings should contribute to increased awareness, improved response, and more vigorous debate around this important but neglected area.

2025, Journal of Economic Criminology

Existing studies on romance fraud have been criticized for neglecting the social contexts where these crimes
occur. This study takes a psychosocial approach to understanding victims/survivors’ experiences with romance
fraud to demonstrate how recognizing the interplay between social norms and the individual psyche can deepen
our phenomenological understanding of why messages from fraudsters appear attractive in the eyes of the
targeted individuals. Using the case of victims/survivors in globalizing, neoliberalist Japan, the study highlights
how the convergence of individuals’ negative emotions and social norms surrounding intimacy can lead to what
is experienced as therapeutic but (also) toxic communication with fraudsters, exerting an irresistibly seductive
pull on victims/survivors. The life stories of women victimized in romance fraud disclose a poignant situation
where fraudsters manipulate their wish and aspiration, as neoliberal entrepreneurial subjects, to seize happiness
through their own efforts against the uncertainty of the transiting gender norms in Japan especially with regard
to the production and reproduction. The study discusses the findings’ implication for perceived responsibility of
victims/survivors, challenging victim-blaming discourses.

2025, International Post-Mining Symposium

Bu çalışma, Türkiye’deki madencilik sonrası rehabilitasyon çabalarına genel bir bakış sunmayı amaçlamaktadır. Türkiye Kömür İşletmeleri (TKİ) ve Türkiye Taşkömürü Kurumu (TTK) gibi devlet kurumlarının endüstriyel miras, kültürel katkı ve ağaçlandırma çalışmalarının yanı sıra, kömür madenciliği sırasındaki arkeolojik keşiflere olan destekleri de vurgulanmaktadır.
TKİ, madencilik faaliyetlerinin ardından çevresel etkileri azaltmak ve sürdürülebilir arazi kullanımını teşvik etmek amacıyla çeşitli geri kazanım projelerine aktif olarak katılmaktadır. TKİ’nin madencilik sonrası rehabilitasyonda kullandığı temel stratejilerden biri ağaçlandırmadır. Kurum, ülke genelindeki çeşitli maden sahalarında geniş çaplı ağaç dikim kampanyaları yürütmektedir. Bu ağaçlandırma çabaları, ekosistemin restorasyonuna katkıda bulunmanın yanı sıra biyolojik çeşitliliği artırmaya ve toprak erozyonunu önlemeye yardımcı olmaktadır.
Ağaçlandırma istatistiklerine göre TKİ, maden sahalarında önemli sayıda ağaç dikmiştir. Bugüne kadar, yeniden ağaçlandırma amacıyla uygun türlerden oluşan 10 milyon ağaç, 5000 hektardan fazla bir alana dikilmiştir. Bu çeşitlilik, ekolojik dayanıklılığı sağlarken yerel bitki örtüsü çeşitliliğini de teşvik etmektedir.
Çevresel faktörlerin ötesinde, TKİ madencilik sırasında Türkiye'nin kültürel mirasının korunmasının önemini de kabul etmektedir. Kuruluş, arkeologlar ve tarihçilerle iş birliği yaparak kazı sırasında keşfedilen herhangi bir arkeolojik eserin veya kalıntının düzgün bir şekilde belgelenmesini ve korunmasını sağlamaktadır.
Bu çalışmada, Türkiye madencilik sektöründe özellikle TKİ ve TTK’nın endüstriyel miras, madencilik sonrası faaliyetler ve çevre bilinci incelenecek ve kurumların çevre, kültür ve turizme katkıları açısından 65 yıllık başarı hikayesi detaylı olarak ele alınacaktır.

2025

Coal Mining on the 100th Anniversary of the Republic of Turkiye Özet: Türkiye Cumhuriyeti'nin 100.yılında kömür madenciliğinin Cumhuriyet öncesi, sonrası ve bugünkü durumunun anlatıldığı bu yazıda kronolojik bir derleme çalışması yapılarak genel bir özet verilmeye çalışılmıştır. Kömürün her dönemde vazgeçilmez bir enerji kaynağı olmasının yanı sıra stratejik bir hammadde olduğu da vurgulanarak geleceğe yönelik tespit ve önerilerde bulunulmuştur.

2025

Refugees can contribute significantly to the economy of countries of refuge. Legal, structural and political backing is crucial to strengthen this contribution and maximise the opportunities that are present. 1. ReDSS/Samuel Hall (2015) Devolution in Kenya: Opportunity for Transitional Solutions for Refugees? www.drc.dk/media/1419712/final_devolution_report_230715.pdf

2025, violaciones graves hacis los derechos humanos

aprendamos sobre los reglamentos creados por el ser humano para segun vivir bien y en orden.

2025, Revista Prisma Social

In recent decades, significant shifts have taken place in the understanding of homelessness as a social phenomenon. The so-called “new orthodoxy,” which emerged in the late 20th century, led to a redefinition of the concept of... more

2025, Mundo do Trabalho Contemporâneo

"O acesso ao trabalho e ao saber não é privilégio de poucos, e sim possibilidade de todos". I.P. -usuário da Oficina de capacitação e produção -HSVP-DF Resumo A construção do direito ao trabalho para as pessoas com sofrimento mental e com problemas decorrentes do uso de álcool e outras drogas ocorre no Brasil através da articulação da Saúde Mental e a Economia Solidária. A Economia Solidária se mostra como uma resposta para a construção de uma lógica de produção em que a solidariedade e o valor humano são o mais importante. Um caminho significativo já foi percorrido e legitimado pela prática diária desses empreendimentos e pela construção da política pública de Saúde Mental e Economia Solidária no Brasil. Este artigo percorre essa construção para apresentar um pouco do que se tem conseguido construir em Alagoas através do investimento da área

2025

Resumo: Fatores de Risco Psicossociais referem-se a condições laborais que, quando desfavoráveis, podem comprometer a saúde mental de trabalhadores. Por outro lado, há fatores que podem ser protetivos, aumentando o bem-estar psíquico. Este estudo teve como objetivo avaliar os efeitos dos construtos de Significado do Trabalho e de Trabalho Decente sobre a saúde mental de trabalhadores por meio da avaliação do efeito mediador destes construtos frente aos fatores de risco psicossociais existentes numa amostra de 330 profissionais brasileiros que responderam a um formulário eletrônico composto por: Questionário Sociodemográfico Ocupacional, Escala de Trabalho Decente, Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire, Work and Meaning Inventory e Self Report Questionnaire. A análise de estatísticas descritivas, correlações entre as variáveis e Modelagem de Equações Estruturais indicou que os construtos exerceram um efeito mediador parcial frente ao sofrimento mental, sobretudo em função dos fatores relacionados à autonomia, violência e condições satisfatórias de trabalho. Contribuições para futuros estudos e aplicabilidade prática foram elencadas. Palavras-chave: significado do trabalho, trabalho decente, saúde mental.

2025, Impressions: An International Refereed e-Journal of English Studies

The article examines Dunya Mikhail's The Beekeeper of Sinjar: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq, which deals with the 2014 Sinjar massacre. The Sinjar province, situated in the northern mountainous regions of Iraq, is mostly inhabited by Yazidis. The province became a target of IS's Theopolitical violence, which dramatically changed the lives of the people living there for years. Rapes and mass-killings prevailed as part of IS's strategic genocide. Mikhail's The Beekeeper of Sinjar: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq records the oral history of this genocide. Probing deep into the testimonies, the article brings to light how violence was perpetrated by IS members in the name of religion, thereby, metaphorically shattering the innocent souls and converting the whole province into a wasteland. Exploring the intricate dynamics of politics, religion and violence, the article shows how IS exploited religious beliefs as part of their political strategy for strengthening their territorial hold upon the region.

2025, Psychosocial Disorders and Education

Psychosocial Disorders and Education Education is not merely a process of knowledge transmission; it is a journey that nurtures the holistic development of the individual. Particularly in early childhood, psychosocial development is inextricably linked with the educational experience. As a young teacher, I have witnessed this journey through the boundless curiosity of a fiveyear-old and the desire for self-actualization in a seventy-year-old learner. But my deepest connection with teaching has been forged through students who feel "different"-those who struggle to articulate their emotions or explain their behaviors. Although I teach English across various grade levels, what captures my attention is rarely a textbook dialogue, but rather a distant gaze. I recognize that look all too well; it resonates with my own experiences growing up with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Living with ADHD complicates learning, forming friendships, developing habits, and even remaining seated. In such circumstances, it becomes essential to embrace one's differences through self-awareness and understanding, rather than resisting them. I was fortunate to be curious, eager to learn and explore. And I am equally fortunate now to bring my past experiences into my teaching practice.

2025

The role of NCCARF is to lead the research community in a national interdisciplinary effort to generate the information needed by decision-makers in government, business and in vulnerable sectors and communities to manage the risk of climate change impacts. The views expressed herein are not necessarily the views of the Commonwealth or NCCARF, and neither the Commonwealth nor NCCARF accept responsibility for information or advice contained herein.

2025, Addiction & Drug Abuse Open Access Journal (ADOAJ)

Addiction is a multidimensional question and not only the life of the person who uses it but affects the whole society in general. For this reason, the treatment of addiction needs to be handled in a multifaceted way. This article is written to identification of knowledge about early intervention and current psychosocial approaches in the treatment of substance use disorders. Today, the effectiveness of early intervention and psychosocial approaches is known in the treatment of substance use disorders. Early intervention includes informing individuals about the risk of substance use, identifying risky behaviors associated with substance use, and directing individuals to treatment. Increasing the motivation about the treatment process of the addicted person, counseling for family, structured therapies, various self-help groups are examples of psychosocial approaches.

2025, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society

This paper takes a feminist approach to rethinking the significance of user-device interaction, attachments and dependency. It suggests that Jean Laplanche's resignificantion of 'seduction', the function of the 'enigmatic message', and reconfiguration of sexuality as a 'charge and tension', are particularly useful for theorising the relationship that smartphones, as digital objects, have to unconscious sexuality and psychic life. The paper suggests that the draw of user-device interactions is connected to the rhythms of unconscious sexuality and that this opens up the space for thinking beyond subject-object dichotomies and ultimately offers hope for a shift in the cultural imaginary.

2025, Varavenko V.E., Niyazova M.V. Permissible delay in shipbuilding contracts: analysis of grounds and procedures for extending the vessel delivery date by contractor // The Territory of New Opportunities. The Herald of Vladivostok State University. 2024. Vol. 16, № 4. P. 103–114. EDN: https://elibra...

Abstract. Deadlines in construction contracts are one of the key parameters for achieving the goal of interaction between the parties, a marker for the proper fulfillment of a contractual obligation. At the same time, during the execution of the contract, situations may arise that require adjustments to the execution deadlines. The study is devoted to the
nalysis of the terms of standard contract agreements for the construction of marine vessels, which determine the grounds and procedure for changing deadlines at the initiative of the contractor. The article provides a review of the specified conditions of two standard shipbuilding contracts and performs a dogmatic (formally legal) analysis of their content. Based on an analysis of the norms of civil legislation, an assessment of the prospects for the implementation of these contractual decisions in the conditions of Russian civil law was carried out, and a political and legal assessment of these decisions was also given. The authors formulate a proposal to improve the procedure for changing the terms of standard shipbuilding contracts on the timing of work and transfer of the vessel to the customer, based on approaches to economics of law.

2025, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties

This study provided an account of the affected community and partner (stakeholders) input into the interdisciplinary co-creation process and preliminary testing of the suitability of a research-based estorybook for children coping with parental moral injury. Children whose parents have trauma-related mental health difficulties, including moral injury, tend to misunderstand their parent's responses and behaviours. To date, there have been no research-based narrative resources to support these children. Our interdisciplinary, international team of researchers, clinicians, and those with lived experience co-created a bibliotherapy storybook using moral injury narratives. Using a mixed methods approach, a cross-sectional online survey of key affected communities and partners was conducted to explore the resources' suitability. Preliminary findings suggest overall suitability and that the e-storybook's narratives acted as a springboard to conversations about what was happening in their families. Thus, the co-creation process is an effective approach to developing targeted supports for children coping with parental moral injury.

2025

In the direct aftermath of September 11 th , 2001, Susan Sontag famously penned a set of reflections in the September 24 th Issue of The New Yorker. Her piece, now heralded as a prophetic warning, was at the time considered scandalous. In the opening paragraph, she wrote: The disconnect between last Tuesday's monstrous dose of reality and the self-righteous drivel and outright deceptions being peddled by public figures and TV commentators is startling…Where is the acknowledgement that this was not a 'cowardly' attack on 'civilization' or 'liberty' or 'humanity' or 'the free world' but an attack on the world's self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions?...And if the word 'cowardly' is to be used, it might be more aptly applied to those who kill from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the sky, than to those willing to die themselves in order to kill others. In the matter of courage…whatever may be said of the perpetrators…they were not cowards. 1 In response, the psychoanalyst Jessica Benjamin claimed Sontag suffered from a kind of paranoid myopia in which her interpretation of the attacks became "defined solely by our position as victimizer." 2 Sontag's self-criticism was not only gratuitous, but almost pathological in its selfflagellation. 3 Benjamin went on to assert "the absence of grief, which is able to turn guilt into useful remorse, is an indication that her statement is unable to bear/contain our wrongdoings without abandoning all love for and pride in our society." 4 This means that Sontag, rather than mourning a loss and acknowledging responsibility, immediately directed an unforgiving reproach towards the US without any semblance of healthy, measured ambivalence. Sontag's response was an example of Schmittian politics in reverse, a reflexive construction of oneself as the enemy rather than the other, which is no less a distortion than any other production of a friend and enemy distinction. Out of statements like this, Benjamin, through Joel Whitebook, derived a more general claim not about Sontag personally, but of liberalism generally: in the aftermath of 9/11, "liberalism showed its weakness to be guilt." 5 Sontag, the "liberal" in this instance, falls prey to a supposed tendency in left politics to reflexively self-victimize when confronted with serious political questions. While it seems Whitebook and Benjamin are wrong about Sontag specifically, the general claim about liberalism's "weakness" as "guilt" is commonplace. This comes together in the neat, if vague, concept of "liberal guilt", which conjures up images of both self-victimization and cynicism. For some, "liberal guilt" indicates the reduction of political action to a self-abasing sentimentalism that allows the subject to exude moral concern without having to acknowledge genuine responsibility or engage

2025

The idea that individuals during their life travel through various stages of physical, intellectual, and psychological development can be found widely in the disciplines of sociology, philosophy, education, and psychology. The specific concept that can be applied to faith was originally introduced by James Fowler in his Stages of Faith (1981). Fowler was influenced and based his development upon a series of thinkers in the field of developmental psychology, such as Piaget, Maslow, Erikson and Kohlberg (Life Light Home Study Course). Indeed, from Fowler's perspective Stages in Faith can be seen as an application of the knowledge and principles of developmental psychology, applied to the area of faith. In this essay, I want to reflect on the applicability or realism of Fowler's ideas at two levels: first, in macro terms in relation to our contemporary society and his concept as a whole, then secondly. in micro terms as it applies to individual learning and development.

2025

Background and aim. The inclusion of martial arts and combat sports (MA&CS) in formal physical education (PE) has been suggested by many authors, although there is no strong evidence as yet of the benefits of its practice for students. This study aimed to describe the effects of the development of two MA&CS teaching units (judo and capoeira) on the motivational climate, enjoyment and attitudes toward violence of PE students, and to compare these effects with those experienced by students receiving team sports teaching units (football and basketball). Methodology. A quasi-experimental, pre-post (two groups), longitudinal study design was followed, involving 221 students aged between 13 and 16. The experimental group (n = 105) developed MA&CS teaching units, while the control group (n = 116) developed team sport, teaching units. A peer motivational climate questionnaire, the amusement/boredom in physical education scale and the attitudes toward violence scale psychological assessment ...

2025, Clínica y Salud

La Psicología clínica tradicional ha abordado el trastorno y la salud mental tomando como marco de referencia y unidad de análisis a un sujeto aislado de su medio. Frente a esa concepción, la perspectiva psicosocial ha mostrado la necesidad de atender aquellas condiciones, situadas más allá de la piel del individuo, que anteceden al trauma. Se trata de condiciones de un individuo inserto dentro de unas determinadas coordenadas socio-históricas. Desde ahí retomamos el concepto de trauma psicosocial como un trastorno situado dentro de un determinado contexto interpersonal, social, económico, político, etc., al que subyace una visión de la salud mental entendida como un asunto que incumbe a las relaciones del sujeto con diversos elementos de su medio. Detrás de las concepciones de salud, trastorno o trauma se encuentra la idea de la Psicología como una ciencia al servicio del bienestar.

2025, Psychoanalysis and History

Since the publication of Frantz Fanon's fuller body of work, a clearer picture has emerged of the correspondences between his clinical theories of subjectivity and his political theories of colonization. Yet no effort has been made to test these theories in an interpretation of the case histories Fanon compiled in ‘Colonial War and Mental Disorders,’ the last chapter of Wretched of the Earth, which documents the symptoms of colonial war and ethnic cleansing. This article closely reads one of Fanon's cases of ‘reactionary psychosis’ by speculatively reconstructing his engagement with Jacques Lacan's contemporaneous work on paranoid psychosis in the 1930s and early 1950s, particularly in his medical dissertation. Through the case interpretation, I offer a new approach to conceiving the unconscious dimension of colonization: the subject's forced occupation by the question of existence – ‘Who am I in reality?’

2025, HARM

The aim of this article is to discuss the notion of symbolic violence and to foreground a psychoanalytic conceptualisation of the term. Having been popularised by Pierre Bourdieu and other thinkers, the term is routinely used to describe forms of violence that stop short of the physical. It remains under-theorised. Following a brief literature review, it is argued that psychoanalysis has much to add when it comes to conceptualising symbolic violence and how it plays out online. Peter Fonagy's theory of mentalisation is brought in to conceptualise symbolic violence as a particular form of externalised, distorted mentalisation. I finally apply the term to contemporary discussions and user exchanges on social media that are so often characterised by intense forms of symbolic violence. The misogynist incel community is presented as a case study via exemplary quotes. Incels display forms of symbolic violence that are characterised by vivid fantasies about other men and women which reveal a distorted, yet highly coherent and organised, symbolic world.

2025, Chapter in: Erich Fromm and Left Strategy, Eds. Joseph Fantauzzi, Maor Levitin, Terry Maley (Palgrave)

In a time of rising far-right and fascist resurgence in the United States and globally, it makes sense to turn to Erich Fromm, whose groundbreaking work, from his early Escape from Freedom (1941) and his even earlier study of the German working class, to his late Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1977), has been foundational for understanding how contemporary capitalism gives rise to fascist character structures. As a scholar both of Fromm and of fascist movements, I have found Fromm's work crucial for understanding the present moment. Fromm's work was profoundly shaped by the experience of the rise of German fascism. In his best-selling book Escape from Freedom, Fromm argued that fascism must be understood in order to be defeated and rooted its rise in conditions of capitalist modernity and social character J. Braune

2025, Social Science & Medicine

Social support plays a crucial role in diabetes management. However, few valid tools are available for evaluating social support in Indonesia. Therefore, this study determined the psychometric properties of the Indonesian version of the Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey (IMOS-SSS) in people with diabetes. 539 Indonesian adults with diabetes completed the initial survey. In total, 142 participants completed two rounds of testing on the IMOS-SSS. The Cronbach’s alpha of the IMOS-SSS was 0.938; with the interclass coefficient of correlation between the results for the first and second tests was 0.954 (p < 0.001). The IMOS-SSS was independently and significantly associated with the mental component of quality of life (β = 0.164, 95% confidence interval = 0.079–0.217, p < 0.001) after adjustment for confounders. The IMOS-SSS was positively correlated with the Duke Social Support Index (r = 0.362, p < 0.001) and health-status (r = 0.099, p = 0.022) and was negatively correlated with loneliness (r = −0.186, p < 0.001) and depression (r = −0.087, p < 0.001). Factor loadings indicated adequate sampling (Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin = 0.941, Bartlett’s test = 6839.87, p < 0.001). Four factors were retained; they explained approximately 69.75% of the variance and model fit indices were satisfactory (NFI = 0.907, CFI = 0.928, RMSEA = 0.077, GFI = 0.888). These findings support the reliability and validity of the IMOS-SSS in adults with diabetes.

2025, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie

ZusammenfassungDie Vorgaben des „Social Distancing“ während der Corona-Pandemie stellten Angebote der psychosozialen Versorgung von Kindern, Jugendlichen und Familien, die traditionell auf persönlichem Kontakt beruhen, in der Durchführung vor neue Herausforderungen. In dieser qualitativen Studie wurde zu drei Erhebungszeitpunkten zwischen März und Oktober 2020 untersucht, wie sich die Pandemie speziell auf diese Angebote ausgewirkt hat und wie Mitarbeiter*innen und Führungspersonen psychosozialer Einrichtungen die Arbeit unter den veränderten Gegebenheiten erlebten. Ihre Arbeitssituation wird unter Zuhilfenahme der Konzepte des Arbeitskraftunternehmers und der Vulnerabilität untersucht. Es werden zwei Themenfelder vorgestellt, die sich in der Analyse der ersten beiden Erhebungszeiträume als zentral erwiesen haben: Das Spannungsfeld zwischen dem Schutz der eigenen Gesundheit und der Versorgungssicherheit für Klient*innen und das Belastungserleben von Praktiker*innen in Zusammenhang m...

2025

Vivir la experiencia del secuestro denota en sí mismo la relación de trauma entre el victimario y la víctima, dado que es un evento que ciertamente a nadie se le desea, pero en la cuestión del estudio del mismo hecho, se puede trabajar desde el ámbito psicológico, primordialmente en el área de reconstrucción de la vida y retomar el sentido de la misma, desde la perspectiva individual, familiar y del entorno social. En el presente texto se busca analizar las implicaciones emocionales del secuestro y cómo alcanzan el grado estándar de efectividad las intervenciones psicológicas desde el preámbulo del acompañamiento y la recuperación del consciente mismo de autonomía e identidad, junto con el relacionamiento familiar y social del entorno en donde se desarrolla la persona que ha sido víctima de secuestro.

2025, Human Arenas

This article examines the precarity of independent musicians' subjectivity within exible capitalism. Through a qualitative methodology based on in-depth interviews and dialogic discourse analysis, it explores tensions between the participants' desire to professionalize their musical careers and the economic di culties that they face. The participants, selected upon the basis of their trajectory in independent music, reveal how they manage the nancial uncertainties that force them to combine creative work with other jobs. Our main nding is that precarity is not only economic, but also existential, as musicians live in constant uncertainty about the continuity and viability of their careers, a doubt that colors the entire creative process. The pleasure of creative freedom coexists with the suffering derived from instability, and this precarity is deeply integrated into the subjectivity of musicians as an inseparable part of their identity. Despite these tensions, musicians remain committed to their careers, accepting precarity as an inevitable condition for their personal and professional ful llment.

2025, Nsukka Journal of the Humanities

This paper examines the narrative strategy adopted by Adaobi Nwaubani to tell the story of terrorism, abduction, and trauma in her prose text, Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree, and how effectively she used it. In addition, and as a result of this, the paper attempts a critical diagnostic reading of the text to reveal narrative encoding of trauma symptoms as experienced by victims of the Boko Haram insurgency and documented in the stories of survivors. These include symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other associated mental health disorders. Adaobi Nwaubani adopts a bio-fictional narrative strategy to create a vivid, graphic, traumatic, and realistic narrative of what it was like to be kidnapped and to be in the custody of the dreaded Boko Haram insurgents that terrorize northern Nigeria and particularly the northeastern part of the country. Using the trauma theory, an exploration of the effectiveness of Adaobi's narrative strategy to encode and depict manifest evidence of traumatic experiences and the psyche of the survivors shows a skillful bio-fictional weaving of facts and fiction, history, and effective imaginative biography. The paper concludes that Adaobi Nwaubani's biographical novel presents an effective awareness of trauma experienced by the victims through the use of symbolism, imagery, and language of trauma. It foregrounds the need for the rehabilitation of survivors of war and terrorism.

2025, RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi-RumeliDE Journal of Language and Literature Studies

This study aims to reveal the s the investments made to acquire such capital, and by employing a descriptive approach through the framework of Bourdieu's Field Theory and Latour's Actor-Network Theory (ANT) (1999). Within the human and non-human actors that have played an influential role since the emergence of the AIIC VEGA, remote working conditions that have become widespread with Covid-19, and research process of this study, sources such as interviews, webinars held on virtual platforms, newspaper clippings, the online archives of TKTD, and memories shared in books, theses and books on the history of translation and interpreting have been explored. Following our research, it has been cquired similar capitals and habituses, whereas present interpreters that accumulate different types of capitals depending on current circumstances and needs such as use of technology and first aid knowledge for community interpreting. Our study shows that the valued capitals play a key role in determining the position of actants in academia and the interpreting sector, resulting in a new dynamic between actants with the network.

2025, Revista Universidad y Sociedad

El presente artículo expone los principales resultados de una investigación de corte cualitativo que tuvo como objetivo comprender los procesos que viven las personas con familiares desaparecidos en México. Entre los hallazgos más relevantes se encontró que dentro de los factores que propician sus procesos de resiliencia se encuentra la capacidad vinculante, lo que permite analizar cómo la construcción o reconstrucción de vínculos facilitan a las personas reconstruirse y caminar a través de la vulnerabilidad y la pérdida ambigua.

2025, Family Process

The current study tests a novel latent construct reflecting psychological absence and examines its relations with maternal depression, mother-toddler interactions, and toddlers' social-emotional outcomes in a low-income sample (N = 2,632). Structural equation modeling confirmed a psychological absence construct and revealed that psychological absence, measured at the child's 36-month birthday-related assessment, is a significant predictor of children's social-emotional development at 36 months, mediated by motherchild interaction. Results are interpreted within a boundary ambiguity framework.

2025

This article explores the hypothesis that some cases of dementia may be a psychological defense mechanism rather than a neurodegenerative disease. It suggests that the intense emotional distress associated with aging—such as grief, loss of purpose, and societal neglect—may lead to dissociative symptoms resembling dementia. The concept of "dissociative dementia" is introduced, drawing parallels to conditions like Depressive Pseudodementia and Dissociative Fugue, where psychological factors cause cognitive decline that can sometimes be reversed. The article critiques the medical model of dementia for focusing solely on neurological causes while overlooking psychosocial factors. It argues that some elderly individuals may be misdiagnosed with dementia when, in fact, they are withdrawing into the past as a coping mechanism. This perspective raises ethical concerns about long-term care and suggests that trauma-informed therapy could benefit some individuals labeled as having dementia. A more holistic understanding of aging, incorporating psychological well-being, could improve diagnoses and care for the elderly.

2025, Anuário Pesquisa e Extensão Unoesc São Miguel do Oeste

2025, TARSHI Newsletter

Article in Talking about Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues (TARSHI) Newsletter on femininity and desire in homeless women with psychosocial disability.

2025

Objectives: The impact of disasters on individual and community health can be extensive. As such, there exists the need to establish recovery measures that provides support psychologically and with additional mental health services and resilience building for affected people and their communities. Nature-led recovery is one such approach that has the ability to positively impact the mental health of people and their communities after a disaster. Nature-led recovery focuses on the social, economic and environmental recovery through activities that connect people and their communities to nature and the natural environment with the aim to foster recovery after a disaster. Nature-led recovery initiatives support the connection of people with nature and the natural environment to support such recovery processes. This review considers both community and government-led responses pertaining to nature-led recovery. The aim of this review is to systematically explore the literature on the impact of nature-led recovery initiatives on individual and community health following a disaster. Content: This review was conducted in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) following a three-step process of planning, conducting and reporting the review. At least three authors reviewed all eligible articles. Summary: There was significant methodological heterogeneity between the sources identified (n=9). A narrative synthesis identified five key themes; A symbol of loss; Nature: the provider; Fostering community connectedness; Spiritual and emotional nourishment; and Regeneration leads to recovery. Outlook: The positive benefits from nature-led recovery initiatives provide an opportunity to promote community connectedness and resilience following a disaster. Further research is needed to explore the implementation and evaluation of these initiatives for community recovery.