Is time of the essence? Experiential accounts from clients of time-limited existential therapy at an HIV counselling service

This was an idiographic investigation capturing the first-hand experiential accounts of four participants who had recently received existential time-limited therapy (ETLT) at a counselling service for people affected by HIV. To date there has been little research of ETLT practice which is particularly notable since major service providers are increasingly offering only time-limited contracts, reflective of pervasive resource constraints. Further, this research was conducted at a time when we are witnessing the increasing homogenisation of counselling psychology; a profession characterised by an embrace of pluralism. As such, the research aim was to further develop our knowledge of ETLT and so also understand what, if anything, it can contribute to the wider counselling psychology discipline. I conducted two semi-structured interviews with four participants, all of whom had completed twelve weeks of ETLT. First interviews were conducted immediately after the therapy ended and the subsequent follow-up interviews twelve weeks later. The data was analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (Smith, 1996), a method which facilitates a hermeneutic phenomenological inquiry into the unique individual experience as well as commonalities between participants. Main themes reflected presenting issues and objectives; how the ETLT was actually experienced; and therapeutic outcomes. All approached therapy reporting a profound sense of isolation, low self-worth, and general sense of unacceptability. ETLT was experienced as an actively relational, affirming and enabling approach and was reported as being highly attuned to participant needs and objectives. Pivotal to this was the client-practitioner relationship and the associated development of a trusting collaborative alliance. Also important was the time-limited setting itself which was shown to instil energy and pace to sessions as well as encourage client responsibility for their ongoing personal process. For these reasons, the primary contribution to our field from this research is that ETLT has been shown to be especially effective and viable therapy option for attending to profound relational unease and engendering a more purposeful engagement with life

All about authenticity? TripAdvisor customer evaluations of an Italian dining experience:The case of lower-scale restaurants in Lancaster, UK

In their influential contribution, Gilmore and Pine (2007) claim that authenticity is what customers really want. I question the validity of the authors’ assertion with regard to lower-scale Italian restaurants in Lancaster, a city in the North-West of England, whose population is around 137,788 residents (Lancaster City Council, 2016), far from London cosmopolitanism (see Karosmanoğlu, 2013, focusing on the image of ‘Turkishness’ perceived by Londoners).My research combines manual text analysis with a corpus-based approach. I collected all reviews published on TripAdvisor up to October 2017 for eight Italian restaurants in a joint corpus (2,411 reviews, 209,682 tokens). Furthermore, I created two additional corpora, subdividing the Italian restaurant reviews (IRRs) into positive (whose overall score was 4 or 5 points) and negative evaluations (awarded 1 or 2 points). Finally, I compiled a non-Italian restaurant review corpus (N-IRRC) (5,394 reviews, 468,789 tokens).To identify the elements of Italian dining experiences which are important for reviewers, I analysed the 150 most frequent lexemes in the Italian restaurant review corpus (IRRC) with the aid of the corpus-query system Wmatrix (Rayson, 2003). I compared those lexemes with the most frequent ones in the N-IRRC. Moreover, I selected a random sample of IRRs and N-IRRs and analysed it from an appraisal theory perspective (Martin & White, 2005).Finally, I used the chi-square to test the probability of reviewers to refer to (in)authenticity while discussing a topic. Any statistically significant result shows if the presence or absence of (perceived) authenticity is more relevant for reviewers with regards to a topic. Moreover, the chi-square allows testing of the probability of reviewers to refer to (in)authenticity and any other component of the dining experience (e.g. quality, quantity, consistency) while reviewing either an Italian or a non-Italian restaurant. Any statistically significant result points out if the presence or absence of authenticity, as perceived by the reviewers, can be impacted by the nationality of the cuisine. Additionally, the components of the dining experiences are compared to see if the nationality of the cuisine impacts, significantly or not, the reviewers’ discussion.The main idea underlying my research is that authenticity is not to be taken for granted as essential in the evaluation of reviewers’ experience. Instead, I intend to chart all key factors and levels of discussion in restaurant reviews, whilst detailing the influence of the nationality of the cuisine on the reviewers’ expectations and the role of authenticity in restaurant reviews. In this way, I build on the notion of ‘quasification’ (Beardsworth & Bryman, 1999), i.e. a reproduction of selected features of the experience which could better fulfil customers’ satisfaction and expectations.Briefly, the originality and novelty of this thesis include:1)its focus on an under-researched type of restaurants (i.e. lower-scale)2)its focus on a less cosmopolitan city3)its combined method, including corpus linguistics and appraisal theory4)its reviewing and bridging literature across disciplines (broadly, linguistics and business studies).Meanwhile, its main findings can be summarised as follows:1)not all meal components are essential and dealt with at the same level of depth in the reviews2)the degree of authenticity can be evaluated in relation to each one of the topics, aspects and details identified in the model3)the cuisine served by the restaurants impacts the foci of the reviews

Ransacked

Unhinged by his inability to accept the fact that his son drowned a year ago, Fritz the Balloonatic, once the Southeast\u27s preeminent balloon twister, has lost everything: his wife, his home, even his moniker. So now Fritz is living in a living room he has arranged in some South Carolina scrub woods, in a clearing that’s crowded with stuff that he has salvaged. His only plan for the future is to sell what he has accumulated someday, thereby raising enough money to get his life going again. But when Ransacked opens, Fritz’s effort is undermined: everything he has gathered and sorted is stolen by James, a twenty-nine-year-old stoner and junkyard owner who has just been kicked out his mom’s house and who now has nowhere to live. Ransacked tracks these two characters over a couple of eventful days, as Fritz pursues James and James inadvertently evades him. They stumble through the flea markets, bars, pawn shops, strip clubs, swimming pools, and other unseemly locales of Columbia, South Carolina, each seeking the same thing: something to find. Fritz tries to recover his former life and discovers that he’ll have to invent a new one. James alienates everyone and finds that all he really wants is to disappear so that someone will seek him. Ransacked is this story, as told by an unnamed narrator who knows both Fritz and James and who’s in jail for attempting to kidnap his own kid. As he charts the progress of Fritz and James, the narrator describes his own conflicted history with family and home and tells the story of his attempt to recover some kind of love

South Carolina Wildlife, July-August 1987

The South Carolina Wildlife Magazines are published by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources who are dedicated to educating citizens on the value, conservation, protection, and restoration of South Carolina's wildlife and natural resources. These magazines showcase the state’s natural resources and outdoor recreation opportunities by including articles and images of conservation, reflections and tales, field notes, recipes, and more. In this issue: Biosphere ; Books ; Readers' Forum ; Natural History: Kingfisher ; Events ; The Fisherman's Vanishing Art - Collecting Bait ; Taxidermy...Art That Captures Memories ; Bounty From The Big Lakes ; Solar Reflections ; After Sundown ; Between A Rock & A Hard Place ; Groundwater: Our Unseen Resource ; Field Trip ; Roundtable ; Ramblings

Watching the Girls Go By: Sexual Harassment in the American Street, 1850-1980

From women’s first prolonged entrance into American urban space in the antebellum period, male strangers have harassed women in public places with uninvited sexual remarks, stares, and touching. These intrusive behaviors have been a persistent and pervasive feature of women’s experience of the urban United States ever since. Drawing on a wide range of archival materials—including newspapers, legislation, ethnographic interviews, personal papers, and women’s published and unpublished writings—“Watching the Girls Go By: Sexual Harassment in the American Street, 1850-1980” details the emergence, persistence, and normalization of men’s harassment of women in public space, today commonly known as street harassment. It argues, firstly, that despite significant initial resistance to street harassment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, mainstream American discourse deemed behaviors like ogling or catcalling as the “right” of white, middle-class, heterosexual men by the mid-twentieth century. Meanwhile, men of color, and especially Black men, faced harsh, often violent, consequences for the same behaviors seen as trivial in white men. Secondly, mainstream public discourses generally portrayed targets of street harassment as “respectable” white women, where respectability hinged either on a woman’s middle-class or elite social status or on her perceived virtuousness. The construction of the ideal victim of street harassment as a respectable white woman obscured the experiences of women of color and the often more extreme or violent harassment they endured in public space. Thirdly, this dissertation argues that men’s harassment of women in public places had a material impact on women’s ability to navigate public space freely. Men’s harassment contributed to women’s discomfort and fear of sexual violence in public space and thus curtailed women’s freedom of mobility in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States. Throughout, this dissertation considers how idealized masculinities change and adapt in the face of opposition, absorbing attacks and reconstituting critiques into new versions of idealized masculinity. Thus, though women’s groups and law enforcement denounced street harassment from white men in the early 1900s, by the mid-twentieth century, behaviors like ogling and catcalling became part of the construction of an idealized white masculinity. “Watching the Girls Go By” suggests that a focus on trivialized violence can provide insight into the way white supremacist hetero-patriarchy has persisted over centuries.PHDHistory & Women's StudiesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/163191/1/mmbrook_1.pd

Montana Journalism Review, 2000

Where were the reporters? -- When bad news hits a small town -- Sightless in Seattle -- Trust and courage -- When reporters turn to fiction -- Learning to work together -- Fear and loathing in Phnom Penh -- Black, white and red all over -- Blurring the lines -- Reporting on a forgotten war -- High-tech journalism -- No guts, no glory -- Christine said, Max said -- So bad for so long -- The Millenium Boogie -- Secret campus courts challenged -- Dead people do tell tale