Grønn potetforskning i Sunndal

The web-News informs about two projects carried out in Sunndal, Norway with potatoes

Countertransference in relation to client interpersonal functioning: a qualitative study.

Psychotherapists frequently experience strong thoughts and feelings in working with clients. This is traditionally referred to as countertransference. Countertransference phenomena are omnipresent in everyday ambulant and institutional psychotherapeutic practice. Although different therapeutic movements have distinct views on how to handle this matter, they more or less agree to the idea that the nature of countertransference reveals something about client dynamics. Over the past decade, there has been growing interest within the field of empirical research in the relationship between countertransference and client characteristics. However, this research is mainly quantitative in nature, which allows generalizations across groups but leaves conclusions largely superficial. Moreover, it bases client characteristics exclusively on descriptive diagnostics of psychopathology, leaving them isolated and static, instead of viewing them dynamically in their interpersonal context. To truly understand the development and evolution of countertransference in relation to client characteristics throughout treatment, this phenomenon will be studied within a qualitative, multi-case research design. Client characteristics will be approached from a psychodynamic structural viewpoint, placing them in a complex reciprocal relationship with the therapist. An overview of the used methodology will be presented, as well as some initial findings

Total organic carbon in the Bowland-Hodder Unit of the southern Widmerpool Gulf: a discussion

This review of the article by Kenomore et al. (2017) on the total organic carbon (TOC) evaluation of the Bowland Shale Formation in the Widmerpool Gulf sub-basin (southern Pennine Basin, UK) reveals a number of deficiencies, rooted mostly in an inadequate appreciation of the local Carboniferous stratigraphy. Kenomore et al. use the ΔLog R, the ‘Passey’ method after Passey et al. (1990), to evaluate the TOC content in two boreholes in the Widmerpool Gulf: Rempstone 1 and Old Dalby 1. We show here that Kenomore and co-authors used maturity data, published by Andrews (2013), from different formations to calibrate their TOC models of the Bowland Shale Formation (Late Mississippian–Early Pennsylvanian); the Morridge Formation in Rempstone 1 and the Widmerpool Formation in Old Dalby 1. We contest that this gives viable TOC estimates for the Bowland Shale Formation and that because of the location of the boreholes these TOC models are not representative over the whole of the Widmerpool Gulf. The pyrite content of the mudstones in the Widmerpool Gulf also surpasses the threshold where it becomes an influence on geophysical well logs. Aside from these stratigraphic and lithologic issues, some methodological weaknesses were not adequately resolved by Kenomore and co-authors. No lithological information is available for the Rock-Eval samples used for the maturity calibration, which because of the interbedded nature of the source formations has implications for the modelling exercise. We recommend that more geochemical data from a larger array of boreholes covering a wider area, proximal and distal, of the basin are collected before any inferences on TOC are made. This is necessary in the complex Bowland Shale system where lithological changes occur on a centimetre scale and correlations between the different sub basins are not well understood

Northern Hemisphere Glaciation during the Globally Warm Early Late Pliocene

The early Late Pliocene (3.6 to ~3.0 million years ago) is the last extended interval in Earth's history when atmospheric CO2 concentrations were comparable to today's and global climate was warmer. Yet a severe global glaciation during marine isotope stage (MIS) M2 interrupted this phase of global warmth ~3.30 million years ago, and is seen as a premature attempt of the climate system to establish an ice-age world. Here we propose a conceptual model for the glaciation and deglaciation of MIS M2 based on geochemical and palynological records from five marine sediment cores along a Caribbean to eastern North Atlantic transect. Our records show that increased Pacific-to-Atlantic flow via the Central American Seaway weakened the North Atlantic Current and attendant northward heat transport prior to MIS M2. The consequent cooling of the northern high latitude oceans permitted expansion of the continental ice sheets during MIS M2, despite near-modern atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Sea level drop during this glaciation halted the inflow of Pacific water to the Atlantic via the Central American Seaway, allowing the build-up of a Caribbean Warm Pool. Once this warm pool was large enough, the Gulf Stream–North Atlantic Current system was reinvigorated, leading to significant northward heat transport that terminated the glaciation. Before and after MIS M2, heat transport via the North Atlantic Current was crucial in maintaining warm climates comparable to those predicted for the end of this century

Countertransference processes in psychodynamic therapy with dependent (anaclitic) depressed patients : a qualitative study using supervision data

Although Blatt’s two-polarity model of depression has suggested that patients’ interpersonal styles may shape countertransference phenomena in psychotherapy, empirical research on this topic has remained scarce. This article provides an in-depth study of countertransference processes in clinical work with dependent (anaclitic) depressed patients using a qualitative methodology. Thematic analysis of narrative material of psychodynamic therapists discussing patient cases during supervision (n = 7) resulted in four recurrent themes: “empathy, compassion, and support,” “anxiety, feeling overwhelmed, and protection,” “frustration, irritation, and confrontation,” and “inadequacy, incompetence, and fatalism.” We found that these countertransference processes mainly revolved around perceived adaptive and maladaptive aspects of patients’ relational functioning. Regarding clinical practice, our study suggests that therapists can use countertransference to determine in which position they are maneuvered by patients, although we caution against the exclusive use of subjectively informed data as a benchmark in the diagnostic and treatment process. We conclude that further in-depth research on countertransference and personality styles is needed to identify pitfalls in the treatment of depression

Quantitative palynological analysis of the E2a and E2b goniatite biozones (Arnsbergian, Mississippian) in mudstones from the Southern Pennine Basin (U.K.)

We performed a quantitative palynological analysis of Arnsbergian (Namurian, Late Mississippian) mudstone intervals, potentially prospective for unconventional hydrocarbons. While many palynological studies exist on these stratigraphic intervals in the Widmerpool Gulf and the Edale Basin (sub-basins of the Pennine Basin), very few studies perform full statistical analyses. Using the Carsington Dam Reconstruction C3 (Carsington DRC3, Widmerpool Gulf) and the Karenight-1 (Edale Basin) boreholes, we show that the combination of quantitative palynological data and detrended correspondence analysis (DCA) can aid biozonation and additionally, provide paleoecological constraints to the Arnsbergian mudrocks. The studied interval in Carsington DRC3 was assigned to the TK miospore biozone and a hitherto undescribed peak in the fresh water alga Botryococcus was recorded. Using relative abundances of hinterland species, mainly from the genus Florinites, both boreholes could be correlated and a more confident assignment of the TK miospore biozone covering an interval containing goniatite biozone E2b in Karenight-1 was achieved. The techniques used in the current study should be especially valuable for assessing borehole materials where the recovery of macrofossils, like goniatites used as the main biostratigraphic tool in the Namurian, can be very low. Future studies should focus on the same stratigraphic interval from different sub-basins of the Pennine Basin to further assess the applicability of quantitative palynological analysis combined with DCA as a stratigraphic tool for potentially prospective mudstones