An organising framework for personal psychotherapy integration

Psychotherapy has developed from four foundational schools of psychoanalytic, cognitive behavioural, humanistic, and transpersonal psychology, and it has been estimated (Karasu 1986; Corsini 1995) that over 400 systems of psychotherapy have evolved. However, empirical studies (Asay & Lambert 1999) suggest that the quality of the therapeutic relationship, regardless of system, is the major influence on therapeutic outcome. These professional factors, and other economic and social influences (Norcross & Newman 1992), engendered a psychotherapy integration movement and a burgeoning of integrative approaches and publications. This movement, formalised by SEPI in 1982, is described currently by three main routes to integration (Safran and Messer 1997), which offer little guidance and leave several issues unresolved (Hollanders 2000b). This PhD thesis presents a new organising framework by which psychotherapy integration can be understood, described and developed. It consists of three dimensions I call constructive, complicit and contiguous integration, and it forms the connecting principle for the published works. The works cover over six years of qualitative inquiry into psychotherapy integration using a heuristic research strategy (Moustakas 1990), which incorporated interpretative phenomenology, case studies, reflexive action and writing as component methods. The new organising framework redefines the current topography of psychotherapy integration and provides an innovative tool for aspiring integrationists. Constructive integration repositions the existing routes to integration and is illustrated by articles on games and projective identification, relationship in organisations, Jung and object relations, and countertransference. Complicit integration emphasises how higher-order integrative approaches simplify the current complexity of psychotherapy. This is exemplified by articles on Clarkson's relational framework in Kleinian psychotherapy and brief dynamic therapy. Contiguous integration reflects how psychotherapy relates to the world at large. Freud's anthropology, Bion's group theories and Jung's collective unconscious are examples of this dimension. I present four articles on organisational and social artefact to further illustrate this dimension. Finally, I present an article on psychotherapy integration itself, which describes these dimensions and the innovative framework they form. I then highlight why this PhD thesis represents a significant and original contribution to knowledge

The Hydrogen Atom in Combined Electric and Magnetic Fields with Arbitrary Mutual Orientations

For the hydrogen atom in combined magnetic and electric fields we investigate the dependence of the quantum spectra, classical dynamics, and statistical distributions of energy levels on the mutual orientation of the two external fields. Resonance energies and oscillator strengths are obtained by exact diagonalization of the Hamiltonian in a complete basis set, even far above the ionization threshold. At high excitation energies around the Stark saddle point the eigenenergies exhibit strong level repulsions when the angle between the fields is varied. The large avoided crossings occur between states with the same approximately conserved principal quantum number, n, and this intramanifold mixing of states cannot be explained, not even qualitatively, by conventional perturbation theory. However, it is well reproduced by an extended perturbation theory which takes into account all couplings between the angular momentum and Runge-Lenz vector. The large avoided crossings are interpreted as a quantum manifestation of classical intramanifold chaos. This interpretation is supported by both classical Poincar\'e surfaces of section, which reveal a mixed regular-chaotic intramanifold dynamics, and the statistical analysis of nearest-neighbor-spacingComment: two-column version, 10 pages, REVTeX, 10 figures, uuencoded, submitted to Rhys. Rev.

proton-deuteron elastic scattering above the deuteron breakup

The complex Kohn variational principle and the (correlated) hyperspherical harmonics method are applied to study the proton-deuteron elastic scattering at energies above the deuteron breakup threshold. Results for the elastic cross section and various elastic polarization observables have been obtained by fully taking into account the long-range effect of the Coulomb interaction and using a realistic nucleon-nucleon interaction model. Detailed comparison between the theoretical predictions and the accurate and abundant proton-deuteron experimental data can now be performed.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figure

The illusion of competency versus the desirability of expertise: Seeking a common standard for support professions in sport

In this paper we examine and challenge the competency-based models which currently dominate accreditation and development systems in sport support disciplines, largely the sciences and coaching. Through consideration of exemplar shortcomings, the limitations of competency-based systems are presented as failing to cater for the complexity of decision making and the need for proactive experimentation essential to effective practice. To provide a better fit with the challenges of the various disciplines in their work with performers, an alternative approach is presented which focuses on the promotion, evaluation and elaboration of expertise. Such an approach resonates with important characteristics of professions, whilst also providing for the essential ‘shades of grey’ inherent in work with human participants. Key differences between the approaches are considered through exemplars of evaluation processes. The expertise-focused method, although inherently more complex, is seen as offering a less ambiguous and more positive route, both through more accurate representation of essential professional competence and through facilitation of future growth in proficiency and evolution of expertise in practice. Examples from the literature are also presented, offering further support for the practicalities of this approach

Growth and Carcass Characteristics in Goat Kids Fed Grass- and Alfalfa-Hay-Based Diets with Limited Concentrate Supplementation

Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the effect of feeding legume hay (alfalfa; Medicago sativa L.) or mixed-grass hay on ADG and carcass characteristics of growing goats

The Management of Separated Plutonium: An Introduction

This paper notes renewed enthusiasm in western countries for new nuclear power plant construction. Various energy and security challenges, however, remain contentious. One matter for which there is a wide variation of international practice concerns the management of separated plutonium arising from nuclear fuel reprocessing. This paper introduces a special issue of the journal Progress in Nuclear Energy dedicated to reporting on a conference held in Cambridge, England in July 2005. The workshop was tasked with considering long-term management options for separated civil plutonium. The authors express no opinion as to whether such plutonium is best regarded as a waste or an asset. Rather it is simply suggested that management practice may be improved via an open discussion of options originating from a wide range of contexts and perspectives. This paper introduces some of the relevant issues, which are considered in greater depth by the papers that follow in this special issue.JRC.E.3-Materials researc