Soft parton radiation in polarized vector boson production: theoretical issues

Accurate measurement of spin-dependent parton distributions in production of electroweak bosons with polarized proton beams at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider depends on good understanding of QCD radiation at small transverse momenta $q_T$ of vector bosons. We present a theoretical formalism for small-$q_T$ resummation of the cross sections for production of virtual photons, W, and Z bosons, with the subsequent decay of these bosons into lepton pairs, for arbitrary longitudinal polarizations of the proton beams.Comment: 35 pages, 2 figures; minor modifications; bibliography references adde

Analogical fit: dynamic relatedness on the psychotherapeutic setting (with reference to language, autonomic response, and change in self-state)

Theoretical thesis.Bibliography: pages 273-287.Part 1 (Orientation). The personal world of self : the embodiment of language and affect -- Part 2. (Body). Heart and soul : on the relationship between self and body -- Part 3. (Language). Making meaning : the realization of self through analogical exchange in embodied interactions -- Part 4 (Reciprocity). Cry and response -- Part 5 (Instantiation). Exchanging language, changing self : further case illustrations -- Part 6. (Realization). Psychotherapy process : shaping the symbolic maelstrom towards a narrative of self.Philosophical orientation: "Self", and "person", are concepts related to the embodied flux offeeling in a symbolic, acculturated personal context: a system of self and other. This thesisexplores available evidence and theoretical underpinnings required for development of anintersubjective paradigm (as opposed to sole patient-focus) in researching psychotherapyprocess. This involves human communicative processes related to the development ofpersonal selves and personality. "Self", and "person", are concepts related to the embodied flux of feeling in a symbolic, acculturated personal context: a system of self and other. This thesis explores available evidence and theoretical underpinnings required for development of an intersubjective paradigm (as opposed to sole patient-focus) in researching psychotherapy process. This involves human communicative processes related to the development of personal selves and personality.Research approach: Research questions are only partially addressed through theexperimental work of the pilot study. They are also approached through examination ofavailable evidence from a variety of sources. The experimental component uses sessionswhere conversation and autonomic variables (Heart Rate Variability (HRV); and Respiration)are recorded. These continuous variables are embodied analogues of responsiveness toenvironmental input. An additional tool, the Change in Self Experience Rating Scale(CSERS) is used, allowing both patient and therapist to comment on shifts in personalexperience within therapy, through independently rating the transcript of a session, givingvoice to private experience not registered in the transcript itself. A current model ofautonomic function, the polyvagal theory, is used as a basis for re-evaluation of the role offeeling in mental life, emphasizing its role in social engagement. Different modes ofautonomic function underpin a variety of human encounters with the environment, and maycontribute to emotional displays that form a basis for symbolic representations, or "embodiedsymbolic orders".Findings: Experimental findings of slowing of breathing rate, i) during speech; and ii) inrelation to narrative highpoints in conversation, are consistent with hypothesized vagalregulation of social engagement. CSERS findings demonstrate, i) complexity in individualrating of feeling; and ii) information additional to the semantic content of the transcript,providing a window onto the feeling-based "interpersonal metafunction" of language. Theseself-ratings also illustrate that timings of self-states accessible to reflective consciousnesscorrespond to the timings of language, and breathing, a period of longer duration thanminimal conscious states.Conclusions: The self is seen, in linguistic terms, as emerging through embodiedinterpersonal interaction. This involves analogical exchange, developing within the textualdomain, as a culminative text, ultimately providing an effective voice, capable of utilizing therepresentational function of language in the speech community. Such exchange is embodiedthrough states of social engagement; states of orientation to signals of threat or surprise; andrealization in instantiated moments of experience. This work is organized into six parts thatcorrespond to this process: Orientation (Part 1); Embodiment (Part 2); Language (Part 3);Reciprocity (Part 4); Instantiation (Part 5); and Realization (Part 6). The sense of matchingthat occurs during interpersonal communicative exchange is appropriately thought of as"analogical fit", involving best approximation of fit between the feeling and conceptualdomains of experience. A mature self involves the achievement of self-organizing agencywithin a relational network underpinned by language.Mode of access: World wide web1 online resource (iv, 290, 110 pages) graph

Love in the time of Corona

OBJECTIVE: As the world struggles to come to terms with "corona," we find our collective experience to be entirely alien, struggling to find meaning in the forms of feeling being evoked. When words cannot provide meaning to experience, metaphor is often utilized. CONCLUSIONS: Words like "love" are informed autobiographically as "growing words," with no rules defining their use. The significance of "love" to an individual is created through personal history, such that sophisticated understanding is only constructed following a lifetime of experience. "Corona" is perhaps a growing word; we cannot yet grasp its meaning in the face of cólera (passion) and pati (suffering) informing our collective traumatic script. Psychiatrists should aim to focus on the positive forms of feeling emerging during the pandemic, in order to be better equipped to meet the impending "second wave" of mental health complications

Formulation, conversation and therapeutic engagement

Objectives: The aim of this study was to review psychodynamic formulation with respect to the language used and the evidence it provides about variations of clinical purpose. Method: The purpose of the psychodynamic formulation is considered in training and clinical contexts. Three formulations are presented: two written from alternative theoretical perspectives and one designed to be spoken to the patient. Linguistic comparisons are made using these examples, emphasizing differences in grammatical complexity, lexical density ('wordiness') and other qualities. Results: The essential purpose of psychodynamic formulation is to develop an understanding that can be shared in the service of effective care. Significant differences were found between written and spoken versions with greater grammatical complexity and lower lexical density in the spoken form. An intrapsychic theoretical model was more grammatically complex and 'noun-based' compared to an inter-subjective model. Other differences are also described, including the tendency for the intrapsychic account to efface the sense of personal agency. This contributes to the impression of a subject under the influence of 'unseen' forces. Conclusions: The communicability of psychodynamic formulation is essential to its utility in clinical practice.7 page(s

Borderline personality disorder and the conversational model : a clinician's manual

This book offers therapists and patients a user-friendly guide to general principles of treatment via case examples, therapeutic conversations, and common comorbid problems. Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) has a suicide rate similar to schizophrenia and major depression, but for many years, it was considered intractable. The Conversational Model is scientifically-based on the research data described in Meares's Dissociation Model of Borderline Personality Disorder, and offers unique treatment protocols for the trauma associated with BPD. Rich with clinical tips and case examples, this book will help a range of mental health professionals working with patients suffering from this debilitating disorder.Introduction / by Russell Meares -- Basis of the conversational model / by Russell Meares -- Some thoughts about language / by Russell Meares -- The story of a therapeutic relationship / by Joan Haliburn and Dawn Meares -- General issues in working with patients with borderline personality disorder / by Nick Bendit and Tony Korner -- General principles of the conversational model / by Russell Meares -- Particular issues and situations / by Joan Haliburn -- Discourse correlates of the therapeutic method and patient progress / David G. Butt, Alison Moore, and Caroline Henderson-Brooks.313 page(s

Motivated selection in verbal art, \u27verbal science\u27, and psychotherapy: when many methods are at one

The choices a speaker makes in grammar and in lexis accumulate in ways that are not clear or accessible to the speakers in a sustained interaction, for example, in an hour of interaction between a psychotherapist and a patient. This consistency, that is regularity beyond the typical threshold of human powers for tracking, is familiar to us from the discussion of verbal art: it is part of debate around Jakobson\u27s claims for \u27subliminal\u27 patterns (e.g. 1987); and it underlies the cognate theories of organization in verbal art enunciated by Mukal\u27ovsky (1964, 1977) and Hasan (e.g. 1975, 1985a). So too, in Halliday\u27s concepts of \u27prominence\u27 and \u27deautomatization\u27 in relation to verbal art (e.g. 1971 ), such accumulating patterns are a recruitment of the habitual resources in existing forms of language to a non-habitual degree of consistency in their semantic consequences. It is only in this orienting of the choices to a thematic consistency that one can then go on to account for innovation of forms, or novelty. Verbal art rarely involves \u27poetic licence\u27; rather it is a \u27consistency offoregrounding\u27 within conventions which needs to be illuminated. Such \u27consistency of foregrounding\u27 is a strategy of higher order \u27symbolic articulation\u27 for Hasan- evidence that the category \u27literature\u27 is not only \u27in the eye of the beholder\u27, and not merely in the \u27response\u27 of the reader. The \u27art\u27 of verbal art, in such an approach, relies on the methods by which the established categories of community practice can be functionally oriented to create that strangeness (the \u27making strange\u27) of individuated experience