Healing Wounded Emotions: Overcoming Life\u27s Hurts

Reviewed Book: Padovani, Martin H. Healing Wounded Emotions: Overcoming Life\u27s Hurts. Mystic, Conn: Twenty-Third Publications, 1987

When You Are Angry with God

Reviewed Book: McCloskey, Patrick. When You Are Angry with God. New York: Paulist Press, 1987

Freezing of Gait in Parkinson’s Disease: A Perceptual Cuase for a Motor Impairment?

While freezing of gait (FOG) is typically considered a motor impairment, the fact that it occurs more frequently in confined spaces suggests that perception of space might contribute to FOG. The present study evaluated how doorway size influenced characteristics of gait that might be indicative of freezing. Changes in spatiotemporal aspects of gait were evaluated while walking through three different-sized doorways (narrow (0.675 m wide X 2.1 m high), normal (0.9 m wide X 2.1 m high) and wide (1.8 m wide X 2.1 m high)) in three separate groups: 15 individuals with Parkinson’s disease confirmed to be experiencing FOG at the time of test; 16 non-FOG individuals with Parkinson’s disease and 16 healthy age-matched control participants. Results for step length indicated that the FOG group was most affected by the narrow doorway and was the only group whose step length was dependent on upcoming doorway size as indicated by a significant interaction of group by condition (F(4,88)=2.73, p\u3c0.034). Importantly, the FOG group also displayed increased within-trial variability of step length and step time, which was exaggerated as doorway size decreased (F(4,88)=2.99, p\u3c0.023). A significant interaction between group and condition for base of support measures indicated that the non-FOG participants were also affected by doorway size (similar to Parkinson’s disease FOG) but only in the narrow doorway condition. These results support the notion that some occurrences of freezing may be the result of an underlying perceptual mechanism that interferes with online movement planning

Evaluating the Contributors of Dynamic Flow to Freezing Gait in Parkinson’s Disease

Although visual cues can improve gait in Parkinson’s disease (PD), their underlying mechanism is poorly understood. Previous research suggests that cues contribute optical flow that is essential to elicit gait improvement. The present study manipulated how optic flow was provided, and how this might influence freezing of gait (FOG) in PD. Therefore, three groups; 15 PD FOG, 16 PD non-FOG, and 16 healthy controls were tested in 3 narrow doorway conditions; baseline (Narrow), ground lines (Ground), and laser (Laser). Step length indicated that the PD FOG group was only able to improve with ground lines, while the laser increased gait variability and double support time. These results suggest that optic flow in itself is not enough to elicit gait improvement in PD. When PD patients use visual cues, gait becomes less automatically controlled and hence preplanned conscious control may be an important factor contributing to gait improvement

A face like a mask and a voice that croaks : An integrated poetrics of Bob Dylan's voice, personae, and lyrics

This paper seeks to more closely examine the specific literary pleasures experienced by listeners of Bob Dylan's songs. In doing so, this analysis posits that such pleasure is a response to the concurrence of three literary activities: Dylan's poetic texts are first written and then performed; Dylan's poetry is rhythmically re-written by the voice; and Dylan uses the songs to write himself--in other words, to construct a series of numerous and competing personae. This essay argues that close reading of the lyrics must therefore be supplemented by a "poetics of the voice" and a detailed analysis of the theatricality of what might be called Dylan's "games of masks." While a stylistic approach to Dylan's lyrics reveals a thrust towards writerly openness and new poetical idioms that fuse oral traditions with "high" poetry, the aesthetic and semantic uses Dylan makes of his voice are equally sophisticated. In this analysis, Dylan's voice will be approached from several angles: as an object of pleasure; as an instrument of writing that allows Dylan to create a form of oral free verse; and as a complex sign that the artist uses for pathos, self-parody, and/or to enhance his fatalistic and stoic vision of a fallen world in which "everything is broken."Note: The Peformance Artistry of Bob Dylan: Conference Proceedings of the Caen Colloquiu

Collaborative Efforts in Cognitive Therapy with Religious Clients

Cognitive therapy requires an understanding of the tolerance for the religious views of clients. Collaborative techniques in cognitive therapy are described and ideological obstacles in doing cognitive therapy with religious clients are considered, It is suggested that confronting clients\u27 religious beliefs an pathological or absolutistic is clinically inappropriate. Beck\u27s and Meichenbaum\u27s collaborative techniques are endorsed as important clincial strategies in working with religious clients