59 research outputs found

    In Search for Soul: The Contribution of Analytical Psychology to Heal Human Rights Violations

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    Humanity continues to experience serious violations of human rights, and the recent critical events, like the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, seem to have directly or indirectly intensified the occurrence of violations of human rights like torture, enforced disappearances, human trafficking, gender-based violence and war crimes. Can analytical psychology make a significant contribution to the prevention, treatment, remedying such violations, from the individual level to the most macro level of socio-political systems? I will support the thesis that the Jungian concept of soul has a special role in such an endeavour. My proposal is that when a social terrifying threat, like in the case of widespread social violence, is perceived at the social level, the functioning of the individual Self and society may change dramatically. In particular, both lose their containing function and are subjected to an unconscious massive collective pressure to align themselves to a specific kind of functioning that I call monolithic functioning. It is the splintering of what I call the reflective triangle, which is illustrated here, and has an effect on societal, groupal, interpersonal and intrapsychic levels. Some vignettes from a clinical case of a patient who suffered torture and gender-based violence are presented to illustrate how these human rights violations affect the three levels mentioned

    The mark of torture and the therapeutic relationship

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    The title of this paper, 'the mark of torture,’ comes from the clinical insight that in the intersubjective field of therapy with torture survivors a set of motives tends to repeat itself. These motives are here conceptualized as 'perversion-like states,' since they present features and dynamics that can also be found in the so-called 'perversions'. However, the limits and the sense of the use of this term will be discussed and clarified. It is argued that such states are the result of the perverse traumatic experiences of torture in which trauma represents only the pars destruens of the process, the disrupting device that disintegrates the previous psychological organisation and leaves posttraumatic symptoms as traces of the impact of this experience; while the 'perversion' constructs and converts the functioning of mind - pars construens - through its characteristic use of body and pain. It is assumed that this happens through an implicit registration of the experience, that may or may not reach the point of changing the characteristics of the person's object relations.A clinical vignette outlining the development of a therapy with a torture survivor will illustrate some of these peculiar aspects. This paper implies that a well-founded understanding of these aspects in the interpersonal dynamics of therapy may help the therapeutic dyad to unpack crucial themes impressed by torture, accelerating the patient's progress towards recovery.</p

    Peripheral blood regulatory T cell measurements correlate with serum vitamin D level in patients with psoriasis

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    OBJECTIVE:Vitamin D is the precursor of a hormone (1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3), which has many biological effects in the skin. The immune modulator properties of vitamin D are mediated in part through effects on regulatory T cells (T-reg). Currently, in psoriasis, the relationship between vitamin D and T-reg has not well elucidated. We assess whether vitamin D status is correlated with circulating T-reg in patients affected by psoriasis and if there is a correlation with the severity of the disease evaluated with Psoriasis Area Severity Index (PASI) score. PATIENTS AND METHODS:For each patient we have analyzed, PASI-score, serum levels vitamin D and regulatory T cell percentages. Spearmen's coefficient was used between serum vitamin D levels and the predictors. Subsequently, the independent predictive factors were assessed by Multiple Regression. RESULTS:A total of 26 patients were included in our analysis. Using no parametric Spearman's Coefficient test between serum levels of vitamin D and the single variables, we found an association with T-reg population (p &lt; 0.001) and with PASI-score (p = 0.04). CONCLUSIONS:While vitamin D treatment induces a cytokine profile known to favor the differentiation of T cells with suppressive activity, at the same time, several studies showed how vitamin D can prime for tolerogenic dendritic cells able to favor the differentiation of Treg from T naïve cells. Low levels of vitamin-D may decrease the number of circulatory T-reg, disrupting the immunological homeostasis in psoriatic patients and encouraging the inflammatory activity

    CAMPANHA DE SENSIBILIZAÇÃO: ENFRENTAMENTO À EXPLORAÇÃO SEXUAL INFANTO-JUVENIL NO TURISMO

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    O turismo sustentável está sendo consolidado em nível internacional comouma abordagem que deve ser concretizada para que todos os tipos de turismosejam beneficiados ambientalmente, socialmente e economicamente, de modoa maximizar o “desenvolvimento sustentável” (OYOLA et. al., 2012). A OrganizaçãoMundial do Turismo (OMT), órgão das Nações Unidas (ONU), recomendou àssuas nações-membros que o turismo, a partir do ano de 2007, fosse consolidadocomo agente-chave na luta contra a pobreza e as mazelas sociais.Neste enfoque, o turismo foi considerado uma das prioridades do GovernoFederal na gestão 2003-2007, momento este em que foi criado o Ministério doTurismo do Brasil, e junto a ele, uma diversidade de planos, programas e projetosque buscam alcançar o desenvolvimento sustentável, promover o desenvolvimentosocioeconômico e reduzir as desigualdades sociais dos destinos turísticos.As novas diretrizes para o desenvolvimento do turismo continuam sendopautadas pelo Código Mundial da Ética do Turismo (OMT) e, são apresentadaspela primeira vez no Brasil, no Plano Nacional de Turismo 2007-2010, num textoalusivo ao combate à exploração sexual de crianças e adolescentes ligada à atividadeturística. Eis sua manifestação: “a ação ministerial deve considerar prioritáriaa proteção de crianças e adolescentes por meio da temática de turismo sustentávele infância” (BRASIL, 2007, p. 15). Assim como ao [...] combate ao trabalho infantil e a exploração sexual de crianças e adolescentes, e o compromisso coma sustentabilidade dos destinos turísticos brasileiros [...] (BRASIL, 2007, p. 75).“Essa exploração sexual de menores é tida como um dos efeitos sociais não desejáveisdo turismo e opõe-se ao que se compreende por turismo sustentável”.(ZOAUIN; OLIVEIRA, 2008, p.3). Beni (2001) ressalta que, embora não haja muitosdados fidedignos disponíveis, sabe-se por relatos de pesquisas, que o chamado“turismo sexual” vem crescendo no país. O crescimento do fenômeno é tambémcorroborado por Roby (2005) onde relata que cerca de 1,2 milhões de mulheres emeninas entram no comércio sexual a cada ano, gerando para os Estados Unidos1,5 bilhões de dólares anualmente para seus exploradores. Entre 30% e 35% dasvítimas são meninas com menos de 18 anos de idade

    EXPLORAÇÃO SEXUAL INFANTO-JUVENIL NO TURISMO: DIAGNÓSTICO DA REGIÃO CAMINHO DOS CÂNIONS – SANTA CATARINA - BRASIL

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    A exploração sexual de crianças e adolescentes no país tem tido uma repercussão relevante no contexto turístico, com o crescimento de destinos receptivos do chamado “turismo sexual”, notadamente nas regiões Norte e Nordeste. Muitas organizações do movimento da infância e juventude têm atuado a favor do enfrentamento à causa, em especial, o Ministério do Turismo do Brasil. Com base neste cenário, o Programa Turismo Sustentável &amp; Infância foi lançado pelo Governo Federal no ano de 2004, abarcando um conjunto de projetos e ações para lidar com a exploração infanto-juvenil, por meio de campanhas e seminários de sensibilização, que buscam trabalhar a mudança cultural deste tipo de turismo. O objetivo deste trabalho foi o diagnosticar casos de aliciamento de crianças e adolescentes com a finalidade de praticar sexo na Região Turística Caminho dos Cânions, no extremo Sul Catarinense, bem como sensibilizar profissionais alvo de aliciamento, nesta pesquisa, os caminhoneiros. A metodologia empregada foi a pesquisa exploratória, utilizando-se a técnica da entrevista semi-estruturada para coleta de dados qualitativos, cujos entrevistados foram os motoristas de caminhões que pernoitam nos postos de combustíveis localizados nos municípios às margens da Rodovia Federal BR 101 Sul. Os resultados mostraram que, segundo a vivência do público alvo nas estradas, a maior incidência de casos de exploração sexual de crianças e adolescentes ocorrem nas regiões Centro-Oeste e Nordeste do país. Além disso, a maioria dos informantes alegou conhecer e, aprovar a campanha nacional do Ministério do Turismo – Programa Turismo Sustentável &amp; Infância

    Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

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    A search for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and miss- ing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses 36.1 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at √s = 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. No significant excess of events above the estimated backgrounds is observed. The results are in- terpreted in the framework of simplified models of spin-0 dark-matter mediators. For colour- neutral spin-0 mediators produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a pair of dark-matter particles, mediator masses below 50 GeV are excluded assuming a dark-matter candidate mass of 1 GeV and unitary couplings. For scalar and pseudoscalar mediators produced in association with bottom quarks, the search sets limits on the production cross- section of 300 times the predicted rate for mediators with masses between 10 and 50 GeV and assuming a dark-matter mass of 1 GeV and unitary coupling. Constraints on colour- charged scalar simplified models are also presented. Assuming a dark-matter particle mass of 35 GeV, mediator particles with mass below 1.1 TeV are excluded for couplings yielding a dark-matter relic density consistent with measurements

    Measurements of top-quark pair differential cross-sections in the eμe\mu channel in pppp collisions at s=13\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV using the ATLAS detector

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    Search for single production of vector-like quarks decaying into Wb in pp collisions at s=8\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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    Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top-quark pair production in the lepton-plus-jets final state in pp collision data at s=8TeV\sqrt{s}=8\,\mathrm TeV{} with the ATLAS detector

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