Jung's Practice of the Image

From 1913, C.G. Jung engaged in a process of self-experimentation, documented in the Black Books and the Red Book, that led to a re-conception of the practice and rationale of psychotherapy, through developing the procedure of "active imagination". Critically, this placed great significance on non-verbal modes of expression in psychotherapy, and plated an important role in the subsequent development of art therapies. This talk traces the development of Jung's "practice of the image", how he put it into play in his work with his patients, as well as its relation to subsequent practices in analytical psychology and sandplay therapy

Psychotherapy's identity crisis: opening reflections on the historiographies of psychotherapies

This article introduces the work of the transcultural histories of psychotherapies network. Reflecting on the comparative lack of work here, it traces psychotherapies' identity crisis, focussing on nodal points such as the rise of the term, failed attempts to unify the field from Forel to Jung, and the rise of outcome studies. Finally, it situates histories of psychotherapies within the context of adjacent fields: the relation of the history of psychotherapy to the history of science, to Freud studies, to the history of religion and religious studies, to intellectual history, to the history of psychiatry, to the history of medicine, and its place within cultural history

Relationship Quality Between In-Groups And Out-Groups

This study aims to investigate the differences in relationship quality between in-group and out-group relational ties between providers and customers of personal life insurance service. Based on the model proposed by Crosby, Evans, and Cowles (1990), the relationship quality model used in this study is modified to be better fitted to the personal life insurance service context by incorporating communication behaviors as antecedent variables of relationship quality. The proposed model was tested with 286 life insurance customers. The results found different patterns of relationships between the in-group and the out-group relational ties between a salesperson and a customer. The results also found significant influence of communication behaviors on relationship quality together with other antecedent variables

Designing Traceability into Big Data Systems

Providing an appropriate level of accessibility and traceability to data or process elements (so-called Items) in large volumes of data, often Cloud-resident, is an essential requirement in the Big Data era. Enterprise-wide data systems need to be designed from the outset to support usage of such Items across the spectrum of business use rather than from any specific application view. The design philosophy advocated in this paper is to drive the design process using a so-called description-driven approach which enriches models with meta-data and description and focuses the design process on Item re-use, thereby promoting traceability. Details are given of the description-driven design of big data systems at CERN, in health informatics and in business process management. Evidence is presented that the approach leads to design simplicity and consequent ease of management thanks to loose typing and the adoption of a unified approach to Item management and usage.Comment: 10 pages; 6 figures in Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Conference on ICT: Big Data, Cloud and Security (ICT-BDCS 2015), Singapore July 2015. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1402.5764, arXiv:1402.575