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Human ecological perspectives within a residential treatment setting for children
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/44272/1/10566_2005_Article_BF01554427.pd
The Mental Health of War?damaged Populations
Summaries This article draws upon the psychiatric, psycho?analytic and anthropological literature to show that we know very little about the psychological consequences of war and upheaval in the non?Western world. The small amount we do know suggests that while suffering is often intense, many of the therapeutic responses on offer are inappropriate as they are informed by psychiatric and psycho?analytic thought and practice which have little relevance to the majority of people living in the non?Western world
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Drawing a line in the sand: affect and testimony in autism assessment teams in the UK.
Diagnosis of autism in the UK is generally made within a multidisciplinary team setting and is primarily based on observation and clinical interview. We examined how clinicians diagnose autism in practice by observing post-assessment meetings in specialist autism teams. Eighteen meetings across four teams based in the south of England and covering 88 cases were audio-recorded, transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis. We drew out two themes, related to the way in which clinicians expressed their specialist disciplinary knowledge to come to diagnostic consensus: Feeling Autism in the Encounter; and Evaluating Testimonies of Non-present Actors. We show how clinicians produce objective accounts through their situated practices and perform diagnosis as an act of interpretation, affect and evaluation to meet the institutional demands of the diagnostic setting. Our study contributes to our understanding of how diagnosis is accomplished in practice.Wellcome Trust Investigator Awar
The body unbound: ritual scarification and autobiographical forms in Wole Soyinkaâs AkĂ©: the years of childhood
The scarification in AkĂ© is invested with major significance apropos Soyinkaâs ideas on African
subjectivity. Scarification among the Yoruba is one of the rites of passage associated with personal
development. Scarification literally and metaphorically âopensâ the person up socially and cosmically.
Personal formation and self-realization are enabled by the Yoruba social code brought into being
by its mythology. The meaning of the scarification incident in Aké is profoundly different. Determined
by the form of autobiography which creates a self-constituting subject, the enabling Yoruba sociocultural
context is elided. The story of Soyinkaâs personal development is allegorical of the story
of the development of the modern African subject. For Soyinka, the African subject is a rational
subject whose constitution precludes the splitting of the scientific and spiritual which is a consequence
of the Cartesian rupture. The African subject should be open to other subjects and the object
world. Subjectivity constituted by the autobiographical mode closes off the opening up symbolically
signalled by scarification.Web of Scienc
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