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ctive, and will ignore much of the fine detail in the attempt to frame a rather general picture. All of this will be prefaced by a consideration of the psychological consequences of trust for the individual, and a brief discussion of what I am taking trust to be. <<32>> I The background to the observations and proposals which follow is the clear and simple fact that, without trust, the everyday social life which we take for granted is simply not possible. Luhmann makes this point in the opening chapter of his Trust and Power (1979), and Garfinkel (1963) illustrated the importance of trusting other persons claims as to the nature of social reality in his (by now infamous) rule-breaching studies. In these, Garfinkels confederates behaved as if the nature of a social situation was other than that which it might be taken to be by the unwitting subjects with whom they were interacting. The subjects (or, perhaps more appropriately, victims)

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The following document is a statement of recommended principles for the provision of humanistic psychological services, particularly psychotherapy, although the principles elucidated apply to the provision of other psychological services as well. It was prepared under the directive of the Executive Board of the Division of Humanistic Psychology, by a task force appointed by

This article describes the dual nature of nursing research. It describes how qualitative research can present the patient’s experience in a way that quantitative research cannot, but warns against over-reliance on qualitative methods. The article critically summarises the ideas of the European philosophers on which qualitative research is based. AN IMPORTANT preoccupation of many nurses is the nature of their research. Claims and counterclaims attend the worth of different approaches, exacerbated by demands that nurses demonstrate an evidence base for their work. Although what counts as evidence is debatable, the accepted view is clear: The National

The purpose of this thesis is to illuminate the meaning of the care of people suffering from long-term schizophrenia, as narrated by patients and nurses in a hospital ward and after the move to a home-like setting, and as narrated by the patients ’ parents. Data have been collected through interviews and a phenomenological hermeneutic interpretation and content analysis have been performed. Findings revealed that patients in the hospital ward were all alone deeply engaged in their inner world and trying to solve their problems. They both longed for and feared relationships. Nurses attempted to train the patients in activities of daily life; activities that patient considered they could manage if they only had had the strength. Nurses ’ narratives disclosed an ongoing shift in the view of the patient and the meaning of the care, a struggle between traditional and a new, more humanistic care. Findings point towards care dominated by relationships between objects in care. After the move to the home-like setting patients ’ narratives were interpreted as living a process of health in the midst of severe mental illness. Findings revealed growing relationships that offered comfort and support but also suffering. Findings from nurses’

This book is an evolution of two earlier versions in an ongoing quest to understand some events in my life. In the early 1980’s I had found myself being sought by a few people for healing and that surprised me. They were ordinary people; one with breast cancer, one with her disturbed cat, one with a fracture of the tibia, one with Huntington’s chorea and one with a visiting poltergeist. The case of the disturbed cat was particularly interesting because there I had the experience of seeing and knowing from a cat’s perspective. Of course I was not able to cure any of the physical illnesses yet all did benefit in a psycho-spiritual sense. I cannot describe any method present in these experiences, the best way I can explain it is that in this focused state I would feel their pain/distress/dream and they would experience my stillness. Rather than take any credit for the results I sought an explanation for why these seemingly impossible events could actually exist within the boundaries of science. My thought was that if one can consciously experience another’s experience, then consciousness must be something quite distinct from the

This paper describes the use of an on-line system to do word-sense ambiguity resolution and content analysis of English paragraphs, using a system of semantic analysis programmed in Q32 LISP 1.5. The system of semantic analysis comprises dictionary codings for the text words, coded forms of permitted message, and rules producing message forms in combination on the basis of a criterion of semantic closeness. All these can be expressed as a single system of rules of phrase-structure form. In certain circumstances the system is able to enlarge its own dictionary in a real-time mode on the basis of information gained from the actual texts analyzed. 1.

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