A MEN'S SUPPORT GROUP FOR SIGNIFICANT OTHERS OF RAPE VICTIMS

This article discusses the trauma for rape as experienced by women rape victims and focuses on a men's support group for male-significant-others of women who have been raped. The project describes the various developmental phases through which the male-significant-others of rape victims must pass in order to achieve resolution and the impact of the male's response upon the relationship with the victim.     

ROBUST COMPARISON OF DISPERSIONS FOR SAMPLES OF DIRECTIONAL DATA

Robust methods are proposed for testing whether several directional distributions on the unit p-sphere have comparable dispersions. The families of distributions considered are the Langevin for random vectors, and the Generalised Scheidegger-Watson for random axes, with specific interest in the Fisher and Watson distributions on the sphere. The methods are analogues of Levene's procedure for comparing variances of normal distributions.     

The praxiological validity of natural scientific practices as a criterion for identifying their unique social-object character: The case of the ‘authentication’ of Goethe's morphological theorem

The author would like to thank Mike Lynch, Eric Livingston, Shelley Schweizer-Bjelic, and the anonymous reviewers of this text for their comments.