Projective Identification and the Fear of Failing: Making Sense of Practice Educators' Experiences of Failing Social Work Students in Practice Learning Settings

The study focuses on emotional processes that may arise for practice educators when working with struggling or failing students in practice learning settings. Informed by a thematic review of the literature exploring the phenomenon of ‘failing to fail’, the study draws on two UK qualitative studies that highlighted the emotional distress experienced by practice educators when working with a marginal or failing student. The study draws key examples from these prior studies and argues that the psychoanalytic concept of projective identification offers a plausible and illuminating account of the states of mind experienced and reported by some practice educators in the ‘failing to fail’ dilemma. The notion is proffered as a conceptual framework for practice educators to explore and apply to their own practice as a means of making explicit unconscious states of mind, helping to recognise and rationalise these, thus supporting confidence in making appropriate assessment decisions.     

Governing ‘emotional’ life: passions,moral sentiments and emotions

The seventeenth- and eighteenth-century statement that passions and not inactive reason are the motives that decisively influence the will and constitute the true drivers of human action promoted a new object of problematization and control on the part of the theoreticians of the art of government. Since then, a battle has waged over the general designations and definitions of what ‘emotional’ life is, and different dispositives of ‘emotional’ power (or pathospower) have been developed as central mechanisms for governing human beings. Analysing the British discourse on governmentality from the period, I recount the history of the emergence of the three main modern concepts of ‘emotional’ life and of its respective power strategies: passions in the discourse of utilitarian liberalism, moral sentiments in the discourse of conservatism, and emotions in biological and evolutionist psychology that underlies eugenic politics.     

Verification of Self Using a Mathematical Theory of Identity,Feeling, and Behavior

The current study tests the affect control theory of self, a mathematical theory that demonstrates a core social psychological principle: individuals strive for a stable and coherent self through identity selection and behavior. In the affect control theory of self, the self is conceptualized as self‐sentiments, which are measured on three dimensions: evaluation (good/bad), potency (powerful/powerless), and activity (fast/slow). In a longitudinal sample of college men and women, I find the self‐sentiment predicts how individuals describe themselves on a range of terms, including primary emotions and both stigmatized and esteemed traits related to mental illness and self‐esteem. It also predicts various productive and deviant behaviors five months later. Thus, the current study demonstrates the theoretical precision of the theory, its ability for understanding human behavior, and its potential for identifying at‐risk individuals.     

Scared to Death: Reflections on Panic and Anxiety in the Field

This paper examines reflections about researcher emotions and the experience of having panic attacks and panic disorder as a result of fieldwork. Anxiety and panic are sparsely discussed in methodological appendices and handbooks about qualitative research, and the embodiment of mental health in the field has received even less attention. I have two aims in the paper: to describe the experience of panic attacks and to open a discussion about panic and anxiety attacks in the field. The failure to address mental health problems as a result of fieldwork can negatively impact expert and fledgling ethnographers, and should be remedied.     

Anger as a Frequent Factor in Custody Evaluation Complaints to Boards of Psychology

In order to provide the highest quality services when court-ordered to do child custody evaluations, it is important for mental health professionals, particularly psychologists who do psychological testing, to be clear about the ethical requirements associated with the child custody evaluation process. They should be impartial, thorough, and competent focusing on the best interest of the child. Mental health professionals have been accused of unethical and illegal behavior when doing such evaluations, in part, due to the anger associated with the outcome and/or the process. The ethical issues most associated with licensing board and ethics committee complaints and civil lawsuits focus on bias, informed consent, lack of symmetry, timeliness, finances, confidentiality, negligence, chemical dependency, multiple relationships, and failure to report/omissions.     

穆木天《旅心》抒情意蓄探微

穆木天早期诗集《旅心》开拓了中国象征诗歌的新天地。其中一些诗篇表现了比较浓厚的象征主义色彩;一些诗篇溶进浪漫主义方法,意象鲜明、情调健康;有的渗入传统主义情绪,思想深沉、意蕴浓厚;有个别篇章意境灰暗、晦涩难懂。     

“气质、情绪”与声乐演唱

人的一切行为活动都是和心理素质中的气质与情绪相联系的.声乐演唱也一样,它不仅要受到先天遗传因素中所表现出来的气质影响,还会受到后天外在因素对个人刺激所引起的情绪的影响.     

浅谈戴望舒诗歌中的象征主义

在中国现代诗歌史上,戴望舒足以代表一个时代。他在广泛汲取外国现代主义文学,尤其是象征主义的同时,把我国古典诗歌的传统因素有机的结合起来,开创了新一代诗风。虽然人们习惯性地把他定位在追求中国诗歌现代性的阶段诗人,但事实上,他是一个实现了现代诗歌现代性的完成者。     

先秦道家美学及美育思想初探

以老子、庄子为代表的道家美学,是中国古代美学的重要流派,呈现出自然、朴素、玄妙的特征。在这种美学特征影响下的道家美育思想也表现出轻功利、重本真的特点。     

朱光潜后期美学的历史地位

朱光潜后期美学同时具有认识论美学与实践美学特征,典型地体现了20世纪后期中国美学从认识论美学向实践美学过渡的历史轨迹,是这一演变的中介形态,它具有哲学美学、认识论美学、实践美学与马克思主义美学等20世纪后期中国美学之共性,同时又在美学学科意识和审美主体论两个方面显示出强烈的学术个性。由于时代的制约,朱光潜先生未能建立起一个较为完备的美学理论体系,但是,这一理论在认识论美学与实践美学两个方面均有广阔的学术前景。