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A community viability indicator for determining comprehensive planning policy

To assist in the development of planning policy for communities, a pilot test of a social viability indicator was conducted in a Baltimore City, Maryland Polish ethnic neighborhood in 1969 and 1981. The viability indicator, originally developed by Herbert Gans and modified for the purpose of this study, can be an important instrument for analyzing and developing public policy, and maintaining viable communities. The indiced revealed that the study area, which had slightly less sound physical residences than the city in general, had viable interdependent social relationships between the residences than the city in general, had viable interdependent social relationships between the residents. Twelve years later the area was restudied. The study area was still socially viable as originally predicted although physical structures evidence a slight increase in deterioration. The findings give evidence that neighbothood viability does not depend on a neighborhood's physical environment and thus substantiates Gans' hypothesis which had not been previously tested with a longitudinal study.     

Voice and Cure: The Significance of Voice in Repairing Early Patterns of Disregulation

This paper illustrates the value of the analyst’s awareness of the importance of her voice with its various intonations in the telephone treatment of a patient with early infant/mother attachment patterns of disregulation. The authors describe the significance of a particular kind of pervasive verbal intrusion by the patient’s mother and how through the use of voice pattern, tone, and rhythm in an extended period of telephone therapy, the patient was able to solidify a more secure attachment. Finally, the authors demonstrate how the verbal music in the analyst/patient and the mother/child dyads enhances self and interactive regulation.