神经外科高新技术应用中的人文问题

本文在分析医疗高新技术给神经外科带来发展的同时,阐述了其所带来的一系列人文问题。并对神经外科医务人员如何在临床中合理应用医疗高新技术,把握好医患关系,合理利用医疗资源,表现良好的医德医风提出了要求。     

现代神经外科高新技术与人文关怀

高新科技进入医学领域 ,直接导致了现代医学的突飞猛进 ,使许多过去难以想象的医学难题得以解决。神经外科作为医学中最年轻、最复杂的一门学科 ,纵观其成长的历程 ,无不充满了现代科技革命的烙印 ,特别是近 30年来 ,神经外科技术呈现出加速度发展 ,在医学领域中 ,可以说 ,它是惟一最充分享用现代高新技术成果的学科。但是 ,这些新技术在给人们带来惊喜的同时 ,亦对传统的伦理观念、思想和文化提出了根本性的挑战 ,并给当代神经医学理论和实践留下了非常尖锐、必须认真对待的社会学问题。作为高新技术的享用者和实践者 ,神经外科学者在其“…     

加入WTO对中国高新技术产业的影响及应对策略

本文剖析了我国高新技术产业发展的现状,探讨了加入世贸组织给我国高新技术产业带来的影响,并在此基础上结合我国高新技术产业发展进程中的诸多问题提出了相应的对策.     

前额叶皮质切除术的实践与教训

前额叶皮质切除术是一种神经外科手术,其方法是切除与前额叶皮质有联系的组织.它一度成为神经外科在20世纪四五十年代的主流程序.其后人们普遍认识到它频繁而严重的负效应以及由此带来的痛苦,从而严格禁止这一手术.这一惨痛的教训使得神经伦理学的兴起成为必要.     

当代我国医学职业精神的基本特征

医学职业精神是以医学科学和人文科学为基础产生和发展的,具有很强的社会时代性.当今,中国医疗服务市场化的出现和高新技术的广泛应用,产生了医疗公平等问题,医学职业精神也遭受了极大的冲击和挑战.从深刻认识医学职业精神实质的角度出发,联系当前医疗卫生的实际,分析阐述当代我国医学职业精神的基本特征.     

医疗暴力的危害、原因及对策

医疗暴力事件严重干扰医院正常诊疗秩序,给医疗服务带来许多负面影响,是急待解决的一个重要问题.介绍了部分国内外有关医疗暴力的报道,分析其危害及产生的原因,并提出相关对策.     

微创神经外科发展的思考

神经外科的发展历史就是一个不断追求微创的过程.微创神经外科狭义的理解,更多侧重于微创技术手段的应用;而广义的理解,则是指微创理念.微创神经外科取得了很大的成就,但还有许多问题需要解决.在微创神经外科的实践和发展中,不仅应重视微创技术的应用,更要注意应用微创理念.     

从循证医学的角度探索建立新型医患关系的新途径

分析医患纠纷产生的原因,主要是患者的高质量的医疗水平、高质量的医疗服务、合理的医疗消费三个需求得不到满足.循证医学为满足广大患者三个方面需求,建立新型医患关系,提供了最佳途径.     

医疗服务公平与效率实现途径的理论探讨

医疗服务的公平与效率是政府对公立医院的集中要求.在市场经济条件下,医疗服务公平与效率之间的特有关系,制约了医疗卫生事业的发展.本文通过对两者主要表现的阐述,从理论上探讨了相关对策,提出通过调整与完善医疗服务管理体系,建立合理的筹资机制等措施来实现医疗服务的公平与效率.     

论过度性医疗、保护性医疗与防御性医疗的法律界定

过度性医疗、保护性医疗与防御性医疗是发生在医疗活动过程中三种性质不同的医疗行为,对这三种医疗行为内涵的合理界定是对其进行法律规制的必要前提.过度性医疗是一种违法医疗行为,保护性医疗在一定条件下是一种受法律保护的医疗行为,防御性医疗则是一种性质“待定”的医疗行为.医师是否依法履行告知义务也是区分三种医疗行为的“试金石”.     

Together – apart: in touch in a time of separation

This paper explores the experience of working as a Jungian analyst through the various phases of the global COVID-19 pandemic, examining the importance of the physical containing space alongside the analyst’s internal mind and how technology can both help and hinder understanding. A number of clinical vignettes illustrate the challenge of communicating over a distance, paying particular attention to the way countertransference phenomena can become re-attuned. Reference is made to mythology and symbols of hope, and consideration given to the meaning and purpose of the pandemic.     

The Possibility of Meaning in Human Evolution

Science undermines the certitude of non-naturalistic answers to the question of whether human life has meaning. I explore whether evolution can provide a naturalistic basis for existential meaning. Using the work of philosopher Daniel Dennett and scientist Ursula Goodenough, I argue that evolution is the locus of the possibility of meaning because it has produced intentionality, the matrix of consciousness. I conclude that the question of the meaning of human life is an existentialist one: existential meaning is a product of the individual and collective tasks human beings undertake.     

Phenotypic plasticity and archetype: a response to common objections to the biological theory of archetype and instinct

Since Jung’s death in 1961, scholars have attempted to integrate growing biological science data into Jungian concepts such as the collective unconscious, instincts and the archetypes. This enterprise has been challenging due to persistent false dichotomies of gene and environment occasionally arising. Recent works by Roesler (2022a, 2022b) for example, have raised objections to the biological theory of archetypes, but the objections are plagued by such dichotomies. The concept of phenotypic plasticity, however, helps to both avoid this problem as well as bridge the gap between competing theories into a more integrated model with solid biological foundations.     

When is it time to stop? When good enough becomes bad enough

This article draws on Winnicott’s concept of the good enough mother to discuss how to know whether a therapeutic situation is good enough to continue or bad enough to end. This dilemma is explored in terms of clinical syndromes, such as anorexia and pathological gambling, but focuses mainly on analyst-initiated endings, which are termed the ‘Casablanca dilemma’, based on an amplification of the ending of the film Casablanca. The author goes on to discuss such one-sided endings, drawing on interviews with 40 analysts and therapists about their clinical experience. A typology of bad enough endings is presented. The psychological differences between a good enough analysis as opposed to a bad enough one are explored through the ideas of Winnicott and Neumann.     

Kann Es Ein Argument Für Den Skeptizismus Geben? Das Epistemische Problem Der Irrtumsmöglichkeit

Summary  Is there any argument for scepticism? The epistemic problem of the possibility of error. Arguments for scepticism rest on the assumption that knowledge claims are fallible. For this reason the concept of knowledge appears to be questionable. Since it is necessary to distinguish doubts from possible doubts, the arguments for scepticism appear to be unconvincing. If we take it into account that we know something that is immune to doubt, we should draw the conclusion that, contrary to scepticism, knowledge claims have to be compatible with being fallible. Thus any knowledge claim is capable of being doubted.     

The transcendent function in Spitteler’s Prometheus and Epimetheus

In August 2020, John Beebe and Steve Myers met via Zoom to discuss their differing interpretations of psychological typology and the different sources within Jung’s writings that influenced their books: Integrity in Depth: Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type (Beebe), and Myers-Briggs Typology vs Jungian Individuation (Myers). The discussion centred on Spitteler’s epic poem Prometheus und Epimetheus, which forms the basis of chapter V of Psychological Types. This is both the largest chapter and one of two chapters that Jung highlighted in the Argentine foreword as containing the essence of the book. Jung’s book is primarily about the transformation of personality rather than the categorization of people. Although it contains a critical psychology that deconstructs the nature of consciousness, that is only one half of the book and a stepping-stone to the other half, which is the reconciliation of opposites with particular emphasis on the relation of consciousness and the unconscious. Jung assumed that readers were already familiar with Prometheus und Epimetheus, an understanding of which sheds light on the nature of the transformation that Jung described – the development of a new attitude towards attitude itself.     

Chapter 6: Biblical Foundations for a Practical Theology of Aging

SUMMARY

This article reviews Biblical sources pertaining to the elderly, particularly the frail elderly. Founded on these sources, implications for elderly with Alzheimer's Disease and other forms of dementia are addressed through a personal perspective informed by writings of Christian mystics.     

Seeing in the Dark: A View into Dissociation and Healing

In this paper, I will explore the role of art-making, the experience of trauma and dissociation, and the process of working with self-states from an analytic and creative frame. Relevant literature on dissociation, trauma, and the use of art will be discussed. A case involving my work with an adolescent girl who had experienced sexual abuse from a family member will be shared, with an emphasis on the meaningful role images played during the therapeutic process. Both Jungian and psychoanalytic models of conceptualizing and working with dissociation are included, following Donald Kalsched’s (2013) recommendation for a “binocular stance” to treatment, including both a focus on the inner, intrapsychic world and the interpersonal, relational realm, and how art images both illuminated and expressed these realms. Within the therapeutic process, art images allowed the therapist a view into the client’s unconscious process, and created a meeting ground for dissociative barriers to be gradually seen, felt and known, by both therapist and client. The experience of dissociation, in images and in session, provided a reference point for myself and my client, Taylor, to develop a shared understanding and a framework for growth.