M. M. Bakhtin and the German proto-Romantic tradition

Studies in East European Thought - This paper seeks to explore the relationship between Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin’s theoretical apparatus and ideas of the immediate precursors of the Jena...     

The body and language: M. M. Bakhtin on ontogenetic development

James Wertsch has been influential in prompting a cultural turn in developmental psychology. Drawing upon the Russian philologist M. M. Bakhtin, Wertsch advocates a sociocultural approach involving the claim that agents’ development and action are mediated by social systems of signs and symbols. We seek to improve upon Wertsch’s understanding of agency by revisiting Bakhtin and the sociocultural quality of embodied action inherent in the phenomenology addressed in Bakhtin’s early work. In particular, this paper takes issue with the notion of mediation because it implies an approach to language that neglects the phenomenological immediacy of experience that is central to embodied action. This paper uses the early work of Bakhtin as a lens by which an idea that occurs in Bakhtin’s later work - speech genres - can be reinterpreted. Doing so enables us to propose how it is possible to have a sociocultural theory of individual ontogenetic development that includes the phenomenological immediacy of experience.     

明尼苏达多相个性调查表在我国修订经过及使用评价

本文介绍了明尼苏达多相个性调查表在我国试用及修订的经过。此项工作分为四个阶段进行。一、将英文的M.M.P.I.译成中文(曾参考香港张妙清博士修订的中文版,未作大的改动),先在局部地区试用。二、根据试用中发现的问题,进行必要的修改。三、成立全国性的协作组,使用初步修订后的版本,在我国广大地区进行测查。四、重译、修订。 经过我们的试用,证明此调查表的信度、效度水平均较高,在我国具有一定使用价值,特别对精神病的临床诊断意义更大。应予注意的是在分析测验结果时,务必以本民族的常模为标准。由于各个民族的生活方式、民族传统文化及历史背景各不相同,因此必须根据我国民族的特点,尽快制订出具有我国特点的、简便易行的个性调查表。     

Edgar Draper,M.D.

Pastoral Psychology -