Die Entwicklung der Gesetzgebung zur Sicherungsverwahrung und die damit verbundenen Auswirkungen auf ihre Klientel

Initially, the article gives a short overview over the expansions of preventive detention the legislator has made in recent years. Secondly, prosecution statistics as well as statistics on enforcement of sentences are analyzed focusing on the effects the change in legislation has on the number and structure of preventive detainees. Hereafter, the author presents the central results of an own study titled ‘Reconviction of Dangerous Recidivists’. These results further the conclusion that there is a considerable amount of persons falsely classified as dangerous amongst today’s preventive detainees.     

Die Methode der abbildenden Motorik bei Kommunikation der Systeme und ihre Anwendung auf die Affektpsychologie

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Psychotherapeuten und ihre psychischen Probleme

A cliché about psychotherapists, psychologists and psychiatrists is that they themselves apparently all have mental problems. This review article analyzes the state of research on the topic based on a databank search in PubMed using the terms “(mental disorders OR suicide) AND (psychologists OR psychiatrists OR therapists OR psychoanalysts)” and an analysis of relevant review articles. In the databank search only ten publications were identified which related to any mental problems of therapists. These partially confirmed an increased risk of suicide, increased mental problems, such as depression, increased burnout risk and increased problems in childhood (e.g. sexual abuse and parentification) and showed that research deficits clearly exist. With respect to coping with such risks, the topics training therapy, personal therapy, self-care, and additional opportunities are discussed. In conclusion the implications for research and practice are discussed.     

Virtuelle Objekte und ihre Verwendung

Zusammenfassung. Wir leben in einer Epoche, die man als Post-Gutenberg-Epoche bezeichnen kann. Das dominierende Zeichensystem ist nicht mehr die Schrift, sondern das elektronische Zeichen. Ungef?hr das Jahr 1950 wird als Wendepunkt zwischen diesen beiden Epochen angesehen, und zwar deshalb, weil in den Jahren nach dem 2. Weltkrieg die amerikanischen Haushalte mit Fernsehger?ten ges?ttigt waren und sich somit dieses neue Zeichensystem durchgesetzt hatte. Thema dieses Aufsatzes ist die Ver?nderung unserer Zeichensysteme und damit unserer Symbolwelten, der Wandel von der Welt des Schriftzeichens zur Welt des elektronischen Zeichens, die dadurch entstandene M?glichkeit, elektronische Objekte zu schaffen, die ich virtuelle Objekte nennen m?chte, die Manipulation von Objektwahl und Objektbeziehung, die damit einhergeht und die Rolle, die uns Analytikern in einer solchen Welt zukommt. Diese elektronischen Zeichen haben mit gro?em Tempo ein Eigenleben entwickelt, es ist eine ganze Klasse neuer Objekte entstanden, die Klassen der virtuellen Objekte. Dies sind elektronisch ver?nderte, erg?nzte oder rein elektronisch produzierte Objekte. Damit verbunden ist eine Industrialisierung von Objektwahl und Objektbeziehung. Es entsteht die manipulierte Objektwahl und Objektbeziehung und die Verdr?ngung natürlicher Objekte durch virtuelle. Dieser Vorgang ist auch mit einem Wechsel des Sozial- und Kulturverst?ndnisses verbunden. Es entstehen neue Muster des Sozial- und Kulturverst?ndnisses, die man als Industriefeudalismus bezeichnen k?nnte. Ziel des Beitrags ist es, über die Ver?nderung unserer Zeichenwelt und die damit verbundene Industrialisierung von Objektbeziehung zu reflektieren und sie, soweit schon m?glich, zu deuten.

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Virtual objects and their application: about the industrial production of object relationships

Summary. We live in an epoch that could be designated as the post-Gutenberg-era. Writing is no longer the dominant sign system. It is replaced by electronic signs. We consider approximately the year 1950 as the turning-point between these two epochs, because by then, in the years after the 2nd World War the American households were saturated with televisions. Thereby, the new sign system asserted itself. The topic of this article is the transformation of our sign system and thereby of our worlds of symbols, the leap from the world of written signs into the world of electronic signs, and the possibility born out of it to create electronic objects, which I prefer to call virtual objects. The manipulation of object-choice and object-relationships accompanying this change and the role assigned to analysts in this new world will be considered as well. These electronic signs developed quickly a life of their own. A totally new class of objects came into being, the class of virtual objects. These are electronically transformed, completed or wholly electronically produced objects. This procedure is accompanied by an industrialization of object-choice and object-relationships. The manipulated object-choice and object-relationship is born and, moreover, a displacement of natural objects through virtual ones. A change of the socio-cultural understanding is also a consequence of this process. New patterns of socio-cultural understanding develop, that could be described as industrial feudalism. The goal of this article is to describe the transformation of our world of signs and the connected industrialization of object relationships, and to interprete them according to our present possibilities.

     

Kategorien der Personwahrnehmung und ihre kulturelle Bedingtheit

Summary This research was undertaken in order to find out (1) whether the socio-cultural background of S has any influence on how he perceives and judges other people, (2) whether the thematic emphasis of his judgments mirrors the culturally determined aspects of his personality. Specifically, it was intended, by analyzing the social judgments of a group of Thai Ss, to gain information on the nearly unexplored characteristics of their personality as compared with a German group of Ss which served as a match.40 students of the College of Education in Bangkok were presented a list of 32 pairs of words (a noun and an adjective). Ss were instructed to take these word-pairs as metaphors serving to characterize people and to reinterpret them in concrete, non-metaphorical terms of personality characteristics. The same procedure was administered with a comparable group of 42 German students.The responses of the Ss were classified and the frequency of occurence of each category of response determined for each S. A comparison of the frequency of occurence of the responses between the Thai and German group yielded significant differences in a great number of response categories. The first hypothesis was thus confirmed.The categories of responses in which significant differences were obtained were grouped into clusters in order to reduce the multiplicity of differences to a limited number of underlying trends. These trends were found to reflect basic differences of the cultural values between the Thai and German, and, more generally, between the Asian and Western people.     

Estimation of speakers' weight and height from speech: a re-analysis of data from multiple studies by Lass and colleagues

Research on identification of speakers' weight and height from their speech has yielded controversial results. Conclusions from a series of reports conducted by Lass and colleagues must be interpreted with caution because they are based on comparisons of only two types of data, mean of actual values and mean of estimated values. Cohen and others clearly demonstrated that this method of analysis overstated the accuracy of listeners' judgments. Following Van Dommelen's procedure, data from six of Lass's reports were re-analyzed with more appropriate statistics. Results of re-analysis show that (a) listeners are not very efficient guessing the weight or height of speakers, as only 14%, of the estimations correlated significantly with actual values. (b) Judgments are highly consistent under different acoustic conditions, suggesting that listeners follow vocal stereotypes about the body size of speakers, even though these stereotypes are wrong.     

Neuronenmetaphern, die kurative Beziehung und die Behandlungstechnik

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Zuschriften an die herausgeber

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