“make me your death slave”: men who have sex with men and use the internet to intentionally spread HIV

This study analyzes the personal ads of an Internet web site solely devoted to unprotected (bareback) sex among men who have sex with men (MSM), in order to identify the profiles of individuals actively and overtly seeking to spread HIV. Although the purpose of the website is not necessarily for spreading HIV, it does provide a medium to exchange such discourses. Analysis of the website identifies 81 profiles of individuals with an overt interest in spreading HIV. In an attempt to better explain and understand this behavior, two theoretical paradigms of deviance are tested (social learning theory and labeling theory). Findings indicate that both theories offer adequate arguments to better understand this behavior. Future research directions and prevention strategies are discussed.     

Der Stellvertreter

Based on the analytic work on colleagues the author investigates a writer’s block of German psychoanalysts when writing about their patients. In the process of their own therapeutic analysis, an inhibition of association in these psychoanalysts comes to the fore by them falling into the professional role and talking about their patients. The accounts of these colleagues on their own patients function as a doubled imago revealing the unconscious conflicts of the patients as well as acting as a proxy of the psychoanalysts’ impulses, affects and foreclosed memories in their own analysis. The inhibition of thinking, leading to a writer’s block, is the result of the correspondence of the trauma of the patient with the trauma of the analyst when the transference-countertransference relationship evokes annihilation anxieties in the psychoanalyst. Therefore the writer’s block of these psychoanalysts is rooted in their professional work and is the result of the internalization of precarious emotional contents of their patients. The author examines the role of institutionalized psychoanalysis in developing a professional writer’s block, and the results of the paper highlight the need of an emotionally supporting professional environment for the psychoanalyst during his training and his practice work.     

A Review of “Risk Management: Clinical,Ethical, & Legal Guidelines for Successful Practice”

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Between Mothers-In-Law and Daughters-In-Law: Achieving a Successful and Caring Relationship, by Helene S. Arnstein. New York: Dodd, Mead&;Company, 1985, 225 pages, $8.95 paperback

When Living Hurts: Directives for Treating Depression, by Michael D. Yapko. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1988, 217 pages, $22.50

The Illustrated Manual of Sex Therapy, 2nd ed., by Helen Singer Kaplan. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1987, 181 pages, $22.50

Reforming the Law: Impact of Child Development Research, edited by Gary B. Melton New York: The Guilford Press, 1987, 307 pages, $30.00.

Doing Things: A Guide to Programming Activities for Persons with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders, by Jitka M. Zgola. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987, 149 pages, $20.00 hardcover, $8.95 paperback

Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life, edited by Steven Mintz and Susan Kellogg. New York: The Free Press, 1987, 244 pages, $22.50

Handbook of Measurements for Marriage and Family Therapy, by Norman Fredman&;Robert Sherman. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1987, 218 pages, $27.50     

A linear interval to voltage device for oscilloscope display

A linear interval to voltage device is described for oscilloscope displays. A schematic diagram is included.     

A case of prosopagnosia with some preserved covert remembrance of familiar faces

This paper presents the detailed analysis of a case of prosopagnosia in a 54-year-old male farmer following bioccipital vascular disease. In-depth clinical investigations confirmed the diagnosis of prosopagnosia and revealed the absence of any associated defect, except for a slight aspecific disturbance of the short-term memory. Further study of this case indicated that the trouble was not concerned with the class of complex visual stimuli, was not even concerned with facial expressions or unknown faces, was not a perceptual defect, but was related mainly to the operation of individualization. The memory hypothesis was thus retained and supported. Moreover, exploration of the difficulty indicated that the deficiency was limited to defective access to conscious information concerning faces and information associated with these faces (name, context, etc.), effectively stored in memory.     

Do examples of failure effectively prepare students for learning from subsequent instruction?

Studies on the productive failure (PF) approach have demonstrated that attempting to solve a problem prepares students more effectively for later instruction compared to observing failed problem-solving attempts prior to instruction. However, the examples of failure used in these studies did not display the problem-solving-and-failing process, which may have limited the preparatory effects. In this quasi-experiment, we investigated whether observing someone else engaging in problem solving can prepare students for instruction, and whether examples that show the problem-solving-and -failing process are more effective than those that only show the outcome of this process. We also explored whether the perceived model–observer similarity had an impact on the effectiveness of observing examples of failure. The results showed that observing examples effectively prepares students for learning from instruction. However, observing the model's problem-solving-and-failing process did not prepare students more effectively than merely looking at the outcome. Studying examples were more effective if model–observer similarity was high.