Bringing it all back home: Time for reparation in Northern Ireland

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Complaints and Grievances in Psychotherapy: A Handbook of Ethical Practice, Fiona Palmer-Barnes, London: Routledge, 1998, 195 pp., £45 hb, £14.99 pb.

The Psychoanalytic Mystic, Michael Eigen, London: Free Association Books, 1998, 220 pp., £16.95 pb.

The Elusive Human Subject: A Psychoanalytic Theory of Subject Relations, Roger Kennedy, London: Free Association Books, 1998, 226 pp., £35 hb., £15.95 pb.

Counselling by Telephone, Maxine Rosenfield, London: Sage, 1997, 145 pp., £35 hb., £11.99 pb.

Defense Mechanisms in the Counselling Process, Arthur J. Clark, London: Sage, 1998, 255 pp., £13.99 pb.

Boy Crazy: Remembering Adolescence, Therapies and Dreams, Janet Sayers, London: Routledge, 1998, 185 pp., £14.99pb.

Emotional Milestones from Birth to Adulthood: A Psychodynamic Approach, Ruth Schmidt Neven, London and Bristol: Jessica Kingsley, 1997, 260 pp., £13.95 pb.     

Internal reflections of an external peace process: A case study

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This case study records and analyzes how external changes, emanating from the ceasefires in Northern Ireland in 1994, resulted in significant changes within the internal world of a Northern Irish Client     

Beyond Typologies: Foregrounding Meaning and Motive in Domestic Violence Perpetration

In this article we use a single case study to query the presumption, inherent in typological approaches to domestic violence perpetration, that offender motivations are unchanging and deducible from self-reports and official records. We highlight the need to engage interpretively with the specific meanings acts of violence hold for domestic violence perpetrators–informed, as they can be, by sexist perceptions of entitlement and histories of conflict, suspicion and grievance–and how these can change self-perceptions in the aftermath of assaults and breakups, as the foreground of crime is reincorporated into a background narrative.     

USING PERCENTILE SCHEDULES TO INCREASE EYE CONTACT IN CHILDREN WITH FRAGILE X SYNDROME

Aversion to eye contact is a common behavior of individuals diagnosed with Fragile X syndrome (FXS); however, no studies to date have attempted to increase eye‐contact duration in these individuals. In this study, we employed a percentile reinforcement schedule with and without overcorrection to shape eye‐contact duration of 6 boys with FXS. Results showed that although aversion to eye contact is often thought to be unamenable to change in FXS, it can be shaped in some individuals using percentile schedules either alone or in combination with overcorrection.     

The linguistic interpretation of aphasic syndromes: Agrammatism in Broca's aphasia,an example

One of the most striking characteristics typical of the speech of Broca's aphasics is its agrammatism — the omission of ‘function’ words and inflectional morphemes. Agrammatism is generally viewed as being symptomatic of a syntactic deficit. We argue here that such an account lacks grammatical systematicity, and that the only uniform and systematic interpretation of this deficit is in terms of phonological structure. A natural class consisting of ‘function’ words and some bound morphemes can be defined with reference to the junctural properties of sentences which characterize phonological words. It is this class of elements which tend to be omitted in agrammatic speech. The goal of this paper is not only to provide an hypothesis for the interpretation of one aphasic syndrome, but also to test and illustrate the efficacy of paying close attention to substantive universals of grammatical structure in proposing accounts of linguistic deficits.     

Effects of message, source, and context on evaluations of employee voice behavior

The article contained a production-related error. In Table 5, the four values in the rows for Study 1 Prosocial motives and Study 1 Constructive voice should have been shifted one column to the right, to the Direct and Total Performance evaluations columns. All versions of this article have been corrected.] Although employee voice behavior is expected to have important organizational benefits, research indicates that employees voicing their recommendations for organizational change may be evaluated either positively or negatively by observers. A review of the literature suggests that the perceived efficacy of voice behaviors may be a function of characteristics associated with the (a) source, (b) message, and (c) context of the voice event. In this study, we manipulated variables from each of these categories based on a model designed to predict when voice will positively or negatively impact raters' evaluations of an employee's performance. To test our model, we conducted 3 laboratory studies in which we manipulated 2 source factors (voicer expertise and trustworthiness), 2 message factors (recommending a solution and positively vs. negatively framing the message), and 2 context factors (timing of the voice event and organizational norms for speaking up vs. keeping quiet). We also examined the mediating effects of liking, prosocial motives, and perceptions that the voice behavior was constructive on the relationships between the source, message, and context factors and performance evaluations. Generally speaking, we found that at least one of the variables from each category had an effect on performance evaluations for the voicer and that most of these effects were indirect, operating through one or more of the mediators. Implications for theory and future research are discussed.