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New bottle : old wine! School bullying among primary school pupils and the emergence of cyberbullying
(Access Research Knowledge (ARK), 2010)Involvement in ‘traditional’ (face-to-face) bully/victim problems at school has been linked to impaired health and well-being, a reduction in educational attainment, long-term relationship and intimacy issues, and potential ... -
The origins of the psychological 'interior' - evidence from imperial roman literacy practices and related issues
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2008)The pervasiveness in psychological literature of the assumption that mental events and psychology in general occur within the person – henceforth the psychological interior‘ – is introduced and the received view of its ... -
The Parmenides and the One
(The School of Psychotherapy at SVUH, 2004)I am going to talk to you about a dialogue by Plato called Parmenides because both in Seminar XIX, …ou pire, and in the series of lectures entitled The knowledge of the psychoanalyst, Lacan indicates it as a text which ... -
'Per via di porre', 'per via di levare', 'per via di tagli' : contemporary symptoms and the art of interpretation
(Association of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland, 2010)In Du Discours Psychanalytique Lacan seems to argue that the discourse of the master produces the discourse of the capitalist, or at least, he implies that the discourse of the capitalist is produced by a warping of the ... -
Plato's good for Lacan
(The School of Psychotherapy at SVUH, 1998)This paper is about sex. And if it is about sex, it is about number. In the final weeks of the Seminar entitled Crucial Problems for Psychoanalysis Lacan identifies what has been a theme, perhaps the major one, of that ... -
Prediction of self-monitoring compliance : application of the theory of planned behaviour to chronic illness sufferers
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), diabetes, and asthma are chronic illnesses that affect a substantial number of people. The continued high cost of clinic and hospital based care provision in these areas could ... -
Psychoanalysis: a mapping out, turning the symbolic inside out
(The School of Psychotherapy at SVUH, 2015)This paper considers the notion of psychoanalysis as a ‘mapping out' which was put forward by Lacan in his 24th Seminar, L'insu que sait de l'une bévue s'aile à mourre. The implied synonyms for ‘mapping out', such as, ... -
Psychological configurations and literary characters : a systems view
(De Gruyter, 2000)The object of the present paper is to apply concepts and models of systems theory (Mazur, 1966, 1976) to generate statements and definitions relevant to the human psyche in general and to the characters described in literary ... -
Rare books in Irish libraries : an investigation of current challenges in providing access to historical collections
(An Leabharlann: The Irish Library, 2013)Article based on MSc thesis analysing the current state of rare book libraries in Ireland. Challenges to access to rare book collections are discussed and some suggestions made for improvements. Author keywords: Cataloguing, ... -
Reading Plato's Symposium
(The School of Psychotherapy at SVUH, 1997)Lacan decided that an analysis of the Symposium of Plato in his Seminar of 1960 - 1961 would be an illuminating detour by which to investigate the transference relation in psychoanalysis. This investigation centred on the ... -
Report from the external relations panel, The NIBPS & PSI joint careers event, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Saturday, 28 February 2009
(The Irish Psychologist, 2009)Report on a NIBPS and PSI careers event held in the University of Ulster in 2009 -
A review of Freud's early remarks on addiction : introduction from an ideal to masturbation
(The School of Psychotherapy at SVUH, 1998)It is a remarkable fact that there is no real substantial psychoanalytic theory of addiction, especially given that Freud had clinical experience of working with addicts. This fact is even more remarkable when you know ... -
Sequential responding in accordance with temporal relational cues : a comparison of before and after
(The Psychological Record, 2012)The current study investigated the relative effects of Before and After relational cues on temporal order judgments. In Experiment 1, participants (N = 20) were exposed to a 5-phase temporal relational responding ... -
Some short odds on gambling : a psychoanalytic approach
(The School of Psychotherapy at SVUH, 1995)We often consider gambling to be dangerous in the same way as drugs and alcohol: It is something to which we can become addicted. The destruction and deterioration caused by addictions reveals a similar pattern and is ... -
The Sound-Symbolic Quality of Word-Initial Gr-Cluster in Middle English Alliterative Verse
(The Modern Language Society of Helsinki, 2001)Sound symbolism or linguistic iconicity, is based on the assumption that language contains instances of a natural, imitative, non-arbitrary connection between the form of the linguistic sign and its meaning. At the same ... -
Spenser’s 'golden squire' and the 'golden Meane': numbers and proportions in Book II of the Faerie Queene
(AMS Press Inc, 2000)The essay interprets Spenser's arithmetical and geometrical metaphors of temperance in their primary, mathematical sense, and argues that the 'golden squire' used to measure out a 'mean' of temperance refers to the ... -
The stress and trauma of school victimization in Ireland : a retrospective account
(Association for the Advancement of Psychology and Education (AAPE), 2011)As part of an international study examining student victimization (by both peers and educators) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology, 154 Irish university students completed the ‘Student Alienation and ... -
Subject librarians and VLEs in Irish universities : level of involvement, attitudes and challenges
(An Leabharlann: The Irish Library, 2015)Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) are used by educational institutions as content delivery platforms that connect students, academics and administration together. In this context, subject librarians can utilise VLEs ... -
The subject of addiction
(The School of Psychotherapy at SVUH, 2002)The earliest evidence of psychoactive drug use and knowledge of hallucinogenic plants dates back some 13,000 years. Most early forms of religion used drugs in an attempt to gain divine knowledge. Drugs and drug use are an ... -
Symptom and anxiety
(The School of Psychotherapy at SVUH, 2004)What follows is the text of a talk presented at the sixth annual conference of the Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups held in Omaha, Nebraska in September 2004. The APW began several years ago with the aim of providing ...