Deconstruction (Not Destruction)

Safe Systems: Construction, Destruction, and Deconstruction

Peer Commentary Sex Therapy Needs Building Not Deconstruction

In their attempt to deconstruct sex therapy and bury the remains, Binik and Meana (2009) ask “Will the ‘real’ sex therapist please stand up?” I am not sure about being “real,” but I was a sex therapist for 40 years until my retirement. I have treated many couples and individuals and also trained many therapists in the use of sex therapy. These trainees have come from a range of professional bac...

Spherical Deconstruction

We present evidence that N = 1 * SUSY Yang-Mills provides a decon-struction of a six-dimensional gauge theory compactified on a two-sphere. The six-dimensional theory is a twisted compactification of N = (1, 1) SUSY Yang-Mills theory of the type considered by Maldacena and Nunez (MN) in [1]. In particular, we calculate the full classical spectrum of the N = 1 * theory with gauge group U (N) in ...

Caring for Deconstruction

Deconstructing Dimensional Deconstruction

Dimensional deconstruction (DD) abstracts from higher dimensional models features of related 4–dimensional ones. DD was proposed in Refs. [1–3] as a scheme for constructing models of naturally light composite Higgs boson. These are models in which—without fine–tuning of parameters—the composite Higgs’s mass M and vacuum expectation value v are much lighter than its binding energy scale Λ. We re...