Research as Reparation. Studying to Soothe

Gross human rights violations and reparation under international law: approaching rehabilitation as a form of reparation

The strengthening of international criminal law through an increased focus on the right to reparation and rehabilitation for victims of crimes against humanity represents an important challenge to health professionals, particularly to those in the field of trauma research and treatment. A brief outline of some developments in the field of international law and justice for victims of gross human...

Letter from Chicago: Trifles soothe the mind.

Love, Hate and Reparation

The Hogarth Press and Institute of Psycho-analysis. 8/6 This short book, which was first published in 1937 is now reprinted. It is No. 2 of the Psycho-analytical Epitomes. It is not an abridgement of a larger published work but consists of two lectures with the original Preface by John Rickman. It is good that these concise, non-technical lectures are again pasily available. The authors speak w...

Tetris as Research Paradigm: An Approach to Studying Complex Cognitive Skills

Cognitive Consequences of Playing Tetris: A Research Review – Richard E. Mayer and Deanne Adams Mayer and Adams will review research on the cognitive consequences of playing Tetris (Mayer, in press). One of the major methodologies in game research is the cognitive consequences approach (Mayer, 2011) which compares changes in the cognitive skills of a group that plays an off-the-shelf computer g...

Reparation and Restoration

ideas, lacking precise definition, which can, for a while, appeal to everyone.” So too for restorative justice. A decade later Marshall (1997, p.2) said that many names were given to new justice ideas that had been proposed in the previous decade or so. Among them were communitarian, neighborhood, progressive, reparative, holistic, real, negotiated, balanced, 3 See Bottoms (2003) for a more det...