Risking our legitimacy

Risking Death to Give Life

Risking Peace: Contesting Foreign Policy

This paper explores the causes of domestic conflict over foreign policy in the context of a dynamic learning model. One state is composed of two political parties that are uncertain about how another state will respond to cooperative and confrontational policies. To resolve this uncertainty, they must implement policies and update on the basis of the observed outcome. While both parties have in...

Doublethinking our way to "scientific" legitimacy: the desiccation of human experience.

A multifaceted contemporary movement aims to correct alleged weaknesses in the scientific foundation of psychoanalysis. For both pragmatic-political and scientific reasons we are encouraged to do and/or study systematic empirical research on psychoanalytic process and outcome, as well as apparently relevant neuroscience. The thesis advanced here is that the privileged status this movement accor...

Dedicated Switch - Hitting , Risking Safety , Embodied

Title of Document: DEDICATED SWITCH-HITTING, RISKING SAFETY, EMBODIED TRANSCENDANCE AND OTHER APPARENT CONTRDICTIONS. Meghan Mitchell, Master of Fine Arts, 2008 Directed By: Professor Brandon Morse, Department of Art My work reflects a long-standing attraction to the material and experiential imperfections that emerge through a collision of physical and cultural reality. My use of biological ma...

Risking Connection Trauma Training 1 Running Head: RISKING CONNECTION TRAUMA TRAINING Risking Connection Trauma Training: A Pathway toward Trauma-Informed Care in Child Congregate Care Settings

Despite the high prevalence of traumatic experiences and attachment disruptions among clients in child congregate care treatment settings, until recently there has been little formal training on trauma for staff serving this population. Staff trauma training is one important intervention for agencies aiming to implement trauma-informed care (TIC), a term describing a national trend in mental he...