As in many cultures, also in Uganda spirit possession is a common idiom of distress associated with traumatic experiences. In the DSM-IV and -5, possession trance disorders can be classified as dissociative disorders. Dissociation in Western countries is associated with complicated, time-consuming and costly therapies. Patients with spirit possession in SW Uganda, however, often report partial ...

Growing global commitments to open learning through the use of Open Educational Resources (OERs) are accompanied by concerns over what “to do” with that learning when learners present it to traditional institutions for assessment and accreditation. This paper proposes that established RPL (recognizing prior learning) protocols, in place at many institutions worldwide, can offer a pedagogically ...

In that spirit, the topics fall into “fundamental” and “applications”. The “fundamentals” are given priority as they are, well, fundamental. Team-work across topics is indicated and encouraged. If you have suggestions for additional topics, please contact me! Regarding participation you are expected to attend regularly, give a talk (∼ 45min.), and submit a term paper (∼8 pages). The seminar wil...

The spirit of Party-building is the root Communist’s spiritual pedigree. Chinese Communists have always attached importance to condensed and inherited Party-building. great founding Party Red Boat are also expressions spirit, so it significance clarify relationship between two, discover their positioning, give play respective values continue move towards new goal. which underpins higher politic...

The aim of this paper is to adduce the meaning of Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy and existential analysis—the spirit of logotherapy—in the two-fold sense of its core teachings, as well as its emphasis on the spiritual dimension of the human person. Firstly, I situate Frankl’s tri-dimensional ontology—his philosophical anthropology—within a Platonic perspective, asserting that it was Plato who firs...