This study uses discursive perspectives to study emotion in school mathematics. The researchers regard emotion as distinct but inseparable from cognition: the organizing metaphor portrays emotion as a charge attached to ideas or (chains of) signifiers. Based in language, emotions are seen as discursively formed, culturally constituted, and…

Asserting that psychoanalysis and writing instruction have much to offer each other, this book examines the intersection between these two fields and proposes pedagogical uses of psychoanalytic technique for writing instruction. Articulating an approach based on the work of Jacques Lacan, the book shows how a psychoanalytic perspective can offer…

Analyzes the relationship between psychiatric disorder and such sociocultural factors as age, sex, race, family history, and personality types. (Author/RK)

Describes special techniques, useful for offsetting a defensive cover up of feelings, through which latency-age children can learn to communicate and verbalize problems. (Author/RK)

Discusses changes in race relations in America during the past 20 years and ways in which they have affected psychiatry and psychoanalysis--particularly, the emergence of the new black consciousness, ways of correcting institutional racism, and the need for self-searching among white professionals. (RJ)

in a group of 51 maladjusted deaf children the psychiatric disorders encountered were similar to those found in normal children and those handicapped in other ways. (WY)

This paper describes how, in the process of evaluating referrals, the psychiatrist and his agents develop a conception of normal situations and those too difficult to endure. Because of their decision-making authority, they enforce a definition of the reality of the combat experience for those forced to encounter it. (Author/DB)

As measured by self-assessment, medical students' suicide management skills appear to be better among those having completed a medical interviewing course and those having completed a six-week inpatient psychiatry rotation. Attitudes toward the acceptability of suicide had no impact on selection of correct responses. The utility of the instrument…

The level of empathy of medical students is compared with the levels of empathy among other university students. The impact of the psychiatric clerkship with group experience on the medical students' empathy for and attitudes toward mental patients as compared with medical students without group experience is explored. (Author/MLW)

An interdisciplinary training program for the instruction of residents in child psychiatry and graduate students in special education is described with focus on the needs of children with academic and behavioral problems. (DB)

Describes the orientation and development of professional psychological services in Cuba since the 1959 revolution. Discusses the integration of psychological services with educational and primary health services. Also describes research trends and the relationship between psychology and psychiatry in Cuba. (GC)

Evidence of last two decades indicates schizophrenic disorders related to imbalance of brain chemicals. Recent discovery made of association between chronic schizophrenia and variety of structural abnormalities. Included are frontal lobe reversal and accipital lobe reversal. Computer tomography scans and data presented. (SA)

Reports a psychiatrist's analysis of Einstein's personal account of how he developed the theory of relativity. The psychiatrist cites Janusian thinking, actively conceiving two or more opposite concepts simultaneously, as a characteristic of much creative thought in general. (MA)