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Online article.
Journal of the Jean
Piaget Society
Online article.
The George Washington University Center for
Professional Psychology is a psychodynamically-oriented program offering
the Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) degree in clinical psychology.
The Glaxo Neurological Centre is a unique
non-medical advice and information centre for people with neurological
disorders and those who care for them.The Centre is run by an
independent charitable trust the Mersey Neurological Trust and was built
with funds from generous donations of £1,000,000 from Glaxo plc and
£250,000 from the Liverpool City Challenge.The Centre is managed by a
Management Commitee, chaired by Dr.Ian Williams, Consultant Neurologist,
Walton Centre for Neurology and
Neurosurgery Liverpool,and is made up of people with a neurological
disability, Neurological Charities,a General Practitioner, Social
Services and Local Business.
 The Glendon Association is a nonprofit corporation
dedicated to understanding the dynamics of self-destructive behavior and
to alleviating the resulting social problems of child abuse, suicide,
violence, substance abuse, and disturbed family relationships. Of
particular interest is FAST, The Firestone Assessment of
Self-Destructive Thoughts (FAST), new from The Psychological
Corporation, provides a unique view of your client's self-destructive
thought processes. The approach, which integrates cognitive and
psychoynamic concepts, is based on the clinical theory of Robert
Firestone. This new scale assesses the levels of self-destructive
thoughts a person is experiencing, along the Continuum of Negative
Thought Patterns, which may lead to varying degrees of self-destructive
behavior. The FAST consists of 84 items that clients endorse
on a 5-point, Likert-type scale from "never" to "almost
always." They consist of self-destructive thoughts taken directly
from clinical material derived from longitudinal study of client's
negative thought processes. The suicide risk subscale provides a brief
measure of your client's suicidal potential. This new instrument is
useful as a screener for persons entering psychological treatment. FAST
scores indicate areas in which the client is experiencing the greatest
degree of distress, allowing you to focus your interventions. It will
also serve as a brief pre-and post-therapy measure.
The Guild was founded in 1974 by a group
of psychotherapists from Freudian, Jungian and Phenomenological
backgrounds who were agreed on what is critical in the practice of
psychotherapy. The Guild aims to provide a training in psychoanalytic
psychotherapy which recognises the importance of the contributions which
have been made and continue to be made by the traditions and schools of
psychoanalysis and analytic psychology.
An article in the current issue of the
APA Monitor suggests that exposure to low levels of certain chemicals
may be at the root of the Gulf War Syndrome.
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