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VERTICO V: The environmentally driven evolution of the inner cold gas discs of Virgo cluster galaxies
- Adam B. Watts, Luca Cortese, Barbara Catinella, Toby Brown, Christine D. Wilson, Nikki Zabel, Ian D. Roberts, Timothy A. Davis, Mallory Thorp, Aeree Chung, Adam R.H. Stevens, Sara L. Ellison, Kristine Spekkens, Laura C. Parker, Yannick M. Bahé, Vicente Villanueva, María Jiménez-Donaire, Dhruv Bisaria, Alessandro Boselli, Alberto D. Bolatto, Bumhyun Lee
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- Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia / Volume 40 / 2023
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- 27 April 2023, e017
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The quenching of cluster satellite galaxies is inextricably linked to the suppression of their cold interstellar medium (ISM) by environmental mechanisms. While the removal of neutral atomic hydrogen (H i) at large radii is well studied, how the environment impacts the remaining gas in the centres of galaxies, which are dominated by molecular gas, is less clear. Using new observations from the Virgo Environment traced in CO survey (VERTICO) and archival H i data, we study the H i and molecular gas within the optical discs of Virgo cluster galaxies on 1.2-kpc scales with spatially resolved scaling relations between stellar ($\Sigma_{\star}$), H i ($\Sigma_{\text{H}\,{\small\text{I}}}$), and molecular gas ($\Sigma_{\text{mol}}$) surface densities. Adopting H i deficiency as a measure of environmental impact, we find evidence that, in addition to removing the H i at large radii, the cluster processes also lower the average $\Sigma_{\text{H}\,{\small\text{I}}}$ of the remaining gas even in the central $1.2\,$kpc. The impact on molecular gas is comparatively weaker than on the H i, and we show that the lower $\Sigma_{\text{mol}}$ gas is removed first. In the most H i-deficient galaxies, however, we find evidence that environmental processes reduce the typical $\Sigma_{\text{mol}}$ of the remaining gas by nearly a factor of 3. We find no evidence for environment-driven elevation of $\Sigma_{\text{H}\,{\small\text{I}}}$ or $\Sigma_{\text{mol}}$ in H i-deficient galaxies. Using the ratio of $\Sigma_{\text{mol}}$-to-$\Sigma_{\text{H}\,{\small\text{I}}}$ in individual regions, we show that changes in the ISM physical conditions, estimated using the total gas surface density and midplane hydrostatic pressure, cannot explain the observed reduction in molecular gas content. Instead, we suggest that direct stripping of the molecular gas is required to explain our results.
Heterogeneity of quality of life in young people attending primary mental health services
- Sue M. Cotton, Matthew P. Hamilton, Kate Filia, Jana M. Menssink, Lidia Engel, Cathrine Mihalopoulos, Debra Rickwood, Sarah E. Hetrick, Alexandra G. Parker, Helen Herrman, Nic Telford, Ian Hickie, Patrick D. McGorry, Caroline X. Gao
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- Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences / Volume 31 / 2022
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- 20 July 2022, e55
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The utility of quality of life (QoL) as an outcome measure in youth-specific primary mental health care settings has yet to be determined. We aimed to determine: (i) whether heterogeneity on individual items of a QoL measure could be used to identify distinct groups of help-seeking young people; and (ii) the validity of these groups based on having clinically meaningful differences in demographic and clinical characteristics.
MethodsYoung people, at their first presentation to one of five primary mental health services, completed a range of questionnaires, including the Assessment of Quality of Life–6 dimensions adolescent version (AQoL-6D). Latent class analysis (LCA) and multivariate multinomial logistic regression were used to define classes based on AQoL-6D and determine demographic and clinical characteristics associated with class membership.
Results1107 young people (12–25 years) participated. Four groups were identified: (i) no-to-mild impairment in QoL; (ii) moderate impairment across dimensions but especially mental health and coping; (iii) moderate impairment across dimensions but especially on the pain dimension; and (iv) poor QoL across all dimensions along with a greater likelihood of complex and severe clinical presentations. Differences between groups were observed with respect to demographic and clinical features.
ConclusionsAdding multi-attribute utility instruments such as the AQoL-6D to routine data collection in mental health services might generate insights into the care needs of young people beyond reducing psychological distress and promoting symptom recovery. In young people with impairments across all QoL dimensions, the need for a holistic and personalised approach to treatment and recovery is heightened.
The prescriber’s guide to classic MAO inhibitors (phenelzine, tranylcypromine, isocarboxazid) for treatment-resistant depression
- Vincent Van den Eynde, Wegdan R. Abdelmoemin, Magid M. Abraham, Jay D. Amsterdam, Ian M. Anderson, Chittaranjan Andrade, Glen B. Baker, Aartjan T.F. Beekman, Michael Berk, Tom K. Birkenhäger, Barry B. Blackwell, Pierre Blier, Marc B.J. Blom, Alexander J. Bodkin, Carlo I. Cattaneo, Bezalel Dantz, Jonathan Davidson, Boadie W. Dunlop, Ryan F. Estévez, Shalom S. Feinberg, John P.M. Finberg, Laura J. Fochtmann, David Gotlib, Andrew Holt, Thomas R. Insel, Jens K. Larsen, Rajnish Mago, David B. Menkes, Jonathan M. Meyer, David J. Nutt, Gordon Parker, Mark D. Rego, Elliott Richelson, Henricus G. Ruhé, Jerónimo Sáiz-Ruiz, Stephen M. Stahl, Thomas Steele, Michael E. Thase, Sven Ulrich, Anton J.L.M. van Balkom, Eduard Vieta, Ian Whyte, Allan H. Young, Peter K. Gillman
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- CNS Spectrums / Volume 28 / Issue 4 / August 2023
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- 15 July 2022, pp. 427-440
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This article is a clinical guide which discusses the “state-of-the-art” usage of the classic monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressants (phenelzine, tranylcypromine, and isocarboxazid) in modern psychiatric practice. The guide is for all clinicians, including those who may not be experienced MAOI prescribers. It discusses indications, drug-drug interactions, side-effect management, and the safety of various augmentation strategies. There is a clear and broad consensus (more than 70 international expert endorsers), based on 6 decades of experience, for the recommendations herein exposited. They are based on empirical evidence and expert opinion—this guide is presented as a new specialist-consensus standard. The guide provides practical clinical advice, and is the basis for the rational use of these drugs, particularly because it improves and updates knowledge, and corrects the various misconceptions that have hitherto been prominent in the literature, partly due to insufficient knowledge of pharmacology. The guide suggests that MAOIs should always be considered in cases of treatment-resistant depression (including those melancholic in nature), and prior to electroconvulsive therapy—while taking into account of patient preference. In selected cases, they may be considered earlier in the treatment algorithm than has previously been customary, and should not be regarded as drugs of last resort; they may prove decisively effective when many other treatments have failed. The guide clarifies key points on the concomitant use of incorrectly proscribed drugs such as methylphenidate and some tricyclic antidepressants. It also illustrates the straightforward “bridging” methods that may be used to transition simply and safely from other antidepressants to MAOIs.
Dynamic networks of psychological symptoms, impairment, substance use, and social support: The evolution of psychopathology among emerging adults
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- Jacob J. Crouse, Nicholas Ho, Jan Scott, Richard Parker, Shin Ho Park, Baptiste Couvy-Duchesne, Brittany L. Mitchell, Enda M. Byrne, Daniel F. Hermens, Sarah E. Medland, Nicholas G. Martin, Nathan A. Gillespie, Ian B. Hickie
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- European Psychiatry / Volume 65 / Issue 1 / 2022
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- 13 June 2022, e32
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Subthreshold/attenuated syndromes are established precursors of full-threshold mood and psychotic disorders. Less is known about the individual symptoms that may precede the development of subthreshold syndromes and associated social/functional outcomes among emerging adults.
MethodsWe modeled two dynamic Bayesian networks (DBN) to investigate associations among self-rated phenomenology and personal/lifestyle factors (role impairment, low social support, and alcohol and substance use) across the 19Up and 25Up waves of the Brisbane Longitudinal Twin Study. We examined whether symptoms and personal/lifestyle factors at 19Up were associated with (a) themselves or different items at 25Up, and (b) onset of a depression-like, hypo-manic-like, or psychotic-like subthreshold syndrome (STS) at 25Up.
ResultsThe first DBN identified 11 items that when endorsed at 19Up were more likely to be reendorsed at 25Up (e.g., hypersomnia, impaired concentration, impaired sleep quality) and seven items that when endorsed at 19Up were associated with different items being endorsed at 25Up (e.g., earlier fatigue and later role impairment; earlier anergia and later somatic pain). In the second DBN, no arcs met our a priori threshold for inclusion. In an exploratory model with no threshold, >20 items at 19Up were associated with progression to an STS at 25Up (with lower statistical confidence); the top five arcs were: feeling threatened by others and a later psychotic-like STS; increased activity and a later hypo-manic-like STS; and anergia, impaired sleep quality, and/or hypersomnia and a later depression-like STS.
ConclusionsThese probabilistic models identify symptoms and personal/lifestyle factors that might prove useful targets for indicated preventative strategies.
Intestinal parasites in the Neolithic population who built Stonehenge (Durrington Walls, 2500 BCE)
- Piers D. Mitchell, Evilena Anastasiou, Helen L. Whelton, Ian D. Bull, Mike Parker Pearson, Lisa-Marie Shillito
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- Parasitology / Volume 149 / Issue 8 / July 2022
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- 20 May 2022, pp. 1027-1033
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Durrington Walls was a large Neolithic settlement in Britain dating around 2500 BCE, located very close to Stonehenge and likely to be the campsite where its builders lived during its main stage of construction. Nineteen coprolites recovered from a midden and associated pits at Durrington Walls were analysed for intestinal parasite eggs using digital light microscopy. Five (26%) contained helminth eggs, 1 with those of fish tapeworm (likely Dibothriocephalus dendriticus) and 4 with those of capillariid nematodes. Analyses of bile acid and sterol from these 5 coprolites show 1 to be of likely human origin and the other 4 to likely derive from dogs. The presence of fish tapeworm reveals that the Neolithic people who gathered to feast at Durrington Walls were at risk of infection from eating raw or undercooked freshwater fish. When the eggs of capillariids are found in the feces of humans or dogs it normally indicates that the internal organs (liver, lung or intestines) of animals with capillariasis have been eaten, and eggs passed through the gut without causing disease. Their presence in multiple coprolites provides new evidence that internal organs of animals were consumed. These novel findings improve our understanding of both parasitic infection and dietary habits associated with this key Neolithic ceremonial site.
Subjective cognitive functioning in relation to changes in levels of depression and anxiety in youth over three months of treatment – CORRIGENDUM
- Kelly Allott, Caroline Gao, Sarah E. Hetrick, Kate M. Filia, Jana M. Menssink, Caroline Fisher, Ian B. Hickie, Helen E. Herrman, Debra J. Rickwood, Alexandra G. Parker, Patrick D. Mcgorry, Sue M. Cotton
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- BJPsych Open / Volume 6 / Issue 5 / September 2020
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- 14 September 2020, e110
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Subjective cognitive functioning in relation to changes in levels of depression and anxiety in youth over 3 months of treatment
- Kelly Allott, Caroline Gao, Sarah E. Hetrick, Kate M. Filia, Jana M. Menssink, Caroline Fisher, Ian B. Hickie, Helen E. Herrman, Debra J. Rickwood, Alexandra G. Parker, Patrick D. Mcgorry, Sue M. Cotton
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- BJPsych Open / Volume 6 / Issue 5 / September 2020
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- 05 August 2020, e84
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Subjective cognitive difficulties are common in mental illness and have a negative impact on role functioning. Little is understood about subjective cognition and the longitudinal relationship with depression and anxiety symptoms in young people.
AimsTo examine the relationship between changes in levels of depression and anxiety and changes in subjective cognitive functioning over 3 months in help-seeking youth.
MethodThis was a cohort study of 656 youth aged 12–25 years attending Australian headspace primary mental health services. Subjective changes in cognitive functioning (rated as better, same, worse) reported after 3 months of treatment was assessed using the Neuropsychological Symptom Self-Report. Multivariate multinomial logistic regression analysis was conducted to evaluate the impact of baseline levels of and changes in depression (nine-item Patient Health Questionnaire; PHQ9) and anxiety symptoms (seven-item Generalised Anxiety Disorder scale; GAD7) on changes in subjective cognitive function at follow-up while controlling for covariates.
ResultsWith a one-point reduction in PHQ9 at follow-up, there was an estimated 11–18% increase in ratings of better subjective cognitive functioning at follow-up, relative to stable cognitive functioning. A one-point increase in PHQ9 from baseline to follow-up was associated with 7–14% increase in ratings of worse subjective cognitive functioning over 3 months, relative to stable cognitive functioning. A similar attenuated pattern of findings was observed for the GAD7.
ConclusionsA clear association exists between subjective cognitive functioning outcomes and changes in self-reported severity of affective symptoms in young people over the first 3 months of treatment. Understanding the timing and mechanisms of these associations is needed to tailor treatment.
Twenty-Five and Up (25Up) Study: A New Wave of the Brisbane Longitudinal Twin Study
- Brittany L. Mitchell, Adrian I. Campos, Miguel E. Rentería, Richard Parker, Lenore Sullivan, Kerrie McAloney, Baptiste Couvy-Duchesne, Sarah E. Medland, Nathan A. Gillespie, Jan Scott, Brendan P. Zietsch, Penelope A. Lind, Nicholas G. Martin, Ian B. Hickie
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- Twin Research and Human Genetics / Volume 22 / Issue 3 / June 2019
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- 14 June 2019, pp. 154-163
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The aim of the 25 and Up (25Up) study was to assess a wide range of psychological and behavioral risk factors behind mental illness in a large cohort of Australian twins and their non-twin siblings. Participants had already been studied longitudinally from the age of 12 and most recently in the 19Up study (mean age = 26.1 years, SD = 4.1, range = 20–39). This subsequent wave follows up these twins several years later in life (mean age = 29.7 years, SD = 2.2, range = 22–44). The resulting data set enables additional detailed investigations of genetic pathways underlying psychiatric illnesses in the Brisbane Longitudinal Twin Study (BLTS). Data were collected between 2016 and 2018 from 2540 twins and their non-twin siblings (59% female, including 341 monozygotic complete twin-pairs, 415 dizygotic complete pairs and 1028 non-twin siblings and singletons). Participants were from South-East Queensland, Australia, and the sample was of predominantly European ancestry. The 25Up study collected information on 20 different mental disorders, including depression, anxiety, substance use, psychosis, bipolar and attention-deficit hyper-activity disorder, as well as general demographic information such as occupation, education level, number of children, self-perceived IQ and household environment. In this article, we describe the prevalence, comorbidities and age of onset for all 20 examined disorders. The 25Up study also assessed general and physical health, including physical activity, sleep patterns, eating behaviors, baldness, acne, migraines and allergies, as well as psychosocial items such as suicidality, perceived stress, loneliness, aggression, sleep–wake cycle, sexual identity and preferences, technology and internet use, traumatic life events, gambling and cyberbullying. In addition, 25Up assessed female health traits such as morning sickness, breastfeeding and endometriosis. Furthermore, given that the 25Up study is an extension of previous BLTS studies, 86% of participants have already been genotyped. This rich resource will enable the assessment of epidemiological risk factors, as well as the heritability and genetic correlations of mental conditions.
The Genetic Relationship Between Psychological Distress, Somatic Distress, Affective Disorders, and Substance Use in Young Australian Adults: A Multivariate Twin Study
- Lun-Hsien Chang, Baptiste Couvy-Duchesne, Sarah E. Medland, Nathan A. Gillespie, Ian B. Hickie, Richard Parker, Nicholas G. Martin
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- Twin Research and Human Genetics / Volume 21 / Issue 5 / October 2018
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- 18 July 2018, pp. 347-360
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Psychological distress (PSYCH), somatic distress (SOMA), affective disorders (AD), and substance use (SU) frequently co-occur. The genetic relationship between PSYCH and SOMA, however, remains understudied. We examined the genetic and environmental influences on these two disorders and their comorbid AD and SU using structural equation modeling. Self-reported PSYCH and SOMA were measured in 1,548 twins using the two subscales of a 12-item questionnaire, the Somatic and Psychological Health Report. Its reliability and psychometric properties were examined. Six ADs, involvement of licit and illicit substance, and two SU disorders were obtained from 1,663–2,132 twins using the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview and/or from an online adaption of the same. SU phenotypes (heritability: 49–79%) were found to be more heritable than the affective disorder phenotypes (heritability: 32–42%), SOMA (heritability: 25%), and PSYCH (heritability: 23%). We fit separate non-parametric item response theory models for PSYCH, SOMA, AD, and SU. The IRT scores were used as the refined phenotypes for fitting multivariate genetic models. The best-fitting model showed the similar amount of genetic overlap between PSYCH–AD (genetic correlation rG = 0.49) and SOMA–AD (rG =0.53), as well as between PSYCH–SU (rG = 0.23) and SOMA–SU (rG = 0.25). Unique environmental factors explained 53% to 76% of the variance in each of these four phenotypes, whereas additive genetic factors explained 17% to 46% of the variance. The covariance between the four phenotypes was largely explained by unique environmental factors. Common genetic factor had a significant influence on all the four phenotypes, but they explained a moderate portion of the covariance.
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JAPANESE WAS FIRST taught at Edinburgh in 1976, when it was offered to students on the MA Honours in Chinese programme as part of their degree. In Scotland undergraduate degrees usually take four years and lead directly to an MA degree. In the late 1980s, with the appointment of Dr Nobuko Ishii, a specialist in mediaeval Japanese narratives, to a lectureship in Japanese, pre- Honours courses in Japanese language (Japanese 1 and Japanese 2) were set up. Japanese 1 had a limited number of places, but was open to students on any undergraduate programme, while Japanese 2 was open to students who had performed well in Japanese 1. Students on the MA Honours in Chinese programme were allowed to take these courses as Honours options in their third and fourth years, and this arrangement continued until the year abroad for MA Honours in Chinese was moved from second year to third year.
In autumn 1990, full undergraduate degree programmes (MA Honours) were established in Japanese and Japanese & Linguistics in a Centre for Japanese Studies within East Asian Studies. Dr Helen Parker, who works on traditional Japanese theatre, was appointed as a second Lecturer in Japanese: the post was supported by the Japan Foundation for the first three years. The first intending Honours students were admitted to the first year at this stage and, in addition, one or two students who had successfully completed Japanese 1 and Japanese 2 were allowed to progress straight to the third year of the newly established degree programme (i.e., the year abroad in Japan), so the first graduates were awarded their degrees in 1992. Professor Ron Asher (Linguistics and Dean of the Faculty of Arts) presented theatre director Ninagawa Yukio for an honorary degree at the degree ceremony in the same year.
In October 1993, Ms Hiromi Kawahara was appointed as the first Foreign Language Assistant, succeeded during the following year by Ms Kazuyo Igarashi. From January 1994, Dr Margaret Mehl, whose specialism was historiography and Meiji history, was appointed as a Lecturer in Japanese Civilization, and her mission was to set up a pre-Honours course in Japanese Civilization and a fourth year Honours course in Japanese History.
Efficacy of the Omega-3 Index in predicting non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in overweight and obese adults: a pilot study
- Helen M. Parker, Helen T. O’Connor, Shelley E. Keating, Jeffrey S. Cohn, Manohar L. Garg, Ian D. Caterson, Jacob George, Nathan A. Johnson
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- British Journal of Nutrition / Volume 114 / Issue 5 / 14 September 2015
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- 23 July 2015, pp. 780-787
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Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is an independent predictor of CVD in otherwise healthy individuals. Low n-3 PUFA intake has been associated with the presence of NAFLD; however, the relationship between a biomarker of n-3 status – the Omega-3 Index – and liver fat is yet to be elucidated. A total of eighty overweight adults (fifty-six men) completed the anthropometric and biochemical measurements, including the Omega-3 Index, and underwent proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy assessment of liver fat. Bivariate correlations and multiple regression analyses were performed with reference to prediction of liver fat percentage. The mean Omega-3 Index was high in both NAFLD (intrahepatic lipid concentration≥5·5 %) and non-NAFLD groups. The Omega-3 Index, BMI, waist circumference, glucose, insulin, TAG, high-sensitive C-reactive protein (hsCRP) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) were positively correlated, and HDL and erythrocyte n-6:n-3 ratio negatively correlated with liver fat concentration. Regression analysis found that simple anthropometric and demographic variables (waist, age) accounted for 31 % of the variance in liver fat and the addition of traditional cardiometabolic blood markers (TAG, HDL, hsCRP and ALT) increased the predictive power to 43 %. The addition of the novel erythrocyte fatty acid variable (Omega-3 Index) to the model only accounted for a further 3 % of the variance (P=0·049). In conclusion, the Omega-3 Index was associated with liver fat concentration but did not improve the overall capacity of demographic, anthropometric and blood markers to predict NAFLD.
Ideological and Economic Development in Tanzania
- Ian C. Parker
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- African Studies Review / Volume 15 / Issue 1 / April 1972
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- 23 May 2014, pp. 43-78
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Serious consideration of ideology and economic progress is singularly appropriate at this stage in East Africa's history, in relation to the Uganda coup and the current difficulties between Tanzania and Uganda. Both events have a crucial ideological dimension and have already had deep repercussions on the economy of the two countries and of the East African Community as a whole. That the subject is appropriate, however, does not render it any easier to deal with adequately. At the outset, I encountered four basic problems.
First, the very definition of “economic performance” is itself an ideological decision, in that ultimately it requires a value-judgment on the relative importance of various possible indices of achievement. Whether rapid expansion in per capita income is more significant than the creation of a slower-growing but more regionally and sectorally balanced economy; what division is appropriate between current consumption and investment for future consumption; what economic value is attached to a certain pattern of ownership of the means of production, or to a particular policy of distribution of the economic surplus--all of these basic questions about the economic objectives of a society can only be answered ultimately by reference to ideological values. This interdependence between the terms of the topic is an index of its complexity.
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Bernad, Henley Bernard, Alan E. Bernstein, Jon L. Berquist, Johannes Beutler, Ana María Bidegain, Matthew P. Binkewicz, Jennifer Bird, Joseph Blenkinsopp, Dmytro Bondarenko, Paulo Bonfatti, Riet en Pim Bons-Storm, Jessica A. Boon, Marcus J. Borg, Mark Bosco, Peter C. Bouteneff, François Bovon, William D. Bowman, Paul S. Boyer, David Brakke, Richard E. Brantley, Marcus Braybrooke, Ian Breward, Ênio José da Costa Brito, Jewel Spears Brooker, Johannes Brosseder, Nicholas Canfield Read Brown, Robert F. Brown, Pamela K. Brubaker, Walter Brueggemann, Bishop Colin O. Buchanan, Stanley M. Burgess, Amy Nelson Burnett, J. Patout Burns, David B. Burrell, David Buttrick, James P. Byrd, Lavinia Byrne, Gerado Caetano, Marcos Caldas, Alkiviadis Calivas, William J. Callahan, Salvatore Calomino, Euan K. Cameron, William S. Campbell, Marcelo Ayres Camurça, Daniel F. Caner, Paul E. Capetz, Carlos F. Cardoza-Orlandi, Patrick W. Carey, Barbara Carvill, Hal Cauthron, Subhadra Mitra Channa, Mark D. Chapman, James H. Charlesworth, Kenneth R. Chase, Chen Zemin, Luciano Chianeque, Philip Chia Phin Yin, Francisca H. Chimhanda, Daniel Chiquete, John T. Chirban, Soobin Choi, Robert Choquette, Mita Choudhury, Gerald Christianson, John Chryssavgis, Sejong Chun, Esther Chung-Kim, Charles M. A. Clark, Elizabeth A. Clark, Sathianathan Clarke, Fred Cloud, John B. Cobb, W. Owen Cole, John A Coleman, John J. Collins, Sylvia Collins-Mayo, Paul K. Conkin, Beth A. Conklin, Sean Connolly, Demetrios J. Constantelos, Michael A. Conway, Paula M. Cooey, Austin Cooper, Michael L. Cooper-White, Pamela Cooper-White, L. William Countryman, Sérgio Coutinho, Pamela Couture, Shannon Craigo-Snell, James L. Crenshaw, David Crowner, Humberto Horacio Cucchetti, Lawrence S. Cunningham, Elizabeth Mason Currier, Emmanuel Cutrone, Mary L. Daniel, David D. Daniels, Robert Darden, Rolf Darge, Isaiah Dau, Jeffry C. Davis, Jane Dawson, Valentin Dedji, John W. de Gruchy, Paul DeHart, Wendy J. Deichmann Edwards, Miguel A. De La Torre, George E. Demacopoulos, Thomas de Mayo, Leah DeVun, Beatriz de Vasconcellos Dias, Dennis C. Dickerson, John M. Dillon, Luis Miguel Donatello, Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev, Susanna Drake, Jonathan A. Draper, N. Dreher Martin, Otto Dreydoppel, Angelyn Dries, A. J. Droge, Francis X. D'Sa, Marilyn Dunn, Nicole Wilkinson Duran, Rifaat Ebied, Mark J. Edwards, William H. Edwards, Leonard H. Ehrlich, Nancy L. Eiesland, Martin Elbel, J. Harold Ellens, Stephen Ellingson, Marvin M. Ellison, Robert Ellsberg, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Eldon Jay Epp, Peter C. Erb, Tassilo Erhardt, Maria Erling, Noel Leo Erskine, Gillian R. Evans, Virginia Fabella, Michael A. Fahey, Edward Farley, Margaret A. Farley, Wendy Farley, Robert Fastiggi, Seena Fazel, Duncan S. Ferguson, Helwar Figueroa, Paul Corby Finney, Kyriaki Karidoyanes FitzGerald, Thomas E. FitzGerald, John R. Fitzmier, Marie Therese Flanagan, Sabina Flanagan, Claude Flipo, Ronald B. 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In Disneyland near Paris one summer, I felt saturated with someone else's fantasies, someone else's objects. Some of the fantasies were also my own, but I recognised images from childhood only as if they had been refracted through a distorting lens that another person operated. Some were those of my sons, then aged twelve and sixteen, who were able to play in a cynical distance from the images, to both enjoy and parody what lay around them. Many of the fantasy objects, however, belonged to the Disney Corporation who managed to maintain a no less cynical distance from its customers as it extracted large amounts of money for personalised souvenirs, memories made and retailed for us to retell. We survived inside Disney's world from eight in the morning, with extra earlier entry for hotel customers, to eleven at night, when we staggered back after the music and fireworks finale.
Fantasy enjoys a divided double existence inside and outside the modern mind. It is something that feels personal and idiosyncratic, and it also circulates around us in representations that are shared by many others. Perhaps it was always so, to an extent, with the internal and internalized private fantasies about death and survival for each medieval citizen, for example, being matched by collective public fantasies about mortality and heaven. But the degree to which fantasy is systematically gathered and marketed, researched and turned into systems of commodities, is qualitatively greater now.
Windows on the mind
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I was tempted by an Apple, but went for a cheaper and more powerful machine. It has Windows, and something happened to my internal life as I settled to my new existence as mouse potato.
New forms of technology recreate subjectivity in different ways. One can easily imagine, for example, the impact of early industrial machines on the self-image of Europeans in the middle of the nineteenth century, and it is often said that Freudian psychoanalysis is rooted in that impact, and in hydraulic metaphors in which the libido seeks outlet, is repressed, and then erupts in displaced or sublimated ways. Once this image of the mental apparatus was given free reign in Western culture, other images and technologies had to contend with it as a relatively enduring template for the self that we absorb and fashion as our own.
What is Windows as a computer environment but an incarnation and mutation of the unconscious and object relations? I started dreaming vividly, or, at least, started remembering vivid dreams (and maybe that itself is the issue, the symptomatic issue) after being plunged into Windows in a new PC at home. I already had some experience of working with Windows at work, though this was quite desultory and only sufficient to make me familiar with the format; enough that I would not be completely lost, not enough that I should be comfortable in the terrain.
E and me
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Desires to be connected with everyone else, to feel the barriers between self and others disappear and to enjoy a complete interconnection of experience, are powerful collective forces in this culture. One of the paradoxes and impossibilities of this wished for state of harmonic engagement is that the individual absorbs the wish from the collective; the individual only becomes who they are, and able to articulate the wish by virtue of their place in a wider symbolic matrix. Many varieties of psychoanalysis participate in that paradox by locating the wish to return in the individual, rather than in the collective, and finding narcissistic impulses to ‘return’ in the child within. Like notions of heritage in late modernity, however, this ‘return’ is constructed for us, and it constructs a place for us that never was.
One way of ‘returning’, appropriately enough, is through ‘Ecstasy’, a drug in tablet form best taken while dancing. Go to a club, perhaps ‘Paradise’, and smuggle a dose past the bouncers in your sock. Perhaps you would buy one inside. In my case, an angel bought me one for my birthday. Dope slows you down, unlike Speed, and although it helps you dance for a long time, you are still pretty much in control. One thing I had noticed about the club called ‘Home’, however, had been how friendly all the hot and strobe-lit bodies had been.
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These little essays on what it is to be a human subject in a culture permeated by psychoanalytic sign systems were first published between 1994 and 2008. The first of these predate the publication of my academic studies of the social construction of contemporary psychoanalysis, and most were written before and during my training as a psychoanalyst. These are occasional pieces, and so they address quite diverse cultural phenomena in order to make sense of how they hook their audiences, us.
Many of the essays were published in the organs of psychological, psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic bodies. This is because an argument needs to be made against those who too easily assume that only their particular concepts capture and describe fantasy and reality. I have tried, often in vain, to disturb the strongly held belief of those in thrall to psychoanalysis that it is universally true. What I describe in the essays is how psychoanalysis functions as something that is only locally true. The argument applies to each of different varieties of psychoanalysis I find at work in the phenomena I explore, and it is important to recognise the different functions that different ideas in psychoanalysis serve, as their proponents battle against each other and pretend that they alone have the keys to unlock our secrets.
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Most stories about psychoanalysis are about others, how we might interpret what they have made of it. Not in this case. One of the intriguing elements of Lacanian psychoanalysis is the idea that an analysand may give account of the progress and end of their analysis through the institution of ‘the pass’. In this way, something secret is told and such testimony might, Lacan once hoped, serve to validate and provide more knowledge about the psychoanalytic process. The most important secret, though, is precisely that psychoanalysis is always already public, a public event between two people perhaps, or a secret that is shared between many who may not want to say that they recognise the nature of this secret. Or they may secretly hold to another view of the public account they profess to be the correct one.
I realised that I had reached an end to my analysis, and could account for it, one morning when I was sitting on the toilet. I was expelling something. I had eaten Cheerios for breakfast (and a stupid Lacanian joke about the importance of serial repetition has it that ‘the cereal is serious’). Time to move on. What I had ‘discovered’ is that psychoanalysis does not have to be true for it to work, and the way psychoanalysis has worked for me is precisely to rediscover that psychoanalysis does not have to be true for it to work.
The pinball project
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On a Saturday night in Leeds, I learnt something about pinball and psychoanalysis. By psychoanalysis, I don't mean dreaming and joking and slipping as revealing what is unconscious or the way that what happens in families affects how boys and girls develop, but rather some of the basic descriptions of thinking that were elaborated by Freud even before he used the term ‘psychoanalysis’ and that continued to underlie his accounts of how and why repression and free association work. There is plenty of pop-psychoanalysis around us now, but you will still not find much there, in popular culture, about quantities of excitation in the neurological apparatus. Descriptions of narcissism and sibling rivalry don't require us to think about neurology, but that is where Freud started speculating in his ‘Project for a Scientific Psychology’ (the title provide by the editors upon the manuscript's first publication in 1950), and if a lot of psychoanalysis was already there in that project, we need to understand how those representations of mind endured and how they are still here, still with us now.
Unlike the other more fantastic contents of psychoanalytic discourse that fascinate so many people in the media, the formal structure of the mind that Freud scribbled during a train journey in a letter to his friend Wilhelm Fliess – in a manuscript that was not published until after his death – seems like dull stuff.
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I am looking up at the underside of a Greek chair. Interlocking fibres that form the seat are held in place by three strong cords running from front to back; there are wire supports diagonally linking the chair legs, and the lower front strut now almost touches my forehead. My head and shoulders are on the floor, and the rest of my body is curved up and back over my head so that my feet can rest on the chair seat. This is what I know as hellasana (more accurately, halasana), a shoulder-stand modified to work with props to support different shapes and states of body. But it could be worse. Iyengar yoga, unlike more energetic forms like ashtanga yoga, uses blocks and straps and mats rolled up so that anyone can adopt versions of the ‘asanas’, poses in which we stretch muscles we never knew we had before. And, here in north-west Crete, we have found extraordinary new uses for chairs; we sit sideways, pulling ourselves against the backs, lean back and grasp the sides of the seats, and we even rest upside down with our legs stretched up and heads hanging between two Greek chairs.
Yoga would seem at first glance to be one of the quintessentially spiritual-therapeutic components of New Age subcultures, promising inner growth in the context of meditative postures and a harmonic relation with one's newly discovered self.