A PLEA FOR CLOSER INTERRELATIONS IN OUR WORK

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

Our academy, our mission, our work!

This publication finds me at the half-way point of my tenure as president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. It is therefore timely to review our academy’s goals and progress, reflecting upon and inspecting our work together as a committed and talented group of management team members and volunteer leaders. To share highlights of the year-to-date, I have created a “virtual interview,” po...

Mechanisms of right heart failure—A work in progress and a plea for failure prevention

The right ventricle (RV) of the heart, which pumps blood through a low pressure, low resistance “lesser” circulation, is now receiving more attention by researchers and clinicians, after many years of benign neglect.[1-7] Some of the many reasons for neglecting the RV assumed that (1) In the context of global cardiac performance, the RV was not very important;[2] and (2) The cellular and molecu...

A Plea For Microsimulation

German demographic or educational projections are conventionally based on macrosimulations. Macrosimulation models use average values of the simulation parameters to compute the updating process. Additionally, the proportions of educational graduate rates stay constant in these models. In this paper I introduce a discrete event microsimulation model which is designed to project the graduate rat...

Why Women Work Closer to Home