Psychotherapy in Troubling Time

Margaret McCartney: Troubling leadership.

Keith McNeil resigned as chief executive of Addenbrooke’s Hospital in 2015 shortly before the Care Quality Commission rated it inadequate. He was popular and highly regarded. But, like many other chief executives before him, he resigned after a short tenure, having found nurse recruitment expensive and difficult and in “challenging” financial circumstances. 3 His colleagues wanted him to stay. ...

Troubling Theory in Case Study Research

Troubling Diversity in South African Education

To understand how issues of diversity have been handled in South African education, it is necessary to explore the prevailing educational approaches in recent years and the ways they have been contested. In my lecture, I will explore limitations of a multiculturalist approach in what is seen, in over-simplified terms, as the ‘Rainbow Nation’, and will argue for an approach to diversity that is ...

Troubling Consequences of Online Political Rumoring

Fear that the Internet promotes harmful political rumoring is merited but not for reasons originally anticipated. Although the network accelerates and widens rumor circulation, on the whole, it does not increase recipient credulity. E-mail, however, which fosters informal political communication within existing social networks, poses a unique threat to factual political knowledge. A national te...

Chemobrain - A Troubling Side Effect of Chemotherapy

The first mention of the term chemobrain appeared in the literature in response to a steady flow of clinical reports and research articles on neurological dysfunctions and so called “foggy brain” in chemotherapy treated cancer patients [1,2]. “Foggy brain” more precisely known as a cognitive impairment of the brain is a phenomenon with a long history in psychiatry and neurology, however its pre...