Undoing gender inequalities: insights from the Portuguese perspective

Gender Inequalities in Portuguese Gymnasts between 2012 and 2016

Gender participation rates are different and the potential reasons are namely sports availability and stereotypes. In spite of gymnastics being recently considered as an “early specialization” sport, characterized by a higher number of female participants than male ones, it has been highlighted that there are much less published studies in female athletes than in males. The aim of this study wa...

Multihost Tuberculosis: Insights from the Portuguese Control Program

This paper describes the current situation of animal tuberculosis in Portugal, reviewing the accomplishments and constraints of the 2001-2009 period. Notwithstanding the substantial progress achieved with the implementation of a comprehensive test and cull scheme, notification, postmortem inspection and surveillance at slaughterhouses, herd and animal prevalence have unexpectedly increased in 2...

Gender: An Emotional Intelligence Perspective

Dear Editor:    The rising importance of emotional intelligence gives a clear idea of the significant differences between men and women, since men and women are emotionally intelligent in different ways. Understanding and appreciating such differences leads to the improvement of the existing relationships and to the establishment of new relationships in a satisfying manner.       One of the pri...

Intersecting Inequalities and the Sustainable Development Goals: insights from Brazil

Undoing dissociation. Affective neuroscience: a contemporary Jungian clinical perspective.

In the last ten years both analysts and neuroscientists have begun to challenge the analytic world to explore the analytic view of the mind in relation to knowledge emerging from the field of neuroscience. I find that 'in many ways it is Jung's understanding of the mind, the human condition, and the self, that is most compatible with the insights that are emerging from neuroscience today' (Wilk...