Young Women’s Selfhood on Antidepressants: “Not Fully Myself”

Reflections on Selfhood and Embodiment

ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE MOST FRIGHTENING CONDITION that faces the aging population in the twenty-first century, a much-feared stigmatizing label that carries with it a sentence of social death. The lay media are replete with descriptions of Alzheimer’s such as a “living death,” “unbecoming” a self, and a “drifting towards the threshold of unbeing.” Even the US federal govern...

Impersonating Myself on the Internet

This paper describes the implementation of a computer program that responds to chat messages sent by users of an internet chat client. The program uses a statistical model of previous chat messages sent and received by the author to determine possible meanings of incoming messages and select an appropriate response. Two heuristics are also used to allow the program to respond in cases where the...

How am I not myself ? a semiotic analysis of images

Antidepressants are not all created equal.

700 www.thelancet.com Vol 373 February 28, 2009 6 Hohnloser SH, Connolly SJ, Crijns HJGM, Page RL, Seiz W, Torp-Petersen C. Rationale and design of ATHENA: a placebo-controlled, double-blind, parallel arm trial to assess the effi cacy of dronedarone 400 mg bid for the prevention of cardiovascular hospitalization or death from any cause in patients with atrial fi brillation/atrial fl utter. J Ca...

… Myself That I Remake

“I a lover of nature. I have to paint from within .... As I used to tell my students, anything I do must be of a caliber that will live after me. That is really my credo, even now,” said Lois Jones when she was in her 80s. During an artistic career that spanned more than 6 decades and continued until the end of her life, she sought excellence and a place in art history. When, in her early effor...