Analytically oriented psychotherapy (AOP) has been considered the treatment of choice for borderline patients and a useful technique in the treatment of schizotypal patients. There are many exceptions, however, in addition to a number of borderline and schizotypal patients who are just barely amenable to this modality: they are at the border of treatability by AOP. Limitations relating to time,...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Psychodynamic psychotherapy (PDT) is an effective treatment for major depressive disorder (MDD), but not all clients with MDD can receive psychotherapy. Using the Internet to provide psychodynamic treatments is one way of improving access to psychological treatments for MDD. The aim of this randomised controlled trial was to investigate the efficacy of an Internet-based psyc...

This paper focuses on the blending of a plane with surfaces of revolution relying on Dupin cyclides, which are algebraic surfaces of degree 4 discovered by the French mathematician Pierre-Charles Dupin early in the 19th century. A general algorithm is presented for the construction of two kinds of blends: pillar and recipient. This algorithm uses Rational Quadric Bézier Curves (RQBCs) to model ...

Der vorliegende Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit pragmatischen Funktionen von Diminutivsuffixen im argentinischen Comic Mafalda des Zeichners Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón (Quino). Als Zeichen der gesprochenen Umgangssprache finden Diminutive häufig in Nähesprache bzw. schriftsprachlichen Bereich sog. fingierten Mündlichkeit. Besonders Comics begegnet man dieser besonderen Form graphischen Realisie...

The first part of this paper briefly presents the phenomenon post-truth, which is then confronted with emotivism, a position 20th-century ethics or metaethics that ascribes an emotive and evocative meaning to ethical judgements, rather than descriptive one. second shows theories two main representatives view, namely A.J. Ayer Charles Stevenson. third focuses on objections primarily presented by...

BACKGROUND The number of patients suffering from unexplained chest pain (UCP) is increasing. Intervention programmes are needed to reduce the chest pain and suffering experienced by these patients and effective preventive strategies are also required to reduce the incidence of these symptoms. The aim of this study was to describe general coping strategies in patients with UCP and examine the re...

Voice quality is recognized to play an important role for the rendering of emotions in verbal communication. In this paper we explore the effectiveness of a processing framework for voice transformations finalized to the analysis and synthesis of emotive speech. We use a GMM-based model to compute the differences between an MBROLA voice and an anger voice, and we address the modification of the...

We outline an experimental study investigating the use of facial expressions of emotion, as a means of non-verbal communication in collaborative virtual environments (CVEs). The premise is that by incorporating an emotional channel alongside the conventional informational content, the user experience may be enriched. We established detailed knowledge about how facial expressions can be effectiv...

We carried out three experiments aimed at testing whether the compatibility effect between a word’s emotional connotation and arm movement direction found by Chen and Bargh (1999) is affected by hand posture. Participants responded by pressing two buttons: one placed near their body, the other far away. In Experiment 1, they classified words as positive or negative by hitting the response butto...