Jean Baudrillard's concept of "symbolic exchange" represents an important concept in understanding why Marx's prediction regarding the collapse of capitalism has not been realized. Baudrillard adds to the Marxian concepts of use value and exchange value, suggesting that, in today's consumer-oriented society, commodities take on a symbolic value that constitutes their "status" and, therefore, po...

I consider seven misunderstandings that may be encountered about the nature, purpose and properties of randomisation in clinical trials. Some concern the practical realities of clinical research on patients. Others are to do with the value and purpose of balance. Still others are to do with a confusion about the role of conditioning in valid statistical inference. I consider a simple game of ch...

A case report involving buspirone hydrochloride in the successful treatment of a patient with an atypical paraphilia and transvestic fetishism is presented. Treatment outcome was assessed by the patient's self-report as well as by retrospective examination of detailed notes about paraphilia fantasies which unknown to the therapists, had been kept by the patient. Preliminary evidence indicates t...

A simple apparatus which can deliver a painful electric shock to the subject for aversion therapy is described. It has advantages over nausea-producing drugs, particularly in allowing the patient to treat himself even at home. The use of the apparatus is illustrated by cases of fetishism, obsessional ruminations, smoking, writer's cramp, and alcoholism. Technical details are given of the compon...

Research on strategic artists makes YouTubers a medium for monetizing their content creations. The research method applies critical analysis to read narratives in prank video channels owned by Rans Entertainment (Rafi-Nagita), and Kanal Baim-Paula (Baim Wong-Paula Verhoven). In reading interpreting social contexts, political economy perspective with the theory of commodification money fetishism...

Teaching is increasingly called upon to become a clinical practice profession, like medicine. The term ‘clinical’ used in common-sense way describe idealized teaching practice, as if universally understood be superior and desirable enact professionalism. Yet there little the literature that mounts feminist critique of cultural politics put work through word education. We ask what it reifies how...

This article provides a historical perspective on how both American and European psychiatrists have conceptualized and categorized sexual deviance throughout the past 150 years. During this time, quite a number of sexual preferences, desires, and behaviors have been pathologized and depathologized at will, thus revealing psychiatry's constant struggle to distinguish mental disorder--in other wo...