The purpose of this study was to capture, analyse and interpretate Non-Standard Workers (NSWs) experience of the phenomenon of silence in organisational settings to provide a conceptualisation of the antecedents and determinants of silence utilised by NSWs.

The study of ideology has long interested sociologists and consumer researchers alike. Much consumption research has approached ideology from various macro, meso, and micro levels of analysis. However, many studies fail to address the dialogical interplay among these three levels of analysis when examining how ideology manifests in, and interacts with, consumer identity projects. Many consumption-based studies examining ideology provide descriptive and normative accounts, affording practices of consumption emancipatory potential. In response, this research adopts a critical marketing perspective in order to draw out the macro and political implications of meso cultural production systems and micro consumption experiences and identity projects. Focusing on the contemporary American feminist movement, and on discourses around sex and sexuality, it explores how hegemonic (patriarchal) and counterhegemonic (feminist) ideologies are communicated in the marketplace, through the media, to understand their role in regard to consumers’ lived experiences and interactions with advertisements. Working within the consumer culture theory tradition, this thesis employed a variant of phenomenological interviewing that explored female emerging adults’ sexual narratives and their interpretations of sexualized ads. By generating data on a specific type of experience, inferences were drawn about how young women experience and relate to the contemporary feminist movement. In total, 14 American women, aged 20 to 31, were interviewed twice and also created media collages of what they considered ‘sexy’. Implementing a multi-step hermeneutic analysis, the data were analyzed through an iterative process, moving back and forth between the idiographic cases and theory. Through multiple iterations, micro, meso, and macro level inferences were made. This study suggests that young women foster diverse and temporary identifications with feminism in the pursuit of two, often overlapping, goals: ontological security and status. This results in a micro process of ‘ideological shifting’, which has depoliticizing effects, insofar as (anti-) feminist brands and identities were readily appropriated and discarded depending on specific contexts and situations. Thus, contrary to much work in the consumer culture theory tradition, which presents consumption as having transgressive and liberating effects, this study finds that while the young women had the power to dialogically interact with marketized (meso level) ideologies that constitute the marketplace, they failed to intercept the macro level processes of marketization and commodification and consequently did not challenge the hegemonic (patriarchal) ideology at large. In adopting a critical perspective, this study offers valuable insight into the relationship between ideology and consumer behavior. Ideology is shown to be disseminated via hegemonic processes of commodification and marketization. Because these processes occur at a macro level, counterhegemonic ideologies are hegemonized and subsequently depoliticized before even reaching the consumer on a micro level. By examining ideology across all three levels, this study finds that consumer agency is largely relegated to the realm of the marketplace, where consumers’ dialogical interactions and consumption practices do not challenge the macro ideologies or oppression at large, but merely alter their marketplace expressions.

Este estudo trata do uso da arte como procedimento intermediário para o acompanhamento terapêutico de pacientes que frequentam um Centro de Atenção Psicossocial-. Para esta investigação focalizamos a experiência vivenciada com pacientes psiquiátricos em um curso intitulado Foto e Imagem, ministrado pelo Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo MAM , durante um ano e nove meses. Utilizamos como método de compreensão dos resultados clínicos observados através de análise fenomenológica a articulação com conceitos clínicos de Donald Winnicott e hermenêuticos de Gilberto Safra. Observaram-se mudanças comportamentais e psíquicas nos pacientes, tais como maior interação interpessoal naqueles distantes dos outros e com certa apatia; maior expressão verbal; retorno aos estudos e trabalho após anos de afastamento; melhora no relacionamento familiar, segundo os pais; aumento do interesse por atividades sociais. A aproximação das potencialidades de cada um dos participantes do curso foi possível a partir do reconhecimento de seu idioma pessoal e do sentido de sua existência a partir das produções fotográficas e artísticas realizadas. Esta perspectiva de trabalho terapêutico trata de um reposicionamento da clínica psicológica como elemento ético-ontológico, que possibilita à dupla profissional-paciente se sentirem enraizados na experiência humana. A arte permite ao indivíduo expressar-se, sem haver cobranças e expectativas; é vista como um meio de comunicação entre os indivíduos e para si mesmo. Através da arte pode-se auxiliar o indivíduo a lidar com a tensão ao relacionar a realidade interna à externa. O contato com a arte foi compreendida como uma experiência que pode ajudar o indivíduo a resgatar recursos adormecidos em seu Self, através do acompanhamento cuidadoso e atento de psicólogas, com a inclusão da família, no tratamento interdisciplinar em saúde mental / This work deals with the use of art as an intermediate procedure for therapeutic monitoring of patients attending a Psychosocial Care Center-Caps. For this research we focus on their experience with psychiatric patients in a course titled Photo and Imaging, taught by the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo MAM , for one year and nine months. Used as a method of understanding of clinical outcomes through phenomenological analysis, coordination with clinical concepts of Donald Winnicott and hermeneutics of Gilberto Safra. Observed behavioral and psychological changes in patients such as increased interpersonal interaction in those distant from others, and with apathy, increased verbal expression; return to studies or work after years of absence; improvement in family relationships, according to the parents; increased interest as social activities. The approximation of the potential of each of the participants of the course was made possible through the recognition of their personal language and sense of personal existence, from photographic and artistic productions performed. This perspective of therapeutic work is a repositioning of clinical psychology as an ethical-ontological allowing dual professional-patient feel rooted in human experience. Art allows the individual to express themselves, with no demands and expectations, is seen as a means of communication between individuals and for himself. Through art we can help the individual to cope with the stress by relating internal to external reality. The experience of art was understood as an experience that can help the individual recover resources dormant in your Self, through careful monitoring and attention of psychologists, with the inclusion of family in interdisciplinary mental health treatment

O presente trabalho pretende apresentar soluções alternativas para velhas questões que integram a problemática do Direito, tais como o conceito de norma jurídica, as fontes de direito dos diferentes sistemas jurídicos, bem como os critérios de interpretação da norma a fim de aplicá-la aos casos em concreto. Com o enfraquecimento dos paradigmas da Modernidade tanto no que se refere a valores culturais como no que tange a metodologia das ciências sociais os conceitos acima mencionados precisam ser revistos, a partir de novos pontos de vista. É assim que, por meio dos modelos da semiótica de linha francesa e da análise interdiscursiva e dialógica de textos, pretende-se romper com as estruturas dicotômicas do direito, passando a observá-lo como processo de produção de sentido. Nessa linha de raciocínio, por meio de método hipotético-dedutivo e com base na depreensão de sentido desvelado na análise de textos, busca-se o ser do sentido do discurso jurídico naquele discurso desenvolvido diuturnamente nos Tribunais. Como cumprir o propósito do direito de assegurar a harmonia e paz social em determinado Estado Democrático de Direito? Por meio de normas provenientes do Poder Legislativo ou por decisões provenientes do Poder Judiciário, na atividade de dizer o direito aplicável ao caso em concreto? Enquanto os discursos unificadores da Modernidade funcionaram bem, aparentemente, bastaria a leitura dos textos legais e sua aplicação literal na solução do caso em concreto para que se atingisse o anseio de segurança jurídica. Assim, no sistema da civil law, os Códigos dariam aos cidadãos e magistrados o norte para se determinar aquilo que seria /conforme/ e o que seria /em desacordo/ com o previsto em lei. Por seu lado, no sistema da common law, a casos iguais, dever-se-ia aplicar a mesma decisão extraída de case law análogo. Contudo, a partir de meados do século XX, as sociedades tornam-se tão complexas quanto os valores dos grupos sociais particulares, culminando na ruptura com o discurso absoluto, monológico, próprio dos textos centralizadores das codificações e das stare decisis. Com isso, as teorias da interpretação do direito também evoluíram, criando-se novos modelos que não partem da análise da norma jurídica (ou case law), mas sim da apreensão dos valores encontrados nos casos em concreto, sob prisma dos princípios gerais de direito, notadamente os direitos humanos fundamentais. É assim que se operam mudanças nos paradigmas do discurso jurídico, indicando que está menos no caráter prescritivo da norma jurídica e mais na solução de litígios de forma dialógica o caminho para a segurança jurídica. Sem negar o importante papel ocupado pelo discurso legislativo na estabilização das relações intersubjetivas, tudo indica que o padrão de produção legal não vence as constantes alterações que vêm ocorrendo sobretudo em direito de família, sendo que, aos poucos, o discurso legislativo cede espaço produção de direito pela jurisprudência. Neste trabalho procuramos demonstrar como é possível desenvolver modelo decisório que leve em consideração o discurso das partes em litígio para a criação de jurisprudência, de modo a lhe conferir legitimidade, abrindo caminho para adoção de sistema jurídico único para todas as nações ocidentais, restabelecendo a harmonia entre os Poderes, operando este novo sistema por Estatutos e Súmulas. / This work intends to present alternative solutions to old questions that integrate the issue of law, such as the concept of rule of law, sources of law of different legal systems, and the criteria for interpreting the rule to apply it to cases in concrete. With the weakening of the paradigms of modernity - both with regard to how cultural values regarding the methodology of the social sciences - the concepts mentioned above need to be revised, from new points of view. And so, by the models of French semiotics and interdiscursive and dialogic analysis of texts, intended to break the law dichotomous structures, going to observe it as a process of meaning production. In this line of reasoning through hypothetical-deductive method and based on the apprehension of meaning uncovered in text analysis, we seek the being of the sense of the legal discourse developed during the daytime in the Courts. How to fulfill the purpose of the law to ensure social harmony and peace in particular democratic state? Through standards from the Legislature or from decisions by the judiciary, saying the activity of the law applicable to the case at issue? While the unifying discourse of Modernity worked well, apparently, seemed to be enough reading legal texts and proceed its application in the literal solution to the particular case that reached the yearning of legal certainty. Thus, the system of civil law, the codes would give citizens and magistrates the way to determine what would be / as / and what would / disagree / with the provisions into law. For its part, the system of common law, the same cases, the duty would apply the same decision extracted from analogous case law. However, from the mid-twentieth century, societies become as complex as the values of particular social groups, culminating in absolute break with the speech, monologic, self centering of the encodings of the texts and stare decisis. Thus, theories of interpretation of the law also evolved, creating new models that do not depart from the analysis of the rule of law (or case law), but the seizure of the values found in cases where concrete prism under the general principles of law, notably fundamental human rights. That\'s how they operate changes in the paradigms of legal discourse, indicating that it is less the prescriptive character of the rule of law and more on solving disputes in a dialogical the path to legal certainty. Without denying the important role played by legislative discourse in stabilization of interpersonal relations, it seems that the standard of legal production does not bear the constant changes that are occurring primarily in family law, and gradually gives way legislative speech production to the jurisprudence. In this work we demonstrate how it is possible to develop decisionmaking model that takes into account the discourse of the parties to create case law in order to give it legitimacy, paving the way for adoption of the legal system unique to all Western nations, reestablishing harmony between the Powers, this new operating system by the Statutes and Precedents.

Na epopéia homérica, a ágora, a assembléia do povo, constitui espaço privilegiado de interação social, servindo de cenário para a figuração de eventos importantes para a condução da trama, tanto da Ilíada quanto da Odisséia. No âmbito dos estudos homéricos, aqueles que se dedicam à análise histórica dos poemas têm feito largo uso desses episódios, na busca de chegar a explicações coerentes a respeito dos modos de operação da sociedade retratada na narrativa. Qual seria o papel das assembléias na sociedade homérica? Qual seria a constituição social do povo presente nessas reuniões? Seria ela conformada aos moldes de uma sociedade de caráter patriarcal ou refletiria as instituições das nascentes póleis arcaicas? Ou seria pura ficção, um amálgama de elementos contraditórios, não retratando uma sociedade que tivesse tido existência fora dos textos? O principal obstáculo para o encaminhamento dessas questões encontra-se na própria natureza dos textos homéricos. Elas são caras à nossa forma de perceber o mundo, mas não encontram eco no texto. Os poemas não apresentam registros que possibilitem respostas precisas para elas. Quando as questões que animam a interpretação buscam a clara delimitação das instâncias organizacionais da sociedade figurada na Ilíada e na Odisséia, a memória preservada, no registro épico da ágora homérica, apresenta-se para nós permeada de ambigüidade e indefinições, que, para serem rompidas, necessitam de esquemas de referências que possibilitem contextos a partir dos quais se possa empreender a análise. No presente trabalho, apresentam-se reflexão sobre a forma como a crítica especializada tem contornado tais problemas de interpretação e proposta de hermenêutica das cenas de assembléia na épica, tendo como fio condutor as questões da conformação da ágora como elemento definidor do estatuto da vida civilizada; da oposição entre assunto público e privado; e da natureza social do povo presente nas assembléias / In Homeric epic poems, the ágora, the assembly of the people, constitutes a privileged space of social interaction. It serves as stage set for portraying important events for plot conduction, both in the Iliad and the Odissey. In scope of Homeric studies, those engaged in historical analysis of the epic poems have made wide use of these episodes in search of coherent explanations, regarding the operational ways of the society portrayed throughout the narrative. Which would be the role of the assemblies in the Homeric society? Which would be the social constitution of the people present in these meetings? Would it be conformed to the moulds of a society of patriarchal character or would it reflect the institutions of the rising archaic pólis? Or would it be pure fiction, an amalgam of contradictory elements, not portraying a society that had had existence out of the texts? The main obstacle for the guiding of these questions meets in the proper nature of the Homeric texts. They are so dear to the way we perceive the world, but they don\'t find any echo in the text. The poems do not present registers that make possible accurate answers for the asked questions. When the questions that liven up the interpretation search the clear delimitation of the organizational instances of the society depicted in the Iliad and in the Odyssey, the memory preserved in the epic register of the Homeric ágora comes out pervaded by ambiguity and unclear settings, that, to be breached, need design of references that make possible contexts from which the analysis can be undertaken. This work presents a reflection on the form as the specialized critic has contoured such problems of interpretation and a proposal of hermeneutics of the assembly scenes in the epic, having as conducting wire the questions related to the conformation of the ágora as defining element of civilized life; the opposition between public and private subject; and the social nature of people present in the assemblies

區凱琳. / "2009年7月". / "2009 nian 7 yue". / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 168-172). / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Ou Kailin. / 引言 --- p.1 / Chapter 一 --- 導論 --- p.2 / Chapter 1.1 --- 傅柯的倫理學之預備¨®Ơ明 --- p.4 / Chapter 1.1.1 --- 傅柯學¨®Ơ的三條軸線 / Chapter 1.1.2 --- 傅柯對道德觀的三種區分 / Chapter 1.1.3 --- 傅柯研究的道德觀及其研究方法 ´ؤ´ؤ「實行手法之道德觀」與「道德過程之個性化條件」 / Chapter 1.1.4 --- 傅柯研究的道德觀之歷史 ´ؤ´ؤ「道德主體化的方式」及「自身實踐的方式」之歷史 / Chapter 1.1.5 --- 傅柯研究的道德觀及其研究方法之特殊意義 / Chapter 1.2 --- 傅柯的《主體解釋學》之預備¨®Ơ明 --- p.16 / Chapter 1.2.1 --- 傅柯對古代研究之態度 / Chapter 1.2.2 --- 傅柯對古代倫理之基本分析 / Chapter 1.2.3 --- 《主體解釋學》的工作及其目的 / Chapter 1.3 --- 本文的旨趣 --- p.22 / Chapter 二 --- 關懷自身原則中的主體與真理關係 --- p.24 / Chapter 2.1 --- 概¨®Ơ「關懷自身」與「認識你自己」 --- p.27 / Chapter 2.2 --- 「關懷自身」之理論化與邊緣化 --- p.32 / Chapter 2.3 --- 兩種哲學區分與主體與真理的弔詭關係 --- p.42 / Chapter 2.4 --- 修省之理由 --- p.48 / Chapter 三 --- 知識探索與自身轉化 --- p.53 / Chapter 3.1 --- 關懷自身之「自身的『自身目的化』」 --- p.57 / Chapter 3.2 --- 轉向自身´ؤ´ؤ知識與真理的基點 --- p.62 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- 目光之轉向 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- 實在的轉移及回歸自身 / Chapter 3.3 --- 知識之精神性模態化´إ´إ主體與世界關係之安頓 --- p.67 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- 德米特里厄斯的知識之關係性模式 ´ؤ´ؤ自身與世界連繫在一起的知識觀 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- 伊比鳩魯的自然研究 ´ؤ世界知識成為轉化自身之催化媒介 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- 塞內加的世界頂峰 ´ؤ´ؤ此岸世界之解放 / Chapter 3.3.4 --- 奧列里烏斯之無限小的剖析 ´ؤ魔力與誘惑之消解 / Chapter 3.4 --- 兩種知識之區分´ؤ´ؤ「精神性知識」與「智力知識的知識」 --- p.95 / Chapter 四 --- 修省與拯救 --- p.100 / Chapter 4.1 --- 概¨®Ơ修省 --- p.103 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- 哲學的修省與基督宗教的苦行 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- 修省與預備 / Chapter 4.1.3 --- 修省之兩層 / Chapter 4.2 --- 真言之主體化´ؤ´ؤ哲學之修習方式 --- p.108 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- 聆聽與沉默 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- ˇئø讀與書寫之關係 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- 言¨®Ơ與真理 / Chapter 4.3 --- 主體之修行´ؤ´ؤ知行一致的主體 --- p.118 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- 鍛鍊與考驗 / Chapter 4.3.1 a --- 節制之養生法 / Chapter 4.3.1 b --- 試煉之實踐 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- 主體的沉思 / Chapter 4.3.2 a --- 邪惡之預想 / Chapter 4.3.2 b --- 死亡之修鍊 / Chapter 4.3.2 c --- 良知的檢測 / Chapter 4.4 --- 拯救自身´ؤ´ؤ此生此世的拯救 --- p.134 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- 基督宗教的拯救概念 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- 「自身目的化」與拯救 / Chapter 4.4.3 --- 古代的拯救概念 / Chapter 五 --- 結論´ؤ´ؤ哲學與自我拯救 --- p.142 / Chapter 5.1 --- 回顧及小結 --- p.143 / Chapter 5.2 --- ´ؤ己與超越 --- p.147 / Chapter 5.3 --- 精神性及關懷自身的回歸 --- p.151 / Chapter 5.4 --- 總結 --- p.157 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- 保存個體存在風格的倫理觀 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- 哲學之用 / 後記 --- p.162 / 附錄一 縮寫 --- p.163 / 附錄二 詞彙表 --- p.164 / 附錄三參考書目 --- p.168 / 回顧 --- p.173

Lung Chun Ming. / "July 2012." / Thesis (M.Div.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012. / Includes bibliographical references. / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / ABSTRACT --- p.II / INTRODUCTION --- p.6 / DEFINITION OF THE TERMS --- p.8 / Chapter 1 --- EARLY PENTECOSTAL EXPERIENCE --- p.9 / Chapter 1.1 --- CHARLES FOX PARHAM --- p.10 / Chapter 1.1.1 --- BRIEF ACCOUNT TO CHARLES FOX PARHAM --- p.11 / Chapter 1.1.2 --- PARHAM'S VIEW ON PENTECOSTAL EXPERIENCE --- p.12 / Chapter 1.2 --- WILLIAM J. SEYMOUR --- p.16 / Chapter 1.2.1 --- BRIEF ACCOUNT TO WILLIAM JOSEPH SEYMOUR --- p.16 / Chapter 1.2.2 --- SEYMOUR'S VIEW ON PENTECOSTAL EXPERIENCE --- p.17 / Chapter 1.3 --- G. S. CASHWELL --- p.19 / Chapter 1.3.1 --- BRIEF ACCOUNT TO GASTON BARNABAS CASHWELL --- p.20 / Chapter 1.3.2 --- CASHWELL'S VIEW ON PENTECOSTAL EXPERIENCE --- p.21 / Chapter 1.4 --- CONCLUSION --- p.24 / Chapter 2 --- CONTEMPORARY PENTECOSTAL HERMENEUTICS --- p.26 / Chapter 2.1 --- MENZIES'S VIEW POINT TO PENTECOSTAL HERMENEUTIC --- p.28 / Chapter 2.2 --- STRONSTAD'S VIEW POINT TO PENTECOSTAL HERMENEUTIC --- p.29 / Chapter 2.3 --- LEWIS'S VIEW ON PENTECOSTAL HERMENEUTIC --- p.31 / Chapter 2.4 --- CONCLUSION --- p.32 / Chapter 3 --- CRITICISM OF BULTMANN'S PROGRAM OF DEMYTHOLOGIZATION FROM A PENTECOSTAL PERSPECTIVE --- p.33 / Chapter 3.1 --- CRITICISMS OF BULTMANN'S PROGRAM OF DEMYTHOLOGIZATION FROM HOWARD M. ERVIN --- p.33 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- BRIEF ACCOUNT TO HOWARD M. ERVIN --- p.33 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- FIRST CRITICISM WORLDVIEW OF MODERN MAN NO LONGER HOLDS --- p.34 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- SECOND CRITICISM: DEMYTHOLOGIZATION IS ONLY A TASK OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE BIBLE. DEMYTHOLOGIZATION NEGLECTS DIVINE HERMENEUTICS DURING INTERPRETATION --- p.35 / Chapter 3.2 --- ANALYSIS OF BULTMANN'S PROGRAM OF DEMYTHOLOGIZING --- p.36 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- BULTMANN'S VIEW ON DEMYTHOLOGIZATION --- p.37 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- RICOEUR VIEW'S ON BULTMANN'S DEMYTHOLOGIZATION --- p.39 / Chapter 3.3 --- A CRITICAL DIALOGUE BETWEEN PENTECOSTAL HERMENEUTICS AND BULTMANN'S DEMYTHOLOGIZATION --- p.44 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- RESPONSE TO FIRST CRITICISM --- p.44 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- RESPONSE TO SECOND CRITICISM --- p.45 / Chapter 3.4 --- CONCLUSION --- p.46 / CONCLUSION --- p.47 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.48 / BOOKS AND JOURNALS --- p.48 / ONLINE RESOURCES --- p.50

Nosso texto propõe uma leitura da Confissões de Agostinho de Hipona com elementos da hermenêutica filosofia de Paul Ricoeur, especialmente a noção da identidade narrativa. O si, a memória e a identidade são pontos de encontro onde as filosofias de ambos os autores dialogam e se iluminam reciprocamente. / Our text examines Augustines Confessions with the help of Paul Ricoeur philosophical hermeneutics, specially the notion of narrative identity. The self, memory and identity are the areas where authors meet to a mutual dialogue that enlightens both philosophies.

Si Alfred Cortot se définit comme interprète de Frédéric Chopin, c’est non seulement comme pianiste mais aussi comme théoricien. Le travail d’exégèse qu’il mène, notamment au travers de nombreux écrits, est le corrélat de toute exécution instrumentale. Notre recherche a ainsi pour objet de montrer comment ces deux acceptions du terme « interprétation » se complètent et suscitent un dialogue fructueux entre la concrétude d’un objet sonore et l’abstraction d’une pensée. Cela suppose de considérer non seulement la manière dont Cortot nous donne à réfléchir, en tant que biographe, sur une image particulière de Chopin et de sa musique, mais aussi le procédé par lequel il passe d’une formalisation théorique à une concrétisation de sa pensée dans et par l’interprétation. Notre travail s’organise selon trois axes : un examen des méthodes historiographiques employées par Cortot, une étude de sa démarche herméneutique – en particulier dans l’édition de travail des œuvres de Chopin – et enfin une analyse de quelques enregistrements des Préludes op. 28. / If Alfred Cortot performs and interprets Chopin’s, it is not only as a pianist but also as a theoretician. His exegesis, expounded in many writings, is the correlate of his instrumental performance. The purpose of our research is to show how both aspects of interpretation complement each other and generate a fruitful dialogue between concerte sound and abstracte thought. This implies to consider in which terms Cortot proposes and creates, as a biographer, a singular image of Chopin, but also the process through which he switches from a theoretical formalization to the embodiment of his thought in his performance.Our work is organized along three axes: a review of historiographical methods used by Cortot, a study of the hermeneutical process – especially in the student edition of Chopin’s work – and finally an analysis of some recordings of the Preludes op. 28.

The issue of psychotherapists' values in psychotherapy has become increasingly challenging as philosophers have questioned the viability of concepts such as objectivity and relativism. Historically, psychotherapists have relied on notions such as bracketing or suspending their own values to avoid the moral and ethical implications that such values might be active in psychotherapy. Acknowledging that psychotherapists' values are active in psychotherapy raises a host of important issues, including how to appropriately navigate value conflicts. This study explored the experience of psychotherapists as they navigate conflicts between their religious and professional values. Qualitative interviews with eight religiously committed psychologists were transcribed and analyzed using Collaborative Hermeneutic Interpretation. Major themes and findings include: the possibility that one can be a religiously committed psychologist; that research topics are informed by religious values; the strengthening of personal values through conflict; there are a variety of values gained from religious affiliation; feeling out of place in religious and professional communities; having religious and philosophical issues broadened and deepened in complexity; knowing when to defend values and worldview; having quality research and reputation as a defense; and positive and negative experiences with supervisors. Participants also discussed what was helpful in preparing them for value conflicts and the preparation they wished they would have received. The findings in this study emphasize the importance of the supervisory relationship and the impact that supervisors can have on trainees as they work through value conflicts. Training programs are also recommended to provide trainees guidance that will help prepare them to navigate potential value conflicts over the course of their professional development.