Hurricanes are the leading cause of economic loss in the United States, and recent studies have shown that they have increased in intensity. The growth of population and wealth to coastal regions has exacerbated catastrophic losses. The purpose of this study is to examine the role of three modes of natural climate variability as well as hurricane intensification on destructiveness along the Gulf Coast. The study utilized R programming software to create raster grids and evaluate spatial and temporal relationships between intensification, intensity, sea surface temperatures and destructiveness. Destructiveness was synthesized using the Pielke Landsea 2018 (PL18) normalized losses dataset. The principal findings revealed that the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) has the greatest influence on hurricane intensification and associated damages. The study offers a contribution to research on hurricane intensification and destructiveness associated with natural climate variability and urges stakeholders to dedicate funds for mitigation measures to reduce the vulnerability to Gulf Coast counties.

- The relationship between destructiveness and law This thesis deals with the relationship between destructiveness and law. The aim of the thesis is to describe the destructiveness, its manifestations in society and its relationship to the law. To describe the topic I used findings of Fromm, Baumann, Lorenzo, Elias, Arendt, Karstedt and other psychologists, sociologists, social psychologists, criminologists and philosophers. Chapter One and chapter Two focuse on the concept of aggression and destructiveness and their manifestations in our society, as they are an integral part of it. In addition, culture and aggression constantly interact with each other. Western culture condemns violence, but the question is whether this refusal is sufficiently reflected in all areas of social life, for example when it comes to domestic violence, bullying or potential dangers of the presentation of violence in the media. Chapter Three examines rate of violence and violent crime and the suitability of Czech legislation in terms of its ability to maintain the lowest possible level of these rates. An important finding is that not only law, but also other normative systems and social institutions take part in protecting the society from violence. I also consider the influence of democracy and individualization and...

A sample of aberrant self-promoters (ASPs) was identified through their pattern of answers on a 179-item questionnaire. A group of comparison participants who did not exhibit the ASP pattern was also identified. The participants viewed a videotape of a lecture and rated the lecturer's performance. Half of the participants were told that they were required to provide face-to-face feedback to the lecturer (the accountability condition); the other half were not given these instructions (non-accountability condition). Also, half of the participants were told that there may be an opportunity for them to appear on a training video for graduate student instructors (opportunity for personal recognition condition); the other half were not told of this opportunity (no opportunity condition). This study attempted to identify the roles of aberrant self-promotion, accountability, and opportunity for personal recognition in rater accuracy and rater leniency. / Master of Science

A presente tese consiste em percurso pelas concepções de manejo das transferências negativas nas produções de Freud, Ferenczi e Winnicott, explicitando os diferentes sentidos e enquadres da resistência e da destrutividade na teoria da clínica de cada um desses autores, e também ensaiando pontos de contato entre eles. Como fio condutor, ou como visada ética, a valorização de uma dimensão de positividade da destruição na clínica psicanalítica na medida em que, promotora de diferenças e limites, está implicada nos caminhos das transferências em análise. Ao longo do percurso, o estudo de figuras de submissão na clínica masoquismo em Freud, identificação ao agressor em Ferenczi e falso self em Winnicott nos permite mapear outras vias para o manejo da agressividade, especialmente em situações nas quais a resistência e ódio não aparecem no trabalho analítico ou, se aparecem, não são sentidos como próprios. Em comum entre Freud, Ferenczi e Winnicott, a crítica ao excesso interpretativo e às análises que ocorrem em nível estritamente intelectual. Em Freud, além da interpretação, princípio de abstinência, associação livre/atenção flutuante e luta para superação das resistências, forjados ao longo da primeira tópica, demonstramos que as noções de elaboração, construção, bem como a menção à lenta demolição do superego hostil, permitem o esboço de outras possibilidades de manejo que se desdobram nas teorias de Ferenczi e Winnicott. Em Ferenczi, abordamos o percurso clínico que culmina na elasticidade da técnica analítica e em sua discussão sobre a implicação e limites do analista no manejo do ódio traumático e clivado que reincide na clínica. Em Winnicott, o holding, a regressão à dependência, o brincar, o uso das falhas do analista e a destruição/sobrevivência do analista permitem abordar as diferentes facetas de sua teoria da agressividade no desenvolvimento emocional e diferentes posições do analista no manejo da transferência. Como recurso para explicitar os limites e possibilidades de manejo, a construção do texto é perpassada por extratos de casos clínicos. Em Freud, os casos Dora, Homem dos Ratos, Homem dos Lobos, Jovem Homossexual e AB são abordados; em Ferenczi, algumas considerações sobre a análise de Elisabeth Severn e S.I. são evocados; em Winnicott, são analisados os casos B. e Margaret Little. Por fim, nosso percurso permite afirmar que a possibilidade da destrutividade exercer sua função diferencial depende da disponibilidade do analista de se oferecer como suporte (o que inclui também oposição, resistência e limite) e de se permitir ser destruído e sobreviver à destruição ao longo do trabalho analítico / The present thesis consists of path through the management of negative transfers in Freud\'s, Ferenczi\'s and Winnicott\'s productions by making explicit different framing and meaning of resistance and destructiveness in treatment\'s theory of each of these authors, but also essaying points of contact among them. As a guidewire, or as ethic bias, the valorization of a dimension of positiveness of the destruction in psychoanalytic treatment insofar as, promoter of differences and limits, it is implied in the ways of the transfers in analysis. Along the course, the study of figures of submission in treatment masochism in Freud, identification with the aggressor in Ferenczi and false self in Winnicott allows one to map other ways for the management of aggressiveness, especially in situations in which resistance and hate do not appear in analytic work or, if they do, they are not felt as their own. Common to Freud, Ferenczi and Winnicott, the criticism to the interpretative excess and to analysis that occur in the strictly intellectual level. In Freud, besides interpretation, principle of abstinence, free association / floating attention and fight to overcome the resistances, forged along the first topic, we demonstrate that the notions of working through, construction, as well as the mention to the slow demolition of the hostile super-ego, permit outline other possibilities of management that unfold in Ferenczi\'s and Winnicott\'s theories. In Ferenczi, we approach the clinical course that culminates in the elasticity of the analytical technique and in its discussion about the implications and limits of the analyst in cleaved and traumatic hate management that relapses in treatment. In Winnicott, the holding, the regression to dependence, the play, the use of the analyst\'s fails and destruction/survival permit to approach the different facets of his theory of aggressiveness in emotional development and different positions of the analyst in transfer management. As a resource to make explicit the limits and possibilities of management, the construction of the text is permeated by extracts of clinical cases. In Freud, Dora, Rat Man, Wolf Man, Young Female Homosexual, and AB cases are addressed; in Ferenczi, some considerations about the analysis of Elisabeth Severn and S.I. are evoked; in Winnicott, B. and Margaret Little cases are analyzed. In conclusion, our course permits to affirm that the possibility of destructiveness to exert its differential function depends on the availability of the analyst to offer as a holding himself (which includes also opposition, resistance and limit) and to permit himself to be destroyed and himself to be destroyed and to survive to the destruction along the analytical work

A presente tese consiste em percurso pelas concepções de manejo das transferências negativas nas produções de Freud, Ferenczi e Winnicott, explicitando os diferentes sentidos e enquadres da resistência e da destrutividade na teoria da clínica de cada um desses autores, e também ensaiando pontos de contato entre eles. Como fio condutor, ou como visada ética, a valorização de uma dimensão de positividade da destruição na clínica psicanalítica na medida em que, promotora de diferenças e limites, está implicada nos caminhos das transferências em análise. Ao longo do percurso, o estudo de figuras de submissão na clínica masoquismo em Freud, identificação ao agressor em Ferenczi e falso self em Winnicott nos permite mapear outras vias para o manejo da agressividade, especialmente em situações nas quais a resistência e ódio não aparecem no trabalho analítico ou, se aparecem, não são sentidos como próprios. Em comum entre Freud, Ferenczi e Winnicott, a crítica ao excesso interpretativo e às análises que ocorrem em nível estritamente intelectual. Em Freud, além da interpretação, princípio de abstinência, associação livre/atenção flutuante e luta para superação das resistências, forjados ao longo da primeira tópica, demonstramos que as noções de elaboração, construção, bem como a menção à lenta demolição do superego hostil, permitem o esboço de outras possibilidades de manejo que se desdobram nas teorias de Ferenczi e Winnicott. Em Ferenczi, abordamos o percurso clínico que culmina na elasticidade da técnica analítica e em sua discussão sobre a implicação e limites do analista no manejo do ódio traumático e clivado que reincide na clínica. Em Winnicott, o holding, a regressão à dependência, o brincar, o uso das falhas do analista e a destruição/sobrevivência do analista permitem abordar as diferentes facetas de sua teoria da agressividade no desenvolvimento emocional e diferentes posições do analista no manejo da transferência. Como recurso para explicitar os limites e possibilidades de manejo, a construção do texto é perpassada por extratos de casos clínicos. Em Freud, os casos Dora, Homem dos Ratos, Homem dos Lobos, Jovem Homossexual e AB são abordados; em Ferenczi, algumas considerações sobre a análise de Elisabeth Severn e S.I. são evocados; em Winnicott, são analisados os casos B. e Margaret Little. Por fim, nosso percurso permite afirmar que a possibilidade da destrutividade exercer sua função diferencial depende da disponibilidade do analista de se oferecer como suporte (o que inclui também oposição, resistência e limite) e de se permitir ser destruído e sobreviver à destruição ao longo do trabalho analítico / The present thesis consists of path through the management of negative transfers in Freud\'s, Ferenczi\'s and Winnicott\'s productions by making explicit different framing and meaning of resistance and destructiveness in treatment\'s theory of each of these authors, but also essaying points of contact among them. As a guidewire, or as ethic bias, the valorization of a dimension of positiveness of the destruction in psychoanalytic treatment insofar as, promoter of differences and limits, it is implied in the ways of the transfers in analysis. Along the course, the study of figures of submission in treatment masochism in Freud, identification with the aggressor in Ferenczi and false self in Winnicott allows one to map other ways for the management of aggressiveness, especially in situations in which resistance and hate do not appear in analytic work or, if they do, they are not felt as their own. Common to Freud, Ferenczi and Winnicott, the criticism to the interpretative excess and to analysis that occur in the strictly intellectual level. In Freud, besides interpretation, principle of abstinence, free association / floating attention and fight to overcome the resistances, forged along the first topic, we demonstrate that the notions of working through, construction, as well as the mention to the slow demolition of the hostile super-ego, permit outline other possibilities of management that unfold in Ferenczi\'s and Winnicott\'s theories. In Ferenczi, we approach the clinical course that culminates in the elasticity of the analytical technique and in its discussion about the implications and limits of the analyst in cleaved and traumatic hate management that relapses in treatment. In Winnicott, the holding, the regression to dependence, the play, the use of the analyst\'s fails and destruction/survival permit to approach the different facets of his theory of aggressiveness in emotional development and different positions of the analyst in transfer management. As a resource to make explicit the limits and possibilities of management, the construction of the text is permeated by extracts of clinical cases. In Freud, Dora, Rat Man, Wolf Man, Young Female Homosexual, and AB cases are addressed; in Ferenczi, some considerations about the analysis of Elisabeth Severn and S.I. are evoked; in Winnicott, B. and Margaret Little cases are analyzed. In conclusion, our course permits to affirm that the possibility of destructiveness to exert its differential function depends on the availability of the analyst to offer as a holding himself (which includes also opposition, resistance and limit) and to permit himself to be destroyed and himself to be destroyed and to survive to the destruction along the analytical work

Orientador: Profª. Drª. Marília Mello Pisani / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do ABC, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia, 2017. / A pesquisa trata da crítica que Herbert Marcuse empreende à razão tecnológica com foco no aspecto da destrutividade, pondo em evidência a questão da dialética que acompanha a análise de Marcuse. Esta destrutividade envolve aqui bem mais que a questão das guerras, do arsenal de armas inclusive atômicas e da face violenta de nossa civilização. Sim, pois abrange, ainda, a dominação das massas, as novas formas de controle social, a alienação e reificação das pessoas, a vida sob o poder do todo opressivo, o qual é essa própria racionalidade hegemônica que permeia o tecido social. Assim, a destrutividade decorrente dessa racionalidade concerne, também, à atomização dos indivíduos, à crise de identidade, à existência mimetizada sob a positividade do pensamento unidimensional que não opera com a crítica e não opera dialeticamente. Daí nasce o conformismo da sociedade mesmo diante de um aparato tecnológico que propicia fartura e conforto, mas, paralelo a isso, gera uma concentração de capital sem precedentes, em escala jamais vista. A razão tecnológica chegou a uma fase estarrecedora de radicalização da destrutividade, que é, conforme a hipótese que este estudo lança, o nível extremo do capitaloceno e da necropolítica, a potencialização do Warfare State, o Estado beligerante. A razão tecnológica e seu caráter de destrutividade se estruturam por um nexo que vincula capital, trabalho, sociedade, ideologia, capitaloceno e necropolítica, como demonstraremos. O estudo discutirá como se formou a razão tecnológica a partir do industrialismo e do capitalismo moderno, como ela se agigantou em escala global e se consolidou vinculada à dimensão político-econômica, e como se radicalizou para atingir hoje um nível extremo, uma última fronteira, uma era para a qual Marcuse tanto alertou. / The research deals with the criticism that Herbert Marcuse makes to technological reason with a focus on the aspect of destructiveness, highlighting the question of the dialectic that accompanies the analysis of Marcuse. This destructiveness involves much more here than the question of wars, the arsenal of weapons including atomic, and the violent face of our civilization. Yes, because it also includes domination of the masses, new forms of social control, alienation and reification of people, the life under the power of the oppressive whole, which is that hegemonic rationality that permeates the social fabric. Thus, the destructiveness resulting from this rationality concerns, also, the atomization of individuals, the crisis of identity, existence mimicked under the positivity of one-unidimensional thinking that does not operate with criticism, does not operate dialectically. Is born hence the conformity of society even in the face of a technological apparatus that provides abundance and comfort, but, parallel to this, generates an unprecedented concentration of capital on a scale never seen before. The technological reason has arrived at a staggering stage of radicalization of the destructiveness, which is, according to the hypothesis that this study throws, the extreme level of the the capitalocene and the necropolitics, the potentialization of the Warfare State, the belligerent State. The technological reason and its destructiveness character is structured by a nexus that links capital, labor, society, ideology, capitalocene and and necropolitics, as we will demonstrate. The study will discuss how technological reason was formed from industrialism and modern capitalism, how it has grown on a global scale and consolidated itself linked to the political-economic dimension, and how it radicalized itself to reach an extreme level today, a last frontier, an age to which Marcuse warned so much.

Destruktiv maskulinitet är en aktuell form av maskulinitet bland män idag som kort innebär att visa makt genom våldsbruk, utfrysning och exkludering. Därför syftar denna studie till att undersöka hur olika föreställningar om maskuliniteter påverkar vardagsvillkoren för unga män i ålder 21–24 år samt vilka olika maskuliniteter som unga män förhåller sig till. Studien utgår från fem kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer med unga män från olika bakgrunder. Genus, hegemonisk maskulinitet och homosocialitet är begreppen som används för vidare analysering av det insamlade materialet. Det insamlade materialet analyserades och delades in i fem olika teman utifrån tematisk analysmetod. En del av intervjuguiden består av exponering av bilder som intervjupersonerna förhöll sig till. Utifrån dessa bilder kunde unga mäns föreställningar om manlighet blottläggas. Resultatet visar vilka maskuliniteter som unga män förhåller sig till samt att den dominerande formen är den traditionella maskuliniteten. Den traditionella maskuliniteten ställer krav på män som till exempel att försörja familjen. Resultatet visar även att intervjupersoner förknippar ordet manlig till kroppshets och fysik. Avgörande aspekter för unga mäns syn på maskulinitet är kultur, etnisk bakgrund, trosuppfattning samt samhällets förväntningar genom exempelvis sociala medier. Detta påverkar dem genom att de väljer att agera och se ut utifrån dessa aspekter till exempel att en vältränad man är manligare än en överviktig. / Destructive masculinity is a current form of masculinity among men today which in short means to show power through violence, freezing and exclusion. Therefore, this study aims to investigate how different conceptions of masculinities affect the living conditions of young men aged 21-24 and what different masculinities young men relate to. The study is based on five qualitative semi-structured interviews with young men from different backgrounds. Gender, hegemonic masculinity and homosociality are the terms used for further analysis of the collected material. The collected material was analyzed and divided into five different themes based on thematic analysis method. Part of the interview guide consists of exposure of pictures to which the interviewees related. From these images young men's conceptions of masculinity could be exposed. The result shows the masculinities that young men relate to and that the dominant form is the traditional masculinity. The traditional masculinity demands young men, such as providing for the family. The results also show that interviewers associate the word male with body image and physique. Crucial aspects for young men's view of masculinity are culture, ethnic background, beliefs and society's expectations through, for example, social media. This affects them by choosing to act and look from these aspects, for example that a well-trained man is more manly than an overweight man.

This thesis is an introduction to sophia-analysis and deals with the concepts and methods it offers the individual for the purpose of personal growth. The theoretical part of the thesis is devoted to defining the sophia-analytical psychotherapeutic school. It presents the conceptual references of sophia-analysis, its metapsychology and works through its theoretical underpinnings and specific anthropological concepts. It further describes the applied therapeutic forms as well as presents the organization and specifics of its training system. It concludes with a brief history of sophia- analysis and a short biography of its founder. The applied section of the thesis deals with the identification, classification and selection of the most distinctive psychotherapeutic processes found in 21 individual sessions of sophia-analytical therapy, using "psychotherapy process Q-test" methodology. The applied section also describes in detail the methodology used and the results of its application to sophia-analytical material. The applied methodology serves two purposes. First, it provides a picture of sophia-analytical practice from the point of view of psychotherapeutic process in the context of actual sophia-analytical sessions and so complements the introduction of this psychotherapeutic branch in the...

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:40:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Roseana Moraes Garcia.pdf: 1148032 bytes, checksum: f9941fb89aa326a1560f66326841a909 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-10-14 / It is the purpose of this work to present in an ordered way, the human nature aggression and destructiveness from the winnicottian psychoanalytic perspective. Starting from very clear Winnicott criticism on the theme as it was treated by Freud and Klein, a counterpoint to both authors is introduced to express the difference between traditional and winnicottian psychoanalytic propositions, which, in accordance to Khun model, establishes a paradigmatic change. Taking Winnicott personal maturation theory as a reference, the maturation of aggression is studied from its very start point where it is nothing but motility and spontaneity, until it is completely integrated into the individual whole, stressing that, for Winnicott, aggression is always linked to its roots from the separation moment of the me/not-me and that it is valuable, whenever integrated, either for individual psych health and for social psych health. The paper goes on to describe how the pathologies related to aggression are generated longwise maturation as well as the importance of this awareness for psychoanalytic clinical purposes. At last, it is shown how Winnicott used his agression theory to study non-clinic phenomena, enlarging it to social ones like democracy, dictatorship and wars / O objetivo deste trabalho é apresentar de maneira organizada o conceito de agressividade e de destrutividade na natureza humana, da perspectiva da psicanálise winnicottiana. Inicialmente, partindo-se de críticas explícitas relativas ao tema, feitas por Winnicott tanto à psicanálise freudiana quanto à kleiniana, é apresentado um contraponto com esses dois autores expondo-se as diferenças entre a psicanálise tradicional e a psicanálise winnicottiana, o que caracteriza uma mudança paradigmática na psicanálise, segundo os moldes kuhnianos. Tomando-se como referencial a teoria do amadurecimento pessoal elaborada por Winnicott estuda-se o amadurecimento da agressividade desde as suas raízes, nas quais ela nada mais é do que motilidade e espontaneidade até a sua integração na personalidade total do indivíduo, ressaltando que a agressividade está sempre ligada, desde as suas raízes à separação do eu não-eu e que tem valor, quando integrada, tanto para a saúde psíquica individual quanto para a saúde psíquica social. Em seguida, descrevem-se como as diversas patologias relativas à agressividade são geradas ao longo do amadurecimento e a importância desse conhecimento para a clínica psicanalítica. Finalmente, mostra-se como Winnicott usou a sua teoria da agressividade para estudar fenômenos não clínicos, expandindo-a para fenômenos sociais, como a democracia, as ditaduras e as guerras

This study intends to illuminate women’s experiences of their own self-harm. Self-harm is mostly associated with women and research shows that women mostly are over-represented. This study describes women’s experiences about their self-harm but also how they perceive the elements around them during their illness. There is a focus on women’s abilities to manage emotions and how they are expressed. There is also a focus on how women perceive the support from important people in their individual social network. This study is completed by a qualitative approach based on six autobiographies there young women tells about their self-harm and mental health. The study has a hermeneutic approach which enables interpretation of our collected material. The result is presented based on two themes that focus on the women’s emotional management and their support from their social network. The empirical material is analyzed on the basis of theoretical concepts of systems theory and network theory but also Antonovsky’s (1987) theory; KASAM. The result of this study resulted that the women’s social network have significance for them during the time with self-harm whether their social network are functional or not. The study has also found that the women’s emotional management are affected by meaningsfullness, manageability and comprehensibility.