Music therapy is widely portrayed either as a paramedical practice within which music is a technology applied as a form of treatment or as a form of psychotherapy within which the music plays a primarily symbolic role or acts as a lead in to verbal consideration of the patient’s presenting issues. Music therapy research currently focuses predominantly on demonstrating “evidence of effectiveness” in terms of symptomatic outcome, thus preserving a focus on the individual congruent with the medical model. In contrast, this thesis seeks to examine ethnographically the ways in which music therapy gets accomplished as a situated social practice within a community mental health resource centre in a UK urban area. Drawing both on the observations and experiences of the researcher (a music therapist already working within this setting) and on formal and informal interviews with the centre’s members and staff, it seeks to identify ways in which music therapy gets done and value ascribed to it. Observations are compared with the “norms” portrayed by dominant professional discourse, and reasons for discrepancies considered. Particular attention is paid to self-awareness, intimacy and conviviality as facets of what music therapy has to offer in such a setting, and to social capital theory and Goffman’s dramaturgical approach as broader conceptual frameworks for such affordances. Consideration is also given to the “fit” between the affordances of music itself, and the “craft” required of diverse actors in order that music therapy can be considered to offer an ecology which promotes health and well-being. Finally, the findings are re-addressed towards music therapy itself via the lens of what it means to be “clinical” in order that a sociological “craft” perspective maybe brought to bear within the discipline.

Path models assessed different models of influential order for parental bonding; adult romantic attachment; views of self, world/others, and the future; the fear of intimacy; and cognitive distortions among child molesters and non-offending controls. Child molesters receiving sex offender treatment reported more problematic parental bonding; insecure adult romantic attachment; negative views of self, world/others, and the future; a greater fear of intimacy, and more cognitive distortions regarding adult-child sex. The predicted path models were not established as the models did not adequately fit the data. However, post hoc logistic regressions indicated that Maternal Optimal Bonding, Preoccupied attachment, and cognitive distortions regarding adult-child sex significantly predicted child molester status. Overall, the findings provide support for a multi-factorial model of child molestation derived from attachment theory. Limitations of the study and areas for future research are also discussed.

Drawing from ongoing revitalization initiatives in Richmond, Virginia, this adaptive reuse project creates a structured dialogue between public and private expression to create a more immersive gallery experience for viewer and practitioner. The gallery experience is twofold; traditional object-based display and nontraditional process-based display. Preservation of the historic fabric of the existing Handcraft building at 1501 Roseneath is integrated with the transformative potential of introducing voyeuristic opportunities in creating a community arts center. Notions of voyeurism will center around ideas of visual connection and physical separation. This project questions if tactics of voyeurism, which inherently create physical barriers, can facilitate interaction and encourage co-creation in a creative setting. Structured moments of intimacy and control are accomplished through presented and found views of movement, object, and process. These moments of intimacy and control create a conceptual reciprocity which guides the design of this project. Ultimately, the redesign creates a dialogue between the process of making and the final product/object by facilitating interaction between the viewer and practitioner through different points of the creative process. The project moves away from exploiting the site’s formal, historical, and contextual components and encourages the audience member to engage with the maker through a corporeal, experiential encounter. The environment becomes a catalyst for cross-disciplinary creativity on an individual, group, and community level. The development of spaces that engage the creative mind and foster collaborative growth will serve the Richmond arts community and can act as an icon for successful urban transformation.

(in English): Intimacy and solitude in Chrétien de Troyes' works and in the Czech courtly romance The thesis studies some literary images of interiority, profound emotions and thougts, solitude and the need for privacy as these are depicted in the romances of Chrétien de Troyes and in the works of his continuators (namely those connected with the Tristan romances). They are interpreted as an expression of the medieval poets' effort to influence their public, to cultivate and to present some interesting subjects and important questions in the guise of a fictional story. There are striking descriptions of the unbalance between solitude and social duties, positive or negative evaluation of human solitude (always depending on the narrator's intention), or symbolical objects from the intimate sphere used as manifest means of political representation. Martin Šorm

This piece is about family and elements of subconscious creation. I created the place with family and art photos. There are television with video-performance caled The Pancakes and audio record contain theoretic thesis on the same theme. These three parts of my work I tried sensitively install in area.

Bolivia has a high STI rate and an accelerating HIV/AIDS rate. The majority of the country's newly diagnosed HIV/AIDS cases come from the province of Santa Cruz in eastern Bolivia, where this study took place. In this study, the investigator assessed the notion that Bolivian truck drivers are a bridge population of HIV transmission within heterosexual networks. This investigation determined risks of HIV/STI transmission through interviews, surveys, and workshops given to the truck drivers. Special attention was given to self reports of sexual behavior, cognitions and ego maturation stages, in order to assess risk. Mixed methodology was the research paradigm of choice, utilizing qualitative and quantitative phases. Workshops were designed, implemented, and evaluated. Analysis was completed on survey results from 246 male truckers (aged 18 to 67). More than half (56%) of these truckers admitted to having sex with casual partners. In addition, from 30% (quantitative inquiry) to 52% (qualitative inquiry) of these truck drivers have had sexually transmitted infections. Three factors predicted condom use: Age, Outcome expectancies, and Perceived social norms. Only one factor predicted STI history: Number of sex partners. Adult stage theory did not directly impact sexual behavior. A high risk of HIV/STI transmission has been detected in Bolivian truck drivers. This notion supports other studies involving truck drivers, and calls attention to the need for tailored health education programs for this population. Furthermore, younger truck drivers are at greater risk of HIV transmission than older truck drivers, in spite of their increased condom use. Sexual health workshops for Bolivian truck drivers are worthwhile and can be most effective when co-managed with truck companies or unions. Counseling, testing, and follow up research programs can best be implemented through these already-existing management structures. Future programs need to emphasize other behaviors besides condom use. Workshops should also include truckers' spouses as participants. Lastly, since casual sex partners of truck drivers rarely fit the mold of a commercial sex worker, effort should be made to describe these casual partners and design subsequent workshops for them.

M.A. / Of late there has been an accelerated impetus in the study of marriage and its associated issues. A veritable deluge of research articles are regularly devoted to the topic, for example Hatfield and Sprecher (1986); Fincham and Bradbury (1987); Dion and Dion (1993); Kamo (1993). There has also been some recent South African research on marriage and mate selection, particularly Crous and Pretorius (1994). New books appear with striking regularity while instruments to measure aspects of relationships are readily available. These include Hendrick and Hendrick's Love Attitude Scale, Spanier's Dyadic Adjustment Scale, and Rubin's Love Scale (Tzeng, 1993). Relationships, love and marriage are becoming increasingly measurable and as more questions become answered, researchers are able to unravel some of the complexity within the field. Adams (1988) looks back at fifty years of family research to discover that it has become increasingly scientific despite dealing with so-called "soft" variables like adjustment and attitudes. When even more elusive constructs like satisfaction, contentment and love are introduced, social scientists find that the terrain might be uncomfortably abstract. However, it is anticipated that as this domain, once only the estate of poets and philosophers becomes steadily more understood, it will bear fruit by answering questions which can then be profitably applied in many couplecounselling situations. The concepts of mate selection, marriage and familial stability are at the heart of societal functioning. There are a myriad of variables that impact on these constructs, as is evident from Surra's (1990) decade review. Recent research has shed some light, albeit theoretical, on the reasons why two people form a marital dyad. Social scientists are thus slowly building a solid mass of knowledge relating to the entire process of how and why a couple eventually exist. This goes hand in hand with contemporary urgency, for the accelerating forces of career, sociological, psychological and economic pressures play havoc with older traditional values of stability and permanence in all these domains. Soaring divorce rates are only one symptom of couples and individuals buckling under these tremendous pressures. Clearly, whatever can be done to better understand the choices individuals make in forming marital dyads, can only be regarded as useful information. In the South African context, this type of research is similarly required. With the wealth of family and marriage research being done abroad, it is important to know if this information applies to South African couples. Thus the primary motivation for the study is to better understand the way South Africans love. Lee's (1976) treatise is widely accepted as a valuable model of love. To date no work appears to have been done using this model in South Africa. The aims of this study thus are: To determine if there is any relationship between the various lovestyles and marital satisfaction for a South African sample. To examine several contemporary models of love.

Dans cette thèse sur Hélène Cixous, l’écriture fictionnelle est abordée sous l’angle de son intimité propre. Dans les textes littéraires, l’intimité qui en découle étant en général attribuée à l’écrivain, seul garant du texte, ce travail de recherche met l’accent sur le volet autonome de l’écriture relégué de plus en plus à un rang secondaire au profit d’une renaissance de l’auteur. Or, à regarder de près le processus d’avènement de l’écriture – qui, d’ailleurs, chez Hélène Cixous ne se dissocie pas de l’activité onirique ou de la dynamique pulsionnelle – et à interroger l’acte de lecture, il y a quelque chose qui, tout en se donnant, échappe ou se garde. Ce don et ce retrait invite à traiter de l’intimité de l’écriture eu égard à sa dynamique autonome. L’approche du sujet s’est voulue pluridisciplinaire en allant du champ littéraire à celui psychanalytique. Les premières analyses montrent d’abord un parallèle entre la pulsion et l’écriture avant de finir par identifier une pulsion d’écriture et de s’achever en mettant en crise la notion d’auteur et mettant en évidence un Etre-écriture autonome. L’analyse de la question de l’intimité fait le constat selon lequel, l’intimité est dans les fictions d’Hélène Cixous un espace de communication essentiellement littéraire. Communication qui souligne la structure bipartite de l’intimité de l’écriture. Celle-ci se compose de son intimité propre et prend en compte l’exergue d’intimité de la narratrice écrivaine. L’étude des figures de l’intimité permet de mettre en lumière le jeu de l’écriture et de l’intimité en soulignant que si l’intimité se donne dans les fictions cixousiennes, elle se donne surtout par le biais de l’autre. C’est l’autre, l’écriture qui révèle l’intimité. En fin de compte cette thèse montre que l’écriture d’Hélène Cixous à une intimité propre que le lecteur se doit de séparer de celle de l’écrivaine. Même si son écriture met en exergue des indices autobiographiques, il n’en reste pas moins qu’ils sont pris dans le vertige de la fiction. / In this thesis dedicated to Hélène Cixous, we approach the fictional writing from the perspective of its own intimacy. The resulting intimacy is generally attributed to the writer, the only guarantor of the text. The present research puts the emphasis on the independent component of writing increasingly relegated to a secondary position in favor of the author. Yet, when observing closely the process of writing - which incidentally, is not dissociated from dream or drive in writings of Hélène Cixous - and examining the act of reading, there is something that, even if revealed completely, escapes or holds back. Such "giving" and such "escaping" invite us to address the intimacy of writing with respect to its autonomous dynamic. A multidisciplinary approach to the subject is required. This ranges from literature to psychoanalysis. The early analyses show firstly a parallel between drive and writing before identifying the drive writing and finishing by putting in crisis the notion of authorship by highlighting autonomous "Self-writing". Based on analysis of intimacy we found that, the intimacy in Hélène Cixous´ fiction refers essentially to a literary communication, the communication that emphasizes a bipartite structure of the intimacy of writing. It is composed of its own intimacy of writing taking into account a part of the intimacy of the narrator. The study of figures of intimacy highlights the play of writing and intimacy. Furthermore it emphasizes that the intimacy present in Cixous’ fiction is especially revealed through the writing. Finally, the present thesis shows the intimacy specific to Hélène Cixous’ writings which is to be separated, in reader’s perspective, from that of the author. Although Cixous’ texts affirm autobiographical evidence, it is nevertheless caught up in the dynamic of fiction.

This study looks into the intricacies of long-distance romantic relationships and the ways in which intimacy is created and nurtured with the help of technology and digital media platforms. It uses a methodological triangulation, combining quantitative content analysis with qualitative interviews, as tools to investigate the doings of couples who find themselves geographically challenged. The results point out to the fact that people adapt to these  circumstances and use technology as a third player of the relationship, creating and maintaining intimacy mainly through conversations and stepping away from the physical side of a romantic relationship.

Jag har gjort en kvalitativ studie där jag intervjuat tre par, där minst en av informanterna i varje par bodde på SÄBO (särskilt boende för äldre, även kallat äldreboende). För att förstå och analysera de äldres berättelser av sina relationer och sin kärlek till varandra har jag använt mig av en tolkande fenomenologisk analys. Jag vill med min uppsats bredda synen på närhet och kärlek hos par boende på SÄBO samt öppna upp för begreppet ”äldre-existens” som ett svar på det jag kallar samhällets obligatoriska ungdomlighet. Min intention är att ge en fördjupad förståelse för begreppet ”närhet” för att kunna förstå äldre personers relationer och kärlek utan att bidra till den sexualisering och avsexualisering som forskare ofta faller in i när de studerar äldres relationer.