Intrusive thoughts are aversive, private thoughts that are unwanted but intrude into consciousness, and are a ubiquitous phenomenon that approximately 93% of the population experiences (Radomsky et. al., 2014). Obsessional thoughts are a key etiological component of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Cognitive behavioral models of OCD conceptualize intrusive thoughts and obsessive thoughts as the same phenomenon occurring on a spectrum, with obsessional thoughts being a particular type of intrusion that is integral to the development and maintenance of OCD (Moulding, 2014). However, there is little evidence to demonstrate this relationship. This study examined intrusive thoughts across stratified groups based on intrusion frequency using ecological momentary assessment. This exploratory study examined potential idiographic differences in reported experiences of people ranging from low to high levels of intrusive thought frequency. Personalized contemporaneous networks were constructed from participant data and examined for differences in topography, measures of centrality, and magnitude of relationships between nodes. These networks are visually distinct, providing a glimpse into a wide variety of ways in which participants experience and relate to their intrusive thoughts.

Cette thèse a pour but de mettre en scène le sens et l'évolution de la quête identitaire qui partirait d'une perte initiale, voir l'absence de tout (la non-vie) inaugurant alors un besoin urgent de se (re)trouver. Cette quête paradoxale est à l'origine d'un mouvement à la fois centripète et centrifuge. Ce mouvement se manifeste par le biais du désir de construire une identité et parallèlement un souhait d'effacer à jamais toute identité. L'analyse se fonde et se développe sur une logique dialectique qui donne forme à la conscience de soi suite à un long apprentissage romanesque. En examinant les fondements mêmes de cette crispation identitaire d'un point de vue historique nous tentons de répondre à cette question : en quoi l'identité se révèle-t-elle inaccessible dans la première trilogie de l'écrivain ? Tant que la thèse porte sur la quête identitaire tiraillée entre fiction et histoire on se demande si la notion de l'identité que Modiano soulève correspond à une identité conflictuelle et problématique selon le point de vue des sciences humaines. Nous avons concentré notre étude sur ce parcours tourmenté des narrateurs placés dans un paysage fictif menaçant où se réunit les composantes d'une géographie romanesque exclusivement parisienne. Au sein de l'ambiguïté de l'Histoire et des désordres de la mémoire, l'écriture constitue le seul moyen efficace pour forger une identité narrative au narrateur modianesque afin de combattre contre l'anéantissement et la non existence. Même si le narrateur n'arrive pas à se retrouver, par l'écriture, et grâce à la mémoire des autres, il lui arrive néanmoins d'approcher son identité par ce qu'on appelle l'écriture asymptotique comme une seul garant de l'identité. A partir de l'aspect fragmentaire de l'écriture, on passe à la question liée au développement du narrateur. Ce dernier reflète l'identité de l'écrivain qui prend forme progressivement en remontant le temps. Enfin, il est possible de dire que le protagoniste est sorti de l'époque des désordres, qui lui était une fatalité depuis longtemps, pour atteindre la lucidité la plus grande dans sa quête identitaire à travers l'écriture. / This thesis’ aim is to expose the meaning and evolution of a search for identity which stems from an original loss, or the absence of all things (absence of life) which provokes an urgent need to find oneself. This paradoxical quest initiates a movement that is both centripetal and centrifugal. That movement is apparent through the desire of building an identity as well as through the will to permanently erase all identity. The study draws and dwells upon a dialectical logic which shapes the conscience of the self throughout a long fictional initiation. While analysing the roots of that identity tension from a historical standpoint, we aim at answering the following question: to what extent identity proves unattainable in Modiano’s first trilogy ? Since the thesis explores a search for identity torn between fiction and history, we ask if the question of identity as posed by the author points to conflictual and problematic identity on scientific grounds.We built our study around the turbulent journey of narrators situated in a fictional and threatening context where components of an all-Parisian fictional geography come together. In front of history’s ambiguities and memory’s disorders, writing proves the only means capable of giving Modiano’s narrators a writer’s identity, thus enabling them to fight annihilation and non-existence. Though narrators do not succeed in finding themselves through writing and through other people’s memory, they sometimes manage to get closer to their identity through asymptotic writing which warrants somewhat identity. From the fragmentary nature of the texts, we explore the evolution of narrators. The latter reflect the author’s identity which progressively takes shape as they go back in time. Last, it can be said that the protagonist manages to get out of the disorderly times, which for a long period seemed inevitable, and thus attains a greater lucidity in his literary search for identity.

The study aims to investigate how Swedish governmental agencies deal with persons who make excessively large amounts of freedom of information requests. These persons, who can be said to suffer from justice obsession syndrome, often consume an unproportional amount of government agency resources. More specifically, the study investigates whether Swedish government agencies have created formal rules and guidelines on how to handle these citizens and how employees of these agencies view the handling of these cases. The material consists of interviews conducted with ten employees at nine diffrent Swedish government agencies. In addition 24official guidelines where collected from 22 diffrent Swedish government agencies. Trancripts from the interviews and the official guidelines fomed the data of analysis. The study concludes that the majority of the Swedish governmental agencies have well-established routines when dealing with these persons and their freedom of information requests. This regardless of how often or how rarley they deal with this.

Auras is a series of illustrations of Carlos Fuentes’s novella, Aura, a horror love story about memory, obsession, desire, corporeality and immortality. Defying narrative conventions, the story is told through second person. You are the protagonist, Felipe Montero, and are employed by a 109-year old widow to edit her husband's memoirs. Inside the pitchblack house, you fall in love with her beautiful and bizarre green-eyed niece, Aura. The gradual discovery of the true relationship between the young woman and her aunt propel the story to its extraordinary conclusion. The story seems to take place within the confines of the widow’s mind. The plot mimics the obsessive, hypnotic quality of nostalgia and memory. Much of my illustrative content and artistic process reflects a personal obsessive nostalgia I have for my grandmother and her life. It is her image, young and old, coupled with the complex and repetitive processes of printmaking, both traditional and current, that inform my illustration and personal interpretation of Aura. My thesis research conculs a series of artistic processes and theories behind image-making that relish the synthesis of new and old. I look at early horror illustration by Harry Clarke and Francesco Goya, and analyze images and practices in early digital graphic design and April Greiman, reappropriated inkjet and woodblock prints (Anselm Kiefer), and my own lasercut woodblock prints.

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Bakalauro darbe analizuojamos paauglių pomėgio žaisti kompiuterinius žaidimus ir bendravimo su aplinkiniais ypatybės. Darbo tikslas – išanalizuoti ryšį tarp paauglio bendravimo su artimaisiais ir pomėgio žaisti kompiuterinius žaidimus. Tyrime dalyvavo 100 mokinių, kurių amžius nuo 14 iki 17 metų. Tyrimas atliktas Vilkaviškio „Aušros“ gimnazijoje. Uždaro tipo klausimynu tirta paauglių demografinė padėtis, paauglių ryšys su kompiuteriu, internetu bei kompiuteriniais žaidimais. Taip pat tirta, kokie yra paauglių santykiai su tėvais ir draugais. Analizuojant tyrimo duomenis, ieškota ryšio tarp paauglių pomėgio žaisti kompiuterinius žaidimus ir bendravimo su aplinkiniais. Tyrimu nustatyta, kad paauglystės amžiaus tarpsnyje labai svarbu yra, kaip paauglys reaguoja į savo fizinį brendimą. Paauglystės amžiaus tarpsnyje formuojasi paauglio tapatumas bei vertybių sistema. Tai yra patys svarbiausi ypatumai, kurie nulemia tolimesnę paauglio raidą. Mokslinėje literatūroje pateikiami kompiuterinių žaidimų rūšys: imitaciniai, mokomieji, nuotykiniai, vaidmeniniai, sportiniai, strateginiai – koviniai, veiksmo. Išskirta, jog kompiuterinių žaidimų poveikis yra teigiamas ir neigiamas. Gauti tyrimo rezultatai parodė, kad dauguma respondentų prie kompiuterinių žaidimų praleidžia vidutiniškai iki valandos, tik nedidelė dalis 9 procentai vaikinų žaidžia kompiuterinius žaidimus nuo 2 iki 4 valandų laiko. Rezultatai atskleidė, kad paaugliai žaidžia įvairius kompiuterinius žaidimus ir neturi vieno... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / My bachelor work analyzes the teenager‘s obsession with computer games and interaction with surounding properties. The following aim of the research was formulated based on the research problem: to analyze the relationship between adolescent communication with family and the love of playing computer games. The study included 100 hundred students, age from 14 to 17 years. The study was conducted at Vilkaviskis “Ausros” gymnasium. Closed-ended questionnaire it was analyzed the demographic situation of the teenagers, the relationship between teenagers and computers, internet, and computer games. It was also examined, what is the relationship between teenagers and their parents and friends. While analyzing the data it was necessary to find out the connection between adolescent obsession with computer games and interaction with others. The study confirmed that at the age of adolescent it is very important to make it clear how the teenager is responding to his or her physical maturity. At the age of adolescent it is time where the formation of his or her identity and the role of his or her values take the most important part. These are the most important characteristics which determine the further development of the adolescent. In scientific literature we can find such types of computer games as these: imitation, educational, adventure, role-play, sport, strategy- fighting, action. It is emphasized that there are negative and positive affect of the video games. The obtained... [to full text]

This thesis examines narrative uncertainty in the twentieth century novel as it relates to madness, adultery, and the convention of the unreliable narrator. The unreliable narratives of Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier and Marguerite Duras’ Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein expose their characters’ investment in illusions, the doubling of the narrators’ and readers’ desires to interpret, the transfer of madness through narrative, and the possibility that a void of meaning underlies the text.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The proposal of this work is to think about how madness and its institutionalization happened in Uberlândia. This discussion involving madness as the thematic still is current and intriguing for all that it represented and still represents in our society. Doubts have appeared intensely around the great unknown that involves the madness. Which are the indications that evidence madness? Or even, madness really exists? Many other investigations are placed, also questioning the medical speech, that before was presented as winning, as also its practices and curative techniques. On the other hand, today we can observe how much the debates of other society segments had been important, because, in a way or another, they had not accepted the imposition of psychiatric knowledge. This research was originated from a vast documentation found in the Sanatório Espírita de Uberlândia, institution established in 1942 and deactivated in middle 90´s. They are 29 books containing innumerable handbooks of the interns from 1942 to 1959. In this documentation we find information about the reason of the internment, report from the responsible for the sheltered, theirs diagnostics and the prognostics, therapeutical methods used, among other informations. Having in mind these documentation possibilities of analysis, the field of reflection used in this research has as premise to work with complex speeches that had been elaborated about the insanity present in Uberlândia and understand how it made possible the institutionalization practical. / A proposta deste trabalho é pensar a loucura e sua institucionalização na cidade de Uberlândia. Esta discussão envolvendo a temática da loucura continua atual e instigante por tudo que ela representou e ainda representa em nossa sociedade. Dúvidas têm surgido de maneira intensa em torno da grande incógnita que envolve a loucura. Quais os indícios que evidenciam a loucura? Mais ainda, a loucura realmente existe? Muitas outras indagações estão colocadas, inclusive questionando o discurso médico, que antes se apresentava como vencedor, como também suas práticas e técnicas curativas. Em contrapartida, percebemos hoje o quanto foram importantes os debates de outros segmentos da sociedade, que, de uma maneira ou de outra, não aceitaram a imposição do saber psiquiátrico. Este trabalho de pesquisa nasceu a partir de uma vasta documentação encontrada no Sanatório Espírita de Uberlândia, instituição fundada em 1942 e desativada em meados dos anos 90. São 29 livros contendo inúmeros prontuários dos internos de 1942 a 1959. Nesta documentação encontramos informações sobre o motivo da internação, relatado pelo responsável do asilado, diagnóstico e prognóstico, muitos deles por psicografias, terapêuticas utilizadas, entre outras. Tendo em vista as diversas possibilidades de análise desta documentação, o campo de reflexão utilizado na pesquisa tem como premissa trabalhar os complexos discursos que foram elaborados sobre a insanidade presentes na cidade de Uberlândia e, como isto possibilitou as práticas de sua institucionalização. / Mestre em História

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My artwork represents my admiration and criticisms of car culture I have gathered throughout my personal experiences beginning at a very early age. The work exists in the form of drawings, paintings, prints, collage and sculpture. This work is created through the elements of personal narrative, desires, obsessions, and questions surrounding car culture and its influences. My intention to refurbish the icons of this culture has involved creating work that is both obsessive and critical for personal exploration and understanding of past memories.