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J Staller

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PubMed1981

Personal therapy for therapists.

Clinicians have often advocated personal therapy as a useful method in the training of psychotherapists. Yet, for decades arguments have existed about the value of a personal therapy experience. In an attempt to clarify the situation, the authors discuss the debate within a historical context and present a critical review of the empirical evidence gathered to date on personal therapy. They found a paucity of reported research on the subject and conclude that additional evidence is required before firm conclusions can be drawn about the merits of psychoanalysis as a training method.

Clinical Competence↗
PubMed1980

Eye movements and choice times in mirror image pattern discrimination.

This paper studied mirror image and nonmirror image pattern discrimination by measuring adults' eye movements as they responded to spatially simple or spatially complex stimulus pairs. Two measures were derived from the eye movement data; the average position of the subject's gaze as a function of time (scanpath), and the distribution of eye positions sampled over the patterns (dwell distribution). The data show that spatial complexity has a qualitative influence on the processing of mirror and nonmirror patterns, that spatially complex pairs tend to be scanned from left-to-right, and that peripheral features are not usually directly fixated. The data also bear on theories of symmetry perception, and indicate that symmetry is not always perceived in a holistic fashion.

Choice Behavior↗
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Transtentorial herniation with posterior cerebral artery territory infarction. A new mechanism of the syndrome of alexia without agraphia.

A 39-year-old male developed a right homonymous hemianopsia and alexia without agraphia following emergency surgery for hemorrhage into a left frontal tumor. A computerized tomographic (CT) scan demonstrated low density areas in the left frontal region and in the territory of the left posterior cerebral artery. The alexia without agraphia syndrome appeared to result from compression of the left posterior cerebral artery by a transtentorial pressure cone, a mechanism not previously reported in this syndrome. The behavioral investigation confirmed the diagnosis and replicated recent findings related to the syndrome of alexia without agraphia.

Adult↗