Shadow (psychology)

About: Shadow (psychology) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 8396 publications have been published within this topic receiving 117158 citations.

An Elusive Victorian: The Evolution of Alfred Russel Wallace

Abstract: Long kept in Darwin's shadow, Wallace co-discovered the theory of evolution, but was overlooked by critics due to his controversial intellectual career. Fichman examines not only Wallace's scientific work but also his philosophical concerns and political involvement.

Shrinking the tsunami affect regulation, dissociation, and the shadow of the flood*

Abstract: Developmental trauma is a core relational phenomenon in shaping hu- man personality. It contributes to every human being's potential for affect dysreg- ulation, which is always a matter of degree even in those for whom secure attachment has led to relative stability and resilience. We all are vulnerable to the experience of having to face something that is more than our minds can deal with, and the differences between people in how much is unbearable is part of what we always work with as psychoanalysts. Clinical and neurobiological evidence sug- gests that enduring personality growth in analytic treatment is interwoven with the ability of the patient-analyst relationship to decrease a patient's vulnerability to af- fective hyperarousal regardless of how minimal the scope of the vulnerability may be. This use of the patient-analyst relationship takes place through the nonlinear joint-processing of an enacted (dissociated) communication channel in which the patient's fear of affect dysregulation (the tsunami) is "shrunk" by the broader abil- ity to safely distinguish the likelihood of mental shock that could be indeed affec- tively overwhelming from the kind of excitingly "edgy" experiences that are always interwoven with the risk of spontaneity—experiences that I call "safe sur- prises." The patient's fear of dysregulation, as it is relived in the here-and-now through enactments, becomes increasingly containable as a cognitive event, thus enabling the mind/brain to surrender its automatic reliance on dissociation as an affective "smoke-detector." I believe that the transformative process of shrinking the tsunami is fundamental to the depth of the analytic growth process itself, and that it derives its power from the coexistence in the analytic relationship of two essential qualities, safety and risk. Through the creation of a dyadic space that includes the subjectivities of both patient and analyst but is not the exclusive property of either, the patient/analyst relationship becomes a therapeutic environment by being "safe but not too safe." As long as the analyst's ongoing commitment involves an effort to communicate his

Human Resource Management: A Troubling Issue for the Global Hotel Industry

Abstract: Although economic issues cast a long shadow, a survey of 243 hotel managers and executives has identified human resources as the most persistent problem they face. Different aspects of the HR issue...