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Int J Psychoanal ; 104(2): 281-300, 2023 04.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37139737

ABSTRACT

This paper, a collaborative effort, describes the work of A Home Within (AHW), a volunteer community-based organization providing pro-bono long term psychotherapy to current and former foster youth. We provide a brief description of the treatment model, present a report of treatment conducted by an AHW volunteer, and discuss further reflections on the societal context of our psychoanalytically-informed work. In-depth psychotherapeutic process from the treatment of a young girl in a pre-adoptive foster placement elucidates the psychotherapeutic possibilities when a psychoanalytic treatment model is accessible to current and former foster youth, usually deprived of this form of treatment due to overburdened, underfunded community mental health systems in the U.S. Open-ended psychotherapy afforded this traumatized child an unusual opportunity to work through past relational traumas in order to form new and more secure attachment relationships. We reflect further on the case from the vantage points of both the psychotherapeutic process and the greater societal context of this community-based program.


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Foster Home Care , Play Therapy , Child , Female , Adolescent , Humans , Foster Home Care/psychology , Psychotherapy/methods , Psychotherapeutic Processes
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Psychoanal Q ; 75(1): 45-72, 2006 Jan.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16482960

ABSTRACT

This paper seeks to make meaning of the experience of being white in the United States at this point in history. The self-awareness of white people is limited by a blind spot around the meaning and impact of being white in a multiracial society. Using psychoanalytic and literary methodology, the author seeks to cast light with which to explore this blind spot. Everyday experiences are used to illustrate the widely pervasive impact of race in the lives of white people, and a clinical vignette illustrates how race might show up in a white-on-white psychotherapy. Enactments within this paper are noted when they are evident to the author


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Black or African American/psychology , Prejudice , Psychoanalytic Theory , Race Relations , White People/psychology , Humans , Literature, Modern , Psychoanalytic Interpretation , Psychoanalytic Therapy , United States
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Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol ; 25(3): 256-61, 2004 Mar.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15061419

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OBJECTIVE: To determine the cause of acute illness on August 30, 2000, among patients at an outpatient dialysis center (center A). DESIGN: We performed a cohort study of all patients receiving dialysis on August 30, 2000; reviewed dialysis procedures; and analyzed dialysis water samples using microbiologic and chemical assays. SETTING: Dialysis center (center A). PATIENTS: A case-patient was defined as a patient who developed chills within 5 hours after starting hemodialysis at center A on August 30, 2000. RESULTS: Sixteen (36%) of 44 patients at center A met the case definition. All case-patients were hospitalized; 2 died. Besides chills, 15 (94%) of the case-patients experienced nausea; 12 (75%), vomiting; and 4 (25%), fever. Illness was more frequent on the second than the first dialysis shift (16 of 20 vs 0 of 24, P < .001); no other risk factors were identified. The center's water treatment system had received inadequate maintenance and disinfection and a sulfurous odor was noted during sampling of the water from the reverse osmosis (RO) unit. The water had elevated bacterial counts. Volatile sulfur-containing compounds (ie, methanethiol, carbon disulfide, dimethyldisulfide, and sulfur dioxide) were detected by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry in 8 of 12 water samples from the RO unit and in 0 of 28 samples from other areas (P < .001). Results of tests for heavy metals and chloramines were within normal limits. CONCLUSIONS: Parenteral exposure to volatile sulfur-containing compounds, produced under anaerobic conditions in the RO unit, could have caused the outbreak. This investigation demonstrates the importance of appropriate disinfection and maintenance of water treatment systems in hemodialysis centers.


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Ambulatory Care Facilities , Disulfides/toxicity , Equipment Contamination , Hemodiafiltration/adverse effects , Hemodiafiltration/instrumentation , Renal Dialysis/adverse effects , Water Pollution, Chemical/adverse effects , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Citrobacter/isolation & purification , Cohort Studies , Colony Count, Microbial , Cross Infection/epidemiology , Cross Infection/etiology , Cross Infection/microbiology , Disease Outbreaks , Female , Hemodialysis Solutions/toxicity , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Osmosis , Renal Dialysis/instrumentation , Staphylococcus epidermidis/isolation & purification , Water Pollution, Chemical/analysis
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