Price Of Love Research Articles

Tonia Marketaki’s The Price of Love (1983): The Corfu of class differences and universal archetypes

Tonia Marketaki’s I timi tis agapis (The Price of Love, 1983) is a film adaptation of the novel Honour and Money (1912) by renowned Greek author Konstantinos Theotokis (1872-1923), the plot of which is set in Corfu in the early 20th century and revolves around a romance doomed to fail due to economic and social factors. As the article points out, before Marketaki’s film, mainstream Greek cinema portrayed Corfu from a tourist perspective, with a few unconventional productions showing the island in an unflattering light. In The Price of Love, Marketaki departed from these traditions by capturing the island’s beauty in pictorial compositions, giving it a fairytale quality. She combined this fairytale charm with Theotokis’s social criticism and changed or added scenes to Honour and Money that expanded Theotokis’s political commentary or gave it psychoanalytic dimensions. Marketaki’s Corfu, the article argues, is a setting where significant social differences and Jung’s universal, archetypal opposites intersect. The Price of Love thus encourages viewers to see the island in a new light and prompts a broader consideration of audiovisual representations of islands as part of a dialogue with previous or contemporary reconstructions and other disciplines. The article supports its argument through a comparative analysis of the film and the novel, also drawing material from Marketaki’s archive.

The Price of Love: Understanding the Financial and Psychosocial Costs of Caring for Children with Medical Complexities.

Parents of children with medical complexities (CMCs) report significant challenges affecting their financial, emotional and social well-being in relation to caring for their child's medical needs. The Complex Care Navigator Program was designed to provide social, emotional and economic support to parents of CMCs. This paper describes the results and outcomes of the program and the challenges experienced during the evaluation process. Overall, results suggest that the program had a positive impact on the parents' psychosocial functioning and social connections. The results demonstrate the importance of providing early screening, psychosocial intervention and peer support.

The Price of Love: how sleep, and dysregulated clocks may account for its obsessive-compulsive related behaviors?

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The price of love: an investigation into the relationship between romantic love and the expression of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

The present study explored the influence of romantic love on the expression of several obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) characteristics, including symptom severity, symptom dimensions, age at onset, sensory phenomena (SP), and developmental course, as well as other related comorbid disorders. It was hypothesized that love-precipitated OCD would be associated with a set of distinct characteristics and exhibit greater rates of comorbid disorders. The analyses were performed using a large sample (n=981) of clinical patients with a primary diagnosis of OCD (Females=67.3%, M age=35.31). Love-precipitated OCD was associated with greater severity of SP and later age at onset of obsessions. However, symptom severity, symptom dimension, developmental course, and psychiatric comorbidities were not associated with love-precipitated OCD. It was concluded that romantic love does shape the expression of OCD, especially with regard to SP and onset age. These findings encourage further exploration to determine its clinical significance as a phenotype.

“Why can’t we be lovers?” When the price of love is loss of love: Boundary violations in a clinical context.

“Why can’t we be lovers?” When the price of love is loss of love: Boundary violations in a clinical context.

Parkes, C. M. (2015). The Price of Love: The Selected Works of Colin Murray Parkes.

Parkes, C. M. (2015). <i>The Price of Love: The Selected Works of Colin Murray Parkes.</i>

Hermon Hailay, director. Price of Love. (YäFïqïr Wagaw). 2015. 99 minutes. Amharic. Ethiopia. International distribution limited to film festivals.

Hermon Hailay, director. Price of Love. (YäFïqïr Wagaw). 2015. 99 minutes. Amharic. Ethiopia. International distribution limited to film festivals.

The price of love: the prioritisation of childcare and income earning among UK fathers

Shifting perspectives on how fathers ‘should’ practice childcare responsibilities, combined with changing household income patterns, indicate that balancing childcare and breadwinning is complicated for contemporary fathers. Drawing on qualitative discussions with 100 employed fathers in the United Kingdom (UK) and using notions of breadwinner (income-earning) and involved (hands-on) fathering as an analytical framework, this study examines how employed, married/cohabiting and lone UK fathers interpret paternity. It finds that breadwinning remains important for many fathers. However, there is a tendency among some men to prioritise childcare over paid work. The study therefore discerns patterns of continuity and change among contemporary fathers in their practices of childcaring and income earning. The study concludes that further research is needed, especially concerning lone fathers with resident children, who may be more involved with childcaring than is presently acknowledged.

Grief as a Border Diagnosis

Grief is sometimes poetically described as the price of love: An inescapable existential condition of human life. However, throughout the 20th century, grief has increasingly come to be understood as a pathological condition that requires psychological and/or medical intervention. With the release ofDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders(5th ed.,DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013), grief came close to being included as a separate mental disorder. However, the diagnostic revisions concerning bereavement have been met with criticism of medicalizing grief and of exceeding the territory of psychiatry beyond its legitimate borders. On this basis, I argue that grief is currently a border diagnosis, that is, a condition whose meanings are informed in heterogeneous ways by medical, psychiatric, and psychological understandings yet constantly challenged by alternative, nonmedicalizing discourses. Drawing on empirical findings from an ongoing interview study with bereaved parents after infant loss, I analyze and discuss 4 different accounts concerning the question of diagnosing grief: (a) diagnosis as a legitimating and normalizing practice, (b) diagnosis as a demarcation practice, (c) diagnosis as pathologization, and (d) diagnosis as a normative ideal. Through the examples, I attempt to demonstrate how bereaved individuals do not merely passively adopt but reflectively use these kinds of understandings to deal with their grief.

The price of love

On 14 February 2008 the UK and Chip and PIN will celebrate their second anniversary. William Knight asks what has been learnt about the technology's fidelity

Women in the Discourse of Early Modern Spain

Introduction, by Joan F. Cammarata Part I. A Woman's Self-Fashioning: The Private Gendered Spaces of Feminine Authority 1. Authorizing the Wife/Mother in 16th-Century Advice Manuals, by Carolyn Nadeau 2. Identity, Illusion, and the Emergence of the Feminine Subject in La Lozana andaiuza, by John C. Parrack 3. Skepticism and Mysticism in Early Modern Spain: The Combative Stance of Teresa de Avila, by Barbara Mujica Part II. Appropriation and Authenticity of Feminine Identity 4. The Price of Love: The Conflictive Economies of La gitanilla, by William H. Clamurro 5. The Problematics of Gender/Genre in Vida i sucesos de la monja alferez, by Rainer H. Goetz 6. Relaciones de fiestas: Ana Caro's Accounts of Public Spectacles, by Sharon D. Voros Part III. Cultural Constructs of the Feminine Psyche: Body, Mind, and Desire 7. Masquerade and the Comedia, by Anita K. Stoll 8. Dreams, Voices, Signatures: Deciphering Woman's Desires in Angela de Azevedo's Dicha y desdicha del juego, by Frederick A. de Armas 9. Galatea's Fall and the Inner Dynamics of Gongora's Fabula de Polifemo y Galatea, by Joseph V. Ricapito Part IV. Power Stratagems of the Feminine Word: Constraints of Silence and Authority of Discourse 10. De voz extremada: Cervantes' Women Characters Speak for Themselves, by Sara A. Taddeo 11. Silence Is/As Golden...Age Device: Ana Caro's Eloquent Reticence in Valor, agravio y mujer, by Monica Leoni 12. Woman of the World and World of the Woman in the Narrative of Mariana de Caravajal, by Louis Imperiale Part V. Transforming Literary Conventions: Feminine Aesthetics and Gender Norms 13. A Cry in the Wilderness: Pastoral Female Discourse in Maria de Zayas, by Deborah Compte 14. Zayas's Ideal of the Masculine: Clothes Make the Man, by Susan Paun de Garcia 15. Desire Unbound: Women's Theater of Spain's Golden Age, by Lisa Vollendorf

Perils of Procreation

Repent, ye fornicators. Researchers have gleaned evidence that chastity pays--in beetles, that is. Mating inhibits an enzyme vital for defense against pathogens, according to a new study. The results might help scientists understand how reproduction shortens life. Scientists have known for decades that bearing offspring diminishes survival, but they've rarely been able to show how. In some insects, for example, sex itself can kill. While mating, a male fruit fly pumps chemicals into the female that stimulate egg-laying but also trim her life-span. Other studies of insects suggest that juvenile hormone released during copulation depresses the immune system. Probing that possibility, Jens Rolff and Michael Siva-Jothy investigated the effects of juvenile hormone on grain-nibbling mealworm beetles. The researchers drew samples of hemolymph, the insect version of blood, from beetles that had mated or abstained and measured two indicators of immune system strength: the abundance of a particular infection-battling cell and the activity of an enzyme called phenoloxidase, which helps kill and neutralize invaders. Although mating had no effect on numbers of the immune cell, it shrank phenoloxidase activity by more than 50% in males and nearly 50% in females. To determine whether juvenile hormone provoked this decline, Rolff and Siva-Jothy performed a series of transplant experiments using the corpora allata, a pair of tiny glands that, like the vertebrate hypothalamus, squirts out hormones in response to nervous stimulation. Mating prods the glands to release juvenile hormone. "You basically have to do brain surgery on these beetles," says Siva-Jothy, a physiological ecologist at the University of Sheffield, U.K. The team first transplanted glands from mated or virgin beetles into unmated ones. Phenoloxidase activity was lower in animals whose transplants came from mated bugs. In further experiments, the researchers soaked some glands in a chemical that inhibits juvenile hormone before transplanting them. Unmated beetles that received the treated glands showed higher phenoloxidase activity than those given untreated glands, suggesting that copulation-induced juvenile hormone stifles the immune system. The researchers are now testing whether plummeting enzyme activity increases vulnerability to disease--a likely prospect. Other studies have found that the intensity of the immune response depends on phenoloxidase concentration in fruit flies and damsel flies. Dwindling phenoloxidase could undermine the health of both sexes in these promiscuous beetles. Siva-Jothy says that females probably mate whenever they need sperm to fertilize their eggs--usually about every 2 days, according to other studies--and that this behavior could chronically weaken their immunity. Males are always ready for action, so the libidinous fellows could be scuttling around in an even more severe state of immune suppression. "Some of the particularly successful males could be in really bad shape," Siva-Jothy says. Many of the earlier studies on tradeoffs between reproduction and survival were descriptive, says James Carey, a demographer at the University of California, Davis: "We're getting close to a mechanism, which is good." Now, he says, researchers need to figure out how juvenile hormone benefits reproduction to compensate for this decline in immunity. That might tell us why sickness is the price of love. --Mitch Leslie J. Rolff and M. T. Siva-Jothy, Copulation corrupts immunity: a mechanism for a cost of mating in insects. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. , 3 July 2002 [e-pub ahead of print]. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Education: the price of love.

Education: the price of love.

Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy

Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MBP) is the deliberate induction or reporting of physical symptoms in a child. It is a form of child abuse that can result in death, iatrogenic disease, or the masking of a genuine illness. MBP is suggested by symptoms that do not follow the usual course of illness, particularly if the symptoms only occur in the presence of the same person. MBP may occur when caretakers (usually mothers) perceive that being the parent of a sick child will solve personal conflicts and be socially rewarded, or if life experiences have demonstrated that the price of love is physical illness. When MBP is suspected, the health care team needs to take aggressive action to confirm or disprove it and to protect the child. A social worker confronted with possible MBP must manage a difficult situation that often involves painful team issues as well as confusion over the nature of reality.

The price of love's denial

The price of love's denial