October brings Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality: Focusing on Object Relations, by John F. Clarkin, Ph.D., Frank E. Yeomans, M.D., Ph.D., and Otto F. Kernberg, M.D.

For therapists treating patients with borderline personality organization, transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) has proven to be a remarkably successful approach that effectively targets the pathology of character. The product of more than 25 years of development, it draws on advances in object relations theory and attachment theory with the goal of not merely treating symptoms but changing the patient's underlying personality and quality of life.

Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality: Focusing on Object Relations describes principles of intervention and contains a wealth of practical guidelines on how to apply TFP to individual patients on a session-by-session basis. This groundbreaking treatment manual focuses on the analysis of the transference, showing how to help patients relax their defenses and become active participants in the therapeutic process. The authors describe techniques for seeing past the wall of behavioral and cognitive dissonance typically thrown up by the borderline patient, identifying a patient's conflicting self-conceptions and object representations, and immersing oneself in the turbulent currents of the borderline narrative stream while maintaining the clinical distance required to be a constructive force in patients' lives.

You can access the Book of the Month from the home page, at www.PsychiatryOnline.com. You'll have access to Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality as a PDF download for the month of October.

Proquest Nursing & Allied Health Source offers 683 full-text journals focusing on the study of nursing and allied health professions, including specialities such as emergency medicine, pediatrics, gerontology, administration, management, pallative care and much more.

The HAM-TMC Library is currently asking the TMC community to preview its new website/search engine at http://resource.library.tmc.edu/new. This search engine allows users the ability to search from one location many different information resources including the Library's Online Catalog, PubMed, our E-Journals Collection, Elsevier's Scopus and much more. Additionally, search results are placed into subject-based categories allowing for more focused retrieval of results.

Located at the bottom of the new preview home page is a link to a short questionnaire/comment form (the link is enclosed in a red box). If needed, the direct URL to the questionnaire/comment form is at http://resource.library.tmc.edu/survey.cfm.

If you have any questions or comments about the new website/search engine, please contact Michael Garrett, Technology Coordinator at the HAM-TMC Library.

RefWorks, the bibliographic management tool for Educational and Clinical Partner users, has posted a schedule of Webinars for October. These online classes are free, but registration is required. Visit the RefWorks public website and choose from the Webinars list at lower right to sign up for classes of interest to you. RefWorks in 15 minutes, RefWorks for beginners and advanced users, RefShare instruction and Converting an EndNote Database to RefWorks are some of the classes on offer.

ProQuest Health Management™ is a newly-acquired HAM-TMC Library database. Health Management is a rich resource for researchers in the field of health administration. It provides content on a wide range of topics: hospitals, insurance, law, statistics, management, ethics, health economics and public health administration. More than 640 key journals and 4,500 doctoral dissertations and theses are covered here.

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source has been added to HAM-TMC Library databases. Nursing and Allied Health Source provides full text of scholarly articles, dissertations, reports and evidence-based resources (notably from the Joanna Briggs Institute) that support the study of nursing and allied health professions, including physical therapy, radiography, dietetics, dental hygiene and clinical laboratory sciences.

This database also features "Study Paths" (collections of resources particularly relevant for either RN or LPN students); evidence summaries; MMWR reports on public health issues; and practice guidelines.

PubsHub is a useful resource for authors of biomedical and medical articles and papers they wish to present at conferences. General submission guideline information- for instance, what kinds of articles are accepted, typical time between submission and acceptance, links to specific author guidelines and a linked display of journals covering the same field- are examples of the kinds of information provided by this service. The Congresses tab includes similarly detailed meeting information organized by medical specialty, and includes abstract submission deadlines.

Individual registration in PubsHub enables use of a "watch" service for journals and conferences of enduring interest to the author.

Academic Blogging Brown Bag

Wednesday, October 1, 2008
11:50 am - 12:50 pm
Kyle Morrow Room, 3rd Floor of Fondren Library
Rice University

How can blogs serve as useful tools for discovering and discussing the latest research? The HAM-TMC Library and Rice University Fondren Library Scholarly Communication Team present a brownbag panel about academic blogging on Wednesday, Oct. 1 from 11:50-12:50 in the Kyle Morrow Room in Fondren Library. Debra Kolah, science librarian, will serve as moderator. Three panelists--Prof. April DeConick, Prof. Douglas Natelson, and Dr. Lisa Spiro--will describe their experiences writing blogs focused on their research.

Prof. April DeConick, Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of Biblical Studies, writes The Forbidden Gospels blog, which is devoted to the subject of extra-canonical early Christian literature, including the New Testament Apocrypha, Nag Hammadi collection, the Tchacos Codex, and Gnostic writings.

Prof. Douglas Natelson is an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, with a courtesy appointment in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He writes the blog "Nanoscale Views", intended to communicate current developments in condensed matter and nanoscale physics to a broad audience, from undergraduates to fellow faculty members, as well as science journalists.

Dr. Lisa Spiro directs the Digital Media Center and writes the Digital Scholarship in the Humanities blog, which examines the use of information technology in the humanities and chronicles her attempts to turn her dissertation on American literature into a work of digital scholarship.

Beverages and box lunches (25, first come first choice) will be provided.

Printable version of Rice University Map; Fondren Library is Building Number 22.

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This lecture is sponsored is jointly sponsored by Fondren Library and the HAM-TMC Library, as part of an ongoing series of events examining the changes in scholarly communication and publishing.

For more information about the brown bag, contact Dean James, dean.james@exch.library.tmc.edu, 713.799.7122.

The Informaworld site is back up for now, but will be down periodically on Saturday, Sept. 27th while routine maintenance is performed. The following notice was issued by Informaworld: "Customers may experience intermittent access to Informaworld on Saturday 27th September 2008 to allow us to complete some essential maintenance. We are expecting two short periods of downtime throughout the day which will last a maximum of thirty minutes.

The Informaworld team would like to apologise to our customers for any inconvenience this might cause."