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Re: [xmca] ISCAR Newsletter?

Judging from today's figures Anglos aren't very good at asking for help from anybody.

Rob



On 10 Nov 2012, at 15:54, "Nektarios Alexi" <NEKTARIOS.ALEXI@cdu.edu.au> wrote:

> Yes something like that Andy:)
> 
> If all goes as it is expected to goes i might be finishing next year that time. I am going to Cyprus next week to collect the data from there and then start writing the next part of it, results and discussion.Literature review it is almost finished i think...
> 
> Help-seeking behaviours for mental ilness it is simply means to whom are asking for help individuals that are going through mental health problems. e.g Are Greeks more willing to ask help from a family member or friend or the priest than the psychologist or the psychiatrist? And also are the Anglo Australians more willing to ask for help when facing such problems from mental health professionals than Greeks? Something like that in a nutshell:)
> 
> Nektarios
> ,
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu on behalf of Andy Blunden
> Sent: Sat 11/10/2012 8:46 PM
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Subject: Re: [xmca] ISCAR Newsletter?
> 
> From Budapest to San Diego via Darwin, eh?
> 
> Where are you up to in your PhD, Nektarios?
> And what does "help-seeking behaviours for mental illness" mean?
> 
> Andy
> Nektarios Alexi wrote:
>> 
>> Thats a good question Andy, it seems that a sequence of events lead me 
>> to xmca, but i think who put the seed to me of such a comprehensive 
>> approach to human development and human problems was my professor of 
>> developmental psychology Magda Kalmar when i was doing my BA 
>> Psychology and MA Clinical Psychology at Eotvos Lorand University of 
>> Budapest. She has worked directly with Jerome Bruner i have discovered 
>> accidentally a week ago ''In Oxford Bruner collected a large group of 
>> graduate students and post-doctoral fellows who participated in the 
>> effort to understand how young children manage to crack the linguistic 
>> code, among them Alison Gopnik, Magda Kalmar hu:Kalmár Magda 
>> (pszichológus), Alan Leslie, Andrew Meltzoff, Anat Ninio, Roy Pea, 
>> Susan Sugarman [2], Michael Scaife, Marian Sigman [3], Kathy Sylva and 
>> many others. '' (Wikipedia) and Uri Bronfenbrenner i think. But i 
>> didnt know about xmc a specifically till 2 years ago when i started 
>> writing my PhD research proposal here at Charles Darwin University 
>> where i was seeking material to write a proposal explaining 
>> help-seeking behaviours for mental illness under a sociocultural 
>> framework, and somehow through google i have discovered the infinite 
>> food for thought world of xmca:)
>> 
>> Nektarios
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----U BronfenbrennerFrom: 
>> xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu on behalf of Andy Blunden
>> Sent: Sat 11/10/2012 7:05 PM
>> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
>> Subject: Re: [xmca] ISCAR Newsletter?
>> 
>> The infinite regression happens by itself, Nektarios, along with the
>> pleasure you will get from reading this stuff. Don't worry about
>> "absolute answers" because you won't find them. What brought you to xmca
>> to begin with?
>> 
>> Andy
>> 
>> Nektarios Alexi wrote:
>>> 
>>> But what about creating questions as reading? What about expanding by
>>> learning? And what about reading for the sake of questioning rather
>>> than seeking for absolute answers? What about reading for sake of the
>>> pleasure of reading by it self? But not a pleasure that it is
>>> exhausted after its fullfillment but for a pleasure that is getting
>>> deeper and deeper as more someone read?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu on behalf of Andy Blunden
>>> Sent: Sat 11/10/2012 2:02 PM
>>> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
>>> Subject: Re: [xmca] ISCAR Newsletter?
>>> 
>>> To read productively, Nektarios, I think it is always necessary to read
>>> purposively, that is, especially, to seek for the answers to specific
>>> questions (or betters ways of framing the question!). Sometimes what you
>>> are reading is not at the appropriate degree of generality to give
>>> answers recognisable to your questions, and that is a problem in itself.
>>> But always proceed like Sherlock Holmes, looking for clues.
>>> 
>>> Andy
>>> 
>>> Nektarios Alexi wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Andy,
>>>> 
>>>> Tnx for posting your work. I am looking toward to read it carefully
>>>> very soon and hope to come up with some relevant questions.
>>>> 
>>>> Sometime it is hard to find appropriate questions, because i am not
>>>> always sure if i am understanding correctly what i am reading, from
>>>> scholars of the calibre that are writing in this forum. But i think
>>>> that all these fascinating readings that people posting here it is a
>>>> kind of Zone of Proximal development for me since it keeps my
>>>> intellectual curiosity always alert.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Nektarios
>> 
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