Some authors have argued that this strategy has distinct effects as an active process of self-affirmation and as a passive form of resignation to negative experiences [ 16].
"All of these periods where you can see a freer use of one's body, including hair, are associated with political processes of reflection, of affirmation, of agency, of recognizing women," she said.
Psychodynamic interventions aim at teasing apart the vast array of potential developmental antecedents of the illness, including childhood and adult traumas, losses that have not been fully mourned, the impact of parental missteps, failed attempts at completing age-appropriate separation-individuation processes, and lack of affirmation of the self at crucial developmental periods.
This is not a process of blind encouragement and positive affirmation, but rather of guidance stemming from a compassionate understanding of the students' and one's own experiences.
Combining sound hard-skill management methods and processes with the affirmation of the importance of recovering the human, social, political, economic and cultural dimension of work that allows the development of the abilities of people, producing goods and services, to meet the real needs of the population, is possible.
It is a sort of affirmation.
"It's an extraordinary sense of affirmation.
For Wakefield, the attacks have become a kind of affirmation.
The threadbare debates showed resignation instead of affirmation.
We're starved for a collective sense of affirmation.
