Biomedical subjects

J Yanof

Publications and source records attributed to J Yanof.

3 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2001

CT-integrated robot for interventional procedures: preliminary experiment and computer-human interfaces.

Pre-operative planning and intra-operative computer interfaces for minimally invasive interventions were investigated with an active robot integrated with a CT scanner. To test the robotic system, a biopsy study was performed using a pig. For pre-operative planning, a virtual needle was superimposed on axial slices and multiplanar reformatted views in correlation with the interventional field. The path of the virtual needle was sent to the robot's controller, and the robot's needle gripper moved into a position congruent with the planned path. Intra-operative controls were then used to drive the needle while keeping the interventionalist's hands out of the direct X-ray beam during CT fluoroscopy. After needle insertion, the imaged and virtual needles were shown to be sufficiently congruent.

Animals↗

PubMed1996

Language, communication, and transference in child analysis. I. Selective mutism: the medium is the message.

Selective mutism is a psychiatric condition in which children stop speaking to all except their closest family members. Analytic material from a 4 1/2-year-old selectively mute child demonstrates how his symptom of mutism was embedded in a character structure in which not only verbal dialogue but play and other nonverbal communication were disrupted. Because communication was severely limited, I modified my analytic technique. Despite obstacles to communication, conflicts from different developmental levels were revived in the transference. Even in these difficult circumstances, analytic work in the transference resulted in significant change.

Child Language↗

PubMed1996

Language, communication, and transference in child analysis. II. Is child analysis really analysis?

Is child analysis really analysis? The child patient does not free associate, communicates to the analyst in large measure nonverbally, and operates from a different psychic organization than the adult. Nevertheless, child and adult analysis share the same basic principles, despite different techniques. Using clinical examples from Jeremy's analysis, I discuss how child analysis could benefit from greater use of analysis of transference and analysis of defense. I then discuss recent questions about the place of verbalization and interpretation in child analysis. This issue parallels polarities in adult theory concerning insight and relationship. Analysts should pay more attention to the similarities between child and adult analysis, so that information can be shared between both subspecialties.

Child Language↗