Antonio De Vasconcelos

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• Master of Psychology / Ph.D. of Philosophy
• Researcher at University of Aveiro

Music is difficult to define. It is a form of universal communication and interaction, an integral part of human identity, life, and culture. It has been used for therapeutic purposes since biblical times for emotional regulation, and today it is employed in forms such as music therapy, music in therapy, and as background music. Benefits and eviden...

Leonard Cohen (1934-2016): from word to therapy. A Narrative Medicine approach. Leonard Cohen seemed to be predestined to follow in the footsteps of his ancestors, rabbis, his father and uncles, businessmen, in Montreal, Qc. Fatherless at the age of 9, dependent on his uncles, he attended Westmount High School where he studied poetry and music. G...

Walking and thinking the Way of Saint James is fascinating. Our meditation in nine steps is grounded in psychology, philosophy, and literature. This paper approaches etymologies associated with the Romero, a pilgrim headed for Rome, the Palmer, a pilgrim on journey to Jerusalem holding a palm branch, and the Xacobeo / Jacobean pilgrim on the Way of...

Glückel of Hameln's Memoirs (1689-1719) allow us to reflect on the relevance of the problems she experienced from a psychological and narrative medicine perspectives, when we question identities and clinical cases, symptoms, diagnoses, treatments, traumas, losses, and mourning, coping strategies, based on accessible documentary sources and the unde...

The Memoirs of Glückel of Hameln (1689-1719) allow us to reflect the actuality of the problems she experienced, from the perspective of narrative medicine, psychiatry and psychology, among others, when questioning identities and clinical cases, symptoms, diagnoses, treatments, traumas, losses and mourning, coping strategies, based on accessible doc...

THIS WILL BE ME, GLÜCKEL OF HAMELN. The Memoirs (1691-1719) by Glückel of Hameln (c.1646-1724) are an original testimony of a businesswoman. She gives a detailed account of her commercial practices, developed through family networks over generations. The Memories and the critical literature published allow us to take a different standing upon the c...

Happy People in Tears. Happy People in Tears (1988), by João de Melo, is a generational narrative in several voices through memories and experiences of their dispersal. It gathers ambivalent feelings through identity confrontation with the self and others. Awarded several times, translated and adapted for cinema and theater. The narrative contains...

We intend to contribute to a personal reflection upon research on migratory experience, on the status of languages, language policy, the labour market, and the principle of territoriality in multicultural and multilingual countries, such as Andorra, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and Quebec, with a Portuguese presence. Conclusions: There are differences...

SINOPSE Em Vidas breves. Anotações de Medicina Narrativa, o autor, psicólogo clínico e da saúde, parte da sua experiência em contextos muito diversos, e.g. doença física e doença mental, oncologia, cuidados continuados, cuidados paliativos, fim de vida, suporte ao luto, arte e espiritualidade, propondo-nos momentos contextualizados de reflexão, cen...

Abstract: This article outlines different cues in reading De Profundis, by José Cardoso Pires, in the context of Portuguese literature (questioning the literary genre, writing therapy, self-narrative and memory, literary aesthetics) and of Narrative Medicine (autopathography, i.e. autobiographical accounts of the experience of illness and treatment...

Where does the path take us? – is a meditation about our stride and our way, as a metaphor of life based on The Portuguese Way of Saint James, on psychology, philosophy and literature as well as a therapy for the soul. It combines the physical with the mental, which results in the spiritualisation of the body. Keywords: the Way of Saint James; the...

Resumo O artigo propõe uma meditação sobre o andar e o caminho, como metáfora da vida, a partir do Caminho de Santiago, da psicologia, filosofia e literatura, e também uma terapia da alma, ou exercício espiritual, porque combina o físico com a mente. Palavras-chave: o Caminho de Santiago; o caminho como metáfora; o caminho como terapia; teoria do a...

Glückel of Hameln (1646-1724) is a pious Jewish businesswoman and diarist, twice married and widowed, mother of fourteen children, who transcends her womanhood in a male dominated business world. Her family business began with the manufacture of socks in Hamburg before entering the trade in diamonds, gold, silver, pearls, amber, currency and financ...

Portuguese migration; Luxembourg; Literature; stereotyping

Jean-Marie Kreins, Histoire du Luxembourg - review Michel Pauly, Histoire du Luxembourg - review

Les Portugais du Luxembourg. Questions sur la transmission intergénerationnelle de la langue et de la culture d'origine - review

Glückel von Hameln (1646-1724) is a pious Jewish woman, twicw widowed, mother of fourteen children, who overcomes her condition of woman by managing her family business, from a small manufacture of socks in Hamburg, to the trade of diamonds, gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, amber and exchanges in major European markets. As a writer, through h...

This article relates to the practice of Western Philosophy in Couselling and in Coaching. It takes into account the contributions made by Lou Marinoff and Pierre Hadot to the subject, among others. It highlights parallelism and developments based on the Scripture, the Epicureans and Stoics texts, and the Philosophy of Langauge. The argument is deve...

Factores geopolíticos e modelos de desenvolvimento económico contribuem para a configuração do Grão-Ducado do Luxemburgo como sétima praça financeira mundial, tendo sido, no seu passado histórico, um pólo de emigração e, ao presente, de imigração contínua. Este estudo evoca a presença portuguesa através das relações entre Portugal e os Países Baixo...

Kagan, Richard L., and Philip D. Morgan (eds) 2009. Atlantic Diasporas. Jews, Conversos, and Crypto Jews in the Age of Mercantilism, 1500-1800. Baltimore, Ma.: The John Hopkins University Press. 307 pags.

Isaac de Pinto was an active financier, economist and homme de lettres. Descending from a Jewish family of Portugueses origin, he lived in Amsterdam, Paris and London. Throughout his life, he enjoyed close relationships and made regular contact with important figures of the European Enlightenment. The main purpose of this article is to show that th...

This paper concerns a controversy that encompassed British and Portuguese politics, economy, religious and humanitarian institutions, and journalistic interests. It was matter of public debate in England and Portugal from the beginning of the 20th century until the World War I (1914-1918).

This paper is based on a case study. It consists of a historical analysis of the relation between economy, migration and Protestantism from English and Scottish communities settled in Madeira during the 19 th century, the Rev.d Lowe, Dr. KalIey and Sister Wilson cases, and of the migration of peasants from Madeira to the British West Indies, Britis...

This article is designed to provide an integrated approach to the legacy of Isaac de Pinto in the history of economic, philosophical, and political thought in the second half of the 18th century. After a brief biographical note, the article proceeds with an overview of the various topics Isaac de Pinto wrote about, namely Jewish questions, games an...

Madeirenses Errantes (2004) book review

Este estudo intenta expor os fundamentos filosóficos subjacentes ao tema Capitalismo e Judaísmo, pondo em evidência a contribuição prestada pelos agentes económicos e financeiros portugueses de confissão mosaica, como os Mendes, os Vega, os Pinto, à formação da ética capitalista. Esta participação pioneira, nas formas de capital usurário, capital m...

The Portuguese Jewish contribution to modern capitalism calls our attention to a few scholars in the past century, who dwelt with the " Jewish Question " 1. Behind it stands an old controversy about the rise of capitalism, its understanding and chronology, as well as its issues. However, the main questions of this controversy are still relevant tod...

This memory allows us to grasp, in all its complexity, the wealth of a cultural identity built and preserved in Amsterdam by the Hispano-Portuguese Jews and others, the so called converted, who travelled in diaspora from the end of the 15th century. It may also serve as a methodological guide, a proposal meant to be read and reflected upon with the...

Este artigo tem por objectivo a compreensão interretativa do capitalismo como sistema e dos seus sentidos doutrinais. No plano metodológico, a argumentação radica na consulta de fontes bibliográficas, conduzida para uma reflexão sociológica que privilegiou momentos de análise conceptual numa perspectiva hermenêutica, a par da contextualização dos a...

Álvaro Pires de Évora - arte proto-renascentista

Luís Vaz de Camões - recepção na literatura russa Karl Briullov - pintor russo de origem huguenote francesa; tema de Inês de Castro Literatura Portuguesa; História da Literatura História da Arte