The illicit traffic of cultural goods remains a persistent global challenge, despite the proliferation of comprehensive legislative frameworks developed to address and prevent cultural property crimes. Online platforms, especially social media and e-commerce, have facilitated illegal trade and pose significant challenges for law enforcement agencies. To address this issue, the European project SIGNIFICANCE was born, with the aim of combating illicit traffic of Cultural Heritage (CH) goods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBorderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is often characterized by self-injurious behaviors, with one-half to two-third of these patients reporting hypalgesic or analgesic phenomena during self-harming. Research on pain perception in BPD suggested abnormal processing of nociception either within the sensory-discriminative and/or motivational-affective systems of pain. Nevertheless, it is still unclear whether pain insensitivity could be generalized to other somatosensory submodalities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStudies comparing organized (O) and unresolved/disorganized (UD) attachment have consistently shown structural and functional brain abnormalities, although whether and how attachment patterns may affect resting state functional connectivity (RSFC) is still little characterized. Here, we investigated RSFC of temporal and limbic regions of interest for UD attachment. Participants' attachment was classified via the Adult Attachment Interview, and all participants underwent clinical assessment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCrying may be a beneficial experience and reflect a patients' involvement in the therapeutic work, as well as a potential indicator of the healing process. This study explored the relationships between patients' crying experience in therapy, their perception of working alliance and therapeutic change, as well as considering the role of attachment styles. One hundred six patients completed a survey about crying in psychotherapy and self-report measures for assessing working alliance, therapeutic change, and attachment styles.
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