(n.) A marriage with a person of inferior rank or social station; an improper alliance; a mesalliance.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is typical of the perverse misalliance that it contains a refusal to participate, with all the attendant disinterest and deadness and lack of creativity usually associated with that condition.
(2) This paper presents an effort to identify sectors of therapeutic misalliance between Freud and his patient Dora based on modifications in the framework of the analytic relationship and situation.
(3) This paper explores aspects of the psychopathology of the patient-therapist relationship, and specifically defines and illustrates the concept of therapeutic misalliances.
(4) It was concluded that cloprostenol may successfully be used for the treatment of misalliance and mummification of the fetus.
(5) The development of therapeutic misalliances and framework "cures," the distinction between transference and nontransference, the constructive elements contained in essentially countertransference-based interventions, the mastery of countertransference difficulties, and the choice of insight-oriented versus noninsightful therapeutic modalities are discussed.
(6) The analyst's struggle with these issues may contribute to a perverse misalliance instead of a creative coupling.
(7) The consequent sectors of misalliance are identified and the participation of both Dora and Freud is described, as are their respective, largely unconscious efforts to modify these areas of unconscious collusion.
(8) Misalliance and mummification are two indications for treatment with cloprostenol.
(9) After a review of the relevant literature, two extended clinical vignettes are presented in order to explore efforts by both patient and therapist to create and modify conscious and unconscious misalliances.
(10) A tentative effort is made to delineate attempts on the part of the patient to "cure" his therapist of countertransference difficulties that have contributed to a therapeutic misalliance.
(11) The distinctions between the therapeutic alliance and transference, and between alliance and the real relation, are explored and their differences clarified, including the difference between therapeutic misalliances and transferences.
(12) In discussing this clinical material, the following are considered: The means of recognizing therapeutic misalliances from the therapist's subjective awareness and from the patient's associations; the interfering and therapeutically helpful aspects of the creation and analytic resolution of misalliances; the techniques through which therapeutic misalliances may be modified; the motives in both the patient and therapist or analyst that prompt the creation of misalliances; the curative aspects of the patient's positive introjective identification with the therapist and the damaging aspects of incorporative identifications with a therapist who is in difficulty; the importance of the adaptational-interactional framework in understanding the patient-therapist and patient-analyst relationships; and the importance of the therapist's personality and behavior, in addition to his role in providing the patient with well-timed and meaningful interpretive interventions.
(13) In a retrospective analysis of the factors contributing to these misalliances, the author raises important ethical and procedural questions to be considered carefully in future projects of this nature.
(14) The putative misalliance of fetal trophoblast with maternal tissue in the uteroplacental vascular bed may give rise to an increase in oxygen free radicals.
Unsuitable
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Conventional procedures for the isolation of uncontaminated polysomal RNAs which rely on sucrose density centrifugations are laborious and unsuitable for large scale isolations.
(2) However, since peptide ligands are usually unsuitable for development as potent orally active long-duration therapeutic agents, considerable research effort is being directed to the development of non-peptidal ligands.
(3) This technique can be used to treat fractures unsuited for conventional rods.
(4) Normal biomarkers are inherently unsuitable in a positive search for disorder; instead one must either use abnormal markers or be prepared to search negatively, i.e., to look for and somehow validate the rare absence of a normal marker.
(5) Seven patients judged unsuitable for an operation were treated with an aggregated allogeneic antigen.
(6) Five percent of the forceps biopsies were unsuitable for examination; all excision biopsies were of good quality.
(7) These results led to the conclusion that the IFAT screening procedure, as carried out, was unsuitable for the purposes intended.
(8) These results indicate that the 'Imotest' is significantly less sensitive than the Mantoux test and is unsuitable for use as a diagnostic or screening test.
(9) In the courts the remarks of non-specialist qualified persons can lead to wrong decisions as can either unsuitable or wrong evidence.
(10) The carboxamide group is thus unsuitable as was postulated for raising antibodies which recognize the peptide bond.
(11) Two kidneys (Group 3), deemed unsuitable for transplantation, were perfused for 24 hours with perfusate swished with unwashed sterile gloves.
(12) We conclude that s-creatinine and creatinine clearance are unsuitable measures of glomerular function during high-dose cisplatin treatment.
(13) Due to the large variations within and between days, the estimation of unconjugated oestriol in plasma might be unsuitable as a substitute for the estimation of urinary conjugated oestriol in the supervision of complicated pregnancies.
(14) The anterior superior iliac crest, the usual donor site for cortico-spongy bone grafts is unsuitable for the removal of large quantities of spongy bone.
(15) At this stage any attempt at definitive removal of diseased tissue would necessarily result in a larger dural defect at a time when local disease and systemic illness present unsuitable conditions for reparative procedures.
(16) Ultrastructural analysis indicated that Bands 2 and 3 were composed predominantly of membranes, although Band 3 was contaminated with mitochondria; Band 1 and the gradient pellet contained insufficient material and were unsuitable for ultrastructural analysis.
(17) Whilst this sensitive immunological test increases the yield of carcinomas, the high false positive rate makes it unsuitable for population screening for colorectal cancer in its present form.
(18) Unfortunately, a large number of potential compounds are unsuitable for use in dentifrices because they lack "substantivity", produce undesirable side-effects, or are incompatible with toothpaste ingredients.
(19) In this study, we have conducted a systematic investigation of various aspects of cell viability and function of isolated hepatocytes stored at 4 degrees C for 24 and 48 hr in either University of Wisconsin solution or Hanks' HEPES buffer, a control solution clinically unsuitable for organ preservation.
(20) It is concluded that heparin may be given intravenously in normal saline with benzylpenicillin, ampicillin, or methicillin but several other antibiotics were found to be unsuitable for concurrent infusion with heparin.