Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• cloudant-nano 6.6.0 – Minimalistic CouchDB driver for Node.js
• couchable 0.4.5 (Python) – Allows arbitrary python objects to be stored in CouchDB, while keeping the resulting CouchDB document as “natural” as possible.
• icouch 0.3.10 (Erlang) – A CouchDB client for Elixir using ibrowse for HTTP transfer
• kivik 1.3.3 – Kivik provides a generic interface to CouchDB or CouchDB-like databases for Go and GopherJS.
• nativescript-couchdb 0.6.15 – Nativescript plugin for CouchDB
• node-couch-database-spawner 1.1.0 – CouchDB database spawner for Node.Js using node-couch

PouchDB

• shimaore-pouchdb-core 6.3.4 – The core of PouchDB as a standalone package.

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

• [POST] Test-driving Shiny with CouchDB (and RStudio), Sebastian Rothbucher
• [POST] Redesigning Persistence Entities For Nosql, Talha Ocakçı

CouchDB Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Stack Overflow:

• How to empty Cloudant databases from the GUI?
• Check if attachment is up to date with current document revision in CouchDB
• Is there good way to backup and delete and backout the document from CouchDB?
• Deleting all documents in CouchDB

no public answer yet:

• Regarding Memory Consumption of CouchDB

PouchDB Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Stack Overflow:

• PouchDB’s find() always says “no matching index” even if I make one
• Is it possible to ‘reopen’ closed DB in PouchDB

no public answer yet:

• PouchDB in a web worker on iOS : is there a viable solution as of today?
• PouchDB Local-to-Remote replication goes into “paused” with no record replicated

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When you think of a therapist’s office, what comes to mind?

Lying down on a couch, staring into space, and telling a bookish old man with thick glasses and an indeterminate European accent all about the inner workings of your unconscious mind. Or something like that. The point is, that couch is probably front and center in your mental picture. But why is that? Like many things in psychology, it all goes back to Freud. He supposedly received his couch (pictured) from a female patient who wanted to show her gratitude.

Freud quickly saw the potential benefits. A fully relaxed patient would be more willing to say what’s on their mind, providing the therapist with unparalleled, unfiltered insights. Freud called this technique “free association”, and it popularized both the ideas of psychoanalysis and the therapeutic couch. In fact, the couch became so central to psychoanalysis that a thriving industry popped up to meet the demand. In Brooklyn, the Imperial Leather Company made out like gangbusters, selling tons of therapeutic couches during the “golden age” of psychoanalysis that spanned the 40s, 50s, and early 60s.

With the rise of hippie culture and new, more effective mental health treatments, Freud’s ideas fell out of favor. But the couch lived on in the realm of pop culture. Cartoonists have used it for years, and still do. Why? Because the therapeutic couch is an enduring symbol. People immediately recognize what it is and what it represents.

Freud may not be the belle of the psychiatric ball anymore, but his influence lives on. The id/ego/superego, the Freudian slip, and a bevy of complexes are still part of the vernacular of mental health. As for the couch, it exists not as a physical presence in the therapist’s office, but as a metaphor for relaxation, openness, and healing.  

Sometimes you’ve just got to relax and have a bit of fun. Stay tuned for more from the Couch of Ages blog series and please, feel free to email us if there’s something you’d like to see covered in this space. Have a great day and try to find a bit of time to relax.  

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Image credit: Freud Museum, London

Source: How Freud’s Couch Became a Pop-Culture Phenomenon