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How Humor Heals: An Anatomical Perspective
No full textThe notion that humor is something that heals is now generally well recognized. Norman Cousins’ book, Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient spread the news of humor’s healing powers to the general public. But well before Cousins came along, many others had been doing research and writing about the healing power of humor
The Therapy for the Sane
No full textIn his Gorgias Plato has Socrates explain that his philosophical discussion concerns “a matter in which even a man of slight intelligence must take the profoundest of interest–namely, what course of life is best.” In the Apology Socrates justifies his mission by claiming “life without this sort of examination is not worth living.” Thus, there is little doubt that from its earliest recorded history the discipline of philosophy has been deeply concerned with how people are to best live their lives. This is also the concern of the nascent philosophical counseling movement, of which Lou Marinoff is a leading light
European Identity: A Threat to the Nation?
No full textAs a general rule, identities are only widely discussed when we think there might be something wrong with them, or some kind of identity crisis is apparent. In the last decade or two, there have many conferences organized and books published on the subject of European identity, and so it is safe to assume that there are some perceived problems in this area. In an attempt to illuminate such problems, and even to provide some answers, we shall deal here with definitions: what exactly is collective identity? How does it work? What might a European identity consist of? And how might it compete with national identity? In this way some of the confusion surrounding this issue can be cleared away
The Process Of Dreaming, Communication And A Bit Of Psycho-Analysis (Part 2)
No full textIs the reality of the dream something (slightly) different from the psychical reality? We will try to answer this question by fitting the problem of dream into a classic communication pattern and looking at the psychic agencies from a communication-related perspective. Thuswise, the dream will take the form of a message whose shape is influenced by the sender and the receiver requiremenets, but also set as a (apparently) autonomous product of the unconsciousness. How much legitimacy would then lie in assigning the regulation of the onirical reality to „another” consciousness? Would it be possible for the reality „state” we experience while dreaming to be due to a sort of onirical awareness that arises from an integration-reflex in the moment when the dreamer encounters a world that lacks any kind of antagonistic sensations and so, seemingly, very real? Such faultless integration into the dreamt world through precise reflexes that are just the same as the ones used for appropriately approaching the outside world, seriously moots the problem of an (appearing) autonomy of reactions of the sleeping man – still perfectly awake in the strange light of a new, paradoxical and less approached „vigilance”
European Identity: Objectifying the Ideal
No full textHaving an issue intensely publicly debated or heavily investigated by scientific means tells us that there is still a long way to go before actually knowing and understanding it; that this dubitative tension around it keeps it permanently in our focus of interest and research, and forces us towards its clarification. European identity is probably one of the most frequently discussed topics in the social sciences arena nowadays, but also one of the most fluid and insecure concepts that politicians, scientists or the civil society are trying to get a grip on
The Personality Profile of the Drug Addict
No full textPersonality traits as predisposing factors to addiction, or the appetite for drug. Drug addiction may be considered as a result of the intersection between product, drug and environmental factors, educational factors and those factors configuring the intimate structure of personality. Among environmental factors, the most accepted are social and economic deprivations: parent’s unemployment, poverty, limited material conditions, disorganized families by divorce or abandonment, single parent families. Living conditions in disorganized communities, excessive mobility from a community to an other, most of all though, 1-2 decades of accessibility to drugs and alcohol, group affiliation to drug users, family antecedents of alcoholism, painful traumatic events: separations, death of a close person, etc
The „Superposed Profile” of Diplomatic Requirements and Expectations in View of Romania’s Adhesion to NATO and the EU
No full textForeign Affairs – as a practical activity, science or/and a form of arts – ask for solid interdisciplinary knowledge, as well as a series of inter-relationship abilities that are to be displayed inside and outside the country. The author has created some tests (answer/response) that she has used in 1994 and 2004, on two groups of subjects working for the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Romania. Their answers have been decoded „in mirror” (for comparison purposes). Some other tools have been used: VAT, a semi-structured interview, brainstorming etc.; their purpose was to re-direct the options, decisions, motivation and abilities for team-work; they are all self-projections for two groups of specialists-actors who try to help in Romania’s efforts toward adhesion to the EU and NATO
The French Vision of Europe from Victor Hugo’s United States of Europe to the No to the Constitution
No full textVictor Hugo (1802-1885) is one of the few nineteenth century European writers and intellectuals who, during this very nationalistic epoch, expressed a consistent theory of European political and economic unification. The idea of the « United States of Europe » is as far-reaching and, for most people, utopian today as it was in his time. Nonetheless, some of Hugo’s ideas have materialized, such as monetary union, and the disappearance of national borders within the Schengen heartland. This paper tries to evaluate the complex interplay, in European integration, between utopia and realpolitik