A Dialogical Church: Newly Born and Still Growing

Still-Born Infants

Do not forget that when you sneeze, the fairies are endeavouring to carry you off, and that if a sudden lameness overtakes you, it indicates that you have been trespassing on fairy ground. The great safeguards against the fairies are fire, iron, and dung, the last-mentioned because the fairies, being pure spirits, cannot bear defilement. Never take fire out of a house with a person sick within ...

Thirty years and still growing.

In the 30 years since the founding of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law in 1969, there has been a tremendous growth in the organization as well as in the number of psychiatrists who have a subspecialty of forensic psychiatry. In an attempt to explain this exponential growth, the author looks at the many social, economic, medical, and legal activities that were active during these y...

Dialogical Self , Dialogical Other : A Brief Overview of Dialogical Psychotherapy

The philosophy of Martin Buber as a philosopher of dialogue is well known to philosophy, philosophy of religion, and philosophical anthropology. His thoughts and how they have been applied to human counseling and psychotherapy are however, less well known. This article presents an overview of some of the modern and postmodern therapists and analysts who have drawn from his philosophy important ...

Church-Rosser Groups and Growing Context-Sensitive Groups

A finitely generated group is called a Church-Rosser group (growing contextsensitive group) if it admits a finitely generated presentation for which the word problem is a Church-Rosser (growing context-sensitive) language. Although the ChurchRosser languages are incomparable to the context-free languages under set inclusion, they strictly contain the class of deterministic context-free language...

Proposed Registration of Still-Born Children