Ayna Adam (Mirror Man)

Mirror man: a case of skilled deliberate mirror writing.

Mirror writing is a striking behaviour that is common in children and can reemerge in adults following brain damage. Skilled deliberate mirror writing has also been reported, but only anecdotally. We provide the first quantitative study of skilled deliberate mirror writing. K.B. can write forward or backward, vertically upright or inverted, with the hands acting alone or simultaneously. K.B. is...

Adam Smith’s Model of Man and Some of its Consequences

This papers discusses the relationship of the ‘model of man’ presented by Adam Smith in The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and the assumptions about human behaviour which are quintessential for his An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776/77). It is argued that Smith’s observation of a ‘propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another’ does not in ge...

Literary Culture: "New Soviet Man" in the Mirror of Literature

ADAM 10 ( ADAM metallopeptidase domain 10 )

Meetings at the edge with Adam: a man for all seasons?

this author has had a passionate involvement with people Some months ago, a client (Lou) complained that experiencing painful altered states of consciousness. MDMA had lied. He is a man in his early fifties who had While there has been a group of explorers who have embarked on a difficult exploration of this longstanding consistently emphasized the possibilities for positive depression, a chara...