Empirical evidence for psychic transparency in pregnancy.

Exploring “psychic transparency” during pregnancy: a mixed-methods approach

BACKGROUND Psychic transparency is described as a psychic crisis occurring during pregnancy. The objective was to test if it was clinically detectable. METHODS Seven primiparous and seven nulliparous subjects were recorded during 5 min of spontaneous speech about their dreams. 25 raters from five groups (psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, general practitioners, pregnant women and medical students...

An Assessment of the Evidence for Psychic Functioning

Research on psychic functioning, conducted over a two decade period, is examined to determine whether or not the phenomenon has been scientifically established. A secondary question is whether or not it is useful for government purposes. The primary work examined in this report was government sponsored research conducted at Stanford Research Institute, later known as SRI International, and at S...

[Possibilities and hazards of treatment of psychic disorders during pregnancy].

Transparency Theory: Empirical Issues and Psycholinguistic Routes.∗

Interestingly, one can show that in the propositional case, this prediction is equivalent toφ(d)⇔ φ(>), i.e. we only need to consider one possible sentence completion β: the tautology. Importantly however, this is only a (very efficient) technical shortcut and lengthy tautologous pieces are not necessary (see Chemla, 2006). This first part of the theory accounts for the core projection facts: p...

Empirical Evidence for Rationalism

[PENULTIMATE DRAFT] Joel Pust University of Delaware