Imagined Immunities

Treatment of imagined ugliness

Greek dysmorphia, meaning ugliness (expressly of the face) was first coined by Morselli in the late19th century. He described a subjective feeling of a physical defect which the patient feels is noticeable to others, although his appearance is within normal limits. Dysmorphophobia first appeared in the US psychiatric nosology (as an atypical somatoform disorder) in 1980, with the publication of...

Child abuse reporting requirements: liabilities and immunities for clergy.

Alerts clergy and pastoral counselors to the role of child abuse reporting requirements in their pastoral care and counseling ministries. Outlines the rationale for child abuse reporting statutes, noting particularly the "spiritual healing exception"; and explains how penalties can be imposed for those who fail to comply with statutes.

The Imagined Moment

Searching Imagined Environments

Subjects read narratives describing directions of objects around a standing or reclimng observer, who was periodically reoriented. RTs were measured to identify which object was currently located beyond the observer's head, feet, front, back, fight, and left. When the observer was standing, head/feet RTs were fastest, followed by front/back and then right/left. For the reclining observer, front...

Imagined Worlds of Accounting

Science, engineering, and all other learned disciplines, as well as our socio-politicaleconomic organizations are artifacts—results of our imagination and ingenuity. Modern corporation—a marvel of organizational engineering—would not be possible without imagination. To run organizations, in the face of the centrifugal forces of divergent self-interest and inherently dispersed information, we ne...