Psychotherapist is also human – view from the couch

The psychotherapist-patient privilege: a therapeutic jurisprudence view.

To err is human; to structurally prime from errors is also human.

Natural language contains disfluencies and errors. Do listeners simply discard information that was clearly produced in error, or can erroneous material persist to affect subsequent processing? Two experiments explored this question using a structural priming paradigm. Speakers described dative-eliciting pictures after hearing prime sentences that either were disfluent but with a consistent dat...

Is Human Enhancement also a Personal Matter?

Emerging technologies are increasingly used in an attempt to "enhance the human body and/or mind" beyond the contemporary standards that characterize human beings. Yet, such standards are deeply controversial and it is not an easy task to determine whether the application of a given technology to an individual and its outcome can be defined as a human enhancement or not. Despite much debate on ...

Human morphology from view point of traditional medicine

Traditional Iranian Medicine (T.I.M.) is a branch of natural history sciences that has originated from theoretical wisdom. The philosophy of this medicine is dependent on the hakims and philosophers viewpoint to the world and then to the fashion and general quality of its parts. This holisticly viewpoint to the human beside available intellectual comparisons and partition in medicine (Unlike wh...

Primer for the Psychotherapist

There are a number of serious shortcomings in the book. The title "Primer for the Psychotherapist" is quite misleading as this suggests that it contains an account of basic skills for psychotherapists but, in fact, it indicates that the non-medical psychotherapist should be able to differentiate between such conditions as duodenal ulcer, ulcerative colitis, Parkinson's disease and thyrotoxicosi...