The Human Being….

The Importance of Being Human

In the summer of 1965, my paleontological colleague, Bryan Patterson, was in charge of a Harvard expedition working near the shore of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. At a locality called Kanapoi, while he was searching in deposits believed to be of the early Pleistocene the last geological epoch before the present, he picked up an important fossil. The broken lower end of a left humerus the upp...

The Dangers of Being Human

Although the author repeatedly emphasizes his points of disagreement with orthodox Freudian doctrine and very briefly mentions the existence of other schools of thought and types of psychotherapy, he appears to recommend analysis as the cure for everything from the mildest to the most severe psychological problems. Besides being unnecessary and inadvisable, it is also unpracticable as very few ...

On Not Being Human.

Morton Ann GernsbAcher is the Vilas Research Professor and Sir Frederic C. Bartlett Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She can be reached via email at [email protected]. Around the time I took office as president of the Association for Psychological Science, Wray Herbert, Public Affairs Director of APS, began e-publishing his now syndicated blog,...

The Design of the Human Being

Internal structures and processes in the design of a human being are hidden. We are thus presented with two mysteries. The first concerns the structures and processes themselves. The second concerns the mechanism that hides them, and the reason for hiding them. I propose here a complete, coherent theory of the human being under a fractal-cascade system. The fundamental mechanism of the human be...

Understanding Human Well - being