The Imprisoned Freeman

Freeman, J

Imprisoned in Suspicion

Paranoia is a self-inflicted mental torture of which the sufferer himself is unaware. A paranoiac is perpetually guarded and suspicious, convinced that he is being persecuted by all who inhabit his deluded world.

Children of imprisoned mothers.

OBJECTIVES To describe the problems faced by children during separation from their imprisoned mothers, and evaluate the health of children who accompanied their mothers into prison. DESIGN A prospective observational study. SETTING Welikada Prison, Colombo, Sri Lanka. METHODS 200 randomly selected mothers who had left their children at home were interviewed using a questionnaire. During a...

The Freeman Ideas on Liberty

O n average, Federal Reserve chairmen come and go at about the same rate as U.S. presidents. Dating from the creation of this country's central bank (1913), we have seen sixteen presidents (Wilson to Bush) and fourteen Federal Reserve Chairmen (Hamlin to Bernanke). The Fed Chairmanship, however, has seen more variation in years of service—Franklin D. Roosevelt notwithstanding. Spanning four pre...

Freeman K-set

Figure 1: A. Topological hierarchy of K-sets, in which (+) means excitation and (means ns inhibition. B. Simulated impulse responses for open loop (interactions are suppressed by anesthesia), mutual excitation (KIe), and negative feedback (KII). C. Experimental open loop impulse response fitted with solution to an ODE representing the dynamics of an ensemble of neurons made non-interactive by a...