Thoughts on Residential Segregation—An Introduction

Introduction: A global perspective on unwanted intrusive thoughts

Because of Rachman and de Silva's (1978) influential research on normal and abnormal obsessions, it is now a basic tenet of cognitive behavioral theories (CBT) that clinical obsessions have their origins in the normal intrusive thought phenomena that characterizes the stream of consciousness. However much of the empirical research on unwanted intrusive thoughts has utilized retrospective self-r...

Voices and Thoughts in Psychosis: An Introduction

In this introduction we present the orthodox account of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs), a number of worries for this account, and some potential responses open to its proponents. With some problems still remaining, we then introduce the problems presented by the phenomenon of thought insertion, in particular the question of how different it is supposed to be from AVHs. We then mention tw...

Macro-prudential policy for residential mortgage lending: Thoughts on CBI Consultation Paper CP87

This brief note outlines some thinking in relation to the proposed restrictions on residential mortgage lending, outlined in the Central Bank of Ireland Consultation paper CP87 (Central Bank of Ireland 2014). I first outline the context for credit restrictions, before outlining some theoretical and practical issues with the current proposals. The perspective adopted is rooted principally in the...

Thoughts on Social Design

Thoughts on the Bulletin.

Because daguerreotype photographs are usually reversed laterally from actuality, images of W.T.G. Morton falsely suggest that he sometimes changed the side of the part in his hair. Because of daguerreotype image reversal, a statue of Apollo in the Ether Dome at the Massachusetts General Hospital appears to have been moved for the 50th anniversary of Ether Day. Ether anesthesia was announced in ...