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Computing point-of-view

Fonagy’s point of view

This issue of DMM News is dedicated to an article by Peter Fonagy, one of the most important contemporary psychoanalysts. Prof. Fonagy is very interested in attachment theory and is the man who focused the attention of researchers and clinicians on the importance of mentalizing. At the 4th IASA Conference in Miami in 2015, he presented a trans-theoretical reformulation of the role of attachment...

Culture and point of view.

East Asians and Westerners perceive the world and think about it in very different ways. Westerners are inclined to attend to some focal object, analyzing its attributes and categorizing it in an effort to find out what rules govern its behavior. Rules used include formal logic. Causal attributions tend to focus exclusively on the object and are therefore often mistaken. East Asians are more li...

A Different Point of View*

Sudden cardiac death resulting from ventricular arrhythmia is one of the leading public health problems of most developed countries. Despite intense research in the areas of ionic channels and pharmacological interventions, a panacea has not been found to control life-threatening arrhythmia and improve survival. In addition, the results of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial' demonstrated ...