What kind of person is a lonely person?

The Prototype of a Lonely Person

The concept of the lonely person is not well defined. Its meaning varies somewhat from person to person, and people seem to apply different standards when they judge loneliness in themselves and in others. Therefore, when people say "~I feel lonely," their intended meanings are not precise. Three people beginning psychotherapy with a complaint of loneliness may have quite distinct problems in m...

My Kind of Person

Philosophical pleasure canes in about as many shapes and sizes as personal computers do, but one of the keenest pleasures, at least to my way of thinking, is having an article or book actually convince an intelligent reader of an important truth (or at least supposed truth) not previous1y believed. That, however, is as rare as it is satisfying, and anyone who thinks it his/her due dreams, as Sp...

What is person-centred care in dementia?

What we need is person-centred care

Sukhera and colleagues [1] have tackled a thorny issue. Despite good intentions, health care providers are among the groups most often identified by people with a mental illness as stigmatizing toward them. Recurrent themes in the literature that fall under the rubric of stigma are that patients feel as if they were being patronized, humiliated, treated like children, excluded from treatment de...

What is a Concept , that a Person May Grasp It ?

Asking a psychologist, philosopher, or a linguist what a concept is is much like asking a physicist what mass is. An answer cannot be given in isolation. Rather, the term plays a certain role in a larger world-view that includes the nature of language, of meaning, and of mind. Hence the notion of a concept cannot be explicated without at the same time sketching the background against which it i...