What makes us the same? What makes us different? Development of a shared model and manual of group therapy practice across art therapy, dance movement therapy and music therapy within community mental health care

What Makes Us Essentially Different?

Difference and sameness -or identity -are correlated concepts: to understand one is to understand the other. I will distinguish two accounts of sameness and difference: first, an essentialist account of sameness against which an understanding of difference is presented as derivative; secondly, a contextualist account which relates both sameness and difference to a more fundamental horizon or co...

What makes Internet therapy work?

Internet therapy is a novel treatment approach that is used to deliver cognitive behaviour therapy. Treatment components are mainly delivered in the form of texts presented via webpages, and support is provided via e-mail. A growing number of controlled trials suggest that Internet therapy works well when (a) a proper diagnosis is made before the treatment starts, (b) a comprehensive treatment ...

What makes us human?

To RSVP or for more information, please call Daniel Leonardich at 415.734.2080 or email [email protected] Science for Life lectures are free with open seating. Parking is available across the street in the UCSF Rutter Center garage. Co-sponsored by San Francisco Conservatory of Music cellist Erin Wang will share with us a brief discussion of “evolution” from baroque through contempora...

What makes us human ?

What makes us human?

The title of this report was the theme of the 7th Oxford International Biomedical Centre (OIBC) Symposium, just a few months after the publication of a paper suggesting that the genus Pan (including the chimpanzee and the bonobo) should be merged with the genus Homo. It has been realised for many years that the chimpanzee is our nearest living relative, and recent DNA studies have strengthened ...