BACKGROUND Given the greater tendency during adolescence toward risk-taking, identifying and measuring the factors affecting the adolescents' health is highly important to ensure the efficacy of health promoting interventions. One of these factors is self-transcendence. The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric features of the Self-Transcendence Scale (adolescents' version) in studen...

Transcendental numbers form a fascinating subject: so little is known about the nature of analytic constants that more research is needed in this area. Even when one is interested only in numbers like π and e which are related with the classical exponential function, it turns out that elliptic functions are required (so far – this should not last for ever!) to prove transcendence results and ge...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To understand the meaning of self-transcendence, or the ability to go beyond the self, for patients who have had a stem cell transplantation. RESEARCH APPROACH A phenomenologic investigation guided by the interpretive philosophy of Heidegger. SETTING A cancer center in a major urban academic medical center. PARTICIPANTS 4 men and 4 women ages 45-63 who had received a st...

We discuss the role of auxiliary functions in the development of transcendental number theory. Earlier auxiliary functions were completely explicit (§ 1). The earliest transcendence proof is due to Liouville (§ 1.1), who produced the first explicit examples of transcendental numbers at a time where their existence was not yet known; in his proof, the auxiliary function is just a polynomial in o...

With reference to the intergenerational theorizing of trauma, this article considers the role of transcendence in the substance of our theoretical ideas about psychosis. Arguing against an emphasis on notions of developmental deficit, the author considers the recent work of Davoine and Gaudilliere as a means of questioning some of the paradigmatic assumptions of clinical psychology. It is sugge...