Traditional game-theoretic models assume that utilities depend only on actions. This is not sufficient for describing the motivations and choices of decision makers who care about reciprocity, emotions, or social rewards. Psychological games allow utilities to depend directly on beliefs (about beliefs) besides which actions are chosen, and they can capture a wider range of motivations. This Pal...

Clinicians who work with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) patients recognize that successful management of the syndrome presents a significant challenge. In the absence of any definitive medical treatment, 2 the need for multidisciplinary management of CRPS has been emphasized. It is now generally agreed that successful treatment must simultaneously address the medical, psychological, and ...

So long as metaphysicians limit their inquiries to the laws of mental action, and omit therefrom an investigation of the organic conditions under which that action takes place, so long will mental philosophy, and the whole theory of human nature in all its aspects, he incomplete. The power of the soul over the hody has been amply illustrated, because little physiology and less anatomy are requi...

placenta przevia in the Royal Maternity Hospital and in private practice. During the years 1937-1949 there were 275 cases. There were two maternal deaths, a mortality rate of 0.73 per cent. The fcetal mortality was 20.4 per cent., and, if deaths from foetal abnormalities were excluded, the corrected figure was 17.1 per cent. These figures were compared with those of the Royal Maternity Hospital...

This small book in the series "Mind and Medicine Monographs" should be read by every general practitioner. The author has been stimulated by Balint's seminars to study the amount of psychiatric illness in his own practice in the North of Scotland and to settle down to treat it: for, as he says, "the general practitioner is in the most advantageous position for dealing with disturbed human relat...

A review of 45 studies clearly demonstrated that sexually abused children had more symptoms than nonabused children, with abuse accounting for 15—45% of the variance. Fears, posttraumatic stress disorder, behavior problems, sexualized behaviors, and poor self-esteem occurred most frequently among a long list of symptoms noted, but no one symptom characterized a majority of sexually abused child...

Studies examining humor in psychiatric disorders have elucidated the affective and cognitive components that are essential in understanding and appreciating humor. Both cognitive executive functioning (e.g., verbal fluency, set shifting) and the ability to mentalize dramatically impact the ability to understand and appreciate humor. Emotional components, such as mood states and traits, which af...