This paper attempts to elaborate a fundamental brain mechanism involved in the creation and maintenance of symbolic fields of thought. It will integrate theories of psychic spaces as explored by Donald Winnicott and Wilfred Bion with the neuroscientific examinations of those with bilateral hippocampal injury to show how evidence from both disciplines sheds important light on this aspect of mind...

The analysis of literature and events in psychiatry in the course of past centurie show that the term mental illness even though it had played a positive role in the development of knowledge of psychic disorders and the place of psychiatry as part of clinical medicine has become an anachronic term in time. Because its content and form were never precisely defined, it began to serve as a means o...

This s tudy examines the incidence of reports of psychic phenomena and associated beliefs both before and after the near -dea th experience (NDE). The near -dea th exper iencers in terv iewed repor ted no more psychic phenomena before the NDE than the genera l populat ion. There was a stat ist ica l ly s ignif icant increase following the NDE in the incidence of 14 of 15 i tems examined. The ne...

What do we know about our basic sense of belonging to our own society or to our own soul? What determines what is familiar, uncanny, or strange to us? Why is it that what is familiar to one, is strange and unpredictable to someone else? Why is the sense of well-being of one person linked to times of excitement, and that of another to periods of tranquillity? And why does change bring one person...

The innovational matrix method of the basal emotions analysis for individuals is presented. The matrix criteria of the psycho-emotional state stability have been formulated. The developed method approbation on the myographic research data for individuals and comparison with psychological estimations results have been carried out.

In recent years, vigorous debate has emerged around a question central to Aristotelian psychology and metaphysics. This question is often framed in ontological terms, and concerns the sorts of causal roles played by the Aristotelian souls of various living organisms. More precisely, it asks whether such souls are ever capable of immediately or non-derivatively underlying the sorts of states and...

From a historical point of view, medicine (in modem society) has set its mission as to cure diseases--medical-type issues--and to ignore patient's condition--illness endurance. By accepting this point of view with reference to their problem, patients have entered some sort of conspiracy of silence and started ignoring the emotional reaction to their medical problems (or to cancel these reaction...