Motivation – The purpose of this article is to reinvigorate debate concerning the nature of analogy and broaden the scope of current conceptions of analogy. Research approach – An analysis of the history of the concept of analogy, case studies on the use of analogy in problemsolving, cognitive research on analogy comprehension, and a naturalistic inquiry into the various functions of analogy. F...

Although projective techniques continue to be widely used in clinical and forensic settings, their scientific status remains highly controversial. In this monograph, we review the current state of the literature concerning the psychometric properties (norms, reliability, validity, incremental validity, treatment utility) of three major projective instruments: Rorschach Inkblot Test, Thematic Ap...

Robert Howell's Kant's Transcendental Deduction is one of the most impressive works ever produced on the Transcendental Deduction in particular, and on Kant's metaphysics and epistemology more generally. Howell's main project is to set out the possible interpretations of the first half of Kant's B-Deduction, distinguishing the possible readings of its premises, and then to evaluate the resultin...

The cognitive binding problem is a central question in the study of consciousness: how does the brain synthesize its modal and submodal processing systems to generate a unity of conscious experience? This essay considers several solutions to the binding problem, as well as their shortcomings. In particular, the current theory of neural synchronization as the basis for binding and consciousness ...

Dans cet article, le T.A.T. (Thematic Apperception Test) est envisagé comme un univers diégétique, non pas récit mimétique. L’analyse structurale des récits articulée à la psychanalyse permet de penser surdéterminé par problématique inconsciente du sujet. Nous proposons ainsi une autre possibilité aux analyses l’École ...

The purpose of this paper is to develop theoretical concepts for mental content-based investigations and explanations in the psychology of human thinking in general and transfer in specific. The schema-based analysis of transfer postulates that the solving of an earlier problem can influence a person’s future behaviour only to the degree of schematic similarity between the primary and the secon...

The aim of this study was to establish whether a 'teach-the-trainer' course leads to improvements in, firstly, the knowledge and attitude of clinical trainers and their trainees, and, secondly, the role model behaviour of the clinical trainers. A controlled intervention study was performed with GP trainers and GP trainees from four training institutes in the Netherlands. Clinical trainers in th...

The present study was carried out to test our hypothesis that linguistic competence may importantly determine the manifest symptomatology as well as type of schizophrenia and neurosis. A test of linguistic competence constructed by us after two tryouts and consisting of eight subtests, namely colour naming, naming filial relationships and household objects, TAT (mean lengh of utterance and tota...