Trichotillomania is not rare in adolescence. Psychotherapy is often ineffective, and cognitive behavioral therapy in combination with serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitors seems to be the treatment of choice. Some cases are resistant to all therapy. This paper reports on three adolescents with pure trichotillomania who responded to the imaginative hypnotherapy technique with Ericksonian sugges...

Recent work in developmental psychology indicates that children naturally think that psychological states continue after death. One important candidate explanation for why this belief is natural appeals to the idea that we believe in immortality because we can’t imagine our own nonexistence. This paper explores this old idea. To begin, I present a qualified statement of the thesis that we can’t...

Abstract Williams’ discussion of dilemmas in his classic paper “Ethical consistency” famously focuses on an example that has not bothered commentators and respondents to Williams as much it should have them: the Agamemnon Aeschylus’ play. In this I try pick apart what wants say from is really going text he unfortunately chooses for example. compare with four other crucial passage play: Plato, S...