Although much of this book is devoted to the technical aspects of treatment, we start this chapter with philosophical and, to some extent, theoretical issues associated with trauma therapy. This is because the way in which the clinician views trauma and trauma-related outcomes, and what he or she believes to be the overbridging goals and functions of treatment, have significant effects on the p...

to distinguish and portray their several influences on the careers of men; then more critically, to appraise their worth, to observe the success which attends them, and, if fortune favor, to reach some insight into the play of personal forces that shape our fate individually, collectively, nationally." If the author does not quite cover all this ground, the reader must remember that 183 small p...

None of our readers can be ignorant of the opinions of Dr. Snow on the communication of cholera by means of drinking water, nor of the perseverance and energy with which he has sought for facts to corroborate this view. The present work is a recapitulation of all the evidence he has hitherto published, with the addition of certain facts lately acquired. We have read this work carefully, and sha...

Ted DellaVecchia, one of three members of the newly formed CIO Advisory Board, to comment on the Peppard et al. article, believes the authors are on the right track in emphasizing business value and the demand side of IT investments, to successfully realize the benefits. Furthermore, he surmises that a framework like the Benefits Dependency Network (BDN) might also be useful in high-level corpo...

Arnheim‟s work explains visual art within the realm of Gestalt psychology. He believes that both physical and psychological forces influence experiencing a work of art equally. Overall, this text is an extremely detailed exploration of visual perception. Arnheim takes many fundamental artistic principles such as shape, balance, and color and dissects from a psychological framework. I would reco...

In this article two bawdy passages are compared. In Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, Athenian and Spartan negotiators, driven to a state of desperation by their women’s sex-strike, map out their respective sexo-territorial demands on the sexy body of the personified Reconciliation. In Shakespeare’s The comedy of errors, again, Dromio of Syracuse is trying to escape from the rotund kitchen maid Nell, w...

A 20-months-old infant was admitted with prolonged fever, bilateral non-purulent conjunctivitis, strawberry tongue, lip cracking and maculopapular rash. Left branch coronary aneurysm formation was detected in Color-Doppler echocardiography. The diagnosis was Kawasaki disease. After 6 weeks, he had alopecia totalis. Although, alopecia areata has been seen in Kawasaki disease, but alopecia totali...