Each of the previous three articles in this series has examined one of the three main traditions of humour theory; those based around incongruity, superiority and the release of energy. We have seen that each of these theoretical traditions sheds some light upon humour and laughter, but also that all fail in their overly ambitious task of offering a fully comprehensive theory. This has not dete...

in six parts: (i) intrinsic and extrinsic factors regulating neuronal activity, (ii) contributions to the physiology and pathology of movements, (iii) the physiological basis of consciousness, (iv) some aspects of autonomic physiology, (v) integrations, and (vi) applications. The first two sections could be better organized. His sentences are frequently cumbersome, as witness: "This survey has ...

This paper explores the essential features of recovery and the need for an existential approach in psychiatry. The biopsychosocial model often fails to sufficiently validate the existential suffering of patients. We review the major principles of recovery and the philosophical and psychiatric principles of existentialism. The ontological or intrinsic existential issues of death, isolation, free...

Classical CBT has its limitation related especially to existential questions, such as meaning of life, acceptance of unchangeable aspects, meaning of values, transcendence, significance of experiences, and heading into the future. The method is a speculative review. It is a theoretical article, with discussion of concepts and possibilities for integration, rather than an analysis. The review in...

We present a variant of the explicitly-typed secondorder polymorphic λ-calculus with primitive open existential types, i.e. a collection of more atomic constructs for introduction and elimination of existential types. We equip the language with a call-by-value small-step reduction semantics that enjoys the subject reduction property. Traditional closed existential types can be defined as syntac...