This paper examines the relational view of the person in Martin Buber's philosophy of dialogue. Shifts toward the relational are considered in the context of human development, gender studies, psychotherapy, and family therapy. A dialogical approach to couples therapy is presented, in which partners are encouraged to move toward a more collaborative, empathic relationship--a relationship of "I ...

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This paper argues that “YOU” and “I” (“I” “THOU”) are fundamental elements of human thought, present as distinct words (or signs) in all languages. I first developed this thesis my 1976 article “In defense YOU ME” (and before that, introduced it 1972 book Semantic Primitives; cf. also 2021 “‘Semantic Primitives’, fifty years later”). Since then, has been confirmed by wide-ranging cross-linguist...

If thou art diligent and wise, O stranger, compute the number of cattle of the Sun, who once upon a time grazed on the fields of the Thrinacian isle of Sicily, divided into four herds of different colours, one milk white, another glossy black, the third yellow and the last dappled. In each herd were bulls, mighty in number according to these proportions: Understand, stranger, that the white bul...

Labels of Identity— Race, Ethnicity and Culture One of the great challenges in modern medicine is creating effective therapeutic relationships in an era of ever-increasing cultural diversity. Our hospitals and communities have become global villages where, daily, many languages, cultures, and customs intersect, clash, merge, and evolve. Yet in spite of this spiraling complexity, health caregive...

Forty-two! yelled Loonquawl. Is that all you ve got to show for seven and a half million years w ork? I checked it very thoroughly, said the computer, and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you ve never actually known what the question is. But it was the Great Ques tion! The Ultimate Qu estion of Life, the Universe and E verything, how...

Direct-sequence code-division mult ip le access (DS-CDMA) is a popular wireless technology. in DS-CDMA communications, all of the users’ signals overlap in t ime and frequency and cause mutual interference. The conventional DS-CDMA detector fo l lows a single-user detection strategy in which each user is detected separately w i thou t regard for the other users. A better strategy is mult i-user...