Russek and Schwartz (1) provide a very significant contribution to our knowledge about the health consequences of parental caring. Perceived parental caring is obviously a robust predictor of health status in middle age. We need such cohort confirmations for these developmental hypotheses. This Journal has recently been using art to illustrate important points in psychosomatic medicine. For thi...

Most interest in Fechner’s work went to the law of outer psychophysics, which relates external stimulus intensity and sensory experience. Yet, according to Fechner’s own conviction the validity of this law depends entirely on inner psychophysics’ prescription that brain activity and experience are different aspects of the same entity. This means there must be lawful connections between the two ...

Anthropologists have spilt much ink deconstructing concepts inherited from the Enlightenment. Religion, possibly most misleading such concept, has proved highly resistant to acid of cross-cultural comparison. Debates about nature religion go back sociocultural anthropology's beginnings as a discipline and beyond. Proposed definitions been numerous, but none come close universal acceptance, main...

Jaspers' thinking is motivated by transcending reason, radical time-consciousness, and the phenomenon of spiritual creativity and value-directedness. The fundamental question of truth for time-bound man is at the core of Jaspers' thinking, which he takes up with respect to mankind's age-old experience with the tradition of philosophical, religious, and literary thought. His works attain signifi...