The nature of the self has been one of the central problems in philosophy and most recently in neuroscience. Here, we suggest that animals and humans share a 'core self' represented in homologous underlying neural networks. We argue that the core self might be constituted by an integrative neuronal mechanism that enables self-related processing (SRP). Because mammalian organisms are capable of ...

BACKGROUND Patient demand and clinician interest have driven professional training in integrative therapies, but few rigorous evaluations have been published. METHODS This project evaluated the proof of concept of training in acupressure, guided imagery, massage, and Reiki on clinicians' sense of self-efficacy in providing nondrug therapies, self-confidence in providing compassionate care, an...

This study addressed the relationship between sense of personal identity and thinking dispositions such as need for cognition, reflection, and integrative self-knowledge as well as modes of coping with self-related discrepancies through either excessive assimilation or accommodation. Participants were 544 young adults. The correlation and path analyses revealed, as expected, that need for cogni...

We examined the views and practices of self-identified eclectic and integrative psychologists, particularly in the context of historical changes since 1977 and 1988. Results from 187 eclectic clinical psychologists indicated that 50% previously adhered to another theoretical orientation, the majority preferred the term integrative to eclectic, and 85% conceptualized eclecticism/integration as t...

Abstract Edmund Husserl’s eidetic phenomenology seeks a priori knowledge of essences and laws pertaining to conscious experience its objects. Husserl believes that such has higher epistemic status than the inherently fallible empirical knowledge, but closer reading his work shows even claims are subject error open modification. In this article, I develop self-correcting account method variation...

IT components with information processing and communication capabilities are embedded in almost all commonplace and industrial objects. In our daily life we depend more and more on these IT components. On the other hand, users will increasingly expect that those IT components collaborate autonomously and thus provide emergent properties. Hence we have to guarantee their reliability, even though...

The emergence of a relational perspective in psychoanalytic thought suggests the need for new paradigms of symptom formation. In addition, biopsychosocial data on the etiology of a number of specific disorders have been accumulating. Self psychology is proposed as a relational model of psychopathology that can be incorporated into a biopsychosocial paradigm of symptom formation for Axis 1 disor...