“It’s a Wonderful Life,” the title of Frank Capra’s classic 1946 movie, seems to encapsulate a fundamental all-American conviction. Unsurprisingly, several courts and jurists have applied the movie-title maxim as the ultimate retort to one of the most intriguing questions in modern tort discourse: Is it possible to say that a severely disabled child has been harmed by the mere fact of being bor...

BACKGROUND Because of the problems measuring subjective well-being in people with severe and profound intellectual disabilities, there are no studies to date which explore the factors contributing to the subjective well-being in these groups. We wanted to explore the client and service characteristics contributing to the subjective well-being of persons with severe and profound intellectual dis...

The research used Means-End Chain as theory basis to combine the consumers’ inclinations sense to form the chain-relation as “attributes-resultvalue”, using a new Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique to analyze the high involvement people thoughts and feelings to find out about the consumer’s profound concept. Personal interview data was examined in the application of qualitative analysis of ...

David Beres, M.D. and Jacob A. Arlow, M.D. It is easy to cloathe Imaginary Beings with our own Thoughts & Feelings; but to send ourselves out of ourselves, to think ourselves in to the Thoughts & Feelings of Beings in circumstances wholly & strangely different from our own ... and who has achieved it? Perhaps only Shakespere ... a great Poet must be implicitè if not explicitè, a profound Metaph...