The emerging paradigms in medicine can be seen through mind-body interactions. Observations in many meditative traditions suggest a series of objective indicators of health beyond absence of disease. Several of the physical signs have been confirmed by research or are consistent with modern science. Further correlation with long term health outcome is needed. Integration of meditation with conv...

Freud, Psychoanalysis, and Symbolism offers an innovative general theory of symbolism, derived from Freud’s psychoanalytic theory and relocated within mainstream scientific psychology. It is the first systematic investigation of the development of Freud’s treatment of symbolism throughout his published works, and discovers in those writings a broad theory which is far superior to the widely acc...

A great deal of complex cognitive processing occurs at the unconscious level and affects how humans behave, think, and feel. Scientists are only now beginning to understand how this occurs on the neural level. Understanding the neural basis of consciousness requires an account of the neural mechanisms that underlie both conscious and unconscious thought, and their dynamic interaction. For examp...

An encounter with ominous objects or situations that causes one to feel uneasy, frightening, afraid is known as an uncanny experience. It involves both feelings and make someone uneasy. This article focused on the in Lovecraft's two well-known short stories, "At Mountain of Madness" (1930) "Whisperer Darkness" (1931). By employing Sigmund Freud's psychological notion "the uncanny", study reveal...

personality of specific individuals-historical, like Swift, Milton, Pope and Savage, and fictional, like the characters ("Dick Linger", "Sober", "Cupidus" and so forth) who populate the Rambler and Idler essays. Unsurprisingly, Johnson's reading of human psychology at large is shown to reflect his own propensities-indeed,.it served as an attempt to resolve the crises afflicting his own intra-ps...

Another example of the inadequate, indeed mistaken, discussion of a partly medical question ofpractical importance is that ofwitchcraft. The beliefthat most witches were women who suffered from melancholic delusions is central to Johann Wier's extremely influential De praestigiis daemonum, and Jean Bodin's refutation of it hinges on the denial that women are prone to melancholy. All this is omi...

This paper argues the introduction of psychoanalytic concepts for modeling emotion control in a pet robot. I propose a model of the Freudian Ego as part of a neurally modeled "mind", and illustrate its function in the problem of learning to wait. This model is intended for children, dogs and pet-like robots.

We present a set of tools and resources for the analysis of interviews during psychotherapy sessions. One of the main components of the work is a dictionary-based text interpretation tool for the Spanish language. The tool is designed to identify a subset of Freudian drives in patient and therapist discourse.