One of the most puzzling problems of our time is society's changing attitude toward truth and lying. Are we experiencing the breaking down of our moral values as many ethicists claim or are we confronted with a new moral paradigm? Serban explores the new moral relativism within the context of the unprecedented social-political and technological advances of the last decades. With the classical values under siege, a new concept of right and wrong has emerged based on a blurred distinction between truth and falsehood. Many forms of lying are considered subjective truth. Political correctness...
One of the most puzzling problems of our time is society's changing attitude toward truth and lying. Are we experiencing the breaking down of our m...
If Gregg might have wondered about the fate of his soul after his death, he found out now. His soul pushed by mysterious forces took off into the galactic space. Changed into a cosmic bio-energy entity, he reached Soulsland, the planet for souls' cosmic recycling. There, as a high bio-energy soul, he was assigned to protect other souls in his sector against the unexpected invasion of critters of a predatory planet, PP5x, who armed with powerful robots and gamma rays missileships tried to abduct many souls. Gregg dramatically defeated them using a clever strategy. He became an instant hero....
If Gregg might have wondered about the fate of his soul after his death, he found out now. His soul pushed by mysterious forces took off into the gala...
If Gregg might have wondered about the fate of his soul after his death, he found out now. His soul pushed by mysterious forces took off into the galactic space. Changed into a cosmic bio-energy entity, he reached Soulsland, the planet for souls' cosmic recycling. There, as a high bio-energy soul, he was assigned to protect other souls in his sector against the unexpected invasion of critters of a predatory planet, PP5x, who armed with powerful robots and gamma rays missileships tried to abduct many souls. Gregg dramatically defeated them using a clever strategy. He became an instant hero....
If Gregg might have wondered about the fate of his soul after his death, he found out now. His soul pushed by mysterious forces took off into the gala...
Undoubtedly this symposium will prove to be an important landmark in the development of our understanding of the psychopathology of human adaptation in general, as well as of the general adaptation syndrome and stress in particular. It was organized to give an opportunity to an international group of experts on adaptation and stress research to present summaries of their research that could then later be exhaustively analyzed. The carefully structured program brings out three major aspects of adapta- tion to stress in experimental animals and man. The first section deals with the...
Undoubtedly this symposium will prove to be an important landmark in the development of our understanding of the psychopathology of human adaptation i...
The description of sequelae of nutritional deficien- cies was equally oversimplified. Obviously, a disease like rickets, which affected hard tissues--the skeleton-- had irreversible consequences. Destruction or alteration of tissues, such as in cancrum oris or severe xerophthal- mia, was equally permanent and easily observed. Other models were beriberi or scurvy, where, by contrast, the vitamin treatment seemed to restore the individual to the completely normal status quo ante. Most nutritionists were therefore little prepared intellectually for the series of suggestive findings con- cerning...
The description of sequelae of nutritional deficien- cies was equally oversimplified. Obviously, a disease like rickets, which affected hard tissues--...
Psychologists view well-adjusted behaviour as conformity--the ability to navigate relationships and events within a framework of societal rules and regulations. George Serban argues that a better test is how well an individual is able to navigate adverse situations by handling conformity's ambiguities and incongruities. He uses clinical findings and content analysis to explore the interface between social conformity and nonconformist behaviours.
The definition of the normal is itself problematic, since society's expectations are sometimes controversial, arbitrary, or equivocal. As a...
Psychologists view well-adjusted behaviour as conformity--the ability to navigate relationships and events within a framework of societal rules and...
In March, 1974, an International Symposium was held at the Harmonie Club in New York to discuss a highly pertinent problem in today's research: the "Rele vance of the Animal Psychopathological Model to the Human." This meeting was sponsored by the Kittay Foundation, which brought together an outstanding group of scientists involved in widely different fields of research. This volume, it is hoped, will convey the tone of lively and cordial exchange between inter nationally renowned investigators, including Dr. I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt from Germany, Dr. Robert A. Hinde from England, Dr. Edward F....
In March, 1974, an International Symposium was held at the Harmonie Club in New York to discuss a highly pertinent problem in today's research: the "R...
The mental health movement of early release into the community of the chronic schizophrenic has been based on a set of old theoretical assumptions and expectations which, when tested on the community level, failed to meet the desired results. On the contrary, the first visible outcome of deinstitutionalization was the revolving door policy with the patients repeatedly in and out of the hospital, changing their previous status of inpatient to the new one of pseudoam- bulatory. Yet, this would not be a serious problem if the life of the patient in the community, in between rehospitalizations,...
The mental health movement of early release into the community of the chronic schizophrenic has been based on a set of old theoretical assumptions and...
