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Psychoanalytic therapy: efficacy and comparison with other counseling approaches

"…There is no single, definitive, unchanging, final narrative that can qualify as the correct understanding of the patient's psychic life"

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Family roles and values in Orthodox Jewish culture

Mrs. Baron -- Sharon, she tells me with a wry laugh, noting the rhyme for what must be the millionth time in her life -- is "older than thirty seven and younger than fifty -- much younger!" Though she was born in this country, as were her parents, her culture is markedly different from what one…

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Sigmund Freud's theory of personality structure and the unconscious mind

Sigmund Freud was a physiologist, medical doctor, psychologist and became known as the father of psychoanalysis. He was a very influential thinker of the twentieth century.

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Gender differences in experiences and management of coronary heart disease

Carol Emslie, MA, PhD, is a review of qualitative research studies pertaining to coronary heart disease. In particular, the review was aimed to assess if there is a gender specific focus in the studies about the experiences of people with coronary heart diseases.

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Social learning theory: concepts, theorists, and critiques

The importance of social learning and that way that the social context enables and facilitates learning processes such as motivation, imitation, reinforcement and self-efficacy has become an central theoretical concern in contemporary education.

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Modularity in language: exploring cognitive separation and integration

Whether language is modular is a debate for a lot of people. The two schools of thought say that (a) language is modular in that it is separate from other cognitive processes, and (b) language is non-modular in that it is a product of various cognitive processes (Robinson-Riegler & Robinson,…

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Reducing university costs without eliminating humanities departments

To reign in university expenditures, it was tentatively proposed that the school eliminate its humanities and social science-related departments in their entirety. However, there are a number of problems with this radical proposal.

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Human facial recognition mechanisms and cognitive categorization processes

In humans, the recognition of facial characteristics that differentiate individuals from one another was profoundly important during our evolutionary development (Robinson-Riegler, 177; 181).

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Strengths and weaknesses of feminist and reality therapy

Both reality and feminist therapies focus on change -- either change in general, or fostering personal change to bring about a more positive social reality for women.

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The distinction between episodic and semantic memory

Robinson-Reigler and Robinson-Reigler (2008) summarize Tulving when they note that there are two different kinds of long-term memory: episodic an semantic. Episodic memory refers to those events that one has personally experienced.

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