Postmodern Cognitive Psychotherapy: Moving Beyond Modernist Dualisms

1997 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Lyddon

Despite their range of reactions, the rejoinders to Lyddon and Weill’s article (in this issue) converge on two fundamental issues facing cognitive psychotherapists in the postmodern era: (1) the relation between human knowing and reality and (2) contrasting constructions of the self. In this article I critically evaluate the various rejoinders with respect to these issues. I also suggest that recent developments in the cognitive sciences parallel the postmodern shift away from modernist dualisms and dichotomies toward a more complex and integrative view of psychological phenomena.

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renatus Ziegler ◽  
Ulrich Weger

Abstract. In psychology, thinking is typically studied in terms of a range of behavioral or physiological parameters, focusing, for instance, on the mental contents or the neuronal correlates of the thinking process proper. In the current article, by contrast, we seek to complement this approach with an exploration into the experiential or inner dimensions of thinking. These are subtle and elusive and hence easily escape a mode of inquiry that focuses on externally measurable outcomes. We illustrate how a sufficiently trained introspective approach can become a radar for facets of thinking that have found hardly any recognition in the literature so far. We consider this an important complement to third-person research because these introspective observations not only allow for new insights into the nature of thinking proper but also cast other psychological phenomena in a new light, for instance, attention and the self. We outline and discuss our findings and also present a roadmap for the reader interested in studying these phenomena in detail.


2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 450-476
Author(s):  
Flavio A. Geisshuesler

AbstractThis article proposes a 7E model of the human mind, which was developed within the cognitive paradigm in religious studies and its primary expression, the Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR). This study draws on the philosophically most sophisticated currents in the cognitive sciences, which have come to define the human mind through a 4E model as embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended. Introducing Catherine Malabou’s concept of “plasticity,” the study not only confirms the insight of the 4E model of the self as a decentered system, but it also recommends two further traits of the self that have been overlooked in the cognitive sciences, namely the negativity of plasticity and the tension between giving and receiving form. Finally, the article matures these philosophical insights to develop a concrete model of the religious mind, equipping it with three further Es, namely emotional, evolved, and exoconscious.


PMLA ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 78 (5) ◽  
pp. 529-535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul E. Parnell

Fifty years after the modern study of sentimentalism was inaugurated by Ernest Bernbaum, the problem remains whether the term has ever been satisfactorily defined or described. Two recent developments reveal some of the difficulties: Arthur Sherbo in The English Sentimental Drama takes five basic criteria considered by most authorities as typical, and shows that they may all apply to plays demonstrably not sentimental. John Harrington Smith, in the preface to The Gay Couple in Restoration Comedy (1948), announces that he has completely avoided the term “sentimental” as too vague to be of much value. Yet Ronald Crane, writing fourteen years before, assumed the essential traits of sentimentalism to be fairly clear, and Norman Holland has implied that two criteria borrowed from Bernbaum and Krutch still supply an adequate definition. There is not even agreement whether sentimentality is a positive or negative quality. Krutch and Sherbo feel that it is false and dishonest, therefore bad. Crane concedes that it is somewhat limited intellectually, but emphasizes its humanitarianism and emotional warmth, especially the “self-approving joy” that makes virtue satisfying. Bernbaum vacillates between sympathy and contempt.


2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (20) ◽  
pp. 1230019 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTIAN SÄMANN

I review an extension of the ADHMN construction of monopoles to M-brane models. This extended construction gives a map from solutions to the Basu–Harvey equation to solutions to the self-dual string equation transgressed to loop space. Loop spaces appear in fact quite naturally in M-brane models. This is demonstrated by translating a recently proposed M5-brane model to loop space. Finally, I comment on some recent developments related to the loop space approach to M-brane models.


1983 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Morris

Whilst it would be wrong to claim that voluntary societies in Britain were new in the period 1780 to 1850, the growth of large industrial and urban populations was accompanied by an increase in the foundation and prosperity of such societies. These societies were diverse in their purpose, form, size and membership. Edward Baines, junior, one of the self-appointed tribunes of the industrial middle class, in 1843 described recent developments as follows:


1991 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 217-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hubert J. M. Hermans

Recent developments in self‐research show the self to be increasingly conceived as an organized and highly dynamic phenomenon. In combination with the arguments presented in the preceding article, these developments are a good reason for adopting a method in which the psychologist and the subject work together in the study of the self: The self‐confrontation method and the theory on which it is based—valuation theory—are presented as an example of such an approach. This method construes the self as an organized process of valuations, a valuation being any unit of meaning that the person finds of importance in thinking about his or her life. Formulated in the language of the person him‐ or herself; these valuations and how they develop over time are considered in a dialogue between the psychologist and the subject. For the purposes of demonstration, two phenomena that are not easily observedare discussed here: (a) the existence of an imaginal figure not visibly present but functioning as a signifcant other in the person's daily life, and (b) the presence of a character in a recurring dream, which later gets included as an integral part of the self: Finally, the present approach is briefly discussed as representing a constructivist view of personality psychology.


2001 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy F. Baumeister ◽  
Ellen Bratslavsky ◽  
Catrin Finkenauer ◽  
Kathleen D. Vohs

The greater power of bad events over good ones is found in everyday events, major life events (e.g., trauma), close relationship outcomes, social network patterns, interpersonal interactions, and learning processes. Bad emotions, bad parents, and bad feedback have more impact than good ones, and bad information is processed more thoroughly than good. The self is more motivated to avoid bad self-definitions than to pursue good ones. Bad impressions and bad stereotypes are quicker to form and more resistant to disconfirmation than good ones. Various explanations such as diagnosticity and salience help explain some findings, but the greater power of bad events is still found when such variables are controlled. Hardly any exceptions (indicating greater power of good) can be found. Taken together, these findings suggest that bad is stronger than good, as a general principle across a broad range of psychological phenomena.


1994 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob McQueenf

Opponents of enactments such as the Financial Transactions Reports Act 1988 (Cth) and Proceeds of Crime Act 1987 (Cth) have principally based their opposition on the basis that such legislation and the regimes which it supports represent a fundamental attack on traditional domains of ‘privacy’. This paper questions the validity of such small T critiques and suggests that such analyses may play into the hands of ‘New Right’ agendas, rather than acting contrary to them. The assumptions lying behind the introduction of financial transaction reporting (FTR) are examined in the context of a variety of ‘New Right’ analytical frameworks. In particular the paper examines FTR in light of the assumption that commercial actors should be ‘free’ of government intervention to pursue their entrepreneurial activities. In this and other respects it is asserted that FTR acts contrary to, rather than as component of, a New Right agenda. The paper also explores the applicability of the Foucauldian notion of ‘governmentality’ in respect to recent developments in financial reporting and monitoring. The manner in which FTR legislation has influenced the ‘conduct’ of commercial actors is examined in some depth. So too is the question of the potential limits (if any) to the encroachment by the state into the previously ‘private’ conduct of both those who operate and those who use the banking and financial system.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (103 (159)) ◽  
pp. 227-242
Author(s):  
Marta Nowak

The study investigates the self-perception of statutory auditors and their perception of accountants, the relationship between accountants and statutory auditors, and the perception of audited companies. The research presented in the paper has a behavioral character. The methods and subject are both derived from psychology, social sciences, and linguistic and cognitive sciences. The research takes a qualitative approach. It uses projection, metaphors, and narrative analysis. The findings show that accountants are perceived by statutory auditors mainly in the context of their hard work, the necessity to constantly learn, that they are cunning and used by other workers, and that they are underestimated by their superiors. Auditors characterize themselves as clever, hard-working, face problems of unstable and unclear regulations, and that they oppose an audited company’s owners. Auditors have an organic, mechanistic, and systemic view of companies, perceiving them mostly in the context of different parts (organizational units) that work together.


Author(s):  
Maha Mari Alamri, ASHWAG IBRAHIM Alothman

The aim of the research is to read the concept and principles of self-management in an Islamic reading by identifying the concept of self-management from an Islamic perspective, the requirements for applying self-management, and evidence for self-management in Islam. The research used the descriptive documentary approach that relied on content analysis that provides an objective and structured description of the phenomenon studied. By relying on documents and books, by reviewing the concept of self-management and rooting it, presenting the most prominent influences in its application, then extrapolating the evidence that supports its principles on which modern thought was founded, and the research reached a number of results, most notably: the difference in the concept of the human self in Western thought among theorists throughout the ages While Islamic thought considers that the human self is honored and preferred by its creation, which is a point where the body meets the soul and the soul, and all that develops and directs these three aspects are considered self-management, so it is an integrative view that includes the material, emotional and skillful aspects. In light of these results, the research recommended several recommendations, including: the importance of accompanying the intention in every work that a person performs, and the organization of time, time is an essential element in effective management that needs vigilance for its assignments, that vigilance in which the self will achieve its goal, and to direct oneself towards his goal directly And to benefit from his talents that God has bestowed upon him in achieving the faculties that will help him in achieving this goal.


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