Desire and Dehumanization in Theodor Dreiser’s <i>Sister Carrie</i>

Desire and Desire Regulation

A good deal of people’s waking time is, more or less directly, spent thinking about and dealing with desire. There is no question that desires are often benign, functional, and evolutionary adaptive for the individual. However, there are cases where desire stands in conflict with important (selfregulatory) goals or (moral) values. Prime examples include the exsmoker who, upon seeing other peopl...

Dehumanization in Medicine: Causes, Solutions, and Functions.

Dehumanization is endemic in medical practice. This article discusses the psychology of dehumanization resulting from inherent features of medical settings, the doctor-patient relationship, and the deployment of routine clinical practices. First, we identify six major causes of dehumanization in medical settings (deindividuating practices, impaired patient agency, dissimilarity, mechanization, ...

Dehumanization: an integrative review.

The concept of dehumanization lacks a systematic theoretical basis, and research that addresses it has yet to be integrated. Manifestations and theories of dehumanization are reviewed, and a new model is developed. Two forms of dehumanization are proposed, involving the denial to others of 2 distinct senses of humanness: characteristics that are uniquely human and those that constitute human na...

Dehumanization of contemporary medicine: causes and remedies.

First, the mode of the reductionistic thinking should be mentioned. Contemporary medicine is based on the natural sciences, and in the natural sciences the reductionistic approach is not only very popular but very fruitful as well. This approach consists in the reduction of the studied phenomena to its most elementary level. Thus, psychological phenomena are reduced to the biological level, and...

Emil Theodor Kocher 1841 – 1917