prestigious professional, to have a prodigious memory, to have vast knowledge of a subject, or to be admired for brilliant speeches; the dermatologist needs to have a willingness and enthusiasm for hard work, and, of course, must also feel a professional calling. It is not enough for dermatologists to be learned or to have a vast knowledge of their field. They also need to be inspired by a stro...

"Freethinkers," including both atheists and secular humanists, have always been a minority in American society--and not a very popular one. There are still laws in several states preventing non-theists from holding office. Just as evangelical Protestants up until one hundred years ago held a largely optimistic view of the future and the end times (known as postmillennialism), secular humanists ...

The renewal of humanistic values and practices in contemporary psychoanalytic therapy is exemplified vividly by the impact of Heidegger's existential philosophy on a psychoanalytic perspective called post-Cartesian psychoanalysis. This perspective is a phenomenological-contextualist one in which the focus of psychoanalytic inquiry is shifted from Cartesian isolated minds to ways of being-in-the...