The paper discusses a possibility that a multiplicity of mind phenomena can be understood from few fundamental principles of the mind organization, which are mathematically formulated. The paper discusses the role of concepts and emotions in the information processing by the mind and identifies an “elementary thought process” in which an event (in the outside world, or inside the mind) is under...

Bonding psychotherapy is an intensive form of group therapy with the goal of overcoming the fear of intimacy and rejection. The theory, method and the research results of the bonding psychotherapy are described in this article. The ultimate aim of the bonding psychotherapy is to increase the ability to fulfil the biopsychosocial basic needs, to be able to enter into positive relationships and t...

In this paper we address the ethics of adopting delusional beliefs and we apply consequentialist and deontological considerations to the epistemic evaluation of delusions. Delusions are characterised by their epistemic shortcomings and they are often defined as false and irrational beliefs. Despite this, when agents are overwhelmed by negative emotions due to the effects of trauma or previous a...

Cultural and community psychology share a common emphasis on context, yet their leading journals rarely cite each other's articles. Greater integration of the concepts of culture and community within and across their disciplines would enrich and facilitate the viability of cultural community psychology. The contextual theory of activity settings is proposed as one means to integrate the concept...

Music has been utilized as a form of therapy due to ten factors; it has been particularly effective in treating children who are not adept at adaptively releasing their emotions, motivating children with little volition, in stimulating communication among children with undeveloped language skills, in helping to develop cognitive skills, and in overcoming abnormal habits or unadaptive behavior. ...

Emotional-storyboarding is a participatory design method that engages children to tell stories by drawing emotional expressions. This method provides insights into the children’s emotion and overcomes two challenges in participatory design for children—access and verbal communication. We illustrate this method by presenting a case study designing a coloring book about overcoming fear and anger ...

Abstract The current state of knowledge in psychology, cognitive neuroscience and behavioral ecology allows a fairly robust characterization of at least some, so-called ‘basic emotions’ short-lived emotional responses with homologues in other vertebrates. Philosophers, however are understandably more focused on the complex emotion episodes that figure in folk-psychological narratives about ment...