The Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) profile of Maharishi International University (MIU) students who practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique regularly was compared to profiles presented in the POI manual for a group of college students and for a group of relatively self-actualized people. MIU students scored significantly higher than nonmeditating college students on eight of the...

or quotes are paraphrased, losing the colour of the original event. The press itself must take the blame for rather disappointing production: besides many typographical errors, the print is strangely difficult to read. However, Morris Vogel's book is, overall, very useful. He has successfully treated his topic as a social development, where patients and governors, local politicians and ethnic l...

Authors of American psychology textbooks habitually refer to the “existential-humanistic” or “humanistic-existential” approach to treatment, while therapists in the UK and Europe say that this usage is inaccurate, and that the differences between the existential and humanistic approaches outweigh their similarities. To assess the merit of these competing claims, we must distinguish between lite...

Introduction Humanism is cultivated through reflection and self-awareness. We aimed to employ fourth-year medical students, recognized for their humanism, to facilitate reflective sessions for second-year medical students with the intention of positively influencing reflective process toward humanistic development. Methods/Analysis A total of 186 students were randomly assigned to one of three ...

When Hippocrates lashed out against superstition and wrote his treatise on epilepsy, he seems to have provided a formula and he indicated a trend for the whole history of the relationship between medicine and psychiatry. The trend, under different guises and expressed in different languages and terminology, is as potent today as it was twenty-four hundred years ago. Epilepsy, Hippocrates almost...