No one can deny the influence that Freudian analysis has had on twentieth-century psychiatry. Its widespread acceptance suggests that it is an entirely valid and acceptable form of treatment in mental disorders. Nevertheless, there are many sceptics, and a book attacking the ".. . gigantic cultural swindle of American people. . ." is of importance to the historian who wishes to evaluate the maj...

In this paper I have the pleasure of responding to three insightful commentaries to my paper, Bridging the gap between politics and techniques: On the next practices of participatory design (Kyng 2010). The commentaries are by Ellen Balka (2010), Helena Karasti (2010) and Dan Shapiro (2010). They deserve more in depth consideration than time and space allow. Hopefully the authors and I, as well...

"When the practice of medicine was gradually emancipating itself from the hands of the priesthood, the process was not thoroughgoing enough tfo include mental therapeutics (then applied in the form of faith-healing, exorcism, and so on), and what part of this is still retained by (the somewhat intermittent efforts of the clergy has become the heritage of quacks to a greater extent than of physi...

and conventional practitioners. The second chapter focused on Bedouins’ healing practices in a variety of human ailments. The third chapter discussed general treatments and methods used by Bedouins, and these are related to birds, reptiles, animals, and camel milk. The last chapter was on Bedouins’s belief in “Qarina”, which is a Jinn and indicated by 12 different names. In the author’s opinion...

________________________________________________________________________ Jane L. Kenney is an Associate Professor, in the Department of Professional and Secondary Education, and Ellen Newcombe, Director, College of Education Technology Center at West Chester University. Jane L. Kenney can be reached at [email protected]. Flipping Instruction in an Undergraduate Education Course: Findings from a...

In the past 25 years, relationship science has grown from a nascent research area to a thriving subdiscipline of psychological science. In no small measure, this development reflects the pioneering contributions of Ellen Berscheid and Elaine Hatfield. Beginning at a time when relationships did not appear on the map of psychological science, these two scholars identified relationships as a cruci...