samuel taylor coleridge is the most symbolic of all romantic poets. through his creative imagination, coleridge creates symbols that disguise the philosophical ideas, and something fresh and unsullied out of the chaos of different images and associations. it is simply imagination that enables the romantic poet to present spiritually perceived things, and resolves his conflict by returning to “d...

Tāhirih, also known as Qurratu’l-‘Ayn (1814–1852), was one of the leading disciples Bāb (1819–1844), Sayyid ‘Alī-Muhammad Shiraz, founder Babism. She formally educated in Islamic learning and theology, but relied heavily on inspiration for some her most radical doctrines. Her poems contain theological pronouncements that would propel Bābī movement beyond Islam. By no means typical or representa...

Any medical or psychosocial treatment has two components, one associated with the specific effects of the treatment itself, and the other related to the treatment context, individual perception, imagination, subjective meaning and psychobiological response. Psychopharmacotherapy is a context dependent practice because different contexts affect the meaning of biological variables in different wa...

This paper discusses about challenges to psychopharmacotherapy, evidence-based psychopharmacology, creative psychopharmacology, creativity and dopamine, creative-rational polypharmacy as a paradigm for creativity in psychopharmacotherapy, and about polypharmacy classification as a good, bad and ugly By stimulating the patient to participate in the creative and artistic process we effect on his ...

Hospitalized children often experience physical changes that negatively affect their bodily perceptions, thereby adding to the stress of being sick. Existing approaches to supporting hospitalized children such as those promoted by the Clown Doctors use play to distract the child from negative bodily perceptions. In contrast, we propose reframing the bodily perception of these children through b...

This paper proposes a model of meta-reflection and in-depth analysis of the knowledge creation process (KCP). The authors focus on observation of the KCP in research on creative design. The new method of meta-reflection is applied both to reflection on ‘research about design creativity’ and object of research—‘design creativity’. One result of the applied method of meta-reflection was that the ...

How people become unique persons is an ever-renewed puzzle for any observer of human life. Somehow, in the complex sets of social and cultural constraints that reduce margins of freedom, each person is actually the author of his or her life. Each trajectory is unique, and can be recognized by its specific melody (Zittoun et al., 2013). This uniqueness, we propose, can be seen as resulting from ...