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Mind-Body Medicine

her last child moved out of the family home. Anti-depressants alleviated her condition somewhat, but made her feel groggy and deta...

Philosophical Perspectives on Personal Identity

Irish bishop, feared that the philosophies and science of his era were constituting a threat to Christian faith, due to their prom...

Answers to Some Questions on Psychology

the belief that low level physiological needs are more compelling in relation to behavior than higher level psychological needs, w...

Franz Kafka and the Big Bug

There are four central themes in Kafka's Metamorphosis: the absurdity of life, the disconnect between mind and body, the limits of...

How Exercise Delays Onset Of Dementia In Alzheimer's Patients: Literature Review

protocol. Rosenberg et al (2005) and Larson et al (2006) detail the pursuit toward getting the elderly population in step with be...

Bioidentical Hormones

are grand variances in price throughout the country, the standard scale is between $250 and $395 and half that much for subsequent...

Silent v. Sound/Art in Film

"at heart, I was always a silent movie man" (Twatio 14). One reason why early silent films appear odd or stilted to modern audie...

Abbreviated Paper on Research Techniques

Genital Mutilation : A Guide to Laws and Policies Worldwide chronicles forty different cases of female genital mutilation, the ove...

Career of The Body Shop Creator Anita Roddick

divide between rich and poor in developed and under-developed countries, but also of the possibilities which a western commercial ...

Contemporary Society and Body Image

In ten pages body image is considered in this overview and examines how culture and media influence body perception along with res...

Modification of the Body

In a paper consisting of 20 pages body modification is examined in terms of psychology and history with elective amputation, scari...

Searle's Disagreement with the Mind Philosophy of Rene Descartes

In six pages Descartes' arguments regarding reality and existence as revealed in Meditations are examined along with Searle's obje...

Meditations on the First Philosophy by Rene Descartes and 'Freeing the Mind'

In five pages this paper examines the French philosopher's text as it explains his approaches to recognizing knowledge that is 'tr...

Healing the Body and Mind with Yoga

This 3 page paper gives an explanation of how meditation can help healing. This paper includes the practice of meditation for heal...

Examining Cognition of Language Theories

and the way we cognitively process speech. Are these processes linked to an inherent modularity? If we look as speech from a Ved...

Perspectives in Phonology

comes to the phonological approach to the differences between human and animal sounds, we find that at some level, we respond in t...

Cinematic Comedies and Sound's Role

theater, they rolled a cannon ball down a wooden trough that then fell onto a large drumhead (Brunelle, 1999). In films, sound eff...

Knowledge and Philosophy

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

Human Nature as Perceived by Rene Descartes

In six pages human nature is the focus in an overview that contrasts Descartes' philosophy with that of George Berkeley's with cri...

'Descartes' Evil Genius' by O.K. Bouwsma

you either mistake it for something else, or you can easily understand how someone might come to do this" (89). In this way, Bouws...

Dream Doubt in the First Meditation of Rene Descartes

In five pages the First Meditation of Rene Descartes is examined in terms of dream doubt and how perception examples fall short of...

Reason According to Descartes and Hume

This research report looks at Hume and Descartes and their ideas about reason. It is claimed that Hume minimized the use of reason...

The Philosophies of David Hume and Rene Descartes Applied to the Abortion Issue

This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...

The Existence Of God and Descartes' Argument

simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...

Questions on the Philosophies of Hume, Kant, and Sartre Answered

acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...

Nature of the Mind According to David Armstrong

In three pages the mind's nature as perceived by philosopher and theorist David Armstrong is examined. One source is cited in the...

Robert D. Putnam and Mind Play

the result of our communal activity and community sharing has been shrinking over the past forty years and this shrinkage poses a ...

Cognitive Therapy With Iraq Veterans

therapy is a particularly useful approach in helping Iraqi war veterans deal with - and ultimately put aside - the intrusive prese...

Montessori - Three Essential Principals

come to take care of her needs. The same is true for the toddler. The toddler begins learning unconsciously that if he does someth...