Psychology and the soul

Otto Rank (1884–1939) wrote the present work at the height of his creative powers, betweenWill Therapy andArt and Artist. Here he presents a sweeping history of psychology—individual and social—from the animistic era to psychoanalysis. An earlier translation (by William D. Turner, 1950) was incomplete and somewhat inaccurate. Unlike Sigmund Freud, his mentor, Rank viewed religion with respect and clarifies its role in individual and communal life through this study of soul-belief through the ages. The book contains important insights on immortality, will, dreams, Judaism and Christianity, Hamlet and Don Juan, Jung and Adler, and Freud himself. (Translated by Gregory C. Richter and E. James Lieberman) Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Division of Language and Literature, Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri. He translated Otto Rank'sThe Incest Theme in Literature and Legend (1912), Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. E. James Lieberman, M.D., author ofActs of Will: The Life and Work of Otto Rank (1985), is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, George Washington University School of Medicine. This excert from the book of the same title by Otto Rank is printed with the permission of the publisher, The Johns Hopkins University Press, for which we are grateful.     

Bias and expert testimony of mental health professionals in adversarial proceedings: A preliminary investigation

The role of mental health professionals testifying as expert witnesses has been the subject of increasing criticism. Cases in which opposing experts reach different conclusions are dismissed as “battles of the experts” and psychologists and psychiatrists are described as “hired guns.” This preliminary, analogue study examined the degree to which the opinions and testimony of mental health professionals may differ according to which side retains the expert. Results provided some support for the proposition that mental health professionals' testimony may vary according to the side by which they are retained.     

Sex differences and personality factors in responsivity to pain

This study investigated the relationship between measured levels of masculinity-femininity, social desirability, and responsivity to pain in men and women. The literature suggests that the two personality variables might provide an explanation for the common findings of higher pain thresholds and tolerances in men than in women. A significant interaction was found between masculinity-femininity and sex for pain thresholds. Analysis of this interaction indicated that for men, but not women, there was a significant correlation between masculinity-femininity and pain, where higher masculinity was associated with higher pain thresholds. However, this finding did not account for the sex difference in pain threshold. The sex of the subject remained a significant predictor of both pain thresholds and tolerances after allowing for the influence of masculinity-femininity, social desirability, and their associated interactions.     

Historische Anmerkungen

Ohne Zusammenfassung Vgl. Wiss. Weltauffassung. Der Wiener Kreis. Ver?ff. d. Vereins Ernst Mach. Artur Wolf Verlag, Wien 1929.     

Zur vorgriechischen Mathematik

Ohne Zusammenfassung