...sciplines like psychiatry are all about. The ability to control "autonomous" bodily functions (such as heartbeat) and mental reactions to pathogens ... ...th strict separation of data (called: "structures") and instruction code (called: "functions" or "procedures"). The machine language reflected the ... ...n. Only when "intermixed" in the computer (as a software application was run) were functions able to operate on structures. This phase was followed... ...both data and instructions in self contained units. The user communicates with the functions performed by these objects - but not with their struct... ... what it does, or how does an external, useful function arise from internal, hidden functions or structures. Objects are epiphenomenal, emergent, ph... ... post facto and ad hoc constructions. None of this has methodological, systematic, analytic and predictive merits. Still, the theories in psycholog... ..., post facto and ad hoc constructions. None of this has methodological, systematic, analytic and predictive merits. Still, the theories in psycholo... ... post facto and ad hoc constructions. None of this has methodological, systematic, analytic and predictive merits. Still, these theories are powerf...

...tion, admiration, adoration, attention – in other words, externalised Ego boundary functions. He does not require – nor does he seek – his parents'... ...lude parents, in this text), or a part of them. Kohut says that parents perform the functions of the self for their child. More likely, a battle is ... ...tinue to serve as its self. It rebels and seeks to depose them and take over their functions. The better the parents are at being self-objects (in ... ...reflect with approval at least some of the child's proudly exhibited attributes and functions, whether they are able to respond with genuine enjoyme... ...(H. Kohut. The Chicago Institute Lectures 1972-1976. Marian and Paul Tolpin (Eds.). Analytic Press, 1998) Kohut's contention is nothing less than re... ...as to breathe, to feed, to eliminate waste, to regulate his body temperature – new functions, which were previously performed by the mother. This p... ...ive dimension of the experience. If a psychological process lacks the evaluative or analytic elements, this lack does not question its existence or ... ...er activists, says Meyerowitz, insist that gender and sexuality represent "distinct analytical categories". The New York Times wrote in its review o...