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Psychotherapy

By: Hugo Münsterberg

...Talking about viewing the Ocean If I take the attitude of appreciation, it would be absurd to say that this wave is composed of chemical elements which I do not see; and if I take the attitude of physical explanation, it would be equally absurd to deny that such elements are all of which the wave is made. From the one standpoint, the ocean is really e...

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Secret of the Sands

By: Aren, Rai and E., Tavius

...lly worked up the courage to speak. “The metal alloy in them is not a known material. The elements are not part of the periodic table,” he said just ... ...Assan looked at them, “It is possible there is some correlation, that the combi- nation of elements in your system somehow affected her in particular,... ...ere brown burnt marks and a white residue on the ends of it. It looked as if some sort of chemical had burned through the cords and the ropes holding... ...mined the rope closely, “This is very strange. These burn marks could have been caused by chemicals, but not by any I have ever handled before, this ... ...sed by chemicals, but not by any I have ever handled before, this was thick, strong rope. Chemicals that could do this are certainly not readily avai... ...n the Queen and Princess were going sailing today. How long would it have taken for these chemicals to burn through?” “It is hard to say without kn... ...lyzed the metal of the cylinders yourself. Remember, you’re the one who told us that ‘the elements were not part of the periodic table.’ We know the... ...ch a person, but was there anything you know of that caused this?” “There was an unusual chemical in Queen Axiana’s system when she was trying to c... ...ful enough to see through her?” “Perhaps, but it is quite likely that the combination of elements was the catalyst, though Princess Anjia would hav...

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Narcissism Book of Quotes

By: Sam Vaknin

...my life. Not only is he narcissist, he is bipolar as well, not to mention he also has a chemical dependency problem." "The devaluation was as shock... ...econd, following a narcissistic injury, depressed, sulking or raging." Narcissists and Chemical Imbalances – Sam Vaknin http://samvak.tripod.com/fa... ... narcissist goes through mega-cycles which last months or even years." Narcissists and Chemical Imbalances – Sam Vaknin http://samvak.tripod.com/fa... ...html "To the abuser, losing control means going insane. Because other people are mere elements in the abuser's mind – being unable to manipulate t... ... am sharpened, like a raw nerve firing impulses to you, receiving yours, an electrical- chemical dialog, consisting of your smelly sweat, my scented ...

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The Renaissance of Science : The Story of the Atom and Chemistry

By: Ph.D. Albert Martini

.... The most significant discoveries in chemistry and physics are presented chronologically to illustrate their contributions to the creation of the chemical sciences during the last 21 centuries....

... to express the full extent of my emotions and reasons for writing this book on the STORY OF THE ATOM AND THE SCIENCES, with special reference to the CHEMICAL SCIENCES. In one sentence, I can distill the essence of the purpose for this study by simply stating that it has been a labor of love that transcended the written word because sentiments and ideas belong in the rea...

...CT ON THE ATOM AND ITS ENERGY 11 THE CLASSIC GREEK AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHERS 17 EMPEDOCLES (492-432 BC) Greek Philosopher 20 Proposed the four basic elements: earth, water, air and fire. DEMOCRITUS (470-380 BC) Greek Philosopher 22 The founder of the atomic theory of antiquity. CLAUDIUS PTOLEMY (100-170) Greek Astronomer 24 Proponent of the geocentric theory of our ...

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The Conundrums of Psychology

By: Sam Vaknin

...l impact of trauma, abuse, upbringing, role models, peers, and other environmental elements. Nor is the distinction between psychotropic substances... ...e of all branches of human knowledge. No one has ever seen a quark, or untangled a chemical bond, or surfed an electromagnetic wave, or visited the... ...r applications, mind) is done through "framework applications" which match the two elements structurally and functionally. The equivalent in the br... ...c concept of the workings of the brain must be the comparison of "representational elements" to "models of the world". Thus, a coherent picture is ... ...always employ the tripartite structure (Id, Ego, Superego). But these are language elements and need not be confused with the plots. Each client, e... ...uld satisfy most of the same conditions. But the equation is flawed. The important elements of testability, verifiability, refutability, falsifiabi... ...ists. But we live at an age when mental disorders are thought to have physiological-chemical-genetic origins. All psychological theories and talk th... ...fantasy, imagination, and emotions are nothing but electric currents and spurts of chemicals in the brain, they say. Holists, on the other hand, re... ...nd understanding. The properties of water, for instance, do spring forth from its chemical and physical composition and from the interactions betw...

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Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...sure and the Giv- er of the pleasure. In reality, all that exists is these two elements. PA RT I : K A B B A L A H M E E T S Q UA N T U M P H Y S I C... ... T H E G I V I N G F O RC E A N D T H E R E C E I V I N G F O RC E 55 higher elements, in the sense that they precede all religions and belief syst... ... matter. Instead, it postu- lated that matter is operated by cause and effect. Chemical reac- tions do not happen according to the phantoms of alchemy... ...ot happen according to the phantoms of alchemy, but according to quantifiable chemical reactions that can be mechani- cally controlled by mathematics... ...l other sciences. It was believed that although a living organism was made of chemicals, it was nonetheless oper- ated by a living entity that was no... ...ding ours, stand one below the other. Hence, all the worlds comprise the same elements. The Light emerges from the Creator and traverses all the wor... ...in the worlds above this world, too. There is only one difference between the elements of this world and the elements of the Upper World: in the Upp... ...ped. When I was a child, we would take pictures on a film and dip the film in chemicals to de- velop the pictures. When the film was immersed in the ... ...be chilled, the cold can be heated; the solid can be turned to liquid through chemical operations, and the liquid made into air, meaning only gas, w...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...hly organized under King Akhenaton. 11 It was later blended with religious elements from ancient Palestine of about the same era, as well as with orga... ...aning of the teaching of karma which appears to have been one of the basic elements in original Buddhist thought. It has posed many difficulties for l... ... question: It is not impossible that here, as in many other cases, certain elements of the training have been borrowed from the autochthonous Bonpos o... ...processes are at work in forming dreams, from hallucinations brought on by chemicals, hallucinations associated with mental disease, and visions/appar... ...n there was exposure of the deceased body on a raised platform open to the elements, and often there was direct earth interment with no coffin. This i... ...way Jung made the same point: [The] whole psychic organism…still preserves elements that connect it with the invertebrates and ultimately with the pro... ...th the same concept as computer technology, the pres- ence or absence of a chemical stimulus being taken as the method by which the nervous system, an...

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Trade Facilitation through Customs Procedures: Assessment of Apec's Progress

By: Its Global

...s are media & technologically neutral, Adopt standardized & simplified common data elements & formats Percentage of import declarations lod... ...e utilizing a single-window system and adopting standardized and simplified common data elements. These other actions and measures remain highly ... ...rtaken measures such as introducing electronic data interface (EDI) or harmonizing data elements between two systems. The review of the Collectiv... ...CP 2010). However, the review concluded that the goal of producing Harmonized APEC data elements still required further work. v. Overall assessmen... ... put single windows systems in place, and standardized and simplified their common data elements (SCCP 2010). By 2007 most APEC economies had ful... ... guidance documents. g) Align domestic hazard classification and labeling schemes for chemicals to the Globally Harmonized System (GHS). h) Sign ...

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The Fundamental Assumptions Underlying the Modern Study of Psychopathology Examined.

By: Sam Vaknin

... Revisited": "It is conceivable, though, that a third, unrelated problem causes chemical imbalances in the brain, metabolic diseases such as dia... ... (political parties, countries, races, his workplace) as a compound of good and bad elements. He is an "all or nothing" primitive "machine" (a comm... ...science and a belief in their immunity to the consequences of their actions. These elements and the child's feelings regarding its parents (whom it... ...self-esteem is endangered. Sometimes this can be rectified by his mastery of other elements; particularly if they contribute a steady flow of narci... ...sion of the experience. If a psychological process lacks the evaluative or analytic elements, this lack does not question its existence or its natur... ...her unrealistic (fantastic) view of the other is faintly narcissistic. It includes elements of idealised over-valuation, of self- preoccupation, and... ...e of all branches of human knowledge. No one has ever seen a quark, or untangled a chemical bond, or surfed an electromagnetic wave, or visited the...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...e result of the realpolitik of terrorism is the collaboration with the less savoury elements of society. Relegated to the fringes by the inexorable... ...tamboliyski tried to appease Yugoslavia and, in the process, sacrifice inconvenient elements, such as the IMRO, as expediently as he could. He made ... ...e that at least several hundred thousand people have been killed. The irresponsible elements have committed such atrocities that could be expected o... ... dubious sources). The situation was further compounded by the invasion of criminal elements from Albania proper. The Kosovar crime clans were effec... ...he psychological makeup of the nation (especially the more rightwing and religious elements) because it constitutes "Narcissistic Supply". Bin Lad... ...e of all branches of human knowledge. No one has ever seen a quark, or untangled a chemical bond, or surfed an electromagnetic wave, or visited th...

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The Malignan Self Love : Narcissism Revisited

By: Sam Vaknin

...FAQ # 51: Narcissists, Inverted Narcissists and Schizoids FAQ # 52: Narcissists, Medications and Chemical Imbalances FAQ # 53: Myths about Narcissi... ...e psychological impact of trauma, abuse, upbringing, role models, peers, and other environmental elements. Nor is the distinction between psychotrop... ...s form the core of all branches of human knowledge. No one has ever seen a quark, or untangled a chemical bond, or surfed an electromagnetic wave, o... ...sentations. To the narcissist, losing control means going insane. Because other people are mere elements in the narcissist's mind, being unable to ...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Two

By: Thomas Carlyle

...et into coherence! Poor Louis is not without insight, nor even without the elements of will; some sharpness of temper, spurting at times from a stagna... ...ce is as a monstrous Galvanic Mass, wherein all sorts of far stranger than chemical galvanic or electric forces and substances are at work; electrifyi... ...o main- tain itself, while it can. Here, as in that Commixture of the Four Elements did the Anarch Old, has an august Assembly spread its pavilion; cu... ...ected arena, on this last day of February 1791, the Three long- contending elements of French Society, dashed forth into singular comico-tragical coll... ... and of one’s own Deservings,’ of Schicksal und eigene Schuld; full of the elements of Pity and Fear? This brother man, if not Epic for us, is Tragic;...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

... more than one gives up one’s grandmother. They’re both antecedent to choice—elements of one’s composition that are not to be eliminated.” “I suppose ... ...at occasion, as we know, a certain alarm. This alarm was composed of several elements, not all of which were disagreeable; she had indeed spent some d... ... might have discomforts, might contain op pressive, might contain narrowing elements, might prove really but a stupefying anodyne; but she did her se... ...ose things constitute virtue; it’s a blessing to be able to reduce it to its elements.” Madame Merle’s own conversation, it will be perceived, was enr... ...par (even though there appeared so many of them), and find rest in those very elements of his presence which struck her now as impediments to the finer ... ...f, and I don’t mean you by yourself. But together you’re dangerous—like some chemical combination.” “You had better leave us alone then,” smiled Madam...

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Aesthetics

By: Florentin Smaradanche

...suspension of the absurdity. In the table of distribution of the specific elements, it is collocated in the category of annihilators and perifractors... ...ician, a notional pulverization, including for this purpose heterogeneous elements, from scientific notions up to drawings, signs and the lack of th... ... of any word or literary sign whatever), any abstract sign (mathematical, chemical, physical) put on a page... The nonliterature, created in a par... ...the paradoxist essentiality should be? Here is the chart of the composing elements: a clear sweep of the former literature, the consideration of the... ...ity means impossibility. The poetical practice always results in other new elements, different of the obedient ones, like the continuation of a theor... ... “non-determined”, of the well thought “imperfection”. These are starting elements that combine a presentiment with regard to a “somewhere” reached o... ...tion in the relations domain at the king court”) and “Chinese, Bengalis, Chemical, Physical, Martian, Astrological, Metagalactical, ... prose” (the ...

...ance. The aesthetic behaviour of the paradoxism characterized by the auto-suspension of the absurdity. In the table of distribution of the specific elements, it is collocated in the category of annihilators and perifractors of the convention (by the side of the comic, the ridicule, the grotesque, the absurd)....

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

... (1985 est.); machin- ery, machine tools, iron and steel products, textiles, chemicals, Pharmaceuticals Major trade partners: exports Yugosla- via, Cz... ...ng (espe- cially meat packing), motor vehicles, consumer durables, textiles, chemicals, printing, and metallurgy Steel: 2.9 million metric tons produc... ...ndustries: mining, industrial and transportation equipment, food processing, chemicals Crude steel: 6.6 million metric tons pro- duced, 420 kg per cap... ...lf- sufficient Major industries: foods, iron and steel, machinery, textiles, chemicals, electrical, paper and pulp Crude steel: 5.3 million metric ton... ...steel products, machinery and equip- ment, lumber, textiles, paper products, chemicals Imports: $20.8 billion (c.i.f, 1984); ma- chinery and equipment... ...officially atheist, but traditionally pragmatic and eclectic; most important elements of religion are Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism; about 2-3% M... ...9 municipalities Legal system: based on Spanish and American law, with large elements of Communist legal theory; new constitution 2 December 1976; doe... ...legal theory, with both civil law system (civil code of 1960) and common law elements; constitution adopted 1949 amended 1972; Supreme Court renders d... ... special cities; governors/mayors centrally appointed Legal system: combines elements of continental European civil law systems, Anglo-American law, a...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... say identical) to the destruction of a painting by Van Gogh, made up of these very elements. Paints and cloth are converted to a painting through t... ...s himself. This second layer of anger also comprises strong and easily identifiable elements of frustration, irritation and annoyance. While normal... ...he psychological makeup of the nation (especially the more rightwing and religious elements) because it constitutes "Narcissistic Supply". The Jew... ...cable. People - in the very far future - may be able to harbour the same emotions, chemically or otherwise induced in them. One brain could directl... ...ranspired in the artist's mind. We are faced with a dichotomy: The epistemological elements in the artistic process belong exclusively and incommun... ...mpairment is flawed ... using this ill-substantiated cause- and-effect to tell the 'chemical generation' that they are brain damaged when they are n... ...parameters when faced with danger. We could reasonably expect them to change their chemical reactions, the compounds that they contain, other elect... ...ied realm(=set of terms). People are trying to define life or love by resorting to chemical reactions. This reductionism inevitably and invariably ... ...ue that a definition must include all the necessary conditions to the definiendum. Chemical reactions are a necessary condition to life. But they a...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... say identical) to the destruction of a painting by Van Gogh, made up of these very elements. Paints and cloth are converted to a painting through t... ...s himself. This second layer of anger also comprises strong and easily identifiable elements of frustration, irritation and annoyance. While normal... ...he psychological makeup of the nation (especially the more rightwing and religious elements) because it constitutes "Narcissistic Supply". The Jew... ...cable. People - in the very far future - may be able to harbour the same emotions, chemically or otherwise induced in them. One brain could directl... ...ranspired in the artist's mind. We are faced with a dichotomy: The epistemological elements in the artistic process belong exclusively and incommun... ...mpairment is flawed ... using this ill-substantiated cause- and-effect to tell the 'chemical generation' that they are brain damaged when they are n... ...parameters when faced with danger. We could reasonably expect them to change their chemical reactions, the compounds that they contain, other elect... ...ied realm(=set of terms). People are trying to define life or love by resorting to chemical reactions. This reductionism inevitably and invariably ... ...ue that a definition must include all the necessary conditions to the definiendum. Chemical reactions are a necessary condition to life. But they a...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...rnatural engineering, re-created flora and fauna, cyborgs, nano-machinery, chemical consciousness - scientific-technological ethics - biological moral... ...story The structural change from locality to overlocality has affected all elements of culture, society, lives of individual people, religions, explan... ...ision. The only drawback is that it can't be left on in a What about using chemical fertilizers? Do you grow rice to sell? What else do you grow, apar... ... Klao began to manufacture concrete posts and other cast concrete building elements. As early as the beginning of the 1980s, low brick houses began to... ...rban areas were created in Lampang, with single family houses adorned with elements from several eras, as if in a post-modern style. The houses might ... ...ed without biocides. In order to grow it, it was necessary to move over to chemical intensive farming. The wonder rice varieties have brought about a ... ...s had no time to rot down. Weeds and plant diseases had to be destroyed by chemical means. Some people thought that mechanical ploughing caused the so... ...out the dams. The new rice varieties will not grow without fertilizers and chemical biocides, in farming a single standard variety, harvesting creates... ...ing see Hanks, L. 1972. Judd 1964. (Geddes 1976). On ecological and social elements of swidden culture Sarmela 1987; 2000a. 16. Newspaper reports e....

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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

...ing in un­ derground cavities, and has probably undergone a thousand dif­ ferent chemical reactions. I believe we're dealing with a highly radioactiv... ... tion's plutonium. A concentration of plutonium combined with other toxic waste elements could just be the cause," Greene speculated. "If that's tr... ... been cooking themselves into a nuclear hybrid." "A hybrid?" "You know, a new chemical compound. That stuff's been cooking down there a long time.... ...king down there a long time. Probably creating hundreds - or even thousands - of chemical reactions, and forming new compounds, even deadlier togethe... ...ly synergy." "That still doesn't explain why it can't be detected." "These new chemical compounds probably don't conform to normal testing standard... ...lusions, Doctor?" "We believe that over the years a combination of radioactive elements has been seeping into the ground and has probably mixed tog... ...s been seeping into the ground and has probably mixed together causing numerous chemical reactions to occur. We, also, believe that these chemical r... ...m personally disturbed and outraged that the authorities and the media revealed elements of the crime scene, and impli­ cated innocent parties before...

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Contributing to Efforts for Greater Financial Markets Stability in Apec Economies

By: Apec Finance Minister Process

...ity in APEC Economies 6 I.2.3 Enhancing Financial Market Stability Several key elements underpin a robust financial system which is characteri... ... operations of other financial institutions (Financial Stability Board 2011). The key elements, among others include: I.2.3.1 Sound, Comprehensiv... ...in 2009; followed by vehicles, base metal and articles of base metals, and product of chemical, accounted for 10.99 percent, 10.40 percent, and 10.20... ... Rakyat Indonesia and Bank Mandiri), trade, service and investment (United Tractors), chemicals (Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa) and miscellaneous indu... ... was able to increase its market capitalization significantly, whereas plantation and chemicals were more severely affected (Indonesia Stock Exchang...

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