The Future of Psychiatry: Predictions Past and Present

1972 ◽  
Vol 121 (565) ◽  
pp. 579-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ørnulv Ødegård
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
High Level ◽  
Mental Force

Human consciousness includes the dimension of time: As history it reaches back into the past, and as prediction it gropes towards the future. Knowledge of the future must have been felt as a necessity as long as the human mind has existed, and the need for such knowledge was being met on a high level of organization even before culture reached a written stage. Prophets came before authors. At one time prophecy was more important than history because it was nourished by the ancient and powerful mental force of anxiety, anxiety in its true psychiatric form as fear of the unknown.

scholarly journals The fiction of History: recalling the past and imagining the future with Caesar at Troy.

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 143-160
Author(s):  
Richard Alston
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Cultural Trauma ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
A Site

This essay considers the nature of historical discourse through a consideration of the historical narrative of Lucan’s Pharsalia. The focus is on the manner in which Lucan depicts history as capable of being fictionalised, especially through the operation of political power. The discourses of history make a historical account, but those discourses are not, in Lucan's view, true, but are fictionalised. The key study comes from Caesar at Troy, when Lucan explores the idea of a site (and history) which cannot be understood, but which nevertheless can be employed in a representation of the past. yet, Lucan also alludes to a ‘true history’, which is unrepresentable in his account of Pharsalus, and beyond the scope of the human mind. Lucan’s true history can be read against Benjamin and Tacitus. Lucan offers a framework of history that has the potential to be post-Roman (in that it envisages a world in which there is no Rome), and one in which escapes the frames of cultural memory, both in its fictionalisation and in the dependence of Roman imperial memory on cultural trauma.

scholarly journals Organizational Renewal in Family Firms

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Drakopoulou Dodd ◽  
Vasilis Theoharakis ◽  
Angelo Bisignano
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Strong Evidence ◽  
Succession Planning ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Path Dependency ◽  
Organizational Renewal ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
High Level

The authors investigate whether organizational renewal impacts on the performance of family firms and identify aspects of ‘familiness’ acting as facilitators or inhibitors of organizational renewal. A survey instrument captured data on relevant family-related characteristics, organizational renewal and firm performance from the CEOs of 140 family firms in Greece. Regression analysis was used to test hypotheses. Strong evidence was found that organizational renewal impacts positively on the profit growth of family firms. Where CEOs had a strong growth aspiration for the future and were firm founders, and where succession planning was taking place, renewal was more likely to be enacted. Efforts are focused on creating a business that will thrive in the future, and not on curating an organizational heirloom shaped and constrained by the past. Their strong future focus liberates these family firms from possible cross-generational path dependency, allowing the special resources of their family's business to act instead as a springboard for ongoing organizational renewal. Conversely, those family firms with a high level of family altruism indicated by extensive kin employment seem to be more likely to be destined for stagnation than stewardship, as they promote (past-focused) historical family sentiment and tradition. The dangers of cross-generational path dependency indeed seem pronounced in such past-focused firms.

scholarly journals Reading Minds in Greek Tragedy

2010 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
FELIX BUDELMANN ◽  
PAT EASTERLING
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Greek Tragedy ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
The Past ◽  
Mind And Brain ◽  
The Mind ◽  
And Linguistics

A notable intellectual development of the past decade or two has been the ever-growing interest in human consciousness and the workings of the mind. Sometimes grouped under the umbrella term ‘cognitive sciences’, diverse disciplines such as neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, computer science, and linguistics have all made major contributions to our understanding of the human mind and brain; and the large number of popular science books published in this area show that this can be an engrossing topic for the layperson as much as for experts. In this article we want to explore, at a rather general and non-technical level, how this focus on matters of cognition can help us think about an aspect of Greek tragedy.

scholarly journals From present to future. An academic perspective of Public Archaeology in Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Alicia Castillo Mena
Keyword(s):  
Public Archaeology ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
High Level

Ten years seems little time to assess the future of such a relatively young topic as Public Archaeology (PA) is, in special in Spain and in the academic arena. I divide my answer in two classic parts: present and future. By understanding the present (based on the past) we can try to guess (more or less) the future… Even if we think in the context of a pandemic, predicting the future of anything becomes really uncertain and reckless. If I may write, there is a high level of uncertainty and luck in getting it right.

scholarly journals TIME AS A METAPHYSICAL DILEMMA: JOSE LUIS BORGES’ TREATMENT OF THE NATURE OF TIME IN HIS SELECTED WORKS

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-10
Author(s):  
Tukumbeje Mposa
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
Major Subject ◽  
The Future ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Nature Of Time ◽  
Perception Of Time ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Linear Manner

The concept of time, which has been a major subject of study in various fields, defies a neat definition. Many scholars have failed to define it in a manner applicable to all fields. Generally, time can be defined as the unlimited continued progress of existence and events in the past, present and future, regarded as a whole. It is a measure in which events can be ordered from the past through the present into the future. Some schools of thought deny the existence of time. They argue that the present is undefined and indefinite; and the future has no reality except as present recollection. In some of his works, Jose Luis Borges (1899–1986) describes time in a linear manner, that is to say, that humans experience time as a series of present moments, one following the other. The past and the future both exist nowhere but in the human mind. Borges seems to agree with the notion that time is but a figment of the mind. In other stories, his perception of time is circular. Thus, the focus of the current article is on time, which is a metaphysical dilemma, and Borges’ treatment of the nature of time in his selected works.

Attention in Augustine

Rhizomata ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-270
Author(s):  
Lenka Karfíková
Keyword(s):  
Sense Organ ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
The Body ◽  
External Object ◽  
Sense Perception ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Will ◽  
With Memory

Abstract The article treats the role of attention (intentio or attentio) in Augustine’s analysis of sense perception, the notion of time, and the Trinitarian structure of the human mind. The term intentio covers a broad range of meanings in Augustine’s usage. Its most fundamental meaning is the life-giving presence of the soul in the body, intensified in attention’s being concentrated on a particular thing or experience; Augustine also uses the term attentio in this latter sense. According to his analysis of time, by way of attention (intentio or attentio), the soul fixes the present in which the future passes into the past. Due to the intention of the soul, the form abstracted from an external object is both imprinted into the sense organ and retained in the memory in order to be, by intention again, recalled before the sight of mind. As “the intention of the will” or just “the will”, attention connects intellectual understanding with memory. In Augustine’s eyes, attention has a different quality depending on the object it is oriented to, and a different intensity, ranging from inattentive distraction (distentio) to concentrated effort (intentio).

The Learning Organization

2014 ◽  
pp. 183-198
Author(s):  
Deborah Keller
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Learning Organization ◽  
The Past ◽  
After Action Review ◽  
The Future ◽  
High Level

The practice of using reviews of past events as (often expensive) investments in learning for the future pays off. Why don't all organizations use the practice as a matter of course? The chapter explores how barriers are similar to all other barriers to successful knowledge management and include such obvious elements as high level ownership and a culture of valuing the learning every employee can contribute to the organization's future. A key element is the organizational will to learn from what happened in the past. The After Action Review is used to illustrate a model for organizational learning.

The science, suspicion, and sustainability of opinion polls

2020 ◽  
pp. 324-340
Author(s):  
Thomas P. Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Public Support ◽  
The Past ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The Future ◽  
High Level ◽  
Election Polls ◽  
Political Scene ◽  
Opinion Polls

The past 30 years have seen political surveys, particularly those related to elections, evolve from an occasional novelty to a staple feature of the Kenyan political scene. This chapter considers several issues with regard to these surveys. These include: (1) the practical challenges in conducting them as well as recent technological advances; (2) the reasons why a high level of suspicion is often attached to election polls in particular, and the main rhetorical forms that such suspicion takes; and, (3) several factors likely to affect the future of such surveys, beyond the widespread awareness of and considerable public support for them, especially the attitudes of those in, and aspiring to, power. It concludes by suggesting that the recent “proliferation” of such polls is no guarantee of their continuation.

scholarly journals Felt as an unsolved code of the past – a bridge to the future

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ч.Ж. Тентиева
Keyword(s):  
Fine Arts ◽  
Folk Art ◽  
Arts And Crafts ◽  
National Museum ◽  
New Materials ◽  
The Past ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
High Level

В статье рассмотрены вопросы истории развития художественной обработки войлока в Кыргызстане на примере работ из коллекции Кыргызского национального музея изобразительного искусства им. Г. Айтиева. Акцентируется внимание на творчество Джумабая Уметова, который возродил древнейшее ремесло среднеазиатских народов войлока и чия как новой области декоративно-монументального искусства. Продолжая традиции Уметова, работают на качественно новом уровне такие мастера, как Токтогул Касымов, Райгуль Акматова, Галина Турдиева. Современное декоративное искусство выросло на основе народного творчества. Сохраняя традиции, художники Кыргызстана развивают декоративно-прикладное искусство, внося новые темы, решения, осваивая новые виды, материалы и техники, формируя облик нового интерьера. The article discusses the history of felting in Kyrgyzstan based on the works from the collection of Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts by G. Aytiev. The special attention is paid to works made by Jumabai Umetov , who revived the ancient craft of the Central Asian peoples connected with  felt and cane as a new field of decorative and monumental art. Continuing Umetov's traditions such high-level masters as Toktogul Kasymov, Raigul Akmatova, Galina Turdieva work at a qualitatively new level. Modern arts and crafts art grew up from the folk art. Keeping traditions, introducing new themes, solutions, mastering new materials and techniques, forming the new appearance of interior the artists of Kyrgyzstan develop arts and crafts.

scholarly journals Om den psykologiske realiteten av langstrakt musikalsk form: Et musikkfilosofisk forsøk

2020 ◽  
pp. 191-214
Author(s):  
Erling E. Guldbrandsen
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Musical Composition ◽  
Musical Form ◽  
The Past ◽  
Time Flow ◽  
The Future ◽  
Listening Experience ◽  
Musical Listening

What is time? What is the relationship between music and time? Does time flow towards us from the future to the past, or do we move through time from the past to the future? Is there even such a thing as the “passage of time”, or is that a just another metaphorical construction? “The now” in human short-term memory lasts for approximately 3–5 seconds. In this article, the topic is how the consciousness can construct, experience and maintain coherence in longer-term occurrences, for example, a musical composition lasting 20–30 minutes. The article suggests that the form of these musical compositions is perhaps structured analogously with the long-term memory’s own hierarchical divisions and mode of operation in the human mind. The article discusses the connection between overview (hors-temps, meaning outside time) and process (durée, meaning duration) in the listening experience. To be able to follow a long-lasting musical form, be it in performance or in musical listening, one needs to be both “in” the time-flow and outside of it at the same time. Hence, since “presence” and “distance” are clearly different perspectives, they form a paradoxical relation of being both contradictory and mutually interdependent. The interplay between musical detail, overview and direction is relevant to the concept of Fernhören, coined by Heinrich Schenker and Wilhelm Furtwängler. Since music needs to unfold during time, a large-scale musical work cannot be seen merely as an object (Sein, or being) but is also a process of constant re-shaping and change (Werden, or becoming) in the workings of perception, memory and expectation in the listening experience.

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