Existentialism and development.

Responds to comments made by G. Kose (see record 1993-25090-001), K. Sun (see record 1993-25097-001), and R. K. Meister (see record 1993-25094-001) on B. Vandenberg's (see record 1992-12211-001) article on epistemology and an existentialist consideration of development. Taking exception with Kose's definition of existentialism and Key's remarks on morality and cognitive developments, Vandenberg voices his agreement with Meister on having a developmental perspective on the concept of death. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Reply to comments on the child-care debate.

Responds to comments by W. B. Johnson and D. Hayes (see record 1993-41125-001), J. E. Maddux (see record 1993-41129-001), K. McCarthey et al (see record 1993-41130-001), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Early Child Care Network (see record 1993-41132-001), and N. Shpancer (see record 1993-41138-001) on L. B. Silverstein's (see record 1992-05293-001) original article on child care and maternal employment, noting that the comments go a long way toward expanding the child-care debate, if not transforming it. Silverstein focuses on the role of psychology in policymaking and the responsibility of government in the lives of individuals. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Reply to Block and Buirski and to DeFrancesco.

Responds to comments by P. Block and P. Buirski (see record 1993-07301-001) and J. J. DeFrancesco (see record 1993-07303-001) regarding the authors' (see record 1992-06970-001) idea for a network of centers of excellence to provide postdoctoral training. The authors address services to the underserved, prolonged professional training, and a changing marketplace. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

"Symposium: Three perspectives on Paul Dewald's The psychoanalytic process: A case illustration": Author's discussion.

Responds to the critiques by H. K. Golden (see record 1993-10605-001), J. Newirth (see record 1993-10620-001), and I. Hirsch (see record 1993-10607-001) concerning P. A. Dewald's (1972) patient analysis. Dewald confirms the influence of the analyst's theory and technique on the flow of the analysis and on the analyst's subsequent interpretation of the analysis and recognizes the multiplicity of approaches to analysis. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

"Observing the social world": Response.

Replies to the student reviewers (see record 1993-35323-001) of the author's original study (see record 1993-35289-001) concerned with developing research ideas from observations of real-life events. (0 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The case of Gary: In search of post-hoc quixotic flexibility.

Responds to M. F. Hoyt's (see record 1995-22250-001) commentary on T. F. Van Denburg and E. J. Van Denburg's (see record 1994-18427-001) response to Hoyt's (see record 1994-18395-001) commentary on Van Denburg and Van Denburg's (see record 1993-06526-001) article about a case of premature therapy termination. Issues related to limits and flexibility in treatment are addressed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Misological or misconstrued? Rejoinder to Reynolds and Hynd.

Responds to critiques of their article (F. M. Gresham and K. A. Gansle; see record 1993-11574-001) by addressing misconceptions and misconstruals of facts presented in the original paper, specifically issues of reliability, treatment validity, and the medical model conception of behavior. Since neither C. Reynolds (see record 1993-11588-001) nor G. Hynd (see record 1993-11579-001) had anything to say about the dubious validity of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-III-Revised (DSM-III-R), it is assumed that they agreed with the interpretations given. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

"The case of Helen R: A therapeutic failure?" A rejoinder to Hans Strupp's reply.

Responds to H. H. Strupp's (see record 1993-06521-001) reply to M. Snyder's (see record 1993-06522-001) comment on H. H. Strupp's (see record 1991-16137-001) article on the alleged failure of time-limited dynamic psychotherapy with a particular patient. When empathy is viewed as entering the other person's lifeworld, rather than simply experiencing his or her immediate psychological state, the risk of being programmed by a client to deliver a complimentary response that is self-limiting is greatly alleviated. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Riposte to Spezzano.

Replies to C. J. Spezzano's (see record 1993-33442-001) defense of S. Reisner's (see record 1992-16438-001) article against R. R. Holt's (see record 1992-27289-001) earlier criticisms. Holt admits that the tone of his criticisms may have been harsh, but he reasserts that there is a need for concern regarding objective intellectual standards of scholarly work. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Natural science and unnatural technology.

L. D. Smith responds to comments by P. A. Lamal (see record 1993-35767-001) and J. W. Kimball and W. L. Heward (see record 1993-35766-001) on Smith's (see record 1992-21952-001) article on the contemplative and technological orientations to science. Smith emphasizes that the article was not meant to suggest that technology be abandoned in favor of helpless passivity, but to urge that large-scale applications of behavioral technology be grounded in comprehensive models that afford a systematic understanding of the short- and long-term effects of behavioral interventions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Hearts and bonds: Resisting classification and closure.

Responds to criticisms made by H. Peskin (see record 1993-45259-001) of the article by Stroebe et al (see record 1993-05637-001). Stroebe et al assert that their representation of J. Bowlby's (1980) conception of grief as lending itself to a modernist zeitgeist is an accurate one and that Peskin's views are idiosyncratic. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Preschoolers' understanding of pretense and presumption of congruity between action and representation.

In a series of 4 studies, A. S. Lillard's (see record 1993-32884-001) paradigm for studying preschoolers' understanding of pretense was replicated and systematically examined. The design varied the extent of the contradiction built into Lillard's format. Decreases in contradictory information yielded increases in the incidence of correct judgments indicative of an implicitly representational understanding of pretense. The findings present a challenge to Lillard's (see record 1993-32884-001) conceptual analysis of pretense and suggest that methods adopted from the classic false-belief paradigm of H. Wimmer and J. Perner (see record 1983-27705-001) may be inappropriate for assessing preschoolers understanding of pretense. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The case of Gary: Alternatives perhaps, incapable no.

Responds to M. F. Hoyt's (see record 1994-18395-001) critique of T. F. Van Denburg and E. J. Van Denburg's (see record 1993-06526-001) article on premature termination of therapy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Therapeutic flexibility in the case of Gary: Too little, too late.

Responds to T. F. Van Denburg and E. J. Van Denburg's (see record 1994-18427-001) response to M. F. Hoyt's (see record 1994-18395-001) commentary on Van Denburg and Van Denburg's (see record 1993-06526-001) article about a case of premature therapy termination. When a treatment is not working try something different. The issue is not long vs short therapy, but a readiness to respond flexibly. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

How not to study strategy discovery.

Comments on an article by R. S. Siegler and K. Crowley (see record 1991-27055-001) regarding using the microgenetic method (MM) for studying cognitive development. The author argues that the MM was expensive, produced data that may reflect changes brought on by repeated assessment rather than development, and may have failed to capture the change of interest for a larger part of the sample. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Degrees of repression of sexual abuse memories.

Comments on E. F. Loftus's (see record 1993-37888-001) review of data on patients' recovery of repressed memories of sexual abuse (SA) in psychotherapy. In contrast to J. Briere and J. Conte's (see record 1993-33736-001) finding of self-reported amnesia for abuse in 59% of adults molested as children, only 30% of 105 adults in the present authors' study claimed to have blocked out any recollection of SA. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Synthesis not complementarity.

Comments on J. Rychlak's (see record 1993-43676-001) discussion of suggested principles of complementarity for psychology. Although Rychlak concluded that past efforts to achieve synthesis have paradoxically augmented disunity and that accepting complementarity will foster unification, his identification of 4 explanatory grounds (Logos, Bios, Physikos, and Socius) further enables the neural network case for synthesis described by W. W. Tryon (see record 1993-39652-001). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Change and be ready to change again.

Replies to comments by M. B. Bailey and R. B. Bailey (see record 1994-07941-001) and by J. Garcia (see record 1994-07943-001) that were issued in response to the article by J. T. Todd and E. K. Morris (see record 1993-11918-001) on mythology and folklore in behavior analysis. Todd and Morris welcome the comments by Bailey and Bailey but take issue with the stance of Garcia, who refuses to acknowledge the conceptual importance of species similiarities. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Race differences in brain size.

Replies to M. Peters's (see record 1996-14159-001) comments on Rushton's (see record 1995-17150-001) reply to a critique of his work (e.g., see record 1993-40406-001) on brain size differences among human racial groups (i.e., Mongoloids, Caucasoids, and Negroids). Rushton reports on 4 independent ways of estimating brain size, and confirms that brains of East Asians average about 17 cm–3 larger than those of Europeans, whose brains average about 80 cm–3 larger than those of Africans. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Homophobia and psychoanalysis: A reply to Roughton.

Replies to R. E. Roughton's (see record 1994-27310-001) response to D. K. Flaks's (see record 1993-23357-001) article on homophobia and the psychologists's role in psychoanalytic training institutes. Flaks commends attempts by the American Psychoanalytic Association to combat homophobia within the organization but notes potential problems that might limit its success. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)