The „pathology of normalcy“ rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society produces the antidote against such deterioration. When pathological processes become socially patterned, they lose their […]

The productive orientation of personality refers to a fundamental attitude, a mode of relatedness in all realms of human experience. It covers physical, mental, emotional, and sensory responses to […]

Those who announce ideas (…) and at the same time live them we may call prophets. The Old Testament prophets did precisely that: they announced the idea that man […]

The essence of psychoanalysis can be defined as the discovery of the significance of conflicting tendencies in man, of the power of the „resistance“ to fight against the awareness […]

Rational is all that, all actions and all behavior which furthers the growth and development of a structure. Irrational are all such acts of behavior which slow down or […]

„Religion“ as I use it refers to (…) any group-shared system of thought and action that offers the individual a frame of orientation and an object of devotion. Indeed, […]

One can describe a „religious“ experience as a human experience which underlies, and is common to, certain types of theistic, as well as nontheistic, atheistic, or even antitheistic conceptualizations. […]

When we speak of the English, the French, the American revolutions, we refer to revolutions from below, and not from above; to the popular attack against authoritarian systems not […]

Whether we think of the Greek drama, the medieval passion play, or an Indian dance, whether we think of Hindu, Jewish or Christian religious rituals, we are dealing with […]