Sentences with phrase «psychological understanding of»

Angela's training has allowed her to have a fundamental psychological understanding of what can be the triggers to addiction - attachment, depression, abuse, genetics or family systems, and these triggers where evident in her time working within the advertising profession.

Psychological Expertise to support the legal team or pro se parent with a deep psychological understanding of parental alienation, an awareness of the relevant scientific literature and the current forensic guidelines, rules and procedure set for addressing parental alienation both in and out of the courtroom.

The side effect of selling pills that don't work is a perversion of the physical and psychological understanding of what it means to derive nutrition from food.

It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle.

I shall propose that in addition to the psychological understanding of symbolism, where symbols seem to be no more than our imaginative creations, we must also situate symbols cosmologically.

The broader significance of the chapter lies in whatever light it throws on the psychological understanding of authoritarian religion in general.

From commercials predicated on creating desires rather than on meeting utilitarian needs, to the therapeutic rhetoric of politicians of Left and Right, the gravitational pull toward a psychological understanding of the self is powerful and omnipresent.

Building on but moving beyond psychological understandings of guilt, and excavating the reality of wrong «being that underlies our wrong» doing, Pieper brings the wisdom tradition of Plato, Augustine, and Aquinas into conversation with moderns, both Christian and anti-Christian, who try to make sense of sin and evil in the human condition.

Not exact matches

Psychological experiments are great resources for understanding certain patterns of human behavior in the workplace.

Understand these psychological principles, she tells parents, and you'll have a much better chance of pushing back effectively.

These limitations and complexities aside, the researchers concluded that their findings provide more evidence consistent with the idea that «some men high in homophobia indeed have a sexual interest toward homosexual stimuli, whereas others do not» and that they «provide a better understanding of the psychological processes involved in the processing of erotic gay material among men high in homophobia...».

In his book iDisorder: Understanding our Obsession with Technology and Overcoming its Hold on Us, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) Rosen says our over-reliance on technology induces behaviors similar to those of anxiety - based psychological disorders including obsessive - compulsive disorder.

Risk tolerance involves having a thorough understanding of someone's psychological risk tolerance and how much of a drop in their portfolio they can handle psychologically before they want to sell.

In recognition of those employers who understand the link between employee well - being and organizational performance, the American Psychological Association will recognize 11 organizations at its seventh annual Psychologically Healthy Workplace Awards in Washington, DC, on Saturday March 10.

«I also still love the intellectual challenge of understanding companies and industries, of figuring out what something is worth, of playing the psychological game well.»

As long ago as 1966, Philip Rieff's book The Triumph of the Therapeutic predicted that this psychological mode of understanding society and identity would triumph over all other modes.

If you're interested in self - inquiry there are a lot of psychological texts written in recent years when the science was far, far in advance of anything understood about humans back in biblical times.

Recasting the virtues to take into account contemporary understanding of psychological development, she enters into conversation with feminists, narrative ethicists like MacIntyre and Hauerwas, and epistemologists like Wittgenstein and Anscombe.

It is understood that the sōma has parts, some physical (bones, flesh, blood), some spiritual (soul, spirit), and some psychological (emotions, intellect, will, personality), but the word does not refer to just one of these parts, such as the physical, but to the entire person.

Scientific understanding, humane appreciation, existentialist self - awareness, history as cumulative experience, psychological insight, and respectful regard for what religious people have to tell us about their experience — all are needed for and capable of inclusion in this new perspective.

What America needs is not therapy for a poor white version of Psychological Man but a renewed vision of the common good built on a renewed understanding of a common human nature.

The dynamic motivating power of sex has, beyond the moral questions, biological and psychological dimensions which must be studied and understood.

Perhaps this is an extreme example but it illustrates what can happen if we routinely make disordered attachments while failing to understand the spiritual and psychological ramifications of such choices.

Therefore Balthasar warned that we must be careful to avoid reducing the meaning of archetype to a platonic (as a mere copy) or a psychological understanding (a sharing of a similar experience).

Sullivan's commitment to using psychological and psychiatric understanding to help resolve social problems is one of his significant contributions to a growth - oriented «persons - in - relationships - in - society» approach.

While he certainly possesses communicating skills and a basic understanding of social and psychological functioning, he is not a social worker, psychologist, or psychiatrist.

So also the Christian faith should lead to understanding for those to whom life brings unwanted and difficult circumstances, such as those who want the companionship of marriage and are denied it, those for whom physical or psychological illness makes sexual experience impossible, those who have had tragic and wounding experiences and must find their way through them.

This understanding of one's history has complex psychological effects.

In one of the essays in this volume, pastoral theologian Carrie Doehring distinguishes between «theological literacy,» which knows the vocabulary and the right answers to the questions, and «theological fluency,» in which «we «inhabit» our theology as a faith perspective that we use to understand and respond to spiritual and psychological needs.

(1) What the slogan concealed was the complexity of the process involved in understanding God's Word in the context of cultures far removed in time and psychological texture from those in which the revelation was originally given.

The most fruitful results of this coalescence have been the articles of Hamrick and Gallagher which use the work of Merleau - Ponty as a basis for understanding what Whitehead proposed as psychological physiology.3

We are only lately coming to understand this characteristic psychological relationship between the one and the many in Israel; but it is with this understanding that we may see Messianism in the broadest sense in the divine promise to Abraham: «In you all the families of the earth will be blessed» (12:3, R.S.V. margin)

How I could be stymied in this way over little things from time to time baffles me if Cobb's model be used to shape our understanding of psychological physiology.

My conclusion from these considerations is that Cobb has problems of his own when he proposes to illuminate our understanding of psychological physiology by means of his model of a regionally inclusive regnant occasion.

Those with gender dysphoria experience a mismatch between their physical sexual organs and their psychological and emotional understanding of their own gender.

Whitehead's use of assumptions dating back to Descartes and Locke in his account of perception leaves him vulnerable to the criticisms introduced by the revolution in philosophic method taking place at the time he was writing his major works, one in which the analysis of the functioning of language was replacing psychological introspection as the principal method for understanding human thought.

At the same time, he rejects those theories, «more or less tinged with behaviouristic psychology,» which assume» that human nature has no dynamism of its own and that psychological changes are to be understood in terms of the development of new «habits» as an adaptation to new cultural patterns.»

Now if, in addition to all of this, we recall another psychological phenomenon in ancient Israel, the normative sense of corporate personality among the people of Israel (and the East in general, as over against the West), we are in a position to understand as fully as is possible the personality of Jeremiah or Ezekiel.

Buber's and Trüb's understanding of guilt as a primal reality sets them in marked contrast to the predominant modern trend toward explaining it away as the product of social and psychological conditioning.

In The Concept of Anxiety and The Sickness Unto Death, his two main psychological works, he understands human beings as creatures of God who unavoidably exist in relation to their Creator.

They may perfectly well be the immediate subject matters of inquiries that lead to truer historical or psychological or sociological understanding with no necessary bearing on understanding God.

I need more than the resources of Bible, theological tradition, and my own commitments if I am to understand my faith and the world in which it is set; I also need the ethical insights of my secular colleagues, the political and psychological analyses of my friends and foes, and the prophetic jab of nonchurchmen whose degree of commitment so often puts my own to shame.20

Ben Meyer comments that most Jesus scholars of the day couple the liberal emphasis on the ethics with an equally liberal «hermeneutic of empathy» In turn, a host of imaginative these were put forward in an effort to understand more fully Jesus religious experience by tracing out the psychological development of Jesus's messianic awareness.

We are not at all prejudging anything about chronology, that is, about establishing the dates of the teachers and writings of the Mahayana schools — their roots are in the earliest times; rather we are trying to give the psychological and objective points of departure in which the speculations of the later schools were grounded and out of which they are therefore to be understood.

The adult Christian, no matter what the degree of his psychological or spiritual maturity and commitment, needs education in terms of increased understanding and strengthened performatives at and beyond the level of language.

Although a clear scientific understanding on these matters will be long in coming, it is ignorance to say that religion is founded only on lies and its principles of faith have no adaptive or psychological value.

It begins with Richard Rorty's vision of the achievement of our country, followed by Allan Bloom's more negative and today's libertarians» different and more positive and productive spin on roughly the same understanding of today's psychological facts.

CNN: My Take: If you hear God speak audibly, you (usually) aren't crazy Tanya Marie («T.M.») Luhrmann, psychological anthropologist and the author of «When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God,» explains that hearing the voice of God isn't as unusual as many would believe.

A discussion of bioenergetics» understanding of psychological - body problems and methods of reclaiming the body.

Now, if we recall another psychological phenomenon in ancient Israel, the normative sense of corporate personality, the identity of the one in the many and the many in the one, we are able to understand that in their application of Word and Symbol the prophets became not only executioners of Israel, but at once also their own executioners.