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Volume 30, Number 4, Autumn

The Layering of the Psyche: Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Difference Grant Gillett, University of Otago Freud, working from a background in clinical neurology and against a backdrop of burgeoning theory development in

Volume 29, Number 4, Autumn

The Two-Stage Model of Emotion and the Interpretive Structure of the Mind Marc A. Cohen, Seattle University Empirical evidence shows that non-conscious appraisal processes generate bodily responses to the environment. This

Volume 29, Number 3, Summer

The Nature and Purpose of Belief Jonathan Leicester, The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital This paper reviews intellectualistic, dispositional, and feeling or occurrent theories of belief. The feeling theory is favored. The

Volume 28, Number 2, Spring

Mental Action and Causalism Jing Zhu, Sun Yat-sen University This paper challenges the causal approach to understanding mental action by developing a pair of cases, both relevant to mental control.

Volume 28, Number 1, Winter

The Psychology of the Placebo Effect: Exploring Meaning from a Functional Account  Rainer Schneider, University Hospital Freiburg and Samueli Institute Europe Research on a wide range of medical and non-medical