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Insight-cultivating Reflection

Insight-cultivating Reflection Insight cultivators are ideas or thematic insights gleaned from philosophic and other sources of the human sciences. They aid in the reflective interpretive process. Insight cultivators are often found in the reflective writings of...

James, Susan. (1997). With Woman: The Midwifery Relation

James, Susan. (1997). With Woman: The Midwifery Relation. Unpublished Dissertation Edmonton: University of Alberta. < Abstract > The word midwife, meaning “wfth woman” conveys the relational sense of the work of midwifery. Midwives are with woman through the physical...

James, Susan. The Experience of Homebirth

The Experience of Homebirth James, Susan Childbirth in Canada is, for the most part, a medicalized experience. Women who choose to birth their babies at home are by far the exception rather than the rule. In Alberta, in 1981, the College of Physicians and Surgeons...

James, William

William James (1842-1910) was born in New York City on January 11, 1842. His father, Henry James was a Swedenborgian theologian. William James received very good education when he was young and travelled a lot. After graduating from school, he worked at Harvard...

Jaspers, Karl

As psychiatrist, Karl Jaspers believed that patients who suffer from primary delusions would effectively be “un-understandable” and therefore untreatable in a therapeutic manner for the psychiatrist, since there are no rational coherent processes that shaped their...