13 articles in this issue
Lise Christensen
The article shows how a vitalising psychological approach can contribute to the area of neurorehabilitation for the purpose of understanding the psychological deficit position of the brain injured person. It is argued that a vitalising psycholog... see more
Klaus Nielsen, Jacob Klitmøller
The international PISA student assessments presently function as the central framing for the development of educational systems across large parts of the Western world. The goal is comparisons of the competencies of students across countries to ... see more
Peter La CourDe funktionelle lidelser: sygdom, psyke og soma
The understanding of the functional diseases is complex in many ways: The difficulties of language, the cluttered diagnostic categorisation and the unclear picture of what is causing the diseases. In this article, modern perspectives on comprehe... see more
Mia Skytte O’Toole, Jan Tønnesvang
A large number of named psychotherapies provides clinicians with a broad catalogue from which to pick and choose intervention techniques. Today, many psychotherapists claim to work eclectically, referring to the use of varying intervention techn... see more
Ida Bering, Dion Sommer
Research on resilience has not examined how metatheories, such as Dynamic Systems Theory, Transactional Theory and Probabilistic Epigenesis, can explain resilience. This is despite the fact that these theories have been proposed as being of cent... see more
Eva Hertz
Over the last two decades, Denmark has sent 26,000 combat soldiers to the Balkans, Iraq andAfghanistan. A large number of veterans have difficulties in adjusting to everyday life afterthe mission and suffer from sub-clinical symptoms of depression, withdr... see more
Troels Gottlieb1, Jeppe Brændskov Klewe
This article addresses the issue: Can personality tests be used to predict job success? For this purpose, we initially recap the historical person-situation debate that left a fundamental scepticism regarding the existence of personality. Then w... see more
Troels Gottlieb, Jeppe Brændskov Klewe
Denne artikel behandler spørgsmålet: Kan personlighedstestanvendes til at forudse jobsucces? Til dette formål skitserer viindledningsvis den historiske person-situation-debat, som efterloden fundamental skepsis vedrørende personlighedens eksistens.Herefte... see more
Jan Tønnesvang
The article aims at providing some building blocks for an educational approach that meets the current requirements for specific competencies and at the same time insists on wholeness and Bildung as a basic value in educational theory and practic... see more
Lars Hem
First, it is argued that the discovery of REM-sleep and its attributes disprove central elements in Freud’s arguments for the psychological meaningfulness of dreams. Next, Engelsted’s theory of REM-sleep as an important stepping-stone in the evo... see more
Jan Tønnesvang, Klaus Bærentsen
Louise Pedersen, Martin Pors Knudsen
When a university student with one or more mental disorders experience educational difficulties, we are presented with a very complex process where the student attempts to manage a great many demands, bonds and opportunities at once. The main th... see more
Jonas Borg Kjerkegaard, Klaus Bærentsen
Philosophical and folk concepts of free will take it for granted that conscious processes such as decisions and intentions can cause behaviour. Neuroscientific experiments by Libet and others have been claimed to indicate that this assumption mi... see more