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List of articles in category Unpublished Essays
Title
Reply to Hobson and Kahn's Self-organization and the Dreaming Brain
Historical Comments on the Film, "A Dangerous Method"
A Jungian Approach to the Golem Myth
Film & Stage: Silence of the Lambs
Simultaneity of Mental and Brain Events
Towards a Psychological Approach to the Temple of Jerusalem
Myths and our Adaptation to our Environments
Metaphor and the Imagination
Mitt Romney vs. Barak Obama
Psychologically Speaking, There are Two Types of Doctors and Two Types of Patients

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