It is based on the assumption that family functioning is much more related to transactional and systematic properties of the family system than to intra-psychic characteristics of individual family members.
To be sure, the physical and the psychic display vastly different characteristics (extension vs. unextendedness; intentionality vs. lack of intentionality; spatiotemporal individuation vs. temporal individuation).
This latter expression is not only imprecise, but may also exclude PTSD cases that, although originated in individual situations, may result in psychic sequelae of traumatic characteristics.
They are, he writes here with a characteristic flourish, "the ultimate psychic match for the times: living in the now, pleasure-seeking, product-hungry, embodying the new global society where social inclusion [is] granted through purchasing power".
Further important factors that may influence treatment outcome may be clinical characteristics [ 34], the individual psychic resilience and personality traits.
2. The "disaster taxonomy" indicates event characteristics that may generate different psychic responses and, therefore, requires precise terms to describe the three stages of the process of stress.
But, as the noted fire scientist Craig Beyler writes in his recent report on the Willingham case for the Texas Forensic Science Commission (pdf), Vasquez never offers a rational basis for this or other conjectures; Beyler says that Vasquez's method was more characteristic of "psychics".
We note that some patients with ADLTE describe psychic (' déjà-vu') and autonomous symptoms (epigastric sensations), characteristic of mesial temporal lobe auras (Morante-Redolat et al., 2002; Winawer et al., 2002; Ottman et al., 2004).
Scientists from Goldsmiths, University of London, challenged Kim Whitton and Patricia Putt – psychics with more than two decades of experience – to identify characteristics of five randomly selected people who were hidden behind a screen.
