Mah: 97 books

The category-based nested form serves as one foundation for a postmodern scholastic anthropology. “Postmodern” because it begins with the insights of Charles Sanders Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure. Scholastic because it takes Peirce’s categories and semiotic into questions that would be addressed...

"Down the Relationship Rabbit Hole, Assessment and Strategy for Therapy “ asserts assessment is critical for successful therapy. Individuals often come with issues that affect their ability to have successful relationships, not the least of which are committed romantic intimate relationships....

"Off, Odd, Different… Special? Learning Disabilities, ADHD, Aspergers Syndrome, and Giftedness in Couples and Couple Therapy." When the therapist or a partner wonders if someone seems off, odd, different, or special, it is a clinical clue to the underlying issues causing dysfunction in...

Alexander Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory (2012) initiated a quest for a new conceptual structure to replace the three political theories of liberalism, communism and fascism. His title struck my eye because my mission is “to imagine the fourth age of understanding, the age of semiotics”. So...

Modernism belongs to the Age of Ideas. According to John Deely, two figures mark the turning point from the Latin Age to the Age of Ideas. They are Rene Descartes, pointing the way to the Age of Ideas, and John Poinsot, arriving at the triadic nature of the sign relation. The time is 1650 AD.These...

Mirror Mirror… Reflections of Self-Esteem in Relationships and Therapy. The request for communications oriented therapy often assumes a need for self-esteem focused therapy. Poor communication directly harms self-esteem and relationships as individuals poorly mirror each other. Comment, complaining,...

Primers 1-10 form a coherent set. Each develops concepts expressed in the foundatinal text: How to Define the Word “Religion”. Primer 11 differs. It addresses a key question about institutions Institutions compose the content-level of the society tier. The question concerns abstraction. It involves...

1985: Jessica Chou is at the biggest dance of the season and she's got the attention of two men: the cute pre-med gymnast with the hot, flexible bod and the sweet nerd with surprising dance moves. Her choice will have repercussions felt a decade later.Short story prequel to the novel CHOPSTYX.

“Sorry is not Enough, Infidelity and Betrayal in Couples and Couple Therapy.” Despite social, cultural, and personal standards of monogamy, affairs remain prevalent in many committed couples. Possibly the most difficult challenge in couple therapy, infidelity in a committed couple can manifest...

"Scorpion in the Bed, The Narcissist in Couples and Couples Therapy" guides essential adjustments in therapy to deal w/ the narcissism of one partner in a couple. Otherwise effective couple therapy interventions fail if narcissism is missed, since narcissism affects all aspects of relationship...

"All Relationships and Therapy are Multi-Cultural- Family and Cross-Cultural Complications." The therapist must conduct therapy as inherently cross-cultural and multi-cultural, not only between and among clients but also between the therapist and clients. Cross-cultural or multi-cultural perspectives...

Why a series of primers?These primers provide in depth coverage of the nested form constructs in the book: How to Define the Word “Religion”.Primers 1 and 2 developed the category-based nested forms discussed in “the meaning underlying the word ‘religion’”.The next several primers address...

These comments examine a roughly hewn history of the Biblical stories of Adam and Eve. Greenblatt is both a modernist and postmodernist. He reduces complex phenomena. He expresses grievance for politically favored identities. For example, he reduces the existence of the early Genesis text to an innate...

This essay presents the natural hypothesis at the heart of the ground-breaking fiction: An Archaeology of the Fall. The question is: Why civilization? The answer relies on the idea of natural signs (proposed by Charles Peirce), the evolution of talk (not the same as the evolution of language), the...