Offers a Pyrrhonist reading of "Hamlet." Describes an experiment in teaching that attempts to reconstruct for literature students the prudential-ethical context of human rhetoric, placing "prudentia," or practical wisdom, at the center of their own imaginative involvement. (PRA)

Comments on Weinrach's (1990) article "A Psychosocial Look at the Jewish Dilemma" and offers an alternative view of how a Jewish counselor educator responds to tension created by membership in multiple communities with multiple and often competing ritual systems. Concludes challenge of being Jewish is to willingly engage in dialogue. (Author/ABL)

Asserts that student resistance to assigned reading is an essential part of the process of critiquing and intervening in oppressive ideologies. Argues for using resistance to help students see where they are located within ideology and within the interplay of conflicting ideologies and their own experience. (PRA)

Describes how a high school student was able to express powerful feelings and achieve some kind of reconciliation with his father through his therapeutic exploration of Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman." (PRA)

Presents two responses to Meredith Kopald's article, "Arthur Miller Wins a Peace Prize: Teaching, Literature, and Therapy" in the same issue of this journal. (PRA)

Responds to three articles included in, as well as philosophical underpinnings of, special issue on Mental Health Counseling for Men of the "Journal of Mental Health Counseling" (v14, n3). Explicates nonsexist approach to counseling men and contrasts it with approach of this special issue. (Author)

Considers the nature and function of the past in the way people construct the present, particularly with regard to the study of literature. Presents reader response as a feasibile approach for teachers of literature. Discusses issues surrounding the literary canon and the role of literature teachers. (HB)

Responds to previous article in which Thomas analyzes current status of counseling psychology from Freudian, drive-structure perspective. Discusses the accreditation process and suggests that way to work for rapprochement between counseling psychologists and counselor educators is to look for characteristics the two professions have in common and…

Responds to previous article by Strong on theory-driven science and naive empiricism in counseling psychology. Contrasts theory-driven science with discovery-oriented science, seeing two as complementary. Contends that findings from discovery-oriented research must eventually be placed in theoretical context to have optimum impact. Questions some…

Responds to previous article by Strong on theory-driven science and naive empiricism in counseling psychology. Questions distinction Strong makes between theory-driven science and naive empiricism. Argues that more relevant debate is between qualitative and quantitative approaches to counseling research. Presents some differences between the two…

Replies to responses to article on theory-driven science and naive empiricism in counseling psychology. Notes that cycle of scientific work entails both context of testing and of discovery. Sees work in context of discovery receiving little emphasis in scientific training. Sees differences in approaches to discovery related to subjectivism versus…

Reviews material related to American Mental Health Counselors Association Clinical Judgment Project. Recommendations include invoking more sensitive analyses of clinical judgment process, establishing defensible diagnostic and treatment criteria, attending to threats to statistical conclusion validity, and increasing attention to counselor…

Explores themes relating to human transition as they appear in "Charlotte's Web" and four other stories using pigs as a subject. Discusses the motifs common to all these texts that recur in the film "Babe." Considers how the cycle of life and death is ceaseless, and pigs symbolize the necessary transitions that people must all…

Discusses translation from a theoretical viewpoint and takes a closer look at specific translation problems and their solutions in the translations of the "Jolly Postman" books in Dutch. Concludes that only readers fluent in both languages and cultures can understand the particular form of dialogue between the source text and the target…

Nursing students' evaluations of a unit in which they examined images of mental health in literature elicited three themes: (1) textual narratives imitate and expand horizons of the real world; (2) texts serve as a model of the real world; and (3) texts can challenge health care professionals' perspectives on their practice. (Contains 58…