Original aphorisms.

The author presents original aphorisms.

A dialogue about how to react to hurtful but true things that people say to you.

Sometimes, intellectual specialization is about intellectual depth. Sometimes, it is about lacking of substance attempting to appear legitimate. In the latter case, the specialist responds to inquiries about his area of specialization defensively and narrowly. In the former case, the specialist responds cooperatively and inclusively.

A dialogue about the self-undermining nature of self-criticism.

Original aphorisms.

The author presents a dialogue about the psychological function of scholarly conventions and other pseudo-scholarly colloquia.

This lively yet profound exchange vividly illustrates a number of important facts about an oft-misunderstood and deeply significant form of psychopathology. The world's leading analytic philosopher and logician, Dr. Kuczynski has also established himself as a leading psychoanalytic clinician and theoretician. This work draws heavily from Kuczynski's groundbreaking treatise Empiricism and the Foundations of Psychology.

Neuroses are secondary mental illnesses, it being their purpose to contain psychoses.

A dialogue with a fictitious wise man.

People shut down if they are given too little or too much stimulation, this being the essence of activation theory.

There are many reasons to behave immorally, but, so it seems, very few reasons to behave morally. In this short work, it is shown that all genuinely self-interested behavior embodies a certain morality. It is also shown that no viable ethical system requires its adherents to deny their self-interest.

The author presents original aphorisms.

The author presents original proverbs.

Scholars and laymen generally assume that emotions are not judgments - that whereas judgments are expressions of rationality, emotions are expressions of irrationality. In this concise volume, it is shown that emotions are in fact judgments, with the qualification that emotions are hewed to egocentric frame of reference, whereas garden-variety judgments are hewed to a non-egocentric frame of reference.