http://www.devmindbrain.com/ajm/b Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 18 May 2010 00:32:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en About 45 years ago while driving my car; I noticed that, as I drove around a curve, the curved edge of a guard rail seemed to have a blip in it.  In fact, if I looked with my right eye, any continuous straight or curved line appeared to ... http://www.devmindbrain.com/ajm/b/?p=13 Cognitive-Motivational Structure theory is a way to integrate clinical findings with Piaget’s stages of cognitive development. Our theory is that the child adapts to her experience of caregiving by adopting one of three types of Cognitive-Motivational Structure (CMS) [i], [ii], [iii].  Each CMS type—our idea of character structure—is ... http://www.devmindbrain.com/ajm/b/?p=10 The social cognition of each of three Cognitive Motivational Structures (CMSs) corresponds to one of Piaget’s stages of cognition—Symbolic, Intuitive or Operational. CMSs were first recognized in psychiatric patients. Nonetheless, although they differ in primitiveness of social cognition and motivational focus, they were not thought to be inherently ... http://www.devmindbrain.com/ajm/b/?p=9 ABSTRACT The psychotherapeutic context, the abiding stance of the therapist, is singularly important in treatment embracing an understanding of character structure. The model of character structure used here is derived from an adaptation of Piaget’s work. SUMMARY Previously we presented our understanding of the three types of character structure. 1,2 A ... http://www.devmindbrain.com/ajm/b/?p=4