Western science offered

This issue focuses on the themes of certainty and doubt, fragility and tenacious identity, in the psychotherapeutic process. Newman s paper explores some central tensions in the relation between consciousness and unconsciousness. Rowan offers a masterly account of what he plausibly claims are established salient features of the psychotherapeutic process, in terms of the analogy of alchemy. Balick s account of the 7th UKCP Professional Conference evokes the tensions activated by the interface between neuro-science and psychotherapy. And Tan and Zhong face us with the challenge of a communally and certainty based method, in relation to some antisocial sexual patterns, which appears to be more effective than more cautious established Western approaches... 

While during the NATO-CARWC, the session on metal-air batteries featured other important contributions, it is, perhaps, by coincidence that only presenters from the former Eastern Block submitted their papers for this volume. In this regard, the editors wish to note, that papers below may be of special interest to the western reader, as they offer a rather unique insight into the science and application of the metal-air battery systems from the... 

For the first several years in London, Kuroda was thinking of going back to Japan. She had been warned that if she stayed away for more than two years, she would lose an important feeling of harmony and would become too westernized, and then it would become impossible to get accepted again by Japanese society. After two years, Kuroda got a job offer from Japan to teach in a girls private finishing school. The position was only for two years, and there was no chemistry department there they just wanted her to teach some science and to teach English. She stayed in London and eventually got a permanent position. 

As with the Russian CW program, the many scientists that have previously worked in BW research and are now unemployed create a fear of brain drain. In 1995, a number of reports suggested that Iranian advances in BW research were aided by former Soviet scientists, and similar reports have suggested that Iraq and other countries may have made offers as well. Another report tells of a former Russian BW scientist who offered his services to China. In an effort to curtail these developments. Western-financed initiatives such as the International Science and Technology Center (ISTC) in Moscow work at directing Russian weapons scientists toward work on more peaceful projects. 

---