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Transformative emotional sequence (TES) is proposed as a common principle of therapeutic change underlying a number of therapies: Emotionfocused therapy (EFT), coherence therapy (CT), accelerated experientialdynamic psychotherapy (AEDP), and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). TES consists of emotional activation of a problematic

Several idiots savants who were able to identify prime numbers have been reported. This ability requires complex calculations, because no simple algorithms are known for determining primes. Many savants, however, who demonstrate this ability, do not possess the arithmetical skills to perform such calculations. Explanations offered for the feats of idiots savants are reviewed in the light of their applicability to the cases of prime identification. Existing models cannot fully explain prime number identification for savants with weak arithmetical skills. The author shows that through the natural tendency of visual perception to be organized symmetrically, a distinction between prime and nonprime numbers can be made. This process could both explain the origin of the interest and the ability to identify prime numbers in mathematically weak savants.

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Intuition may be considered a common factor in psychotherapy, characterizing both psychotherapist and client functioning. After reviewing existing models for intuition, the author proposes a 5-phase model to explain intuition on the basis of the cognitive functions of pattern discovery and recognition. It is argued that intuition should not be viewed as a single phenomenon; rather, the phenomena labeled as intuition can be understood as belonging to different phases of a single process. These phases consist of early knowledge representations that demonstrate the creative role that intuition may play in the construction of knowledge. The author illustrates this model by presenting examples from the practice of psychotherapy. Finally, the author discusses the possibilities of promoting intuitive insight, the fallibility of intuition, and the role intuition may play in integrative decision making.Experience persuades me that many people must follow the same circle from intuition through intellectual analysis to restored spontaneity (Yehudi Menuhin, 1997).The psychotherapist who considers his methods and decisions exclusively the result of conscious reasoning is most likely mistaken. No therapist can reasonably deny following hunches, experiencing sudden insights, choosing directions without really knowing why, or having uncanny feelings that turn out to be of great importance for therapy. All these phenomena are occurrences of intuitive modes of functioning. As Laughlin (1997) put it, "Comparatively little knowledge is derived initially from