Psychological literature.

Foreign Medico-Psychological Literature

Foreign Psychological Literature

Dk. Hagen commences a very elaborate examination into the claims of anatomy to throw light upon mental affections, by some general remarks upon the progress of medical science, of which psychiatry is a branch, and one which, he remarks, has hitherto been viewed with some doubt and suspicion. The cause of this is "want of time" to pursue this definite branch of study whilst there are such multif...

A Review of the Psychological Literature on Forgetting

[email protected] Abstract: The paper reviews a number of concepts and mature theories in the psychological literature on memory and forgetting. Six theories of forgetting are outlined. Issues are reviewed concerning the correspondence between concepts in psychology and knowledge management and engineering. Of the six theories, the motivated forgetting theory and the displacement theory are r...

Children of Divorce A Review of the Psychological Literature

The incidence of divorce has jumped 125% in the past 16 years (Bureau of the Census, 1977). The rise from 2.2 divorces per 1000 population in 1960 to 5.0 per 1000 in 1976 is a national trend which shows no sign of declining (Kelly & Wallerstein, 1976). At present, 60-75% of divorces involve children under age 18, indicating that one million children annually experience the divorce of their pare...

Literature and art therapy in post-stroke psychological disorders.

Stroke is one of the leading causes of morbidity and long-term disability worldwide, and post-stroke depression (PSD) is a common and serious psychiatric complication of stroke. PSD makes patients have more severe deficits in activities of daily living, a worse functional outcome, more severe cognitive deficits and increased mortality as compared to stroke patients without depression. Therefore...