Understanding the Idiostyle Phenomenon

Towards a Broader Understanding of the Phenomenon

5 ORIGINAL PAPERS 6 INTRODUCTION 7 BACKGROUND 10 The historical development of hospitals and hospices in Sweden 10 Concepts for studying atmosphere in care settings 12 Place 15 Space 16 Ward atmosphere 17 Enriched environments 18 Supportive environments/design 20 Caring culture 21 Healing environments 22 People’s doing and being in creating an atmosphere 23 RATIONALE FOR THE STUDY 24 AIM OF THE...

Understanding a Strange Phenomenon: Lilliputian Hallucinations

Lilliputian hallucinations are infrequent but reported in a variety of states ranging from toxic metabolic states, medical, neurological and psychiatric conditions. We report three cases with different psychiatric diagnoses all presenting with vivid Lilliputian hallucinations. An attempt to apply the current biological mechanisms that explain complex visual hallucinations to Lilliputian halluci...

The Power of Expectation – Understanding the Placebo and Nocebo Phenomenon

Although placebo pills are supposed to have no pharmacological activity, people taking placebo pills describe a variety of positive (i.e., placebo phenomenon) and negative (i.e., nocebo phenomenon) reactions. This has major clinical implications. Placebo reactions account for a substantial part of improvement when treating patients with hypertension, mental disorders, and even after surgical pr...

Understanding the Drought Phenomenon: The Role of Definitions

Review of different approaches to understanding the phenomenon of diffraction

This brief review of hard diffraction is focussed on the theory of the diffractive structure function F 2 . Some aspects of diffractive vector meson production and of diffractive processes in hadron-hadron collisions are also discussed.