Treating unhappiness--society needs palliative psychopharmacology.

Psilocybin and palliative end-of-life care.

The role of psychedelics in palliative care reconsidered: A case for psilocybin.

The merger of populations , the incidence of marriages , and aggregate unhappiness

Let a society’s unhappiness be measured by the aggregate of the levels of relative deprivation of its members. When two societies of equal size, F and M, merge, unhappiness in the merged society is shown to be higher than the sum of the levels of unhappiness in the constituent societies when apart; merger alone increases unhappiness. But when societies F and M merge and marriages are formed suc...

Palliative care needs in COPD patients with or without cancer: an epidemiological study.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a growing cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. However, many patients with severe COPD do not receive adequate palliative care. The main goals of our study were to identify the percentage of hospital patients with palliative care needs, particularly those who suffer from COPD.Data were collected prospectively from inpatients at the Universi...

The Inter-relationship of Adolescent Unhappiness and Parental Mental Distress.

PURPOSE Substantial evidence supports the hypothesis that parental well-being impacts upon child well-being and that this relationship is bidirectional. Here we explore how, in a large, nationally representative sample, both parents' mental distress relates over time to each other's mental distress and to their adolescent child's unhappiness, and vice versa. METHODS Analyses were conducted us...