The present study aimed to evaluate a path analytic model accounting for caregivers' psychological distress that takes into account perceived family cohesion and flexibility, expressed emotion and caregiver's burden associated with the presence of mental illness in the family. 50 first-episode and 50 chronic patients diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder (most recent episode manic se...

Background: Suicidal ideation, as a risk factor for psychopathology, has diverse psychological and social impairments. ideation perfectionism are closely related to self-criticism. Objectives: In the present study, we investigated how self-criticism mediated relationship between suicidal perfectionism. Methods: This descriptive study was performed on 300 students selected from University of Sci...

CONTEXT Generalized social phobia (GSP) is characterized by fear/avoidance of social situations. Previous studies have examined the neural responses in GSP to one class of social stimuli, facial expressions. However, studies have not examined the neural response in GSP to another equally important class of social stimuli, the communication of praise or criticism. OBJECTIVE To examine the neur...

This study examined whether, in a community sample of Israeli adults (N = 335), benign (i.e., affiliative and self-enhancing) and injurious (i.e., aggressive and self-defeating) humor styles mediated or moderated the relationship between self-criticism and neediness, two traits that confer vulnerability to depression, on the one hand, and levels of depressive symptoms, on the other. There was n...

Challenging an attitude toward fallibility in medical practice which they see as outdated and detrimental to patient care, the authors suggest a new approach to self-evaluation and peer review by physicians. Arguing that knowledge grows from recognition of error, they submit ten proposals aimed at the development of a new professional ethics that would encourage physicians to admit and analyze...

A questionnaire-based research project enquiring into the psychological health of general practice managers found that 5% of managers admitted to suicidal ideas. This paper explores the moral issues raised when research conducted at a distance uncovers information about participants which indicates that they may be at increased risk of harm. It examines whether the authors of such studies have ...

In the last number of tlie Journal of Psychological Medicine there is an article by Dr. W. A. F. Browne, a well known and much respected authority, on " Second-sight, or Deuteroscopia." To write a criticism, or commentary, on the article is no part of my present purpose. Indeed, fascinating as the subject is, I should not have been tempted to meddle with it at all but for one of the anecdotes r...

This article demonstrates that self-help programs are experiencing explosive growth; that psychologists are to be credited with a substantial body of research dating back to the 1970s; that this research demonstrates the potential of self-help programs; that some psychologists have failed to heed the results of studies by rushing to market with exaggerated product claims; and that the American ...