Religious and spiritual (R/S) dimensions of mental health have been poorly studied in psychiatry in the last 150 years. In the late 19th century, Jean Charcot and Sigmund Freud began to associate religion with hysteria and neurosis, and therby interpreting this social phenomenon als psychopathology. This began a deep divide that would separate religion from mental health care for the next centu...

by its academic-aristocratic approach at the beginning, and the mere artistic vision of art afterwards, beaux arts had become the cottage of hopes and dreams for art-lovers and artists from iran and all around the world. accordingly, iran, like many other countries, has had consecutive associations and interactions with these schools, especially beaux-arts school, in qualitative and quantitativ...

by its academic-aristocratic approach at the beginning, and the mere artistic vision of art afterwards, beaux arts had become the cottage of hopes and dreams for art-lovers and artists from iran and all around the world. accordingly, iran, like many other countries, has had consecutive associations and interactions with these schools, especially beaux-arts school, in qualitative and quantitativ...

during the history of iran after islam, the 9th /13th century, coinciding with the timurids reign in this land, can be considered as the thriving age of various branches of art such as painting, architecture, illumination, book ornament, and music. similarly, the prevalence and development of scripts such as nasta‘līq and ta‘līq in calligraphy, besides flourishing this art, caused it to establi...

the present paper studies the introduction of atlal in two imra’ ul-qais and zuhayr bin abī sūlmā works of art. selection of these two poets has some reasons; one of them is that each opposes the other; while imra’ ul-qais is a bon vivant man but zuhayr is a god – fearing one. they both experience different conditions of life. the importance of this issue is their interactions with women which ...

This paper describes the concept, creative process and development decisions regarding an interactive art installation that materializes a point of view on the conflict between the notions of ‘sacred’ and ‘profane’ in a particular Portuguese religious festival. The initiative, besides constituting an experiment on the usage of a physical pendulum as control method, aimed to combine three main d...