The 2010 novel Enlèvement avec rançon by Yves Ravey is, perhaps unwittingly, a case study in obsessional neurosis. In this concise work, the reader is guided through twists and turns of crime committed narrator, Max, who has recruited his older brother to assist him kidnapping daughter boss at sheet-metal business where he an accountant. Despite its resemblance novel, narrative focussed primari...

Numerous African American families have struggled for generations with persistent poverty, especially in the inner city. These conditions were further strained during the 1980s and 1990s by the widespread use of crack cocaine. For many, crack use became an obsession, dominated their lives, and superseded family responsibilities. This behavior placed additional pressure on already stressed kin s...

This Eurocentric view fails to take into account the work of the Chinese alchemists, who also developed methods for manipulating minerals and altering the state of substances. Like western alchemists, the Chinese were obsessed with creating gold but, rather than creating gold for wealth, their obsession was with creating gold of the utmost purity for creating an elixir of life and a way to achi...

Multiple social science fields, including Information Systems (IS), share a desire to make sense of the how humans, technology and information can be organized to support desired modes of behavior. Over the past three decades IS has tended to import reference theories. More recently there has been increased effort to obtain legitimacy by creating ‘native’ IS theories. While some decry the obses...

We assessed the effectiveness of using objects of obsession as token reinforcers to increase task performance for children with autism. The use of obsessions as tokens (e.g., letter "A", a picture of a train) was compared with the use of typical tokens (e.g., stars, happy faces). A multiple baseline design across children with a reversal within child was used. Data were collected on percentage ...

N eating disorder exposed in cyberspace is a tale of two cultures. One culture embodies a beauty myth, a fatal obsession with food and psychological distress (Wolf, 2002, pp. 9– 19); the other encompasses a boundless digital space, an electronic frontier that lures with its promise of a new world, abundant freedom, and transcendence of a limited physical space. Both cultural worlds have embedde...