Søren Ventegodt, MD, MMedSci, EU-MScCAM, Niels Jørgen Andersen, MSc, Isack Kandel, MA, PhD and Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark; Research Clinic for Holistic Medicine; Nordic School of Holistic Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark; Scandinavian Foundation for Holistic Medicine, Sandvika, Norway; Interuniversity College, Graz, Austria; Faculty of Soci...

This note reexamines the single-profile approach to social-choice theory. If an alternative is interpreted as a social state of affairs or a history of the world, it can be argued that a multi-profile approach is inappropriate because the information profile is determined by the set of alternatives. However, single-profile approaches are criticized because of the limitations they impose on the ...

This case study details how hypnosis aided fixed role therapy (HAFRT) was employed in the successful treatment of a case of social phobia with a history of refractory outcomes to previous therapy trials. The treatment consisted of 10 office sessions, scheduled every two weeks, of HAFRT along with twice a day self-hypnotic sessions where the patient performed multiple visualization rehearsals of...

Tyge Dahl Hermansen, Søren Ventegodt, Isack Kandel and Joav Merrick Quality of Life Research Center, Classensgade 11C, 1 sal, DK-2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark Research Clinic for Holistic Medicine and Nordic School of Holistic Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark; Scandinavian Foundation for Holistic Medicine, Sandvika, Norway; Interuniversity College, Graz, Austria; 6 Faculty of Social Sciences, Departm...


 Political theorists have invested significant effort in studying the attributes of desirable social-moral states affairs. Schaefer (forthcoming) aims to show that “static political theory” this kind rests on shaky foundations. His argument revolves around an application abstruse mathematical theorem — Kakutani’s fixed point domain. We has misunderstood implications for theory. Theorists ...

BACKGROUND One of the national mortality databases in the U.S. is the Beneficiary Identification and Record Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File that contains death dates of those who have received any benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The completeness of this database was shown to vary widely from cohort to cohort in previous studies. Three other sources of death dates are...