background: stress and anxiety are consideredto be one of the the most common and effective disorders in patients with breast cancer. there was aparadoxical relationship between stress and anxiety, with spiritual wellbeing in cancer patients, such as breast cancer, in the findings of studies from other countries. moreover, there was a lack of similar studies in iran.therefore, this led research...

Background and Objectives: Spiritual health is the newest dimension of health without which other dimensions of health cannot be optimally efficient. Pleasure is an extended state of mind that people experience as a positive or valuable need. It includes certain psychological states such as happiness, joy, ecstasy, and feeling of satisfaction. Our aim was to investigate the correlation between ...

purpose some major competitions (e.g. london olympics, 2012) are scheduled during the ramadan fasting month. little attention has been given to explore the archers’ performance related subjective experiences with a qualitative method. therefore, this study addressed individual archers’ subjective experiences within the framework of self-regulation during ramadan. methods eleven elite malaysian ...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to identify points of agreement and disagreements among general practitioners (GPs) in Denmark concerning how the existential dimension is understood, and when and how it is integrated in the GP-patient encounter. DESIGN A qualitative methodology with semi-structured focus group interviews was employed. SETTING General practice setting in Denmark. ...

How to cite this article: Louw, D.J., 2011, ‘Philosophical counselling: Towards a “new approach” in pastoral care and counselling?’, HTS Teologiese Studies/ Theological Studies 67(2), Art. #900, 7 pages. DOI: 10.4102/hts.v67i2.900 The practice of pastoral counselling was dominated for several decades by the Rogerian techniques of empathetic listening. To a large extent, healing was predominatel...

The ideal of patient centred medicine remains only partially realised. Within modern Western society, the highly individualistic culture and religious decline linked with medicine's reluctance to relinquish an outmoded form of scientific rationalism can act as reductive influences, stifling conceptual development. Some examples of the recent literature on communication skills in medicine are an...

Background: Spiritual is the most important dimension of existence in more than a third of the people and it has been at the center of their lives as strong force and so may have an influence on a person's Life satisfaction. As regards infertile women are at risk so much stress and anxiety, the purpose of this study was to investigation the relationship between spiritual health and Life sa...

This article explores Andrei Tarkovskii’s conception of truth in Solaris (1972) and Stalker (1979) as part of his wider philosophical project concerning knowledge. The director’s epistemological views form a core dimension of his life and aesthetic as he strives towards what he considers a higher, spiritual ‘idea of knowing’. In his search for this idealised notion of truth, Tarkovskii uses the...