Objectives Existing studies in the Eriksonian tradition found that ego integrity and despair are important indicators of life-span development. The present study relates ego integrity and despair to contemporary theories of personality and mental health. Method A cross-sectional study of Dutch adults aged between 50 and 95 years (N = 218) was carried out, using the Northwestern Ego Integrity ...

PURPOSE Individuals rely upon many types of information to manage an illness, including information provided by their own bodies. This study investigated how people tune into and manage the flow of information from their bodies to manage their health. METHOD We developed a platform for participants to share and collaboratively reflect on how they engaged in this dialogic process, in which par...

Citation: Schimmenti A (2015) Behind the closed doors of mentalizing. A commentary on " Another step closer to measuring the ghosts in the nursery: preliminary validation of the Trauma Reflective Functioning Scale. " Front. Psychol. 6:380. A commentary on Another step closer to measuring the ghosts in the nursery: preliminary validation of the trauma reflective functioning scale In his Clinical...

BEALE, E. A., and SIVESIND, D. (2004) Parents dying of cancer and their children. Palliative & Supportive Care, vol.2, no.4, p403-408. (The authors reviewed their experience with 28 consecutive children referred for assessment and intervention. These were the children of patients with terminal cancer referred to the Palliative Care and Symptom Control Service. In all cases the dying parent was ...

Is there anything more desolate than the death of a loved one? What comes near to describing the pit of grief and the wretchedness of despair? How to describe the indescribable. How to put into words the abject misery of it all? Perhaps Auden's poem comes close. How to deal with the symbols that are left behind: the toothbrush, still in the rack; the coat hanging by the kitchen door; the unfini...

When a person is diagnosed with a severe disease, it seems plausible that existential questions and death anxiety are easily intensified. The aims of this study were to explore whether this is the case, to what extent patients and their next of kin experience death anxiety, and how these experiences are expressed. Following a purposive sampling technique, 20 patients with brain tumours and 15 o...

From a historical point of view, medicine (in modem society) has set its mission as to cure diseases--medical-type issues--and to ignore patient's condition--illness endurance. By accepting this point of view with reference to their problem, patients have entered some sort of conspiracy of silence and started ignoring the emotional reaction to their medical problems (or to cancel these reaction...

One of the fundamental assumptions of futures studies is that the future is not out there to be discovered or unfolded but can be created by people's intentions and actions. While intentions and actions of those who are currently leading the society are definitely significant, equally important are those of young generations who will create the much longer part of the future. There have been ma...

The present research work deals with the synthesis, characterization and to evaluate the synthesized compound for antidepressant activity of a series of coumarin derivatives. Basic coumarin is prepared by Perkin reaction, which further reacted with aryl thiourea by cyclization reaction leads to produce 3-(2-(phenylaminothiazol-4-yl)-2H-chromen-2-one. Totally twelve compounds, were synthesized b...

BACKGROUND The aim of the current study is to determine the effects of caregiving on bereavement outcome. The study will address two important gaps in the research literature: (1) the relationship between pre-death distress and post-death outcomes and (2) family caregivers' anticipation and preparation of the death of the person for whom they care. METHODS/DESIGN We will conduct a longitudina...