There is extensive psychological literature which has linked hopelessness with depression and suicide risk for decades. Although there is a strong research and clinical base for targeting depression, there is a gap in the psychological literature when it comes to targeting hopelessness, specifically. In the absence of such a body of psychological literature, this paper draws on the research fro...

Allen [Allen, M. (2005). The preservation of verb subcategory knowledge in a spoken language comprehension deficit. Brain and Language, 95, 255-264.] reports a single patient, WBN, who, during spoken language comprehension, is still able to access some of the syntactic properties of verbs despite being unable to access some of their semantic properties. Allen claims that these findings challeng...

A man was examined for a railway company because his disability had been ascribed to his employment. He had felt quite well and had been able to perform his work as an electrician until three months before he was examined, when he was suddenly struck down in the course of his routine work by an attack of left-sided weakness. Physical examination proved that this was due to cerebral embolism sec...

“Joey, when we began our work with him,” wrote psychiatrist Bruno Bettelheim in 1959, “was a mechanical boy.” Thus began a Scientific American article that is widely regarded as one of the first accounts of autism in popular American media. Bettelheim’s provocative narrative described a delicate 9-year-old boy with an empty gaze who, Bettelheim claimed, had “converted himself into a ‘machine’ b...

This is a case of a 22-year-old Hispanic male with a history of bipolar disorder and methamphetamine dependence who was admitted after presenting with suicidal ideations by slashing his throat with a machete. The patient had been smoking and inhaling "processed" pyrethroid for about eight weeks as an inexpensive methamphetamine substitute. He reported experiencing a "rush" similar to methamphet...

The novelist Charlotte Brontë and the historian E.P. Thompson both claimed that Yorkshire Luddites of 1810s were Antinomians, descendants seventeenth-century radical Christian sects who claimed, as Christ’s elect, they not bound by (moral) law. This article follows a thread links Thompson’s Making English Working Class (in which he made this claim) with his later study William Blake, Witness ag...

Houshang Golshiri is among the Iranian leading creative and imaginative fiction writers who managed to open up new horizons in Iranian fiction. Hence he could be claimed to be an innovative avant-garde short story writer with unique stylistic characteristics. Although inspired by fiction writers such as Alavi, Sadeqi, Golestan and Sa'edi in the techniques of narration, Golshiri nonetheless stan...

undoubtedly achamenids, as the greatest empire of ancient periods that tried to preserve its internal security and defend its frontiers, needed the help of their appointed governors who were usually elected from among achaemenid families. besoos, who was one of achaemenids, was appointed as a governor on east (bacteria). besoos dismissed and killed darius iii and claimed himself as the emperor ...

he main objective of the advertising discourse is to encourage its viewer or reader to buy goods. this dialogue contains several inductive functions, including inductive functions of action and tension. the function of the induced action is an action-induced origin, whereas the function of the inductive tension is induced by the action originated. thus, tension-induced functions can be claimed ...

bahram beizayi can be regarded as one of the few contemporary iranian writers with a specific style since 1960s. he is a person mostly recalled to be a director and playwright. however, a remarkable part of his activities which has not received the attention is his method of screen writing. it can be claimed that his screen plays have not yet been studied as well as his plays. the current resea...