Cognitions held about hypnosis have an important impact on areas such as initial rapport and hypnotic-treatment compliance. The Valencia Scale on Attitudes and Beliefs toward Hypnosis may be the first instrument specifically geared to the Spanish-speaking population. Besides measuring these cognitions, the scale can also help evaluate the effect of clinical and experimental manipulations on peo...

CHARLES WEBSTER, From Paracelsus to Newton. Magic and the making of modern science, (The Eddington Memorial Lectures delivered at Cambridge University, November 1980), Cambridge University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xii, 107, illus., £12.50. Charles Webster has managed to put an astonishing amount of information into these four lectures, and without any loss of clarity or readability. There can be f...

CHARLES WEBSTER, From Paracelsus to Newton. Magic and the making of modern science, (The Eddington Memorial Lectures delivered at Cambridge University, November 1980), Cambridge University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xii, 107, illus., £12.50. Charles Webster has managed to put an astonishing amount of information into these four lectures, and without any loss of clarity or readability. There can be f...

The current paper presents literature relevant to the relationship of religiosity, spirituality, and personal beliefs with mental health and, in particular, anxiety disorders as an empirical narrative review, providing an overview on the most important and clinically relevant research results on the topic. The relationship between religiosity/spirituality, personal beliefs (ie, magical ideation...

Both of these books deal with folk medicine but whereas American folk medicine is a collection of 1973 conference papers edited by Professor Hand, Magical medicine is a collection of his own selected essays covering essentially the last decade. The basic tenet of both is that the idea of "medicine" is differentially interpreted and defined according to social, historical, religious, and cultura...

In this paper, a complete characterization of the (super) edge-magic linear forests with two components is provided. In the process of establishing this characterization, the super edge-magic, harmonious, sequential and felicitous properties of certain 2-regular graphs are investigated , and several results on super edge-magic and felicitous labelings of unions of cycles and paths are presented...