A patient fulfilling the diagnostic criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus and presenting with morbid jealousy is described. There was evidence of cerebral lupus. Her physical and mental symptoms responded to a combination of chlorpromazine and steroids. The morbid mental process was probably caused by her physical condition while the content of her disordered thought and behaviour was deter...

benefitting higher perception and feeling than the public, poet and author usually react against abnormanities of community including political, social, economic and religious defects that might have seemed ambiguous and unfamiliar but unacceptable for many of people at his / her time and it might be also followed by some harsh and severe opposition toward him/ her. as it is likely that some gr...

A case is described of a patient who has a compelling and persistent desire to become deaf. She often kept cotton wool moistened with oil in her ears and was learning sign language. Living without sound appeared to be a severe form of avoidance behavior from hyperacusis and misophonia. She had a borderline personality disorder that was associated with a poor sense of self. Her desire to be deaf...

Imagine a forty-five-year-old woman who has been happily married for fifteen years presenting to her physician with complaints of infrequent sexual thoughts and fantasies. 1 After a history and physical examination, the physician diagnoses her as having low sexual desire. 2 But does she have an actual disease? A few decades ago, this woman would not have had a recognizable disease, and there wa...

409 E ighteen months after undergoing unrelated hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) for acute myelogenous leukemia, 28-year-old E.M. was experiencing sexual difficulties. For E.M. and her husband, sexual intimacy had been an integral part of their relationship. However, since the transplantation, on the few occasions that she and her husband had attempted to reinitiate sexual intimac...

We investigate children’s ability to use social display rules to infer agents’ otherwise under-determined desires. In Experiment 1, seven-to-ten-year-olds saw a protagonist express one emotional reaction to an event in front of her social partner (the Social Context), and a different expression behind her social partner’s back (the Nonsocial Context). Children were able to use the expression in...

PURPOSE The present study investigated the influence of peers' and family members' body shapes on the perception of body image and desire for thinness in Japanese female students. METHODS The study included 342 female, Japanese university students between the ages of 18 years and 22 years. They completed an anonymous questionnaire, which included questions related to anthropometry and body pe...