Die Autorin sichtet nach zwei Jahren Pandemie einige Ergebnisse der psychoanalytischen Literatur, in die Bedrohung durch COVID-19 untersucht und Herausforderungen für das analytische Paar diskutiert werden. Im ersten Teil geht es um Unheimliche, was Autoren dem COVID-19-Virus zuschreiben, zentriert auf Frage, ob Virus innewohnt, Freuds dialektischem Verständnis des Unheimlichen etwas Heimisches...

The government expects a handful of cases of Ebola virus disease in the UK over the next three months and it hopes, through screening at airports and other points of entry, to identify passengers coming from the affected region (there are no direct flights and fewer than 1000 arrived via flights from other European capitals in September) who could develop the disease once in the UK, even if the...

OBJECTIVE To determine the degree of blood pressure (BP) control in hypertensive diabetics and to study the types of antihypertensive agents used for BP control. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out on hypertensive diabetics followed in the outpatient clinic of King Abdul-Aziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from January 2000 to February 2001. Patient's age, se...

A substantial body of research on affective forecasting has found that people often overestimate the affective impact of future events. Levine, Lench, Kaplan, and Safer (2012) argued that whereas people may overestimate the duration of their emotional responses, they do not overestimate the initial intensity of these responses as much as previous research has suggested. We suggest that Levine e...

More women than men die annually from ischaemic heart disease (IHD) in the developed world. This represents a reversal of fortune from previous decades and places women firmly as the new majority now impacted. Notably, the adverse IHD gender gap is the widest in relatively young women, where myocardial infarction (MI) mortality is 2-fold higher in women under 50 years compared with age-matched ...