Frorn the Neonatal Division, Department of Pediatrics, ]awaharlal Institute of PostGraduate Medical Education and Research Pondicherry 605 006. Reprint requests: Dr. B. Vishnu Bhat, Professor of Pediatrics, Jawaharlal Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry 605 006. Received for publication: August 1,1995; Accepted: October 9,1995 anomalies is endless. The reporte...

1 Acknowledgements I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to my project guide, Dr Vishnu Priye. He gave me full freedom in pursuing new ideas, and provided a supportive and challenging environment to work in. I am thankful to Sri BSR Sastry, Head of my department, and various teachers who provided moral support and encouragement throughout the duration of the project. I am also indebted to...

This paper looks at healing performances as ethnographic expressions of local knowledge and culture embedded within the Malay psyche and gemeinschaft. As society develops and progresses, these healing performances are caught within conflicting trajectories which become compounded by the contestations of tradition, religious concerns, locality and modernity. As exemplifications of the Malay etho...

Traditionally, ritual has been studied from broad sociocultural perspectives, with little consideration of the psychological processes at play. Recently, however, psychologists have begun turning their attention to the study of ritual, uncovering the causal mechanisms driving this universal aspect of human behavior. With growing interest in the psychology of ritual, the current paper provides a...

OBJECTIVES Despite the important role of doubt in understanding obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), current cognitive models of OCD usually do not separate this initial doubt from the anticipated consequence of not ritualizing. The current study evaluates belief in the obsessional doubt as a real probability as an additional cognitive dimension of obsessive-compulsive (OC) beliefs. METHODS O...