The author presents in this article an explanation for the beneficial psychic effects caused by the worship of Sri Chakra.

x Chapter 1 Psychic vs. Economic Barriers to Vaccine Take-up: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria 1 1.

BACKGROUND/AIM Analyses of suicide risk factors enable to undertake appropriate preventive measures within the Suicide Prevention Program in Military Environment, which was fully applied in 2003 in the Serbian Army Forces. The aim of our study was to identify the most important suicide risk factors in soldiers within the period from 1998 to 2007. METHODS Analysis of suicide risk factors was c...

Advances in our understanding of the therapeutic action of psycho-analysis should be based on deeper insight into the psycho-analytic process. By 'psycho-analytic process' I mean the significant interactions between patient and analyst which ultimately lead to structural changes in the patient's personality. Today, after more than fifty years of psycho-analytic investigation and practice, we ar...

the associations between exposure to traumatic events and psychiatric disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder (ptsd), depression, and anxiety have been established. it is important that clinicians notice to this phenomenon and avoid from inappropriate interpretations and additional laboratory tests. here, a case of 45-year-old man with essential thrombocytosis developed after multiple p...

This paper evaluates the relative importance of psychic costs of vaccination compared to monetary costs through a field experiment that randomizes several factors affecting tetanus vaccine take-up among women in rural Nigeria. Although conventional wisdom highlights the relevance of psychic costs, we find no evidence that psychic costs limit vaccine take-up among women who visit clinics. The cl...

Within a clinical-theoretical framework focused on transference-countertransference dynamics, the authors reflect on role-reversal and on the reasons it has been neglected for a long time in literature. This primitive inter- and intra-psychic process, often at the forefront in our practice, will be discussed in its principal aspects (patient's unconscious identification with parents' psychic cu...