Cocaine dependence is a devastating disorder that is associated with a host of medical and psychosocial risks. This complex disorder is made up of distinct clinical components that are interwoven into a cycle of addiction (Figure 1). Cocaine activates ancient pleasure centers that dominate our thoughts, behaviors, and priorities, producing a pleasure-reinforced compulsion to use the drug. Repea...

An appreciable proportion of the general population have the irritable bowel syndrome but do not report it. Results of psychological assessments showed that outpatients with the syndrome and non-reporters of it were psychologically similar, but both groups showed more somatic distress than normal controls. Anxiety, depression, obsessive compulsion, and interpersonal sensitivity were similar in ...

In samples of Kuwaiti (n=460) and American (n=273) college students, the Reynolds Suicide Ideation Questionnaire (SIQ) proved to have good internal consistency and concurrent validity with measures of anxiety, optimism, pessimism, death obsession, obsession-compulsion, and ego-grasping. The SIQ was factorially complex in both samples, but the eight critical items showed a similar two-factor pat...

At its original appearance (which was at the end of 1914) the title of this paper ran: 'Weitere Ratsch1age zur Technik der Psychoanalyse (II): Erinnern, Wiederholen und Durcharbeiten.' The title of the English translation of 1924, quoted above, is a rendering of this. From 1924 onwards the German editions adopted the shorter title. This paper is noteworthy, apart from its technical interest, fo...

"I have no use for thoughts and ideas, such as those described in this lecture, until experiments turn them into fact; and my only excuse for such an account of ideas is a compelling desire to initiate experiments to answer the questions I have suggested. You will agree that the mysteries of the lymphatic system fall in well with such a compulsion, and if some of you have been infected by its p...

Companies protecting the interest of stakeholders in social performance and there is compulsion on these companies to report their responsible activities practices for getting support from public. Some organizations Kerala published websites also. These type initiatives will boost market. This study focused studying association between CSR based companies. Here, multiple regression correlation ...

INTRODUCTION Major depressive disorder (MDD) is the most frequent comorbid psychiatric condition associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of current depression in OCD, differences in socio-demographic and clinical characteristics, and obsessive-compulsive symptoms between OCD patients with and without depression. Additionally, factors asso...