Pyromania has been associated with abnormalities of impulsivity, social estrangement, cognitive flexibility, and executive function. We aim to investigate whether psychopharmacological interventions increase cognitive test performance and decrease frequency of serious clinical incidents during inpatient admission for pyromania. This is a case study of a 20-year-old homeless male who met DSM-IV ...

BACKGROUND Individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) may experience a qualitatively distinct depression which includes "mental pain." Mental pain includes chronic, aversive emotions, negative self-concept, and a sense of pervasive helplessness. The present study investigated whether mental pain is elevated in BPD compared to Depressive Disorders (DD) without BPD. METHODS The Orba...

This paper takes a constitutivist approach to self-deception, and argues that this phenomenon should be evaluated under several dimensions of rationality. The constitutivist approach has the merit of explaining the selective nature of self-deception as well as its being subject to moral sanction. Self-deception is a pragmatic strategy for maintaining the stability of the self, hence continuous ...

The study investigates nugatory struggle of the individuals in fiction Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian. novel is an elaboration what real life has to offer this world. A man being with ability make a choice and he freely decides about his life. irony freedom that no other one can be blamed for actions, committed individual. burden free responsible decisions leads towards condition, we call existe...

This article explores the relationship between modern populist movements in America and administrative law by analyzing how features of current contribute to or anti-establishment political movements. The argues that law, like notice comment “hard look” review, have been interpreted through lens a liberal rationalist theory is skeptical democratic control regulatory policy, thereby excludes gen...

From September to November 2015, more than 100,000 people applied for asylum in Sweden. Societal solidarity was unmistakable during this period, but six months later, when the refugees were be accommodated, situation had changed. In analysis of imaginaries migrants as strangers I scrutinize city Gothenburg's plan build 1,000 temporary housing units accommodate refugees. The project failed, resu...

This work investigates my family’s long-held secrets that concealed the whereabouts of grandmother. After years estrangement, father discovered Ada living in a mental hospital. Memories are rarely straightforward and could only take us so far understanding why remained missing from our family for long. My search answers involved genealogical research led me to access Ada’s patient files. rich d...

ACCESSIBLE SUMMARY Homeless persons are known to be highly vulnerable to psychological trauma, in events triggering periods of homelessness and the considerable social isolation and adversity suffered when homeless. This study provides an account of how mental health support work is experienced by homeless service users when it is informed by a person-centred, non-directive approach and impleme...

This essay explores the ways in which boundaries of estrangement are produced in the academic literature assigned for courses on interculturality. As the existence of interculturality is dependent on the ascription of content to culture – since the notion, by definition, always involves more than one singular culture – this essay seeks to provide an answer to the question of what this literatur...