The importance of hope in the treatment of physical ills is well documented. Less is known about its role in the treatment of mental illness. Hope, the expectation of achieving a goal, figures prominently among the curative influences that help forensic patients recover. The cognitive processes that fuel violence and bring patients into our care often result in the loss of hope. Successful trea...

EACH YEAR since 1827, when the first address was given by Dr. James McDonnell, founder of the Hospital, a member of the staff has been invited to welcome the new students coming to the hospital for the first time. To-day it is my privilege, and I feel myself doubly honoured; firstly, because almost all my predecessors have been graduates of The Queen's University, the Royal University of Irelan...

Although mental illness often brings feelings of gloom and despair, sometimes a person classified as mentally ill feels supremely happy-the bliss of madness.

The first chapter, about the agenda of this study, relates to the widespread disillusionment regarding relationships in the NHS and their impact on health. When the project started in 1996, the authors were struck by the despair that pervaded the outlooks of many healthcare professionals and managers. This despair reached far beyond concerns about the implementation of ‘‘internal market’’ mecha...

no overwhelming worry about keeping to the Church's present teaching (mainly because my wife's inside works pretty well according to plan), but who on philosophical and theological grounds finds that teaching verging on the nonsensical. This position is certainly getting commoner. The Experience of Marriage is a report written by thirteen anonymous Catholic American couples on the state of thei...

OBJECTIVE To identify the health beliefs, attitudes, practices, and social and family relations important in heart failure treatment among Pacific Islanders. METHODS Four focus groups were convened with 36 Native Hawaiians and Samoans with heart failure and their family caregivers. Thematic data analysis was used to categorize data into four domains: health beliefs and attitudes, preferred he...

Musicians tend to strive for flawless performance and perfection, avoiding errors at all costs. Dealing with errors while practicing or performing is often frustrating and can lead to anger and despair, which can explain musicians' generally negative attitude toward errors and the tendency to aim for flawless learning in instrumental music education. But even the best performances are rarely er...

The concept of Typus Melancholicus (TM) was shaped by Tellenbach to describe the premorbid and intermorbid personality vulnerable to endogenous depression. The first part of this paper aims to point out the basic principles of Tellenbach’s theory – the method, the concept of endon, of rhythmic, of situation, of rimanence, of includence and of despair. Then, we present a systematic description o...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com in some cases. The timeline of psychology graciously marks these theoretical revelations as these theorists devoted their lives to the study of human behavior. Each of these theorists had their own beliefs concerning the behavior of our species, including the why, when, how, and under what circumstances gives rise to a particular behavior. Because o...

Different interpretations of an apparent temporal pattern to the experience of regret were addressed through joint research. T. Gilovich and V. H. Medvec (1995a) argued that people regret actions more in the short term and inactions more in the long run because the sting of regrettable action diminishes relatively quickly, whereas the pain of regrettable inaction lingers longer. D. Kahneman (19...