Psychoanalysis and its derivatives are clinical and research endeavours attempting to do just what the word implies – make a psychological analysis of a particular problem whether it be that of an individual, a group, a family or other context. There is currently a revival of interest in the psychology of psychosis and in the talking therapies in psychosis including the involvement of relevant ...

In three studies (total N = 619), the authors tested an evolutionary hypothesis: Men are more bothered by sexual than emotional infidelity, whereas the reverse is true of women. More diverse samples (in age) and measures than is typical were used. In Study 1, the authors found across gender, sample, and method that sexual infidelity was associated with anger and blame, but emotional infidelity ...

The aim of the current study is to examine the influence of the victim's, perpetrator's, and participant's ethnicity on victim and perpetrator blame attributions. Additionally, comparisons between males and females and a community and student sample were made. Participants read a rape vignette in the form of a newspaper article and subsequently attributed victim and perpetrator blame. A 2 (vict...

OBJECTIVE To assess behavioral and characterological self-blame, identify demographic and relational correlates of self-blame, and determine the association of self-blame with psychological and clinical outcomes of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). METHODS Data were collected via self-report questionnaires completed by 398 individuals with COPD who had at least a 10 pack-year hist...

This article documents two programmatic comments regarding testing graph properties, which I made during the Dagstuhl workshop on Sublinear-Time Algorithms (July 2005). The first comment advocates paying more attention to the dependence of the tester’s complexity on the proximity parameter. The second comment advocates paying more attention to the question of testing general graphs (rather than...

If we categorize religions according to whether they give greater prominence to time or to space, the role of “promise” marks a religion of covenant as clearly a religion of time. Yet the future is unknowable and can only be present to us as a field of possibilities. How far do these possibilities extend? The question directs us back to the nature of time, a question that became concealed in th...

Introduction: This study aims to examine the role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies in the degree of depression, anxiety, and stress of coronary heart disease patients by using predictive correlation method.   Materials and Methods: In this research population consisted of all coronary heart disease patients who referred to Cardiovascular Specialized Hospital in Kermanshah city among...

Ontological modelling for machine inference has featured prominently in IT management research recently, but there is more immediate scope for knowledge modelling in the realm of human inference. This work discusses the relationship between ISO Standard Topic Maps and Promise Theory and shows how these two knowledge models models complement one another and offer a semantic approach to policy ba...

The question is: how has the system responded to the rigid rules and controls that have been imposed from the top? Did it improve the system, or did it produce gaming and compliance roleplaying? Have system leaders just blindly gone along with this whole "blame culture" that has been nurtured by Queen's Park to deflect blame from the inner circle of connected operators? Are there any leaders wh...