The subject of this study is the mind and behavior of a man, portrayed as a blind photographer in his characterization in the Australian film, "Proof". The hero, Martin, in the Australian movie Proof, paradoxically is searching for proof that his mother lied to him a belief that he is compelled to hold on to and

The frequency of some episodic psychic symptoms (dysmnesic, perceptual, and experiential) was determined in a 2,500-subject general population sample. Correlations with some risk factors eventually associated with nervous system dysfunctions (seizure history, head injury, car accident, hospitalization, febrile illness, and birth injury) were calculated. Subjects with one or several risk factors...

Mental process imply a harmonious functioning of psychic systems, assembled into larger units, psychic spheres (Table 1). Their neurophysiological representatives are brain systems of areas and pathways (Figs 1-4). Under functional and/or organic disturbances these systems originate the leading mental symptoms (Table 2) characterizing the diverse endogenous psychoses: hence, the latter's distin...

Existing estimates of rates of return on single art objects and whole collections are surveyed and critically evaluated. The psychic benefits from art are, in the few cases they are considered at all, derived from the difference to financial returns on other markets. This paper discusses determinants of psychic benefits and suggests rental fees and willingness to pay studies as a possible way t...

The aim of the current study was to investigate the perceived psychic distance of potentialtourists in relation to Iran as a tourism destination. The concept of psychic distance refersto perceived similarities/ differences between specific destination and tourist's homecountry. The members of couch-surfing virtual community participated in this study. Thestatistical data were collected by conve...

Three patients showed dramatic psychic akinesia after recovery from toxic encephalopathy. They had no or only mild motor disorders. The spontaneous psychic akinesia was reversible when the patient was stimulated, as if there was a loss of self psychic activation. Intellectual capacities were normal. Two patients had stereotyped behaviours resembling compulsions. In all patients CT cans showed b...

Analysis of a 1964 national survey reveals that residents of the South display a much higher level of anti-black prejudice than residents of the Nonsouth, but the regions differ only slightly on measures of anti-Semitism and anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant prejudice and on certain psychological measures--authoritarianism, anomia, and psychic inadequacy. This pattern persists even after introdu...

OBJECTIVE to analyze the health indicators of workers of hospital area for exposure to workloads, wear processes and its consequences. METHOD a retrospective, descriptive and exploratory study performed in a hospital in southern Brazil. The population consisted of 1,050 workers notifications of registered in the Monitoring System of Nursing Workers Health, in 2011. RESULTS 80.8% of the reco...