T h e clinical spectrum of anxiety ranges from a normal experience to a psychopathological state. Anxious patients usually present with symptoms that can be divided into four major groups: 1. Subjective feeling 2. Cognitive disturbances 3. Behavioural changes, and 4. Somatic complaints Patients with anxiety experience loss of confidence in their daily activities with autonomic hyperactivity and...

Objective/Context: This article studies psychoanalysis in the 1910s and aims to understand impacts of Great War soldiers’ neurosis on psychoanalytic movement knowledge through Fifth International Psychoanalytic Congress 1918 Budapest. Methodology: In dialogue with cultural intellectual history, this paper investigates psychoanalytical spaces sociability, such as Psychoanalytical Association its...

The study was carried out on 84 patients of anxiety neurosis and 47 controls. Presumptive Stressful Life Events Scale (PSLES) of Singh et al. (1984) was utilized for eliciting life events experienced by patients and controls during life time and 6 months prior to the onset of illness by an open ended interview. The frequency and stress scores of total life event and different categories of life...

There are propositions constituting the content of fictions—sometimes of the utmost importance to understand them—which are not explicitly presented, but must somehow be inferred. This essay deals with what these inferences tell us about the nature of fiction. I will criticize three well-known proposals in the literature: those by David Lewis, Gregory Currie, and Kendall Walton.1 I advocate a p...

Thirty neurotic children and their parents seen consecutively at the C.G.C., Institute of Medical Sciences, Varanasi, were studied with the help of a structured interview schedule and were subjected to detailed psychiatric assessment. The results were compared with that of thirty normal children and their parents who were studied in a like manner. Hysteria was found to be the commonest type of ...