thousands of lives, and funds currently spent on intervention and relief could be devoted to enhancing equitable and sustainable development, which would further reduce the risk of war and disaster. Recent resolutions endorsed by the World Health Assembly of WHO and the Regional Committee of the Eastern Mediterranean region also emphasise preparedness along with response and are the guiding for...

It appears that the present day Aboriginal situation is one of hopelessness and despair. There is every indication that there will be no positive trend towards the achievement of economic, social, and political self-determination. In fact, it seems that social and cultural disintegration continues to escalate despite successive attempts by countless white and black policy makers, reformers and ...

In this paper phenomenological descriptions of the experiential structures of suicidality and of self-determined behaviour are given; an understanding of the possible scopes and forms of lived self-determination in suicidal mental life is offered. Two possible limits of lived self-determination are described: suicide is always experienced as minimally self-determined, because it is the last act...

The high rate of suicides among parricidal offenders has important treatment implications. It suggests that the assessment and management of the risks of suicide and of interpersonal violence need to be conducted in an integrative fashion. It highlights the role of hopelessness and despair in parricidal acts and the need to target these for treatment, ideally by combining group and individual p...

The aim of this article is to show a phenomenological hermeneutic understanding of the experience of those who think of suicide. We begin this study by assuming an unnatural attitude towards the phenomenon, that is, by avoiding the interpretations that are naturally established about suicide, such as illness, suffering, and despair, among others. These characteristics attributed to the one who ...

This study explores the lived experience of losing a leg as described by the patients themselves post-discharge. Studies have documented that regardless of aetiology patients are faced with severe physical as well as psychosocial challenges post-amputation. However, only few studies explore in-depth the patients' perspective on the various challenges following the loss of a leg. The study uses ...

In the territory of violence and despair, hope is rare. Recent work on hope has shifted attention from hope as a feeling to hope as a practice that people can do together. This case report of a family exposed to domestic violence highlights the role played by a South African police officer in the mother's actions to separate from the context of violence. As a witness to the violence, the police...

general public. Contrary to common perception, your typical academic economist does not believe that only money matters, and self-interest is not equivalent to selfishness. People are as likely to be altruistic as venal, and in day-to-day life, they are probably more likely to exhibit kindness than viciousness. Yet it is always wise to bear in mind that self-interest, even of the more enlighten...

This event-related potential (ERP) study explored individual differences associated with gender and level of self-insight in early semantic processing. Forty-eight Chinese native speakers completed a semantic judgment task with three different categories of words: abstract neutral words (e.g., logic, effect), concrete neutral words (e.g., teapot, table), and emotion words (e.g., despair, guilt)...

The present paper explores the tragic vision reflected in the poet’s relationship with the fair young man in the Fair Youth group in Shakespeare’s Sonnets. It investigates into the cult of friendship in the Renaissance, and further analyzes Shakespeare’s attitude towards the true friendship. On the basis of the poet’s artistic criteria and his purpose of living, it also examines the causes of t...