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Mortality from diseases of the cardiovascular system has been at the forefront throughout the world for more than 20 years, and especially during the recent years. More than 16% of all deaths are due to these diseases. So, in Russia – this is the most common cause of death, which accounts for 47% of all lethal outcomes, more than 900 thousand people died from these diseases. Out of all cardiovascular diseases, a larger proportion falls on coronary heart disease and arterial hypertension with its complications – myocardial infarctions and strokes. Among psychosomatic disorders, cardiovascular diseases are the most common. Moreover, mainly people who tend to constantly experience tension and negative emotions suffer from them. In “optimistic” people, these disorders are much less common. In the literature, two polar beliefs regarding psychosomatics can be found. Some believe that many health problems are associated with mental disorders, while the majority are sure that no negative emotions can be the cause of physical disorders in the human body.

Encounters with interior spaces are influenced by past experiences and state of mind. Much of how architecture is experienced therefore is not readily apparent and is sensed rather than seen. Psyche impacts this experience of lived space, from an individual’s awareness of themselves within it, to the perception of space itself. Film offers a distinctive representation of this subjective experience through its narrative form and command of visual, audio and temporal language. The emotive and visceral power of film render it an accessible and immersive medium, and as such make it uniquely placed to communicate less tangible qualities of space and character. This paper analyses the use of interior space in the film Joker (Todd Phillips, 2019). The acutely intimate discernment of the protagonist’s interior environment is the result of environmental and psychological disruption, where boundaries break down between the real and imaginary, and the surreal intrudes upon the tangible depiction of the interior. The exposition of the character’s damaged psyche within space is analysed at key points within the narrative, using collage as an exploratory, visual methodology to analyse and experiment with, to potentially reveal the less perceivable, yet invasive intangible layers of lived space. This article addresses the frequent oversight of psychological qualities of the interior in architectural discourse, through an analytical and experimental method rendering the psychological content of space visible. Defining this intangible nature of architecture as the psychosphere (or the psychological atmosphere), I term this technique the ‘psychospheric collage method’. The process consists of interrogating expressive film language and content through an architectural lens documented through sketching, storyboarding and textual enquiry. From these fragmented components I compose a new visual language capable of signifying the layered psychological atmosphere in which a character resides, thus facilitating its consideration within architectural design and enabling articulation of our intimate encounter with the interior.

This paper proposes a new approach to the concept of psychopoetics, i.e., the psychological treatment of poetical writing based on its relationship with the psyche on the one hand, and the world on the other. This approach discerns an allegorical relation between the cosmos and the soul, which goes back to Freud’s idea that the soul treats impressions from the outside as differences from a symbolic relation between the universe and the psyche. This method was developed by Jung in order to look for correspondences between the inside of the human being and the context. Symbolical psychopoetics is exemplified with Vera Pavlova’s 2018 anthology of poetry and prose Proverochnoe slovo (Control Word). The anthology consists of poetical cycles and prose passages, which in different ways imagine the relation between the soul and the world.

Introduction. This paper considers madness as a metahistorical category of culture as well as an excluded language in Western European culture that exists despite the language code. To determine the status of madness in the contemporary philosophy the author analyses the way it functions in the discourse of “the other”. Theoretical analysis. The exclusion of madness from the context of philosophical research occurred due to such various markers changing from era to era as a lie, delusion, nonsense, buff oonery, and fi nally the dysfunction of the mind completed by Pinel’s reform. The defi nition of madness as a forbidden language comes from two theses: 1) mental disorders result from biological, not socio-psychological problems; 2) madness and a mental disorder are not two diff erent confi gurations, they have organic nature that is to be neutralized in terms of pharmacology and defi ned in terms of behavioral deviations, and that excludes subjective and nonphysical suff ering. Conclusion. The research relevance is obvious because modern aesthetics and philosophy with the cultural model of insanity as a core concept need further elaborating. The duality of the subject of psychiatry concerning the human personality implies that this component must be taken into account apart from exclusively natural-scientifi c studies.

Spinoza regarded life as an active play of affects, and human freedom as the taming of passions by means of the concepts of reason. Following him, Lev Vygotsky treats affect as the alpha and omega of mental development. The key theme of Vygotsky’s last manuscripts is the same as in Spinoza’s Ethics: man’s path to freedom via the reasonable mastery of his affects. Vygotsky defines freedom as the affect in the concept; in the last years of his life, he investigates the processes of synthesis of emotional and intellectual forms in a child’s psychical development. Following Spinoza, Vygotsky defines affect as a dynamogenic state of the body, increasing or decreasing its capacity for action. Thus, affect acts as the intrinsic driving force behind the behaviour of all living beings. In the Spinozist view, psychology is the science about production of affects in the process of objectoriented activity and about exchange of affects in the process of communication of living beings. Vygotsky did not have time to carry out his project of the new psychology of man, and his successors refused or failed to continue this work. Aleksey Leontiev, Vygotsky’s closest disciple and associate, denounced his turn to Spinoza and returned to the phenomenological treatment of affect as a form of experiencing activity. As a consequence, Vygotsky’s problem of the relation between affect and intellect proved to be unsolvable. The philosopher Evald Ilyenkov, who adhered to the Vygotsky school, linked the beginning of psychical activity to the formation of images of the external world, losing sight of affect and, thus, of the problem of freedom as understood by Spinoza. Resuming of L. S. Vygotsky’s height psychology project and studying the evolution of the psyche, based on the concept of freedom as the active mastery of human affects and communication relationships, form two growth points of cultural-historical psychology.

In our dialogues over the nature of archetypes, essence, psyche, and world, I further respond to Erik Goodwyn's recent foray into establishing an ontological position that not only answers to the mind-body problem, but further locates the source of Psyche on a cosmic plane. His impressive attempt to launch a neo-Jungian metaphysics is based on the principle of cosmic panpsychism that bridges both the internal parameters of archetypal process and their emergence in consciousness and the external world conditioned by a psychic universe. Here I explore the ontology of experience, mind, matter, metaphysical realism, and critique Goodwyn's turn to Neoplatonism. The result is a potentially compatible theory of mind and reality that grounds archetypal theory in onto-phenomenology, metaphysics, and bioscience, hence facilitating new directions in analytical psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author finds immigration adds complexity to the individuation process. She reflects on how her family's history, as well as Japan's trials after World War II, had an impact on her desire to come to the United States. The author also contrasts herself with her mother who struggled with Japanese traditions and social restrictions including trauma from World War II. Jung said home is an inner and outer space to celebrate the mysteries of life and spirit. After many years of inner struggles, the author finds a home where she can embrace both cultures in her own unique ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The NASA Psyche mission will explore the structure, composition, and other properties of asteroid (16) Psyche to test hypotheses about its formation. Variations in radar reflectivity, density, thermal inertia, and visible to near‐infrared (VNIR) reflectance spectra of Psyche suggest a highly metallic composition with mafic silicate minerals (e.g., pyroxene) heterogeneously distributed on the surface in low abundance (<10 vol.%). The Psyche spacecraft's Multispectral Imager is designed to map ≥80% of the surface at high spatial resolution (≤20 m/pixel) through a panchromatic filter and provide compositional information for about ≥80% of the surface using seven narrowband filters at VNIR wavelengths (∼400–1,100 nm) and at spatial scales of ≤500 m/pixel. We analyzed 359 reflectance spectra from samples consistent with current uncertainties in Psyche's composition and compared them to published reflectance spectra of the asteroid using a chi‐square test for goodness of fit. The best matches for Psyche include iron meteorite powder, powders from the sulfide minerals troilite and pentlandite, and powder from the CH/CBb chondrite Isheyevo. Comparison of absorption features support the interpretation that Psyche's surface is a metal‐silicate mixture, although the exact abundance and chemistry of the silicate component remains poorly constrained. We convolve our spectra to the Imager's spectral throughput to demonstrate preliminary strategies for mapping the surface composition of the asteroid using filter ratios and reconstructed band parameters. Our results provide predictions of the kinds of surface compositional information that the Psyche mission could reveal on the solar system's largest M‐type asteroid. Plain Language Summary: Current observations of the asteroid (16) Psyche suggest it to be metal‐rich, but not entirely made of metal. We compared reflected light from a wide variety of Psyche‐relevant materials to measurements of reflected light from the asteroid. This analysis confirms that Psyche's composition could be less metal‐rich than previously thought. Other materials with reflectance properties similar to Psyche are metal‐rich carbonaceous chondrites and sulfide minerals. We show how an instrument on the Psyche spacecraft, which will study the asteroid in detail, can resolve some uncertainties about the surface composition of the asteroid. Key Points: Visible to near‐infrared spectra of (16) Psyche are consistent with meteorites (irons and metal‐rich chondrites) and sulfidesThe Psyche mission's Multispectral Imager can identify and potentially discriminate such materials if present on the surface of PsycheImager‐convolved data indicate that the instrument can accurately recover absorption band parameters in certain metal‐silicate mixtures [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Trauma studies are no doubt a burgeoning area of discourse that has captured the literary imagination of academic scholars for a few decades running. This study examines the complex relationship between socio-cultural influences and intimate personal relations portrayed in trauma fiction, such as Helon Habila's Oil on Water. Specifically, how do these depictions in Habila's fiction direct our awareness of the catastrophic effects of war, poverty, hostage-taking, and domestic abuse on the individual psyche? How do traumatised people respond? To what extent can we theorise trauma studies and ecocritical studies? How traumatised is the physical landscape portrayed in Habila's fiction? The study concludes by insisting that governments of nations and relevant international organisations owe the people the responsibility of intentionally committing to rearticulating and rehabilitating the social conditions, voices, and, indeed, the lives of marginalised people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The discussions on conceptualization, operationalization, measures, and means of well-being (WB) and personal excellence (PE) are dynamic and debatable. Therefore, this study aims to coin a perspective of PE based on the Patanjali Yoga Sūtra (PYS). For this, professional, psychological, philosophical, and yogic perspectives of WB and PE are analyzed to derive a viable yogic framework for PE. The WB and the consciousness-based constructs of PE are discussed in terms of psychic tensions (PTs) (nescience, egoism, attachment, aversion, and love for life), yogic hindrances (YHs) (illness, apathy, doubt, procrastination, laziness, over somatosensory indulgence, delusion, inability, and unstable progress), psychosomatic impairments (pain, despair, tremors, arrhythmic breath), and yogic aids (wellness, intrinsic motivation, faith, role punctuality, physical activity, sensory control, clarity, competence, and sustainable progress). The PYS operationalizes PE as the dynamic level of WB and self-awareness until one attains Dharmamegha Samādhi (super consciousness). Lastly, Ashtanga Yoga (AY) is discussed as a universal principle, process, and practice for thinning PTs, vanishing YHs, empowering holistic WB, awakening extrasensory potentials, advancing self-awareness, and PE. This study will be a pioneering base for further observational and interventional studies to develop measures and personalized protocols for PE.

Androgyny as the idea of unity and wholeness appears in the thought of Gaston Bachelard in the context of a poetic dream. It is in it, as we learn from “Poetics of Dreams”, that the reconciliation of anima and animus, female and male in one psyche takes place. The anima dream is called by the French philosopher the philosophy of androgynous existence, which shows us a double idealization of humanity. The anima and animus, confirming the androgyny of the psyche, are Self-moments. This dual nature of mental being is expressed through two antagonisms represented by the function of reality (adaptation to reality and social life) and the function of irreality (loneliness of dreams); supervised thought (criticism, censorship) and free dreaming (liking, acceptance, attachment); work (effort) and rest (relaxation); anxiety (project, anticipation) and peace (presence in oneself) - especially around the duality that crystallizes in the distinction between the scientific mind (l'esprit scientifique) under the sign of the animus (concepts, knowledge) and the poetic mind (l'esprit poetique) anima (images, communion of souls). Androgyny, understood as the integral life of the psyche, is for Bachelard perspective and valuable, and he identifies attempts to seek it with the question of the meaning of human existence. The study of the dream shows its fundamental importance for the balance of the psyche. The power of images understood in this way then creates the art of living. In this sense, Bachelard becomes a precursor of a new perspective in the field of reflection on the issue of the image - it turns out that the image is responsible for the relationship between man and the world.

Abstract The NASA Psyche mission will explore the structure, composition, and other properties of asteroid (16) Psyche to test hypotheses about its formation. Variations in radar reflectivity, density, thermal inertia, and visible to near‐infrared (VNIR) reflectance spectra of Psyche suggest a highly metallic composition with mafic silicate minerals (e.g., pyroxene) heterogeneously distributed on the surface in low abundance (

Encounters with interior spaces are influenced by past experiences and state of mind. Much of how architecture is experienced therefore is not readily apparent and is sensed rather than seen. Psyche impacts this experience of lived space, from an individual's awareness of themselves within it, to the perception of space itself. Film offers a distinctive representation of this subjective experience through its narrative form and command of visual, audio and temporal language. The emotive and visceral power of film render it an accessible and immersive medium, and as such make it uniquely placed to communicate less tangible qualities of space and character. This paper analyses the use of interior space in the film Joker (Todd Phillips, 2019). The acutely intimate discernment of the protagonist's interior environment is the result of environmental and psychological disruption, where boundaries break down between the real and imaginary, and the surreal intrudes upon the tangible depiction of the interior. The exposition of the character's damaged psyche within space is analysed at key points within the narrative, using collage as an exploratory, visual methodology to analyse and experiment with, to potentially reveal the less perceivable, yet invasive intangible layers of lived space. This article addresses the frequent oversight of psychological qualities of the interior in architectural discourse, through an analytical and experimental method rendering the psychological content of space visible. Defining this intangible nature of architecture as the psychosphere (or the psychological atmosphere), I term this technique the 'psychospheric collage method'. The process consists of interrogating expressive film language and content through an architectural lens documented through sketching, storyboarding and textual enquiry. From these fragmented components I compose a new visual language capable of signifying the layered psychological atmosphere in which a character resides, thus facilitating its consideration within architectural design and enabling articulation of our intimate encounter with the interior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on a historical ethnography of how Brazil's post-dictatorial psychiatric reforms have shaped young people's lives, this paper builds on Eve Sedgwick's analysis of the hermeneutics of suspicion to show that narrow applications of Foucault's biopower concept nurture forms of resistance to bio-reductionism centred primarily on epistemic deconstruction. To unsettle this hermeneutic, I put young people's theories of power into conversation with Georges Canguilhem's concept of the milieu and with feminist scholars' work on prefigurative politics. I introduce the concepts of threading and unthreading to consider how one subject of biopower, the child-like biobehavioural figure, was continuously being threaded within a specific milieu and in relation to another key figure: the elite angst-ridden 'storm-and-stress' adolescent. Young people's subsequent unthreading and reweaving politics, flourishing in co-construction with what I call the politicizing clinic, illustrate how decolonial pedagogies can incrementally change the patterning of social life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Great stories articulate the movement of the individual and collective psyche and withstand the tests of time, location, cultural and gender distinctions. Through the study of myth, we recognize our shared humanity and the particularities that inform a life. As a depth psychotherapist, I come to archetypal stories with expectancy, hoping to re-cognize myself and my clients within the action of the other. The Biblical story of Jacob and Esau (Genesis 25-35) offers the scholar boundless opportunity for theological, ethical and historical analysis. However, this story of familial relationships requires of me a different kind of telling. This essay is intended not as a scholarly examination of a myth, but rather as a mythic exploration of self. Using Jacob as my guide, I will explore how the archetypal movements of longing, envy and love; deception, separation and reconciliation inform and reveal underlying themes within my life story, and in particular, how my relationship with my father determined much of the course of my life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The partition of India is a highly painful event whose memories have had haunted the psyche of many creative writers. The British India was divided on religious lines. Really it was a rash, hasty move by the colonial rulers who had not bothered on the proper execution of partitioning the land. As the result, the communal tensions ran high; the brothers of yesterday became today's foes; the gory event of partition has been sensitively articulated by BishamSahni in his novel, Tamas. The novel offers a near-impartial portrayal of the events and times of Partition. The present article attempts a study of communal issues which rocked the Indian subcontinent during the Partition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chudamani is one of the inconspicuous writers in Indian literature who is gradually gaining prominence in the recent past. Chudamani's works are powerful and sensitive unveiling the reality of human beings in society and their psychological aspects. This research article aims to analyse a novella and three short stories of R. Chudamani and inquires about the human emotions especially fear portrayed in those stories. The major focus of the article is on the novella, Yamini, and the minor focus is on the three short stories: "A Knock at the Door", "The Strands of the Void" and "Drought". Yamini is the story of a girl Yamini, who is forced into the institution of marriage. "A Knock at the Door" is the narrative of two widows who safeguard their sister's son from his father. "The Strands of the Void" explores the system of dowry in Indian society. "Drought" is the story of a married woman who tries to escape from the torments of her husband. This paper also scrutinizes the fear in the protagonists and the central characters in the above works. It also inspects how fear transmogrifies the characters in different situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This review summarizes the aetiology, the species and the prevalence of pathoethological processes of psychic nature in sheltered dogs. The analysis was performed on the mandatory necessity of establishing the type of the dog’s temperament, in relation to the owners’ proper approach towards the specific animal, as well as its successful primary and secondary socialisation. A neurotic dog may exhibit chronic anxiety, fear, hyperactivity, obsessive behaviour, and inappropriate responses to stimuli. Truly psychotic dogs, however, are deranged. Their behaviour is acute and unpredictable.

In 1963, a children’s home for the deaf-mute was founded in Zagorsk, near Moscow. Alexander Meshcheryakov, the head of the laboratory at the Institute of Defectology of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, became its supervisor. Four years later, Evald Ilyenkov joined the experiment. The archival text “On the work of Meshcheryakov”, published now for the first time, was presented at the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences in February 1973. In this paper, Ilyenkov briefly formulates his conception of psychical image as condensing of a temporal process of activity into a spatial form of object, and suggests a number of deep thoughts on connection of the psyche and language, sign and meaning, word and action, taking his stand on the data of the Zagorsk experiment. The process of image formation is demonstrated by the case “Julia and the ravine”. After a walk along the ravine, a deaf-blind girl was able to mould the contour of the ravine from plasticine. Without seeing the ravine, she reproduced the trajectory of her body’s motion as some spatial object. The formation of language in deaf-blind persons begins with gesture speech, which is gradually transformed into verbal speech — first in its dactyl, then written and, finally, sound form. The experimental study of this transformation helps to solve the question of how speech and language are connected to objective reality.

The current paper aims to provide the venue to the spiritual insights of Ghazalian thought to be integrated into the study of Freudian psychoanalysis. The study has adopted descriptive and analytical approach to make a comparative analysis of Ghazalian concept of nafs e lawwamma and Freudian superego. Zepetnek’s (1998) theory of comparative literature has provided the guidelines for an in depth analysis of both the models. This analytical approach may lead to an alternative critical agenda for the better understanding of human psyche. Moreover, the present study emanates from the assumption that though Freudian psychoanalytic theory has provided insightful psychological considerations, equally appropriate readings will possibly result from analyzing Ghazalian theory of soul. Simultaneously, it is also hoped that the insights yielded by this research study may open new panoramas for the study of human nature.

Henri Le Saux is one of the great Christian mystics of the twentieth century and a pioneer of dialogue with Hinduism. For the French Benedictine, co-founder of the first Catholic ashram, the grace of India lies in its message of interiority, which is Within. No awakening to God without awakening to oneself. We propose to grasp the way in which he understands the psyche, as well as the contribution of India from which it has benefited. To this end, we adopt a three-phase development that provides information on the origin of his understanding of the psyche, its development and the articulation of its main constituing elements that constitute it. First, this understanding is based on the monk’s relationship to the ‘living God’ in reference to the experience of non-duality (advaita); second, it unfolds in a process of self-knowledge and through the challenge of a certain self-understanding; third, it is articulated according to a Trinitarian approach of the soul between consciousness and unconsciousness. We conclude with some features of India’s image that emerges from this approach of the human psyche.

In Jungian psychology, the anima has been regarded as a harmful aspect of the Self, hurting the conscious. However, in tales such as La Loba, where the feminine embodies the archetype of the wild woman, we can observe a different interpretation of this concept, one which resurrects the inner goddess. Whilst Jungian psychology argues that the woman’s psyche is compensated by the male imprint animus, modern interpretations of La Loba (Wolf Woman) fight to break this stereotypical association and show us that, for a woman, the interaction with the anima is equally important for rediscovering the inner goddess. This study will discuss the connection between Jungian psychology and the tale of La Loba, while focusing on the elements corresponding to the anima in the said tale, in hopes of bringing attention to this relatively new path of interpretation.

During the Hellenistic period the value of philosophical systems was to be judged by a meta-philosophical criterion, i.e., by their ability to lead practitioners towards the pursuit of good or happiness, albeit treating pain and sorrow, since all human beings are supposed to be able to reach the state of happiness via their own efforts. By emphasizing the role of thoughts or judgments, Stoics placed cognition in the intermediate phase between an event and the reaction that somebody has due to the event, rendering it both the cause and the cure of emotional disorders. This viewpoint is also fundamental in modern cognitive psychotherapy, although the parallelism goes beyond theory to the practical character in both approaches. Rational and non-rational aspects of human psychology cannot be isolated from each other, allowing thus adults to actively engage in their moral development by altering their beliefs. In this frame, cognitive distancing, the practice of awareness, attention to the present moment, and the Socratic dialogue become valuable tools in structuring emotional self-regulation.

This two-part article, "Integral Relational Practice of Dreaming the Caesura," describes an integral relational practice of "dreaming the caesura," with an illustration of this specific practice through the author's dreaming of her great, great, great, great grandmother, Charlotte Small Thompson, a Métis Cree woman who traveled across Canada with her husband from 1799–1812. The contemplative practice, a method of nonduality, is anchored in compassion and will expand the practitioner's capacity to be with suffering. The 1st person, 2nd person, and 3rd person perspectives of integral experience are viewed through their separate and also their linked and embedded relationships to one another, thus constituting the caesuras of contemplation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What is a spiritual psyche, and what does it mean to be or have one? What distinguishes a living psyche from a relatively dead one? The author considers key characteristics of psyche's nature and dynamics, contrasting our physical material world with the experiential worlds of psyche and spirit. Four touchstones are explored: rhythm, no beginning or end, reversal, and mystery. Parallels, overlaps, and distinctions between psyche and soma are considered, along with psyche's capacities for intuition, imagination, and creativity that elude even the most sophisticated computers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The reviewed guidelines for welfare in horse sport, published by the ministry of nutrition and agriculture, Germany, in July 2020, shall consider comprehensively the topical knowledge resulting from science and practice at its best. These guidelines shall give help for orientation of the interpretation of the general regulations of the animal welfare law. They shall support all people, handling horses, the responsible authorities, and courts, regarding decisions about whether the use of horses corresponds to the prescriptions of the animal welfare law (BMEL, 2020). These guidelines newly take up the examination (and judgement) of the psychic strength of racehorses. New as well: the psychic and physical strength of racehorses from now on shall be established by a qualified veterinary surgeon not only before the first start, but also before the training begins. The recent wording of the guidelines puts at question, whether and how the psychic (and physical) strength can be identified. The following text will especially deal with the question, if, with the help of the results of behaviour tests, statements about the psychic strength are possible. As result of the appraisal of the recent scientific knowledge the following can be stated: The term (“psychic strength”) can only be applied very limited regarding the background of the recent stance of science. In other words, it is about to be a linguistic curtailment, without concrete conceivable content. “Psychic strength” currently can not (and perhaps will not in near future) be understood by current examination protocols or test methods. Behaviour is apprehensible (also in certain situations, i.e., tests). Behaviour does provide indicators, about the current emotional state as well. (Emotional state, understood as control mechanism, which functions as an appeal for preservation or correction of the situation of existence, namely of the own behaviour or the circumstances.) Behaviour tests do not allow for a statement about the prospective behaviour, nor do they about “psychic strength”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I try to exploit some ideas delivered by Castoriadis and Lasch, in the view of understanding the paradox of the persisting legitimacy of the tenets of Neoliberalism, despite the bankruptcy of its policies. In this respect, the notion of the social imaginary significations seems helpful, shedding light to the predominant self-image of the individual, under Neoliberalism, as entrepreneur of himself. Such self-image isolates the individuals from each other, bolstering their narcissism. As a result, an ideology of individual "autonomy" is produced. As Lasch has pointed out, late Capitalism's narcissism is the hallmark of heteronomy, immerging individuals in a vain pursuit of power over each other, through the acquisition and accumulation of futile commodities, a pursuit which results to nothingness. The perpetually unaccomplished search for the promised bliss, keeps people attached to this social imaginary signification, not despite, but because of the failure of its promises, in a postmodern version of the myth of the Danaïds sieve. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the Hellenistic period the value of philosophical systems was to be judged by a metaphilosophical criterion, i.e., by their ability to lead practitioners towards the pursuit of good or happiness, albeit treating pain and sorrow, since all human beings are supposed to be able to reach the state of happiness via their own efforts. By emphasizing the role of thoughts or judgments, Stoics placed cognition in the intermediate phase between an event and the reaction that somebody has due to the event, rendering it both the cause and the cure of emotional disorders. This viewpoint is also fundamental in modern cognitive psychotherapy, although the parallelism goes beyond theory to the practical character in both approaches. Rational and non-rational aspects of human psychology cannot be isolated from each other, allowing thus adults to actively engage in their moral development by altering their beliefs. In this frame, cognitive distancing, the practice of awareness, attention to the present moment, and the Socratic dialogue become valuable tools in structuring emotional selfregulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article examines the emergence of modern psychiatric discourse under the culturally Islamic yet radically secular context of the early Turkish republic (1923-1950). To do so, it focuses on the psychiatric publications of Mazhar Osman [Uzman] (1884-1951), the widely acknowledged "father" of modern Turkish psychiatry; and aims to genealogically trace his scientific project of reconceptualizing ruh , an Arabo-Turkish concept that predominantly refers to transcendental soul, rendering it physiologically within the framework of biological-descriptive psychiatry. The article consequently addresses the elusive and multilayered psychiatric language emerged in Turkey as a result of modern psychiatry's interventions into a field that was previously defined by religion and indigenous traditions. Attempting to contextualize republican psychiatric discourse within the cultural and socio-political circumstances that has produced it, the article sheds light on how the new psychiatric knowledge propagated by Mazhar Osman was formulated in constitutive contradistinction to religious or traditional discourses, explicitly associating them with the Ottoman past and its alleged backwardness, hence reverberating with the Kemalist project of modern Turkish state building. Furthermore, by focusing on the complexities of the Turkish psychiatric language and the contestations it has generated, the article aims to reflect on the ways in which the Turkish psychiatric language was (and presumably still is) haunted by earlier forms of Islamic knowledge and traditions, despite modern psychiatry's as well as modern secular state's systematic and authoritative attempts to erase them for good. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present publication deals with one of the most significant intersections of two social sciences: psychology and civil law, creating both a field of research and a concept such as psychical guilt. It is now a requirement for establishing liability in criminal law and just one of the prerequisites in civil law. However, there is a multitude of guilt theories, all boiling down to two varieties – subjective and objective. At times philosophical and legal ideas resulted in denial of significance of guilt for imposition of material responsibility. The work also raises an issue of the role of psychology as a science in definition of an increasingly important concept of "degree of guilt". This article advocates for the view that in judicial processes, arbitration tribunals, and also in criminal proceedings the most reliable picture of one's psychical attitude should be provided from professional judgement of psychiatrists and psychologists while basing on the entirety of evidence. The research also supports the view of differentiation of the concept of guilt in the criminal and civil-law context. The author is convinced of the necessity of further cooperation of experts in psychology, psychiatry and law.

The study follows fortunes of the famous Ancient Roman novel and its impact on the visual arts in the early modern period. Special attention is paid to the Rudolphine art and to the distinctive transformation of the theme of Cupid and Psyche at the court of the emperor. It deals with various changes in meaning of the iconography as it traveled through time, space, and different media and suggests diverse possible readings of works inspired by Apuleius's Golden Ass.

Moment-to-moment dialogue between analyst and patient opens themes relating to psychic depths, inhibitions, and support for a need to grow. The therapy partners grow together as they engage psychic contact and explore elements that previously forced the patient to be hospitalized. A result is appreciation for ways contact with the depths can aid more playful, caring, and resourceful ways of being together and working with oneself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates and problematizes the postmodern condition in Jerry Pinto's novel, Em and the Big Hoom. The complex, medical, psychoanalytic, and psychiatric history of the characters' psyche is traced out in the novel. Postmodernism is an outgrowth of Modernism. It denotes the status of contemporary society, the revolutions, modifications, and shifts in science, literature, and arts. Taking into account all of the significant shifts from Modernism to Postmodernism, the study explicates Postmodernism as a movement, the Postmodern era along with the postmodern condition, and the postmodern tenets. The Psyche of the postmodern characters as presented by the author in his psychological fiction is profoundly probed in the paper. There is an intense focus on how important tenets like fragmentation, non-linearity, intertextuality, and playfulness are inherent in the novel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Space weathering is a key process in the interpretation of airless planetary surfaces. As we engage new missions to planetary objects with potentially novel surfaces such as 16 Psyche, there is renewed interest in expanding our knowledge of space weathering effects to a wider variety of analog materials, including the physical/chemical effects of solar‐wind ions on planetary regoliths. We have experimentally simulated the effects of solar ions on two polished thick sections of meteoritic troilite (FeS) via irradiation with 1 keV hydrogen (H+) and 4 keV helium (He+), to investigate effects resulting from different ion species. We detected depletion of sulfur over the course of each irradiation using in situ X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Sulfur depletion rates were surprisingly similar for H+ and He+, interpreted as a function of subsurface ion‐activated diffusion. By comparing XPS‐derived elemental abundances with SDTrimSP computer simulations, we further quantified sulfur diffusion, sputtering yield, and altered‐layer composition with respect to incident‐ion fluence, and accounted for the influence of surface oxidation due to atmospheric sample storage. Using scanning electron microscopy, we detected an increase in nanoscale surface roughness resulting from the irradiation, which we quantified using atomic force microscopy. Based on these results, we estimate that an exposure time of order 103 Earth‐years is required for troilite on Psyche to reach equilibrium sulfur depletion within the first atomic layer. Plain Language Summary: The NASA Psyche Mission will visit the metallic asteroid Psyche for the first time in 2026. Because metallic asteroid surfaces are expected to be compositionally distinct from the rocky surfaces of asteroids previously visited by spacecraft, we must characterize the effects of the space environment on expected constituent materials to correctly interpret observational data at Psyche. Solar‐wind irradiation is one process in the space environment that significantly changes the surface composition, reflectance and microstructure of silicate minerals ubiquitous in rocky asteroid soils. We simulated solar‐wind interaction with troilite (FeS), a common mineral found in iron meteorites and expected on Psyche, with hydrogen and helium ions in the laboratory. These simulations showed us that over time solar wind preferentially removes sulfur, enriching the mineral surface in iron, and roughens the surface at the nano‐scale. These observed changes replicate observations in natural troilite returned from the asteroid Itokawa. Removal of sulfur and surface roughening could both affect how the instruments on the NASA Psyche Mission take measurements of the asteroid surface and how we interpret those measurements. Key Points: We irradiated samples of meteoritic troilite (iron sulfide) with H+ and He+ ions, simulating solar‐wind space weatheringWe observed nanoscale roughening of the surface and formation of a sulfur‐depleted layer as the irradiations progressUsing SDTrimSP modeling in combination with X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy, we quantify the surface oxide layer thickness, diffusion rate, altered‐layer composition, and fluence‐dependent sputtering yield [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a narrower sense, neuropsychology is a discipline that deals with the relationship between neuroscience and psychology. Here he mainly examines the connections between the central nervous system and the human psyche. This characteristic corresponds to the narrow interdisciplinary conception of this scientific field. However, in a deeper search of current professional published literature, one can find works that document the transcendence of this discipline into other medical and some social disciplines. In the form of a literary review, this work set itself the task of examining the professional literature published on this topic and selecting representative literary sources that document the interdisciplinary nature of this scientific discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The asteroid (16) Psyche may be the metal-rich remnant of a differentiated planetesimal, or it may be a highly reduced, metal-rich asteroidal material that never differentiated. The NASA Psyche mission aims to determine Psyche's provenance. Here we describe the possible solar system regions of origin for Psyche, prior to its likely implantation into the asteroid belt, the physical and chemical processes that can enrich metal in an asteroid, and possible meteoritic analogs. The spacecraft payload is designed to be able to discriminate among possible formation theories. The project will determine Psyche's origin and formation by measuring any strong remanent magnetic fields, which would imply it was the core of a differentiated body; the scale of metal to silicate mixing will be determined by both the neutron spectrometers and the filtered images; the degree of disruption between metal and rock may be determined by the correlation of gravity with composition; some mineralogy (e.g., modeled silicate/metal ratio, and inferred existence of low-calcium pyroxene or olivine, for example) will be detected using filtered images; and the nickel content of Psyche's metal phase will be measured using the GRNS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to link art and archetypal psychology in the exploration of the psychic suffering of a population that has been forced to undertake a journey. It speaks of the power exercised by the collective over our psyche. I use a series of bronze sculptures called the bipedal migrant suitcase as a symbol of the migratory process, an image of the journey of those who must venture beyond the veil of the known to the unknown. A journey that addresses mysterious forces that restore the balance lost in the traveller, leading him to a destination that favours the presence of life-or-death forces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]