When confronted with the death of a loved one, children usually behave according to their developmental level. In the young child, death may be perceived as separation, as the result of magical thinki…

Using the example of the vampire motif origin and psychic function of the ghost-story in context of the pertaining historical situation are presented. A comparison to the development and function of n…

Present medical models of treatment compliance have not addressed the role that time plays in the perception of a treatment regimen's costs and benefits. This paper re-evaluates the role of time in un…

In 1982, the first and only discussion of psychotherapy cults appeared in the literature. Temerlin and Temerlin (1982) studied five "bizarre" groups which were formed when five practitioners of psycho…

Religious compulsions in four patients are presented to show the phenomenological similarities and differences between religious and compulsive rituals. The role of religious ritual observance in pred…

The authors interviewed 190 patients with metastatic cancer to determine their insight into their disease, treatment and prognosis. They also explored their attitudes to religion, their guilt feelings…

A strategy to increase pleasure and reduce displeasure in dreaming and dream-related behaviors involved three skill sessions in which participants (N = 63) practiced (a) positive expectations for cont…

Communicating to parents the diagnosis of an irreversible disease or disability in their child is a difficult task for medical practitioners. In order for the parents, as well as the physician, to cop…

Firstly, the considerable cultural-historical efficiency of the biblical belief is shown in its influence upon the status and the self-comprehension of elderly people. The Old Testamental monotheism l…

Twenty-eight cases of obsessive compulsive neurosis were treated with a behaviour therapy package and good results were obtained in 15 (53.6%). Relaxation, thought-stopping, implosion, modelling, resp…