When we talk about personality disorders, people usually have a very emotional reaction, with pain and unpleasant emotions being the most common. Those who have a relationship with a person who has a ...personality disorder, usually do not know what they are facing, but they do experience feelings of unease, despair, sadness, anger and depression, while doubting their own experience and perception of the world. Family and friends often feel like they are “caught in a relationship web”, which keeps getting more and more tangled, instead of untangling. Personality disorders cause everyone a lot of suffering, anger and disappointment, manifesting in every dimension of the human experience, but the behavior of a person with a personality disorder and the responses from the environment are actually a lot more predictable than you might imagine. In order to present this demanding and little-known topic to the widest range of readers, the handbook uses stories of everyday people to illustrate how their experiences of personality disorders intertwine with stress, mood disorders and problems with addiction. It also presents the process of identifying individual personality disorders and various options of self-help and recovery. The handbook is intended for anyone who is interested in the field of personality disorders, is personally facing mental health problems, or has a relative who is dealing with these issues.
Članek se ukvarja z delovanjem neoliberalizma na mikrosocialni ravni in na ravni individualne psihologije. Neoliberalna ekonomija pomeni zaostritev konkurenčnega pritiska in ocenjevanja ne le ...podjetij, temveč tudi posameznikov; hkrati pa neoliberalna politika pomeni depolitizacijo posameznikov, ki so le še podjetniki samih sebe. Neoliberalizem zato ne deluje kot klasične politične ideologije, ki so še predvidevale (in delovale na) politično subjektiviranega posameznika, temveč kot posebna etika vsakdanjega življenja, etika izbire, strateške racionalnosti investicij lastnega človeškega kapitala, ki je, ravno zato ker je apolitična, izrazito psihološka ter se izraža v epidemiji depresije in tesnobe na eni strani in množičnem iskanju sreče na drugi strani.
Italy is the main recipient of asylum seekers in the European region, and Sicily is their first point of arrival. This geographical position creates a large job for Health Authorities to identify and ...deal with the health of immigrants. This study evaluates the prevalence of disease among asylum seekers, assessing which are associated factors.
A cross-sectional study was conducted to analyse demographic and clinical data in an Acceptance Centres for Asylum Seekers from February 2012 to May 2013. All variables that were found to be significant on unvariable analysis for the most frequent pathologies were included in a multivariable logistic regression model.
Post-traumatic stress disorders with 17.4% and major depression with 7.3% were the most frequent diseases. The factors associated with post-traumatic stress disorders among asylum seekers were: major depression diagnosis (OR=2.91, p=0.004), Pakistan as a country of origin (OR=3.88, p<0.001), the largest number of medical visits (OR=1.02, p=0.033) and refugee status (OR=1.97, p=0.036). The variables linked with the diagnosis of major depression from the multivariable analysis were: suffering from post-traumatic stress disorders (OR=3.83, p<0.001), Pakistan as a country of origin (OR=3.45, p=0.004) and the highest number of visits to psychologist (OR=1.15, p<0.001).
The mental wellbeing of asylum seekers needs special attention, and interventions should be done to prevent the consolidation of psychiatric morbidity. A short psychological screening after the arrival might prove helpful here. Moreover, carefully designed longitudinal studies should be carried out when political recommendations try to change the organization of psychological and healthcare services.
Explores why Americans are more fearful today than in the past & often most fearful of the wrong things. Scholars & journalists commonly invoke the specter of premillenial tensions, while other ...explanations focus on the news media. It is argued here that the primary culprits for the production of mass fear in the US are those who profit from tapping into moral insecurities & providing false kinds of symbolic substitutes. Advocates of scary scenarios capture public attention through sophisticated marketing techniques that capitalize on the news media need for constant provocative content. Reporters are shown to do an extraordinary job of exposing the scare tactics of many of these organizations. However, once a scare catches on, it is very difficult to stop until it has run its course. Several examples of this process are discussed: the early-1990s political correctness scare, the youth-at-risk scare, the monster mom scare caused by a concern over teen pregnancies, & scares over the menace of black men, illegal drugs, & plane wrecks. Each of these cases is characterized by the use of poignant anecdotes in place of scientific evidence & the use of isolated incidents to stand in for entire social dynamics or trends. Actual statistics demonstrate that these fears were largely overblown, but the alarms were successful because they were rooted in deeper cultural anxieties. Moreover, they succeeded in diverting tens of billions of dollars to mythical hazards like road rage or to programs for more prisons or technology to make air travel safer. It is in this kind of diversion that irrational scares have their most pernicious effect, because those resources might more profitably be used to combat serious dangers that threaten large numbers of people. The text contains an Introduction & 9 Chpts with Notes. D. Ryfe
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