Objective: The present study aims to evaluate the object relations and core conflictual relationship theme in depressed patients while comparing them with normal individuals. Methods: Thirty people major depressive disorder thirty individuals were selected using convenience sampling method via structured clinical interviews (SCID-I & SCID-II) psychiatric symptoms checklist (SCL-90-R) based ...

Questionnaire measures of attachment style, attachment history, beliefs about relationships, selfesteem, limerence, loving, love addiction, and love styles were administered to 374 undergraduates. Attachment style was related in theoretically expected ways to attachment history and to beliefs about relationships. Securely attached Ss reported relatively positive perceptions of their early famil...

0191-8869/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.paid.2010.05.030 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 8604506658. E-mail address: [email protected] (P.K Little work has examined the manner in which the Dark Triad may function in relationship contexts. In this online, international study (N = 302), we correlated the Dark Triad with love styles. Individuals who scored high on...

What role does the Islamophobic theory of “love jihad” play in politics Hindu nationalist statecraft—the legal codification ideology—in India today? In this article, we address question through a critical analysis how idea relate to both (a) conservative governing gender and intimacy which women are constituted as subjects protection (b) an authoritarian populism grounded foundational oppositio...

This article explores the possibility that romantic love is an attachment process--a biosocial process by which affectional bonds are formed between adult lovers, just as affectional bonds are formed earlier in life between human infants and their parents. Key components of attachment theory, developed by Bowlby, Ainsworth, and others to explain the development of affectional bonds in infancy, ...

When you come into my hospital room, you need to know the facts of my life that there is information not contained in my hospital chart that I am 40 years married, with 4 children and 4 grandchildren that I am "genetically Lutheran"... with gut disease, like Luther himself that I am a professor that I teach teachers, priests, sisters how to nurture faith in the next generation that I love earth...

The microbe humans love best is yeast. For thousands of years it has provided our favourite drug, alcohol, and in return we have fed and housed it. Most of our long love affair has been conducted in the dark, but in 1875 a Danish brewer founded the Carlsberg Laboratory to apply science to the brewing industry, and since then we have pored over the inner workings of Saccharomyces in a frenzy of ...