In the mid-1870s, a wave of popular urban hauntings in public spaces swept across Europe. These included sightings Park Ghost Sheffield 1873 and Westminster Christ Church London 1874. early December 1874, probably most famous Czech ghost, Podskalí Apparition (Podskalské strašidlo), was born. This haunting followed by that similar but less ghosts appeared industrial, working-class Prague ...

This paper further reviews the Moral Panic Theory/TKM (Moral Panics Theory). theory departs from sociological concepts that see conflict in society an issue is dichotomously divided on grounds of good and bad, right wrong morality considered to have potential threaten national security long term. There are several linear stages TKM early models initiated by Cohen (1972) developed more or less s...

Initially admitted to the United Kingdom on a short-term visa, disabled German student activist Rudi Dutschke applied for visa in 1970. His application was rejected grounds of national security. one first aliens who made use his right appeal, but closed material procedure case meant that critical evidence remained undisclosed. Far from being ‘simply historical curiosity’, powerfully illustrates...

R ecently, there is a considerable progress in understanding the neurobiology of panic disorder. An interesting phenomenon is panic attacks preceded by states of diminished arousal. Mellman and Uhde (1) suggested that there was a relationship between this phenomenon and sleep-related panic. Mellman and Uhde (2) observed that sleep panic attacks typically arose during the transition towards earl...

OBJECTIVE The authors examined the effect of panic provocation on the subsequent development of panic attacks and panic disorder in nonclinical subjects with no history of spontaneous panic. METHOD Sixty-two subjects who had completed a study examining fearful responses to a single vital capacity inhalation of 35% CO2 were reevaluated 1 year following the challenge test. RESULTS Challenge-i...

This article presents data on the prevalence and symptomatology of panic attacks and panic disorder (PD) in a large nonclinical sample (n = 2,375) of college students. Results showed that approximately 12% of the sample had experienced at least one unexpected panic attack and that 2.36% met DSM-III-R criteria for panic disorder. Although there were no sex differences in overall panic attack pre...

In a community sample of high schoolers who experienced their first panic attack, we examined the prospective relationships among pre-panic vulnerabilities, panic attack severity, and post-panic agoraphobia and depression symptoms. Students were evaluated yearly over 4 years to test the following four hypotheses: (1) pre-panic anxiety sensitivity, negative affect, and childhood behavioral inhib...