In the absence of a medical cure for AIDS, HIV-infected individuals may seek alternative treatments that are consistent with cultural and social beliefs. This paper examines beliefs about, and use of, folk healing practices by HIV-infected Hispanics receiving care at an HIV/AIDS clinic in inner-city New Jersey. Anonymous individual interviews were conducted with 58 male and 18 female HIV-infect...

ANYDISCUSSION OF THE HISTORY of psychiatry and psychoanalysis is as broad as the scope and definition of those terms. Is psychiatry a rrlatively new branch of medicine with psychoanalysis merely its newest branch? Did Freud invent or define it-depending upon the point of view-less than one hundred years ago? Or is it as old as man’s interest in the human mind? Since librarians are not (nor shou...

A. Moreira-Almeida and F.S. Santos (eds.), Exploring Frontiers of the Mind-Brain Relationship, Mindfulness in Behavioral Health, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-0647-1_3, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 Abstract Although there is a long tradition of philosophical and historical discussions of the mind–body problem, most of them make no mention of psychic phenomena as having implications for ...

This interview between Francesca Ferrando (New York University) and Asijit Datta (University of Calcutta) is an extended exhaustive effort to weigh the pressing concerns posthuman life, death, philosophy in times Covid-19 pandemic. Philosophical discourse on matters related dualism, humanism, anthropocentrism, during a phase when exposed human bodies are susceptible deadly, mutating virus itsel...

Abstract Internet fraud remains a problem in Ghana and thus attracts the attention of teachers, researchers, civil society organisations, state policymakers. Existing studies on focused reasons, combat strategies, cyber spiritualism, impact individuals country, inadequate legal frameworks for handling such cybercrimes. Despite efforts by government other interest groups fighting menace, phenome...

How is colonialism connected to American relationships with extraterrestrial beings? This commentary analyzes contemporary and founding US mythologies as constant, calculated attempts for settlers obtain indigeneity in this land stemming from a fear of the “unknown.” From Columbus’s arrival Boston Tea Party, alien UFO fervor paranormal experiences, spiritualism, New Age, Wicca, mythology endles...

Sound drama production prior to the onset of the ―Radio Age‖ underwent a pioneering development during the Great War. This was achieved by the making, publication and distribution of short audio dramas acted with sound effects and music in front of early microphones and released in the form of 78 rpm phonograph discs. Entertaining storytelling through dramatic performance was mobilized for the ...