hearty: Toward more meaningful health measurement in the clinical setting. At Georgia Regents University and Health System, we are in the midst of consolidating a liberal arts master's-level locally focused university and the state's academic health center/ health sciences university to create a wholly new comprehensive research university—a consolidation that will yield its fruit as the facult...

I present two U.S. court cases in which I participated as a linguistic anthropological "expert" to show how language ideologies of the law both influence legal outcomes and conflict with "scientific" ideas about language. One case was the murder trial of a young Mixtec-speaking Indian from Oaxaca; the other was a civil suit brought by four Hispanic women dismissed from an elder-care center for ...

O presente artigo visa realizar uma leitura da construção de imagem cidade por meio do fotolivro Paranoia, Roberto Piva e Wesley Duke Lee. No estudo são articuladas questões inerentes ao objeto fotolivro, a afinidade com produção surrealista representação, questão acaso objetivo busca pelo Maravilhoso, assim como, articulação entre fotográfica poética, acentuada importância em Paranoia. A é apr...

This research has been conducted to compare purpose psychological symptoms post-traumatic stress in male and female patients. The sample of this study selected from two group PTSD male and female patients (each group 40 people) they were randomly chosen and matched groups by Age and IQ, when they completed WAIS-R. Also examined by Watson PTSD diagnostic interview (repetitious experience, avoida...

Cyberspace: A word from the pen of William Gibson, science fiction writer, circa 1984. An unhappy word, perhaps, if it remains tied to the desperate, dystopic vision of the near future found in the pages of Neuromancer (1984) and Count Zero (1987)—visions of corporate hegemony and urban decay, of neural implants, of a life in paranoia and pain—but a word, in fact, that gives a name to a new sta...

[There is] a pervasive and unwarranted tendency ... to interpret the actions of others as deliberately demeaning or threatening ... Almost invariably there is a general expectation of being exploited or harmed by others in some way. Frequently a person with this disorder will question, without justification, the loyalty or trustworthiness of friends or associates. Often the person is pathologic...

In this paper we seek to offer an essentially sociological explanation of paranoia by way of a detailed examination of the case of an unmarried, ex-school-teacher who for the past 30 years has clung stubbornly to the belief that she is the victim of an ill-defined group of conspirators with the power to control her thoughts and actions. Taking as our starting point Lemert's seminal 1962 paper, ...