numerous agencies have been at work to mitigate the miseries and sufferings of the livestock. Religion has advocated kindness, the law has prohibited cruelties and humane societies have come to the rescue of oppressed and maltreated animals. But these agencies tackle the relatively few cruelties inflicted by brutal and careless persons. Dr. Maurice C. Hall has rightly remarked that against the ...

The purpose of this investigation was to study the physiological and psychological states of 16 tennis players (8 males, 8 females) during the day of the first match of a tennis tournament and their relation to performance. Athletes completed the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2, including both intensity and direction subscales prior to the first match and collected saliva for cortisol ana...

A Case of genital self-mutilation under the effect of delusions and hallucinations is described. The Importance of liasion between surgical and psychiatric services is highlighted.

Currently little research exists examining the theoretical underpinnings of self-mutilation (SM) in community samples of adolescents. Two models, the hostility and anxiety reduction models, were simultaneously tested in order to determine whether SM in adolescence was characterized by greater feelings of anxiety and hostility. Four hundred and forty students were screened for the presence of SM...

The main objective of this research was to test central assumptions from the Self-centeredness/Selflessness Happiness Model. According to this model, while self-centered psychological functioning induces fluctuating happiness, authentic-durable happiness results from selflessness. Distinct mediating processes are supposed to account for these relationships: afflictive affects (e.g., anger, fear...

Materials and Methods: 42 participants undergoing temporary or permanent colostomy (study group) at the Samsun Education and Research Hospital and 42 participants working as auxiliary staff in the same hospital (control group) were included in the study. All participants completed a questionnaire investigating socio-demographic characteristics and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. Female partici...

Stigmata, wounds resembling those of Christ, have been reported since the 13 th century. The wounds typically appear in association with visions following prolonged fasting. This paper argues that self-starvation holds the key to understanding this unique event. Stigmata may result from self-mutilation occurring during dissociation, phenomena precipitated in part by dietary constriction, Psycho...