Hidradenitis suppurativa is a recurrent, debilitating suppurative skin disease. The symptoms are much more than just physical, but studies of its impact on patients' psychological state and related quality of life are very limited. The current study was conducted with a group of 54 patients, aged 16-65 years, who had an active, but stable, course of hidradenitis suppurativa. The aim of the stud...

This paper is concerned with the centurv-old effort to determine the functiinal relations that hold between subjective continua and the physical continua that are presumed to underlie them. The first, and easily the most influential, attempt to specify the possible relations was made by Fechner. It rests upon empirical knowledge of how discrimination varies with intensity along the physical con...