Abstract Competition is fundamental to American life, and sport the cultural institution most closely linked organized competition in U.S. Historically, has been a male preserve. At same time, structures, practices, iconography of sports have infiltrated variety social fields institutions less obviously dominated by men—a process known as “sportification.” Reality programing one such field. In ...

The rich heritage of Indian mythology has been very little explored and used in psychotherapy in India. The present article deals with the story of Hanuman. How he lost the knowledge about his power to fly due to a childhood curse by Rishis and how he regained his powers when reminded by Jambavan during a crucial mission in search of Queen Sita, is the subject of author's description of Hanuman...

Sisyphus was born to Aeolus (the Greek god of the winds) and his wife Enarete (the progenitor of Greeks). According to Homer, Sisyphus was the wisest and craftiest of men. However, he was condemned by the Zeus (the master of Olympus) because he revealed Olympian wrongdoings. Eventually, Hades (the Greek god of the Dead) punished him with the eternal task of rolling a rock up a mountain, which, ...