Culture may particularly influence community attitudes towards mental illness, when the illness itself is shaped by a cultural context. To explore the influence of culture-specific, religious symptoms on Orthodox Jewish community attitudes, the authors compared the attitudes of 169 Orthodox Jews, who randomly viewed one of two vignettes describing either religious or nonreligious obsessive–comp...

In the pursuit of researches and in the reporting of their results, the individual scientist as well as the community of fellow professionals rely implicitly on the researcher embracing the habit of truthfulness, a main pillar of the ethos of science. Failure to adhere to the twin imperatives of candor and integrity will be adjudged intolerable and, by virtue of science’s self-policing mechanis...

oral lithium carbonate in the treatment of pancreatic cholera syndrome. Pancreatic cholera: beneficial effects of treatment with streptozotocin. Muckadell OB, Lundqvist G. Streptozotocin treatment of a pancreatic tumour producing VIP and gastrin associated with Verner-Morrison syndrome. alone compared with streptozotocin plus fluorouracil in the treatment of advanced islet-cell carcinoma. Surge...

hence that Freud's thinking was merely one variation upon concepts of the unconscious that had been developing since Mesmer and branching into the work of Moritz Benedikt, Janet, Jung and others, Ellenberger also thereby displaced Freud from his customary position at centre-stage, at the same time as paying him homage. As Micale emphasizes in his luminous Introduction, much of Ellenberger's his...

I'm sitting in the bishop's office. My dress is slightly damp, but I can't determine whether moisture a result of snowstorm or sweat beading beneath cotton. haven't eaten since yesterday, so vomit, churning my stomach wants to prove otherwise.The bishop has questions memorized. He's looking me straight eye. “Do you keep law chastity?”“Well.” take breath. speak fast, quirk that's magnified when ...