Studies are beginning to show the importance of appraisals to different types and severities of psychiatric disorders. Yet, little work in this area has assessed whether trauma-related appraisals can differentiate complex trauma-related disorders, such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and dissociative identity disorder (DID). The current study evaluated whether any of 6 trauma-related ap...

In this article, I explore select case studies of Parkinson patients treated with deep brain stimulation (DBS) in light of the notions of alienation and authenticity. While the literature on DBS has so far neglected the issues of authenticity and alienation, I argue that interpreting these cases in terms of these concepts raises new issues for not only the philosophical discussion of neuro-ethi...

This study explores the level of alienation among Russian employees in state-owned and private business organizations over a period of 2 years. Based on the employment situation in Russia, employees in private companies were expected to be more alienated from their work than employees in state-owned companies. Survey data have been collected from 725 employees in five state-owned and three priv...

Social work involves working with people in distress and difficulties, people who have perhaps been traumatised by abuse or other life experience, people who have encountered major loss, suffering and pain. In addition there can be immense feelings of alienation and disaffection rooted in social inequalities and the discrimination and oppression associated with them. It would therefore be extre...

The following discussion presents an overview of Marx’s theory of alienation. In contrast to the usual presentation of the subject, we will demonstrate that Marx’s theory of alienation is unintelligible without a prior assimilation of the philosophical method by which it was derived. This in turn leads to a major problem. The philosophical outlook and categories employed by Marx are quite forei...

From a sociological perspective, this paper attempts to contribute the discussion on work and democracy led by Axel Honneth. Through Honneth’s analyses, text focuses particularly concept of alienation. The central argument is that analysis alienation can provide critical insights into limitations democratic practices within contemporary organizations work. draws empirical theoretical debates in...

alienation and isolation is of the concepts which is of antiquity in literature, and has been emerged as the result of unorganized political, social and economic conditions in human societies. the present paper seeks to investigate alienation, its concept and reflections in abu isaac albiri poetry.  he was living in an environment that was replete with political and intellectual struggles and r...