The lives of patients with borderline personality disorder are characterized by turmoil, and their interpersonal relationships by conflict. As a result, these patients can be very difficult to treat. However, an accurate diagnosis and an understanding of the psychodynamics and emotional development of borderline patients can lead to improved management.

The author summarizes his experience with palm and Tarot card readers in New Orleans. The history, practice, and psychodynamics of palmistry and Tarot are explored. It's postulated that these practices are forms of archaic psychotherapy, which employ supportive treatment and placebo. These tactics are used to elicit hope for its clients.

structure of psychodynamics we may subsequently erect in our speculative attempts to explain our patient's condition, these intellectual exercises must arise from what we or others have observed about the patient, and from what the patient communicates. Despite everything else that Professor Perry has contributed to medical science, to teaching and to administration, on me personally (and I am ...

The study is based primarily on the in-depth interviewing of 150 middle-level executives (all males) representing three business concerns in Northern India and was designed to make a statistical comparison between two groups of executives--obviously successful and obviously unsuccessful--in terms of their background variables, critical decisions (academic and professional) of life, and their in...

In this paper 7 cases of patients suffering from depressive illness who finally committed suicide were illustrated. It is hoped that by reading the cases illustrated in depth a better understanding of the thinking, suffering and psychodynamics of depression and suicidal behaviour can be obtained.

UNLABELLED The paper discusses same aspects of psychodynamics and regression of social groups. The aims of the study are: 1. to promote the understanding of group processes which point out the presence of complex phenomena within social group and should help group members and a group leader to function on the higher level of sensitivity, capability and effectiveness; 2. to stimulate the knowled...