Patients with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) have been overwhelmed I7y early life events. However, theirrecollections ofthose events may become distorted in the course of their registration, retention, and retrieval ofthose events, and theprocessingofthose recalled events may itselfprove so difficult that efforts to do so risk retraumatizating them ratherfacilitating their growth. The int...

Different Interpretations of a National Curriculum: A Reflection on the Islamic Republic of Iran's Ratified Curriculum N. Salsabili, Ph.D. Curriculum planning is a major task in any national educational system as it involves not only educational concerns, but socio-political and cultural issues as well. Given the variety of perspectives on each of these dimensions, it would be natural...

The cognitive model of depression assigns a central role to negatively biased information processing in the pathogenesis of the emotional disorder. The relationship between depression and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) was explored from a cognitive perspective. A word recognition memory task was constructed: subjects had to memorize and subsequently recognise a set of emotionally loaded stimulu...

Existing evidence seems to indicate that Muslims in Scotland have constructed hyphenated or hybrid identities that draw on religion, ethnicity and nationality. However, minor attention has been given to the differences in importance, meanings, and strengths of these identities, or the significance of their identity markers. Ethnic minority people can be identified with both their ethnic groups ...