ôbjective: this study explored the therapeutic outcomes of psychodynamic psychotherapy for major depressive disorder (mdd) in comparison with pharmacotherapy. methods: the focus of psychodynamic psychotherapy was on the superego pathology and its developmental backgrounds, while pharmacotherapy was done using ssrïs. â sample of 50 mdd patients was randomly selected by clinical interview using d...

studies on wife abuse show that men committed violence behavior against their wives have experienced a high degree of violence in their childhood. children who have witnessed, their mothers being beaten in their adulthood; girls have tendency to tolerate the violence and boys perceive the abuse of wife as their right. the aim of the present article to study wife abuse and contributing factors i...

BACKGROUND Wife beating is an important public health problem in many developing countries. We assessed the rates of wife beating and examined factors associated with wife beating in 1995 and 2005 in Egypt. METHODS We used data from two Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) conducted in Egypt in 1995 and 2005 using multistage household sampling. Data related to wife beating included informatio...

This research project studies Pip’s ego fluctuations in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations. Freud’s division of the human psyche into id, and superego is appropriate for analysis rise fall hero his pursuit to attain gentlemanhood. Four main questions have been addressed: First, what makes up id? Second, are components superego? Third, does succeed or fail striking a balance between id In ways...

The social files and medical records of 98 acutely battered wives who attended a surgical emergency department were studied. Although all women had been hospitalized during the decade preceding the present incident, wife battering was documented in the records in only 18%. The majority of the women (73%) were also known to the social services, but battering was documented in less than half of t...

In a world where images of picture-perfect celebrities are plastered everywhere, it can be alarmingly easy to fall into a movie star crush. But it sounds like you?re worried that your wife?s crush may be getting out of hand ? or, at the very least, is seriously straining your marriage. It?s not unusual to feel hurt, jealous, or confused if your partner is pining over some hot-shot with (movie) ...

The paper will examine and compare features of the self within selected writings of Kierkegaard and Freud. Granted their objectives cover different perspectives, i.e. man’s spiritual qualities vis-à-vis his natural qualities; qualities that indeed call attention to their dissimilarities, I shall nevertheless make an effort to point out similarities. I believe that what would seem as “irreconcil...

This study of The Hunger Artist explores how signs and symbols play a significant role in bringing the structured imagination of Kafka’s psyche and signification process on the surface of the narrative. As various signs encode different representations of experiences and the source of these representations is not only the subconscious and unconscious selves of the author and reader but also the...