UNLABELLED This self-directed learning module highlights the societal aspects of disability and the older adult. It is part of the study guide on geriatric rehabilitation in the Self-Directed Physiatric Education Program for practitioners and trainees in physical medicine and rehabilitation and geriatric medicine. This article specifically focuses on ethical issues, including capacity, psychody...

Can democratic institutions contain conflict, division, and uncanny emotions with cultures of management that are frequently undemocratic? What distinguishes those institutions and organizations capable of containment from others? And, what are the psychodynamics at work in the perversion of democratic processes inside organizations? In this paper, we explore the psychodynamics of democracy in ...

Information on how the patient's interpersonal problems predict alliance development during long-term therapy is lacking. The aim of this study was to explore how the patient's pre-treatment interpersonal problems predict the development of alliance in long-term psychotherapy. Altogether 128 adult outpatients experiencing mood or anxiety disorder were assigned to long-term psychodynamic psychot...

A case of advanced, reversible renal failure due to psychogenic urinary retention occurring in a 17 year old female, is reported. The diagnosis of psychogenic urinary retention was made on the basis of existent florid psychopathology and the concomitant exclusion of an organic cause. Family psychodynamics are discussed. Psychosocial intervention led to a resumption of normal micturition, the di...

In this essay, Sahand Shaibani employs a Freudian psychoanalytic approach to discuss the influence of irrational and emotive forces in the American judicial process. He argues that the adversarial legal process serves the important psychological function of sublimating aggression, and that trial courts present a forum for the recreation of the Oedipal triangle, wherein the judge is unconsciousl...

All the Dr D. L. N. Murti Rao Orators so far have been persons who knew Dr D.L.N. Murti Rao personally. Some like Professor N. N. Wig, Professor A. Venkoba Rao and Professor A. Verghcse had been his students. Others like Professor K. C. Dube and Col. Kirpal Singh knew him in course of their professional interactions. I am possibly the first Dr D. L. N. Murti Rao Orator who was not fortunate eno...

The growing importance of sustainability in corporate policies represents a great opportunity for workers to gain more consideration, with great benefits to their well being. Sustainable work is believed to be one which improves the organization’s performance and fosters professional development as well as workers’ health. In a multiple case study based on document research, information was sou...