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OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to identify points of agreement and disagreements among general practitioners (GPs) in Denmark concerning how the existential dimension is understood, and when and how it is integrated in the GP-patient encounter. DESIGN A qualitative methodology with semi-structured focus group interviews was employed. SETTING General practice setting in Denmark. ...

The environmental crisis is producing an increasing number of both physical and psychological impacts. This article studies the challenge eco-anxiety for pastoral care, drawing from interdisciplinary research ecological theology. aim to help practitioners researchers encounter more constructively. rapidly growing about therapy discussed in relation care. various forms are briefly analyzed. role...

HEX-programs extend ASP by external sources. In this paper, we present domain-specific existential quantifiers on top of HEX-programs, i.e., ASP programs with external access which may introduce new values that also show up in the answer sets. Pure logical existential quantification corresponds to a specific instance of our approach. Programs with existential quantifiers may have infinite groun...

Aging confronts humans with specific existential issues. They frequently cause suffering in old age. Not dealing with or insufficiently dealing with these existential themes may result in crisis, psychological disorders, and illness. By integrating existential themes of aging into the understanding of one's own life, the process of aging contributes to personal maturity.

Incomplete Information research is quite mature when it comes to so called existential nulls, where an existential null is a value stored in the database, representing an unknown object. For some reason universal nulls, that is, values representing all possible objects, have received almost no attention. We remedy the situation in this paper, by showing that a suitable finite representation mec...

This presentation will review the history of scientific research into use psychedelic medicines for treatment existential distress due to life-threatening illnesses, it then outline current state affairs in North America, and conclude with exploring implications have on future palliative care.
 Despite significant advances field care regards symptom management, pain control particular, we ...

Terror management theory assumes that death arouses existential anxiety in humans which is suppressed in focal attention. Whereas most studies provide indirect evidence for negative affect under mortality salience by showing cultural worldview defenses and self-esteem strivings, there is only little direct evidence for implicit negative affect under mortality salience. In the present study, we ...