This paper presents a series of case studies to explore the understanding, acceptance and value of compassionate mind training (CMT) with psychotic voice hearers. We were interested in the degree to which such people are able to access and feel the positive emotions of 'warmth' and 'contentment' to become more self-compassionate. We also explored how CMT affected participants' hostile voices, t...

A new version of the well-known program paranoia has been introduced specifically for testing the arithmetic of embedded control systems. Embedded systems have become enormously complicated and widespread in most if not all consumer devices today so there is a clear need to measure the quality of the arithmetic. This paper describes the development of ESP (Embedded System Paranoia) and gives ex...

We compared 20 patients with late-onset schizophrenia, 7 with delusional disorder with hallucinations (paraphrenia), and 13 with delusional disorder without hallucinations (late-onset paranoia). We found that these three categories could be distinguished from each other on some clinical parameters. Late-onset schizophrenia was characterized by bizarre delusions; auditory hallucinations; to a le...

this research has been conducted to compare purpose psychological symptoms post-traumatic stress in male and female patients. the sample of this study selected from two group ptsd male and female patients (each group 40 people) they were randomly chosen and matched groups by age and iq, when they completed wais-r. also examined by watson ptsd diagnostic interview (repetitious experience, avoida...