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The book “Inkblot Personality Test - Understanding the Unconscious Mind” written by Bankey Lal Dubey, Padmakali Banerjee and Anand Dubey is a comprehensive book on Inkblot Tests- Rorschach, Holtzman and Somatic Imagery Test. It is published by SAGE Publications in September 2...
This article is a response to the recent editorial by Piotrowski (2019). In our article (Benson et al., 2019), we reported results from a national survey of the tests and assessment practices used by contemporary school psychologists in the United States. We appreciate Piotrowski...
Psychotherapeutic interventions are becoming increasingly important in India. Indian literature is full of information related to existence of knowledge about psychotherapy. The current study reviews the literature related to psychotherapy in Indian cultural context. The training...
Alcoholism is the most severe form of alcohol abuse and involves the inability to manage drinking habits. It is also commonly referred to as alcohol use disorder. Excessive use of alcohol affects the mental and behavioral health of the user and his family members. Spouses of alco...
The present case study was an attempt to apply PIPATIC [(ProgramaIndividualizadoPsicoterapéutico para la Adicción a las Tecnologías de la información y la comunicación) having English translation as Individualized Psychotherapeutic Program for Addiction to the Technologies o...
A traumatic event is one that threatens injury or the physical integrity of self or others and causes horror, terror or helplessness at the time it occurs. A variety of personal and environmental factors may lead to enduring post traumatic difficulties. The aim of the present stu...
How writing has been and continues to be a relevant clinical tool and potential source of projective material is discussed. Criterion to produce written projective materials is limited to individuals with adequate reading and writing abilities. Clinical tools/approaches noted are...
The issue of pain measurement and assessment has attracted intense clinical and research attention, particularly over the past three decades. Hence, pain assessment has become a) a central feature in the study of pain across a myriad of health care disciplines (i.e., medicine, re...
Based on findings from prior research studies, trauma histories have been found to be ubiquitous in psychopathic women. In this study, the Rorschach Trauma Content Index (TCI) was used to better understand the trauma histories of incarcerated women (N = 180). The TCI was signific...
Personality tests, long a mainstay of clinical training, comprise a diminishing portion of the graduate school curriculum despite increasing evidence of their validity. While defensible given the expanded assessment toolkit and other innovations of contemporary clinical practice,...
Over the past 2 decades, clinicians have expressed extensive research interest in the study of 2 prominent afflictions (Suicide/Suicide Potential; PTSD) affecting veterans in the USA (Bisson et al., 2019; Bohnert et al., 2017; Bush 2012, 2014; Jackson, 2017; Kessler et al., 2017;...
Piotrowski (2016) reviewed 30 studies documenting psychologists‟ use of the Bender-Gestalt (B-G) from 1992 to 2014 across a variety of settings and samples. Based on his review, he offered the following conclusions: mental health practitioners, including psychologists, ignore ...
The studies on various indices, including CDI have been conducted in many cultures but there is dearth of studies in India. To study the effectiveness of this index and its relationship with self-reported measure of coping, the patients of three groups of 15 subjects in each(N=45...
Self-esteem is “our feeling of self-worth”. It serves as both a protective and risk factor in the development of mental health problems. Mental disorders are among the leading causes of ill-health and disability worldwide. Depression and anxiety are the two most common forms ...
Explorations into the personality correlates of children are frequent. The present research endeavor attempts a probing journey in terms of the variables of aggression (anger), attachment style, anxiety, and personality with 240 (60 in each of the four groups of orphans, destitut...
Distress in Diabetes may affect the physical as well as emotional wellbeing of the patient. The current study is to examine the relationship of Distress in Diabetes and incidence of depression in middle age. A sample of 100 diagnosed Type 2 diabetes (Males= 50; Females =50) were...
Somatic Inkblot Series (SIS) has emerged as a powerful procedure in projective psychology. It is based on the principles of projection and uses inkblots to interpret the responses given by an individual. The interpretation is further used to map the personality and psychodynamics...
Comprehensive evaluation of pain, particularly the confounding influence of somatoform co-morbidity, is perhaps one of the most perplexing challenges faced by practicing clinicians (Bruns & Disorbio, 2015; Flor & Turk, 2011). Moreover, the assessment of pain populations i...
This study investigates how the personality factors of financial risk attitude, stress tolerance and complex problem solving predict investment performance in relation to rising versus descending market periods. The performance of 40 professional fund managers was measured over a...
Due to their temporal proximity (2 weeks apart), Hurricanes Harvey (Texas) and Irma (Florida) in 2017 provided a unique opportunity to examine the potentially differential views of impacted populations toward both tropical events. From a theoretical perspective, the issues of emp...
The status of tests and measures in assessment, in both mental health practice and training settings, has attracted extensive professional and academic attention over the past 70 years. Bennion et al. (2019, this issue) provide a rather detailed critique regarding the conclusions...
Cognitive Drill Therapy (CDT) relies on verbal exposure to feared disastrous consequences. The cognition of feared outcomes are generated and then time perspective of feared cognition is changed into the present or past which is required to be repeated many times until there is s...
For almost the majority of the last century, one test that has both fascinated us and likewise being subjected to immense criticism, is the projective test named Rorschach Ink blot Test. Controversies regarding this test‘s validity and utility was perhaps even higher when diffe...
The present study aimed to explore the pattern of interpersonal relationship matrix, marital quality and loneliness of three groups of subjects, namely, parents of Borderline Personality Disorder (P-BPD), parents of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (P-OCD) and parents of normal offs...
In several articles, my colleagues and I have addressed concerns regarding methodological issues with the recent RIM research (see Cunliffe et al., 2012; Gacono, Loving, &Bodholdt, 2001; Smith et. al., 2018). In many studies, the impact of these issues is frequently hidden, m...
Bibliometric studies, particularly content analysis methodologies, of the extant literature can provide a snapshot on the nature, scope, and breadth of a select body of knowledge available in scholarly repositories. Although several bibliometric studies regarding the field of Per...
Past research suggests that gambling addiction and celebrity addiction may share common features. A survey containing two measures of gambling addiction and two measures of celebrity addiction were administered to 182 adult participants from the United States recruited through Me...
As assessed by thematic apperceptive techniques (TATs), self-definition and social definition are two personality styles with differing worldviews and sources of individual identity definition. Self-defining individuals view the world in causal terms and prefer internal, personal...
Mihura, J.L., et al. (2017). Psychological assessment training in clinical psychology doctoral programs. Journal of Personality Assessment, 99(2), 153-164. Neukrug, E., et al. (2013). A national survey of assessment instruments taught by counselor educators. Counselor Education &...
Historically, projective methods, as a class, have been the target of extensive criticism in the scholarly literature (e.g., Lilienfeld et al., 2000). Although the Rorschach has been the prime target of this barrage of condescending scholarly attacks, reviews of the extant survey...
Social definition and self definition are implicit personality styles in which individuals either adopt or may not conform to societal norms when defining their identity, respectively. The content validity of the scoring categories for this thematic apperceptive technique (TAT) s...
We are presenting a case of 37 years old male suffering from illness anxiety disorder for one and half years who was treated with Cognitive Drill Therapy. Following outcome measures were used to map the status of illness anxiety on baseline, termination and follow up. (i) Sheehan...
The literature indicates that psychopathology of parents of ADHD is a crucial component of failure in the management of ADHD-affected children. The present study aimed to explore parental psychopathological indices in parents of children with ADHD to find out the reason of failur...
Cognitive Drill Therapy (CDT) is a novel form of verbal exposure that allows access and exposure to thoughts of threat perception triggered by objects of irrational fears. This paper reports a case study on the application of CDT in a seven years old child, having two irrational ...
In a recent editorial, Piotrowski (2017) contends that the fate of projective techniques will be linked to the precarious status of personality assessment in clinical training settings. Moreover, since 1990, projective techniques, as a class, have been the target of extensive cri...
The following paper provides an overview and discussion of past and present trends in training related to projective personality assessment. The authors summarize the historical use of projective testing (particularly the Rorschach) and emerging research examining the use of proj...
The status of the Rorschach and its role in neurophysiological assessment has had a rather erratic and not so cherished historical journey. Seminal research in this area largely focused on the Rorschach ‘sign’ approach in the study of organic brain disorders, while later rese...
There are two prominent evidence-based systems of the Rorschach currently in practice: the Comprehensive System (CS; Exner, 2003), which dominated the field for nearly four decades, and the more recently published Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS; Meyer, Viglione, M...
Somatic Inkblot Series (SIS) emerged as an extension to the existing inkblot techniques, including the Rorschach Inkblot Test. This unique assessment method relies heavily on content analysis to understand the inner cry of a person and penetrates deeper layers of unconscious in o...
Teglasi, H. (2010). Essentials of TAT and other storytelling assessments (2nded.). New York: Wiley. Wechsler, S.M., Oakland, T., Leon, C., et al. (2014). Test development and use in five Iberian Latin American countries. International Journal of Psychology, 49(4), 233-239. Wood, ...
Historically, projective techniques have left an impressive, yet contentious, footprint worldwide (Groth-Marnat, 2009; Handler & Thomas, 2014; Musewicz et al., 2009; Piotrowski, 2015; Piotrowski, Keller, & Ogawa, 1993; Teglasi, 2010; Wood et al., 2011). Interestingly, sur...
This case demonstrates the use of cognitive behavioural therapy in the treatment of Gender Identity Disorder. An 18-year-old male presented with complaint of feeling of discomfort with his sex organ for several years. He had taken treatment for it with no relief. The Somatic Inkb...
Victims of childhood sexual abuse often have associations, flashbacks, and memories related to the specific aspects of the sexual abuse. This can be reflected in both psychological and physiological responses. Difficulties can range from psychological abhorrence or fear of any ...
Although personality assessment has its roots in psychoanalytic psychology, its relationship to psychoanalysis in contemporary practice remains vague. Yet, an assessment that utilizes performance-based measures that provide an analog of sorts to the psychoanalytic situation can s...
In professional mental health, requests from the legal community for determination of ‘risk assessment’ in the adjudication of child sexual offenders are a popular and cardinal feature in forensic practice. In the contemporary milieu, a central concentration of both clinical ...
Psychopathy is considered an essential construct in forensic work (Gacono, 2016). Most methodologically sound studies have involved males rather than females (Smith et al., 2014). Gender differences have been found to be, and continue to be considered important in the assessment...
Late adolescence is a time during which change often occurs in the relationship between adolescent and parent. In particular, the identification of the adolescent with the parent – the taking on of values, opinions, and mores of the parents -- may change, and these modification...
Eating Disorders (ED) have attracted extensive clinical and research attention, manifested by the exponential growth of articles and book chapters on ED conditions indexed in the scholarly literature. Yet most mental health practitioners only occasionally treat ED patients and t...
Three case histories involving individuals suffering from existential death anxiety were administered the Rorschach Inkblot Test to illustrate the responses indicating symbolic death content and death anxiety. The over emphasis on somatic content (many ‘Anatomical’ responses)...
Frauenhoffer, D., Ross, M.J., Gfeller, J., Searight, H.R., & Piotrowski, C. (1998). Psychological test usage among licensed mental health practitioners: A multidisciplinary survey. Journal of Psychological Practice, 4(1), 28-33. Fredman, N., & Sherman, R. (1987). Handbook...
Over the past 30 years, there has been increasing clinical interest regarding the issue of assessment and use of specific mental health measures in the field of marital and family therapy (MFT) (Carlson et al., 2013; Fredman & Sherman, 1987; Nurse 1999). Yet, diagnostic testi...
Cognitive Drill Therapy (CDT) has emerged as an efficient procedure of psychological treatment for anxiety spectrum disorders specifically phobia and OCD. It uses a straightforward conceptualization of stimulus bound anxiety. A stimulus triggers a threat perception which elicits ...
Mental health and emotional stability are very important factors in everyday life. In order to improve emotional mental health, one needs to understand the present status of one‟s mental health in the context of developing resilience and fortitude in dealing with the dynamic en...
The article presents empirical results of forty fund managers‘ implicit and explicit motives in relation to five year risk adjusted investment performance. The first step of the study was to create composite variables from three personality tests: Zulliger, Wartegg and Personal...
While copious survey-based data on test usage worldwide have been published, there is limited research available on assessment practices in mental health settings in South America. To address this gap in the literature the current study focused on psychological testing practices ...
This article explores the utility, validity and reliability of three psychological tests in predicting fund managers investment performance. Two of the psychological tests-the Zulliger and Wartegg tests-represented implicit psychological motives. The third test-the Personality Re...
Psychological assessment and projective/performance-based assessment in particular, has seen a decline in recent years, both in training and clinical use. This trend is alarming and raises concerns about the loss of important clinical tools and its effect on the field of psycholo...
Survey-based „test use‟ studies in the 1990s found that the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) was not a highly ranked test in the assessment of personality and psychopathology (e.g., Watkins et al., 1995). However, Piotrowski (2000) reported that the PAI was indeed a wel...
The case study involves a technician (welder)who works on the North Slope in Alaska on the oil field. He was in the tank to repair it. He lit the torch, and there was an explosion? He has been in treatment a few weeks, for the major trauma he had just over a year ago. The Somatic...
Literature reviews regarding practice settings have indicated that, historically, projective methods/techniques (hereon, PT) have been popular clinical tests and relied upon assessment tools in the mental health field in the USA. However, the same cannot be said for clinical/prof...
We need to train space scientists with regard to the significant potential for adapting SIS Body-Mind-Spirit technology for health screening, psychological treatment and research! Members of SIS Society are encouraged to be optimistic regarding the power of scientific technology ...
Recovery-Focused Behavior Therapy (RFBT) is a very recent conceptualization which is being shared in this paper which illustrates the application in a case of severe OCD. The patient is presented with an imaginary scenario of perceived recovery and he/she is to conceptualize and ...
Most studies though report that emotion regulation (ER) mediates the relationship of mindfulness with subjective well-being (SWB), there is also an unexamined conjecture that ER skills cultivate mindfulness which consequently enhances SWB. Present study attempts to empirically te...
Specific phobia is a highly prevalent condition which may interfere in occupational and social life of persons affected with this disorder. Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Desensitization Therapies have been well documented as effective treatments for phobia. Cognitive Drill Thera...
Fairy tales operate in accordance to the preamble set forward by the fantasy world of children, which makes young readers to wander about in the enchanting world of magic, animation and anthropomorphism. Amidst providing aid to their leisure times and enriching their vocabulary, ...
This study presents the results of an exploratory bibliometric ‘topical’ analysis with regard to mainly primary research regarding the Rorschach published in journal articles 2000-2016. The major aim is to a) determine the scope and breadth of investigatory areas most emphasi...
Numerous clinical and experimental studies have reported that women are more dependent than men. These conclusions are based primarily on self-reported (or “self-attributed”) dependency scores, where women almost invariably obtain higher scores than men. However, this has n...
The present study attempts to validate and extend the earlier findings linking blood pressure (BP) and reduced emotion recognition ability i.e., emotional dampening (ED). Twenty normotensive participants had their BP readings taken via an automated BP monitor and were subsequent...
A cursory review of the recent literature in the areas of testing and assessment tends to depict the impression that Thematic tests have been largely eschewed in professional practice over the past 2 decades. Indeed, this class of assessment instruments has been the target of ext...
In my Jan 2016 editorial I wrote about the time limited aspects of the human body and hence its occupant’s existence. Since then I have turned 82 years old and confess to readers that my psychological defense mechanisms are weakening which earlier in life enabled me to deny “...
Cognitive Drill Therapy (CDT) capitalizes on the principles of classical conditioning, operant conditioning, cognitive appraisal and linguistics. Combined together in a customized manner, application of these principles have the potentials of efficient handling of stimulus bound ...
Exner Jr’s contribution in the area of Clinical Psychology especially personality assessment has been remarkable. He has devoted his entire professional life in the development of Rorschach and his comprehensive system. His methods, procedures and interpretation of Rorschach be...
Children have variety of problems and are highly vulnerable to physical and verbal abuse, sexual victimization, critical traumatic experiences, and accidents. They are exposed to unhealthy habits like smoking, drug usages, theft, robbery and other illegal activities. They don...
SIS is a projective tools which can be employed to tap both intra-psychic and interpersonal aspects of a person. We were interested to study if any of SIS-II indices are linked with suggestibility of the respondents. We sampled 18 adults in the age range of 18-35 years after scre...
Insight has been widely studied in clinical setting. Nowadays, attention has shifted to cognitive insight or the ability to scrutinize and correct one’ incorrect convictions. Schizophrenia may be conceptualized as a chronic neurocognitive disorder with diverse levels of functi...
There is accumulating evidence that projective techniques can be successfully used in clinical differential diagnosis. The present study was conducted to compare SIS profile of non-chronic schizophrenia patient and chronic schizophrenia patient. Results show that non-chronic schi...
The purpose of the present investigation was to find the personality profile and coping strategies of individuals with attempted suicide. Sixty individuals participated in the study out of which thirty had attempted suicide and thirty were normal subjects. It was a purposive samp...
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is one of the most practised forms of psychotherapies for the treatment of patients suffering from social phobia. The present case study is an attempt to provide therapeutic intervention programme to a 21 years old, unmarried female client suffer...
Use of psychiatric treatment outcomes is critical to informing treatment, revising care plans, and determining criterion for placement in levels of acute, sub-acute, or residential care. As such, psychiatric treatment outcomes are widely recommended but seldom implemented due to...
The Bender-Gestalt Test (B-G) has long been a standard measure in the assessment of perceptual-motor integration and frequently relied upon by psychologists and psycho-educational specialists. Historically, this instrument has ranked amongst the top tests in clinical usage. Moreo...
The present study aimed to explore the associations among emotional intelligence and Rorschach’s special indices in patients with schizophrenia. A sample of 30 male patients with different types of schizophrenia (diagnosed using ICD 10) each within age range of 18-45 years was ...
Sensorium-oriented self-system peeps into the external reality in search of bodily pleasure and its resonance in mind. In the process itself, it encounters pains at times. Pleasure and pain are inevitably entwined. To have peace, harmony and the deep feelings of serenity in this ...
Hypnotizability is a key variable of interest which is being studied with reference to several psychological and physiological variables. In the present study we explored the relationship between Hypnotizability and Suggestibility in young adults. A correlational design was used....
Self-esteem is an important component of psychological health. Self-esteem refers to an individual’s sense of value or worth, or the extent to which a person appreciates, or likes himself. Treatment failures, functional loss, demoralization and stigmatization may lower self-est...
Hearing is one of the major sensory ability of an individual. Hearing of spoken language is most important in the process of developing human life. Hindrance in the process of hearing can cause hearing impairment or deafness. A sample of 300 hearing impaired adolescents including...
Hidden conflicts are caused by the actual needs of the individual, which can be steady using the Zondi test. On the basis of the incentives formula of the person, which includes the root promptings, situational and manifested factors in the procedure sociometric research method i...
Advances in art based assessments in art therapy in clinical settings led to the development of objective measurements of various elements in drawing. The present study was aimed at assessing the elements that are related to depression manifested in the drawing task of “Person ...
The present study examined the role of self- esteem and emotion regulation on the mental health of youth. 121 college students were administered Self Esteem Inventory, DERS scale and Mental Health Scale. Statistical analysis was done using Two Way ANOVA. The findings revealed sig...
The present research investigated the emotional characteristics of children diagnosed with Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in comparison with control group. For this purpose, 30 children with ADHD and 30 children without any psychiatric morbidity age ranging from...
The promotion of healthy child development has become a major focus of world attention over the last three decades. However, children are often afflicted by emotional disorders in the recent years. These are exhibited by undue thoughts and disrupted behaviors as...
The correlation of Rorschach, SIS-I and SIS-II inkblot tests were measured to find out the mutual empirical validity with MMPI test. The three tests were administered to 98 subjects. The results were ciphered on identical forms containing 54 categories which were correlated with...
“Everyone is going to die, it doesn’t bother me – I just don’t want to be there when it happens!” – Woody Allen People worldwide face their own ultimate mortality with a wide range of culturally/emotionally colored reactions. Like the comedian Woody Allen, some use hu...
This case demonstrates the role of cognitive drill therapy in the treatment of panic disorder with agoraphobia. A 52-year-old female patient presented with eight years H/O panic disorder with agoraphobia. The Body Sensations Questionnaire, Agoraphobic Cognitions Questionnaire, ...
Somatic Inkblot Series (SIS) was conceptualized in 1959 by Dr. Wilfred A. Cassell and has attracted clinicians internationally. The SIS is based on the theory of body symbolism, somatic imagery theory and inner cry for help. Somatic Imagery Theory proposes that “everyone has a ...
Somatic Ink blot Series (SIS) has been used with different clinical groups in India and found to be very effective tool in diagnostic evaluation and therapeutic intervention. It has also been used on various normal populations. However, the review of literature is scanty so far a...
The body image is closely related to what we feel about our body. The present study was conducted to find out the relationship between body esteem, attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance in young adults. A sample of 60 subjects (30 males and 30 females) between 22 to 30 year...
By the year 2020, depression is estimated to become the second leading cause of disability. Much has been written about the incidence of depression in western countries but, an area of significance is the developing country like India where depression is engulfing people from al...
The nostalgia and mystery of childhood poses to be an eminent question to behavioural scientists. The present investigation attempts to plunge into the intricacies of childhood among a specific sub-section of orphan children across the backdrop of their normal counterparts to pro...
The Somatic Inkblot Series-II (Cassell and Dubey, 2003) was administered to an 18 years old girl, studying in 12th class with complaints of fits (fainting attacks), headache and nausea. She was diagnosed as a case of “Dissociative Convulsion Disorder” as per ICD-10. The SIS r...
The relationship between children’s drawings that serve as thematic picture cards for a clinician’s thematic apperceptive technique (TAT) enquiry format and Tulving’s explanations of memory development are described. Particular attention is given to describing the influence...
Academic training with projective methods has been an enduring and enigmatic feature of the assessment curriculum in professional and clinical psychology since the 1940s. However, the past 2 decades have witnessed a steady stream of rather disparaging commentary directed largely ...
Dream is the language of unconscious mind. It brings the suppressed unprocessed unconscious material hidden in the store house of unconscious mind. Its symbolic interpretation helps in understanding the inner world of the dreamer. Symbolic interpretation may further help as an a...
In early April of this year my wife and I traveled to Victoria, British Columbia on Vancouver Island in Canada. Here we live in a retirement facility for seniors that have beautiful grounds. Initially for a few evenings this environmental setting enabled a mesmerizing view of a b...
The new era is the witness of an emerging concept - Metacognition, and this perspective is contributing towards the effective understanding and treatment of psychopathology. This Case study investigated the role of metacognition and focused on the changes resulting from the use o...
The present study was an attempt to gather preliminary observations to explore if Exner’s Comprehensive Scoring System is sensitive enough to tap and discriminate various kinds of disorders of content of thought, specifically, delusion of infidelity in persons with psychotic il...
Culture is the lens or template we use in perceiving, constructing, defining and interpreting reality. People from different cultural contexts are expected to define and experience reality in different ways. The views of therapies developed in the western individualistic culture ...
Panek, Wagner and Kennedy-Zwergel (1983) and Hayslip and Lowman (1986) have reviewed the use of expressive personality tests with older adults. In this context, the present review presents and discusses the research on human figure drawing techniques (HFD) with older adults durin...
Social desirability bias represents tendency to present oneself in a socially desirable or positive manner to others. As there is high possibility of faking good or bad in objective psychological tools many psychologists rely more on projective psychological assessment to identif...
This year in the August issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, Douglas C. Thomas Ph.D. et al ’s most interesting paper entitled “Modifying Resilience Mechanisms in at Risk Individuals: A Controlled Study of Mindfulness Training in Marines Preparing for Deployment” is ...
Thalassemia is one of the common genetic disease. The present study intends to investigate the personality profile of patients suffering from thalassemia through Somatic Inkblot Series Test (SIS-II). Thirty patients attending Thalassemia Control Unit of Malda Medical College &...
Psychological measurement that require subjects to interpret ambiguous stimuli have long been labeled projective tests, but because the degree to which projection shapes responses to these stimuli is unclear, recently these instruments have been described as free-response tests...
The present study has attempted to assess daily hassles stress, coping and emotional processing in two groups of Chronic Pain patients- viz. Chronic Headache and Chronic Low Back Pain and further compared the groups with a Normal group. The sample comprised of 22 patients sufferi...
Children without parental care are in high risk for abuse and neglect. Hence large number of these children ends up in institutional care. Inadequate individual care may cause social and emotional impairment in children; maltreatment may also influence the child’s psyche. The l...
The formats of a society and the flow of life therein are its interpersonal bonds. In relational matrix in life, the possibilities of health and ill health are equally prominent. Healthy relationships are avenues of happiness and well-being; unhealthy relationships invite patholo...
The present study aimed at the exploration of gender-specific projective and psychometric personality indicants of suicide ideation. For this, 300 Senior Secondary School students (150 females & 150 males) randomly drawn from various schools of Gurgaon and Delhi, were adminis...
The case study involves a near fatal Alaskan Brown bear attack experienced in 2013 by a Vietnam veteran, who had been severely stressed on two separate combat occasions during Vietnam War. These occurred when the helicopter in which he was riding shot down. While he survived two ...
Please be forewarned. This editorial may activate introspective spiritual connected cognitions having neurophysiologic linked emotionally charged memories. These may prove potentially psycho-spiritually disturbing! In completing the following mental exercise, it might be subjecti...
Somatic Inkblot series-II (SIS-II) was administered to a 30 years male, educated up to 9th class, preoccupied with thoughts of being ugly for the last 15 years, with decreased social interaction and low mood from last 2 years. According to DSM-IV, he was diagnosed as “Body Dysm...
The present study was conducted to examine the SIS-II correlates of suicide ideation. To realize the main objective, 480 Secondary School students (186 females and 294 males) drawn from 11th & 12th grade students of various Senior Secondary Schools of Gurgaon and Delhi, were ...
Low prevalence has been reported for somatization in psychiatric set up; however, high rate of this psychiatric disease in the general health set up is creating high disease burden. It is also reported that somatization is hardly diagnosed due to its high emphasis on physical dom...