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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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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, ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
Persons with marital conflict contact professionals when it goes beyond their control and the problem they present with are usually verbal or physical abuse. Consecutive six couples who were referred for psychological evaluation for marital problem and who had sexual dissatisfact...
The present study assessed 10 mentally challenged children on Madras Development Programming System (MDPS) Behavioural Scale before and after a training programme. The comparison of the behavioural assessment data on six domains of using ‘t’ revealed a significant difference ...
Psychogenic cough in adults is not commonly reported and the treatment of the medically unexplainable symptom is a challenge to the health professionals. A case of 26 year old married male from Afghanistan, who was having cough for one year duration, diagnosed as psychogenic hea...
This clinical case report examines the marital stressors activated when a husband develops paranoid delusions with dangerous suicidal/ homicidal impulses. He falsely portrayed that his wife is sexually unfaithful to him. The SIS-II booklet form of the test was administered to hi...
The Somatic Inkblot Series-II (SIS-II) Booklet version was administered to a 30 years male, Transsexual to understand his personality and inner cry if any. The inkblots images were helpful to bring out poor interpersonal relationship with others, homosexual behavior, severe depre...
Recently, in a senior residence in Victoria, British Columbia, I interviewed a 91 year old man about how he acquired empathy/compassion for animals. He related a stressful, life changing l incident that had occurred years previously when hunting deer. Apparently, he saw a mature ...
Somatic Inkblot Series Booklet version was administered to a 19 years old girl, student of 12th grade with decent family background. She always liked and adopted the life style of a boy used to dress up like boys and drive motorbike. She had emotional attachment and physical rela...
The present study aims to explore how the three groups of subjects, alcohol dependents not attending any self-help group (NON-AA), Alcohol dependents attending self-help groups (Alcoholic Anonymous) and normal control differ with respect to the personality variables namely, “A...
Human Figure Drawing Test (HFDT) is a reliable and valid projective assessment tool; has potential to elicit information regarding cognition, feelings and overall personality of an individual. There is considerable diversity in the standardization of HFDT in forensic setting, and...
The present study investigates certain psychodynamic processes of homosexuals and compares it with that of heterosexuals. The objectives of the study were to: (a) explore the oedipal relations and conflicts of male and female homosexual subjects, (b) explore and compare the oedip...
SIS-I has been used by a number of researchers on a variety of population. However, it has not been specifically tested on patients with sexual problems i.e. inadequate penile erection for a satisfactory sexual interaction with females and premature ejaculation. 40 normal individ...
Mental health professionals have historically been trained with Eurocentric-derived assessment procedures and tests for children in North America. A survey of clinical assessment procedures that could easily be adapted in a cultural-free format for use with Aboriginal children wa...
In recent years there has been a growing controversy regarding the validity of the APA diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder. This categorization is not recognized internationally and perhaps the closest approximation internationally in the ICU-10 is “Emotionally Unstabl...
This editorial is dedicated to the spirit of the unknown individual who eons ago accepted a monumental gift from our “Cosmic Creator”. This Divine selected person was given positive energy accompanied by enlightening insight concerning the “Body image” focusing foundation...
The fairy Tale Test can be effectively employed as a basic technique for clinical assessment of personality. The test standardized on a large sample of non-referred children and found to be useful in assessing developmental changes, or situational effects in children. Most import...
This paper reports a research carried out with the Zulliger Technique focused on professional activity, culture and personality issues. The author has approached the productiveness, performance capabilities, social interaction and rational control levels in a normative sample of ...
The present study was conducted on 480 subjects , half of them male and half female in four categories to find out the effect of age and sex on the projection of Total number of responses, Human responses, Animal responses, Anatomical responses, Sex responses, Movement responses,...
This paper reports differences in psychogenic syndromes of 29 learning disabled children who were divided into three subgroups (trainable, sever and profound) on the basis of their learning disability quotient (LDQ). The Rorschach Inkblot Test was individually administered on the...
A 45 years male, working as an Assistant Manager in a bank with two children was referred to the first author for Psychotherapy. Somatic Inkblot Series II was administered to him. The responses revealed his poor interpersonal relationship with his wife and family tension. Respons...
This paper shows the importance of ‘Spiritual urge’(S) in human beings, which, if repressed leads to psychoneurosis, just as the repression of sexual urge does. A case-history has been reported to illustrate the phenomenon. The paper also brings out the superiority of SIS (II...
This paper reports differences in total number of responses on SIS-II in male and female adolescent adults, late adults and old aged subjects. High and low scorer males (n=240) and females (n=240) were identified by the median cut-off score on the criterion of total number of res...
Somatic Inkblot Series card form was administered to 91 Russian female adolescents (age range 18 to 20 years) in addition to some personality questionnaires, general health and psychological measures in order to find out the personality correlates of selected SIS variables. Russi...
Somatic Inkblot Series- Card form (Cassell, 1980) was administered to 91 Russian female adolescents in the age group of 18 to 22 years and to a comparable group of 168 Americans in the age range of 18 to 23 years. Examples of negative sexual responses are described on the 20 SIS ...
The Somatic Inkblot Series-Video was administered to a 22 years old young, unmarried, graduate lady who had reported history of rape. The SIS responses revealed her traumatic experiences. Her hatred and aggression along with feeling of helplessness and craving for protection were...
Cases are often referred to a Clinical Psychologist for assessment of percentage disability-particularly about intellectual functions. Dependable information on this are not available, though literature on the cognitive functions and their measures are many. In this article, a mo...
The study compared the direction and type of aggressive reaction to frustration among adolescent boys with conduct disorder (n=20), depression (n=20) as well as a group of normal subjects (n=40). The diagnosis of the two clinical groups was confirmed by two psychiatrists and two ...
The present study aims at studying the difference of responses on SIS-II variables of managers and students. He sample consists of 50 managers and 100 students. Findings showed significant differences in total number of responses animal responses and sex responses, where no signi...
The Draw-a-person test the Rorschach Inkblot test was administered to three male transsexual patients. Analysis of the figures drawn by the subjects was done following Machover (1948) and the Rorschach responses were scored following Klopfer Davidson (1962). Results revealed that...
Somatic Inkblot Series-II (SIS) was administered to a 35 years old, educated, married lady who is suffering from ulcer. Somatic Inkblot images brought out her cold feelings for her husband, conflicting family life, broken love affair, affectional deprivation and suicidal ideation...
The present study aims at striding the sex difference in various personality domains of extremely prolonged deprived segment. The study was conducted on Intermediate students in the age group between 16 to 18 years and equal number of 30 respondents were included of both the sexe...
The Somatic Inkblot Series-I was administered to 75 Normal Army Subjects (35 Male and 40 Female), individually, following standard procedures (Cassell, 1980). The results indicated that female subjects gave more number of responses and male subjects rejected more cards. Female su...
SIS Video has been found to be a powerful test in understanding the inner world of the suffering individual. It brings out unprocessed material from the unconscious, which needs processing. A case report of 30 years woman suffering from episodes of anger with history of physical ...
The present study aims at identifying the basic personality structure and evaluating 15 primary traits of personality on Rorschach Inkblot Test of the High and Low Deprived adolescents. Prolonged Deprivation scale was employed as the screening instrument for identifying the two e...
Somatic Inkblot Series-video (SIS) was administered to two female patients belonging to high strata of the society. They were feeling uneasy at home with severe conflict with their family. SIS was able to bring out inner cry of the individuals and after therapeutic intervention t...
Forty-five drug addicts were studied; of these 15 were HIV negative, 15 HIV positive and 15 HIV positive and undergoing AZT therapies. We used the SIS-I projective psychological test to assess emotional perception of the body. We observed emotional elements revealing unconscious ...
The Somatic Inkblot Series-I (SIS-I) test was administered to two Transsexual to under stand their personality, and inner cry if any. The test was found to be very powerful to bring out lots of unprocessed unconscious material. SIS was further helpful in the process of therapeuti...
Forty eight adolescents in the age range of 15 to 17 years, studying in 10th Class were administered SIS-Video to find out: Whether adolescents differ from adults in their perception of inkblot images of SIS –Video and whether the length of the test could be reduced. It was fou...
SIS-II was administered to 25 adult psychiatric patients in order to see whether it can differentiate between normal and patients on the basis of selected variables. The results confirmed the hypothesis that psychiatric patients gave less number of responses, rejected more images...