Mental Mood Research Articles

Эсхатологическая дилемма В.С. Соловьева: человеческая свобода или божественная необходимость?

The article deals with the eschatological ideas of V.S. Solovyov, which are the most important part of his historiosophy. The author notes that in the works of the philosopher, two largely disparate eschatologies stand out in relief. Despite the presence of many high-quality studies devoted to his work, the question of the ideological metamorphosis that caused this remains uncompletely clarified. "A special change in mental mood," in the words of V.S. Solovyov, which happened to him, has become a mystery both for the successors of his work and for modern researchers. In fact, they were faced with a dilemma: either, when comprehending history, to focus on human freedom and develop constructions of a socio-evolutionary type, or to focus on divine necessity, thereby falling under the influence of deterministic mindsets. The purpose of this article is to analyze the eschatological ideas of the Russian thinker and identify differences in the ideas characteristic of him in the early and late periods of his creative activity. To achieve it, the author resorts to comparative analysis, considering two landmark works by V.S. Solovyov: "Readings on God-Manhood", in which the evolutionary eschatology of the thinker was most adequately stated, and "Three Conversations...", which give a visual representation of the change in the thinker's worldview in the direction of transcendent Christian eschatology. As a result of the study, it is concluded that the dilemma posed by V.S. Solovyov requires not a choice between two different statements but their combination, which is what the thinker tried to do in his life of philosophizing. The most accurate way to the "spiritual testament" of V.S. Solovyov was followed by Russian metaphysicians, who further developed the history of philosophy and eschatology of the transcendental type, accepting the concept of Providence without detracting from the significance of the activity of free individuals capable of creativity.

Spa Therapy as a Way of Improvement of the Quality of Life for People with Muscellaneous Problems

his research focused on the study of the effect of spa therapy on improving the quality of life, in particular in terms of the areas of physical functionality, psychological functionality, as well as sociality, in people who have problems with the spine (lumbar spine). The dysfunction of people due to their musculoskeletal problems and the ways to deal with them is a challenge for physical therapy. Method: The sample consisted of people with musculoskeletal problems, who were recipients of spa therapy services. Questionnaires were used that record the functionality of individuals in relation to the musculoskeletal problem they face, in this case, the lumbar spine. Results: From the study of the completed questionnaires, information was obtained on gender, age, occupation, health problems and the reasons that prompted the sample to use spa treatments, and the frequency of visits to spa towns. There are clear indications that the use of thermal water with a frequency of at least ten visits per year, favors people with lumbar problems. There is an improvement in mobility (better functionality in the spine), but also in the bathers' quality of life as they perceive a reduction in pain, reduced irritability, and a better mental mood. The professional action of the physical education scientist can play a decisive role in maximizing the effectiveness of the intervention through spa therapy. Conclusions: Physical education can and should have an active role in the development of Bath Therapy. Organization and appropriate actions are required to utilize the results of the research so that it takes its rightful place.

Жас әйелдердің психологиялық саулығын зерттеудің теориялық негіздері

The article notes the special place of women in the state and society, at the same time, unfortunately, such an important role of the second half of humanity in modern society is not fully realized. In such conditions, little attention is paid to the psychological well-being and quality of life of women in general, and young women in particular. The real psychological state of young women, their uncomfortable state, their helplessness, feelings of loneliness and unhappiness are not fully investigated. The domestic violence that takes place leads to the fact that they become victims of difficult life situations. The general situation, as well as the priority of human rights around the world, and the positive dynamics of the development of society and competitive living conditions of people encourage people to a comfortable, harmonious life, maintaining their productive level, to maintain the balance of positive and negative aspects of their mental moods. Today, the subjective psychological well-being of a person and young women, in particular their quality of life, happiness, life satisfaction, and their other problems, are actively studied in economics, political science, cultural studies, healthcare, social and psychological sciences. The paper shows the approaches and conclusions of scientists on the concept of psychological well-being and quality of life, a sense of satisfaction, happiness, and also considers ways to study factors, lifestyle, methodological and theoretical aspects, mechanisms of objective and subjective assessment of human life and identifies ways to study the psychological well-being of young women.

A Meta-Analysis of Students' Sense of Self-Esteem Among Iranian Studies

Self-esteem is crucial for the survival and mental health of human. It is not stable and changes heavily depend on physical conditions (health or disease), life experiences (success or failure), as well as mental moods (happiness or sadness). As many basic needs do not be satisfied with a lack of self-esteem, it is thought of as a prerequisite to an emotional life. Self-esteem is defined as how people describe and evaluate themselves. The present research aimed to conduct a meta-analysis on studies discovering the effects of psychological interventions on students' sense of self-esteem. The sample consisted of 50 Iranian studies. The snowball sampling technique was employed for studies have done in the last 14 years. Cohen's W effect size, Cochran q-statistic, Etu squared regression, publication bias, n-index, invulnerable number to error, as well as Orwin statistics were employed. Then CAM software was used to analyze data. Cohen's effect size value obtained from the effects of psychological interventions on students' self-esteem was 52.14±1.0 () (P-Value<0.001). 682 studies were required to reject the significant effects of psychological interventions. All early studies suggested a significant effect on Cohen's effect size, so leaving out every one of them changed the results. However, the significance of psychological interventions on students' self-esteem still maintained when any of the studies were omitted. Results suggested a significant effect of psychological interventions on students' sense of self-esteem, and most of them have raised its index.

Highly Potent and Selective Butyrylcholinesterase Inhibitors for Cognitive Improvement and Neuroprotection.

Butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) has been considered as a potential therapeutic target for Alzheimer's disease (AD) because of its compensation capacity to hydrolyze acetylcholine (ACh) and its close association with Aβ deposit. Here, we identified S06-1011 (hBChE IC50 = 16 nM) and S06-1031 (hBChE IC50 = 25 nM) as highly effective and selective BChE inhibitors, which were proved to be safe and long-acting. Candidate compounds exhibited neuroprotective effects and the ability to improve cognition in scopolamine- and Aβ1-42 peptide-induced cognitive deficit models. The best candidate S06-1011 increased the level of ghrelin, a substrate of BChE, which can function as improving the mental mood appetite. The weight gain of the S06-1011-treated group remarkably increased. Hence, BChE inhibition not only plays a protective role against dementia but also exerts a great effect on treating and nursing care.

Analysis of the Application Effect of Health Education in Skin Care

&lt;p&gt;Objective: to analyze the effect of health education intervention in clinical nursing of patients with skin diseases. Methods: from January 2018 to March 2019, 122 patients with skin diseases were admitted to our hospital and randomly divided into two groups, with 61 cases in each group. The selected patients gave informed consent to this study. The control group was given routine dermatological care, and the observation group was given systematic health education. The treatment effect, mood score and quality of life score of the two groups were compared. Results: the treatment time, recurrence times and outpatient treatment times of the observation group were lower than those of the control group, the difference was statistically significant (P &amp;lt; 0.05); the HAMA score and HAMD score of the observation group after intervention were lower than the control group, the difference was statistically significant (P &amp;lt; 0.05). Conclusion: the implementation of health education for patients with skin diseases during the nursing process can effectively promote the recovery of the condition and reduce the number of treatments and recurrences. At the same time, it can improve the patients’ bad mental mood and improve the quality of life of the patients.&lt;/p&gt;

Boris Pasternak: “In Everything I Want to Get to the Very Essence”

The article considers the poetic heritage of B.L. Pasternak in the paradigm of the unity of philosophy and literary creativity as a peculiarity of Russian culture. The author demonstrates that dominant feature of Pasternak’s works is “syncretism of the picturer and the pictured” and argues that the basis of this syncretism is in the unity of thought and feeling, of reflection and mental mood, metaphors and artistic associations, poetic language and symbolic forms; and each time this unity takes its own special, unique forms. This aesthetic polyphonism has its own meaning and value basis. Early Pasternak was influenced by Russian symbolism, by its interpretation of creativity as knowledge and by the interpretation of knowledge as creativity as well as the idea of harmony between these two manifestations of human spirit. The author demonstrates that the foundation of this poetic credo is in the recognition of life as the medium of beauty and harmony, this credo allowed him to see universal meanings that unite people in a torn world, to save “his face as a poet” in spite of all the misfortunes of his personal fate and the tragic events of his time.

THE EMOTIONAL INFECTION OF THE VIRTUAL INNOVATION PROJECT TEAM

Emotional infection is considered as a social and psychological mechanism of transferring the mental mood of the manager to the virtual project team and stakeholders of the projects. Emotional impact in the face of direct contact and the inclusion of the virtual team members in certain mental states have an impact on the effectiveness of project management. The main objective of emotional infection analysis is educated and creates the organization of new behavior in adverse, deadly, and aggressive external conditions the manager or virtual team. In times of global crisis and depression 2.0, the emotional behavior of the innovation project manager and his infection with the project team is exacerbated by external uncertainty. The stakeholder infection model is based on an understanding of the life cycle of the project manager, which is presented as a curve for personal changes of the manager of innovative communication projects and programs. Emotions are considered in content, reflecting the various aspects and meanings that caused them. To apply the psychophysiological formula for assessing the impact of the emotional state of the virtual team of innovative projects, these influences have been transformed into a competent model for managing these projects.

Tympanic Resonance Hypothesis.

Seemingly unrelated symptoms in the head and neck region are eliminated when a patch is applied on specific locations on the Tympanic Membrane. Clinically, two distinct patient populations can be distinguished; cervical and masticatory muscle tensions are involved, and mental moods of anxiety or need. Clinical observations lead to the hypothesis of a “Tympanic Resonance Regulating System.” Its controller, the Trigeminocervical complex, integrates external auditory, somatosensory, and central impulses. It modulates auditory attention, and directs it toward unpredictable external or expected domestic and internal sounds: peripherally by shifting the resonance frequencies of the Tympanic Membrane; centrally by influencing the throughput of auditory information to the neural attention networks that toggle between scanning and focusing; and thus altering the perception of auditory information. The hypothesis leads to the assumption that the Trigeminocervical complex is composed of a dorsal component, and a ventral one which may overlap with the concept of “Trigeminovagal complex.” “Tympanic Dissonance” results in a host of local and distant symptoms, most of which can be attributed to activation of the Trigeminocervical complex. Diagnostic and therapeutic measures for this “Tympanic Dissonance Syndrome” are suggested.

Population management in integrated care organization in Poland: resource utilization for performing health risk assessment

Introduction: Risk stratification is a key process in delivering large-scale integrated care, as it allows cluster assignment, tailored services’ design and case identification. Objectives: To assess the resource use for performing risk assessment visits in patients of an Integrated Care Organization ICO in Poland. Targeted population: Patients belonging to ICO - Medical and DiagnosticCenter in Siedlce 27 primary health care units PHC, over 84,000 patients belonging to PHC located in Mazovian and Lublin provinces of Poland. The pilot study was conducted in 13 PHC sites of this ICO 3 urban and 10 rural. 22 PHC doctors, 8 nurses, 7 medical receptionists 1 dietician were involved. Adult patients with no health examination within last 12 months were recruited – they were invited by phone call or redirected from the PHC doctor’s office. 122 patients participated in the study: 71 women 58.2% and 51 men 41.8% with a median age of 45 range: 18-65. Time range: October 10-30, 2017. Methods: The 1st part of risk assessment visit, performed by a nurse coordinator, was a medical interview, assessment of basic vital and anthropometric parameters. The 2nd part of visit, performed as appropriate by nurse, nurse coordinator, receptionist or dietician, was planning and filling in the data of obtained diagnostic tests results. The 3rd part of visit, performed by PHC doctor, was physical examination, discussion of tests’ results and other data obtained, and patient’s health status defining. 135 variables were analyzed to perform risk assessment, including personal details, detailed interview, anthropometric measurements, physical examination, results of diagnostic tests, diagnosis and patient’s health status. The patient interview questionnaire enclosed questions used to determine general health state, physical activity, mental mood, occurrence of familial cancers and chronic diseases, medical history, presence of chronic conditions, participation in preventive programs, smoking, alcohol intake, medications taken and other complaints. Each stage of performing health risk assessment visit was measured in terms of time spent by PHC doctors, nurses, nurse coordinators, medical receptionists and dieticians. Results: The average duration of the whole health risk assessment process was 95 minutes. Average time spent by nurse or medical receptionist was 62 minutes and average time spent by doctor was 33 minutes. The maximal time of health risk assessment visit was 157 minutes with nurse coordinator or other nurse participation through 110 minutes and PHC doctor - 47 minutes. The minimal time of health risk assessment visit was 70 minutes nurse- 45 minutes and doctor- 25 minutes. Average duration of the first part of visit was 49 minutes range 30 - 90. Average duration of second part was 13 minutes range 5-30. Average duration of the third part of visit was 33 minutes range 16-65. Conclusions: Appropriate division of duties in the team is required for adult patients heaving no health examination within last 12 months, as it requires significant amount of time. Lessons learned: Resource utilization was assessed for the purpose of economical assessments.

Mental mood of gynecologic cancer patients assessed by distress and impact thermometer (DIT; a two-item, self-report questionnaire) and hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS; a 14-item, self-report questionnaire) during the initial treatment in the first 6 months: KCOG-G1103 study.

9568 Background: Thirty percent of cancer patients are reported to suffer from psychological distress which detracts from treatment adherence, but that is often underestimated in clinical settings....

HIGH risk of chronic pain in women with LOW education, LOW socio-economic status, and LOW mood

[ In this issue of the Scandinavian Journal of Pain Thomten et al. ublish an interesting study on chronic pain in women indicating hat depressive symptoms may have a mediating role in the high isk of developing chronic pain inwomenwith low socio-economic tatus [1]. Their study confirms what Eriksen et al. have reported n their publications from the ongoing health surveys in Denmark or almost two decades [2]: low education and depression in midle aged women are significantly associated with persistent pain onditions. We do not know what is the egg and what is the hen: oes low mental mood and depression cause chronic pain [3,4]? r does a persistent pain condition and the accompanying stress n mental energy, working abilities, social interactions and finanial strain cause depression [3,4]? Or is the explanation that some nfortunate persons have a shared vulnerability to both chronic ain and mental diseases such as depression, possibly through a ysfunctional brain dopamine system as suggested by Taiminen t al. [5]. It is not possible to successfully treat chronic pain withut treating the accompanying depression as suggested by Linton nd Bergbom [3] and strongly supported by Nicholas [4]. It is also ot possible to help a complex chronic pain patient with a massive urden of socio-economic problems in addition to the pain conition without helping the patient with her (most often women) conomic and social problems as emphasized by Hagelberg [6] and ho et al. [7,8]. The study by Thomten et al. [1] in this issue of the candinavian Journal of Pain is therefore a valuable reminder that hronic pain is strongly associated with the socio-economic status f the patient and that those who try to help these unfortunate omen face a complex challenge where a truly multidisciplinary eam approach is necessary [9]. The social worker, the psychologist nd psychiatrist [3,4,10], the physiotherapist [11], as well as speialists inwomen’s diseases [11] aremore important than the “pain pecialist” using pharmacology and interventional techniques. All of these aspects of chronic pain among women have been eviewed and discussed in-depth during the three first years of our ublishing the Scandinavian Journal of Pain [1,3–11]. As founding ditor-in-Chief, I am grateful for all the enthusiastic contributors to

The effect of psychological intervention which biofeedback combine with relax therapy and music treatment on the quality of life and emotion in the patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Objective To investigate the integration effect of psychological intervention which biofeedback combine with relax therapy and music treatment on quality of life( QOL)and emotion in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Method To use clinic control study, a total of 113 patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma were randomly grouped psychological intervention and control group. All participants completed pre-intervention and post-intervention measures and a 6-week follow-up questionnaire consisting of WHO quality of life questionnaire brief (WHOQOL-BREF)and SAS, SDS. Result ①After treatment, the scores of SAS, SDS, mental mood symptoms, mental motor disorder and depression disorder in the psychological therapy group (44. 23 ± 7. 53 ,0. 50 ± 0. 04, 3.01 ±0.87,2.70 ±0.51,17.00±1.88 respectively) were lower than those in control group(48. 36 ±6. 77,0. 56 ±0.06,3.90±1.31,3.49±0.45,18.07 ±2. 11 respectively), P = 0. 021,0. 001,0. 017 ,0. 000,0. 038 respectively. ②After treatment, the scores of physical field physiological field and quality of life in the psychological group were significantly higher than those in the control groups(P<0.01). Conclusion It can efficiently improve anxiety depression and Quality of life of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma to use psychological intervention which biofeedback combine with relax therapy and music treatment. Key words: Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Psychological intervention; Quality of life; Emotion

Caregiving behavior and interactions of prenatally depressed mothers (antidepressant-treated and non-antidepressant-treated) during newborn acute pain.

This exploratory study aimed to examine time-based measures of the behaviors and interactions of prenatally depressed serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRI)-medicated mothers to their infant's pain (n = 10) by comparing them with similar measures obtained from prenatally depressed nonmedicated mothers and their infants (n = 10), and nondepressed mothers and their infants (n = 10). During the second trimester of their pregnancy, the 30 study mothers were assessed for depression and anxiety, with no further measures of maternal mood taken. Maternal and infant interactions were continuously videorecorded while the infant underwent a scheduled heel lance for routine blood screening that occurred when study infants were between the ages of 24 and 60 hr. Maternal behavior and infant cry, for all 30 cases, were coded second-by-second for the full duration of each infant's heel lance using a reliable coding system and analyzed using odds ratio and regression analyses. Infants exposed to prenatal SRIs and depressed maternal mood were more likely to have lower Apgar scores and to exhibit weak and absent cry. Even when duration of the heel lance was controlled for, women with depression during the second trimester were more likely to exhibit depressed behavior at 2 days' postpartum despite sustained SRI antidepressant treatment. Both groups of prenatally depressed mothers were more likely to exhibit diminished response to their infants' pain cue although nonmedicated mothers' expressions of depressed behavior were more similar to healthy controls. Comprehensive understanding is essential to optimize the clinical care of mothers and their infants in this complex setting. This study contributes preliminary new findings that warrant prospective and longitudinal studies to clarify further the impacts of prenatal SRI and maternal mental mood (e.g., chronic depression and anxiety) effects on the mother-infant interaction and infant pain and stress reactivity.

Information coverage in advisory brokers

Traditionally, information retrieval aims to find information carriers, such as documents, that best match some query or some other (intentional) description of a searcher's information need. In this article, we take the approach that searchers turn to an information retrieval system with the aim of finding several alternatives that completely satisfy their (complex) information need. In other words, searchers expect the retrieval system to help them in covering their information need, rather than merely providing them with a myriad of hopefully relevant information carriers. Ideally, the system should respond by advising one or more packages of information carriers with the requested cumulative effect. This also enables searchers to better trade off between the costs of acquiring and reading/internalizing information carriers versus the expected informational benefits. This article focuses on a theory that aims to clarify the underlying problem area. The theory may consequently be used to enhance information retrieval systems in general and teaching and learning systems in particular, with abilities to better cover a searcher's information need. In the theory presented, we also cater to the fact that searchers may be in different mental moods. The consequence of searchers being in different moods is that information carriers are processed differently. Identifying this influence gives the opportunity to advise users according to their specific moods. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Int Syst 22: 1155–1188, 2007.

Analysis of comprehensive geriatric assessment of elderly residents in a social welfare home for the aged compared with those in a residential care home in an urban area in Japan

Background: The purpose of the present study was to clarify the influence of the socioeconomic factors during the middle age on the results of comprehensive geriatric assessments in later stage of life.Methods: A cross‐sectional, questionnaire‐based study was conducted of elderly residents in a welfare home for the aged in Osaka and those in a residential care home in Kyoto. Results of questionnaires pertaining to activities of daily living (ADL), quality of life (QOL) and a 15‐item Geriatric Depression Scale as well as medical and social histories of the two groups were compared by unpaired T‐test and χ2 test.Results: Elderly residents in the welfare home were significantly younger and more were both male and unmarried or divorced than among those in the residential care home. Scores in ADLs and QOLs were significantly lower and the prevalence of depression was significantly higher in residents in the welfare home than in the residential care home.Conclusion: The ADLs, mental mood and subjective QOLs of residents in the welfare home were significantly lower than those of residents in the residential care home. The reason for these differences is suggested to be due to both the differences in the lifestyles of the residents in their middle age and the difference in the quality and quantity of care the residents are receiving. Local social welfare government should pay more attention to lower ADLs and QOLs of residents in welfare homes and increase efforts to improve the quality and quantity of care for them.

Effect of Comfort on Mood States Affecting Performance

This study investigated the hypothesis that excessive physical comfort adversely affects mood states generally associated with superior mental performance. This hypothesis was explored in an experiment on office chairs. Eleven subjects evaluated three chair designs varying in comfort for eight hours on three separate days. The subjects performed a word processing task from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Comfort and discomfort were evaluated using the Shackel Scale and the Corlett Scale. Mood states were evaluated using a mood profile survey. The results suggested that the most comfortable chair induced mental mood states such as boredom, tiredness, sluggishness, (lack of) alertness and (less) energetic feeling which are generally associated with lower mental performance. It is suggested that for knowledge workers, comfort and performance may follow an inverted-U relationship. Too little or too much comfort may be detrimental to both physical and mental performance. This moderation on the view of comfort has considerable implications for the design of the modern workplace, particularly for office furniture. Its relevance to the sedentary work-styles prevalent in the United States is also discussed.

Prof. John Young

JOHN YOUNG was born in Edinburgh in 1835. He was educated at the High School and at the University, and finally he graduated as doctor of medicine. Like many of his time, he came under the spell of the great teachers who then made the northern university famous, such men as Goodsir, Edward Forbes, Christison, Syme and Simpson, and there is reason to believe that in particular the first two gave a scientific bias to Dr. Young's career. For some time he worked on the staff of the Ordnance Survey and made a friend of Sir Roderick Murchison, then a leader in the geological world. This was followed by his appointment to the chair of natural history in the University of Glasgow in 1866, and in this chair he taught both zoology and geology for nearly thirty-five years. After a period of failing health, he died on December 13, 1902. Such, in brief, is an outline of his career, but those who knew Dr. Young will recognise how imperfect a representation it is of the man's personality. Gifted with a keen and penetrating intellect and a fertile imagination, showing versatility of acquirements rarely met with, absolutely unconventional, he was also a man of untiring and restless energy. He was a scholar in a high sense of the term, he possessed a cultivated and pure literary taste, he was an artist facile both with brush and pencil, and he had a wide and critical taste in music. As keeper of the Hunterian Museum, he acquired much knowledge of rare books and manuscripts, of the great collection of coins and medals to be found there, and of works of art. Wide, however, as was the sphere of his activity in the University, he yet found time for active labours in the cause of female education, in the work of the Technical College, and in the municipal and social life of the city of Glasgow. It was this versatility and superabundant energy that hindered Dr. Young from doing the amount of original work in the two sciences of zoology and geology which might have been, expected from a man of his genius, and the vvoik of his life must not be judged from this point of view. His chief labour, perhaps, was the systematic arrangement of the great legacy of William Hunter-books, pictures, medals, engravings, coins-and in this work he took a keen delight and over it he spent laborious hours, even far on into the night when silence reigned in the cloisters. But it was the man's individuality of character that made him a force in his time. Often a determined opponent, he could also be a true friend, while his mental moods, sometimes quiet and observant, ofttimes brilliant and radiant with flashes of wit and humour, constrained even those who knew him best to regard him as a man quite by himself. He has thus left little of an enduring character in the literature of science, but he will be long remembered by many generations of students in the University of Glasgow.

Richter's Correspondence with a Lady. Some Unpublished Letters

In 1796, Richter was living at Hof, in the house with his mother. He sat at his writing-desk in the same room where she was busy with household occupations and composed his humorous, pathetic, and grotesque sentences to the music of the broom, the dish-pan, and the spinning-wheel. Those harmonies were quite unlike the music to which Goethe listened, according to the story in his letters to Frau von Stein as he developed the ‘Iphigenie,’ quite unlike the music under whose inspiration Schiller essayed to rewrite the Fiesko at Oggersheim, of which Streicher tells us in the naïve narrative of Schiller's flight Richter was fully as sensitive to harmony as either Goethe or Schiller, and his improvisations on the piano became afterwards one source of his personal power over refined minds. But there was so great a capacity for higher music within him, that he was sometimes able to forget the discordant noises about him, and many of these higher notes which he struck are so pure and sweet that his critics are apt to overlook the disadvantages of his surroundings. That he himself in some moods keenly felt these limitations is plain enough from his writings. Even the household noises could not always be ignored, and were plainly now and then no inconsiderable disturbance to that serenity of mind necessary for the flight of his imagination. In ‘Siebenkäs,’ which is, as a whole, a pathetic account of his household relations, the fifth chapter containing the recital of Siebenkäs' efforts to adjust the domestic noises to his mental moods gives a clear insight into the difficulties under which Richter wrote the ‘Quintus Fixlein’ and the ‘Siebenkäs.‘