Psychic Problems Research Articles

Using Logotherapy as a Counselling Model in Helping the Existentially Emotionally Depressed Christian

Logotherapy is a term derived from logos, a Greek word that translates to ‘meaning.’ It is a therapy defined as treatment of a disorder, illness, or maladjustment. It was developed by Viktor Frankl and was founded on the belief that human nature is motivated by the search for a life purpose, the pursuit of that meaning for one’s life. As a therapy of meaning it is very akin to religion. Frankl, the founder of logotherapy, was actually raised in a Jewish family and used his faith to cope with many hardships during life. His therapeutic technique led people to discover their meaning, the higher purpose in their lives. It focuses on the meaning of human existence as well as on man’s search for such a meaning. Logotherapy is very suitable for pastoral care and counselling, for its method is similar to the belief in God or a higher power; it facilitates changes through deep spiritual, emotional and physical awareness. It is a therapeutic method that allows for the deepening of faith and beliefs that ultimately results in a strong commitment to God at the same time promotes sound ethical moral community society. This paper does not intend to make logotherapy a panacea for all psychic problems but a suggestible counselling model for use by pastors and Christian educators: for helping the existentially frustrated and emotionally depressed, since all problems are logotherapeutically created. There is no doubt that most members are bedeviled with emotional depression which has effect on their commitments to God through the church. The calling of the Master, Jesus Christ, is for the pastor to equip the saints; so they may be about the ministry in the world.

Patients Encounter with Diagnoses and Illness in Transcultural Perspective

The world of today is full of diversity. With migration problems, religious groups and many conflicts in this world it is important to bring into our focus the different world-views of understanding illness and treatment in different cultural and religious settings. In my article three cases are presented to explain exactly how different Traditions treat patients with diverse sicknesses and their approach to establish the diagnosis of organic and psychic problems. The object of this expose is to explain the way and manner of encounter when one visits a country with some sort of illness. These cases are experiences of my clients in interaction with Therapists in their cultural settings. Importantly, as a Positive Psychotherapist, this information helps to accommodate all aspects of interaction needed to give a safe background for clients. My method is more or less analytic and descriptive. Many illustrations in this work portrays my many years of experience working with people of different cultures and clients. Moreover, it is very important for our understanding of our clients always to see beyond our horizon.

Reconsidering the paradigm “death” form transhumanism

The transcience of existence, the fragility of life and human transcience do nothing but remind each of us of the imminence of death, now experienced as an unparalleled tragedy, accompanied, often, by the anguish of witnessing a slow and gradual ageing of the body. In the post-modern era characterized by pervasive technology, a new religion is emerging that aims to halt the ageing process and defeat death once and for all. But what is the price to be paid: according to some, we will witness the dissolution of the human being’s soul; according to others, the world will be populated by humanoids with severe psychic problems.

Evaluation of Violent Behavior Prisoners by Correctional Officers at Correctional Institutions

There have been several violent incidents in the Correctional Unit. One of them in West Sumatra, where the Legal Aid Institute in Padang recorded three cases during the current year in 2019, occurred in Pariaman Class II-B of Correctional Institution. Similar incidents occurred in 2018 in which children in correctional institutions were recorded as experiencing physical, psychic, and sexual violence. The Indonesian Commission for the Protection of Children found that 26.8 percent of children in Special Children’s Prison were victims of violence in 2018. There has been widespread media coverage of officers’ violence and complex correctional problems in the last three years. Based on the literature study and unstructured interviews with correctional officers, several factors cause officers’ violence to prisoners. The following factors are the punitive attitude of correctional officers to prisoners and the lack of human rights knowledge, Standard Minimum Rules (SMR), and correctional officers’ correctional technicalities. In this study, the method used was descriptive qualitative research. Descriptive qualitative research is a form of research that includes a case study of an event. This study uses a qualitative method with a case study approach. Case studies are intended to test research questions and problems in which there is no separation of phenomena and context in the spectacle. This study explores the factors that trigger officers to commit violence against correctional inmates. Many things cause violent behavior, such as stress, psychic problems, and soon.

The Works of A Ma'rifa as A Phenomenon of Spiritual Counseling in Handling Non-Positivistic Psychic Problems

Life's problems cannot always be solved only with a rational approach. Sometimes there are a number of problems that the client perceives as confusing, unrelieved illness, loss of valuables and spiritual disturbances. This situation encourages them to go to experts of hikmah in the hope of getting help. This is what clients who come to the hikmah experts at the Tasikmalaya Mubarok Foundation do. The purpose of this study is to identify the steps of the wisdom expert in helping clients who experience non-positivistic difficulties in their lives, and to confirm the way of handling by the wisdom expert as a model of spiritual counseling. That what the wisdom expert does, which begins with asking the client to convey his life complaints and is encouraged to reflect on past mistakes, then the client is asked to repent, commit to doing good deeds and want to carry out the practice suggested by the wisdom expert. This stage bears fruit, some problems of non-positivistic life are successfully solved. The perspective of spiritual counseling guidance states that efforts to handle life problems by involving religious beliefs held by wisdom experts in helping non-positivistic clients' life problems are one model of spiritual counseling. Thus the results of this study contribute to the development of spiritual counseling, especially in the Muslim community.

Semantic Field of Stres and Depression on Psychologycal Korean Drama

Korean dramas with the psychological genre are very popular nowadays. Through this psychological Korean drama genre, people begin to get to know some psychological terms, such as stress and depression. Unfortunately, there are many people who have not been able to interpret these two terms correctly. The aims of this study are to find out how the words stress and depressions influence the audience of psychological Korean dramas and to know the difference of semantic field between the word stress and depression. The method used in this study is a qualitative descriptive method. The steps taken are (1) data collection with interviews, surveys through questionnaires, and readings text in psychological Korean dramas genre; (2) see the relevance between the data available and the semantic field theory; (3) and draw conclusions from the results of the research. This study uses semantic studies by looking at semantic field of the words stress and depression in psychological Korean dramas and how these words influence the audience. The semantic field is part of semantic system which is looking at the meaning of lexical elements that relate to spoken language used in reality. The subject of this study is a psychology Korean drama and psychology Korean drama audience. The results of this study showed that some respondents who watched the Korean drama misinterpret the meaning of stress and depression. Semantic field of the term stress and depression is set semantic field. Set semantic field refers to paradigmatic relationships because words or elements are in the same set and can replace each other. These two words are still in the same set, namely psychic problems. The writers hoped that it can reduce public misunderstanding of the meaning of the words stress and depression

Strategi Lembaga Konsultasi Kesejahteraan Keluarga (LK3) Dinas Sosial Kota Palu dalam Memotivasi Penyandang Masalah Kesejahteraan Sosial

This study aims to describe in full and in depth the social reality and various phenomena that occur in the society which is the subject of research so that the characteristics, characters, traits, and models of these phenomena are described. The main issues in this study are 1. How is the welfare of scavengers and beggars in Palu City 2. What factors affect the welfare, psychological and financial of scavengers and beggars. 3 What is the strategy of the Palu City Social Service Family Welfare Consultation Institute in motivating the welfare of scavengers and beggars. This research is classified as qualitative with the research approach used is a normative and sociological approach, namely environmental interactions that are in accordance with social units, individuals, groups, institutions, or communities. The data source of this research is the people of scavengers and beggars. Furthermore, the data collection methods used were observation, interviews, and documentation. Then the data processing and analysis techniques were carried out through three stages, namely: data reduction, data presentation and drawing conclusions. This study was carried out by checking the validity of the data with trigulation techniques. In an effort to improve people's welfare, these efforts cannot be separated from the Regional Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMD). Based on this basis, the Palu City Social Service has adopted various policies to improve the welfare of the community, especially scavengers and beggars. In the study, it was found that the welfare of scavengers and beggars in Palu City by the Family Welfare Consultation Institute (LK3) is an increase in human and economic resources, by providing assistance in the form of rehabilitation and knowledge development to provide abilities to beggars and scavengers in Palu City. There are many factors behind the emergence of scavengers and beggars in people's lives. Based on the author's observations, the factors in the emergence of beggars and scavengers can be caused by 1. Poverty problems (Financial). 2 Educational problems. 3 Work skills problems. 4 Psychic Problems

Hypnose, mémoire et cognition incarnée

The Cognitive Hypnosis, Memory and Embodied Cognition. Among embodied cognition approaches, a growing number of studies has highlighted the close relationships between the processes that underpin memory and sensory-motor processes. Among these approaches, the Act-In model (Versace et al., 2014) proposes that during a living experience, memory traces automatically emerge through the dynamic activation and integration of sensory and motor dimensions of that experience. During a later living experience, the situation reactivates these previous traces, so that the different dimensions of the present and the previous experiences become integrated. In this model, the perception of the present situation can thus be influenced by previous traces, and conversely, the previous traces can be influenced by the present perception. In parallel to the development of embodied approaches of cognition, the issue of the relationships between the body and the memory has also been discussed among hypnosis specialists. Indeed since the rising of hypnosis at the end of 18th century up to its nowadays practice, notably impacted by Milton Erickson, several important hypnosis methods have been characterized by their use of memory to reach therapeutic goals for patients with physical or psychic problems. For instance, age regression notably consists in proposing to the patient a “revival” of a moment of his life, in order to solve a present problem or to modify a present perception. These hypnosis methods using memory are common and their effects are often described in literature : several specific research domains, as false memory created consecutively to an age regression, brought clinical and experimental studies articulating memory and hypnosis. However, these methods are presently explained by no consensual conceptual nor theoretical model. Moreover, the processes underpinning this kind of phenomenon are not yet well understood. Through a pluridisciplinary reflection, the present paper has two goals. First, it aims at discussing the heuristic relevance of the Act-In model to understand why hypnosis methods based on memory produce specific and observable effects. Second, it aims at discussing to what extent hypnosis might allow the development of new methods to explore the dynamic and embodied dimension of human memory.

Cycle of Rejection: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child”

The children absorb the positive and negative conversation from their parents. Obviously, they response according to their receiving conversations and feeling. Doris Lessing shows the social complex relations between of diverse social character classes and their relationships to social institutions.
 Indeed, one of the messages of the novel is that the more individuals and society at large reject the dark side of human nature, the more they relapse into primitive barbarity. The mother in “The fifth child” harbours the feeling of disgust and rejection towards the new born baby which results in more conflict and rejection in the novel.
 This paper sheds the light on Doris Lessing’s psychological ideas that shape this novel. It contributes new reading of family psychic problems and circumstances. The rejection of family members of the new born child results in many defective characteristics of the fifth child. The child’s ego is the same ego of the mother.

Evaluation of depression, anxiety and stress among nurses working in a South Indian Covid Hospital – A cross sectional study

Background: The corona virus disease2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused great financial and psychological havoc. Health care professionals (HCPs) are among the many groups of people who are in the frontline and facing a risk of direct exposure to the virus. This study aimed to assess the prevalence and predictors of stress, depressive, and anxiety symptoms in nurses worked in Covid care center.Methods: It was a cross-sectional study. Anxiety, depression and stress among nurses working in Covid care centres was estimated by DASS21 scale.Results: The study revealed that anxiety, depression and stress were the major psychological symptoms observed in nurses while working in Covid care center. There was no significant difference in all three psychic problems. Conclusion: The prevalence of stress, depressive, and anxiety symptoms among HCPs in India during the pandemic is comparable with other countries.

El dibujo de alumnos de primaria revelando sentimientos y emociones: una cuestión discutida por la inteligencia emocional

Emotions are associated with significant events that determine the individual's reactions to certain situations. They constitute the basis for the intellectual and sociocultural development of the individual, and the drawing reflects them, develops skills and, when used with colors, demonstrates the feelings at the time of the action, and can be applied to children, youth and adults. Its use provides instruments for the integral development of the person, allowing to learn to deal with emotions, life and development processes. Objective was to identify through drawings, feelings and emotions related to the learning process of the primary school student. Methodology was based on bibliographic and field research, where the drawings produced by children in the 2nd and 3rd year of primary school and presenting good oral communication were analyzed. Exclusion criteria: not being a student of the selected schools, presenting mental problems that contaminate the research, and students carrying psychic problems that make oral communication impossible. In this study, the aim has been to improve the psycho-pedagogical processes that involve school learning through the study of designs and emotional intelligence. Result: The analysis of drawings in school-age children is considered important, in order to understand situations experienced by students inside and outside the school, their fears, their anguish and anger, in addition to all kinds of emotions that may interfere with the teaching learning process. &nbsp

Literatura e Humanismo: fenômenos éticos no confronto entre Sartre e Dostoiévski

At the end of Being and Nothing (1943), Sartre alludes to a possible treatise on ethics, never performed as a separate work; in this same masterpiece, however, we find a list of critical remarks aimed at ill-founded ethical conceptions. The main concepts involved in this elucidation are freedom, responsibility, contingency, facticity, alienation, belief, bad-faith, the problem of the Other, the past, which translate human manifestations, and thus imply the ethics of a society. We treat by ethical concepts those that demonstrate conflicts and interests in human relations, focusing in some way on the particular moral conduct, resulting in a set of institutions and, consequently, of problems. Therefore, we establish a conceptual confrontation between humanist philosophy and Dostoevsky's Russian literature on the theme of Ethical Responsibility, clarifying, mainly, the concepts of Freedom, Responsibility and Bad Faith in each author. In the works The Demons (1872) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), we find background to these sartrian concepts portrayed through significant characters, which are made current because they address political and psychic problems. The work therefore consists in demonstrating how a bad faith individual who lives in the midst of lies and alienations who cannot cope with his emotions can be recognized, nor who recognizes that he is able to make his own choices. These relationships are made through characters who are not aware of their responsibilities, who do not recognize themselves as conscience (Para-Si), who seek crutches to justify their actions, whether in God, in their own misfortune or in capitalism. They give more foundation to things than to individuals, and stand as superior for stopping them, who believe in the superiority of their beliefs, their lies, not recognizing their own freedom, nor their responsibility to the Other. We chose literature because it portrays the moral confrontations that encompass the sartrian concepts chosen for this work. Suicide, fatuity, terror and death form the canvas of the discussion that Dostoevsky proposes: the man without God, who believes only in himself, instead of being totally free becomes mad and murderous. Let us then ask ourselves: Does liberty really liberate? What makes us free? Far from bad faith and close to responsibility, we elucidate philosophical concepts through literature.

A study on relationship between body-image and self-esteem among medical undergraduate students

Background: Body image refers to how individuals think, feel and behave in relation to their body and appearance. During adolescence self-perception about their appearance is important to the development of self-esteem and is also understood to be an important predictor of self-worth. Research has shown that inappropriate perception of the body image and dissatisfaction can lead to physical and psychic problems in the youth. In today's society, with the growing sense of ideal body image, adolescents and young adults try to lose or gain body weight to attain perfect body. The objective of the study is to find out the proportion of students dissatisfied with their body image, and the association of various determinants with body image dissatisfaction and self-esteem. Methods: A cross-sectional study was done among 125 first year medical students located in rural Haryana. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect data on various determinants associated with body image dissatisfaction and self-esteem.Results: Body image dissatisfaction was present among 16.8% of the students. Low self-esteem was observed among 21.6% of the students. Low body mass index (<18.5) was found to be significantly associated with body image dissatisfaction. A moderately positive correlation (r=0.384, p<0.001) was observed between self-esteem and body image satisfaction.Conclusions: Study findings support the fact that body image dissatisfaction has its impact on self-esteem among college-going youth. It is imperative that effective interventions be planned to educate the youth on ideal body weight and protect this young generation from pressures and consequences of negative body image.

Post-Colonial Theory and Literature: Sources and Problems of Development (a New Identity of a Post-Colonial Subject and Author)

The main aim of the article is to consider major works related to the development of post-colonial theories as well as literary sources. The term “post” is considered together with main vectors in the development of Anglophone, Francophone post-colonial literature. In relation to the historic view of colonies existence main tendencies in the development of imperial and anti-imperial theories are considered including those of Fanon, his view of the three-level development of the identity of the colonized and psychic problems that are encountered in the process of this development. F. Fanon looks at the first level of colonial assimilation, which inevitably brings to the second phase, the phase of change and distruction which then is followed by the stage of the author’s identity restoration by means of coming back to the cultural traditions and struggle during which the subject of the colony starts his struggle against the oppressed. Main views of E. Said and his views on orientalism are discussed which aim at striking at the roots of the binary opposition the west and the east proposed by white male critics. Instead a more subtle view is suggested. The views of G. Spivak and a more feminist approach are considered as well as the works by Homi Bhabha applying a more lacanian approach to hermeneutics, the views that form a new identity pattern observed in post-colonial literature thus maintaining a completely different view of post-colonial fiction.

Personality factors as predictors of compliance with and the outcome of supervised self-care program for patients with intermittent claudication

Personality factors related to the outcome of supervised self-care treatment program were studied in 56 patients with intermittent claudication. Psychological methods used were: structured interviews, the Rorschach Test, the Thematic Apperception Test, Beck's Depression Inventory, the Beth Israel Hospital Inventory of alexithymic behavior and Sauri's Creativity Inventory of psychic flexibility and adaptability. The patients who had no apparent signs of psychic disorders and were also capable of coping with disease-related psychic problems showed the best recovery. Alexithymic patients with a low level of psychic adaptability were likely to find the supportive relationship rewarding, but optimal recovery was not achieved. The results indicated that paranoid tendencies may be obstacles to a satisfying doctor-patient relationship and should be controlled.

The Assessment of Long-Term-Care, its Quality Assurance and Results -The German Perspective-

The consequences of demographic aging caused an impulse for German politics to establish an independent Social Long-Term-Care Insurance in 1995. Since then the assessment for long-term-care became stepwise more comprehensive to cover the bio-psycho-social needs of an increasing part of the population. Nowadays, about 3.3 Million persons receive benefits from this social insurance which help to cover a great part (but not in full) of financial and material support to overcome the impacts of long-term-care. About 2.5 Million persons are assessed every year with continuously increasing tendency by nursing experts working for the Statutory Medical Service mostly performing home visits. They assess the appropriate scores for mobility, cognitive and communicative abilities, behavior, attitudes, habits and psychic problems, self-sufficiency, coping and handling of requirements due to disease and therapy, management of everyday life and maintaining social contacts, adding up to one of 5 grades, the need for technical aids, flat conversion, therapeutic procedures, rehabilitation and educative support. The assessment guidelines and the monitoring of the quality of their realization are presented as well as the outcome for the Long-Term-Care Insurance on the federal level. Twenty-five years of Long-Term-Care Insurance have led to a well established and steadfast insurance but with increasing expenses as well as rising social security contributions to face the challenges of a human and dignified evening of life for an increasing part of the population.

Os medos na política de segurança pública

resumo O artigo propõe retomar o debate sobre os medos, que não podem ser negados e continuam limitando a liberdade de ação dos indivíduos paralisados. Discute a doutrina liberal do que deve ser feito para impedir que a ação individual seja tolhida, especialmente no liberalismo do medo, doutrina política sobre a crueldade, imposição deliberada de dor física ou moral pelo mais forte sobre o fraco. Relativiza a visão do Estado como uma ameaça perene à liberdade dos cidadãos que devem se curvar à repressão, pois que há grupos organizados ou indivíduos fora do Estado, como na rede do Transnational Organized Crime (TOC), que intimidam ou matam pessoas em nome dos seus interesses individuais ou fins ideológicos coletivos. A saída mais usada é a de garantir que nenhum desses servidores do Estado possa intimidar alguém, a não ser pelo uso de procedimentos legais bem compreendidos e aceitos. A partir daí discute como a guerra às drogas afeta os combatentes servidores do Estado e cria reações e problemas psíquicos; os moradores das áreas urbanas mais violentas que, por causa dos traumas acumulados, fecham-se para a convivência e o associativismo; por fim, os moradores das cidades, mais afeitos à mídia e a ideologia fundamentalista religiosa.

Contribuições da psicologia à educação básica e o problema da psicologização da educação: uma revisão narrativa

O lugar ocupado historicamente pelas teorias psicológicas acabou por produzir o processo de psicologização da educação, ou seja, quando problemas educacionais são reduzidos, quase exclusivamente, a problemas psíquicos individuais ou familiares. Assim, a Psicologia acabou estabelecendo um percurso de legitimação de práticas adaptacionistas e de exclusão que, contemporaneamente, vem sendo repensado por teorias que buscam reinserir o social como pilar importante a sustentar as explicações de problemas relacionados à aprendizagem e à educação. Por meio de uma pesquisa de revisão bibliográfica narrativa, busca-se repensar sobre as reais contribuições da atuação da Psicologia ao campo da Educação Básica considerando o fenômeno da psicologização da educação. Entende-se que a Psicologia só poderá contribuir a esta esfera da educação se fortalecer, através de um olhar crítico sobre suas teorias e práticas, um modo pensar e de operar que procure romper com sua história de psicologização e de adaptação social.

Satisfação laboral e a repercussão na qualidade de vida do profissional de enfermagem

Diante da importância do trabalho na vida dos indivíduos, a relação que se estabelece entre o profissional e o ambiente laboral podem implicar repercussões em sua maneira de viver e ser saudável. Não obstante, a qualidade de vida do trabalhador pode estar associada à satisfação profissional, e dentro do contexto da enfermagem, favorecer a uma assistência de qualidade. Portanto, o presente ensaio teve por objetivo identificar publicações sobre satisfação no trabalho e qualidade de vida do profissional de enfermagem; verificar evidências de relação direta entre a satisfação profissional e a qualidade de vida. Esta revisão integrativa compilou artigos através da Base de Dados em Enfermagem (BDENF), Public Medline (PubMed) e o Portal de Periódicos da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES). A partir do material analisado, emergiram três categorias temáticas: 1) Fatores que influenciam a satisfação profissional; 2) Importância da satisfação no trabalho e qualidade de vida do profissional para a assistência de enfermagem; 3) Relação do trabalho com a qualidade de vida do trabalhador de enfermagem. Após a análise, não se verificou relação direta entre satisfação no trabalho e qualidade de vida, entretanto, evidenciou-se que insatisfações laborais desencadeiam, potencialmente, problemas físicos e psíquicos, com impacto à qualidade de vida e do serviço prestado.

The female detective as the child who needs to know. Saga Norén as an example of potent yet dysfunctional female detectives in contemporary Nordic Noir

Abstract The global popularity of Nordic Noir, such as the Danish/Swedish production Broen, The Danish production Forbrydelsen, its U.S. and U.K. remakes, the Danish/Swedish production The Millennium Trilogy seems to depend on its insistent interest in a set of maladjusted female detectives. The by now seven seasons of the U.S production Homeland have a similar focus. In this essay, we argue that the struggle these female protagonists endure between extreme potency on the one hand and shameful psychic problems on the other is linked to how these female detectives represent the female position in film in general. Turning to traditional and ongoing discussions in feminist film theory, and combining queer studies and sociological and psychoanalytic perspectives with recognition theory (Felski/Coplan), we ask how we as spectators relate to these women in terms of recognition. In line with that, we ask whether these female detectives should be considered feminist icons who challenge traditional gendered poses on film, or whether, due to their dysfunctionalities, they came to represent some kind of otherness that we sympathize with but also fail to identify with.