Pregnancy is a complex period during which women experience profound physical, emotional, and social changes. Hormonal fluctuations, physiological transformations, and environmental factors during pregnancy can contribute to a range of psychosocial and psychiatric issues, such as stress, fear of childbirth, anxiety, and depression. In recent years, mindfulness-based approaches have been...
Objective: The Self-Transcendence Theory, developed by Pamela Reed, posits that individuals can enhance their well-being by transcending self-boundaries when facing life-threatening health challenges. The film The Doctor (1991) portrays a surgeon’s transformation through a cancer diagnosis, offering a narrative to explore this theory. This study aims to analyze the film The Doctor within the...
Major depressive disorder is a public health issue that negatively impacts quality of life and leads to cognitive impairments, causing significant disruptions in work, education, and social life. Treatment-resistant depression is defined as the failure to achieve improvement in depressive symptoms despite the use of at least two different antidepressant medications at adequate doses and...
Dissociative identity disorder is the most complex, severe, and chronic condition within the category of dissociative disorders. The core issue in dissociative identity disorder involves significant divisions and discontinuities in an individual's memory, behavior, emotions, consciousness, and identity, which typically function as a cohesive whole. These dissociative experiences lead to...
The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the effects of mindfulness interventions on women's mental health in the perinatal and postpartum period. In the study, randomized controlled studies published in the last five years, from January 2018 to September 2023, were searched in CINAHL, PubMed, Cochrane Library, Science Direct, and Springer Link databases. The keywords "Pregnancy",...
Nowadays, individuals do yoga as a way to improve their physical and psychological health with the pursuit of feeling good. Therefore, examining yoga in terms of psychological factors is very important in literature and life. This study aimed to examine psychological well-being, happiness, and mindfulness according to yoga and non-yoga practitioners and the sequential mediating role of...
The change in the body awareness of people depending on the dynamic processing of the multisensory signals from the body has been revealed the bodily self-consciousness approach. Recent studies have proposed that the processing and integration of multisensory signals (i.e. vestibular, somatosensory) are fundamental requirement for bodily self-consciousness. Perception of body-parts and global...
Standart antidepressants are needed for the many individuals with major depressive disorder. However they do not respond adequately to treatment and because of a delay of weeks before the emergence of therapeutic effects. Recent studies show that subanesthetic dose of ketamine is efficacy and safety for the treatment of depression. Antidepressant effects of ketamine have been found to be...