Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
July 29, 2005
Najat R. Khalifa, Tim Hardie
79 citations
Religion remains a powerful influence on notions of health and disease.1 One Islamic concept that has entered into western mythology is that of the jinn or genies, as in the story of Aladdin. However, according to Islamic belief, jinn are real creatures that form a world other than that of mankind, capable of causing physical and mental harm to human beings. An example of such harm is...
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
May 1, 2002
Chris Milroy
1 citation
Over the past decade, the widespread use of ‘recreational’ drugs has been increasingly acknowledged. In a burst of revelation last year, politicians of various hues confessed to having used illegal substances—in their younger days. The police tell us that a substantial proportion of certain crimes are drug-related, and there is debate on whether the laws on drug use need to be modified....
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
February 1, 1996
Susan Blackmore
55 citations
Reactions to claims of near-death experiences (NDE) range from the popular view that this must be evidence for life after death, to outright rejection of the experiences as, at best, drug induced hallucinations or, at worse, pure invention. Twenty years, and much research, later, it is clear that neither extreme is correct.
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
1996
Julie Coore
48 citations
Since the late 1980s there have been a number of reports about the complications associated with using the designer drug 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) or 'ecstasy'. Although this drug has been widely abused in the past, the potentially fatal complications have arisen recently mainly due to the circumstances of its use at all-night dance sessions or 'raves'. A combination of direct...
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
May 1, 1990
Anthony S David
29 citations
The concept of insight into psychosis has received scant attention in the psychiatric literature. Various types of insight are described after drawing on such sources as phenomenology, clinical observation and experimental psychology. It is proposed that insight is far from an all or none phenomenon but comprises three overlapping dimensions, namely, the recognition that one has a mental...