International Journal of Social Science and Human Research
August 31, 2026
Dr. Barnali Sikder
This article aims to concentrate on the dialectics of health and disease in Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain. It will be a concentrated reading of Mann’s novel to argue that the dialectics of health and disease work to bring out the culmination of thought. In this peak mystical state, transformation is innate, which can bridge negotiations and collapse boundaries. Within this world of...
International Journal of Social Science and Human Research
June 11, 2026
Gulcin Itirli Aslan, Prof. Dr. Kürşat Şahin Yildirimer
Background: The global mental health crisis has intensified demand for effective, accessible, and evidence-based interventions. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs), most notably Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), have emerged as widely adopted psychotherapeutic approaches. Objective: This narrative literature review examines the...
International Journal of Social Science and Human Research
March 31, 2026
Bilambita Banisudha PhD, Shravan Shravan
Tārtam Vāṇī, the core doctrine of the Nijananda Sampradāya, exemplifies one of the most intricate symbolic and esoteric works of early modern North India. Authored by Mahāmati Prannāth Ji (1618–1694), the literature encapsulates metaphysical concepts via intricate metaphors, composite linguistic structures, and symbolic cosmologies. It expresses complex esoteric principles regarding the soul,...
International Journal of Social Science and Human Research
January 31, 2026
Itryah Itryah, Adek Tri Hartati
This study examined the effect of a mindfulness-based intervention on vocational high school students’ academic stress prior to examinations. A quantitative quasi-experimental design with a non-randomized pretest–posttest control group was employed. Thirty-four tenth-grade students were assigned to an experimental group and a control group. The experimental group participated in six mindfulness...
International Journal of Social Science and Human Research
August 30, 2025
Dr. Claudio-Rafael Vasquez-Martinez, Lic. Carlos Vallin-Gallardo, Dra. Clara-Eugenia Moreno-Ramírez et al.
The modern digital era brings a problem that has a direct impact on physical and mental health, mainly in young people and adults related to stress, which promotes new health workers to take new care measures such as “yoga” Objective: To describe the scientific production of the topic Breathwork from 2021 to 2025 according to the type of document, category, editors, year of publication, country...
International Journal of Social Science and Human Research
May 31, 2024
Kanar Othman Omer Salihi
This article delves into Dennis Lehane’s Shutter Island(2003) and its challenge to the conventional notion of a unified humanist self, proposing instead that the post-war self is inherently fragmented. It particularly scrutinizes this fragmentation through the experiences of a traumatized character in the novel, illustrating how severe wartime and post-war events disrupt and fracture...
International Journal of Social Science and Human Research
November 17, 2023
Huong, Xuan Vu (PhD)
Major depressive disorder is a common and recurring condition that necessitates ongoing advancements in treatment. The integration of mindfulness meditation and cognitive behavioural techniques in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) has shown promise as an effective approach. This review focuses on the current evidence regarding MBCT's efficacy in treating acute depression and preventing...
International Journal of Social Science and Human Research
March 21, 2022
Dr. Kalo Sona Roy
In India the philosophers, except the Madhyamika Buddhists and Jayarasi Bhatta, maintain that determination of an object depends on a pramana, a source of cognition. Similarly, pramana depends on prameya padhartha. In the present paper I will deal with the relationship between epistemology and metaphysics from the Advaita point of view. According to Advaita Vedanta, Brahman is the only highest...
International Journal of Social Science and Human Research
December 14, 2021
Dr. Kalo Sona Roy
Gaudapada, the grand teacher of Sankara, admits the transcendental reality only. Duality is mere illusion. Gaudapada leads us from gross reality to subtle reality. In meditation also there is a gradual unfolding of subtlety. Sankara deals with both Advaita metaphysics and epistemology. According to him, the source of cognition (pramana is a mental mode (antahkaranavrtti). It removes the...