Mental Health, Religion & Culture
September 21, 2026
Arif Ali, Niharika Malhotra, Spalzes Angmo
Understanding cultural and religious beliefs related to mental illness is essential for the effective delivery of psychiatric care in a culturally diverse and spiritually embedded country such as India. This single-case study examines a young adult male with paranoid schizophrenia whose delusions incorporated spiritual and cultural narratives, including ancestral curses, divine powers, and...
University of Vienna
September 21, 2026
Oliver Simandl
Die Arbeit entwickelt eine gründliche Untersuchung der Cogito-Debatte zwischen Michel Foucault und Jacques Derrida hinsichtlich der ersten Meditation Descartes in Meditationes de prima philosophia. Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung steht das Verhältnis zwischen dem philosophischen Diskurs und einem seit je her behaupteten Außen: die Trennung der Vernunft vom Wahnsinn. Diese Trennung greift die...
BMC Nursing
September 21, 2026
Yang Zhi, Mimi Mun Yee Tse, Huiting Huang et al.
Nursing students experience elevated levels of stress and mental health challenges, highlighting the need for accessible and scalable interventions to support their well-being. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of a messaging app-enabled compassion training program on self-compassion, mindfulness, perceived stress, and psychological well-being among nursing students. A two-arm,...
Knygotyra
September 21, 2026
Jennifer Konrad
The notion of a “rise of the individual” in the twelfth century offers a fruitful lens for examining early mystical literature. While the modern idea of individuality does not strictly apply, monastic writers increasingly turned their attention to the anima, the seipsum, and the homo interior. This inward turn positioned the self as a space of divine encounter. Through practices such as...
Psychopathology
September 21, 2026
Johannes Cornelis Van Huizen, Jan-Pieter Teunisse, Antje Orgassa et al.
Autism healthcare has traditionally focused on individual biological and behavioral factors. In recent decades, there has been growing recognition that the outside world also plays an enabling if not constitutive role in the development of support needs. This broader view complicates healthcare delivery as the traditional person-centered focus 'diffuses' into the environment. An integrative...
Gyanshauryam International Scientific Refereed Research Journal
September 20, 2026
Surbhi Agrawal
In the modern lifestyle, human health is being adversely affectedboth physically and mentallyby constantly rising mental stress, a sedentary routine, and work-related pressure. Against this backdrop, 'Yoga Nidra' from the Indian yogic tradition has emerged as a highly effective psychosomatic technique, regarded by Swami Satyananda Saraswati as being equivalent to Pratyahara. This practice...
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER APPLICATION
September 20, 2026
Bindu Madhavi Chintha*
preprint
ABSTRACT Structured pranayama programs delivered in schools depend on a supervising instructor, a fixed schedule and an institution’s continued cooperation, and each of these ends when the program does. What remains available to a young person afterwards is rarely considered at the design stage. Existing digital tools offer limited help: few breathing and mindfulness applications have been...
September 20, 2026
Janusz A. Starzyk, Wiesław L Galus
This article asks under what conditions artificial intelligence could warrant a rational attribution of consciousness. Linguistic ability, multimodality, memory, planning, action control, and humanoid embodiment are not sufficient evidence of phenomenal experience. Biological precursors such as excitability, homeostasis, neural networks, and hierarchical representation instead identify...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 20, 2026
Omri Bankuti
preprint
This working paper develops an evidence framework for distinguishing competent artificial agency from consciousness. It asks two separate questions: when does the evidence justify investigating an artificial system as a consciousness candidate, and what further commitments would be needed to attribute subjective experience to that system? The paper is a philosophical and architectural position...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 19, 2026
Tenzin Trepp
preprint
This paper argues that cultural artifacts function as distributed cognitive models through which societies construct, stabilize, and revise shared interpretations of reality. Drawing on cognitive constructivism, enactivism, predictive processing, and extended and distributed cognition, it treats narratives not as ornamental representations but as components of a supra-personal modeling...