In this review essay, I survey James K. A. Smith’s use of contemporary arts and mystical texts to spur philosophers to reimagine their discipline as a practice of thinking that might be called a contemplative phenomenology of wonder sensitive to the mystery of existence. In the process, I identify the isomorphism Smith sees between contemporary arts and the disciplines described in mystical...
There has been much critical writing about guilt, morality and psychological agony in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment. The psychological conflicts involved in Raskolnikov’s divided consciousness have been a subject of numerous psychoanalytical interpretations, but the connection between his self-fashioning of ideology and psychological conflict is open to further analysis. In...
Background: Ruminations are persistent, repetitive, and often distressing thoughts centered on negative events, mood states, and psychiatric symptoms. Recognized as a maladaptive cognitive process, ruminating contributes to the onset and persistence of psychiatric disorders and is strongly linked to negative emotional states, self-criticism, and suicidality. Despite its clinical significance, a...
Categorical nosological systems frequently fall short when confronted with patients whose presentations cross established diagnostic boundaries. We report M.S., a 44-year-old Brazilian man involuntarily admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit who presented with systematized persecutory ideation of mechanistic–technological content (chip implantation, satellite-based surveillance), structural...
Adolescência e SaúdeJuly 16, 2026Priyanshu Mishra, Surybhan Singh, Vikash Bajpai et al.
This chapter explores Ayurveda's comprehensive approach to mind-body medicine, examining how this ancient Indian healing system integrates mental, emotional, and physical dimensions of health. The chapter discusses the three Gunas (Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas) as fundamental qualities shaping mental constitution and psychological well-being, followed by Ayurveda's psychosomatic framework...
This chapter returns to depression to examine rumination in light of the capacity to be inwardly silent. Rumination is typically defined as repetitive and persistent negative thinking, yet its experiential structure has received limited phenomenological attention. Building on the framework developed earlier in the book, the chapter argues that many cases of rumination involve a disruption in...
INTRODUCTION: Zolpidem is a widely used non-benzodiazepine hypnotic that is used as a treatment for insomnia due to its rapid onset and perceived safety. Nevertheless, rising clinical reports and post-marketing surveillance have identified serious neuropsychiatric adverse effects, such as hallucinations, perceptual disturbances, and complex sleep-related behaviors, such as sleep-driving and...
Immersive virtual reality (VR) is commonly evaluated through presence, fidelity, usability, and task performance. These approaches do not fully explain how technical transformation, abstract audiovisual form, and bodily activity jointly become materials of aesthetic design. This short article proposes the Embodied Aesthetic Framework (EAF) for designing and analysing immersive VR animation....
In recent years, mythopoetic research in world literary scholarship has undergone a renewed surge of interest, as the enduring presence of archaic mythological worldviews in modern literary masterpieces has generated considerable scholarly attention and given rise to new literary-philosophical perspectives. The intersection of myth and poetry continues to be actively studied as a significant...
Introduction: Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs frequently in the world and affects all age groups. Globally, more than one in 10 adults are now living with diabetes, and almost half from that is an elderly. The psychological problems experienced by parents with diabetes mellitus, if prolonged, can have a significant negative impact on their physical and mental health. Among Hindus,...