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Niko Tiliopoulos
... I don’t really care about the stories,
the glories, the news, the newsweeks,
the ephemeral, the local, the trivial,
the important, the global, the central,
the unreal, the surreal, the terminal.
It’s the point of the thorn that matters to me,
the path of a crack on a coffee-cup,
the rhythm in the dance of a snowflake,
the vengeance of a grain of pollen,
the loneliness of a firewood’s splinter,
the confidence of a seed’s outfit,
the shape of the widow’s tear,
the shake of the mother’s hip,
the wrinkles on the old man’s palms,
the shiver of the lover’s lips...
It is the microworld in the microcosm.
Address: School of Psychology
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006, Australia
the glories, the news, the newsweeks,
the ephemeral, the local, the trivial,
the important, the global, the central,
the unreal, the surreal, the terminal.
It’s the point of the thorn that matters to me,
the path of a crack on a coffee-cup,
the rhythm in the dance of a snowflake,
the vengeance of a grain of pollen,
the loneliness of a firewood’s splinter,
the confidence of a seed’s outfit,
the shape of the widow’s tear,
the shake of the mother’s hip,
the wrinkles on the old man’s palms,
the shiver of the lover’s lips...
It is the microworld in the microcosm.
Address: School of Psychology
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006, Australia
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A total of 404,591 individuals were clinically interviewed, of which 895 individuals with mental health problems were identified, with 23 satisfying criteria of physical restraint and confinement. Of the latter, twenty were males; age range was 19–69 years, all diagnosed by the researchers with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder (ICD-10 diagnostic criteria). Duration of restraint ranged from 3 months to 30 years (mean = 8.1 years, SD = 8.3 years). Through the application of a holistic intervention model, all patients exhibited a remarkable recovery within 19 months of treatment. We conclude that the development of a community-based, culturally sensitive and respectful mental health model can serve as an optimum promoter of positive mental health outcomes.
A total of 404,591 individuals were clinically interviewed, of which 895 individuals with mental health problems were identified, with 23 satisfying criteria of physical restraint and confinement. Of the latter, twenty were males; age range was 19–69 years, all diagnosed by the researchers with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder (ICD-10 diagnostic criteria). Duration of restraint ranged from 3 months to 30 years (mean = 8.1 years, SD = 8.3 years). Through the application of a holistic intervention model, all patients exhibited a remarkable recovery within 19 months of treatment. We conclude that the development of a community-based, culturally sensitive and respectful mental health model can serve as an optimum promoter of positive mental health outcomes.
Addressing parental concerns requires an understanding of their decisions for and against MMR vaccination. A UK study of parental views (2), to be extended to the United States and to Australia, identifies three main factors as predictors of parental decisions. The predominant factor identified, perceived importance of research findings, strongly predicts decisions of non-immunising parents. Ratings of government advice and health professionals’ advice emerge also as predictors, but only of decisions for vaccination: to non-immunising parents these factors are of little importance.
It is therefore interesting to note the reported statement by the Editor of the journal that published the original study (3). The claim that, in effect, he was misled into publication by a failure to declare a potential conflict of interest is to be investigated by the General Medical Council at the instigation of the UK Government. This marks a change of focus from earlier rejections of the claimed link: the emphasis shifts from the message to the messenger as the source of misleading information. To what extent though an inquiry can restore parental faith in the MMR vaccination is questionable. Given that non-immunising parents do not regard government or health professionals’ advice as important, they are unlikely to be reassured either by the repudiation of the original publication or by the outcome of a government initiated inquiry.
Parental concerns are, of course, by no means peculiar to MMR vaccination (4). As Hepworth (5) observes, there comes a point where reassurance fails to be reassuring and parents require clear unambiguous evidence as to the safety of vaccination of their children. This however is one area that will remain unexamined by the forthcoming inquiry. Until this central question is addressed, production of contrary evidence and criticism of the original author will remain little more than attempts to wish the MMR-autism genie back into the bottle.
Aim The study assessed the biobehavioural effectiveness of SHAT on cortisol levels and PTSD symptomatology, while controlling for the effects of childhood trauma.
Methodology By following a pre-post single-blind randomized control group design, participants were divided into two groups; an experimental group that received spiritual-hypnosis and a control group that received fluoxetine for one month. Of the 29 participants, 16 female (55.2%); mean age 33.28 years (SD=5.66 years). Cortisol levels were collected from blood plasma, behavioural data were assessed through the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire and the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist-Civilian version.
Results SHAT was statistically significantly better than the fluoxetine treatment at reducing the clinical symptoms of PTSD, while both treatments had a similar effect on cortisol modification. This result warrants further research in the application of culturally-sensitive variations of clinical hypnosis on the treatment of PTSD and their effectiveness on the modification of underlying neuroendocrine markers.
Objective: We set up the first epidemiological survey in Indonesia to (a) identify such individuals in Bali, (b) record their mental health status, (c) map the conditions of and the reasons for their physical restraining, and (d) offer a psychiatric treatment through the application of a community-based, culturally-sensitive innovative approach.
Methods: A 10-month epidemiological population survey was carried out in Bali, Indonesia. A total of 404,591 individuals were clinically interviewed, of 23 satisfied criteria of physical restraint and confinement. Of them, twenty were males; age range was 19–69 years, all diagnosed by the researchers with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder (ICD-10 diagnostic criteria). Duration of restraint ranged from 3 months to 30 years (mean = 8.1 years, SD = 8.3 years).
Results: We applied a holistic community-based intervention model that combined the use of psychiatric medication, (family) counseling, and clinical hypnotherapy, while utilizing the spiritual beliefs of the affected communities, such as meditation and purification ceremonies. Additionally, we set up educational workshops for the families and their communities on the relevant mental health aspects. After 19 months of holistic treatment, none of the patients was restrained or confined anymore, only two still exhibited a relatively severe symptomatology that required further intensive treatment, while the rest had fully or almost fully recovered with minimum requirements for further medication or otherwise intervention.
Conclusion: It is our conviction that through the prudent and systematic implementation of holistic, culturally sensitive and community-based strategies, a development of a mental health model can be achieved that offers a fair and effective service and prevents the adoption of desperate measures by the affected populous that lead to an abuse of human rights.
More specifically this workshop will cover:
• Epidemiological survey findings of schizophrenia prevalence in Bali
• A culturally sensitive community-based intervention for the treatment of schizophrenia
• Introduction to the practice of Spiritual-Hypnosis Assisted Therapy
• A video demonstration of the above approach
This workshop will be delivered by two members of the Prof. Suryani team, who also work at the Suryani Institute for Mental Health (Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia) and have years of experience in the area.
simple appraisals of pleasantness and preference, and primarily in response to visual art. The current study looked at idiographic and nomothetic relationships between personality traits and interest, gratitude, and the emotion of beauty, as well as their relationships with cognitive appraisal. Additionally we looked at the appreciation of quotations and two forms of visual art. Results indicate that personality variables significantly mediate as well as moderate the relationships between cognitions and emotions in response to art. Gratitude, curiosity and openness to experience were found to predispose people to appreciation. Furthermore, personality was particularly predictive of interpretation and appreciation of quotations compared to visual art. These findings suggest a clear association between subjective well-being or virtues and engagement with the arts.