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Front Psychol
December 2024
Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Objective: This study explored cultural and gendered experiences of distress among Syrian refugees in Jordan to inform mental health and psychosocial support services with the population. We sought to understand perceived causes of distress, salient expressions used to describe distress, and ways of coping.
Methods: Eight focus group discussions (FGDs) were conducted with adult Syrian refugees (four male, four female).
Cortex
October 2024
CINC-CSIC, Madrid, Spain; HM CINAC (Centro Integral de Neurociencias Abarca Campal), Hospital Universitario HM Puerta del Sur, HM Hospitales, Madrid, Spain. Electronic address:
A connection between language and movement information in metaphorical and literal expressions activates the motor system. Despite numerous studies exploring distinctions between idioms and metaphors, a notable research gap remains in the specific effect of idioms with different transparency levels concerning motor resonance. Our primary focus was analysing the functional role of the primary motor cortex (M1) in processing hand motor verbs both in literal expressions and in two idiomatic contexts, i.
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May 2024
Department of Medicine and Public Health, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia.
Background: Despite the high burden of perinatal depression in Nepal, the detection rate is low. Community-based strategies such as sensitization programmes and the Community Informant Detection Tool (CIDT) have been found to be effective in raising awareness and thus promoting the identification of mental health problems. This study aims to adapt these community strategies for perinatal depression in the Nepalese context.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Psychoanal
April 2024
Seattle, Washington, USA.
This article explores the impact of the analyst's life-threatening illness on the analytic couple; it is informed through two theoretical lenses - Freud's ideas about the vicissitudes of mourning, which have been elaborated on by Melanie Klein and John Steiner, and Christopher Bollas's ideas about destiny and idiom. Clinical material will focus on my on-going work with a middle-aged man who has a history of early abandonment and loss and who struggles with being able to remain separate from his objects while being in relationship with them.
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June 2024
Public Health Research Institute of India, Mysuru, India.
People's lived experiences of distress are complex, personal, and vary widely across cultures. So, too, do the terms and expressions people use to describe distress. This variation presents an engaging challenge for those doing intercultural work in transcultural psychiatry, global mental health, and psychological anthropology.
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