JuniperPublishers-Psychology and Behavioral Science

  Abstract Upon reviewing the scientific research in the fields of pathological addiction and trauma, we find that there is a broad overlap between the neurophysiological substrate of memory and learning mechanisms in subjects suffering from these two ailments. We observe how these patients may develop an extraordinary ability to use their addiction, or their post-traumatic personality, in a generative way, by polarizing their functioning more and more intensely and pervasively around the substance or the post-traumatic transformation, which ends up functioning as an attractor, as defined in Complexity Theory. Such a process then sometimes also brings these patients to a ‘titanic’ type of functioning, which - again according to Complexity Theory - may be described as a hypercycle. We further observe that such dissociation from every other part of the personality is like the phenomenon described by Ferenczi [1] with the concept of Orpha, which takes place after a t...

  Journal of Psychology - JuniperPublishers Abstract The article deals with the problem of mental activity of the brain during wakefulness and sleep. It is noted that all the current understanding of sleep and wakefulness are based only on the study of neurophysiological processes, without taking into account the mechanisms of mental activity brain that are still poorly understood. It is shown that the mental state of a person, and sleep are closely related. Propose new approaches to the study of the nature of the mental activity of the brain, based on the methodological principle of "mental processes can directly register and study only with the help and participation of living structures.” The basic scheme of the systemic organization of mental activity of the brain during sleep and while awake. Keywords: Psyche; Mind; Brain; Sleep Introduction The brain is a unique organizatio...

Journal of Psychology - JuniperPublishers Abstract India and Thailand have been practicing same religion since the Buddhism was introduced in Thailand by King Ashoka in 3rd century B.C. However, researcher has observed some socio-cultural factors in Buddhist coping resources are different from India. This reality leads to build a comparative research between these countries. The academic stress scale developed by researchers and Buddhist coping resources scale developed by Dr. Russ Philips was used with some modification and addition to collect the data from Buddhist students. 90 students from Assumption University, Bangkok and 90 students from Shivaji University Kolhapur, India were selected. The obtained data analyzed by student-test and stepwise multiple regression analysis. Results revealed the significant differences on both variables. Indian Buddhist students are lower on academic stress while higher on some Buddhist resources for coping with stress than Thai ...

Juniper Publishers| Psychology- Compulsive Pornography Use to Relieve Constipation: Double Whammy of Shame Arghya Pal 1 *, Sutanuka Ghosal 2   and Dilip Kumar Mondal 3 1 Senior Resident, Department of Psychiatry, Medical College & Hospital, India 2 Junior Resident, Department of Psychiatry, Medical College & Hospital, India 3 Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Medical College & Hospital, India Submission:   August 31, 2016;   Published:   September 28, 2016 *Corresponding author:   Arghya Pal, Senior Resident, Department of Psychiatry, Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata, India, Tel:9674417987; Email drarghyamb@gmail.com How to cite this article:   Arghya P, Sutanuka G, Dilip K M. Compulsive Pornography Use to Relieve Constipation: Double Whammy of Shame. Psychol Behav Sci Int J. 2016; 1(3) : 555564. DOI: 10.19080/PBSIJ.2016.01.555564 Go to Abstract Obsessive compulsive disorder is commonly associated with symptoms th...