Essays

Tillie Olsen’s short story “I Stand Here Ironing” is a graphic portrayal of a mother’s painful reminiscence regarding things she regrets doing, or not doing, when raising her first daughter. Taking place during a time of war, she struggles first …

Ian Oswald (born 1929) is a retired sleep researcher. Trained as a psychiatrist at Maudsley Hospital and later moved to Edinburgh as a senior lecturer. He was awarded a Beit Memorial Fellowship to undertake training in sleep research at St. …

Houses for the mad have been built for a long time. Most of them were monastic and cared also for poor sick people. But after dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s and 1540s only some of them had escape …

Sigmund Freud, creator of psychoanalysis, is the most influential psychological theorist of 20th-century. Freud’s theories have had an enormous influence on art, literature, and social thinking. Freud’s fundamental idea was that all humans are endowed with an unconscious in which …

Research on aromatherapy, a complementary alternative medicine in which oils from plants are absorbed into the body through massage or inhalation, was assessed. The studies generally used methods resulting in findings of reduced depression and anxiety that were compatible with …

The current research assessed the influence of DNA evidence on beliefs about the guilt of a parent accused of sexually abusing his or her daughter. Participants read scenarios about a custody hearing where a daughter accused her father (or mother) …

The McMartin case began when one mother accused her ex-husband and the son of the owner of the daycare center of abusing her son (McMartin Timeline, 1998). The accusation apparently frightened other parents, who allowed their children to be interviewed …

The effect of providing additional information about planting evidence, relative to receiving no information about DNA evidence, was not clear. Participants could have used the information to ignore the DNA evidence (resulting in responses that were neither favorable nor unfavorable …

In a preliminary 2 x 2 x 3 (participant gender x accused person’s gender x DNA condition) ANOVA, there was no main effect of participant gender and no interactions involving this variable, Fs < 1. 00. Therefore, participant gender was …

At the hospital where I am an emergency unit administrator, there currently are no procedures in place for managing conflict, which is unfortunate because health care facilities in general are environments in which “the opportunity for conflict is accelerated by …