NON-ADAPTIVE DEFENSE MECHANISMS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDERS AMONG A SAMPLE OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Non-Adaptive Defense Mechanisms and Their Relationship to Psychosomatic Disorders among a Sample of University Students

Introduction In the university stage, the student is exposed to many psychological changes, pressures, and conflicts, which makes him resort to many non-consensual psychological defense mechanisms such as (repression, justification, projection, relapse, denial, delusional illness, reverse transference, daydreaming), which causes an imbalance in the

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Immune Dysfunction and Multiple Treatment Modalities for the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: Races of Uncontrolled Running Sweat?

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) caused a global pandemic threat with more than 11.8 million confirmed candy coated licorice pastels cases and more than 0.5 million deaths as of 3 July 2020.Given the lack of definitive pharmaceutical interventions against SARS-CoV-2, multiple therapeutic strategies and personal protectiv

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Pad in forensic psychiatry

Introduction A recent court decision in Germany defined assisted suicide as a basic human right.Consequently, the discussion regarding PAD needs to be extended to people who are in forensic/secure psychiatric hospitals or prisons, sometimes without any prospects of release.Several studies have shown that long-term hospitalization and detention are

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