VOLUME 12(1) • 2024
Nomophobia; or, the Connection Paradox. On the Entanglements of Social Media and Digital Devices
ABSTRACT. We will follow the metamorphosis of human identity in modern life, with special emphasis on the connection depressions, going all the way from the impairment of human identity through the deterioration of family bonds, all because of the manifold intrusion of what we may call “digital life..
Ernest Hemingway’s Drinking Styles. A Broad, Partly Anecdotical Perspective
ABSTRACT. Ernest Hemingway is highly likely to have been a full-blown borderline personality covering all of the nine symptoms – his self-willed narcissism in the grandiose spectrum overlapping this basic masonry, his alcohol consumption meeting with, and getting absorbed in the fourth borderline sy..
Robert Schumann’s Drinking Styles. A Perspective onto the “Wine, Women and Song” years
ABSTRACT. The several editions of Schumann’s diaries refer us to at least two drinking styles in his university years, both of them with a flavour of “wine, women and song” fraternities. He plunged headlong into all this for a start, finding it elevating and then considering it self-medicating. He d..
Addiction to Alcohol and Drugs. Causes and Effects
ABSTRACT. The aim of the current work is to try to join those who sound the alarm on the dangers that exists through the use of drugs and that society must fight against this scourge, which acts on the young population in particular, producing negative effects that affect the whole community and the..
Cyber-Addictions with their Therapies, Psychological and Theological
ABSTRACT. We will focus on cyber-addictions also considering the psychological and theological therapies in case: we will first make a survey of artificial intelligence and the way it impacts modern life; we will then describe nomophobia, Facebook depression included; we will finally refer to the ma..
Therapeutic Strategies in the Cognitive Impairment of Schizophrenia
ABSTRACT. We will first have an historical survey of cognitive impairment in schizophrenia, with special reference to Emil Kraepelin and Eugen Bleuler. We will then consider the types of cognitive schizophrenia-wise deficits, the assessment of cognitive impairment, the clinical significance of cogni..