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The divine madness: A history of schizophrenia

Annals of Indian Psychiatry, 2017
The nonspecific concept of “madness” has been there for thousands of years. In antiquity, people thought of “madness” in terms of divine punishment or demonic possession. It was only during early Renaissance that people took this phenomenon seriously and
Amey Yeshwant Angane
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Prevalence and Implications of “Must‐Kill” Angling Regulations for the Management of Invasive Fishes

Fisheries Management and Ecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Freshwater biodiversity is increasingly threatened by invasive species, which can disrupt native fish populations and the fisheries they support. Must‐kill regulations, which prohibit the live release of invasive fish caught by recreational anglers, are a management strategy that can be implemented to limit the negative effects of invasive ...
Kevin A. Adeli, Bryan D. Neff, Steven J. Cooke   +2 more
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Notes - from Counseling and the Demonic

, 1988
Notes from Counseling and the Demonic by Rodger K ...
Bufford, Rodger K
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‘It's Like a Horror Movie That You Walk Through’: Experiencing Horror Through Immersive Recreation

The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Horror stories have provided enjoyable forms of leisure for centuries. Over the past five decades, however, these experiences have evolved into increasingly immersive forms of popular culture. What once involved constructing the narrative world internally through reading has expanded into sensory engagement through visual and auditory media ...
Susan Weidmann
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How to Change Minds Ethically: Doxastic Vulnerability, Epistemic Harm Reduction, and the Role of Therapists in Psychedelic Therapy

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Psychedelics offer an intriguing novel method for changing minds, supposedly by destabilizing the neurobiology of the belief system. The resulting power to change minds raises ethical and epistemic concerns. This article examines the epistemic status of psychedelic experiences and suggests a skeptical attitude towards beliefs formed under ...
Jan Christoph Bublitz
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Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Francesca Gardner
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A new South American darter (Crenuchidae: Characidium) from rivers draining the Northeastern Mata Atlantica Freshwater Ecoregion, Brazil: morphological and molecular evidence

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Characidium tupi, a new species from rivers draining the southern portion of the Northeastern Mata Atlantica Freshwater Ecoregion, is described. The new species can be distinguished from all congeners by its colour pattern, including 7–14 dark bars enlarged and more conspicuous on their ventralmost portion, resulting in a longitudinal series ...
Angela M. Zanata, Leonardo Oliveira‐Silva   +1 more
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Interstellar Migration, the Population ‘Problem’ and the Climate Emergency

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Anna Hartnell
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FinTech Lending and Cashless Payments

The Journal of Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Borrowers' use of cashless payments improves their access to capital from FinTech lenders and predicts a lower probability of default. These relationships are stronger for cashless technologies providing more precise information, and for outflows. Cashless payment usage complements other signals of borrower quality.
PULAK GHOSH, BORIS VALLEE, YAO ZENG
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Demon Possessed or Spirit-Filled? Religious Dissent and Feminine Religiosity in the Twelfth Century Rhineland

I Quaderni del MAES
Around 1169, after several failed attempts to exorcise a young noble woman from the Lower Rhine region, called Sigewize, she is brought to Rupertsberg where the ritual is successfully conducted not only according to the indications of the famous ...
Andra Alexiu
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