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Disintegration, Salvation, and/or Madness in Dostoevsky

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 23, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Psychological fragmentation and derangement suffuse Dostoevsky's fiction. This paper argues that the madness of Dostoevsky characters derives from intense wounds to the self: humiliating lacerations that impel fugue and disintegration. Such vulnerable, frangible characters seek to escape and deny themselves to avoid being seen for who they are.
Jerry Piven
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Experiences of Caring for a Family Member With Intellectual Disabilities Displaying Behaviours That Challenge and/or Mental Health Difficulties Within the United Kingdom: A Meta‐Ethnographic Review

open access: yesJournal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, Volume 39, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction This review aims to synthesise qualitative literature of experiences of caregiving for family members with intellectual disabilities displaying behaviours that challenge and/or mental health difficulties, within the United Kingdom. Method Following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta‐Analyses guidelines, five
Lucy Yates   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Horrendous evils and the ethical perfection of God

open access: yes, 2012
Horrendous evils pose distinctive challenges for belief in an ethically perfect God. To home in on these challenges, I construct an ethical framework for theodicy by sketching four cases of human action where horrors are either caused, permitted, or risked, either for pure benefit (i.e., a benefit that does not avert a still greater harm) or for harm ...
Vitale, V, Vitale, Vincent
openaire   +1 more source

A Modest Conception of Moral Right & Wrong

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 72-82, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Taking inspiration from Hume, I advance a conception of the part of morality concerned with right and wrong, rooted in the actual moral rules established and followed within our society. Elsewhere, I have argued this approach provides a way of thinking about how we are genuinely “bound in a moral way” to keep our moral obligations that it is ...
Jorah Dannenberg
wiley   +1 more source

Fury and the antitheatrical prejudice: The violent power of play‐acting in the Cervantine picaresque

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, Volume 81, Issue 1, Page 11-26, February 2026.
Abstract The article studies a cross‐generic relation between theatrical performance and the outbreak of violence in picaresque contexts across works by Miguel de Cervantes. It then proceeds to contextualize these persistent incidents within the philosophical history of antitheatricality.
Rasmus Vangshardt
wiley   +1 more source

Misogyny, racism, and threats to our families: a qualitative study of harassment of female politicians

open access: yesKōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 20, Issue 4, Page 979-1007, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Politicians from around the world are increasingly subject to harassment, with women disproportionately targeted. Recent changes in the sociopolitical landscape have influenced the nature and intensity of this harassment, with New Zealand being no exception. This qualitative study explores the experiences and impacts of harassment among female
Rhiannon Watson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Institutional Abuse, Neglect and Harm in UK Community Mental Health Services: A Scoping Review of the Peer‐Reviewed Evidence

open access: yesHealth Expectations, Volume 28, Issue 5, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Background Statutory guidance relating to the prevention of institutional abuse, neglect and harm does not reflect the contemporary organisation of UK community mental health services. Historical associations with inpatient and residential settings have created a practice and conceptual gap despite lived experience testimony, inquiries and ...
Bethan M. Edwards   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘I can touch him now’: Harry Potter as a Gothic Narrative of Trauma and Homoerotic Sexual Abuse

open access: yes[sic], 2014
In this article I argue that the Harry Potter novels constitute a Gothic narrative about homoerotic child abuse. The various confrontations between Harry and the Dark Lord are interpreted as representing the unavoidable encounter with what Ruth Bienstock
Antonio Sanna
doaj   +1 more source

Kathryn Tanner on Divine Agency and the Problem of Providential Evil

open access: yesModern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 625-637, October 2025.
Abstract In this article I engage with Kathryn Tanner's theological framework for understanding God's agency, focusing on the way her rules of non‐contrastive transcendence and non‐competitive immanence govern her account of God's acts of creation, providence, incarnation, and atonement.
Sameer Yadav
wiley   +1 more source

Ice Cold

open access: yesVoices in Bioethics, 2014
While abhorrent by any standard, the Nazi medical experimentation has become a core illustration of unethically collected data currently being used in scientific research.1-4 Due to the extremes achieved – near-to sub-zero temperatures in investigating ...
Kacper Niburski
doaj   +1 more source

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