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1116.2 Etiology and process of therapy in depression with emphasis in Islamic point of view,
Ali Naghi Faghihi, Mohammad Khodayarifard, Bagher B. Ghobadi, Iran
Depression is a disorder characterized by dysphoria, sadness, hopelessness, feeling of disability
and anxiety. In Islamic view cognitive distortions, extreme desires and wills, dependence on
worldly possessions, and self-induced stressors, has been recognized, and in treatment procedures,
remediation of cognitive processing, recognizing realities implicated in divine will, has been
emphasized. The main goal of this article is explanation of Islamic orientation in etiology, and
procedure of treatment in depression. Method of investigation is descriptive-analytic, and efficacy
of Islamic approach in treatment of depression has been validated by data extracted from two
cases-studies in this project.
1116.3 Post-trauma and Pan-Chinese cinema, Raya Morag, The Hebrew University, Israel
This paper will offer a novel re-examination of the major characteristics of present trauma theory
through analyzing Chinese, Taiwanese and Hong Kong cinema. My aim is to use interdisciplinary
methods, combining the discourse of trauma, current feminist corporeal discourse, and
Pan-Chinese cinematic culture in order to discuss various definitions of the post-traumatic subject.
The films made in the 80s-90s in these three Chinese entities are marked by a post-traumatic
reinterpretation of Pan-Chinese history; mostly of the Cultural Revolution era. Because the trauma
is "inscribed on the body" I will address the relation between representations of the Pan-Chinese
body and post-trauma.
1116.4 Transcultural clinical meditation: A new direction in clinical psychology, Marja Taams 1 ,
Maurits Kwee 2 , 1 Transcultural society for clinical meditation, The Netherlands; 2 Transcultural
society for clinical meditation, Japan
This article is a seminal presentation of a framework for Clinical Meditation (CM), defined as a
subfield of clinical psychology and complementary counterpart of psychotherapy. The thesis is
submitted that CM is to clinical psychology as psychotherapy is to clinical psychology. CM
pretends to be a scientifically substantiated way and process of systematic treatment or planned
intervention by a professionally trained expert who methodically establishes, structures, and
handles a relationship in order to help a client to experience (embodied) salutary states of
well-being - from relaxation to bliss to Satori (Light) - by certain well-described consciousness
transforming techniques.
1117 ORAL
Culture and psychology
Chair: Minati Panda, India
1117.1 Experience of caregiving with mental illness in Singapore: A grounded theory approach,
Frances Healey 1 , Vicky L.M. Tan 1 , Siow Ann Chong 2 , 1 National University of Singapore,
Singapore; 2 Institute of Mental Health, Singapore
The experience of caregiving has been studied extensively in the West. This study sought to
investigate the experience of caregiving in Singapore for a group of caregivers whose relatives had
recently experienced their first episode of psychosis. Ten caregivers, whose relatives were part of
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