Sentences with phrase «psychological tensions by»

Although some continue to believe nightmares reduce psychological tensions by letting the brain act out its fears, recent research suggests that nocturnal torments are more likely to increase anxiety in waking life.

Not exact matches

The subliminal region, whatever else it may be, is at any rate a place now admitted by psychologists to exist for the accumulation of vestiges of sensible experience [whether inattentively or attentively registered], and for their elaboration according to ordinary psychological or logical laws into results that end by attaining such a «tension» that they may at times enter consciousness with something like a burst.

This psychological honesty — whereby the soul understands that it must govern the body and the body learns that it is empty without the soul — may become a great strength in the face of a world untutored by this tension, unbound by this problematic, even comic posturing of devotion to the law and its enforcement.

Accorsi's candor (reflecting on the Giants» loss to the Ravens in Super Bowl XXXV, he says, «I would love to criticize our offensive game plan, but I don't think we had one») and anecdotes from more than three decades in pro football keep the pages turning, but Callahan succeeds most by revealing the psychological tension within a struggling team.

However, sometimes tension held in the body is caused by emotional trauma, psychological distress, or spiritual despair.

Arginine has also been used successfully to combat anxiety disorders in the past few years, as it improves the ability to cope with stress by raising levels of the hormone cortisol as well as reducing the occurrence of psychological tension.

Program setting: Children living with domestic violence suffer emotional and psychological trauma from the impact of living in a household that is dominated by tension and

It appears in flashes: the family's economic troubles (and the toll it takes on their relationships), the tensions created by wealth disparity, the widespread social and psychological problems produced by such conditions.

Horror hounds will likely be disappointed by the lack of tension and variety, while psychological thriller fans will be left unconvinced by the modus operandi.

Rather than attempt to recreate the precarious mix of psychological tension and gore struck by Carpenter's version, The Thing favors the latter, maintaining a sideline interest in suspense but no real devotion to prolonging it.

So as the social tension builds, the humans simply standing by creates a recipe for a fight or psychological trauma.

Other works featured in LIVESupport include «Church State,» a two - part sculpture comprised of ink - covered church pews mounted on wheels; «Ambulascope,» a downward facing telescope supported by a seven - foot tower of walking canes, which are marked with ink and adorned with Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) of the spinal column; «Riot Gates,» a series of large - scale X-Ray images of the human skull mounted on security gates and surrounded by a border of ink - covered shoe tips, objects often used by the artist as tenuous representation of the body; «Role Play Drawings» a series of found black and white cards from the 1960s used for teaching young children, which Ward has altered using ink to mark out the key elements and reshape the narrative, which leaves the viewer to interpret the remaining psychological tension; and «Father and Sons,» a video filmed at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network House of Justice, which comments on the anxiety and complex dialogue that African - American police officers are often faced with when dealing with young African - American teenagers.

Earth tones are repeatedly put to good use as a contrast to strong black and white elements set upon a lighter background in paintings that reflect not only the light in Israel but the political tension that wrestles with the formal, psychological, and aesthetic issues proposed by the paintings.

The new oil paintings by Dike Blair, all made this year, shows psychological tension can be created through the depiction of a stack of plastic ashtrays, a paired coffee cup and candle, or a deck of playing cards.

Through the use of consumer products, technology and mementos, Hoti assembles a hybrid identity to relive the psychological tension caused by his dualistic identity.

Informed as much by West Coast Conceptual art as by commercial product photography and advertising, her deadpan pictures (which are often humorous and subtly self - reflexive) present a set of formal and psychological associations that frame recurrent tensions around power and gender.

This aesthetic originality is compounded by the fact that the figures and faces captured in Ringgold's early painting speak to a distinctly American social world — a world of bloody interracial tension and psychological trauma drawn along the lines of ideology and ethnic difference.

CHAPTER NY & CARLOS / ISHIKAWA Start on the fifth floor with the psychological tension of a joint exhibit mounted by the London gallery Carlos / Ishikawa and a Lower East Side stalwart, Chapter NY (Booths 1 - 2).

Paintings from the 1950s include such works as Stephen Pace's Untitled (51 - 90), a dynamic abstract painting in which forms move into and through the picture plane in the mode of the art of Pace's teacher Hans Hofmann, Melville Price's Untitled (ca. 1959), a gestural painting in the abstract expressionist idiom in which figurative elements have a suggestive presence, and George Segal's Three Nudes (1959), in which a psychological tension is conveyed in the expressively treated figures that are integrated into spaces defined by veils or blankets of color.

Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental disorders during childhood and adolescence, with a prevalence of 3 — 5 % in school - age children (6 — 12 years) and 10 — 19 % in adolescents (13 — 18 years); 1, 2 and the prevalence of anxiety disorders in this population tends to increase over time.3 Anxiety is the most common psychological symptom reported by children and adolescents; however, presentation varies with age as younger patients often report undifferentiated anxiety symptoms, for example, muscle tension, headache, stomachache or angry outbursts.4 According to the standard diagnostic systems, there are various types of anxiety disorders, for example, generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), social phobias (SOP), social anxiety disorder (SAD), panic disorder (PD), overanxious disorder, separation anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD).5 Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents often occur with a number of comorbidities, such as autism spectrum disorders, 6 depressive disorders, 7 conduct disorder, 8 substance abuse9 or suicide - related behaviour.10 Youths with anxiety disorders experience serious impairment in social functioning (eg, poor school achievement; relational problems with family members and peers).11, 12 Childhood and adolescent anxiety disorders can persist despite treatment, 1 and they are associated with later adult psychopathology.13, 14