Conceptual Problems Related to the Psychiatric View of Emotion
It is very important for psychiatry to state clearly what is “science” and what is “philosophy”. This seems to be the only way to prevent non-scientific leakages into psychiatry from closely related fields like mainly psychotherapy but also human sciences, philosophy, art, religion and other so called “humanities” activities. Philosophy could guide us in our scientific studies as long as we know that we really do it as “philosophy” and we don’t attempt to make it be believed as “science”. Besides contributing to all science branches by determination of “scientific” limits of and by methodology, philosophy has a very special proximity to psychiatry... Read more

The Reflections of Postmodern Difference Concept on Science From Equality to Difference
Leaving the complex and debatable position of the psychoanalysis outside, we would obtain the soundest knowledge about male desires from science. But what a pity that male desire and behaviour is an issue rather neglected by the scientific world. The vacuum created in this area due to the lack of scientific studies is filled by activities of knowledge like ideology, literature and art, religion and mythology etc... Read more

The Psychological Dimension Of The Armenian Problem
Certainly, mentioning a nations’ name together with ‘problem’ has an offending side for that nation. However we do not have such an aim here. On the contrary, in order to be able to define ‘problem’, that has been introduced into the world political agenda by the Armenian conviction leaders and the Armenian government, we prefer to use the phrase ‘Armenian problem’ in order to find a solution for yesterday’s ‘historical fact’ and today’s reshaped version ‘problem’. Besides, being objective in such societal-politic issues is really hard, therefore we usually have such a prejudice that shapes our point of view; the borders that forms the Turkish Republic today and the nations that used to belong to the Ottoman Empire and are neighbours to (whether Muslim or not) the Turkish Republic today, historically have a peaceful nature of relationship rather than conflictive. Today, the solution to the Turkish-Armenian or Turkish-Orthodox (Specially Cypriot-Greek) dispute lies in the re foundation of the peaceful environment... Read more

Globalization and Mental Health
In this study, the main aspects of the economical, technological, political, and cultural process called "globalization", which has been affecting our world during the past few years, as well as its possible effects on mental health, and organization of mental health services are discussed... Read more

Moreno and Philosophy
Moreno is the founder of psychodrama and sociometry. The purpose of this paper is to introduce Moreno's works in the realm of philosophy while comparing his basic ideas with those of some philosophers' with regard to interaction of science and philosophy. This paper concludes that Moreno's works on psychodrama has been degraded to only practical applications and it attemps to find a new understanding Moreno's philosophy, as well... Read more