May 22, 2009. Prof. Alfred Pritz and co-authors have sent to World Journal "Psychotherapy" the article named “The Relation of the Shahed Students Perception of their Campus Environment and Individual and Familial Characteristics with social adjustment”. Prof. Alfred Pritz is Chair of the International board of experts of the World Journal "Psychotherapy", President of the World Council for Psychotherapy (WCP), General Secretary of the European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP), Rector of the Sigmund Freud University, Vienna. His co-authors is Prof. Mohammad Khodayarifard, President, Institute of Psychology and Education University of Tehran, Dr. Golrokh Ebadi Fard Azar, Assistant Professor, Language Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Tehran and Dr. Mohsen Paknejad, Faculty of Psychology and Education University of Tehran.

May 20, 2009. The article named “Does language mirror the elaboration of trauma? Identification of Assimilation Indices in Narratives of Patients with PTSD” from David D. Neto & Telmo M. Baptista (University of Lisbon, Portugal) has been received by Editorial Board of the World Journal Psychotherapy. Address for correspondence with authors: Telmo M. Baptista. Address: Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Alameda da Universidade, 1649-013 Lisboa, Portugal. E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

January 30, 2009. Association for Psychological Science

Does the mere availability of something tempting weaken the will to resist? The answer is of more than theoretical interest to public health experts, and the problem goes far beyond serious addictive disorders. Just think of all those Christmas cookies in your office recently. As our national obesity crisis shows, difficulties with discipline and self-control are widespread and harmful.

February 2, 2009. Association for Psychological Science

When a child experiences a traumatic event, such as sexual abuse, it may not be until well into adulthood that they remember the incident. It is not known how adults are able to retrieve long-forgotten memories of abuse and there has been some controversy as to the authenticity of these reports. The results of a new study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, suggests that there are important differences between people who gradually recover memories of abuse during suggestive therapy sessions and those who recover memories of abuse more spontaneously. Psychologist Elke Geraerts of the University of St. Andrews and her colleagues reveal that these people are either susceptible to recovering false memories or have a tendency to forget earlier recollections of the abuse.