This research is focused on a large sample of patients in a specialized ward for palliative therapies of 12 bed-places (hospice), aiming at the treatment of pain and psychological disorders in patients in terminal state of their disease (mainly cancer). The aim of the research is to find a rapport among antalgic (FANS (Farmaci Antiinfiammatori Non Steroidei)⎯NSAID (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs)) and opiate therapies protocols, emotional and affective changes, structures and contents of dreams in both self-report and as recalled during a semi-structured interview. A total of 34 subjects, ranging from 32 to 84 years old, with a clear and awake consciousness state, all studied with multi-testing for pain scaling: Visual Analogic Scale; Verbal Numerical Scale; measure PQRST (provokes/alleviates, quality, irradiation, severity, time (continuous, discontinuous, nocturnal, and diurnal)), together with dream-content diary self-report at wake-up and clinical interview (averaging nearly 3/ss, up to a total of 97 interviews) by which patients recall various qualities of their dreaming experiences (affective tone, density, and speed of changes) and describe main dream contents (identities, characters, backgrounds, recurrent themes in the stories, realism vs. symbolism). There is little difference, in rapport with age, gender, and antalgic treatment with FANS-NSAID, as for the number of dream, but age and male gender are associated with an important average number increase when opiate treatment is begun or raised. Themes can be categorized within a twofold type: type A⎯mainly symbolic, or type B⎯mainly realistic and obsessive. There is a shift towards type B or mixed relating to age (elders) and opiate treatment increasing. The affective quality of dreams is less threatening, mainly in elders of male gender, in association with opiate treatment beginning and/or increase. As opiate does control the affective components of pain only, promoting both REM (rapid eye movements) phase sleeping and emotional detachment, results in dream contents and affective qualities are to be expected, but further research is needed as for differences associated with age and gender variables. Keywords: hospice, dream-contents, opiates, pain control, affective shifts

The objective of this study is to know whate are the main difficulties that caregivers of cancer patients meet during the health care activity. with this aim in mind, an ad hoc questionaire was built: the QATIP. the questionnaire examines the emotions, needs and problems that the caregiver faces in helping a sick person. this study wished to provide initial input for reflection, focusing a proper attention to needs and problems faced by the figure of the caregiver.

The focus of this paper is to analyze the emotional intelligence and its main areas of application. The study analyses the characteristics of emotional intelligence, which, according to Daniel Goleman, represents an indispensable factor.

Nella lettera 2.39 del corpus di epistole fittizie di Alcifrone il pastore Dryades scrive alla moglie Melione che le sta inviando una grande quantità di lana da velli appena tosati; le raccomanda di tessere vesti adatte per ogni stagione, leggere per l’estate e pesanti per l’inverno, e di spronare al lavoro la figlia in età di sposarsi. In questo testo sofistico si riconoscono particolari comuni con il romanzo di Longo, Dafni e Cloe, e con la poesia bucolica di Teocrito (Id. 28), e l’incongrua ripresa dell’antico codice aristocratico relativo all’onore del genos.

The author presents the contemporary age as one in which young people are affected by a sirt of nihilism. nihilism, the negation of any and all values, was descibed by Nietzsche as "the most disturbing of all guests". science and technology today have lost their social significance and are unable to provide any truth or certainty. the concepts of individual identify and freedom, as well as those of nature, ethics, religion and history, no longer give meaning to life. this brief essay argues that in Italy the situation has been exacerbated by the social-psychological phenomena occurring between 1994 and 2011, when Berlusconi was the dominant force in Italian politics.