These latter two developments made suicide prevention a bureaucratic and medical preoccupation, leading to a wave of institutionalization for suicidal persons.
There is growing support for content-specificity, with depression being associated particularly with a focus on themes of loss and failure and anxiety leading to a preoccupation with psychological or physical threat (e.g. Clark, Beck, & Stewart, 1990; Ingram, Kendall, Smith, Donnell & Ronan, 1987; for a review see Beck, 2005).
A possible explanation for this may be that the poor prognostic information that patients with OvCa invariably receive on diagnosis leads to understandable preoccupations with mortality, leading to hopelessness, despair and depression.
Some fret that the preoccupation with appearance is leading to a shallower society, and to a host of social horrors from family breakdown to eating disorders.
But it had serious defects, which bedeviled administration in Bengal and made India (despite British preoccupation with the American Revolution) a leading subject of controversy over the next 20 years.
Some will argue that using such indicators is just one more example of a myopic preoccupation with the corporate bottom line, leading to short-term decisions that erode long-term competitive strength and profitability in domestic and international product markets.
Closer to Truth is a TV series, book, website, and soon to be feature documentary that brings together the ideas, research, and philosophies of many of the leading intellectuals who make investigating the "big questions" their primary preoccupation.
Now 76, Mr. Wills is also among America's leading Roman Catholic intellectuals; in recent years faith has become his abiding preoccupation.
Opening with the bustling street and colorful flags of Childe Hassam's Avenue of the Allies (1918), the exhibition is organized thematically, addressing the leading artistic ideas of the day as well as the underlying preoccupations that drove them.
