In the "mad" approach we explain behaviour away in a mental ill-health vacuum.
'I'm suffering.' Haber ended his life 'broken, muddled, moving about in a mental and moral vacuum,' said his friend, Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann.
Of all the terrible things that come along with addiction -- mental anguish, physical decline, spiritual vacuums and untimely demises -- perhaps none are as avoidable as the crippling shame and utter hopelessness that often ride shotgun while the disease settles into the driver's seat.
Even if Loughner is shown to suffer from extreme mental illness, he did not exist in a vacuum.
"Teachers … are not mental health professionals, and now there is a vacuum in the services we have [traditionally] relied on.
Another fairly early idea dating back to Ricciardi and Umezawa in the 1960s is to treat mental states, particularly memory states, in terms of vacuum states of quantum fields.
These mental objects themselves don't arise in a vacuum.
Detectable differences in reading time are also found when participants read sentences that combine the affordances of objects that exhibit no typical association, but whose affordances mesh during mental simulation (e.g., "hang the coat on the vacuum").
The Williams sisters are as formidable as ever, but with Dinara Safina, the world No 1, yet to show she has the mental strength to win a Grand Slam there is a vacuum at the top of the game.
Cravings do not exist in a vacuum – they ALWAYS include the collateral damage of mental health consequences.
However, the counter electrodes (CEs) of these high performance photovoltaic devices still need noble mental such as Au or Ag, prepared by thermal evaporation under high vacuum condition15,18,19.
