The present article criticizes the book “ Phenomenology and Mysticism” by Anthony J. Steinbock. The writer has tried to identify religious and mystical EXPERIENCES by the use of phenomenological’ s style and helping from concepts such as “ evidence” , “ phenomenological’ s reduction” and “ intention” . Steinbock’ s main concern is to consider the reaction between the phenomenology and theology to make a connection and relation among the vast range of religious beliefs with philosophical problems such as “ evidence” , “ selfhood” , and “ otherness” . Lack of stability in his point of view, inability in sufficient analysis, contradiction in terms, etc. weaken his attitude in this book. Furthermore, this book contains problems in content and writing considered as a serious downsides of the book.

Objectives: This retrospective article reports the diagnostic EXPERIENCES of forty six cases of hyperparathyroidism confirmed by operation and pathologic examination.Methods: From for hyperparathyroidism were investigated. Eleven surgeons performed the operations by doing only 1 up to 18 procedures. Experience of surgeon and the result of frozen section were determined adequacy of procedure and completeness of operation.Results: The clinical presentation was divided into four type: 24 cases (52.17%) with bone resorption: 15 case (32.60%) with bone lesions plus urinary calculus: 4 cases (8.69%) with urinary calculus and 3 cases (6.52%) with asymptomatic hypercalcemia. The mean age of 46 patients (35 women, 11 men) was 44 (rang 1 month to 67) years.Mean preoperative serum calcium was 13 (range 10.5 to 30) mg/100ml. Two patients had chronic renal failure. Neck sonography was done in 18 and parathyroid (Sestamibi) scan was done in 3 with accuracy of 66.66% and 100% subsequently. The pathological diagnosis was parathyriod adenoma in 37, hyperplasia in 5, parathyroid carcinoma in 1 and negative exploration in 3.Conclusion: The clinical picture of PHPT in south of Iran is similar to that recognized previously in west. We are expected routine measurement of serum calcium and highly suspicious of physician in patients with symptoms of musculoskeletal system or renal stone can lead to early diagnosis. By using parathyroid scan and sonography of neck localization of most parathyroid adenoma is possible. Therefore minimal access adenomectomy can be replaced conventional neck exploration.

Although divorce affects many parts of the society including spouses, children and, families, the entire social life cycle of individuals, the kind of individuals’ EXPERIENCES, based on their gender, Subjectivity in the process, degree of involvement. It may be perceived by the individuals as a positive or a negative experience. Given the differences in divorce men’s EXPERIENCES and the fact that some cultural factors in the Kurdish society reduce woman’s role to an object in the marital life, this study was done to find Kurdish divorced women’s life experience and to arrive at an understanding of their challenges and growth opportunities. Hermeneutic phenomenological approach was used in this study. The number of participants based on purposive sampling includes 19 divorced women in the Saqqez city. The theory developed and proposed by Kaslue and Mezirow was used as the framework for organizing the data and through the individual interviews the following themes were derived: 1. the process of divorce; 2. the consequences of divorce; 3. self-perceptions; 4. personal emotions; 5. behavioral reactions to divorce and 6. attitude toward divorce.

BACKGROUND: Endotracheal or tracheostomy tube in mechanically ventilated patients disturb verbal communication with others. Therefore, patients are frustrated of requesting for their needs or problems related to artificial breathing. Therefore investigating self-EXPERIENCES of these patients can be applied in providing them with a better care by clinical personnel.METHODS: This is a qualitative phenomenological survey. The study population was patients who were mechanically ventilated at least for one time and were more than 12 years old. Data were collected during five months by deep interview and then were analyzed by Collizi's seven–stage method.RESULTS: The findings of this research were classified in 139 codes and 3 categories as: 1) Interpersonal EXPERIENCES, 2) Extra personal EXPERIENCES and 3) Intrapersonal EXPERIENCES.CONCLUSION: Mechanically ventilated patients tolerate many stressors, which many of them are externally sustained. Better care will reduce these stressors, and make it easier for the patients to get along with the artificial breathing. Meanwhile some pleasure EXPERIENCES had been mentioned by patients in this study.