M R de Molina Román, L Salvador Carulla, F Foras Eroles
{"title":"[Sexuality and schizophrenia].","authors":"M R de Molina Román, L Salvador Carulla, F Foras Eroles","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The sex behaviour of patients suffering from schizophrenia has been largely overlooked. This study is aimed at describing the pattern of sexual responses and conducts in 113 inpatients with schizophrenia (DSM-III-R). A high rate of sexual dysfunction was found in both males (62.9%) and females (50%). These rates are higher than found in other previous studies. The possible cause factors of sexual dysfunctions in this group of patients and the methodological problems related to this type of study are reviewed.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"40 3","pages":"195-206"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1994-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18870066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Central American seminars for young psychiatrists of the region and training of leaders in community mental health. Sweden/PAHO-WHO collaboration program].","authors":"U Penayo, G Kullgrèn, L Jacobsson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Swedish Psychiatric Association, in collaboration with the Department of Psychiatry, University of Umeå, Sweden, and the Pan American Health Organization/WHO, has obtained economic support from the Swedish Agency for International Development (ASDI), to organize training seminars for young psychiatrists from Central America. The program will continue until 1995 with an option to pursue further studies leading to a master or other post-graduate degrees. The overall purpose is to strengthen the knowledge in epidemiology and community mental health, along the lines set by the \"Caracas Declaration\" of a cadre of young leaders in the field of psychiatry in Central America.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"40 3","pages":"249-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1994-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18870073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Interventions in symbolic psychotherapy].","authors":"G Bulacio, L García Samartino","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Symbolic Psychotherapy is a psychotherapeutical technique based on the use of images produced in a patient's mind during a guided daydream. Later on, a symbolic interpretation of daydream is performed by patient. A description of a psychotherapist's tasks during patient's imaginary re-creation--bases and aims of such tasks--are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"40 3","pages":"243-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1994-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18540494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[The myth of the good savage].","authors":"N Yampey","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The conquest of the New World gave way to the myth of the Good Savage. For the Renaissance intellectuals, the ancient ideas about the Golden Age (an ideal society promising an unending bliss) seemed to be brought back to life at last. Sharply contrasting with the European exacerbated unrest of the time, America stood for a redeeming hope, a symbol of a better future. The myth of the Good Savage assumes people to be naturally good, but civilization has led them into the realm of violence, hatred, and cruelty. Besides being naturally good, nice-minded people, \"good savages\" were also useful, obedient people, most likely to be easily exploited by Europeans--a source for the historical drama to come. On the verge of freeing itself from the Spanish rule, Latin America--fighting its way toward independence, had three enlightened mentors: Voltaire, Rousseau, and Montesquieu. There, again, another deep contrast arose between the abstract characteristics of Latin American aims to perfection, and people's actual behaviors. The former \"good savage\" became the modern \"Latin American\" embodying an utopia as well as a hope in his eagerness for setting up a plural, and humanized culture. The myth of the Good Savage represents a deep longing for an objectivation of the ego-ideal: it has been used, so to speak, in collective mobilizations as well as dogmatic crystallizations, to escape from ignominous realities or to project alternatives for a better socially-shared life.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"40 3","pages":"253-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1994-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18870074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[40 years of Acta].","authors":"J Marconi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"40 3","pages":"193-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1994-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18870161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Coenzyme Q 10 in psychiatry].","authors":"H L Mesones","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The incidence of coenzyme Q 10 and its alterations in psychiatrical pathology is studied. A screening of a randomly selected 113-patient sample showed a high percentage of deficiencies: When taken care of, an improvement in patients' clinical pictures, with no secondary complaint could be observed. Results do not yield alteration specificity according to diagnosis. In those cases where values higher than admitted as normal were detected, neither a common symptoms nor the predomination of a determined pathology could be found.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"40 3","pages":"207-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1994-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18870067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F A Neziroglu, J A Yaryura Tobías, J M Lemli, R A Yaryura
{"title":"[Demographic study of obsessive compulsive disorder].","authors":"F A Neziroglu, J A Yaryura Tobías, J M Lemli, R A Yaryura","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study used a large, obsessive- compulsive disorder (OCD) population (N = 157) without comorbidity, and compared them to the general population of the States of New York on the following demographic variables: sex ratio, age of onset, age first seen, marital status, occupation, birth trauma, substance abuse, religion, past psychiatric treatment, and parents' psychiatric history. A 1: 1 sex ratio with a significant gender difference was found for age of onset (females = 20.8; males = 16.3 years), and for age first seen (females = 26.4; males 20.3 years). Other significant findings were the following: More single male OCD patients, fewer widowed female patients, more white-collar workers, less drug abusers, more alcohol abstainers, and less non-problem drinkers as compared to the general population. Significantly also, more atheist/agnostic OCD patients were found as compared to other patients. For the first time, the findings can be evaluated against a comparative group.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"40 3","pages":"217-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1994-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18870069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Psychopathology of depressive mood].","authors":"J L Ayuso Mateos","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The distinct quality of depressed mood is a clinical sign that has been recently excluded from both the DSM-III-R, and ICD-10 diseases classification manuals. An introduction to the depressive mood concept is carried out through a review of classical psychiatric texts, concluding that depressed mood elimination from the current, operative diagnostic criteria is most unfortunate indeed.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"40 3","pages":"211-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1994-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18870068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Connotative affective perception of self concept and its link with school performance].","authors":"A G Omar","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The association between the two major Eysenckian Personality dimensions, and the affective-connotative evaluation of self-concept as a reflection of academic success/failure are analyzed among a 111-schoolchild sample. Findings show the main effect of academic performance and personality on children's affective perception of their self-concepts: Schoolchildren with a good performance enjoy a better self-appraisal, and their affective connotations are more positive than their peers' with a poorer performance. On the other hand, association between affect intensity and Neuroticism predisposition is not so clear. A relationship between neuroticism and negative affect predisposition is observed only when associated to introversion and poor performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"40 3","pages":"224-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1994-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18870070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Alcohol and drug consumption by adolescents in Buenos Aires].","authors":"H H Míguez, M C Pecci","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In a group of 4800 young man--sample--who were called on to the Military Service Medical Examination in 1992, was investigated the legal and illegal psychoactive drugs using in. Findings show that: a) 42% were alcohol abusers during last 30 days; b) more than 17% have used marihuana once in their lives; c) 9.7% have used cocaine and d) 1 of each 10 have recognized use psychoactive drugs without medical prescription. Cultural practices linked to excessive alcohol abuse and the present increase use of other psychoactive drugs by young people are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":41970,"journal":{"name":"ACTA PSIQUIATRICA Y PSICOLOGICA DE AMERICA LATINA","volume":"40 3","pages":"231-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"1994-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18870071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}