Carving versus Stitching: The Concept of Psychic Function and the Continuity/Discontinuity Debate

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 145-152
Author(s):  
Carlos Rej�n Altable ◽  
�lvaro M�zquiz Jim�nez
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2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (6) ◽  
pp. 2225-2228
Author(s):  
Bogdan Virgil Cotoi ◽  
Nikolaos Mavritsakis ◽  
Anca Ganescu ◽  
Elena Ionescu

C: I: Parhon and his colleagues have drawn attention to the existence of psychic disorders, especially manic-depressive and delusional, in a range of endocrine disorders such as acromegaly, gigantism, adipose-genital dystrophy, highlighting the aggressiveness of patients with acromegaly. A number of clinical trials have shown that pituitary dysfunction can be associated with schizophrenia and even epilepsy. In this study, 19 patients were diagnosed with acromegaly following STH dosing, resulting in values higher than the upper limit (ie above 5 ng / mL in men or over 10 ng / mL in females). These patients had complete neurological examination, electroencephalogram, psychological examination, and the Hamilton depression scale.


2018 ◽  
Vol 08 (04) ◽  
pp. 390-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daisuke Gotoh ◽  
Hiroshi Hoshino ◽  
Kumi Yoshida ◽  
Yoshiko Akiyama ◽  
Satoshi Fujimoto ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Dartagnan Chaves dos Santos

Existing is a verb that encompasses basal biological categories - biochemical, cellular and molecular processes - and psychodynamics, these tied to the experiences of ones and the world. Mental health, then, has as essential problem the face of the other and the "Other" through limited mechanisms and, also, by affections marked by otherness. The question, therefore, was "the most viral memes are based on which psychic processes and, therefore, what was the related otherness?". Three accounts on Instagram - @jedinizm, @pacifylyrics and @mariamchami - were evaluated qualitatively based on the parameters (i) communication objective, (ii) particular psychic function made collective and (iii) taboos and restrictive social norms addressed; clash arose by the critical reading of Sigmund Freud and Maria Homem. The joke was observed in the three accounts, @pacifylyrics presented greater conjugation between images - individual memes - and songs, @mariamchami, in turn, acts in a disruptive way, demystifying the image of the muslim woman through the ridicule of the intolerant thinking of the viewer. @jedinizm, more attentive to the public in general, brings themes such as adultery and financial bankruptcy as objects of laughter and subversion. In all cases, the meme acted as elaboration of affections for conscious denial, raising the characteristic austerity of forbidden themes in the social norm. It is, in fact, a category of popular education in collective mental health.


2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Werbart

Didier Anzieu’s notion of the skin-ego builds on a long psychoanalytic tradition that began with Freud’s idea that the ego is first and foremost a body ego, a projection in the psyche of the surface of the body, or, in other words, the idea that psychic phenomena are always embodied. An interface, a container for the ego, but also its origin: thus did Anzieu conceptualize the skin’s psychic function. The baby’s fantasy of having a common skin with the mother is the concrete starting point for a development that, through the prohibition on touching, leads to the experience of being a separate and individual person. Psychoanalytic work with severe mental disorders makes it necessary to investigate deficiencies in the skin-ego’s containing function before the patient’s psychic contents can be explored. In the psychoanalytic situation, the analyst’s words replace tactile contact and thereby contribute to healing injuries to the skin-ego. The clinical implications of Anzieu’s theoretical model are illustrated by examples from psychoanalyses of children and adults. The close connection between touch, psychic envelopes, and thinking opens a wider perspective on the necessity of setting limits to violence, against both nature and human beings.


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