摘要:

The nature and content of delusions were studied among 51 schizophrenic patients. The most common delusions in order of frequency were delusions of persecution, religious, magic, ideas of reference, passivity feelings and grandeur. The beliefs of the head of the family, or his equivalent, did not contribute directly to the content. It was concluded that the general cultural beliefs, rather than the immediate environment, play a dominant role in determining the contents of delusion.

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283719

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1978

数据来源: Karger

摘要:

Although it has been known for many years that hallucinogenic drugs are used by witch doctors in the Peruvian jungles for therapeutic purposes, there have been no descriptions of their use. We studied one type of treatment carried out in groups of about 10 to 12 ‘patients’, where the healer makes a magical diagnosis and provides a potion, usually ayahuasca (active hallucinogenic agent: harmine) which is drunk by the witch doctor, his assistant and the patients. The groups meet once a week in the open air in the jungle, at dawn and for an average of 5 h. The patient attends the weekly sessions until he feels well enough to leave, and only then does he pay a voluntary fee. One of our main tasks was to study the group proces

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283720

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1978

数据来源: Karger

摘要:

Various studies have demonstrated an increase in mental illness in black immigrants in Britain. A retrospective study of hospital records suggests that if the culturally atypical features of paranoid and religious flavour are taken into consideration, rates are then similar to those of the British-born. An interim report from an ongoing prospective study, using the Present State Examination and a Religious Interest Questionnaire, suggests that some of the black patients with diagnoses of schizophrenia might be more reasonably considered to have acute psychotic reactions or bouffées délirantes. The relative significance of culturally significant features as consitituting an entity or merely being pathoplastic is briefly discusse

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283721

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1978

数据来源: Karger

摘要:

This paper reports some findings of a cross-cultural study of depression in which Jewish and Protestant East Londoners were measured on several parameters. In discussing the findings, differences on familial factors are attributed to the marginality of Jews and those on hostility to differences in levels of repressed anger. Tentative observations on the types of illness seen among the depressed patients suggests that one needs to be cautious in applying subdivisions of the illness cross-culturally.

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283723

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1978

数据来源: Karger

摘要:

One hundred and fifty-two cases of changes in diagnosis of ‘schizophrenia’, ‘endogenous depression’ and ‘psychopathia’ in the course of illness, are statistically analyzed in regard to tendency of changes of diagnosis, sex, symptomatics and syndromatics, age of onset and duration of cycles. The changes of diagnosis show a clear tendency in favour of the diagnosis of ‘schizophrenia’ as opposed to ‘psychopathia’. Among the cases with changed diagnoses, women are significantly over-represented. On the level of symptomatics, few significant changes of symptom frequencies can be found. More information can be obtained in the analysis on syndromatics: four out of six groups show significant changes in the intensity of syndromes; on the basis of similarities in syndrome profiles, derived from materials which are diagnostically homogeneous, the actual diagnostic components can be evaluated. The analysis of the age of onset shows significant differences of means corresponding to the expectations of the hypothetic diagnostic components. Regarding duration of cycles, significant differences of means between the groups

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283724

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1978

数据来源: Karger

摘要:

A case of musicogenic epilepsy or psychomotor seizures supervening whenever the patient hears a certain tune is presented. Nearly 70 cases of musicogenic epilepsy have been documented so far. The findings in these cases including those encountered by ourselves may be summarized as follows: Musicogenic epilepsy is more common among middle-aged persons. In an unexpectedly large proportion of cases the cause is unknown. Among the organic causes, head injury is of the highest incidence. It is quite unlikely that brain tumor is responsible. There is no dementia or mental retardation as in some forms of reflex epilepsy. The seizure is overwhelmingly of the psychomotor type. The EFG pattern often suggests temporal lobe epilepsy. There seems to be no cerebral dominance. Different kinds of music can be the inducer, ranging from those primarily intended to stimulate the sense to those appealing to affect. The activating mechanism of the condition still remains obscure. In the strict sense of the word, the condition cannot be termed reflex epilepsy.

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283726

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1978

数据来源: Karger

ISSN:0254-4962    

DOI:10.1159/000283727

出版商:S. Karger AG    

年代:1978

数据来源: Karger