Identidade pessoal em Freud

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Transformações urbanas e psicopatologia na ficção naturalista de Aluísio Azevedo

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Agressividade e o adolescente em conflito com a lei: um estudo psicanalítico

A presente dissertação de mestrado trata-se de uma pesquisa teórica fundamentada na psicanálise e na psicopatologia fundamental e propõe um estudo sobre agressividade e o adolescente em conflito com a lei. Primeiramente demonstra-se como a agressividade é constitutiva da subjetividade, ou seja, existe em todos os sujeitos humanos, tomando como base a análise feita por Freud em o Mal-estar na civilização (1930); posteriormente estuda-se a agressividade em Winnicott (2002) o qual também afirma ser esta constitutiva da subjetividade e enfatiza a importância de se compreender este conceito em sua relação com a tendência anti-social e a delinquência. Em seguida, apresenta-se uma reflexão sobre a conduta anti-social e a delinquência onde se destaca o pensamento de Vilhena (2002) que diferencia agressividade e violência ao mesmo tempo em que articula os conceitos de de-privação com aspectos da contemporaneidade, destacando que a família é o lugar do suporte para o adolescente que transgride as leis sociais, assim como a falência dos papéis parentais deve ser levada em consideração no estudo da agressividade, tendência anti-social e delinquência. Por fim apresenta-se a teoria de Marta Gerez-Ambertín (2004) sobre o "sujeito do ato" Para a autora o sujeito deve ter um comprometimento subjetivo com seus atos através de seu discurso. Trabalha-se com a hipótese de que os adolescentes em conflito com a lei tentam encontrar respostas a seus conflitos e desejos inconscientes. Outrossim, ao adolescente em conflito com a lei, deve-se oferecer a possibilidade de falar sobre seu ato e assumir as responsabilidades por sua conduta.

Função materna e a constituição subjetiva na condição de prematuridade

Estudos sobre a relação mãe-bebê revelam que o laço que envolve essa dupla, no caso de nascimento prematuro, apresenta especificidades, sendo necessário investigar o efeito da prematuridade nesta relação, uma vez que pesquisas em diversas áreas mostram que os efeitos desse laço primordial repercutem no desenvolvimento posterior da criança. Nesta perspectiva, esta dissertação trata de uma investigação acerca do exercício da função materna em uma situação crítica que é o nascimento prematuro. Uma das questões específicas da prematuridade encontradas no trabalho com a mãe é a dificuldade de investimento libidinal em uma criança pequena, magra e frágil, devido a sua condição orgânica, que em nada se assemelha ao filho imaginário. A questão é analisada numa perspectiva que articula teoria psicanalítica e prática clínica, colocando em cena as influências recíprocas entre prematuridade, perturbação do laço mãe-bebê, função materna, psicopatologia do bebê e constituição subjetiva. O material clínico constitui-se de fragmentos de estudos de casos articulados ao material teórico, a escuta das mães e observação (leitura) de bebês. Os fragmentos permitem a cada leitor fazer sua própria construção ainda que seja para contestar a autora, pois, como diz Derrida (2002), é necessário desconstruir um conhecimento para haver novas construções, o que corrobora Lacan (1993) ao referir que o saber é sempre não-todo. O interesse em investigar o tema está na possibilidade de reflexões que possam ser úteis ao trabalho de outros profissionais envolvidos com a saúde e o desenvolvimento de bebês e crianças.

Psicopatologia e educação infantil: elaboração de manual de orientação sobre os transtornos do espectro do autismo

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Antidepressants for anorexia nervosa

Background Anorexia Nervosa ( AN) is an illness characterised by extreme concern about body weight and shape, severe self-imposed weight loss, and endocrine dysfunction. In spite of its high mortality, morbidity and chronicity, there are few intervention studies on the subject.Objectives The aim of this review was to evaluate the efficacy and acceptability of antidepressant drugs in the treatment of acute AN.Search strategy The strategy comprised of database searches of the Cochrane Collaboration Depression, Anxiety and Neurosis Controlled Trials Register, MEDLINE (1966 to April 28th, 2005), EMBASE (1980 to week 36, 2004), PsycINFO (1969 to August week 5, 2004), handsearching the International Journal of Eating Disorders and searching the reference lists of all papers selected. Personal letters were sent to researchers in the field requesting information on unpublished or in-progress trials.Selection criteria All randomised controlled trials of antidepressant treatment for AN patients, as de fined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, fourth edition (DSM-IV) or similar international criteria, were selected.Data collection and analysis Quality ratings were made giving consideration to the strong relationship between allocation concealment and potential for bias in the results; studies meeting criteria A and B were included. Trials were excluded if non-completion rates were above 50%. The standardised mean difference and relative risk were used for continuous data and dichotomous data comparisons, respectively. Whenever possible, analyses were performed according to intention- to-treat principles. Heterogeneity was tested with the I-squared statistic. Weight change was the primary outcome. Secondary outcomes were severity of eating disorder, depression and anxiety symptoms, and global clinical state. Acceptability of treatment was evaluated by considering non-completion rates.Main results Only seven studies were included. Major methodological limitations such as small trial size and large confidence intervals decreased the power of the studies to detect differences between treatments, and meta-analysis of data was not possible for the majority of outcomes. Four placebo-controlled trials did not find evidence that antidepressants improved weight gain, eating disorder or associated psychopathology. Isolated findings, favouring amineptine and nortriptyline, emerged from the antidepressant versus antidepressant comparisons, but cannot be conceived as evidence of efficacy of a specific drug or class of antidepressant in light of the findings from the placebo comparisons. Non-completion rates were similar between the compared groups.Authors' conclusions A lack of quality information precludes us from drawing de finite conclusions or recommendations on the use of antidepressants in acute AN. Future studies testing safer and more tolerable antidepressants in larger, well designed trials are needed to provide guidance for clinical practice.

Respiratory manifestations of panic disorder in animals and humans: A unique opportunity to understand how supramedullary structures regulate breathing

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Drug addictions and sexual violence in childhood and adolescence: analyzing life stories

The sexual abuse suffered in childhood and adolescence, in addition to damage to physical and psychological health of the victim, is considered as an important risk factor for alcohol and drugs addiction, development of psychopathology and psychosocial damage in adulthood. In addition to the pain and humiliation that are submitted by the abuse, children and adolescents also experience shame and guilt which require them to adopt coping strategies to endure those feelings. The use of psychoactive substances is a recognized way of dealing with the pains of living. This work, which is of narrative style, analyses and discusses, through five case reports, chemical dependency as a result of sexual abuse suffered in childhood and/or adolescence. The eight subjects in this study are male and have suffered sexual violence in this age period of life. Their ages range from 23 years to 39 years, and all are admitted to a therapeutic community in a city in the interior of Sao Paulo state, in Brazil, for treatment of chemical dependency, being met by the Department of Psychology. The reasons for the choice of the participants for treatment modality for patients are: difficult to stop using drugs, even unwilling to take it, they have easy access to it; the feeling of losing control over their lives; by successive losses as a result of drug use, and for fear that their lives had a tragic ending. With the exception of two participants, the others do not classify that as a child suffered sexual violence. However, all attribute that facilitated their entry into the world of drugs. Seven participants experienced such violence in childhood (between 7 years and 9 years) and adolescence (age 14). The attackers were people closed to the victims—in the case of two victims, their families, with the exception of one participant who was raped by a stranger. Six participants declared themselves as homosexual. Another participant does not claim to be homosexual, but presents difficulties in terms of sexuality. Two participants are HIV positive. The start of psychoactive substances use occurred during adolescence (12 years to 17 years). The participants see drugs as an anesthetic to the pain of the soul, a way to get pleasure, but they get charged expensively, as it increases the feeling of emptiness, guilt, helplessness, worthlessness and hopelessness. Although participants have sought help to deal with addiction, it is noted that throughout the life course the issue of sexual violence was not treated. It was noted that the patients have a double stigma in society: the issue of drugs addiction and the orientation of sexual desire, because the majority of participants are homosexual. The results reinforce the need for effective action geared to accommodate the victims of sexual violence and effective preventive measures to prevent children and adolescents from being abused.

A compreensão das técnicas da equoterapia no campo da saúde: uma perspectiva fenomenológica no campo da saúde

Pós-graduação em Ciências da Motricidade - IBRC

Projetos de lei sobre medicalização da educação: biopolítica, controle e resistência na contemporaneidade

At present, the processes of medicalization of childhood have reached the school spaces where diagnostic labeling accompanied of prescription of psychotropic drugs proliferate. The present work aims to study through the Foucauldian genealogical approach, the process of medicalization of education, with a special attention to analysis of Brazilian bills which serve to the medicalization logics and to the study of resistance movements which emerged with the purpose of denouncing psychopathology-causing strategies. It is considered that the school spaces, subject to the disciplining processes and standardization of bodies, have gained through bills, new devices of support to the psychiatric discourses. These, by appropriating of the childhood considered problem, have spawned diagnoses and psychopharmacological drugs, process that has been faced by resistance movements identified with proposals for enhancement of the plurality of life.

Um percurso pela psiquiatria infantil: dos antecedentes históricos à origem do conceito de autismo

This article is a conceptual study that aims to trace a historical course of the psychiatric knowledge about children, pointing how the conceptualization of autism will lead into this prospect. For such, we divided this work into three parts: the first is dedicated to the discussion of the concept of mental retardment, followed by the questioning of the first reflections on the psychoses of childhood and the birth of the Child Psychiatrist clinic and the conceptualization of autism by Psychiatry. Therefore, we seek to understand the meaning and origin of current practices, critically analyzing the psychiatric manuals and its impact on child psychopathology.

A relativa legitimidade da depressão na atualidade: contribuições para uma ética psicanalítica do sujeito

This article is based on the author's clinical practice in the area of public health, and discusses depression as it is known today. Essentially, the author questions the practice of labeling depression as a psychopathological condition. The author also questions today’s trend of seeing a subject’s suffering as a "malaise," or a “disorder.” The possibility is brought up of understanding it as a "demand for analysis." Finally, the article is meant as a contribution to the ethics of psychoanalysis focused on the subject and the possibilities of psychoanalysis in subjectivating this "malaise."

Hoarding pet animals in obsessive-compulsive disorder

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Psychogenic dysphonia: diversity of clinical and vocal manifestations in a case series

Introduction: Psychogenic dysphonia is a functional disorder with variable clinical manifestations.Objective: To assess the clinical and vocal characteristics of patients with psychogenic dysphonia in a case series.Methods: The study included 28 adult patients with psychogenic dysphonia, evaluated at a University hospital in the last ten years. Assessed variables included gender, age, occupation, vocal symptoms, vocal characteristics, and videolaryngostroboscopic findings.Results: 28 patients (26 women and 2 men) were assessed. Their occupations included: housekeeper (n = 17), teacher (n = 4), salesclerk (n = 4), nurse (n = 1), retired (n = 1), and psychologist (n = 1). Sudden symptom onset was reported by 16 patients and progressive symptom onset was reported by 12; intermittent evolution was reported by 15; symptom duration longer than three months was reported by 21 patients. Videolaryngostroboscopy showed only functional disorders; no patient had structural lesions or changes in vocal fold mobility. Conversion aphonia, skeletal muscle tension, and intermittent voicing were the most frequent vocal emission manifestation forms.Conclusions: In this case series of patients with psychogenic dysphonia, the most frequent form of clinical presentation was conversion aphonia, followed by musculoskeletal tension and intermittent voicing. The clinical and vocal aspects of 28 patients with psychogenic dysphonia, as well as the particularities of each case, are discussed. (C) 2014 Associacao Brasileira de Otorrinolaringologia e Cirurgia Cervico-Facial. Published by Elsevier Editora Ltda. All rights reserved.

Análise descritiva da construção histórico-social do olhar de psicologia sobre a homessexualidade a partir de produções do portal de periódicos Pepsi: um estudo bibliográfico

Pós-graduação em Educação Sexual - FCLAR