ABSTRACT
On the basic of the observation of two sisters and two brothers who are suffering from a symbiontic psychosis and showed considerable social peculiarities, the significance of the extreme isolation in the development of this disease is pointed out. The isolation from the environment, which is considered to be hostile, led in each case to a grotesque living and delusion community, which was stabilised by the partners by, among other things, a rigid adoption of preshaped social roles.
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Object Attachment , Psychotic Disorders/psychology , Role , Aged , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Psychotic Disorders/genetics , Sibling Relations , Social Adjustment , Social IsolationABSTRACT
The symptoms and the course of a schizophrenia-like psychosis after chronic abuse of Asthmolytan are discussed and the uniformity of ephedrine psychoses, which is also described in the literature, is pointed out. From a psychiatric angle, the necessity of obligatory prescriptions for obtaining ephedrine-containing preparations is discussed.
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Ephedrine/adverse effects , Hallucinations/chemically induced , Paranoid Disorders/chemically induced , Asthma/drug therapy , Ephedrine/therapeutic use , Female , Humans , Middle AgedABSTRACT
The author reports on sociopsychiatric care of old alone living peoples during Christmas-time and the end of year. This help of living was given under the primary aspects of suicide prevention. Nevertheless the conception of the arrangement is important for geropsychiatric prevention at all. The author gives informations about effects of this type of care. After the two weeks living in the hospital and getting special care the most of the old people looks from an active point of view to their biological and social conditions of aging, and better than before they can manage their life.
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Aged/psychology , Suicide Prevention , Attitude , Hospitalization , Humans , Social IsolationSubject(s)
Housing , Suicide , Germany, East , Humans , Retrospective Studies , Suicide, Attempted , Urban PopulationABSTRACT
Statistic methods are used to investigate the discrepancy in the occurrence of suicides and attempted suicides in the urban and rural districts of Brandenburg. Although the socilolgical structures of the rural districts are much like those of the town, there exist obvious discrepancies in the incidence rate. The suicide rate is paradoxically in contrast with what may be expected when one has read the literature. The rate is higher in the rural districts than in the town. The possible causes of this phenomenon are discussed indetail. It is considered recommendable for the planning of preventive measures that not only the figures for actual suicides be taken as a representative rate and starting point, but also the figures for suicidal acts (suicides and attempted suicides).
