[Model of short-term psychological intervention in psychosomatic gynaecology]. / Modèle d'intervention psychologique rapide en gynécologie psychosomatique.

This article proposes a rapid psychological intervention model in psychosomatic gynaecology. The work draws from the method developed by Dr H. Davanloo (Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy). First it consists in identifying and clarifying the defence mechanisms, second in exercising pressure on them. This pressure causes an increase in anxiety, an intensification of the defence mechanisms and the development of an intrapsychic crisis that induces emotions and painful feelings linked to past traumata. This activation of the unconscious can activate somatic symptoms (pain, unconscious movements, tics, muscular tensions) that highlight the link between the physical and psychic aspects. This work allows a rapid access to the painful emotions that turn to symptom. It indicates the therapeutic intervention zones and levels. It allows translating psychic reality in a simple, fast and efficient way. It brings heightened consciousness and comprehension for the therapist and the patient.

[Choice of symptoms in neuroses. Psychosomatic syndromes]. / Choix des symptômes dans les névroses. Syndromes psychosomatiques.

We think that we have collected a certain amount of arguments in support of the following hypothesis: Without assuming if it is in itself the cause of neuroses, the way of being and of thinking in this world, characteristic of our times' positivistic technico-industrial culture seems to promote a more or less artificial and unconscious anti-anxiety behaviour leading to the psychosomatic syndromes. This way of being in the world and of thinking it is symptomatic of a discrepancy between the exogen (primacy of assimilation) and the endogen (primacy of accommodation) assimilation/accommodation balance. The non-decoupling of the exogen and endogen accommodation leads to a rigid content of concepts and limits the mind process to consider only the materially possible, leading to a regressive causality. Its' ultimate term is the object in which the essence includes the existence, the "causa sui" that is none other than the patient's body. Inability to take into account what is structurally possible makes it difficult to approach the notions of chance and of great numbers, proceeding on to apprehend the time in a way akin to Aristoteles', where the future is reduced to chance. This type of thinking limits the world's understanding to what is materially possible. Outside this, just everything is possible, including the possible the occult sciences account for.

[Some aspects of cognitive activities in schizophrenic patient (author's transl)]. / Quelques aspects des activités cognitives du schizophrène.

Nine paranoid schizophrenics, five control subjects of the same age and four hebephrenic schizophrenics were examined using Piaget's genetic psychology tests. The study of assimilation/accommodation equilibrium in the cognitive activities of schizophrenic patients confirmed our previous results which primarily dealt with hebephrenic patients [12]. The thinking of paranoid schizophrenics is dominated by increased assimilation which explains their tendency to deform observables and their difficulty in generalising reasoning. The assimilation/accommodation equilibrium of their logical operations is affected resulting in: a) difficulty in formulating reflecting abstractions and therefore the comprehension and extension of concepts; b) loss the feeling for logical necessity and a tendency to utilize magical thinking and subjective explanations.

[Choice of symptoms in neuroses. Hysterical and obsessive-phobic neuroses]. / Choix des symptomes dans les névroses. Névross hystériques et phobico-obsessionnelles.

This publication is a first attempt to verify our hypothesis that symptom choice in the classical neuroses depends on a disequilibrium between assimilation and accommodation, in the Piagetian sense, of reflective thinking. Results of tests derived from classical paradoxes of Western thought, from genetic psychology and from a neuropsychological test of the habituation of the alpha-blocking response support the following hypothesis; the reflective thinking of hysterical patients appears dominated by a primacy of assimilation and that of obsessional patients by a primacy of accommodation.