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The purpose of this work is to present the approach to mental disorders in Moroccan patients from a sociocultural perspective. The anthropology of health and ethno-psychiatry will allow us to analyze the concepts of health and disease. From the Moroccan cosmovision we will analyze the alternative treatments and their association with other therapeutic models.
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Conversion Disorder/therapy , Mental Disorders/therapy , Adolescent , Conversion Disorder/ethnology , Humans , Islam , Male , Mental Disorders/ethnology , MoroccoABSTRACT
Nonorganic vision loss accounts for up to 5% of patients and presents in two forms, malingering and visual conversion disorder (VCD). It is described a case of VCD in a new mother struggling both with her husband being deployed overseas and the recent death of her father. In addition, she had been evaluated for a concussion secondary to a motor vehicle accident three months prior. An inexpensive series of clinical tests were performed to rule out organic disease and obtained equivocal results. Some tests revealed intact vision in the affected eye while others supported a neurological cause for the vision loss. However, the patient quickly recovered normal visual acuity when encouraged to discuss situations that have been causing emotional stress. This almost immediate recovery of vision confirmed the diagnosis of VCD. This report should make primary eye care professionals more aware of visual conversion disorder and its clinical evaluation.
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Conversion Disorder/diagnosis , Vision Disorders/diagnosis , Adult , Female , Humans , Visual AcuityABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the historical evolution of hysteria and its possible psychopathological ramifications in todays diagnostic classifications. Method: Clinical and historical problematization contrasting classical and contemporary references on the subject. Conclusion: Higher incidence of certain conditions and decline in the use of the construct of hysteria should be seen as different moments in a continuum.
OBJETIVO: Promover um pensamento investigativo acerca da evolução histórica da histeria e de suas eventuais ramificações psicopatológicas nas classificações diagnósticas atuais. Método: Problematização histórica e clínica a partir do contraponto entre referências clássicas e contemporâneas sobre o assunto. Conclusão: O aumento da incidência de certas condições e o declínio no uso do constructo histeria deveriam ser observados como momentos distintos de um mesmo continuum.
OBJECTTIF: Promouvoir une réflexion sur l'évolution historique de l'hystérie et ses ramifications psychopathologiques possibles dans les classifications diagnostiques actuelles. Méthode: Problématisation historique et clinique opposant les références classiques et contemporaines concernant ce sujet. Conclusion: L'incidence accrue de certaines conditions et la diminution de l'utilisation du construit "hystérie" devrait être considéré comme des moments distincts d'un même continuum.
OBJETIVO: Promover un pensamiento investigador sobre la evolución histórica de la histeria y sus posibles ramificaciones psicopatológicas en las clasificaciones diagnósticas de la actualidad. Método: Problematización clínica e histórica contrastando referencias clásicas y contemporáneas sobre el tema. Conclusión: El aumento en la incidencia de ciertas condiciones y la declinación en el uso del constructo de la histeria deberian ser observadas como momentos distintos del mismo continuum.
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Humans , Classification , Psychosomatic Medicine , Somatoform DisordersABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the historical evolution of hysteria and its possible psychopathological ramifications in todays diagnostic classifications. Method: Clinical and historical problematization contrasting classical and contemporary references on the subject. Conclusion: Higher incidence of certain conditions and decline in the use of the construct of hysteria should be seen as different moments in a continuum.(AU)
OBJETIVO: Promover um pensamento investigativo acerca da evolução histórica da histeria e de suas eventuais ramificações psicopatológicas nas classificações diagnósticas atuais. Método: Problematização histórica e clínica a partir do contraponto entre referências clássicas e contemporâneas sobre o assunto. Conclusão: O aumento da incidência de certas condições e o declínio no uso do constructo histeria deveriam ser observados como momentos distintos de um mesmo continuum.(AU)
OBJECTTIF: Promouvoir une réflexion sur l'évolution historique de l'hystérie et ses ramifications psychopathologiques possibles dans les classifications diagnostiques actuelles. Méthode: Problématisation historique et clinique opposant les références classiques et contemporaines concernant ce sujet. Conclusion: L'incidence accrue de certaines conditions et la diminution de l'utilisation du construit "hystérie" devrait être considéré comme des moments distincts d'un même continuum.(AU)
OBJETIVO: Promover un pensamiento investigador sobre la evolución histórica de la histeria y sus posibles ramificaciones psicopatológicas en las clasificaciones diagnósticas de la actualidad. Método: Problematización clínica e histórica contrastando referencias clásicas y contemporáneas sobre el tema. Conclusión: El aumento en la incidencia de ciertas condiciones y la declinación en el uso del constructo de la histeria deberian ser observadas como momentos distintos del mismo continuum.(AU)
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Humans , Somatoform Disorders , Psychosomatic Medicine , ClassificationABSTRACT
En la última década, el desarrollo y la puesta en marcha de las modernas técnicas de neuroimagen en el campo de la neurociencia cognitiva han proporcionado una nueva vía de acercamiento al estudio experimental de algunos trastornos mentales. Dentro de esta perspectiva, denominada por algunos autores neuropsiquiatría cognitiva, la histeria (o trastorno de conversión, de acuerdo con la clasificación psiquiátrica actual) ha cobrado un amplio protagonismo. De acuerdo con lo anterior, el objetivo del presente trabajo consiste en introducir estudios pioneros basados en una perspectiva neurocientífica de la histeria. Conviene destacar que, si bien estos aportan evidencia significativa sobre algunas de las áreas cerebrales y las disfunciones cognitivas comprometidas en el mencionado trastorno, los resultados obtenidos a la fecha distan aún de ser concluyentes.
In the last decade, the development and implementation of modern neuroimaging techniques in the field of cognitive neuroscience have provided a new way to approach the experimental study of mental disorders. Several authors have proposed the name of cognitive neuropsychiatry for this alternative approach. In this context, hysteria (or conversion disorder, according to the current psychiatric classification) has reached a huge protagonism. Therefore, this paper is intended to introduce pioneer studies about hysteria from a neurocientific perspective. It is necessary to highlight that, although these studies offer significant evidence about some of the brain areas and cognitive dysfunctions involved in the above mentioned disorder, results are still far from being conclusive.
