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This study investigated the personality and clinical correlates of asceticism in 154 anorectic patients. Multiple linear regression models showed that asceticism was related to angry temperament, high control over anger, perfectionism, maturity fears, and number of vomiting episodes per week. These results suggest that the self-discipline and hypercontrol of anorectic patients are related to a temperament prone to angry feelings in subjects with a fear of becoming adult and with a trait of pathologic perfectionism.
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Anorexia Nervosa/psicologia , Mecanismos de Defesa , Temperamento , Adolescente , Ira , Índice de Massa Corporal , Comparação Transcultural , Medo , Feminino , Identidade de Gênero , Humanos , Controle Interno-Externo , Motivação , Inventário de Personalidade , Maturidade Sexual , Estatística como AssuntoRESUMO
The study of the relationship between psychiatry and religion has become an issue of increasing importance for both research and clinical practice. This article presents the history of the R. M. Bucke Memorial Society for the Study of Religious Experience, established by Raymond Prince in Montréal in 1964 as one of the first scientific societies whose aim was to investigate those characteristics of religious experience of interest to psychiatry. It also describes some of Prince's own studies on religious experience.
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Psiquiatria Comunitária/história , Misticismo/história , Religião e Psicologia , Sociedades Científicas/história , Áustria , Inglaterra , História do Século XIX , História do Século XX , Humanos , OntárioRESUMO
Mystical states are common cross-culturally. Here we examine the prevalence and general characteristics of these states. We then proceed to critically examine the theories purporting to explain these states: psychoanalytic, cognitive and neurobiological, all of which attempt to explain the breakdown of the boundaries between the self and external world. We conclude by exploring the implications of mystical states for cultural psychiatry.
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Atitude , Transtornos Dissociativos/psicologia , Espiritualidade , Cultura , Humanos , Misticismo , Interpretação Psicanalítica , Teoria PsicanalíticaRESUMO
A study of Natuzza Evolo, a contemporary Roman Catholic stigmatic in southern Italy, raises certain questions of mechanism and evidence. Was this a miracle, hysterical conversion or contrived? The medical interpretation of the phenomenon as conversion disorder raises questions about the popularity of hysteria as a medical diagnosis and the ways in which it functions like 'vital force', as a metaphoric mediator between the natural world, human agency, and the ultrahuman.
