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A Gallese

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[Revival of convulsive therapy].

After a brief review of the history of convulsive therapy, the paper criticises the denigratory campaign which was directed against this form of therapy for many years in Italy and later abroad. It stresses that convulsive therapy is now used worldwide, in spite of a few justifiable restrictions, for these indications and that the risks involved in the therapy itself, which are minimum, have been reduced. The Authors complain that this revival, which is now spreading internationally, has been hardly felt in Italy, especially in university circles.

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[Epidemiologic psychiatric investigation in the community health district of Avezzano].

The aim of the epidemiological psychiatric survey carried out among the users of the Mental Hygiene Centre of Avezzano local health district was to study the socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of participants. Data for patients for the years 1979 and 1989 were collected and analysed by studying all clinical records registered during those periods. This choice reflected the need compare user characteristics and methods of using the service following the introduction of the reform decree no. 180/1978. The aim of this retrospective epidemiological survey was to obtain data and information which would serve to formulate answers which responded to the needs expressed by users. The results revealed a heterogenous territorial distribution of psychiatric cases and this provided some indication for the realisation of a complex network of psychiatric network in the Avezzano health district.

Age Factors↗
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[Medico-social aspects of AIDS].

The AIDS crisis has brought us face to face with complex medical and social challenges unparalleled in this century. The magnitude of this tragic epidemic is measured not only in the cost in human lives, but also the enormous financial burdens of health care and lost productivity which each and every one of us, as well as future generations, will ultimately bear. This article presents an opportunity to explore a variety of health, social, economic, juridical and working issues of AIDS.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
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[Psychology and psychopathology of women undergoing voluntary abortion].

When facing the abortion question the following are necessary: more complete information on the consequences of indiscriminate sexual relations; a wider spread knowledge of contraceptive practices; the institution of special aid to unmarried mothers so as to prevent abortion remaining the only possible solution for an unbearable situation and which hides a serious psychological risk.

Abortion, Induced↗
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[Hypothesis for a common intervention strategy against addictions].

To stem the tide of addiction in the world, stress is laid on the need for a common intervention strategy which cannot be separated from the application of identical legislation for all nations. This would at least make it possible to base discussion of the problem on common parameters.

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[The rehabilitation of the mental patient cannot disregard his family's involvement].

Rehabilitation, or rather the recovery of the mentally sick, often runs into serious difficulties precisely at the time when the disease state seems to be over. The family is one of the essential aspects of this problem because it is the family is traumatised by the disease of one of its members. The life of the family is so upset that it unconsciously opposes his recovery. The patient's problems upon his return to the family are further exacerbated by the pretext of the impossibility of living with somebody "different". Hence the need, independently of the patient's condition, for the members of his family to be prepared for his return to the family so as to guarantee him living room and conditions required for a relatively independent life. This adaptation of the family environment must be pursued right from the beginning of the disease.

Family↗
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[Human significance of mental diseases].

It is pointed out that for the understanding and humanization of mental disease, a series of measures of mental hygiene should be established so as to keep the patient away from the constant coming and going of frustrating situations which, while they should not be considered as decisive factors, at times take on the role of factors triggering the disease.

Anthropology↗
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[Socio-familial reinsertion of the mental patient. Psychological aspects of related difficulties].

The problems of the reinsertion of the mentally sick into his family and into his social group are examined. As already seen in a previous paper on "involvement of the family in the rehabilitation of the mentally sick", the phenomenon of the "expressed emotion" is examined and the stereotype-like definition of the person who is "different" as a synonym of danger and risk analysed. In conclusion, it is pointed out that the fear of his dangerousness makes the procedure for rehabilitation the psychiatric patient in his social and family group a complex one.

Deinstitutionalization↗