[Prevention of drug addiction].
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A Kornblit
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[New paradigms in human sciences].
In this paper, the author describes the jump of paradigm in Human Sciences the conceptual model introduced by G. Bateson implies inasmuch as it shifts emphasis from the analysis of facts to formal organization of reality, and defines 'mental' as a concept which comprehends an organism with relation to its surroundings. The author reviews the main ideas Bateson extracted from both the systems theory and cybernetics in order to outline his 'ecology of human mind'. The complexity of psychosocial processes, however, requires no such mechanical models--i.e. 'less mechanical' ones--to explain time as a continuum in which changes in human systems occur, for instance. Thus, systems dynamics and recursivity models including a multiplicity of feedback loops contribute with some useful constructs. Finally, some ideas developed within 'hard sciences', applied to Social Sciences to integrate the complexity of the goals are also discussed.
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[Medico-psychological approach to families with chronic patients].
In this paper, a clinical psychological approach to families with a diabetic patient, extensive to other chronic conditions, is described. The main purpose is to act on the emotional factors that the disease produces in the family as a system and that interfere in the therapeutic success. To operate two areas are proposed: a) Cognitive, trying to know and make clear any distorted information the family may have about the disease, with special emphasis on non-critical believes. To make conscious these primitive myths constitutes a valuable tool leading to their questioning and eventual correction, and consequently improving the family behavior related to the control of the disease. b) Family dynamics. Diabetes, as other chronic diseases, facilitates the broadening of the pre-existing dependency links. Furthermore, if the organic disease constitutes a sort of limit not seen in psychiatric disorders, the load on the patient of other conflicts can be understood as the rol played by the "identified patient" as mentally ill. The individual "marked" with an organic disease is an adequate target to receive multiple deposits from unsolved family system conflicts expressed through many disfunctional interactions, being "enmeshment" of everyone to everyone and "overprotection" characteristic features.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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[Family ideology].
This paper treats the definition of the concept of family ideology linking it to that of social ideology. In both cases the ideology is seen as patterns of messages that obey certain semantic rules. Within the family context, it is considered that the conditions of production of the ideology are, concerning the profound structures, the unconscious oedipus conflict and kindred system that determines the family organization. Concerning the surface structures, the myths and beliefs that appear in each group as an answer to the need of accounting for the conflicts inherent to the family structure. The family ideology guides the subjects to places predetermined by the oedipus conflicts, "semanticizes" the conflicts and tends to dissimulate the conditions of production through the illusion that the subject is the producer. To analyze the family ideology, the following items must be taken into account: 1) Which are the semantic lines that are privileged in the couple and parent-children relationships. 2) The relations between the semantic lines established by the articulation rules prescribed by the cultural system. 3) The elementary forms of the ideological universe (the "actantial" model applied to family relationships). These three aspects articulate between themselves through transformation rules.
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