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C Mormont

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PubMed1992

[Psychological impact of cancer on the family: a review].

The impact of cancer on the patient's family and caregivers is important and it can be analyzed in terms of coping strategies. It depends on the patient (age, sex, role ...), the illness (site, stage, state ...), the people (parents, siblings, caregivers ...), the time (diagnosis, treatment, death, after death rehabilitation), the prognosis. The survey of the literature underlines the methodological difficulties met in this complex field and the distress of the family and caregivers at each stage of the illness, even during long term remissions.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1990

[The perverse personality].

From the clinical point of view, the perverse personality is characterised by constant manipulation of others, transgression of laws and disrespect of limits. Perversity does not refer to the presence of a sexual perversion, whether primary or associated, but to the fact that a same basic principle underlies the organization of the perverse personality and of the perverse sexuality. Both forms could thus be understood as two different manifestations of intolerance to disappointment. This general hypothesis avoid some questionable speculations and ad-hoc hypotheses.

Antisocial Personality Disorder↗
PubMed1975

[Personality of the dyslexic child. Clinical data and contribution of projective technics].

The present paper focuses its attention on the personality disorders among relatively old dyslexic children whose symptom persists beyong logopedic reeducations of a long duration. The degree of disorientation of our subjects runs parallel to the degree of fragmentation of personality. In the Rorschach and TAT tests, the image of the Self is ill-differenciated from a poorly structured maternal image and pleads for a primary defect of the mother-child relation at a preobjectal level. The paternal function is obvious but ill-invested, therefore the relationship between severe and persisting dyslexia on the one hand, and psychosis on the other.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1975

[Logical analysis of the respective influence of 3 experimental variables using a diagram by L. Carroll. Application of this method to a clinical trial of 2 forms of Noveril].

The analysis of the results gathered in a double-blind randomized cross-over clinical trial of dibenzepine was systematized in order to evidence the relation existing between the experimental variables and the effects measured. The suggested method of analysis is based on logic and makes profit of a diagram by Carroll. This method seemingly permits rigourous and clear conclusions.

Clinical Trials as Topic↗
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[Interpretation of behavior in terms of corresponding internal state].

Scientific observations, empirical and theoretical data that argue for psychological interpretation of non verbal behaviour are critically discussed. The author demonstrates that interpreting these behaviours in term of corresponding internal state is rather hazardous and useless.

Humans↗
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Time-blind videotaped evaluation of injectable diazepam, lorazepam and placebo.

Eighteen inpatients suffering from a severe anxiety received in double-blind and crossover conditions iv and im injections of 10 mg diazepam, 5 mg lorazepam or saline t.i.d. during 5 days. The morning injections was made iv in a CCTV studio. Before injection and 20 mn after it, the patient filled out a 100 mm Visual Analogue Scale; his doctor-in-charge proceeded to a standard interview and to physiological measurements (tremor of hand, patellar reflexes, blood pressure, pulse rate). The videotaped interviews were randomly, i.e. time-blind, rated by two independent observers on 3 scales: the VAS, the Hamilton Anxiety Scale and an ad hoc Verbal and Non-Verbal Anxiety Scale (VNVA). The statistical analysis was completed by a logical analysis according to Lewis Carroll. The results demonstrate the superiority of lorazepam over diazepam on psychic anxiety, somatic anxiety, sleep and blood pressure, the only significant side-effect being drowsiness.

Adult↗
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[A semi-structured psychopathological interview conceived for the AMDP-3 scale and time-blind evaluation of videotapes (author's transl)].

In the process of adapting the German AMDP Psychopathology Scale into French and of analyzing its interrater-reliability, free AMDP interviews were tape-recorded and played back. It became rapidly evident that such interviews are incompatible with a comprehensive and reliable evaluation of psychopathology: the collected information is incomplete and variable from one interviewer to the other and even from one interview to the other by the same interviewer, which is particularly invalidating in case of video ratings. The present semi-structured interview is based on 140 videotaped recordings of non-psychiatric patients, of depressives and psychotics. Formulation of questions is seldom imperative; their sequence is only suggested and may be modified according to the interviewer's style and to the patient's pathology. Have been avoided questions too dependent on setting (community, hospital) or likely to disclose the first-interview or retest nature of the recording, thus allowing time-blind evaluations. The mean duration of the interview is 28 mn (less than 30 mn in 70% of the cases) for 126 items.

Ethics, Medical↗
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[Automated treatment of Rorschach data (author's transl)].

Apart from automated systems analysing Rorschach data, one can develop with the computer other systems aimed as a research instrument. Selection, definition and coding of informations permit not only its memorisation, but also the analysis according to various mathematical methods. Tabulation and frequence analyses are facilitated, while other analyses (discrimination analysis, inverse factor analysis, covariance analysis) are made possible. The collaboration psychologist--mathematician--computer specialist open interesting avenues.

Computers↗
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[Severe neuropsychic disturbances in a young adolescent treated with an endocrine therapy].

After a treatment based on the administration of gonadotropic drugs, aimed at reduced school difficulties and caracterial difficulties by a premature onset of puberty, a young male aged 13 1/2 presents: 1 degree somatic anomalies; 2 degrees increase of intellectual, affective and behavioral troubles; 3 degrees perturbations of EEG prophiles; 4 degrees organicity tests significantly disturbed. The interruption of treatment (4 years of observation) was followed by a progressive remission, however heterogenous, of all initial troubles. The observation underlines the dangers of utilising these treatments in a pre-puberty boy.

Adolescent↗