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D Wyss

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PubMed1982

Structural anomalies of the X chromosome: personal observation and review of non-mosaic cases.

We describe a new case of partial deletion of the long arm of the X chromosome, found in a 24-year-old female with secondary amenorrhea; the karyotype of the proposita is 46,X,del(X)(q22). We take this opportunity to review the previously published descriptions of non-mosaic structural anomalies of the X chromosome (X isochromosomes excepted) with the goal of "testing" the recent hypothesis formulated about: (a) the existence of an X inactivation center (Therman et al. 1974b); (b) the presence of a "b" segment remaining active on Xp (Therman et al. 1976); (c) the potential importance of a critical area on Xq linked to gonadal function (Sarto et al. 1973); and (d) the presence of normal gonadal function despite and Xp terminal deletion (Fraccaro et al. 1977). We conclude that the above-mentioned theories, as well as those concerning phylogenetic evolution of sex chromosome morphology presented by Lyon (1974) and Hoo (1975), receive support from practically all of the 149 cases we compared. Regarding the features of the Turner syndrome, we propose "mapping" of the X chromosome as follows: the genes involved in gonadal function seem to be located on the proximal part of Xp and on the distal part of Xq, whereas the genes whose absence is responsible for somatic features of the syndrome may be distributed along the length of Xp and the middle section of Xq(q21-q26). Furthermore, we note some interesting analogies between the evolutional model proposed by Hoo (1975) and the map we visualize.

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PubMed1980

[The contribution of systems theory and "existential integrative psychotherapy" to the relationship of the concepts "endogenous", "exogenous", "psychogenic", and "sociogenic" in psychic disorders].

Proof is given that the "atomistic" concepts of sickness lead to insolvable contradictions of methodic and logic origin. In this study these contradictions are exemplified and critically analysed, and historical aspects are included. We then propose the dimensions "Interior--Exterior" and "Psychogenous--Somatogeneous" as an heuristic model, dimensions on which any sickness is to be located according to its basic causes. The General System Theory had developed a new formal concept of sickness based on a relatively complete and integral vision of the human being. Nevertheless, the constructs of the General System Theory remain incomplete as they include only objects and their relations, never individual subjects. Wyss however has established explicitely an anthropology of the subject which he connects with his communication orientated concept of sickness. This concept does not judge sickness to be contradictory to health, but both, sickness and health together, form a functional whole on a higher level of abstraction. On this level the organism and its functions, the "interior", represent an inherent component of the "exterior". "Interior" and "exterior"--differentiated in various items--attempt to establish an equilibrium that is always in danger of being desquilibrized.

Communication↗
PubMed1979

[Statements of a patient concerning his writer's cramp].

The spontaneous statements a patient with writers' cramp made in analytic psychotherapy about the relatively slight motor disorder of his right hand were recorded. This immediate presentation of the relations between the patient's person and his disorder were compared with investigations and reports about patients with writer's cramp in psychotherapy. Similarities and differences in the views of the patient and of the therapists about the relation between person and symptom were shown. This was done under special evaluation of the categories of interpersonal communication, developed by D. Wyss in his "integrative psychotherapy".

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PubMed1979

[The anthropology of guilt and guilt feelings].

Considering the sociological and historical relativeness of 'objective' guilt and the relativeness of guilt feelings in the light of 'objective guilt' the authors delve into the problem of whether there exists such a thing as 'objective guilt'. This is particularly relevant after considering recent American investigations by Kohlberg et al. on children's development. They show the importance of guilt feelings that are aroused quite independently of the moral status of a society or a supposed 'super-ego'. Such feelings are the individual's response to some sort of interactional annihilation of communication. Highly dependent and variable, because of their dispositional and situative connections, guilt feelings seem to represent an anthropological, universally existing factor acting as an individual response to the destruction of communication but not necessarily being related to any kind of 'objective' guilt.

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PubMed1978

[Balzac and the limits of psychology].

In contradiction to the general meaning that Balzac belongs to one of the first representative authors, who described their figures according to the assumptions of motivational psychology--including psychoanalytic, i. e. subconscious motivation--the Ref. gives proof, that Balzac has overcome these limited premises of actual psychology. Balzac saw human existence under the aspects of passions, the pathetic, the tragic, the apriori of psychology in general, which is the possible itself, the dependence further of any individual identity on situative variabilitis--all aspects transcend motivational psychology and show its limits. Balzac should be considered as a predecessor of an anthropological-existencialistic psychology, his biography can not be understood by the application of psychoanalytic "Klischees", it is rooted in the contradictions of human nature, that are antilogical in them selfes.

Famous Persons↗
PubMed1977

[Oedipus - anthropology of enlightenment and interpretation].

The myth of oedipus follows - from an anthropological-phenomenological point of view - an interpretation as a tragedy of enlightment. Oedipus solves the riddle of the sphinx concerning the finality of human life. By this he has done the step from the cyclical conception of life, essential for early humanity and childhood, towards the causal and teleological thinking of modern man. But by this step he looses the instinctual-prelogical knowledge of early humanity - still observable among so called "savages" - about the ties of blood and the signification of incest. The loss of this knowledge throws him into the fateful marriage of his mother. Only after blinding himself he gains insight into the relations that are hidden to the "enlightened" thinking.

Anthropology, Cultural↗
PubMed1976

[Narcissus - anthropological psychopathology of a communication disorder].

In an anthropological-phenomenological interpretation the authors demonstrate the multitude of determinants that constitute the myth of Narciss: the connection of rejection by the nymph "Echo", the further relation of rejection, suffering and the development of reflection, the relation between reflection - thinking - and death, that forms the nucleus of the myth.

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