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G Guntern

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PubMed1984

[Schizophrenia and systems therapy].

The notion of Systems Therapy subsumes two different although closely interrelated issues. On the one hand Systems Therapy implies a systemic Eco-Anthropology based upon Systems Science, i.e., a Systems Theory of man in and with his environment. On the other hand Systems Therapy is a theory and a practice of the therapeutic transformation of human systems, based upon a systemic Eco-Anthropology. Three basic concepts of Systems Therapy are presented here: the concept of the organism as a system, the concept of the eco-system, and the concept of the transactional field with its basic organization and its corresponding transactional patterns. These concepts are illustrated by many examples taken from case histories of schizophrenic patients and systems. The status quo of the scientific epistemic process in the field of schizophrenia is evaluated from the perspective of Systems Therapy in 1983. With rare exceptions English notions are not translated into German in order to avoid terminological errors and lack of precision.

Arousal↗
PubMed1977

[The long-term Alpendorf study. Paradigm for the study of long-acting psychosocial stressors].

The follow-up study Alpendorf is presented as a paradigm for the observation of long-acting psycho-social stressors. Stressors can be observed directly or we infer to their existence from the observation of indicators of stress. There are methodological difficulties in differentiating stressors, indicators of stress and indicators of coping processes within a social field. The reductionist approach, which eliminates variables, is useful in the laboratory situation, it has, however, to be discarded in the investigations of a social field. Rapid social change in a mountain village of the Swiss Alps radically transformed the socio-economic basis and the socio-cultural super-structure, thus producing a field of stressors, leading to stress, observable on the level of the population. The amount of stress can be measured indirectly by the existence of indicators of stress: consumption of alcohol, alcoholism, psychosomatic symptoms and syndrome, consumption of drugs and tobacco, incidence and prevalence of neurotic and psychotic disorders, criminality.

Alcohol Drinking↗
PubMed1975

[Social change and alcohol consumption in a mountain village].

This study is the first part of a longitudinal study. The object of this study 'Alpendorf' is the economic and socio-cultural change of Swiss mountain village. Following construction of a communication's road a village was transformed into a worldwide tourist spot; well-known and invaded by mass by mass modern tourism. The forerunners of those changes were above all the technics and the acculturations. On the one side the technical development and on the other side the boom of construction created more numerous work openings and and bay that new roles for the village inhabitants...

Adaptation, Psychological↗