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J Pallavicini

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PubMed1997

[The contributions of Professor Armando Roa to Chilean psychiatry].

Professor Armando Roa had an original conception of the clinical-phenomenological method of investigation in clinical psychiatry, differing from that applied in European clinical studies. Considering that the psychiatrist must rely on clinical facts, the generic features of symptoms must be studied and the way a symptom is lived must be specified. In this way, Professor Roa made five descriptions of normal and pathological anxiety, obsessions, phobias, autism, larvate psychical forms of epilepsy, primitive perception of reference, psychopathy and anorexia nervosa. He created the concepts of communicative and indicative language, destroyed thinking and unwillingness in schizophrenics, notifying language in neurotics and awareness and notion of disease. He also made a new classification of alcoholics. He has published 28 books and 120 articles in journals. He performs outstanding undergraduate teaching and has powerfully influenced contemporary and younger psychiatrists. In summary, he is a prominent Chilean intellectual.

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PubMed1997

[Zopiclone dependence. Report of one case].

We report a 55 years old married woman without history of drug dependence. Due to a severe marital conflict she developed a chronic adjustment disorder with depressed mood. Zopiclone, 7.5 mg at night was prescribed for her insomnia and she rapidly became tolerant and dependent to the hypnotic. She was admitted to a psychiatric clinic, slowly detoxified and treated with pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. Six months later, she has resumed her housekeeping and professional activities and is maintained with a benzodiazepine at night for insomnia.

Azabicyclo Compounds↗
PubMed1993

[Diagnostic applications of the ICD-10-1990 to an alcoholic group of the Psychiatric Clinic, 1991-1992].

It is a Clinical Study presenting the authors experience on applying ICD-10-1990, to a group of 40 alcoholics of both sexes, according to Diagnostic Guide lines of this classification. The degree of efficacy of each of the 9 Criteria proposed by the guide lines, is analyzed. Several of them are always present, and others show high prevalence. The existence of a high frequency of association with Concomitant Mental Pathologies in our group of patients is notorious, which is specific. The authors conclude that, most of the proposed Criteria by ICD-10, were of great efficacy for Diagnosis of Alcohol Dependence as a generic concept, provided that on inquiring for them, the investigator be not restricted just to question for each criterium, but he carries out a full clinical study of the patient. Besides, they lack semiological accuracy in terms of distinguishing Sub-types of Alcoholics with the subsequent therapeutic implications. In the authors opinion, there is a contrast between the good diagnostic usefulness of the proposed Guidelines, and their limitations to apprehend the complex clinical reality of this Pathology.

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