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M Tristan

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[For a clinical approach to impulsion phobias].

Having first recalled the problems involved in classifying impulsion phobias, (problems which have been experienced in the course of all the work done on this subject), the authors report, from a strictly clinical viewpoint, on a series of studies of patients whose problems are very different but who all show the symptoms of impulsion phobia. They next setout a phenomenological approach to the problem, with emphasis on the products of the patient's imagination, his passive fascination with the image of a terrifying act constituting the object of the phobia, the external world in relation to the subject, and the ambiguity of dependance on others which is mirrored by aggressiveness. Lastly, the subject's entire existence is put symbolically at stake, and the phobia is seen to spring from his narcissistic relationship with the external world at a deeper level than that of any oedipian relationships. The first stage in the treatment is, indeed, to build up this narcissistic relationship, and later treatment will be varied according to the patient's fundamental needs.

Adult↗

[Characteristic aspects of acute delusion psychosis in Madagascar].

Research workers have analysed 92 cases of acute delirium in their country and have tried to bring out of their studies the particular aspects which are sources of many diagnostical errors: --factors which cause anxiety and lead to depressive states in Europe, but which destroy quickly the consciousness of some personalities still to be defined in Madagascar; --poor delirium in the tropics with little or no reaction at all makes the diagnostic very difficult.

Adolescent↗