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P Migone

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PubMed1998

Psychoanalysis and cognitive-evolutionary psychology: an attempt at integration.

The authors argue that the abandonment of the theory of trauma in 1897 was a trauma for Freud himself, who was led to 'despair', and possibly reacted with an overemphasis on inner fantasies and drive discharge. They suggest that today we are facing a second trauma in the history of psychoanalysis that we might call the 'abandonment of drive theory', i.e. the notion that human beings strive not primarily to reduce sexual and aggressive drives but rather seek objects, assign meanings, test previous beliefs and assimilate new schemes. Our task is to recover as Freud was able to do, giving a new impetus to psychoanalysis. The current challenge is, on the one hand, a revision of the psychoanalytic conception of inherited information, and, on the other, a theory of motivation based on converging evidence from cognitive science, ethology, infant research and psychotherapy research. Many clinical models are current in contemporary psychoanalysis. Only as one example among these models, some concepts used in Weiss & Sampson's 'Control-Mastery Theory' will be discussed in light of cognitive science and evolutionary epistemology within the framework of (a) the 1960 classic, 'Plans and Structure of Behavior' by Miller, Galanter and Pribram (b) Edelman's neurobiological theory and (c) Bowlby's attachment theory.

Adult↗
PubMed1983

Phencyclidine in an East Harlem psychiatric population.

The use of phencyclidine (PCP) was investigated in the psychiatric population of an East Harlem, New York, hospital. Sixty-eight consecutive PCP-user admissions were interviewed through a 77-item questionnaire. The patient population served by the facility was 48 percent Hispanic and 32 percent black. The sample of PCP users was 86 percent black. This suggests that, in this area, either more blacks use PCP, or nonblack PCP users seek psychiatric help less frequently than black users. This study emphasizes the many problems affecting the sample population and shows evidence that a large portion of the sample is at risk to develop psychiatric symptoms.

Adolescent↗
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Psychopathology of stable and unstable mixed states: a historical view.

The concept of mixed states was proposed at the end of last century by Kraepelin and Weygandt to confer unity to manic-depressive illness and to better differentiate this disease from dementia praecox. The concept has been further elaborated by the Hamburg and Vienna schools (Mentzos and Berner, respectively), and dichotomized in stable and unstable mixed states. Stable mixed states represent a condition of the synchronic copresence of symptoms of both polarities; unstable mixed states, or "mixed pictures," are characterized by the rapid cycling of these symptoms. The former represent clinical expressions of bipolar disorder, and the latter represent trans-nosological conditions with multiple outcomes. Current North American nosology retains the original Kraepelinian concept of stable mixed states and ignores the concept of unstable mixed states, which is very close to the concept of ultradian cycling proposed by Kramlinger and Post in 1996.

Austria↗