This thesis investigates to what extent a self-concept measure may contribute to predicting which patients in a hospital are most likely to profit from treatment.

Appreciation of humor is generally accepted as being a unique aspect of human personality. Yet, despite its prominence in everyday situations, it remains a relatively unexplored area of scientific investigation. The present study has a twofold purpose: (1) an examination of the relationship of "sense of humor" to neurosis in a relatively normal population and, (2) an exploratory investigation of the type of parent-child relationship which fosters a particular mode of response to humor. As a result of the methods used to explore these areas, a third area for study was available to the investigator. That was the examination of the type of parent-child relationship perceived by the subject and the subsequent development or absence of neurosis.

This study has two major purposes. The first of these is to formulate a theoretical model which 1) provides an ontological and psychological framework for the concept of creativity, and 2) if non-contradictory empirical data are produced, provides a philosophic and psychological guide to effective action relevant to the development of creative skill. The second major purpose is to formulate and test a problem and hypotheses which would provide some empirical evidence of the explanatory adequacy of the model, and outside the scope of theoretical material, to produce data of general interest to any reader regardless of his theoretical orientation.

La névrose compte parmi les pathologies les plus répandues sous le Second Empire. Elle met en évidence à la fois la France saine et la France détraquée. Le progrès technique, l’essor industriel et le développement du capitalisme, suscitent des appétits, qui mal satisfaits, sont sources de déséquilibre. Trois états caractérisent alors le processus physiologique français, les appétits, la jouissance et le détraquement. Ainsi, de la jouissance collective, l’on aboutit à la névrose collective dans cette société décadente. Emile Zola qui peint alors la société contemporaine, traduit dans de nombreux ouvrages tels que Les Rougon-Macquart et Lourdes, son intérêt pour la névrose. Cet intérêt de l’écrivain s’explique non seulement par le fait que son époque est névrosée mais aussi parce qu’il est lui-même névrosé. Afin de guérir du mal névrotique, Zola propose à la fois son projet d’hygiène individuelle et son projet social. La panacée qu’il conseille alors, est d’une part la loi du travail et la loi de l’amour naturel et d’autre part, la canalisation des passions et la réorganisation de la société. / Neurosis is one of the most widespread pathologies under the Second Empire. It highlights both a healthy France and a contorted France. Technical progress, industrial development and the growth of capitalism, encourage greed, which, when poorly fed, is source of imbalance. Three States then characterize the French physiological process: greed, enjoyment and dissatisfaction. Thus, from collective enjoyment, it ends up with a collective neurosis in this decadent society. Emile Zola who then painted contemporary society, depicts in many books such as the Rougon-Macquart and Lourdes, his interest for neurosis. This interest of the writer is not only linked to the fact that his time is neurotic but also because he himself is neurotic. In order to cure himself from the neurotic disease, Zola provides both his individual health project and his social project. The panacea he advises, is on the one hand the law of labour and the law of natural love, and on the other hand the channeling of the passions and the reorganization of society.

Public memory of psychological casualties from the Great War and the Second World War has recalled men who were shunned and scorned by society and their peers. Using letters and diaries written contemporaneously within the two World Wars, and newspapers and official documents from the inter-war period, this paper examines the attitudes of Second World War New Zealand soldiers to those in their midst who were mentally injured by their experiences and unable to continue their duties. This research indicates that there was more compassion and sympathy from government agencies, the public and comrades of shell shock and anxiety neurosis victims, than has been indicated in existing historiography. The onset of shell shock during the Great War of 1914 to 1918, and how it entered the public sphere, influenced the attitudes of the men who, a generation later, were again going into battle. Social changes in New Zealand, both before and during the Second World War, are investigated to determine how they influenced the attitudes of the men of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force during World War Two in comparison to those of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force of the Great War.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-05-07T13:00:32Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Roziliane Oesterreich de Freitas.pdf: 1022529 bytes, checksum: 7b954818511fb299f9cf14d66c08c3d0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-05-07T13:00:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Roziliane Oesterreich de Freitas.pdf: 1022529 bytes, checksum: 7b954818511fb299f9cf14d66c08c3d0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-16 / Why my grandfather cried: the depression clinic - was built from clinical experience with diagnosed depressed patients using psychiatric medication. It is not, as the title might suggest, a response to my grandfather's experience of depression; but rather as an inspiration for the study of the clinic of depression to take its own shape. Thinking of depression in the light of Psychoanalysis, considering its genesis, the sense of symptoms, the differential clinic in relation to other neuroses and pathologies, required bringing together authors of relevant studies in the field of Psychoanalysis, especially the study published by Maria Rita Kehl, for translating what I was undertaking in listening to the depressions of patients referred by psychiatrist (colleagues) friends. To preserve the progress of patient analyzes, I have used literary references as approximate examples of the types of depression that depress neurotics. We know that not only do neurotics suffer from depression; in this study, however, experience and theoretical and literary references point to three types of depression: depression in hysterical neurosis, obsessional neurosis, and the type that contains a rarity of understanding, that of neurotic depression. It is in the dimension of its psychic structure that the listening of the suffering of the depressive affects in the scope of the clinical treatment. Finally, the difficult question of the clinical conduct of depression, especially of severe cases, accompanied by psychiatric medication / A tese intitulada Por que meu vô chorava: a clínica da depressão foi construída a partir da experiência clínica com pacientes diagnosticados depressivos que fazem uso de medicação com acompanhamento psiquiátrico. Não se trata, como poderia o título sugerir, de uma resposta à experiência de depressão do meu avô; e sim de uma inspiração para que o estudo sobre a clínica da depressão adquirisse contornos próprios. Pensar a depressão à luz da Psicanálise, levando em conta a sua gênese, o sentido dos sintomas, a clínica diferencial em relação às demais neuroses e patologias, exigiu reunir autores de relevantes estudos no campo da Psicanálise, especialmente o estudo publicado por Maria Rita Kehl O tempo e o cão: a atualidade das depressões, por traduzir o que eu estava a empreender na escuta das depressões dos pacientes encaminhados por amigos psiquiatras. Para preservar o andamento das análises dos pacientes, vali-me de referências literárias, como exemplos aproximados aos tipos de depressão que abatem os neuróticos. Sabemos que não somente os neuróticos sofrem de depressão; neste estudo, porém, a experiência e as referências teóricas e literárias apontam para três tipos de depressão: a depressão na neurose histérica, na neurose obsessiva e no tipo que contém uma raridade de entendimento, o da depressão neurótica. É na dimensão de sua estrutura psíquica que a escuta do sofrimento do depressivo incide no âmbito do tratamento clínico. Por fim, a difícil questão da condução clínica da depressão, especialmente dos casos graves, acompanhados de medicação psiquiátrica

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is characterised by intrusions into conscious thinking by repetitive, personally abhorrent, absurd and alien thoughts (obsessions) which lead to endless repetitive acts or rehearsal of irrational and sometimes bizarre mental and behavioural rituals (compulsions). Although a number of clinical constructs have been proposed to have a causal influence on OC symptoms, extremely little research exists examining how these constructs are related to each other and, further, how the relationships between these constructs influences each constructs relationship with OC symptoms (e.g. does a given construct have an independent role in influencing OC symptoms or is the constructs influence on OC symptoms being mediated by its influence on another intervening construct or constructs?). In the current thesis, the relationships between 5 clinical constructs were examined, as well as how the pattern of these relationships may affect each constructs influence on OC symptoms. A large questionnaire study suggested that the five constructs are best seen as separate constructs rather than indicators of one underlying construct. Separate experimental studies in which all 5 constructs were manipulated individually suggest that whilst inflated responsibility, intolerance of uncertainty and negative mood, respectively, all causally influence every other construct focused on in this thesis, not just right experiences and as many as can stop rules, respectively, do not casually influence any other construct. Subsequent regression analyses suggest that whilst some constructs directly influence OC symptoms, other constructs influence on OC symptoms are mediated by intervening constructs in the final model, whilst some constructs have little to no influence on OC symptoms when the influence of other constructs in the final model are taken into account. Implications of these findings for existing models of OCD, for studies examining the relationship between multiple constructs and OC symptoms and for the treatment of OCD are discussed.

La presente investigación estudia las relaciones existentes entre estilo rumiativo y rasgos de personalidad desde el modelo de los cinco factores en un grupo de 77 estudiantes de ingeniería civil y electrónica de una universidad privada de Lima Metropolitana, cuyas edades oscilan entre 16 y 27 años. Para ello, se empleó el Inventario de Personalidad NEO PI-R forma S y la Escala de Respuestas Rumiativas. Los resultados evidenciaron correlaciones positivas entre la dimensión neuroticismo y todas sus facetas con el estilo rumiativo y sus componentes: reflexión y reproches, mientras que la dimensión conciencia y algunas facetas de otros dominios presentaron correlaciones inversas con la rumiación y con alguno de sus dos factores. Asimismo, se encontraron diferencias a partir de variables sociodemográficas como edad presentando el grupo más joven una mayor tendencia a un estilo rumiativo y niveles altos de neuroticismo. Sin embargo, solo se reportaron diferencias según sexo para la escala de personalidad, las cuales plantean un mayor nivel de neuroticismo en mujeres a diferencia de los hombres. / The present investigation studies the relationship between ruminative style and personality traits from the Five Factor Model on a group of 77 students of civil and electronics engineering of a Private University of Lima, whose ages range between 16 and 27 years. For this, we used the NEO Personality Inventory PI-R Form S and The Ruminative Responses Scale. The findings suggested the positive correlations between neuroticism dimension and all its facets with ruminative style and its components: reflection and brooding, while the dimension of consciousness and some other domain facets presented inverse correlations with rumination and one of its two factors. Additionally, differences were reported from sociodemographic variables such as age presenting the younger group more tendency to ruminative style and high levels of neuroticism. However, only the gender differences were reported for personality scale, which poses a higher level of neuroticism in women as opposed to men. / Tesis

RÊGO, Mariana Oliveira do. As particularidades da transferência na neurose obsessiva. 2012. 111f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Psicologia, Fortaleza (CE), 2012. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-11-26T12:47:52Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2012-DIS-MOREGO.pdf: 580501 bytes, checksum: d862a7a494cc0f12bc941547fd585b32 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-11-26T14:32:40Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2012-DIS-MOREGO.pdf: 580501 bytes, checksum: d862a7a494cc0f12bc941547fd585b32 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-11-26T14:32:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2012-DIS-MOREGO.pdf: 580501 bytes, checksum: d862a7a494cc0f12bc941547fd585b32 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / The transference in obsessional neurosis has many characteristics that can become difficulties in the course of treatment. We intend to analyze the particularities of this transference and relate them to the obsessional neurosis itself. These difficulties in the handle of the obsessional neurosis´s transference emerged from our clinical activity, from which we delimitated our subject. In despite of this, the clinical case that we assisted lacked elements to base a study. We decided then to approach the transference and the obsessional neurosis from a metapshychological point of view, emphasizing the dynamic and economic aspects. Then, we correlated the founded data to the difficulties faced by Freud in his main clinical cases of obsessional neurosis and to the difficulties we faced in the course of the treatment that instigated this study. We concluded that the obsessional neurosis particular form of the repression (the displacement) causes most part of the particularities of this neurosis, like rationalization and ritualistic behavior. The most visible effects of the displacement in the transferencial context are the rationalizations and the resistance to associate freely. These manifestations have relation with the ambivalent type present in obsessive patients. These resistances, as the same time seem to be inoffensive, are very disadvantageous to the treatment, since they prevent the patient of engage the treatment. We concluded that, being an artificial neurosis, the transference should be comprehended in relation of the characteristics of the neurosis in question, since that characteristics are responsible for the transference form and manifestation. / A transferência na neurose obsessiva apresenta muitas características que podem se transformar em dificuldades no decorrer do tratamento analítico. Visamos, neste estudo, a analisar tais particularidades e a associá-las à estrutura da própria neurose obsessiva. Essas dificuldades no manejo da transferência do obsessivo se manifestaram para nós na realidade da clínica, da qual extraímos nossa temática, mas, apesar disso, o caso atendido não possuía elementos suficientes para embasar uma pesquisa. Optamos, pois, por abordar a neurose obsessiva e a transferência a partir de um ponto de vista metapsicológico, enfatizando os aspectos dinâmicos e econômicos referentes a cada um desses conceitos. Feito isso, correlacionamos os dados encontrados às dificuldades enfrentadas por Freud em seus principais casos de neurose obsessiva e, ainda, aos percalços por nós encontrados no caso clínico que motivou a pesquisa. Concluímos que o modo particular através do qual o recalque se manifesta na neurose obsessiva (o deslocamento) é responsável por muitos predicados dessa neurose, como a tendência às racionalizações e a formação de comportamentos ritualísticos. Na transferência, os efeitos mais visíveis do deslocamento são as racionalizações constantes e a resistência em associar livremente. Essas manifestações se relacionam também ao caráter ambivalente tão presente nos obsessivos. Com dificuldades em conseguir um destino adequado para as pulsões de amor e ódio, igualmente intensas, o obsessivo adota formações de compromisso como tais resistências, que, ao mesmo tempo em que parecem inócuas, entravam a análise por não fazerem com que o sujeito nela se implique. Concluímos que, sendo a transferência uma neurose artificial, é imprescindível que compreendamos as características da neurose em questão, pois estas são responsáveis por dar o tom da transferência.

TORRES, Caroline Gonzaga. Nos contornos do Eu: um estudo sobre a religiosidade nas neuroses e psicoses. 2013. 189f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Psicologia, Fortaleza (CE), 2013. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-11-27T13:34:21Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2013-DIS-CGTORRES.pdf: 1127121 bytes, checksum: 64fd266d721fb9597a1861751338a489 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-11-27T13:55:40Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2013-DIS-CGTORRES.pdf: 1127121 bytes, checksum: 64fd266d721fb9597a1861751338a489 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-11-27T13:55:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2013-DIS-CGTORRES.pdf: 1127121 bytes, checksum: 64fd266d721fb9597a1861751338a489 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / There is, in this dissertation, the purpose of discussing whether there is, from the point of view of the Ego structure in subjects, elements by which to discern what supports the way neurotics and psychotics demarcate distinct positioning in the face of religious experiences, establishing different relationships with divinity. Therefore, methodologically, to undertake a bibliographical study based on the work of Freud and Lacan, in the first teaching, in their productions concerning religion, constitution of Ego, neurosis and psychosis, beyond a discussion of two Freudian cases: Schreber and the Rats Man. So, take place joints between religion and father complex in psychoanalysis, addressing the elements present in the traumatic origin of monotheistic religions and the way they are updated in the subject, and set up approaches between religious formations, production delusional and fantasy. Makes up a theoretical framework on the mode ego structure, on the neuroses and psychoses, in stressing the concept of narcissism to establish the imaginary and symbolic dimensions that participate in this process as well as for the subsequent theoretical modifications. Finally, it is an investigation regarding the way in which the Ego is constituted in neuroses and psychoses, mechanisms peculiar to each of these structures and the presence of religious speech as well as of divine figures, by analysis of clinical cases. Among the main findings of the research highlight: a) intelligibility in Freudian formulations about religion, placing it sometimes beside the neuroses, sometimes beside the psychoses, giving her a double logic; b) the peculiarities in the constitution of the Ego, this is, fixing the paranoid in the mirror stage and the crossing of the obsessive at Oedipus, as well as their distinct attitudes towards Other and conflicts of these psychic structures instances, result a way in which the experiences of religion and deities appear in symptoms and elementary formations; c) the structural belief notion in neurosis and the dimension of certainty in psychosis allow in the perception of differences in the way these individuals understand the divine figures, which appear consistently associated with paternal figure in psychoanalytic theorizing. / Tem-se, nesta dissertação, o propósito de discutir se há, do ponto de vista da estruturação do Eu nos sujeitos, elementos pelos quais se possa discernir o que respalda a maneira como os neuróticos e psicóticos demarcam um posicionamento distinto frente às experiências de religiosidade, estabelecendo relacionamentos diferentes com a divindade. Para tanto, metodologicamente, empreende-se um estudo bibliográfico fundamentado na obra de Freud e no primeiro ensino de Lacan em suas produções referentes à religião, constituição do Eu, neurose e psicose, além da discussão de dois casos clínicos freudianos: Schreber e o Homem dos Ratos. Sendo assim, realizam-se articulações entre a religião e o complexo paterno em psicanálise, abordando os elementos traumáticos presentes na origem das religiões monoteístas e a maneira pela qual eles se atualizam nos sujeitos, além de estabelecerem-se aproximações entre as formações religiosas, as produções delirantes e a fantasia. Efetua-se um recorte sobre o modo de estruturação do Eu, nas neuroses e nas psicoses, salientando o conceito de narcisismo para o estabelecimento das dimensões imaginárias e simbólicas que participam desse processo, bem como para as modificações teóricas subsequentes. Por fim, faz-se uma investigação sobre o modo pelo qual o Eu se constitui nas neuroses e psicoses, os mecanismos peculiares a cada uma destas estruturas e a presença do discurso religioso, assim como das figuras divinas, através da análise dos casos clínicos. Dentre os principais achados da pesquisa destaca-se: a) a inteligibilidade nas formulações freudianas sobre a religião, situando-a ora ao lado das neuroses, ora ao lado das psicoses, fornecendo a ela uma dupla lógica; b) as peculiaridades na constituição do Eu, isto é, a fixação do paranoico no estádio do espelho e o atravessamento do Édipo no obsessivo, bem como seus posicionamentos distintos frente ao Outro e o conflito das instâncias psíquicas nestas estruturas, implicam na maneira pela qual as experiências de religiosidade e as divindades aparecem nos sintomas e nas formações elementares; c) a noção de crença estrutural na neurose e a dimensão de certeza na psicose permitem a percepção das diferenças no modo como estes indivíduos compreendem as figuras divinas, que aparecerem constantemente associadas à figura paterna nas teorizações psicanalíticas.