In this thesis I explore the effects of the recent introduction of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to the post-conflict and postsocialist discourse of Croatian psychiatry. In recent years Croatian psychiatrists have been faced with a significant increase in the number of reported cases of various types of war-related disorders. PTSD, in particular, is spreading among the population of veterans from Croatia’s Homeland War that lasted from 1991 to 1995. To explore the effects of the introduction of PTSD to the discourse of Croatian psychiatry I am raising the following questions: (1) how was the diagnostic category of PTSD introduced; (2) how are Croatian war veterans encouraged to communicate their traumatic experiences; (3) how are ideas about the effective treatment of PTSD reproduced, transformed, and resisted by individual medical practitioners? In the final analysis, I argue that PTSD in Croatian psychiatry is constituted in a way that makes it both a medically recognizable form of emotional suffering and an instrument in post-conflict governmentality.

Kardiologiniai ligoniai po kardiochirurginės operacijos ar esant jos būtinybei dažnai susiduria su potrauminio streso, nerimo ir depresijos simptomais,kurie gali turėti neigiamų rezultatų kardiologinėsligos gydyme. Darbo tikslas: įvertinti kardiologinių ligonių psichologinius ypatumus ir streso įveikos būdus. Darbo uždaviniai: Ištirti potrauminio streso sutrikimo, nerimo ir depresijos simptomų paplitimą atsižvelgiant į kardiologinių ligonių lytį ir amžių; nustatyti su potrauminio streso sutrikimo, nerimo ir depresijos simptomais susijusius kardiologinės ligos simptomų intensyvumą atspindinčius rodiklius; nustatyti, ar hospitalizacijos metu jaučami nerimo ir depresijos simptomai siejosi su potrauminio streso simptomų išsivystimu praėjus vienam mėnesiui po ligonių hospitalizacijos; nustatyti ligonių streso įveikos būdų naudojimą priklausomai nuo lyties, amžiaus, išsilavinimo; įvertinti potrauminio streso simptomų pasireiškimą priklausomai nuo ligonių naudojamo streso įveikos būdo. Tyrimo metodika: Anoniminei apklausai atlikti naudoti šie klausimynai: hospitalinė nerimo ir depresijos skalė (HAD), potrauminio streso sutrikimo simptomų skalė, streso įveikos strategijų klausimynas (COPE), Kardiologinių simptomų intensyvumo skalė. Tyrime dalyvavo 201 respondentas: 138 kardiologiniai ligoniai, neturėję chirurginių intervencijų, ir 63 kardiochirurginiai ligoniai, turėję chirurginių intervencijų. Anketiniai duomenys apdoroti ir analizuoti naudojant statistinį paketą SSPS 13.0... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / In necessity of or after cardiological surgery cardiological patients are often faced with post-traumatic stress, anxiety and depression symptoms, which may have negative results for the treatment of cardiological disease. Aim of the study: to evaluate psychological characteristics and coping with stress techniques of cardiological patients. Objectives: to investigate the occurence of post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and depression symptoms depending on gender and age of cardiological patients; to determine indicators reflecting the intensity of cardiological disease symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and depression symptoms; to determine whether anxiety and depression symptoms faced during hospitalization were associated with the development of post-traumatic stress symptoms within one month after hospitalization; to evaluate the use of stress coping techniques depending on gender, age, education; to assess the occurrence of post-traumatic stress symptoms depending on the method of coping with stress used by patients. Methods. The following questionnaires used to carry out an anonymous survey: Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD), Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms Scale, Stress Coping Strategies Questionnaire (COPE), Cardiac Symptoms Intensity Scale. The survey included 201 respondents: 138 cardiological patients who did not have surgical interventions and 63 cardiological patients who had surgical interventions. The data... [to full text]

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-94). / Microfiche. / vii, 94 leaves, bound 29 cm

This project is an exploration, through art making processes, of a relationship between the interpretation of symbols and the interpretation of everyday life experiences, with a view to evolving a metaphorical visual language that might translate these experiences. Individuation is a process within Jungian psychology that relates the interpretation of symbols to the interpretation of life experiences and places their common meanings within a definitive framework of individual human development. The archetypal pattern that this framework outlines is the development of a healthy relationship between an individual’s consciousness and the unconscious. The word metaphor originates from Greek metapherein – “to carry over, transfer; meta` beyond, over + fe`rein to bring, bear. It is the transference of the relation between one set of objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation… the statement “that man is a fox,” is a metaphor” (Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 2008) Due to its particular relationship to time, space, memory and light photography has proven to be an ideal way to engage, record, and present this exploration. Our personal photographs operate as visual metaphors for our personal experience, we transfer the experience into the photograph, we consider the photograph is that moment in time, that place, that experience, rather than being like that experience. The interpretation of personal photographs is entirely individual and emotional. When photographs are placed into the public arena their emotional value changes, their interpretation, purpose, and authenticity can become questionable. In this project the experience and the photographs are placed within the context of individuation, which is a model that guides the interpretation of the photographs and include the individual and emotional values as a necessary part of that interpretation. In this project the symbols and visual metaphors interpreted in the photographs operate as a narrative of the personal experience of the archetypal journey of individuation.

Bibliography: leaves 385-417. / x, 417 leaves : ill. (some col.), [1] col. map ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Documents and evaluates the experiences and life outcomes of a sample of WW2 veterans against a background of ideas about the neuroses of war, thereby examining the history of medical ideas about the psychological casualties of war, and the history of the lives of participants of war. The medical framework and social context that underpin the construction of war experience is critically examined in this thesis. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Public Health, 2000

This project is an exploration, through art making processes, of a relationship between the interpretation of symbols and the interpretation of everyday life experiences, with a view to evolving a metaphorical visual language that might translate these experiences. Individuation is a process within Jungian psychology that relates the interpretation of symbols to the interpretation of life experiences and places their common meanings within a definitive framework of individual human development. The archetypal pattern that this framework outlines is the development of a healthy relationship between an individual’s consciousness and the unconscious. The word metaphor originates from Greek metapherein – “to carry over, transfer; meta` beyond, over + fe`rein to bring, bear. It is the transference of the relation between one set of objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation… the statement “that man is a fox,” is a metaphor” (Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 2008) Due to its particular relationship to time, space, memory and light photography has proven to be an ideal way to engage, record, and present this exploration. Our personal photographs operate as visual metaphors for our personal experience, we transfer the experience into the photograph, we consider the photograph is that moment in time, that place, that experience, rather than being like that experience. The interpretation of personal photographs is entirely individual and emotional. When photographs are placed into the public arena their emotional value changes, their interpretation, purpose, and authenticity can become questionable. In this project the experience and the photographs are placed within the context of individuation, which is a model that guides the interpretation of the photographs and include the individual and emotional values as a necessary part of that interpretation. In this project the symbols and visual metaphors interpreted in the photographs operate as a narrative of the personal experience of the archetypal journey of individuation.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas, 2007. / "October 2007." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-85) and appendices.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Karol. inst., 2003. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Karol. inst., 2002. / 5 uppsatser.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Linköping : Univ., 2002. / Härtill 5 uppsatser.