Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1982. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 157-184).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1981. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-72).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1982. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 32-36).

Abstract This study was a case control field investigation of a special population. The psychodiagnostic and personality correlates of 40 Christian Charismatic exorcism-seekers were compared to the correlates of 40 matched c2ntrols and 48 randomly selected controls. The study was guided by a central research question: how do exorcism-seekers differ from similar individuals who do not seek exorcism? Two theoretiäal approaches to demonic possession and exorcism anticipated different answers. A mental illness approach anticipated the report of certain forms of clinical distress among exorcism-seekers. A social role approach anticipated the report of certain personality traits that would facilitate the effective enactment of the demoniac role. Results supported the mental illness approach to demonic possession inasmuch as numerous between-group diagnostic differences achieved statistical significance, especially mood disturbance. The exorcism-seeker’s group produced a modal dependent-avoidant personality disorder profile, although schizoid features best distinguished between exorcism-seekers and control subjects. However, half of the sample did not report significant psychological distress. A cognitive-behavioral model of demonic possession of relevance to both distressed and non-distressed exorcism-seekers was therefore proposed. Treatment implications included a discussion of special treatment problems and collaboration between members of the clergy and the health care professions.

Abstract This study was a case control field investigation of a special population. The psychodiagnostic and personality correlates of 40 Christian Charismatic exorcism-seekers were compared to the correlates of 40 matched c2ntrols and 48 randomly selected controls. The study was guided by a central research question: how do exorcism-seekers differ from similar individuals who do not seek exorcism? Two theoretiäal approaches to demonic possession and exorcism anticipated different answers. A mental illness approach anticipated the report of certain forms of clinical distress among exorcism-seekers. A social role approach anticipated the report of certain personality traits that would facilitate the effective enactment of the demoniac role. Results supported the mental illness approach to demonic possession inasmuch as numerous between-group diagnostic differences achieved statistical significance, especially mood disturbance. The exorcism-seeker’s group produced a modal dependent-avoidant personality disorder profile, although schizoid features best distinguished between exorcism-seekers and control subjects. However, half of the sample did not report significant psychological distress. A cognitive-behavioral model of demonic possession of relevance to both distressed and non-distressed exorcism-seekers was therefore proposed. Treatment implications included a discussion of special treatment problems and collaboration between members of the clergy and the health care professions. / Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies / Graduate

We spend a large portion of our life at work, however that workplace is generally more suited for some than for others. There is a bias towards extraverted people in the design of the workplace which can have outright negative effects on the introverted population and as an extension, people with schizoid personality disorder. The purpose of the thesis was to identify areas which could be subject to change in the workplace in order to facilitate a larger population and increase the well-being of introverted people, particularly those with schizoid personality disorder (SPD). Data was collected through a questionnaire (N = 52) and the analysis presented evidence of a difference in how important the participants deem it that a workplace is designed for socialisation and how possible it is to work without interruptions from other colleagues. The results indicated a large difference between the more and less extraverted groups in how important and how possible it was to work without interruptions from their colleagues. The results also indicate a significant difference between how important they deem it that a workplace should be designed for socialisation. In conclusion the author suggests areas which can be improved in the workplace design to facilitate a larger group of the population and not just be beneficial to the extraverted population.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-09-28T12:26:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Luiz Fernando Rodrigues Veronica.pdf: 1060390 bytes, checksum: d83ae3a4f04b1d7d01b9468421a1130d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-28T12:26:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luiz Fernando Rodrigues Veronica.pdf: 1060390 bytes, checksum: d83ae3a4f04b1d7d01b9468421a1130d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-29 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / The aim of this study was to present the contributions of D. W. Winnicott on schizoid pathology, seeking to explain the place that this pathology occupies in the theoretical and clinical framework of the author and also the aspects related to etiology, dynamics and clinical management highlighted by the author. This is a theoretical research, where the results were based on a detailed reading of the author’s work and two of his clinical cases, diagnosed by him as schizoid. It had as a methodological basis the principle of hermeneutics, which considers the articulation of the whole with the parts, understanding the meaning as relative to the context, so that the whole is understood in relation to its parts and the parts in relation to the whole. As results, the author locates schizoidia in the field of psychoses, having its origin in the earliest period of life, before the individual has achieved a more consistent integration of the self. Schizoid individuals suffered abrupt, disastrous failures as a result of a chaotic environment, they still succeeded in forming, even in a very incipient way, a self. The consequence of environmental failures in schizoids, produces a near-permanent sensation that the world and everything relating to the external or shared reality is dangerous and pernicious. Therefore, their attitude is to always flee from the world, from contact, from relationships, living circumscribed to their subjective world, in order to protect their incipient self, against the unpredictability and invasion of the environment / Este estudo teve por objetivo apresentar as contribuições de D. W. Winnicott acerca da patologia esquizoide, buscando explicitar o lugar que essa patologia ocupa no arcabouço teórico e clínico do autor e também os aspectos referentes à etiologia, dinâmica e manejo clínico destacados pelo autor. Trata-se de uma pesquisa teórica, na qual os resultados foram embasados em uma detalhada leitura da obra e de dois casos clínicos do autor, diagnosticados por ele como esquizoides. Teve como base metodológica o princípio da hermenêutica, que considera a articulação do todo com as partes, entendendo o significado como relativo ao contexto, de modo que o todo é compreendido em relação às suas partes e as partes em relação ao todo. Como resultados, verificou-se que o autor situa a esquizoidia no campo das psicoses, tendo sua origem no período mais precoce da vida, antes de o indivíduo ter alcançado uma integração mais consistente do self. Os indivíduos esquizoides sofreram falhas abruptas, desastrosas, em decorrência de um ambiente caótico, ainda assim, conseguiram constituir, mesmo de forma muito incipiente, um self. A consequência das falhas ambientais produz, nos esquizoides, uma sensação quase que permanente de que o mundo e/ou tudo aquilo que diz respeito ao relacionamento com a realidade externa ou compartilhada é algo perigoso, pernicioso. Por isso, sua atitude é a de sempre fugirem do mundo, do contato, das relações, vivendo circunscritos a seu mundo subjetivo, a fim de protegerem seu incipiente self contra a imprevisibilidade do ambiente

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