Background: The scope of postpartum pelvic dysfunction and perineal trauma is under-researched. Instrumental vaginal delivery or 3rd/4th degree tears were recognised risk factors for pelvic/perineal dysfunction; caesarean delivery was not implicated. Aims: • To analyse obstetrical/biological factors associated with pelvic dysfunction after caesarean or non-instrumental vaginal delivery • To compare these associations between groups after determining frequencies • To evaluate severity of pelvic/perineal dysfunction, including quantifying maternal perception of the psychosocial impact Participants and Methods: 284 primiparae (184 caesarean, 100 vaginally delivered) had domiciliary, in-depth medical interviews using structured and open questioning. Results: Caesarean (elective, emergency) vs. vaginally delivered were compared: Stress incontinence manifested in 60/184 (33%, 33%) vs. 54/100 (54%), anal incontinence in 94/184 (53%, 50%) vs. 44/100 (44%), dyspareunia in 50/184 (28%, 27%) vs. 46/100 (46%), haemorrhoids in 3/184 (2%) vs. 5/100 (5%) and double incontinence with dyspareunia in 33/284 (14%, 10% vs. 12%). Sixty sustained perineal trauma. Delivery mode and non-labour factors were predictors. Severity was evaluated by devising a psychosocial measure tailored to maternal functioning. New faecal incontinence necessitated continuous perineal protection in two pre-labour caesarean and one vaginally delivered mother. Severe dysphoria was associated with incontinence (p=0.038, OR 2.334, CI 1.049, 5.192), dyspareunia (p=0.005, OR 2.231, CI 1.272, 3.914) and post-caesarean wound problems (p=0.022, OR 3.620, CI 1.203, 10.896). Incontinence impaired leisure activities (p=0.036, OR 2.165, CI 1.051, 4.463) and employment (p=0.023, OR 1.912, CI 1.093, 3.345); caesarean mode affected social-networking (p=0.018, OR 2.438, CI 1.166, 5.099) and employment (p=0.031, OR 1.967, CI 1.064, 3.636). Conclusions: Pelvic/perineal dysfunction was: ▪ Predicted by caesarean or non-instrumental vaginal delivery, with anal incontinence being more prevalent post-caesarean ▪ Comparable following elective or emergency caesarean ▪ Associated with severe and quantifiable biopsychosocial maternal morbidity.

Looking after young people who are unable to live within their own families is a complex and demanding task. Complexities increase when those young people are identified as having sexually abused and are thought therefore to present risks of sexual harm to others. This small scale study by a child protection practitioner draws on accounts of placements from both foster carers and young people to explore these complexities. The study identifies significant challenges facing young people and carers within placements though confirms that foster care can and does provide some young people who have sexually abused with experiences of childhoods which are secure, healthy and enjoyable – rich and valuable in themselves and which may prove to be stable foundations for the rest of their lives. It also suggests that carers and young people understand the role undertaken by carers differently. A conceptual framework describing this role and encompassing these differences is developed from an analysis of data that suggests how carers seek to protect young people and others by either enabling or constraining young people to achieve developmental tasks. This conceptualisation is compared with established models of foster care. While recognised as being both broad in nature and provisional, its potential application and utility within practice is considered.

La prescription médicamenteuse est l’un des principaux outils thérapeutiques utilisé par le médecin. Si la médecine somatique décline sa clinique selon l’enchaînement symptômes- diagnostic-traitement, la psychiatrie se démarque d’une telle linéarité. En effet, bien qu’elle se soit calquée sur le modèle médical depuis la découverte des psychotropes en 1952, elle relève d’une clinique spécifique : en psychiatrie, d’une part le symptôme constitue une adresse à l’Autre, il contient donc une dimension relationnelle essentielle, d’autre part, le soin psychique implique une participation active du sujet, toute thérapie étant aussi auto-thérapie. La neuropharmacologie, en plein essor depuis 1952, propose un schéma thérapeutique se voulant plus scientifique car de plus en plus éloigné de la psychopathologie clinique. Le psychiatre est alors convoqué en tant que technicien de la prescription de psychotropes, le médicament se suffisant à lui-même d’un point de vue thérapeutique. Face à une telle évolution de la psychiatrie, comment préserver un abord clinique ?Notre pratique esquisse la possibilité de dégager l’acte de prescrire d’une technicité exclusive. En effet, sous certaines conditions, la prescription de psychotropes constitue un acte psychothérapeutique à part entière. Pour cheminer dans notre réflexion, nous sommes passés par le paradigme du pharmakon afin de complexifier la question du prescrire. La clinique suggère une possible alliance entre parole et médicament. Prescrire dans la parole, au-delà de la molécule, consiste à qualifier la substance par la parole, de façon à ce qu’elle devienne un médicament spécifique de la rencontre clinique. La molécule, guidée par la magie des mots, sera plus efficace. L’acte de prescrire se conçoit donc comme une création à deux, à réinventer à chaque nouvelle rencontre, le moment de la prescription relevant d’un cheminement intime du côté du clinicien. Ainsi, loin de s’exclure mutuellement, psychothérapie analytique et pharmacothérapie ont tout intérêt à croiser leurs regards sur la question du prescrire. Penser conjointement effet pharmacologique et relation clinique permet au clinicien de s’engager dans une authentique rencontre humaine avec le patient. La psychopathologie s’ouvrira, peut-être, sur de nouvelles perspectives thérapeutiques. / Prescribing medication is one of the main therapeutic tools used by physicians. If somatic medicine clinically acts according to a 'symptom-diagnosis-treatment' model, psychiatry does not follow this linear pathway. Although it has copied the medical model since the discoveryof psychoactive drugs in 1952, it possesses a specific clinical approach. First of all, in psychiatric care, the symptom is an address to the Other, it contains an essential social dimension. Moreover, it implies the subject's active participation, each therapy also being a self-therapy. Neuropharmacology, in full expansion since 1952, has taken a therapeutic scheme aiming at more scientificity by moving away from clinical psychopathology. Hence psychiatrists are seen as technicians of psychoactive drugs prescription, drugs being considered as self sufficient therapeuticaly. With regard to this evolution in psychiatric care, how can a clinical approach be maintained ? In practice, the act of prescribing can free itself from being exclusively technical. Prescribing psychoactive drugs can indeed, under certain conditions, be a true psychotherapeutic act. To guide us through this reflection, we used the pharmakon paradigm to make the issue of prescribing more complex. Clinical practice suggests a possible alliance between patients'words and medication. Beyond molecular action, prescribing through talking qualifies the substance by words, so it becomes a clinical-interaction-specific drug. The molecule, guided by the magic of words, will be more efficient. The act of prescribing is thus conceived as a creation made possible by two people, that must be reinvented at each encounter. The moment for prescribing is rather the fruit of the clinician intimate decision process. Thus, far from excluding each other, analytical therapy and pharmacotherapy would gain much from sharing their views on the issue of prescribing. Integrating both the pharmacological effect and the clinical interaction would allow clinicians to engage in an authentic human encounter with patients. Psychopathology may then open up to new therapeutic perspectives.

[pt] Esta tese analisa o apagamento do sujeito na clínica contemporânea, tomando como exemplo a construção do campo discursivo da psiquiatria biológica. Investiga a construção deste campo como resultado da luta pelo monopólio da autoridade científica. Problematiza o predomínio da abordagem fisicalista acerca do sofrimento subjetivo e a medicalização do mal-estar. Ao longo dos capítulos, a tese discute a constituição de valores individualista e a noção de sujeito do inconsciente. Descreve a trajetória intelectual da psiquiatria para revelar a tensão entre as abordagens física e mental. Examina o projeto psiquiátrico de reduzir a subjetividade ao funcionamento cerebral. Analisa criticamente a classificação dos transtornos mentais, associando-a à inflação diagnóstica. A tese identifica que a psiquiatria biológica tem se deparado com limites clínicos para a imposição da leitura fisicalista. Estes limites relacionam-se à ausência de evidências que confirmem a premissa segundo a qual os transtornos mentais são transtornos cerebrais. Do ponto de vista da psicanálise, o limite está dado pelo fato de que o sujeito é efeito de linguagem e que, portanto, não é possível tomá-lo como duplo do cérebro nem reduzi-lo a categorias diagnósticas universalizantes. / [en] This thesis analyses the effacement of the subject in the contemporary clinic, taking as example the construction of the discursive field of biological psychiatry. It inquires the construction of the field as a result of the battle for monopoly of scientific authority and qualification. It questions the predominance of physicalism regarding subject suffering and the medicalization of uneasiness. Throughout its chapters, the thesis discusses the development of individualistic values and the notion of the unconscious subject. It describes the intellectual path of psychiatry in order to unveil the tension between the physical and mental approaches. Examines the psychiatric project to reduce subjectivity in brain functioning. It analyzes critically the classification of mental disorders in order to associate it to a diagnostic inflation. The thesis shows that the biological psychiatry has faced scientific limits for the imposition of the physicalistic reading. These limits refer to the lack of evidences that confirm the premise according to which mental disorders are brain disorders. From the psychoanalytical point of view, the limit is given by the fact that the subject is a result of language and that, therefore, it is not possible to consider it as a double of the brain, or reduce it to universalizing diagnostic categories.

Die Habilitationsschrift beinhaltet eine zusammenfassende Darstellung unterschiedlicher Marker der biologischen Psychiatrie. Hierzu wurden mittels neuroendokriner und molekulargenetischer Verfahren depressive Patienten, alkoholabhängige Patienten und schizophrene Patienten mit einer seltenen Arzneimittelnebenwirkung untersucht und die jeweiligen Befunde als State- Trait- und Residualmarker charakterisiert. Im Bereich Neuroendokrinologie wurden der Dex/CRH-Test und Liquoruntersuchungen bei depressiven Patienten und die Apomorphin-induzierte HGH-Sekretion bei alkoholabhängigen Patienten durchgeführt. Im Bereich Pharmakogenetik erfolgten molekularbiologische HLA-und Enzymsystemuntersuchungen bei Patienten mit einer Clozapin-induzierten Agranulocytose. Es zeigten sich folgende Charakterisierungen einzelner Substrate: * HHN-Systemveränderungen (messbar über Cortisol- und ACTH-Serumkonzentrationen) sind State-bzw. Residualmarker der Depression. CRH-, AVP-und Somatostatin-Liquorkonzentrationen sind keine biologischen Marker der Depression * Das HGH-"Blunting" alkoholabhängiger Patienten ist ein spezifischer Marker für Alkoholabhängigkeit mit ungünstigem klinischen Verlauf * Spezifische HLA-Haplotypen sind als Traitmarker der Clozapin-induzierten Agranulocytose zu werten. Enzymsystem-Polymorphismen haben keine Bedeutung bei der Entwicklung dieser Arzneimittelnebenwirkung Der spezifischen Charakterisierung einzelner Befunde schließt sich eine Diskussion über deren Bedeutung für die biologische Psychiatrie an. / Neuroendocrine and pharmacogenetic studies were performed in depressive and alcohol-dependent patients as well as schizophrenic patients with clozapine-induced agranulocytosis to characterize different serological or molecular substrates as state-, trait or residualmarker. Depressive patients were assessed using the dexamethasone/corticotropin releasing hormone test and measuring neuropeptide hormone concentrations in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), whereas dopaminergic responsiveness of alcohol-dependant patients was assessed by the apomorphine-induced human growth hormone (HGH) secretion. HLA-subtyping and screening of relevant polymorphisms of clozapine metabolizing enzyme systems was performed in patients with clozapine-induced agranulocytosis (CA). * HPA-alterations as a function of cortisol-and ACTH serum concentration appear as state- and residual marker of depression. CSF-CRH, -AVP and -SOM do not fulfill marker criteria * HGH blunting may serve as a residual marker of alcoholism with poor clinical outcome * HLA alleles but not polymorphisms of clozapine metabolizing enzyme systems are associated with CA and thus, underline the importance of imunogenetic mechanisms in the pathophysiology of this idiosyncratic drug reaction. In conclusion, the importance of biological markers for psychiatric research and future directions are discussed

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O transtorno obsessivo-compulsivo (TOC) é um transtorno psiquiátrico que acomete cerca de 1 a 3,1% das pessoas ao longo da vida. Embora o seu modelo neurobiológico ainda não esteja completamente estabelecido, inúmeras evidências apontam para áreas relacionadas ao circuito córtico-estriado-pálido-talâmico-cortical (CEPTC). Em especial, o córtex órbito-frontal (COF) é uma região que desempenha um papel fundamental dentro da hipótese fisiopatológica do TOC. Paralelamente, esta região já foi associada, em sujeitos saudáveis, com a habilidade de utilização espontânea da estratégia de agrupamento semântico na memorização de palavras - o que facilita sua evocação posterior. Ao mesmo tempo, estudos neuropsicológicos evidenciaram que pacientes com TOC apresentam déficits na memória episódica verbal (MEV) e que tais déficits poderiam ser mediados por dificuldades em funções executivas ligadas ao planejamento, como utilização de estratégias. Portanto, para testar a hipótese de que há diferenças no correlato neural da codificação da MEV entre pacientes com TOC e controles saudáveis, foi utilizado um teste neuropsicológico adaptado para ressonância magnética funcional (RMf): o paradigma tinha apresentação em bloco. O objetivo do presente estudo foi investigar a etapa de codificação da MEV e a capacidade de agrupamento semântico espontâneo em crianças e adolescentes com TOC. Assim, o paradigma foi constituído por duas listas de palavras: uma, semanticamente relacionada (SR), na qual as palavras eram divididas em categorias semânticas e outra, não relacionada (NR), na qual não havia relação aparente entre as palavras. O contraste de maior interesse do estudo foi a diferença entre essas duas condições (SR > NR). O nível de agrupamento semântico foi quantificado por um índice semântico. Os grupos foram formados por 25 crianças e adolescentes com TOC e 25 controles saudáveis, pareados por sexo, idade, escolaridade, preferência manual e QI. Embora os grupos estivessem pareados por essas características, eles se diferiram em sintomas clínicos, tais como sintomas de depressão, ansiedade e necessidade de rotina por parte da criança/adolescente. Os resultados comportamentais do teste de MEV mostraram que os grupos não se diferenciaram: ambos evocaram a mesma quantidade de palavras e não apresentaram diferenças no índice semântico. Apesar disso, a comparação entre os grupos - controlada para variáveis clínicas - revelou menor ativação (sinal BOLD) nos pacientes em diversas regiões cerebrais: frontais, parietais e occipito-temporais. Por outro lado, a análise de interação psicofisiológica (PPI) revelou que os pacientes apresentaram um aumento da conectividade do COF com regiões temporais em relação aos controles. Isso ocorreu para três das quatro regiões de interesse que foram posicionadas no COF: lateral e medial de ambos os hemisférios. Além disso, o grupo de pacientes apresentou uma correlação positiva entre o índice semântico e o efeito BOLD no COF, o que não ocorreu para o grupo controle. Esses resultados indicam diferenças no funcionamento cerebral de crianças e adolescentes com TOC tanto em regiões que estão dentro do modelo neurobiológico proposto para o TOC (circuito CEPTC), como fora dele também. De acordo com os resultados do presente estudo, as diferenças de ativação e de conectividade poderiam ser consideradas como um déficit latente, uma vez que ambos os grupos apresentaram o mesmo desempenho no paradigma / The obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric disorder that affects 1-3.1% of the general population (lifetime rate). Although its neurobiological model has not been completely establish, numerous evidences indicate that areas of the cortico-striatalpale- thalamic-cortical (CSPTC) circuit are engaged in the disease. In particular, the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is a region that plays a key role in the pathophysiological hypothesis of OCD. In parallel to this, in healthy controls this region has been associated with the ability of using spontaneous strategies of semantic clustering at the encoding of related words - in a way that facilitates the posterior retrieval of these words. At the same time, neuropsychological studies showed that OCD patients present verbal episodic memory (VEM) deficits, and that these deficits could be mediated by executive dysfunction - like planing and utilization of strategies. Thus, to investigate the hypothesis that there are differences at the neural correlates of VEM encoding between children and adolescents with OCD and healthy controls, we used a blocked design functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) paradigm to evaluate both groups. The main objective of the study was to investigate the VEM encoding and the ability to spontaneously organize words according to their semantic categories. In order to do this, the fMRI paradigm consisted of two kinds of word lists: a semantically related list (SR), in which words were divided into semantic categories and a unrelated list (UR), were there was no apparent relationship between the words. However, the contrast of most interest of this study, was the difference between the conditions (\'SR > UR\'). The semantic clustering level was quantified by a semantic clustering index. Groups were constituted by 25 children and adolescents with OCD and 25 healthy controls paired by gender, age, educational level, handedness and IQ. Although both groups were matched for these characteristics, they differed in clinical symptoms such as depression, anxiety and routines. Behavioral results showed that the groups were similar in terms of retrieved words and semantic index. Nevertheless, the comparison between groups - controlled for clinical variables - showed less activation (BOLD signal) in patients in several brain regions: frontal, parietal and occipito-temporal. On the other hand, the psychophysiological interaction analysis (PPI) revealed that patients have had an increase in the OFC connectivity with the temporal regions. This has occurred in three of the four regions of interest that were placed in the OFC: lateral and medial of both hemispheres. Also, the patients showed a positive correlation between the semantic index and the BOLD effect in the OFC, which was not observed in the control group. These results suggest that there are differences in brain functioning of children and adolescents with OCD in regions that are inside/outside of the neurobiological model for OCD (CSPTC circuit). In accordance with the present results, these differences in brain activation and connectivity could be regarded as a latent deficit, since both groups presented the same behavioral performance

O transtorno obsessivo-compulsivo (TOC) é um transtorno psiquiátrico que acomete cerca de 1 a 3,1% das pessoas ao longo da vida. Embora o seu modelo neurobiológico ainda não esteja completamente estabelecido, inúmeras evidências apontam para áreas relacionadas ao circuito córtico-estriado-pálido-talâmico-cortical (CEPTC). Em especial, o córtex órbito-frontal (COF) é uma região que desempenha um papel fundamental dentro da hipótese fisiopatológica do TOC. Paralelamente, esta região já foi associada, em sujeitos saudáveis, com a habilidade de utilização espontânea da estratégia de agrupamento semântico na memorização de palavras - o que facilita sua evocação posterior. Ao mesmo tempo, estudos neuropsicológicos evidenciaram que pacientes com TOC apresentam déficits na memória episódica verbal (MEV) e que tais déficits poderiam ser mediados por dificuldades em funções executivas ligadas ao planejamento, como utilização de estratégias. Portanto, para testar a hipótese de que há diferenças no correlato neural da codificação da MEV entre pacientes com TOC e controles saudáveis, foi utilizado um teste neuropsicológico adaptado para ressonância magnética funcional (RMf): o paradigma tinha apresentação em bloco. O objetivo do presente estudo foi investigar a etapa de codificação da MEV e a capacidade de agrupamento semântico espontâneo em crianças e adolescentes com TOC. Assim, o paradigma foi constituído por duas listas de palavras: uma, semanticamente relacionada (SR), na qual as palavras eram divididas em categorias semânticas e outra, não relacionada (NR), na qual não havia relação aparente entre as palavras. O contraste de maior interesse do estudo foi a diferença entre essas duas condições (SR > NR). O nível de agrupamento semântico foi quantificado por um índice semântico. Os grupos foram formados por 25 crianças e adolescentes com TOC e 25 controles saudáveis, pareados por sexo, idade, escolaridade, preferência manual e QI. Embora os grupos estivessem pareados por essas características, eles se diferiram em sintomas clínicos, tais como sintomas de depressão, ansiedade e necessidade de rotina por parte da criança/adolescente. Os resultados comportamentais do teste de MEV mostraram que os grupos não se diferenciaram: ambos evocaram a mesma quantidade de palavras e não apresentaram diferenças no índice semântico. Apesar disso, a comparação entre os grupos - controlada para variáveis clínicas - revelou menor ativação (sinal BOLD) nos pacientes em diversas regiões cerebrais: frontais, parietais e occipito-temporais. Por outro lado, a análise de interação psicofisiológica (PPI) revelou que os pacientes apresentaram um aumento da conectividade do COF com regiões temporais em relação aos controles. Isso ocorreu para três das quatro regiões de interesse que foram posicionadas no COF: lateral e medial de ambos os hemisférios. Além disso, o grupo de pacientes apresentou uma correlação positiva entre o índice semântico e o efeito BOLD no COF, o que não ocorreu para o grupo controle. Esses resultados indicam diferenças no funcionamento cerebral de crianças e adolescentes com TOC tanto em regiões que estão dentro do modelo neurobiológico proposto para o TOC (circuito CEPTC), como fora dele também. De acordo com os resultados do presente estudo, as diferenças de ativação e de conectividade poderiam ser consideradas como um déficit latente, uma vez que ambos os grupos apresentaram o mesmo desempenho no paradigma / The obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric disorder that affects 1-3.1% of the general population (lifetime rate). Although its neurobiological model has not been completely establish, numerous evidences indicate that areas of the cortico-striatalpale- thalamic-cortical (CSPTC) circuit are engaged in the disease. In particular, the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is a region that plays a key role in the pathophysiological hypothesis of OCD. In parallel to this, in healthy controls this region has been associated with the ability of using spontaneous strategies of semantic clustering at the encoding of related words - in a way that facilitates the posterior retrieval of these words. At the same time, neuropsychological studies showed that OCD patients present verbal episodic memory (VEM) deficits, and that these deficits could be mediated by executive dysfunction - like planing and utilization of strategies. Thus, to investigate the hypothesis that there are differences at the neural correlates of VEM encoding between children and adolescents with OCD and healthy controls, we used a blocked design functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) paradigm to evaluate both groups. The main objective of the study was to investigate the VEM encoding and the ability to spontaneously organize words according to their semantic categories. In order to do this, the fMRI paradigm consisted of two kinds of word lists: a semantically related list (SR), in which words were divided into semantic categories and a unrelated list (UR), were there was no apparent relationship between the words. However, the contrast of most interest of this study, was the difference between the conditions (\'SR > UR\'). The semantic clustering level was quantified by a semantic clustering index. Groups were constituted by 25 children and adolescents with OCD and 25 healthy controls paired by gender, age, educational level, handedness and IQ. Although both groups were matched for these characteristics, they differed in clinical symptoms such as depression, anxiety and routines. Behavioral results showed that the groups were similar in terms of retrieved words and semantic index. Nevertheless, the comparison between groups - controlled for clinical variables - showed less activation (BOLD signal) in patients in several brain regions: frontal, parietal and occipito-temporal. On the other hand, the psychophysiological interaction analysis (PPI) revealed that patients have had an increase in the OFC connectivity with the temporal regions. This has occurred in three of the four regions of interest that were placed in the OFC: lateral and medial of both hemispheres. Also, the patients showed a positive correlation between the semantic index and the BOLD effect in the OFC, which was not observed in the control group. These results suggest that there are differences in brain functioning of children and adolescents with OCD in regions that are inside/outside of the neurobiological model for OCD (CSPTC circuit). In accordance with the present results, these differences in brain activation and connectivity could be regarded as a latent deficit, since both groups presented the same behavioral performance