Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Psychology, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-74).

This dissertation examines recurrent patterns in the interaction between psychiatric patients and the systems of knowledge and power that constitute them as patients. These patterns are traced both in the historical migmti::m of patients into and out of the asylum, and in the language used by doctors and patients to account for such migration. Transcripts of interviews with patients and case notes written by doctors are subjected to new forms of quantitative analysis and this is used together with qualitative interpretation to reveal the ways in which disciplinary power operates through confession and surveillance to constitute psychiatric subjects in the tension between freedom and incarceration. / Psychology / D.Litt. et Phil. (Psychology)

published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Work

The problem with which this study is concerned is that of ascertaining the effects of intensive Remotivation Techniques on institutionalized geriatric mental patients in terms of their ward behavior, self-concept, and visual-motor perceptions and to compare these with the effects of a similar group experience that does not emphasize patient-staff or patient-patient interactions, and a third group which acts a a control. The investigation is designed to answer or obtain information concerning the following questions: (1) Do institutionalized geriatric mental patients in a state mental hospital manifest measurable changes in terms of their (A) ward behavior as defined as raw scores on the Hospital tment Scale (including interpersonal communication and interpersonal relations; self care and social responsibility; level of participation in ward activities, recreation and work therapy; total score), (B) self-concept as defined as Goodenough raw scores on the Draw-a-Person Test, and (C) awareness of environment as defined as Pascal and Suttell raw scores on the Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test, as a result of experiencing the social and verbal interactions of intensive Remotivation Techniques? (2) Is the Remotivation Technique more effective in producing these changes than a similar group experience that does not emphasize social and verbal interactions?

Depuis les travaux de Pinel à la fin du XVIIIème, l'orientation du malade mental criminel s'est faite dans la recherche d'un juste équilibre entre soin et peine, plaçant l'expertise psychiatrique pénale au centre du dispositif judiciaire. Ces dernières années, de nombreuses critiques ont émergé à l'encontre de l'expert psychiatre et de l'institution psychiatrique, tandis que de nouvelles préoccupations sécuritaires envahissaient nos sociétés. Dès lors, la tentation de criminaliser le malade mental, marqué du sceau de la dangerosité, grandit, tandis que l'article 122-1 révèle davantage l'ambiguïté de son second alinéa. Afin de mieux appréhender cette population de malades mentaux criminels, cette thèse s'articule sur deux démarches complémentaires. L'une détermine le cadre socio-historique de la recherche, l'autre est une étude descriptive rétrospective sur l'application de l'article 122-1 second alinéa. L'analyse des résultats à l'aune de cette double lecture permet de tracer plusieurs pistes de réflexions pour une réactualisation intégrative dynamique et cohérente de l'articulation santé-justice. / Since the works of Pinel, The orientation of the criminal mentally ill person was made in the search for a just balance between care and punishment, placing the penal psychiatric expertise in the center of the judicial device. These last years, numerous criticisms appeared against the expert psychiatrist and from the psychiatric institution, whereas new security concerns invaded our societies. From then on, the temptation to criminalize the mentally ill person, marked with the seal of the dangerosité, grows , whereas the article 122-1 reveals more the ambiguity of its second paragraph. To dread better this population of criminal mental patients, this thesis articulates on two additional steps. The one determines the socio-historic frame of the research, the other one is a retrospective descriptive study on the application of the article 122-1 second paragraph. The analysis of the results in the alder of this double reading allows to emit several tracks of reflections for an updating dynamic and coherent intégrative of the articulation health-justice.

M.A. / Hubley (1990) notes that Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a relatively recently recognized disease. It is caused by infection with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which attacks selected cells in the immune system and produces defects in functioning. These defects may not be apparent for years. They lead, however, to a severe suppression of the immune system's ability to resist harmful organisms. This leaves the body open to an invasion by various infections, which are therefore called opportunistic diseases, and to the development of unusual cancers. The virus also tends to reach certain brain cells. This leads to so-called neuropsychiatric abnormalities or psychological disturbances caused by physical damage to nerve cells. Many of those infected with HIV may not even be aware that they carry and can spread the virus. Combating it is a major challenge to biomedical scientists and health-care providers. HIV infection and AIDS occur among the most pressing public policy and public health problems world-wide. Since the first HIV/AIDS cases have been reported in 1981, through mid-1993, more than 600 cases were reported in South Africa. This is only the tip of the iceberg of HIV/AIDS infection as it was estimated that between 2 and 2.5 million South Africans had been infected with the virus through the early 1990s but not yet developed the clinical symptoms. In terms of the historical data from previous surveys (ie. the results of the 1996 survey) in South Africa confirmed the trend of a growing HIV/AIDS epidemic. HIV infection has increased in all provinces, but Kwa-Zulu Natal and Mpumalanga had the highest HIV prevalence rates of 18,23% compared to 1994's '14,35% and 16-18%, compared to 12-16% respectively (see table 1).. Of particular concern are the pregnant women in South Africa under twenty years where a prevalence of 12,78% has been found. Thirty per cent of babies born to HIV positive women in South Africa are infected. Of the 3638 births in VVitbank — a rather small town in Mpumalanga-.Province — in 1996, 219 of the women were tested HIV positive (Masiphile Vol. 1: 1997).