Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Esta dissertação propõe investigar o sintoma anoréxico na estrutura neurótica como um sintoma contemporâneo em consequência da baixa operatividade da função paterna e da incidência avassaladora do Desejo Materno. A pesquisa foi iniciada por um levantamento histórico-bibliográfico do jejum e da recusa alimentar ao longo da história, até o estabelecimento da anorexia como uma psicopatologia. Para dar sustentação ao eixo central desta Dissertação, a pesquisa explora o conceito de pai na Obra de Freud e no ensino de Lacan, investigando a baixa operatividade desta função e seus efeitos na formação do sintoma. O conceito de pulsão é explorado com o objetivo de compreender a anorexia como uma invasão pulsional no corpo decorrente da precária sustentação da armadura simbólica que a lei paterna insere. Deste modo, esta Dissertação expõe duas hipóteses centrais: a anorexia como uma manobra de separação, operação que a função paterna não inscreve devidamente e desta forma um recurso diante da hegemonia materna; e a anorexia como estragos que apontam a invasão da mortífera pulsão no corpo, decorrentes da presença avassaladora do Outro materno e da inconsistência da função paterna / The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the anorexic symptom in the neurotic structure as a contemporary symptom resulting from the low operatibility of the paternal role and the overwhelming incidence of the Maternal Desire. The research was initiated by a historical-bibliographical survey of fasting and food refusing throughout history, until the establishment of anorexia as a psychopathology. Giving support to the control axis of this thesis, the research explores the father concept in the work of Freud and Lacans teaching, investigating the low operability of this function and its effects on symptom formation. The drive concept is explored in order to understand anorexia as an encroachment drive in the body due to the precarious support of the symbolic armor that the paternal law inserts. Thus, this thesis exposes two central hypotheses: anorexia as a separation ploy, an operation that the paternal function does not fulfil properly and, therefore, is not an appeal in the face of maternal hegemony, and anorexia as damages that point the invasion of deadly drive in the body, arising from the overwhelming presence of the Maternal Other and of the inconsistency of the paternal function

The aim of this study was to examine the use of animals in the therapy of neurotic disorders under the settings of mental hospitals. First part of this work desribes neurotic disorders and their therapy with a particular emphasis on AAT (Anima-Assisted-Therapy, pet therapy) and its subdivisions (hippotherapy, canistherapy, etc.) Principals of AAT are explained. Further, contraindications and possible risks are mentioned and the inherent possibility of animal misuse is discussed. The theses include basic guidelines and methods used in AAT and concludes with practical observations made by psychotherapists from the Czech mental hospitals.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a new clinical treatment shown to be effective for victims of trauma. EMDR is a time efficient, comprehensive methodology backed by positive, controlled research, for the treatment of disturbing experiences that underlie many pathologies. An eight phase treatment approach that includes using eye movements or other left-right stimulation, EMDR helps victims of trauma reprocess disturbing thoughts and memories. The purpose of this research project was to describe and explore the utilization of EMDR by licensed clinical social workers who were registered as members of the National Association of Social Workers.

This study investigates the relationship between traumatic events and PTSD among police officers in KwaZulu-Natal and the mediating effects of coping and social support. The aim of the study was to determine the incidence of PTSD among police officers and whether coping and social support structures act as mediating variables in the stress-illness realtionship. In order to achieve this aim an assessment battery containing Biographical Checklist, the Ways of Coping Checklist, The Index of Social Support and the Dutch Post Traumatic Stress Scale was distributed to a sample of police officers in Kwazulu-Natal. The findings indicate a high incidence of PTSD, among policemen although no significant relationship was found between exposure to traumatic events and PTSD. Further, emotion­ focused coping strategies, namely, self-blame and wishful thinking, were found to be predictive of PTSD. No significant relationship was established between the availability of social support and satisfaction with social support and PTSD. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / M.A. (Industrial Psychology)

This thesis explores some aspects of the cultural history of the railway during the latter half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. It argues that the railway was of central importance in creating and shaping Victorian attitudes to the machine and to mechanized civilization in a world increasingly dominated by large scale-technologies. In particular, it explores the significance of negative responses to the railway - fear, anxiety, nervousness, alarm, revulsion - in influencing a range of social, cultural and medical responses to the perceived degenerative threat of technological civilization. The four chapters of the thesis are organized so as to provide a progressive tightening of focus on particular aspects of the railway's significance in this context. The first, most wide-ranging, chapter explores the ways in which the Victorian railway was perceived as both an icon of progress and civilization and as a disruptive, threatening, destructive force. In particular, it seeks to establish the deep-rooted, enduring and influential nature of the fear and anxiety which the railway provoked. The second chapter is concerned with the railway journey as an experience, relating the ambivalence with which the railway was viewed to the journey as a sensory, physical and mental experience. The third chapter focuses on the accident as the most dramatic instance of the dangers of the railway, and relates its significance in contemporary culture to the wider context of the fears provoked by increasingly powerful and potentially destructive technologies. The fourth and final chapter explores the phenomenon of 'railway spine', the obscure nervous condition supposedly suffered by railway accident victims who had seemingly received no actual organic injury, but nonetheless displayed nervous, mental and physical symptoms of serious bodily disorder.

This study investigates the relationship between traumatic events and PTSD among police officers in KwaZulu-Natal and the mediating effects of coping and social support. The aim of the study was to determine the incidence of PTSD among police officers and whether coping and social support structures act as mediating variables in the stress-illness realtionship. In order to achieve this aim an assessment battery containing Biographical Checklist, the Ways of Coping Checklist, The Index of Social Support and the Dutch Post Traumatic Stress Scale was distributed to a sample of police officers in Kwazulu-Natal. The findings indicate a high incidence of PTSD, among policemen although no significant relationship was found between exposure to traumatic events and PTSD. Further, emotion­ focused coping strategies, namely, self-blame and wishful thinking, were found to be predictive of PTSD. No significant relationship was established between the availability of social support and satisfaction with social support and PTSD. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / M.A. (Industrial Psychology)

CARVALHO , Evelyn Benevides. O papel do pai na fobia e na neurose obsessiva: o Pequeno Hans e o Homem dos ratos em Freud e em Lacan. 2006. 151f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Psicologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Psicologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2006. / Submitted by moises gomes (celtinha_malvado@hotmail.com) on 2012-01-06T12:20:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2006_dis_EBCarvalho.PDF: 814361 bytes, checksum: 6f41d2cdad2649e2a1c4668261af9ca7 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-03-08T15:03:08Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2006_dis_EBCarvalho.PDF: 814361 bytes, checksum: 6f41d2cdad2649e2a1c4668261af9ca7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-03-08T15:03:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2006_dis_EBCarvalho.PDF: 814361 bytes, checksum: 6f41d2cdad2649e2a1c4668261af9ca7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-11-24 / This work aims at thinking upon the actions of the father (here understood as father in reality) in his possible contribution in leading the son to an obsessive neurosis or phobia from the relationships that happen in the context of the Oedipal triangulation. As neurosis is a defense strategy in face of castration, which particularities in the desiring relationships could lead to one typical form of defense or another? If the obsessive conflict unfolds eminently in the level of thought and the phobic in the level of reality (in the relationship with the phobic object), what could generate this difference? Aiming at clarifying some aspects of the role of the real father in structuring the child’s neurosis, it is necessary to observe the very development of the paternal function in its real, symbolic and imaginary levels; the relationship of the father with several other elements of the family’s dynamics: the desiring dynamics in the parental couple, the way that each of them relates to the law, the elements that interfere in those relationships, how the circulation of the phallus takes place in each case, among others. We have decided to carry out a bibliographical research and selected the clinical cases ‘Little Hans’ and ‘Rat Man’ as the fundamental basis of our discussion, as we believe that the analysis of what is most particular can unveil universal aspects of each structure. Furthermore, we start from the principle that the Freudian text is not exhausted in its possibilities of surprising us and offering new questions. We utilize the Lacanian contribution (in an initial moment of his teachings) and another reading of those clinical cases. Authors such as Jerusalinsk, Julien, Dor, Ambertín, Gazzola, Melman, among others, are also summoned to enrich our discussion. We investigate the similarities and the differences in the way that the father, in each case, has performed his function, which is dual: restrainer and model of identification, as well as his possible consequences on the subject, the subject’s way of dealing with desire and castration. In phobia, to delimitate and allay the anguish, the subject needs to resort to the phobic object as a supplement to the paternal function that appears in an insufficient form in the relationship mother-son. This object comes to provide limits to the subject’s world, to demarcate points of danger and to serve as support to a series of symbolic-imaginary elaborations which can render possible a meaningful change, as in Hans’ case, in which there was an analytical intervention. In the obsessive neurosis, there is a subject tormented by recurring thoughts and driven to rituals as attempts of protection in face of danger, permanently in conflict with the phallic instance, oscillating between the wish of transgressing it and the devoted submission. A law that, for the obsessive has become difficult to elaborate, perhaps because it has been put in excessive or ambiguous way in the desiring context of the child. In the obsessive, the passage from the ‘being’ to the ‘having’ becomes more problematic due to the message of maternal dissatisfaction in relation to the husband. That makes it difficult to the subject to give up on his imaginary phallic identification, while at the same time he recognizes the existence and fears the instance of the law. As to the phobic, it can be that he has been more at the mercy of maternal desire, without a third instance to protect him of the risk of annihilation. ‘Killing (the father) or dying’ is the obsessive’s impasse. ‘Escaping (the maternal pleasure) is the phobic’s effort. This way, we attempt to bring our contributions, to recognize paradox and leave unanswered some questions that arise along the process and that can serve as a starting point to future research. / Este trabalho tem como objetivo pensar a atuação do pai (entendido, aqui, como pai da realidade), em sua possível contribuição ao encaminhamento do filho para uma neurose obsessiva ou fobia, a partir da relações que acontecem no contexto da triangulação edipiana. Sendo a neurose uma estratégia de defesa frente à castração, que particularidades nas relações desejantes poderiam conduzir a uma ou outra forma típica de defesa? Se a conflitiva obsessiva desenrola-se eminentemente no plano do pensamento; e a fóbica, no plano da realidade (na relação com o objeto fóbico), o que poderia gerar esta diferença? Visando esclarecer alguns aspectos acerca do papel do pai real na estruturação da neurose da criança, é necessário observar o próprio desdobramento da função paterna em seus níveis real, simbólico e imaginário; a relação do pai com diversos outros elementos da dinâmica familiar: a dinâmica desejante no casal parental, a forma como cada um de relaciona com a lei, os elementos que interferem nestas relações, como se dá a circulação do falo em cada caso, dentre outros. Optamos por uma pesquisa bibliográfica e elegemos os casos clínicos ‘Pequeno Hans’ e ‘Homem dos Ratos’ como base primordial de nossa discussão, pois acreditamos que a análise do que é mais particular pode revelar aspectos universais de cada estrutura. Além disso, partimos do princípio de que o texto freudiano não está esgotado em suas possibilidades de nos surpreender e oferecer novos questionamentos. Utilizamos a contribuição lacaniana (em um momento inicial de seu ensino) e sua releitura destes casos clínicos. Autores como Jerusalinsk, Julien, Dor, Ambertín, Gazzola, Melman, dentre outros, também são convocados a enriquecer nossa discussão. Investigamos as semelhanças e diferenças na forma como o pai, em cada caso, cumpriu sua função que é dupla: interditor e modelo de identificação, assim como suas possíveis conseqüências sobre o sujeito, a forma deste lidar com o desejo e a castração. Na fobia, para delimitar e apaziguar a angústia, o sujeito precisa lançar mão do objeto fóbico como suplência para a função paterna que comparece de forma insuficiente na relação mãe-filho. Este objeto vem fornecer limites ao mundo do sujeito, demarcar pontos de perigo e servir de suporte a uma série de elaborações simbólico-imaginárias que podem possibilitar um remanejamento significante, como no caso de Hans em que houve uma intervenção analítica. Na neurose obsessiva, observa-se um sujeito atormentado por pensamentos recorrentes e impelido a rituais como tentativas de proteção frente ao perigo, eternamente em conflito com a instância fálica, oscilando entre o desejo de transgredi-la e a submissão fervorosa. Lei que, para o obsessivo ficou difícil de elaborar, talvez por ter sido colocada de forma excessiva ou ambígua no contexto desejante da criança. No obsessivo, a passagem do ‘ser’ ao ‘ter’ torna-se mais problemática pela mensagem de insatisfação materna em relação ao marido. Isto dificulta o sujeito abrir mão de sua identificação fálica imaginária, ao mesmo tempo em que reconhece a existência e teme a instância da lei. Já o fóbico, pode ter ficado mais a mercê do desejo materno, sem uma instância terceira que o proteja do risco de aniquilamento. ‘Matar (o pai) ou morrer’ é o impasse do obsessivo. ‘Escapar (do gozo materno)’ é o esforço do fóbico. Desta forma, buscamos trazer nossas contribuições, reconhecer paradoxos e deixar em aberto algumas perguntas que se abrem ao longo do processo e que podem servir como ponto de partida para futuras pesquisas.

The purpose of the study was to explore the relationship between WFC and stress with Conscientiousness which is part of the Big Five personality Traits Model in moderation. The study was undertaken in the South African Police Service members in Alice town in the Eastern Cape. The study was based on a sample size of eighty four (n=84) out of 134 (N=134) police officers. A simple convenient random sample was used to sample participants. With the use of descriptive, correlation and inferential statistics the finding revealed instead that Conscientiousness has no significant relationship with WFC at (r= 0.02792, p= 0.8022) also Conscientiousness had no significant relationship with stress at (r= -0.04465, p= 0.6885). Overall, after separating the group according to those that scored low and those that scored high on conscientiousness scale, the study found the group low in conscientiousness not significantly correlated with WFC and stress (r= -0.02263, p= 0.9414). and the group with a high conscientiousness the study revealed a high significant relationship for police officers that scored high on Conscientiousness at (r= 0.40119, p< 0.00). The group low in conscientiousness has no correlation between WFC and stress thus different values of conscientiousness cause a change in the relationship between WFC and stress. Thus those who are low in conscientiousness do not have a relationship between WFC and stress. A call is made to the SAPS as an institution to consider prioritizing personality trait particularly applicants that score low on conscientiousness personality test during recruitment and selection of new police officers to avoid the outcomes associated with the nature of police work.

Focusing on Sweden between 1950 and 1980, this doctoral dissertation analyzes and problematizes the process in which a discourse about neurosis and nervous troubles gradually evolved into a discourse about stress. The thesis aims to show how the medical and general discussion about diffuse or vague symptoms transformed and rearticulated ideas and views on society and man, citizenship, gender roles, and medicine. It shows how the discourse on neuroses tended to locate sickness and deviance in the individual, whereas its subsequent transformation into a discourse on stress located the pathological in an external, societal sphere. A particularly prominent issue in the study concerns the role that gender, and in particular female gender, has played in these discourses, and how the place of the feminine can be understood in relation to stress and neuroses. The dissertation shows that female gender was not central to the discourse on neuroses and stress  during the studied period. On the contrary, gender was subordinated to ideas about man and citizenship within the greater context of society and culture. The dissertation takes its starting point in the Swedish 1950’s, often characterized as the era of ”The Strong Society” or ”The People’s Home”. During this period, the neurosis discourse was fixed and remained unchanged. In practice, neurosis was a diagnosis that provided such symptoms that were otherwise difficult to measure and assess with a theory of origin. Neuroses were believed to principally affect a certain category of individuals, who, due to their constitution or disposition, were held to be particularly susceptible to neurotic sufferings. During the 1960s the belief in The Strong Society and its notion of ideal citizenship began to crumble. It was against this background that the Swedish medical profession started discussing ”stress”. Stress, in contrast, could afflict anyone and everyone, according to “the father of stress” Hans Selye and Swedish stress researchers. Stress was assumed to be a potential cause of ”nervous troubles” and disease, but was never considered to be a disease in itself. The concept of the individual as a citizen now gave way for the notion of the individual as a primarily biological organism. Within the stress discourse in the 1960s, the primacy of the universal normal (male) man was a recurring focal point. In the 1970s, the stress researchers distanced themselves from Selyes’ concept of stress by focusing on individual factors. In the discussion about stress during the 1970s, the ”constitutionally weak” individual of the 1950s and the biological organism of the 1960s blended into a hybrid construction of a unique, biological individual.

Doctorat en sciences psychologiques / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished