A hist,,ria da psiquiatria vem despertando maior interesse nos ...ltimos anos. Contudo, ainda h+ grande escassez de informaEUROEes a respeito da hist,,ria desta +rea da medicina, o que , fundamental para uma melhor compreenso das transformaEUROEes do pensamento m,dico-psiqui+trico em nosso meio. O conhecimento profundo dos conceitos relativos <s tradiEUROEes, mudanEURas e perman?ncias do passado , essencial para o adequado entendimento do presente e progn,,stico do futuro da especialidade. Torna-se relevante, para nos situarmos nos dias atuais, conhecer a hist,,ria dos conceitos e da pr+tica m,dica da psiquiatria no Brasil, focando o contexto hist,,rico, os movimentos pol?ticos e poss?veis influ?ncias externas < nossa cultura que interferiram, ao longo do tempo, para que a psiquiatria se apresentasse como tal nos dias atuais. O presente trabalho objetivou delinear a concepEURo m,dico-psiqui+trica entre as d,cadas de 1920 a 1950 sobre os transtornos mentais e seus tratamentos no estado de So Paulo, al,m de enfatizar sua poss?vel influ?ncia sobre o pensamento m,dico-psiqui+trico atual. Foi utilizada a metodologia qualitativa, integrando duas +reas diferentes do conhecimento, a Psiquiatria e a Hist,,ria. Trata-se de m,todo adequado, por incorporar significados e intenEUROEes aos atos, <s relaEUROEes e <s estruturas sociais. A produEURo dos dados se deu atrav,s do levantamento e an+lise de documentos hist,,ricos, produzidos entre as d,cadas de 1920 a 1950, acerca da formaEURo da disciplina e c+tedra de Psiquiatria da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de So Paulo (FMUSP), da formaEURo da Liga Paulista de Higiene Mental, subordinada < Liga Brasileira de Higiene Mental (LBHM), da formaEURo e atuaEURo da InstituiEURo de Assist?ncia Social ao Psicopata do Estado de So Paulo, da vida institucional do Hospital do Juquery, e da concepEURo e in?cio das atividades do Instituto de Psiquiatria (IPq) do Hospital das Cl?nicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de So Paulo. Conclui-se que o pensamento acerca da saúde mental em São Paulo, no período delimitado pelo estudo, se constituiu a partir de grande influência de outras áreas do conhecimento, determinando os rumos da psiquiatria como especialidade médica em nosso meio / The history of psychiatry has been arising higher interest in the last years. However, there is still a great scarcity of information regarding the history of this field of medicine, which is fundamental for a better understanding of the transformations of the psychiatric medical thought in our milieu. It is essential a profound knowledge of the concepts related to the traditions, changes and permanences of the past for the adequate understanding of the specialty\'s present and the prognosis for its future. It is relevant, in order to be situated in the current days, to know psychiatry\'s history of concepts and medical practice in Brazil, by focusing the historical context, the political movements and the possible influences that are external to our culture, which have interfered, along the time, for psychiatry to present as such in the current days. The current work aimed at delineating the medical-psychiatric conception between the decades of 1920 and 1950 about the mental disorders and their treatments in the state of So Paulo, besides emphasizing its possible influences over the medical-psychiatric thought of our days. It was used the qualitative methodology, by integrating two different areas of knowledge, Psychiatry and History. It is an appropriate method to incorporating meanings and intentions to social acts, relations and structures. The data production was accomplished by the survey and analysis of historical documents produced in the decades of 1920 up to 1950 about the formation of the discipline and the cathedra of Psychiatry of the Medical School of the University of So Paulo (FMUSP), the formation of the So Paulo League of Mental Hygiene, subordinated to the Brazilian League of Mental Hygiene (LBHM), of the formation and action of the Institution of Social Assistance to Psychopaths of the State of So Paulo, of the institutional life of the Juquery Hospital, and of the conception and beginning of the activities of the Institute of Psychiatry (IPq) of the Clinical Hospital of the Medical School of the University of So Paulo. We conclude that the thought about mental health in São Paulo, within the period delimited by the study, was constituted based on great influence of other fields of knowledge determining the directions of psychiatry as a medical specialty in our milieu

A hist,,ria da psiquiatria vem despertando maior interesse nos ...ltimos anos. Contudo, ainda h+ grande escassez de informaEUROEes a respeito da hist,,ria desta +rea da medicina, o que , fundamental para uma melhor compreenso das transformaEUROEes do pensamento m,dico-psiqui+trico em nosso meio. O conhecimento profundo dos conceitos relativos <s tradiEUROEes, mudanEURas e perman?ncias do passado , essencial para o adequado entendimento do presente e progn,,stico do futuro da especialidade. Torna-se relevante, para nos situarmos nos dias atuais, conhecer a hist,,ria dos conceitos e da pr+tica m,dica da psiquiatria no Brasil, focando o contexto hist,,rico, os movimentos pol?ticos e poss?veis influ?ncias externas < nossa cultura que interferiram, ao longo do tempo, para que a psiquiatria se apresentasse como tal nos dias atuais. O presente trabalho objetivou delinear a concepEURo m,dico-psiqui+trica entre as d,cadas de 1920 a 1950 sobre os transtornos mentais e seus tratamentos no estado de So Paulo, al,m de enfatizar sua poss?vel influ?ncia sobre o pensamento m,dico-psiqui+trico atual. Foi utilizada a metodologia qualitativa, integrando duas +reas diferentes do conhecimento, a Psiquiatria e a Hist,,ria. Trata-se de m,todo adequado, por incorporar significados e intenEUROEes aos atos, <s relaEUROEes e <s estruturas sociais. A produEURo dos dados se deu atrav,s do levantamento e an+lise de documentos hist,,ricos, produzidos entre as d,cadas de 1920 a 1950, acerca da formaEURo da disciplina e c+tedra de Psiquiatria da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de So Paulo (FMUSP), da formaEURo da Liga Paulista de Higiene Mental, subordinada < Liga Brasileira de Higiene Mental (LBHM), da formaEURo e atuaEURo da InstituiEURo de Assist?ncia Social ao Psicopata do Estado de So Paulo, da vida institucional do Hospital do Juquery, e da concepEURo e in?cio das atividades do Instituto de Psiquiatria (IPq) do Hospital das Cl?nicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de So Paulo. Conclui-se que o pensamento acerca da saúde mental em São Paulo, no período delimitado pelo estudo, se constituiu a partir de grande influência de outras áreas do conhecimento, determinando os rumos da psiquiatria como especialidade médica em nosso meio / The history of psychiatry has been arising higher interest in the last years. However, there is still a great scarcity of information regarding the history of this field of medicine, which is fundamental for a better understanding of the transformations of the psychiatric medical thought in our milieu. It is essential a profound knowledge of the concepts related to the traditions, changes and permanences of the past for the adequate understanding of the specialty\'s present and the prognosis for its future. It is relevant, in order to be situated in the current days, to know psychiatry\'s history of concepts and medical practice in Brazil, by focusing the historical context, the political movements and the possible influences that are external to our culture, which have interfered, along the time, for psychiatry to present as such in the current days. The current work aimed at delineating the medical-psychiatric conception between the decades of 1920 and 1950 about the mental disorders and their treatments in the state of So Paulo, besides emphasizing its possible influences over the medical-psychiatric thought of our days. It was used the qualitative methodology, by integrating two different areas of knowledge, Psychiatry and History. It is an appropriate method to incorporating meanings and intentions to social acts, relations and structures. The data production was accomplished by the survey and analysis of historical documents produced in the decades of 1920 up to 1950 about the formation of the discipline and the cathedra of Psychiatry of the Medical School of the University of So Paulo (FMUSP), the formation of the So Paulo League of Mental Hygiene, subordinated to the Brazilian League of Mental Hygiene (LBHM), of the formation and action of the Institution of Social Assistance to Psychopaths of the State of So Paulo, of the institutional life of the Juquery Hospital, and of the conception and beginning of the activities of the Institute of Psychiatry (IPq) of the Clinical Hospital of the Medical School of the University of So Paulo. We conclude that the thought about mental health in São Paulo, within the period delimited by the study, was constituted based on great influence of other fields of knowledge determining the directions of psychiatry as a medical specialty in our milieu

The purpose of this essay is to examine the patients who were cared for at Stockholm's psychiatric hospital during three periods in history: 1890–1895, 1905–1910 and 1920–1925. The variables examined in the statistical part of the essay are the number of newly admitted patients per period and the diagnoses these people receive. The second part of the essay takes a closer look at how patients from different payment classes are described in the application documents. The focus has been on compiling positively and negatively value-laden words to see which and how many words are used and whether there are differences between the different classes and genders. Another class aspect that has been investigated is how daily life in the hospital has differed between the classes.           The findings show that the number of patients per year is constantly increasing. There is only a small change between the first and the second survey period, from 1910 until and during the years 1920–1925, an enormous change takes place. Many people in the country are in line to be admitted to a hospital, which means that patients who are not judged as seriously ill or as a danger to themselves and others are discharged at a high rate. The diagnostic system undergoes several changes during the examined period, which makes it difficult to follow individual diagnoses over time.           The discourse analysis of the application documents shows that the men in the first class were the ones who were given by far the best reviews, both by relatives and by the chief physician. The focus was on their intelligence and good mood. First-class women also generally received good marks, but they commented more on her calmness and dignity, completely in line with the bourgeois ideal that prevailed then. Third-class patients did not enjoy the same amount of positive words at all. Their bodies and ability to work arouse the most interest in the doctor and the amount of information about their background is less. Everyday life also separates the classes. Tasks, leisure activities and food are adapted to the classes' previous lives to facilitate care and read justment to society, which means that in the first class you devote a lot of time to reading and writing, while in the third class you work with the physical operation of the hospital. The food would also mimic the one you were used to before, which meant that the food for first class was more than twice as expensive per person per day compared to the food you ate in third class.

<p>The overall aims of this thesis were to prospectively investigate how specific challenges among patients with commonly occurring cancers are related to adaptation and well-being, to predict later well-being using a range of psychosocial aspects and to compare two ways of measuring coping with cancer. This was studied at diagnosis in patients with gastrointestinal cancers and their spouses and at termination of cancer treatment and during follow-up in a heterogeneous group of cancers. At <i>diagnosis,</i> higher levels of psychological distress were accompanied both by more coping attempts and less perceived control over the stressful events. Somatic aspects and Everyday concerns were frequent stressful events. The most frequently used coping strategies were emotion-focused. The Daily Coping Assessment (DCA) rendered a varied picture of ways of handling the stressful events (Study I). When studying coping as a process, the DCA has advantages compared to the commonly used measure MAC, since DCA better separates coping from both the stressful event and outcome. A comparison of the DCA and the MAC rendered differences regarding the usage of coping strategies (Study II). Patients with higher levels of anxiety/depression also had higher discrepancies between attainment and importance for most life values compared to patients with less anxiety/depression. For the patients, but not for the spouses, the discrepancies for several life values along with anxiety and depression decreased over time (Study III). Anxiety/depression at<i> termination of treatment</i> are strong predictors for anxiety/depression and QoL at follow-up. However, other variables like psychiatric history, the bother an event caused, the coping strategy Acceptance, the stressful event Thoughts/affects and emotional and instrumental aspects of social support contributed to the prediction (Study IV). Thus, it is concluded that detailed information regarding specific and frequent situations among cancer patients is possible to reveal and necessary for a better understanding of what influences well-being.</p>

The overall aims of this thesis were to prospectively investigate how specific challenges among patients with commonly occurring cancers are related to adaptation and well-being, to predict later well-being using a range of psychosocial aspects and to compare two ways of measuring coping with cancer. This was studied at diagnosis in patients with gastrointestinal cancers and their spouses and at termination of cancer treatment and during follow-up in a heterogeneous group of cancers. At diagnosis, higher levels of psychological distress were accompanied both by more coping attempts and less perceived control over the stressful events. Somatic aspects and Everyday concerns were frequent stressful events. The most frequently used coping strategies were emotion-focused. The Daily Coping Assessment (DCA) rendered a varied picture of ways of handling the stressful events (Study I). When studying coping as a process, the DCA has advantages compared to the commonly used measure MAC, since DCA better separates coping from both the stressful event and outcome. A comparison of the DCA and the MAC rendered differences regarding the usage of coping strategies (Study II). Patients with higher levels of anxiety/depression also had higher discrepancies between attainment and importance for most life values compared to patients with less anxiety/depression. For the patients, but not for the spouses, the discrepancies for several life values along with anxiety and depression decreased over time (Study III). Anxiety/depression at termination of treatment are strong predictors for anxiety/depression and QoL at follow-up. However, other variables like psychiatric history, the bother an event caused, the coping strategy Acceptance, the stressful event Thoughts/affects and emotional and instrumental aspects of social support contributed to the prediction (Study IV). Thus, it is concluded that detailed information regarding specific and frequent situations among cancer patients is possible to reveal and necessary for a better understanding of what influences well-being.