Re: Assignment 6 - Summary Writing

In the chapter "The nuclear depressive syndrome sight from a corporality fenomenology" of Otto Dörr, reveals the problem of delimit the depressive syndrome and the consequent diagnosis. The author recognize that frecuently sentimental problems, labor failures or normal duels are confused and diagnosed as depressions. To this situation, Dörr take a sample of depressive cases in 'Hospital Psiquiátrico de Concepción' wanting to establish the basics syntoms (the nuclear syntoms) of a depression. Otto finds that are three nuclear syntoms: 1.-The compromise of corporality (lack of vitality, distress and nauseous feelings, cold sensation, etc), 2.-The compromise of conecting functions(such as atention, concentration, psychomotricity. The depressive syntoms are encapsulated to this disfunctions), 3.-The compromise of the biologic rythmicism(vital rythms are altered, inverted and suspended, like vigilia status, digestive rythms and sleep fasses).

The author finds, in relation of Tellenbach's Theory of Endogeneity, that the the depressive aura that a depressive patient glows, is related to the maturation processes, in wich, the depressive syntoms are revealed in the crossing of chrema to physis (the spirit return to materiality phase). So, the chrema (wich represents the inanimated nature) status doesn't let the patient body to interact as himself as part of the world.

Basically, that is the content of the text. Some links about the depression and endogeneity:

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/depression.cfm

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nnp/teaching/disorders/mood/index.html

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Re: Assignment 5 - Interesting career-related topic

This time, the course that I found interesting in psychology, it's about the psychopatological area of psychology. I like this area because it take information, about the mental illness and their teraphies, from various visions of the psychology's spectrum of theories.

A topic that I learned and I want to learn more, it's the personality disorders (most formerly knows as Characteriological disorder). This type of mental illness stay in the middle of the normal-anormal division, and they cause to the people that has theses disorders personal and social disfunctions and dificulties.

These disorders, are grouped in three clusters, that I quote here:

Cluster A (odd or eccentric disorders)

Paranoid personality disorder
Schizoid personality disorder
Schizotypal personality disorder

Cluster B (dramatic, emotional, or erratic disorders)

Antisocial personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder
Histrionic personality disorder
Narcissistic personality disorder

Cluster C (anxious or fearful disorders)

Avoidant personality disorder
Dependent personality disorder (not the same as Dysthymia)
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (not the same as Obsessive-compulsive disorder)

Otto Kernberg, has a theory that explains three mental-psichic schemes: Neurotic, Border-line and Psychotic. This theory fits very well with the description of the three cluster, quoted above.

Some links that I found interesting about this topic:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_disorders

This site is in discussion yet, but have the description for all the disorders.

http://www.pdq4.com

This is the website of the most effective test to recognize any personal disorders.

http://www.kivaspirit.org/Counseling/persintro.html

This webpage contains a pdq4-based test. Contains the instructions to take the test. At the end of the page there is a link with the questionnaire (you can answer it, and found something, If you have a disorder xD).

That's it!

Greetings to all!