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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