Acta psychiatrica Belgica
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Acta psychiatrica Belgica · May 1994
[Traditional medicine and psychiatry: apropos of 3 experiences in Senegal, New Caledonia and Nepal].
The authors describe by turns their experience about indigenous medicine in Senegal, in New-Caledonia and in Nepal. They show that these indigenous medicines have common fundamental characteristics, although these various cultures are not linked together by their history. They compare these ways of thinking with occidental scientific medicine, and with the way of thinking of psychoanalysis.
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Acta psychiatrica Belgica · Jan 1993
Review[Post-traumatic stress syndrome in burn patients; a review].
While post-traumatic stress disorder has drawn increasing interest over the last years, very few studies have been focused to burned patients. In its first part, this article provides a brief reminder of the symptomatology of post-traumatic stress disorder, of its various pathogenic theories as well as its various treatment approaches. The second part of the article reviews more specifically the literature about post-traumatic stress disorder in burned patients, emphasizing the need of a rapid and effective psychological therapy.
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Acta psychiatrica Belgica · Jan 1988
ReviewHysteria, depression and the nosological problem of chronic pain.
In this article the nosological relevance of hysteria and depression for somatically unexplained chronic pain is critically discussed. Despite many clinical controversies and methodological problems, it is concluded from the available literature that both concepts merit a place in the psychiatric nosology of chronic pain. Nevertheless, more research is needed to further clarify the complex relationships between hysteria, depression and pain, and to more exactly determine the relative importance of hysterical and depressive features in chronic pain patients.
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Acta psychiatrica Belgica · Jan 1988
Firearm availability and the incidence of suicide and homicide.
The present studied explored the validity of several indirect measures of firearm ownership in the states of the USA: the percentage of homicides and suicides committed with firearms, the accidental death rate from firearms, the strictness of state handgun control laws, and subscription rates to firearm magazines. These measures were then correlated with rates of suicide and homicide, and it was found that states with a greater availability of firearms had higher firearm suicide rates and higher firearm homicide rates.
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Belgium was one of the 71 States represented at the United Nations Conference that took place in Vienna in 1971 for the introduction of a protocol on psychotropic substances. The Conference decided that the measures taken had to be coordinated and universal and the psychotropic substances were registered in four Tables. The Committee of Narcotics has decided, on the Vienna session from 6 to 10 February 1984, to register 33 benzodiazepines in Table IV. In Belgium, sales of the entirety of drugs slightly decreased (4% from 1974 to 1980) and sales of antibiotics shrunk a little (0,39% decrease from 1976 to 1979), while sales of benzodiazepines strongly progressed (21% from 1976 to 1980).