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A Bourguignon

Publications and source records attributed to A Bourguignon.

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PubMed1989

[Study of mortality under 30 years of age in families of psychotic patients].

After O. Bourguignon's studies (1984), the authors made the following assumption: there is an higher mortality rate before 30 years in families including at least one psychotic. This assumption is confirmed, as far as brothers, sisters and children are concerned, for 101 psychotics compared to 101 control-subjects. This higher death-rate in young subjects is associated in these psychotics' families with greater psychiatric morbidity, with higher rates of celibacy and break-ups of couples. It is the opinion of the authors that these phenomena should be interpreted as portent of a possible extinction of the lineage.

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PubMed1987

[First relations between mother and child in Algeria].

This is a study of mother-child relationships (from birth to 18 months), using a homogeneous sample of 15 babies born in the same month. Mothers and babies lived in Algiers. The study is based on direct observation, in the family setting, of the behavior of women and children, mother-child interactions and child rearing techniques. It is also based on the analysis of semi-directed interviews (in arabic and french) with the mothers as well as on psychometric tests of the children (the Brunet-Lézine baby-test). The authors highlight the difficulties for the mother and for the child which are a result of the conflict between traditional and western culture.

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PubMed1985

[Objective and subjective needs of mental patients 1 year after their discharge from a sectorized service].

The present paper is based on a study of 50 non-randomized psychiatric patients who had left the hospital one year before. A semi-structured interview was used to acquire the data. Two types of data have been collected: objective and subjective. Objective data concern the diagnosis, marital status, living conditions, economic situation, educational and professional levels and medical care after hospitalization. As a whole living conditions were found to be very poor. Subjective data concern patients complaints, financial difficulties, their needs and their desire to get in contact with the community health center during hospitalisation. Most patients were in favour of starting after care just prior to discharge. All data are discussed. The most interesting finding is, that despite the many socio-economic hardships, the primary need expressed by the patients is a valuable personal relationship.

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PubMed1977

[Status of vampirism and autovampirism].

Any interpretation of the perversion called vampirism ought to take into consideration the myths in which the relations between living and dead people (vampires, incubi, succubi, etc...) are represented, myths through which the persons alive project onto the dead ones to ambivalent, sexual and agressive, wishes they had toward the dead when they were still alive. Clinically the word vampirism should be used to name all sexual or agressive acts, whether blood-sucking happens or not, committed on a dead or dying person. In one third of the cases the act has both a sexual and an agressive components (mutilation of the dead body); in the other two thirds the act seems to have only a sexual component (sexual pleasure in the presence of or in contact with the dead body). The origin and the meaning of this exceptional perversion are discussed. Auto-vampirism, even more exceptional than vampirism, differs from the latter by the fact that blood succion is the essential symptom and by the fact that it is not on the side of sadism but on the side of masochism. In the light of two case-histories, one of which never published before, and on the basis of the Freudian theory of masochism, an interpretation of the data is propounded.

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