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A Ledesma Jimeno

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At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1990

[Duodenal ulcer disease. A controlled study of aggressiveness and other personality factors].

We study the aggressivity level and its direction in the context of personality, in 36 patients with DUD (23 males and 13 females). We employed 30 patients with chronic disease (15 men with COPD and 15 female with arthrosis) as control groups, in addition to the normal population. The purpose of this investigation is to determinate if suffering or chronicity could determinate psychopathological findings similar to those described in the literature about patients with DUD. The results point out that we can not consider a specific ulcerous personality, but a psychophysiological reaction or psychopathological alterations resulting from a somatic disease, on the other hand the autoaggressivity factor pulsion-inhibition, is the most reliable variable when compared with control groups (p less than 0.05-0.01).

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[Clinical and epidemiological study of depression and aggressiveness in a rural population center].

In a rural community of the province of Salamanca we studied the magnitude and distribution of depression and aggressiveness in a psychopathological study, following a previously established protocol of methods that includes the Hamilton Scale of Psychiatric Evaluation, the EPI Personality Questionnaire, Instrument I for the measurement of aggressiveness of Ledesma et al., and Pöldinger's Evaluation Scale for the risk of suicide (for suicidal tendency?). Forty-three depressive patients were found, forming 7.46% of the whole population studied (6.29% of the male population and 8.75% of the female one). We also studied the characteristics profiles of the depressive patients, the relationship with being firstborn and the psychiatric history and suicide cases in direct family members, establishing comparisons with a control group of non-depressive subjects.

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[An MMPI subscale for assessment alexithymia in duodenal ulcer patients].

We measured the alexithymia by the Kleiger-Kinsman scale in 36 patients with D.U.D. We employed 34 patients with irritables Bowel Syndrome and 30 patients with chronic organic pathologia as control groups. Our results show two possible conclusions: 1) The absence alexithymia's specificity in our ulcerous patients and/or the incapacity of this M.M.P.I.'s subescale to discriminate this feature in the psichosomatic diseases.

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[The personality of wives of alcoholic patients].

This work is a study of the personality of the wives of alcoholic patients composed by means of a structures interview, the MMPI personality questionnaire and the Instrument I used to evaluate aggressivity. Among the discoveries made, we must emphasize that 20% of the wives knew of their partner's excessive alcohol consumption before marriage, while married, 75% were victims of some kind of violent incident, 43% had personal psychopathological backgrounds, 15% were "repeaters wives" "those who had alcoholic parents). In the MMPI test, these women represent a significantly high profile, in which the scales Hs, D and Hy are the highest, amongst which their most outstanding personality traits include passivity, dependency and insecurity. Furthermore, those wives whose husbands have had relapses, represent a higher Pd scale than the other group. The Instrument I used to evaluate aggressivity also emphasizes this passive-aggressive tendency in the wives.

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[Personality and aggressiveness in cancer patients].

The authors studied the Personality and Aggressiveness of fifty-three cancer patients by using MMPI and the Instrument I for the Aggressiveness Measurements. The common characteristics in all of then were that they suffered solid tumors, were submitted to hospital treatments and had an absence of psychiatric illness in their personal history. Among the results that stand out most is the sensations of change that the patients experience due to their own illness, the hospitalization and the treatments which they undergo. There exists on increase of self-aggressiveness or a decrease of hetero-aggressiveness which predominates the scales of depression and social introversion, with a decrease of inner strength. In any case, the neuroticism and the dependence are increased and there are decreases in the scales of psychopathic deviation and domination. The four psychosis is staying normal, the hysteria is decreased in men and the hypochondria is increased in women. The defence mechanism that predominates are the denial and the avoidance reaction.

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[Psychopathologic aspects of cancer in gynecology. Cancer of the breast].

We study 31 female patients diagnosed and treated with the usual method for breast cancer. We use the clinical report and psychobiography, Instrument I to measure the aggressivity and M.M.P.I. The most significant results are: slowness in the first examination, influence of psychosomatic life events and spontaneous signs during the interviews, increase of autoaggressivity, and raising of the neurotic triad, dependence and introversion. It is clear from this statement the general conclusion of this patients having a want of contact so that their psychological signs don't develop into psychopathological.

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[Relationship between psychiatric emergencies and meteorologic factors].

Man's environment, natural as well as artificial, may exert a pathogenic influence on man's life, according to which we could divide the population in meteorosensitive (about 60%) and non meteorosensitive. Psychic patients and patients who suffer from certain organic diseases are those ones who more frequently behave as meteorosensitive. We accept this as starting point of our work. In our paper we analysed statistically the relation among different cosmo-meteorologic factors in the incidence of psychiatric emergencies during two years separated by five years and the probable existence of seasonal rhythms in the different studied diagnostic categories. As well as partial results for every diagnostic category we elaborate as final conclusion that these relations have a multifactorial character, that is to say, there are several factors that interact to unchain certain pathology in meteorosensitive people. We emphasize the existence of seasonal cycles in certain psychiatric syndromes. These conclusions are seen specially in personality disorders, suicide attempts, anxiety crisis and disorders, drug addictions and psycho-organic diseases.

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[Aggressiveness and the teaching function].

The authors study aggression with the "Instrument I to measure aggression of Ledesma Jimeno, Rodrigues Isidoro and Izquierdo de la Torre" in a sample of teachers (N = 48) made up of 15 university professors and 33 non-university professors (primary school, secondary school and professional training). The teacher sample is compared with a control sample of 479 men. The group of non-university professors showed more self-aggression and less aggression toward others than the control sample and university sample did. Both groups of teachers showed high levels of "technical intelligence". The aggression of the university professors was very similar to the control group and showed special peculiarities giving high values of intrapsychic incoherence that made their conduct more unforeseeable, with higher creative dispositions and a higher risk to their mental health than the other two groups studied.

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[Psychosomatics and cancer].

The cancerous patient who suffers a coinciding psychiatric illness shows, according to the M.M.P.I., signs of a depressive personality with marked introversion and dependence. The aggressivity test shows that self-aggressiveness coincides with inhibition and lethargy tone. An accumulation of stress factors and events stand out in patients with depression (72%), which do not appear in those patients diagnosed as having neuroses and schizophrenia. There is a need for psychiatric attention which contributes to treating the patient interdepartmentally; thus relieving both the moral and physical pain which these patients suffer.

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