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J C Scotto

Publications and source records attributed to J C Scotto.

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PubMed1983

[Sociological aspects of identity disorders in the pathology of migration].

Many people think that mental pathology connected with maghrebian migration into France is coming from a psychopathology more or less specific to migration and maghrebian origin. But, the migrant worker, when sick, asks directly or not the question of his own identity. Authors insist on obligation to take in count the sociological, psychological and cultural characteristics of migrant's problems, and also the ways of changing concerning both his own imago and his relationship to others. The concept of identity gives us facility to integrate all these elements.

Algeria↗
PubMed1978

[A double-blind nomifensine-nortriptyline trial in ambulatory patients conducted by psychiatrists in private practice: results and comments].

Nomifensine and nortriptyline were compared in a collaborative trial by psychiatrists in private practice. The trial impiled:--selection of ambulatory depressed patients--randomization in parallel groups (respectively 31 and 34 subjects)--administration in double-blind condition of 4 capsuels daily of either compound during 4 weeks--quotation of depressvie syndrom with Hamilton depression scale before treatment after 2 and 4 weeks. The analysis of results shows clear improvment of depression scores, equivalent in both groups (non significant difference and posterior rejection of an alternative hypothesis). Practical problems encountered in controlled trials in psychiatrist's outpatients are discussed.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1977

[Alterations of sleep caused by acute and chronic adminstration of lithium].

The sleep of 2 groups of subjects receiving lithium was studied. Ten normal controls after 17 days of lithium had a significant decrease of Paradoxical Sleep duration, with an increase of PS latency. A second group of 10 manic-depressive patients had received lithium for 22 +/- 6 months when they were recorded. They had a greater amount of slow wave sleep than the control group before lithium but the difference of PS duration was only related to a first night effect. Therefore sleep changes induced by lithium are different according to the duration of lithium administration. In any case they are less important than those induced by most of the anti-depressants.

Adult↗
PubMed1976

[Metapramine: antidepressant and psycho-stimulant].

Metapramine is a new antidepressant drug. A tricyclic molecule gives it a novel activity in so far as its thymoanaleptic and, at the same time, psychostimulating actions are concerned. Quick acting, metapramine has a very interesting peculiarity: its large tolerance which seems to be related to a no-anticholinergic effect.

Adjustment Disorders↗
PubMed1976

[Amitriptyline in psychiatric therapeutics. Apropos of 8 years of its use in hospital practice].

A hundred and thirty patients have been treated with Amitriptylin in the "Clinique de Psychiatrie" in Marseille during the last eight years. The review of the hundred cases for which the information are the most detailed show that Amitriptylin remains one of the most powerful, manageable and well-tolerated anti-depressant drugs available at the present time. Its therapeutic indications are numerous, but the best ones are proceeding from depressed states with high anxious participation in subjects of less that 60 years of age.

Adjustment Disorders↗
PubMed1975

[A new substituted benzamide with neuroleptic effects: lin 14 18 or sultopride].

After the research about Sulpiride, a new substituted benzamide has been studied. Although it was characterized by modest pharmacological effects in the neuroleptic identification tests, LIN 1418 turned out to have very interesting therapeutic properties. A study conducted with 50 cases, 30 of which were submitted a systematic pluridisciplinary control, leads to provisory conclusions as follows: 1) its psychotropic effects are powerful and constant; 2) its prevailing action is antipsychotic and desinhibiting altogether; 3) while LIN 1418 appears as successful with all psychoses, whether acute or chronic, up to now, the quality of its results in many chronic psychoses seems to be particularly remarkable; 4) its side-effects are those of most neuroleptics: its extrapyramidal symptoms being all the more obvious as the patient's "passivity" is less important.

Adult↗
PubMed1975

[Sexology].

Whatever type of practice he may have, the physician is confronted daily with an increasingly important demand for help concerning sexual problems, be they "masked" in terms of functional symptomatology, or be they openly "verbalised" as sexual difficulties. Possessing no real sexological background, [corrected] and having merely heard of "methods", without knowing either their bases or their qualities, the physician is not capable of responding in more than a minimally effective manner. Confronted with this need, american researchers have perfected, with Masters and Johnson, new techniques which have been borne out by their statistical results. The originality of these techniques lies in their being carried out by a couple, centered around the relation of the solliciting couple, and aiming at a psychosensorial reeducation. If the application of such methods, as well as sexology research and training, is still timid in Western Europe, their importance is no way lessened. They represent, in fact, for the psychiatrist, a new way of approaching sexuality, by means of: --medical team work; --"manipulation" of body language; --and perhaps, also... reality.

Behavior Therapy↗