Psychiatry: America the traumatized

Psychiatry in Latin America: a historical perspective

The evolution of psychiatry in Latin America reflects the merger of three different types of human interactions. The first one is represented by the aborigine cultures that prevailed in this Continent before its discovery. This group in primarily represented by the Aztec and Incas Indians who primordially occupied Mexico and Peru respectively. The second one is primarily exemplified by the Span...

Management of the Traumatized Airway.

There is a lack of evidence-based approach regarding the best practice for airway management in patients with a traumatized airway. General recommendations for the management of the traumatized airway are summarized in table 5. Airway trauma may not be readily apparent, and its evaluation requires a high level of suspicion for airway disruption and compression. For patients with facial trauma, ...

Keeping America sane: psychiatry and eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880–1940

certainly sound if a bit obvious. In a more narrowly-focused and somewhat polemical article, Martin Dinges assesses the impact of Foucault-in his eyes lamentably meagre-on German historiography. The following section on 'Hospitals and asylums' examines particular experiences in specific places and times. All these essays modify, and some fracture, the theoretical models offered by Foucault, Eli...

The relative importance of needs among traumatized and non-traumatized samples

Typically, people rate enhancement needs as more important than security needs to their well-being. Two studies tested whether event valence and prior trauma moderate relative need importance. Traumatized (hurricane survivors) and non-traumatized (control) participants recalled the most ‘‘distressing’’ (security-relevant) or ‘‘satisfying’’ (enhancement-relevant) event they had recently experien...

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