The clinical syndromes now designated posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)I have been discussed in the psychiatric literature for 100 years, beginning with Erichson's description of "railway spine" in 18822 and Page's "nervous shock" in 1883. In the 1880s Oppenheim coined a phrase "traumatic neurosis" which became generally accepted• and even today is frequently found in medical and legal writi...

18th-century poet and novelist Mary Julia Young was a prolific writer supporting herself by writing. She remained biographically obscure literary figure, yet her remarkable life with the experience of anxiety drew attention through poetic discourse narrative. Hence, having earned living from literature, had to stick demands era's fashions. Therefore, this paper investigates clues signs author's...

BACKGROUND In Chile, occupational illnesses are defined by the "Work-related accidents and occupational illnesses law". The institutions that administer that law have the legal obligation to determine the "occupational" or "common" origin of accidents and diseases. AIM To compare symptoms and problems at work in a group of workers consulting for presumptive occupational neurosis (ON), disting...

This article presents the clinical work with an ecclesiogenic neurosis and the difficulties encountered by the therapists working with very religious patients. In contrast to the few existing studies of this topic, the Author emphasizes the necessity to take into account the difference between the conscience and the superego, if the therapy is to be effective. The article focuses on the present...