Abstract Introduction and Aim: This study was carried out to evaluate dieting status, orthorexia neurosis (ON) quality of life relationship in osmaniye Korkut Ata University, Faculty Health Sciences students. Materials Methods: In March 2021, 235 volunteer students from Osmaniye University participated the cross-sectional descriptive type research. The data were collected by Sociodemographic İn...

The present study was carried out to test our hypothesis that linguistic competence may importantly determine the manifest symptomatology as well as type of schizophrenia and neurosis. A test of linguistic competence constructed by us after two tryouts and consisting of eight subtests, namely colour naming, naming filial relationships and household objects, TAT (mean lengh of utterance and tota...

This theoretical study aims at discussing hysteria nowadays and considers the cultural changes that might have occurred from the foundation of Psychoanalysis until today. The discussion is based on the thoughts of Charles Melman, a psychoanalyst who has studied the position of the subject in the conditions of the current Western culture. We highlighted aspects and consequently elaborated a refl...

A survey of the mental morbidity of an urban group and two rural groups was made with the same method, same operational definition of a case and by the same team. The aim was to find out the nature and extent of the difference in their rates of morbidity and to identify the psychosocial variables associated with this difference. It was found that the rate of total morbidity was significantly hi...

This report pertains to the psychiatric problems in renal transplant recipients and its socio-demographic correlations.50 male recipient subjects with a post-transplant period ranging from six months to six years were evaluated through tape recorded interviews to study their pre and post-operative emotional reactions. A psychiatric examination was performed by two psychiatrists and a diagnosis ...

Sixty-six patients were assessed clinically, psychologically and physiologically before operation, at six weeks and at a mean of i6 months following stereotactic limbic leucotomy. Seventy-three per cent were clinically improved at six weeks and 76 per cent at i6 months. In obsessional neurosis, 89 per cent of patients showed definite clinical improvement at i6 months; in chronic anxiety, 66 per...