Il termine trauma psicologico sta ad indicare l’esperienza di un evento soverchiante ed incontrollabile, percepito come una minaccia al proprio senso di integrità personale o alla propria sopravvivenza (van der Kolk, 1987). Tale termine rappresenta un concetto relativamente nuovo nella storia delle scienze psicologiche. Per tutto il corso del XIX secolo, infatti, la parola “trauma” veniva gener...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between psychological damage caused by common occupational trauma and metabolic syndrome (MES). METHOD 571 workers from 20 small Italian companies were invited to fill in the Psychological Injury Risk Indicator (PIRI) during their routine medical examination at the workplace. RESULTS Compared to workers with no psychological in...

İnsan hayatında değişime neden olan en anlamlı olaylardan biri gebelik ve doğumdur. Bu değişim kadının erkeğin ebeveyne dönüşüm sürecidir. Doğum, hayatını fiziksel, psikolojik sosyal yönden etkileyen çok yönlü önemli yaşam deneyimidir. Anne bebek bağlanması, döneminde gelişmeye başlayan sonrasında bireylerin hayatları boyunca etkisi altında kalacağı, hayattaki kişiler arası ilişkilerini soyut b...

Birth is a spiritual experience for mother and baby. Women need information and psychological preparation before birth, and a knowledgeable companion during birth. Unless medical intervention is needed, medical personnel should step back and stay out of the way.

The current study investigated whether mental health practitioners are influenced by the narrative fallacy when assessing the psychological injuries of trauma victims. The narrative fallacy is associated with our tendency to establish logical links between different facts. In psychodiagnostic assessments, this tendency may result in overdiagnosis of mental disorders when psychological symptoms ...

BACKGROUND Although much research has focused on mechanisms of traumatization and factors related to post-trauma psychological functioning in survivors of trauma, there have been few studies of survivors of torture despite the widespread practice of torture in the world. The aim of this study was to examine the role of 'psychological preparedness' for trauma in post-traumatic stress responses i...