Aggression in children and adolescents

doc. MUDr. Eva Malá CSc

Psychiatr. pro Praxi, 2005; 1: 7-10  

Aggression (aggredere = go against) is a multidimensional overall term, which includes simple forms of irritation and anger, through complicated complexes of hostile aggressive behaviour up to violence. “Aggredi” = “ad gredi” and it means “to walk”, “to get closer to someone”, “to get into contact”. It is not clear from a primary sense of the word, which feelings, motivations and aim is the aggression, as a “mutual getting closer”, connected with. Whether it is a positive contact or a destructive attack (Frielingsdorf). Growing violence in both public and private life, wars, national...

Opening in psychodynamic psychotherapy

MUDr. Petr Klimpl CSc

Psychiatr. pro Praxi, 2005; 1: 11-17  

The overview article deals with procedures during an initiation of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Announcement of the patient, the first interview, history concerning conversation, assessment of curability, formulation of an agreement on the therapy and finally the initiation of systematic psychotherapy represent individual steps, which are distinguished above all due to didactical reasons. Admittance, or refusal of the patient should not be based on the impressive approach and intuitive attitude due to the well-known unreliability of these measures. The overview article is a contribution to professionalization of judgements in these fields.

NARCISSICTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER - DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT

Mgr. Petra Houbová, doc. MUDr. Ján Praško CSc, PhDr. Marek Preiss, MUDr. Erik Herman

Psychiatr. pro Praxi, 2005; 1: 18-25  

Narcissistic personality disorder is a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration and lack of empathy. Persons with narcissistic personality disorder can be very vulnerable to threats to their self-esteem. They may react defensively with range, disdain, or indifference but are in fact struggling with feelings of shock, humiliation, and shame. Narcissism may also develop through unempathic, neglectful, and/or devaluating parental figures. The child may develop the belief that a sense of worth, value, or meaning is contingent upon accomplishment of achievement. Parents failed to adequately mirror an infant’s natural need for idealization....

Therapy of depression, anxiety disorder and insomnia during pregnancy and lactation

MUDr. Věra Strunzová

Psychiatr. pro Praxi, 2005; 1: 26-30  

The presented overview is focused on medication by anti-depressives during pregnancy and lactation and on pharmacotherapy of anxiety disorder and insomnia in these periods. It comprehensively maps known data from publications dealing with therapy by anti-depressives. Relatively new clinical data obtained during ambulant treatment of patients are reported together with experience gained at Prague Psychiatric Center (PCP). The article may serve as an advise material for a psychiatrist during intervention in a case of a pregnant or breast-feeding woman.

Serotonin u obsedantně-kompulzivní poruchy

doc. MUDr. Oldřich Vinař DrSc

Psychiatr. pro Praxi, 2005; 1: 31-32  

Suicidální a homicidální chování u postadolescentní matky

doc. MUDr. Jana Kocourková, doc. MUDr. Vladimír Hort CSc

Psychiatr. pro Praxi, 2005; 1: 33-34  

Kazuistika nemocné s Addisonovou chorobou hospitalizované na psychiatrii

MUDr. Josef Chval

Psychiatr. pro Praxi, 2005; 1: 35-36  

Reverzibilita organicky podmienených psychopatologických zmien spôsobených cievnym poškodením mozgu

MUDr. Ľubomíra Izáková PhD, Mgr. Eva Vohlídková

Psychiatr. pro Praxi, 2005; 1: 37-39  

Teoretické předpoklady a praktické zkušenosti s léčbou amisulpridem

MUDr. Pavel Doubek, MUDr. Markéta Zemanová, MUDr. Petr Kozelek

Psychiatr. pro Praxi, 2005; 1: 41-43  

Huntingtonova choroba a kognitívna porucha

doc. MUDr. Viera Kořínková CSc

Psychiatr. pro Praxi, 2005; 1: 44-45  

Specifické poruchy osobnosti. Část I. diagnostika

MUDr. Zdeněk Faldyna

Psychiatr. pro Praxi, 2005; 1: 48-51  

Deprese jako vedlejší účinek terapie interferonem alfa u nemocných s chronickou hepatitidou C

MUDr. Jiří Syrovátka

Psychiatr. pro Praxi, 2005; 1: 46  

Nové antidepresíva - moderní cesty v liečení depresie (podľa 17. ECNP kongresu v Štokholme, 9.-13. októbra 2004)

prof. MUDr. Vladimír Novotný CSc

Psychiatr. pro Praxi, 2005; 1: 52  

Ze zahraničního tisku

MUDr. Marek Zelman

Psychiatr. pro Praxi, 2005; 1: 53-54