As doenças da cultura. Pequena memória sobre a forma como as características da vida contemporânea afectam as formas do adoecer mental.
Culture is expressed in the content of psychiatric symptoms. In this paper we try to establish a relationship between the pathoplasticity of some paradigmatic psychiatric disorders and characteristics of values and life styles in developed societies. We argue that some aspects of a marked hedonism h...
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description | Culture is expressed in the content of psychiatric symptoms. In this paper we try to establish a relationship between the pathoplasticity of some paradigmatic psychiatric disorders and characteristics of values and life styles in developed societies. We argue that some aspects of a marked hedonism hide a dangerous nihilism and they both articulate, in a discrepant way, with opposing responsible hiperrational and hypercompetitive register. Doctrinaire fanaticisms increase markedly in other places in the globe with endemic shortages while solid values lack in the societies of abundance. This affects mental health. |
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spelling | doaj.art-840db565503f490db606c62a5fbf22e02022-12-22T02:32:30ZengOrdem dos MédicosActa Médica Portuguesa0870-399X1646-07581992-05-015510.20344/amp.3240As doenças da cultura. Pequena memória sobre a forma como as características da vida contemporânea afectam as formas do adoecer mental.N F da Costa0Instituto de Psicologia Médica, Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa.Culture is expressed in the content of psychiatric symptoms. In this paper we try to establish a relationship between the pathoplasticity of some paradigmatic psychiatric disorders and characteristics of values and life styles in developed societies. We argue that some aspects of a marked hedonism hide a dangerous nihilism and they both articulate, in a discrepant way, with opposing responsible hiperrational and hypercompetitive register. Doctrinaire fanaticisms increase markedly in other places in the globe with endemic shortages while solid values lack in the societies of abundance. This affects mental health.https://www.actamedicaportuguesa.com/revista/index.php/amp/article/view/3240 |
spellingShingle | N F da Costa As doenças da cultura. Pequena memória sobre a forma como as características da vida contemporânea afectam as formas do adoecer mental. Acta Médica Portuguesa |
title | As doenças da cultura. Pequena memória sobre a forma como as características da vida contemporânea afectam as formas do adoecer mental. |
title_full | As doenças da cultura. Pequena memória sobre a forma como as características da vida contemporânea afectam as formas do adoecer mental. |
title_fullStr | As doenças da cultura. Pequena memória sobre a forma como as características da vida contemporânea afectam as formas do adoecer mental. |
title_full_unstemmed | As doenças da cultura. Pequena memória sobre a forma como as características da vida contemporânea afectam as formas do adoecer mental. |
title_short | As doenças da cultura. Pequena memória sobre a forma como as características da vida contemporânea afectam as formas do adoecer mental. |
title_sort | as doencas da cultura pequena memoria sobre a forma como as caracteristicas da vida contemporanea afectam as formas do adoecer mental |
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