The range of placebo mechanisms can be bewil­ dering, but evolution provides an overarching theoretical framework that permits the integration of the different levels of explanation. Tinbergen’s (1963) classification, for example, divides the causes of behaviours such as placebo responses into proximate mechanisms and ultimate mechan isms (Box 1). This framework allows the integration of physio...

The article analyzes some of the critical aspects of the setting up of the Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) program adopted by the main companies in the petroleum region known as the Campos Basin, located in the north of the state of Rio de Janeiro, the biggest oil basin in Brazil. The theoretical and methodological reference used is based on the tools of Ergonomics of Activity and Psychody...

The initial reactions to a bipolar disorder diagnosis of research participants in a small, qualitative study consisted of astonishment, dread of being "mad," and extremely negative associations. All had prior mental health diagnoses, including episodes of severe depression (all but one) and alcoholism (one). All participants reported mental health histories prediagnosis and most had spent years...

Depression is widely seen as the result of difficulties in regulating emotions. Based on neuroimaging studies on voluntary emotion regulation, neurobiological models have focused on the concept of cognitive control, considering emotion regulation as a shift toward involving controlled processes associated with activation of the prefrontal and parietal executive areas, instead of responding auto...

The theme of this research is burnout at work in modern times. The main objective is to analyze aspects of mental health worker. The specific objectives are to evaluate the issue of health and mental illness in the workplace, to understand the field of psychodynamics of work, and to analyze the work and the mental strain. The methodology used is the literature review. We conclude that is not th...

Recently there has been much literature pertaining to the psychodynamics of narcissism and its relation to psychopathological and normal psychic functions. While these models of the mind are primarily aimed at understanding individual behavior in the therapeutic relationship, they are also useful in clarifying one's thinking about racism, which can be approached both from an individual and soci...

Este artículo apareció por primera vez en 1949 la revista American Journal of Orthopsychiatry con el título de “Problems nosology and psychodynamics in early infantile autism”. En 1973 se publicó Childhood psychosis: initial studies new insights (pp. 51-62), editado V.H. Winston & Sons Inc. ciudad Washington, D.C. La presente traducción al español corresponde a esta última fuente y estuvo c...

This paper explores the powerful emotions unleashed during asset pricing bubbles. Adopting a psychoanalytic perspective, we develop five-stage path-dependent model of such financial crises and test this empirically on Chinese 2005–2008 2014–2016 stock market Results are consistent with our underlying theory demonstrate how investors experience range highly charged directly related different sta...