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Ogrizek A, Ros T, Ludot M, Moro MR, Hatchuel Y, Gomez NG, Radjack R, Felix A. Asserting a Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder with a Complementary Diagnostic Approach: A Brief Report. CHILDREN (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 10:1601. [PMID: 37892264 PMCID: PMC10605693 DOI: 10.3390/children10101601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2023] [Revised: 09/16/2023] [Accepted: 09/21/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Functional neurological symptom disorder (FNSD) is a common diagnosis among adolescents. However, we feel it is a difficult diagnosis to assess because of the diversity of its clinical manifestations, the rapid changes in its nosography over the years, and its common imbrication with established somatic diagnoses. We would like to illustrate this hypothesis through a case presentation and the original diagnostic process that emerged from it. METHODS We chose to present our diagnosis approach through the case of an 11-year-old boy who showed a progressive loss of motor and sensory function to the point of total dependency, and then suddenly switched between this state and a "normal" physical presentation, while deliriously claiming to be an angel. RESULTS All possible infectious, autoimmune, metabolic, and toxic disorders were ruled out. After the successive therapeutic failures of antidepressants and neuroleptics, FNSD was diagnosed. CONCLUSION The DSM-5-TR classification was insufficient to explain the full clinical picture and a complementary approach (biblical, psychoanalytical, and historical) was used to analyze the cause of this atypical presentation.
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- Anais Ogrizek
- Department of Adult and Child Psychiatry, Martinique University Hospital, F-97200 Fort-de-France, France;
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- Department of Adult and Child Psychiatry, Martinique University Hospital, F-97200 Fort-de-France, France;
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- Department of Child Psychiatry, University of Paris, Hôpital Cochin, Maison de Solenn, F-75014 Paris, France; (M.L.); (M.-R.M.); (R.R.)
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- Department of Child Psychiatry, University of Paris, Hôpital Cochin, Maison de Solenn, F-75014 Paris, France; (M.L.); (M.-R.M.); (R.R.)
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- Department of Pediatrics, Martinique University Hospital, F-97200 Fort-de-France, France; (Y.H.); (N.G.G.)
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- Department of Pediatrics, Martinique University Hospital, F-97200 Fort-de-France, France; (Y.H.); (N.G.G.)
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- Department of Child Psychiatry, University of Paris, Hôpital Cochin, Maison de Solenn, F-75014 Paris, France; (M.L.); (M.-R.M.); (R.R.)
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- Department of Pediatrics, Martinique University Hospital, F-97200 Fort-de-France, France; (Y.H.); (N.G.G.)
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Neiman A. Client States: Australia's Offshore Detainees and the Limits of Therapy. Med Anthropol Q 2023; 37:264-279. [PMID: 37243980 DOI: 10.1111/maq.12763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Mental health has become an exceptionally important social and public health issue in Australia. The government has invested billions of dollars in new services, while ubiquitous ad campaigns call on ordinary people to tend to their psychological well-being. This national valorization of mental health is striking, given the well-documented psychiatric harm suffered by refugees under Australia's offshore detention regime. This article draws on ethnographic work with a group of volunteer therapists who provide crisis counseling to these detained refugees over WhatsApp, allowing them to intervene in scenarios where therapy is inaccessible but badly needed. Highlighting the predictable challenges and surprising affordances of delivering care in this restrictive and high-stakes context, I show how my informants forge a genuine therapeutic connection with their clients. While this intervention is meaningful, I argue that the volunteers are aware that it is no substitute for winning political freedom.
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- Aaron Neiman
- Stanford University Department of Anthropology, Building 50, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, 94305
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Milano BA, Moutoussis M, Convertino L. The neurobiology of functional neurological disorders characterised by impaired awareness. Front Psychiatry 2023; 14:1122865. [PMID: 37009094 PMCID: PMC10060839 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1122865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2022] [Accepted: 02/24/2023] [Indexed: 03/18/2023] Open
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We review the neurobiology of Functional Neurological Disorders (FND), i.e., neurological disorders not explained by currently identifiable histopathological processes, in order to focus on those characterised by impaired awareness (functionally impaired awareness disorders, FIAD), and especially, on the paradigmatic case of Resignation Syndrome (RS). We thus provide an improved more integrated theory of FIAD, able to guide both research priorities and the diagnostic formulation of FIAD. We systematically address the diverse spectrum of clinical presentations of FND with impaired awareness, and offer a new framework for understanding FIAD. We find that unraveling the historical development of neurobiological theory of FIAD is of paramount importance for its current understanding. Then, we integrate contemporary clinical material in order to contextualise the neurobiology of FIAD within social, cultural, and psychological perspectives. We thus review neuro-computational insights in FND in general, to arrive at a more coherent account of FIAD. FIAD may be based on maladaptive predictive coding, shaped by stress, attention, uncertainty, and, ultimately, neurally encoded beliefs and their updates. We also critically appraise arguments in support of and against such Bayesian models. Finally, we discuss implications of our theoretical account and provide pointers towards an improved clinical diagnostic formulation of FIAD. We suggest directions for future research towards a more unified theory on which future interventions and management strategies could be based, as effective treatments and clinical trial evidence remain limited.
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- Beatrice Annunziata Milano
- Institute of Life Sciences, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy
- Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery (UCLH), London, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery (UCLH), London, United Kingdom
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- *Correspondence: Laura Convertino,
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Sallin K, Evers K, Jarbin H, Joelsson L, Petrovic P. Separation and not residency permit restores function in resignation syndrome: a retrospective cohort study. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2023; 32:75-86. [PMID: 34223993 PMCID: PMC9908637 DOI: 10.1007/s00787-021-01833-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2020] [Accepted: 06/19/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Despite poor treatment results, a family-oriented approach and the securing of residency have been deemed essential to recovery from resignation syndrome (RS). In a retrospective cohort study, we evaluated an alternative method involving environmental therapy, with patients separated from their parents, while actively abstaining from involving the asylum process in treatment. We examined medical records, social services acts, and residential care home acts from 13 individuals treated at Solsidan residential care home between 2005 and 2020. Severity and outcome were assessed with Clinical Global Impression, Severity and Improvement subscales. Thirteen participants were included and out of these nine (69%) recovered, i.e. they very much or much improved. Out of the eight that were separated, all recovered, also, one non-separated recovered. The difference in outcome between subjects separated and not was significant (p = 0.007). Moreover, out of the five which received a residency permit during treatment, one recovered whereas four did not. The difference in outcome between subjects granted residency and not was significant (p = 0.007). The data revealed three (23%) cases of simulation where parents were suspected to have instigated symptoms. Our evaluation suggests that separation from parents and abstaining from invoking residency permit could be essential components when treating RS. Relying on a family-oriented approach, and residency could even be detrimental to recovery. The examined intervention was successful also in cases of probable malingering by proxy.
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- Karl Sallin
- Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics (CRB), Uppsala University, P.O. Box 564, 751 22, Uppsala, Sweden. .,K8, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden. .,Q2:07, Department of Paediatric Neurology, Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- grid.8993.b0000 0004 1936 9457Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics (CRB), Uppsala University, P.O. Box 564, 751 22 Uppsala, Sweden
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- grid.4514.40000 0001 0930 2361Faculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Lund University, Box 117, 221 00 Lund, Sweden
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- grid.416976.b0000 0004 0624 1163Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinic, Uddevalla Hospital, Fjällvägen 9, 451 53 Uddevalla, Sweden
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- grid.4714.60000 0004 1937 0626K8, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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Lagercrantz H. It is important to consider research that is challenging and controversial. Acta Paediatr 2022; 111:712-713. [PMID: 35106824 DOI: 10.1111/apa.16267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2021] [Accepted: 01/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Lea M, Hofmann BM. Dediagnosing - a novel framework for making people less ill. Eur J Intern Med 2022; 95:17-23. [PMID: 34417089 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2021.07.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2021] [Revised: 07/23/2021] [Accepted: 07/30/2021] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Diagnosing constitutes a substantial part of healthcare work and triggers a wide range of actions including the prescription of medicines. Dediagnosing is proposed as a novel framework for removing diagnoses that do not contribute to the reduction of persons' suffering and should be introduced to make people less ill. Dediagnosing comes together with other efforts to reduce overuse, such as deimplementation, deprescribing, decommissioning, and disinvestment. Because diagnoses may influence identity construction and social rights, dediagnosing must be conducted in close collaboration with the patient.
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- Marianne Lea
- Department of Pharmacy, Section for Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; Oslo Hospital Pharmacy, Hospital Pharmacies Enterprise, South Eastern Norway, Norway.
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- Department for the Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Gjøvik, Norway; Centre of Medical Ethics, University of Oslo, PO Box 1130, Blindern, N-0318 Oslo, Norway
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Borisova P, Lobanova V. On the problem of hysterocatonia in the clinical space of schizophrenia and schizophrenic spectrum disorders. Zh Nevrol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova 2022; 122:81-87. [DOI: 10.17116/jnevro202212207181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness. Edited by Suzanne O’Sullivan (336 pp.; ISBN: 1529010551; 15Euro hardback). Pan Macmillian 2021. Ir J Psychol Med 2021. [DOI: 10.1017/ipm.2021.66] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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The AGOGHÈ Project aims to produce innovative and entrepreneurial models following the global socioeconomic changes caused by COVID-19. Its objectives include (i) generating awareness, education and social skills through dedicated ethical workstations and workgroups; (ii) developing a novel figure called “Social Trainer” who represents a professional opportunity for young graduates, able to discuss, explain and guide others through the maze of active citizenship rules. The project was developed in the Quartieri Spagnoli of Naples (Italy). The current manuscript reports preliminary data from the local community collected between November and December 2020. Results provide an insight into the neighbourhood, where the lockdown produced an increment in school dropouts and irreparable economic damage. In conclusion, the approach proposed with the AGOGHÈ Project, fully described here, is predicted to be beneficial in increasing social, cultural and economic aspects in the local area and in facilitating a dialogue between people, stakeholders and governments engaging in novel resolutions for post-COVID-19 crises.
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Fox S. Psychomotor Predictive Processing. ENTROPY (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2021; 23:806. [PMID: 34202804 PMCID: PMC8303599 DOI: 10.3390/e23070806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2021] [Revised: 06/22/2021] [Accepted: 06/23/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Psychomotor experience can be based on what people predict they will experience, rather than on sensory inputs. It has been argued that disconnects between human experience and sensory inputs can be addressed better through further development of predictive processing theory. In this paper, the scope of predictive processing theory is extended through three developments. First, by going beyond previous studies that have encompassed embodied cognition but have not addressed some fundamental aspects of psychomotor functioning. Second, by proposing a scientific basis for explaining predictive processing that spans objective neuroscience and subjective experience. Third, by providing an explanation of predictive processing that can be incorporated into the planning and operation of systems involving robots and other new technologies. This is necessary because such systems are becoming increasingly common and move us farther away from the hunter-gatherer lifestyles within which our psychomotor functioning evolved. For example, beliefs that workplace robots are threatening can generate anxiety, while wearing hardware, such as augmented reality headsets and exoskeletons, can impede the natural functioning of psychomotor systems. The primary contribution of the paper is the introduction of a new formulation of hierarchical predictive processing that is focused on psychomotor functioning.
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- Stephen Fox
- VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, FI-02150 Espoo, Finland
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Traverso A, Ancora C, Zanato S, Raffagnato A, Gatta M. Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges of Catatonia in an Adolescent With High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Case Report. Front Psychiatry 2021; 12:644727. [PMID: 34149473 PMCID: PMC8211461 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.644727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2020] [Accepted: 05/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Catatonia is a psychomotor syndrome with specific clusters of speech, behavioral and motor features. Although potentially life-threatening, especially in its malignant form accompanied with autonomic dysregulation and medical complications, it is a treatable condition, when promptly identified. For a long time catatonia was considered a marker of schizophrenia, thus limiting the possibility of diagnosis and treatment. Due to growing awareness and studies on the subject, it is now known that catatonia can occur in the context of a number of diseases, including psychotic, affective and neurodevelopmental disorders. In recent years, there's been a renewed interest in the recognition and definition of catatonia in neurodevelopmental disorders, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), where the differential diagnosis poses great challenges, given the considerable overlapping of signs and symptoms between the conditions. We present the case of a 15 year old boy with High Functioning ASD with a sudden onset of severe catatonic symptoms and the co-existence of psychotic symptoms, whose complex clinical course raises many questions on the differentiation and relation of said disorders.
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- Annalisa Traverso
- Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Padua University Hospital, Padua, Italy
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- Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Padua University Hospital, Padua, Italy
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- Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Padua University Hospital, Padua, Italy
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- Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Padua University Hospital, Padua, Italy
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- Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Padua University Hospital, Padua, Italy
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Otasowie J, Paraiso A, Bates G. Pervasive refusal syndrome: systematic review of case reports. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2021; 30:41-53. [PMID: 32342195 PMCID: PMC7222039 DOI: 10.1007/s00787-020-01536-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2019] [Accepted: 04/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Pervasive refusal syndrome (PRS) is a complex condition that affects young people leading to social withdrawal, inability or refusal to eat, drink, mobilise or speak. The affected individual regresses and is unable to self-care and quite characteristically will resist rehabilitation, worsen with praise or remain entirely passive. This systematic review was aimed at describing clinical features of PRS, current interventions and to summarise some of the nosological aspects of the condition. Without language restriction, an electronic search was conducted in Embase, PsychInfo, Medline, Cochrane library, and PubMed databases yielding 29 articles with a total of 79 cases. We performed a risk of assessment bias using an adapted Newcastle-Ottawa Scale and adhered to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. 124 articles were identified, of which 29 were included and these yielded 79 cases. Seventy-six percent of the studies had a low rate of risk of assessment bias (good quality). Our results show that PRS overlaps with several conditions, mainly affects young females aged 7-15 years and has a recovery rate of 78% if diagnosed and treated early but the duration of inpatient treatment may last up to 9.44 months (8.82 SD). The patients had multiple inter-dependent risks. The major predisposing factors included vulnerable premorbid personality and pre-existing mental disorder. Precipitating factors were stressors such as infection and traumatic experiences. Enmeshed parent-child relationship served as a maintaining factor. The themes of treatment approach are essentially rehabilitative: (1) working collaboratively with patient and family, (2) having access to multidisciplinary team, and (3) peer/group supervision. This study has systematically evaluated a large sample of patients with PRS to ascertain its clinical features and the core elements of its treatment. Its key treatment approach is a multi-modal rehabilitative strategy that is compassionate, transparent and inclusive.
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- John Otasowie
- Surrey Memorial Hospital, 13750 96 Avenue, Surrey, British Columbia, V3V 1Z2, Canada.
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- Worcestershire Heath and Care Trust, Kings Court, 2, Charles Hastings Way, Worcester, WR5 IJR, UK
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- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust, Wayside House, Wilsons Ln, Coventry, CV6 6NY, UK
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von Knorring AL, Hultcrantz E. Asylum-seeking children with resignation syndrome: catatonia or traumatic withdrawal syndrome? Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2020; 29:1103-1109. [PMID: 31676913 PMCID: PMC7369262 DOI: 10.1007/s00787-019-01427-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2019] [Accepted: 10/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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In the beginning of the 2000s, an increasing number of asylum-seeking children in Sweden fell into a stuporous condition. In the present study, we report 46 consecutive children with the most severe form of this illness where the children were unable to give any response at all, did not react to pain, cold or touching, could not be supported to sit or stand on their feet, could not do anything when requested, and in most cases had enuresis/encopresis. A minority of the children came from war zones (n = 8, 17.4%). A majority belonged to an ethnic or religious minority (n = 32, 69.6%) in their homeland and almost all were persecuted (n = 43, 93.5%). All had either experienced violence themselves or had witnessed or heard about violence against close family members. The age of onset of the first symptom of illness for boys was 11.2 years [CI 9.6-12.8], for girls 11.8 yrs.[CI 10.4-13.2], and the age for falling into stupor for boys was 12.9 years [CI 11.6-14.1] years and was the same for girls, 12.9 years [CI 11.6-14.2] years. Girls tended to have depression before entering the stuporous condition, while the boys tended to have PTSD first (Chi-square = 3.73, p = 0.054). A majority of the children had one (n = 13, 28.3%) or both parents (n = 14, 30.4%) suffering from mental or severe physical disorder. It is discussed whether the presented condition is a separate entity or if the syndrome should be regarded as a variant of catatonia, and whether benzodiazepines should be tried.
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- Anne-Liis von Knorring
- Department of Neuroscience, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Uppsala University, 75185, Uppsala, Sweden.
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- Division of ORL, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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Uppgivenhetssyndrom, or resignation syndrome (RS), is a disorder that until recently was thought to affect the children of refugees in Sweden alone. The heuristic of psychopolitics is used to theorize RS as a form of abjection (Bataille, Kristeva) and petrification (Fanon, Marriott), and the movement from petrification to petrification in hallucinosis (Fanon, Bion) is delineated: first these children are petrified by persecutory and culturally specific stereotypes that precede and exceed them symbolically, and then, through a succession of shocks, they enter a post-traumatic stupor in which the faltering symbolization of the stereotype gives way to the (dis)embodiment of abject thinghood. Marriott's distinction between mirror as mask and mask as mirror allows the attribution of RS not only to sociocultural mimesis and the psychosocial impact of stereotypes (mirror as mask) but also to a socially imposed absence that the stereotype simultaneously conceals and reveals (mask as mirror). RS (petrification in hallucinosis) is considered the (dis)embodiment of this socially imposed absence.
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- Daniel G Butler
- Doctoral candidate, History of Consciousness Program, University of California, Santa Cruz; faculty, Access Institute for Psychological Services; 2018 recipient, Alexandra and Martin Symonds Prize and Peter Loewenberg Essay Prize in Psychoanalysis and Culture
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Ngo T, Hodes M. Pervasive refusal syndrome in asylum-seeking children: Review of the current evidence. Clin Child Psychol Psychiatry 2020; 25:227-241. [PMID: 31106597 DOI: 10.1177/1359104519846580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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This study reviews the current evidence in pervasive refusal syndrome (PRS) in asylum-seeking children. Refugees can experience a variety of traumas throughout the process of migration. Children can be exposed to multiple traumas such as experienced or witnessed physical or sexual violence, loss and bereavement, parental separation and the threat of persecution and/or kidnapping. The third stage of the migration journey can add further stress; children and families may experience multiple rejections of asylum application effectively living in limbo with the constant threat of deportation. High rates of mental health disorder are well documented in young asylum seekers, particularly depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PRS is less frequently described but nonetheless a severe and life-threatening condition affecting young asylum seekers. Traumatisation, cultural factors and hostile asylum processes are specific moderating factors seen in asylum-seeking children. Asylum-seeking children normally make a full recovery from PRS. This study suggests a link between prolonged asylum processes and hostile foreign policy in developing and maintaining illness; similar cases are now being reported in other countries with hostile foreign policies. These findings are therefore relevant to clinicians and politicians working with this vulnerable group.
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- Thinh Ngo
- Centre for Psychiatry, Imperial College London, UK
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Guzel A. Why Can’t We Sleep? PSYCHODYNAMIC PRACTICE 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/14753634.2019.1627673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Kirmayer LJ, Gómez-Carrillo A. Agency, embodiment and enactment in psychosomatic theory and practice. MEDICAL HUMANITIES 2019; 45:169-182. [PMID: 31167895 PMCID: PMC6699606 DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2018-011618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2018] [Revised: 03/14/2019] [Accepted: 03/19/2019] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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In this paper, we examine some of the conceptual, pragmatic and moral dilemmas intrinsic to psychosomatic explanation in medicine, psychiatry and psychology. Psychosomatic explanation invokes a social grey zone in which ambiguities and conflicts about agency, causality and moral responsibility abound. This conflict reflects the deep-seated dualism in Western ontology and concepts of personhood that plays out in psychosomatic research, theory and practice. Illnesses that are seen as psychologically mediated tend also to be viewed as less real or legitimate. New forms of this dualism are evident in philosophical attacks on Engel's biopsychosocial approach, which was a mainstay of earlier psychosomatic theory, and in the recent Research Domain Criteria research programme of the US National institute of Mental Health which opts for exclusively biological modes of explanation of illness. We use the example of resignation syndrome among refugee children in Sweden to show how efforts to account for such medically unexplained symptoms raise problems of the ascription of agency. We argue for an integrative multilevel approach that builds on recent work in embodied and enactive cognitive science. On this view, agency can have many fine gradations that emerge through looping effects that link neurophenomenology, narrative practices and cultural affordances in particular social contexts. This multilevel ecosocial view points the way towards a renewed biopsychosocial approach in training and clinical practice that can advance person-centred medicine and psychiatry.
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Santiago ISD, Freitas Neta MSBD, de Barros JCD, Landim JMM, Arrais TMSN, de Sousa DF, Cruz TO, Cintra Júnior DDF, Dias JB, Lima NNR, Rolim Neto ML. Resignation syndrome in hidden tears and silences. Int J Soc Psychiatry 2019; 65:80-82. [PMID: 30074423 DOI: 10.1177/0020764018792595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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- 1 Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Cariri (UFCA), Barbalha, Brazil.,4 Education, Catholic University of Santos (UNISANTOS), Santos, Brazil
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Lloyd CS, Lanius RA, Brown MF, Neufeld RJ, Frewen PA, McKinnon MC. Assessing Post-Traumatic Tonic Immobility Responses: The Scale for Tonic Immobility Occurring Post-Trauma. CHRONIC STRESS (THOUSAND OAKS, CALIF.) 2019; 3:2470547018822492. [PMID: 32440591 PMCID: PMC7219877 DOI: 10.1177/2470547018822492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2018] [Accepted: 12/04/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Peri-traumatic tonic immobility has been associated with the development and course of post-traumatic stress disorder. Despite serving as an adaptive late-stage defense response, tonic immobility that continues in response to post-traumatic reminders may lead to reduced functioning and a diminished sense of well-being. At present, no validated self-report measures assess post-traumatic tonic immobility responses specifically. METHODS The primary objective of the present study was to evaluate the Scale for Tonic immobility Occurring Post-trauma (STOP), the first self-report measure developed to assess for the presence and severity of tonic immobility responses that persist following trauma exposure as part of post-traumatic symptomatology. Trauma-exposed clinical and non-clinical participants (N = 462) with a history of tonic immobility completed a demographic questionnaire, the STOP, and measures of post-traumatic symptoms, dissociation, anxiety, and depression. RESULTS STOP assessed four latent constructs, which were interpreted following the human defense cascade model. Together, these factors capture the sensorimotor and perceptual alterations, and dissociative experiences, associated with post-traumatic tonic immobility as a trauma-related altered state. Residual symptoms and the experience of negative affect following this response (including guilt and shame) are also represented. STOP scores demonstrated excellent reliability, as well as good construct and convergent validity, with other measures of dissociation and post-traumatic stress disorder. Results from the present study suggest tonic immobility is most consistent with other dissociative post-traumatic symptomatology. CONCLUSIONS STOP demonstrates excellent preliminary psychometric properties and may be useful for researchers and clinicians wishing to assess chronic forms of tonic immobility across trauma-exposed, clinical and community samples.
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- Chantelle S. Lloyd
- Department of Psychology, Neuroscience,
and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, Western
University, London, ON, Canada
- Mood Disorders Program, St. Joseph’s
Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, Western
University, London, ON, Canada
- Department of Neuroscience, Western
University, London, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Western
University, London, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, Western
University, London, ON, Canada
- Department of Neuroscience, Western
University, London, ON, Canada
- Department of Psychology, Western
University, London, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, Western
University, London, ON, Canada
- Department of Neuroscience, Western
University, London, ON, Canada
- Department of Psychology, Western
University, London, ON, Canada
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- Mood Disorders Program, St. Joseph’s
Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural
Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
- Homewood Research Institute, Guelph, ON,
Canada
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Introduction Pain is considered to be one of a number of idiosyncratic, context-dependent 'protective actions' projected into the conscious domain by the central nervous system (CNS), as a result of a series of complex interactions in response to perceived threat. A model is described which proposes chronic pain and a variety of long-term, systemic functional neurological conditions to be a consequence of significant dysregulation of these protection systems. The Model Previous research has demonstrated that a cognitive-behavioural model, first described in 1995 by Surawy et al., for chronic fatigue has been successful in predicting the transition from acute to chronic states in a number of conditions. This model includes predisposing, precipitating and perpetuating biopsychosocial factors. This article discusses the potential role of these factors in affecting descending inhibition in the CNS, significantly altering its ability to modulate the threat detection system. The development of 'central sensitisation' is considered in this context. Conclusion This model proposes that chronic pain, chronic fatigue and other so-called functional neurological phenomena can, perhaps, be more helpfully seen as the actions of a dysregulated neurological protection system, rather than symptoms of an untreatable and deteriorating medical condition. Recommendations are made for the development of appropriate therapeutic interventions indicated by this model.
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OBJECTIVE To examine the psychological substrate of catatonia. METHOD Reviewing the historical descriptions and explanations of catatonic behaviours by clinicians from its delineation in the 19th century to the present. RESULTS Patients with catatonia are often haunted by fears and terrors; this has not been widely appreciated, and certainly was lost from view in the days when catatonia was considered a subtype of schizophrenia. The report contributes to resolving a major question in catatonia: is the mind in stupor inactive, as the blank state that we picture in anesthetized patients, or is the mind active, so preoccupied as to exclude all other influences. THE MAIN FINDING Persistent fear occupies the mind of catatonic patients. CONCLUSION The signs of catatonia are adaptations to persistent fear, akin to tonic immobilization. The relief afforded by sedation supports this interpretation.
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- M Fink
- Psychiatry and Neurology Emeritus, State University of New York at Stony Brook, St. James, NY, USA
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- History of Medicine, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Thomas SP. Resignation Syndrome: Is it a New Phenomenon or is it Catatonia? Issues Ment Health Nurs 2017; 38:531-532. [PMID: 28718758 DOI: 10.1080/01612840.2017.1341229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Ludwig L, McWhirter L, Williams S, Derry C, Stone J. Functional coma. HANDBOOK OF CLINICAL NEUROLOGY 2016; 139:313-327. [PMID: 27719852 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-801772-2.00028-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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Functional coma - here defined as a prolonged motionless dissociative attack with absent or reduced response to external stimuli - is a relatively rare presentation. In this chapter we examine a wide range of terms used to describe states of unresponsiveness in which psychologic factors are relevant to etiology, such as depressive stupor, catatonia, nonepileptic "pseudostatus," and factitious disorders, and discuss the place of functional or psychogenic coma among these. Historically, diagnosis of functional coma has sometimes been reached after prolonged investigation and exclusion of other diagnoses. However, as is the case with other functional disorders, diagnosis should preferably be made on the basis of positive findings that provide evidence of inconsistency between an apparent comatose state and normal waking nervous system functioning. In our review of physical signs, we find some evidence for the presence of firm resistance to eye opening as reasonably sensitive and specific for functional coma, as well as the eye gaze sign, in which patients tend to look to the ground when turned on to one side. Noxious stimuli such as Harvey's sign (application of high-frequency vibrating tuning fork to the nasal mucosa) can also be helpful, although patients with this disorder are often remarkably unresponsive to usually painful stimuli, particularly as more commonly applied using sternal or nail bed pressure. The use of repeated painful stimuli is therefore not recommended. We also discuss the role of general anesthesia and other physiologic triggers to functional coma.
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- L Ludwig
- Departments of Clinical Neurosciences and of Rehabilitation Medicine, NHS Lothian and Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
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