The ‘behavioral pattern A’ and the ‘B’ pattern in selected groups of male populations in the framework of a prospective and predictive study of a large population of civil service employees is compared. The Personality Inventory of Lazare, Klerman and Armor and the auto-questionnaire of Bortner were used to differentiate the ‘A’ and ‘B’ group populations. Selected cards from Murray’s TAT seem more appropriate in this respect and demonstrate the lack of efficiency of certain questionnaires in areas of psychosomatic research. Moreover the selected TAT card responses provide some evidence of ‘pensée opératoire’ or alexithymia in ‘A’ group subjects whatever its metapsychological implication.
The authors report their experience on a workshop centered on brief psychotherapy (the STAPP model defined by Sifneos) in a postgraduate training in psychotherapy. STAPP, its extensed frame of reference and its relatively ‘easy’ access to study of essential paradigms, seems to constitute a priviledged tool in training psychiatrists to-be to the fundamental psychodynamics processes involved in psychotherapy. Provided the transferential and countertransferential issues are adequately met with (in individual and group supervision), it is lived very positively by trainees as such and has, moreover, a positive carry-over in so-called supportive therapies.
The authors attempted to reduplicate the Lacey phenomenon of heart rate acceleration during the performance of an interiorized mental task and its maintenance in time. For this purpose they resorted to the pavlovian conditioning paradigm. The heart-rate response was obtained repetitively thanks to a change of structure and/ or content of the task and a conditioned response was elicited in some subjects. Moreover, other types of visceral conditioning were evidenced. The authors underline the importance of such factors as anxiety, personality structure and intellectual abilities in this sort of conditioning.
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