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The Concept of Skin Ego and the Investigation of the Skin Ego Structuring in Drug Users Administering the Rorschach Inkblot Test
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The main purpose of this research is to investigate the concept of the skin ego and the skin ego structures of drug users by employing the Rorschach Inkblot Test. For this purpose, the concept of skin ego was explored first. Skin-ego (moi-peau) was first expressed in 1974 by Didier Anzieu, a psychoanalyst who worked with dermatological patients and used projective methods in his studies. Anzieu described skin ego as a psychic envelope and case for ego and explained its eight functions and the negative function. After eloborating the skin-ego term, the appropriate sample was determined from drug users who specifically injects heroin intravenously for at least two years. The first group included 23 heroin users and the control group consisting of 23 non-drug users. The Rorschach Inkblot Test was employed to the participants and The Rorschach protocols were coded. The results of the two groups were analyzed statistically by using SPSS. In addition to statistical data, content was evaluated by assessing the barrier and penetration responses in detail, and the information about skin ego structures of drug users was reached. Obtained findings indicated that there are some deterioration in skin ego structures of drug users (IV heroin users), excitation shield functioning of the skin ego cannot be fulfilled in these people, and some deficiencies in early relationships leads to the sensitivity in skin ego structures.
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Psikosomatik düşünce biçimi, dilin duygusal boyutundan ayrılmış olduğu, hayal etme, fantezi ya da sembolizasyonla organik bir bağı olmayan, bilinçdışının zengin içeriklerinden kopuk, yararcı, gündelik ve somut düşüncelerin baskın olduğu bir düşünce biçimidir (Marty, 2012:16). Bu araştırmanın temel amacı esrar (uyuşturucu madde) kullanan kişilerde psikosomatik düşünce biçimini Rorschach Testi ile incelemektir. Bu amaçla uyuşturucu madde (esrar) kullanmak suçu sebebiyle tedavi ve denetimli serbestlik tedbiri altında olan 25 kişiye Rorschach Testi uygulanmıştır. Sonuçların karşılaştırılması için 25 uyuşturucu madde kullanmayan kişiye (kontrol grubu) de aynı test uygulanmıştır. Sonuçlar; psikosomatik düşünce biçimine işaret eden bilişsel, duygulanım ve sosyal uyum süreçlerini değerlendirmek için istatistiksel olarak analiz edilmiştir. Testteki kodlanmayan malzeme de ayrıca yorumlanmıştır. Araştırma sonucunda, incelenen süreçlerde gruplar arasında anlamlı farklılaşma bulunmuştur. Çalışmada esrar kullanan bireylerde bilişsel işleyişteki fakirliğe, duygulanım süreçlerinde kuruluğa ve yoksullaşmaya, tasarımlama ve sembolizasyon düzeyinde yetersizliğe, kısır ve katı bir düşünme biçimine ve sosyal uyum düzeyinde artışa işaret eden bulgulara ulaşılmıştır. Yapılan bu çalışma; uyuşturucu madde kullanan kişilerde daha önce McDougall (1989) tarafından belirtilen psikosomatik düşünce biçiminin varlığını doğrulayabilmiştir. Abstract Research Paper Psychosomatic thinking is a deficient form of thought which is separated from the emotional dimension of the language, dominated by utilitarian, concrete, and contemplative ideas, lacks an organic link to imagination, fantasy, or symbolism, and out of the rich contents of unconscious (Marty, 2012:16).The main purpose of this research is to investigate psychosomatic thinking in cannabis-users employing the Rorschach Test. For this purpose, the Rorschach Test was applied to 25 subjects under treatment during their probation because of cannabis-use. The same test was also applied to 25 non-drug-users (the control group). The results of experimental and control groups were analyzed statistically in order to assess the differential cognitive processes, affective processes, and social cohesion levels of these two distinct groups that point psychosomatic thinking. Besides, the materials which could not be decoded were interpreted additionally. The statistical test results showed the significant difference between two groups. The study indicated that drug users shows the poverty in their cognitive functioning, the flatness in their affective processes, the insufficiency in their level of symbolization, the unproductiveness and rigidity of their thinking, and the increase in the level of their social cohesion. This current study is able to verify the existance of psychosomatic thinking in drug-users that McDougall (1989) suggested previously.
ZET: Psoriasis gerek etyolojisi, gerekse tedavisi yönünden günümüzde üzerinde en çok konuşulan hastalıklardan biridir. Etyolojide çeşitli görüşlerin yanı sıra otoimmünite ve psikosomatik teoriler üzerinde de durulmaktadır. Çalışmamızda da hastanemiz alkol ve uyuşturucu madde bağımlıları merkezinde yaşları 24-60 arasında olan 7 psoriasis olgusu tesbit edilmiştir. Vakalarımızın hepsi ortalama 11.3 yıldan beri psoriasis belirtileri göstermektedir. Hastalarımızda ortalama içkiye başlama yaşı 17.7' dir. Bir hastamız hariç hepsi sabah içmeleri tarif etmektedir. Gerek tedaviye karşı olumlu cevap, gerekse alkolün ve diğer muhtemel faktörlerin etyopatogenezdeki önemi, literatür verilerinin ışığı altında tartışılmış ve yorum getirilmeye çalışılmıştır. SUMMARY: Psoriasis is one of the most interesting diseases when both the etiology and therapy are considered. In etiology, autoimmunity and psychosomatic theories are also important. In our study at Bakırköy Mental Hospital Alcohol and Substance Treatment and Research Center 7 psoriasis cases have been investigated between ages of 24-60. The cases have shown the signs of psoriasis since the avarage of 11.3 years. The average onset of alcohol is at age. 17.7. Both the positive results of therapy and the importance of other possible features at etiology have been evaluated considering the literature.
In this new book, Anzieu presents a synthesis of his research and proposes a theory on the functions of 'the skin-ego'.
Just as the skin is envelope to the body, Anzieu sees 'the skin-ego' as a psychic envelope containing, defining and protecting the psyche. From this perspective, the structures and the function of the skin can provide psychoanalysts and psychotherapists with fertile analogies.
Anzieu's concept of the skin-ego is the answer to questions he regards as crucial to contemporary psychoanalysis: questions of topography, left incomplete by Freud; the analysis of fantasies of the container as of the contained; issues of touch between mothers and babies; extending the concept of prohibitions within an Oedipal framework to those derived from a prohibition on touching; questions pertaining to the representation of the body and to its psychoanalytic setting. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
The current paper examines critically the literature on suicide rates, suicide risk factors and methods employed for suicide among heroin users, and compares these to those of the general population. Heroin users have a death rate 13 times that of their peers, and deaths among heroin users attributed to suicide range from 3-35%. Overall, heroin users are 14 times more likely than peers to die from suicide. The prevalence of attempted suicide is also many orders of magnitude greater than that of community samples. The major general population risk factors for suicide also apply to heroin users (gender, psychopathology, family dysfunction and social isolation). Heroin users, however, have extremely wide exposure to these factors. They also carry additional risks specifically associated with heroin and other drug use. Drugs as a method of suicide play a larger role in suicide among heroin users than in the general population. Heroin, however, appears to play a relatively small role in suicide among this group. Overall, suicide is a major clinical issue among heroin users. It is concluded that suicide is a major problem that treatment agencies face, and which requires targeted intervention if the rates of suicide among this group are to decline.
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