[Innovative technology and mental health care. Survey on the usage of WhatsApp among Argentinian psychiatrists and psychologists].

Objective: Communication between patients and mental health professionals by means of messaging platforms in the interval between synchronous encounters became a kind of asynchronous teleconsultation (AT) whose usefulness and effect on providers’ workload have not been explored. Method: Mental health providers working in Argentina were invited to answer a survey exploring the intensity and usefulness of AT, and the resulting overload.

Results: A total of 527 responses from professionals working throughout the country were received.

[Epidemiologic Analysis of the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit at a General Metropolitan Community Hospital of Buenos Aires city, Argentina].

Objectives: To explore the frequency of sociodemographic, clinical, and therapeutic variables of the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit at the Italian Hospital of Buenos.

Introduction: Considering that the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit functions within a General Metropolitan Community Hospital, referent both at the local and the international level, we deem it relevant to perform an updated characterization of the population admitted into our Unit. This is especially important given the changes presented since the approval of the National Mental Health Law N° 26.

[The bell jar].

Review of the book: The bell jar, of Sylvia Plath. Random House, 2020.

[Validity of Erving Goffman’s ideas in the work of the psychiatric interment ward from a general hospital].

Several authors have taken up the challenge of demonstrating the influence of the social environment on mental health and questioning the hegemonic, individual and organicist psychiatric gaze, with the intention of constructing critical models of professional practice in which the subject is prime. This work proposes to study, on the one hand, the fundamental concepts of the sociologist Erving Goffman and, on the other, in the light of them, to expose the current operation of a psychiatric inpatient ward in a general hospital.

[Most frequent themes in Editorials of Vertex journal (1990-2019) analyzed by graph theory].

Background And Objective: The analysis of Editorials is a little explored topic, which can facilitate the understanding of historical processes and changes in Psychiatry. In the case of de Vertex Revista Argentina de Psiquiatría, the Editorials were written by the same person for 30 years. The most frequently used thematic areas were studied, using graph theory, to characterize the orientation of the editorial lines.

[Psychiatry has a future].

In this work we critically reflect on psychiatry and its various possibilities in a world in permanent change. We make a brief tour of some of the changes it has undergone through narrative, philosophical and epistemological contributions, asking ourselves the question of the future of the specialty in times when information takes away our freedom, making us feel, at the same time, falsely free. Finally, we propose a "rephilosophization" that places us once again in the world of those who think and think, of those who worry about asking themselves daily about the tools available for the clinic, without considering any of them as something already given, turned into doctrine or religion.

[Notes on telework, psychiatric care and changes in communication during pandemic].

COVID-19 has accelerated the transformations of teleworking, generating conditions of great opportunities and terrible threats. The digital divide deepens inequities and exploitation, where the most unprotected countries and the most vulnerable populations are closer to the abyss Digital changes have formatted new modes of care, which are constantly changing and present new challenges to find their scope and limits.

[Notes for a Psychiatry based on narrations].

In this paper some ideas about the possible relationships between literature and psychiatry are presented. To carry out this task, the work "The initial form: conversations in Princeton" by the argentine writer Ricardo Piglia is analyzed, with the aim of installing a reflection on the current moment of the specialty.

[Narrative and psychiatry].

The aim of this work is to analyze the application of the concepts that originate in the narrative, to the learning and teaching of psychiatry. We will also explore how the reading and writing processes in the specialty are developed.

[Elder abuse: Twenty years later].

This article analyzes various aspects of elder abuse. Subtypes of abuse, neglect and self-neglect are defned. The phenomenon is analyzed in the context of geriatric institutions, people with dementia, and among the gay, lesbian and trans people.

[Psychiatry and narration].

In this presentation we will develop some ideas about possible relationships between literary narratives and psychiatry. To carry out this task we will analyze the work of some authors (Vila Matas, Guerriero, Kleinman, Franzen and others) in order to share a reflection on the current situation of psychiatry and medicine.

[From Ulysses to Paris: Journey to the medicalization of ageing].

In the following study we will be introducing the Paris Syndrome, taking as a departure stand the Ulises Syndrome described by Mercer Rang back in 1972. This syndrome is analyzed within the current context of medicalization that old people within Western societies are currently undergoing. We decided to present this topic by looking at the medical trajectories of four paradigmatic patients with the intention of capturing how they themselves experience this process.

[FROM ULYSSES TO PARIS: JOURNEY TO THE MEDICALIZATION OF AGEING].

In the following study we will be introducing the Paris Syndrome, taking as a departure stand the Ulises Syndrome described by Mercer Rang back in 1972. This syndrome is analyzed within the current context of medicalization that old people within Western societies are currently undergoing. We decided to present this topic by looking at the medical trajectories of four paradigmatic patients with the intention of capturing how they themselves experience this process.

[THE OTHER SIDE OF INSTITUTIONALIZATION. ALICE MUNRO'S VERSION].

The aim of this paper is to describe some aspects of the aging process, the Alzheimer and the nursing home starting from the analysis of some fragments of the tale The bear come over the mountain written by Alice Munro.

[Applying a social network for the practice and learning of psychiatry].

Social networking is a virtual space in which people relate and build their identity, share information, publish content and intervene on the content posted by others. We will describe an experiment carried out in the psychiatry service of Italian Hospital in Buenos Aires, in which we use Whatsapp Social Network applied to the development of clinical work and teaching task. From these new ways of relating between professional, emerge a new way to work, participate in groups or try to evaluate various options for dealing with a patient.