[Conflict areas in two psychotherapeutic groups of climacteric women].

Background: An important consideration is to specify the areas of conflict that will be worked on during the psychotherapeutic process in order to develop a specific psychological model for a group intervention with menopausal women.

Objective: To determine the most relevant areas of psychological conflict for women in the menopausal stage by means of a focalization technique.

Patients And Method: A descriptive, cross-sectional, longitudinal study with non-experimental design was done in 29 patients from the Perinatology National Institute of Mexico (INPer).

[Psychological symptoms in a group of climacteric women, before and after a psychotherapeutic process].

Background: Two of each three women in their menopause present climacterical syndrome, showing frequently psychological symptoms, which is translated in diminution of the personal satisfaction, which generates the necessity of specialized attention.

Objective: To know the presence and frequency of psychological symptoms, before and after a psychotherapeutic process with a psychodynamic approach, in a group of women in their menopause.

Patients And Method: The sample consisted of 41 women divided in two groups, with pre and post application of the survey of symptoms, group 1 received psychotherapy and group 2 did not, although it required it, for this reason it was considered the control.

Mitochondrial membrane potential integrity and plasma membrane translocation of phosphatidylserine as early apoptotic markers: a comparison of two different sperm subpopulations.

Objective: To examine whether a relationship exists between loss of mitochondrial transmembrane potential and plasma membrane translocation of phosphatidylserine (PS) in subpopulations of human spermatozoa of men consulting for infertility.

Setting: A tertiary institutional research center.

Design: Prospective observational study.