[The late-life companion and the inanimate object of the person with senile dementia: an attempt at comprehension through a comparative study with phenomena encountered during childhood].

The thought of this work about the mad senile person's affective life concerns some almost permanent clinical establishments such as: on one hand, the existence of late-life companions and inanimate objects evoking some phenomena met during childhood: fancied companion, fetish objects. On the other hand, the existence of "behaviours" evoking those of the little child during his psycho-affective development. We have been led to study the notion of regression during the dementia process and ask ourselves about psychopathological mechanisms underlying this regression, regarded as a mechanism of narcissistic strengthening underlying the appearance of late-life companion or inanimate object.

[Psychotic manifestations complicating surgical operation in the ocular region].

The authors report ten observations as well as the results of an investigation conducted by ophtalmologists and psychiatrists with intention of better understanding clinical, physiological and psychological problems, provoked by occurance of complications stemming from psychoses which are the result of ophtamological complications. They conclude that it is necessary to form accurate distinctions with regard to the total manifestations of the malady "black patch delirium". They emphasize the fact that its manifestations are not an appanage of the aged ; they especially insist upon not only the role of visual disorientation but also of the social factors which are united with restrictions, beyond those of motor, control and biological imvalances.