Jpn J Psychiatry Neurol
September 1994
Anthropophobia is the general term often taken as an equivalent to social phobia which comprises the several afflictions known in Europe under names like autodysosmophobia, scopophobia, erythrophobia, and olfactory reference syndrome, among others. Following a general introduction to anthropophobia, we will use three short observations to illustrate a phenomenological approach which shows both the confusion between the two dimensions of corpority and intersubjectivity and the specific relations joining body and language that are characteristic of this pathology. In addition to that, a psychoanalytical insight shows that anthropophobic patients possess traits that are specific to the intrusion complex and that reveal an evolutionary stage between narcissism and Oedipian phases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe following article attempts to introduce a coupled analytical method simultaneously based on "Daseinsanalyse" and "Schicksalsanalyse" that we call "phemenological analysis of fate." One instance of its use is presented here concerning a young French woman who has been hospitalized for a month in a private Japanese hospital before being repatriated to France. During her hospitalization she went through three different phases that we analyse, first according to Schicksalsanalyse, then to Daseinsanalyse and finally from the point of view of the combined approach.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntra-dermal skin tests (IST) were applied with candidin (1:100) in 37 subjects and repeated 10 days later. The induration diameter of the second injection (read at 48 h) was greater (p less than 10(-8]. A correlation (r = 0.
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