Publications by authors named "Tais Cristina Favaretto"
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- - This study examines the psychodynamic functioning of individuals with PTSD, highlighting how symptom severity impacts their quality of life, personal suffering, and coping mechanisms based on their sociodemographic traits and defense styles.
- - Conducted with 60 participants, it utilized tools like the OPD-2 and DSQ-40 to assess their conditions, revealing moderate to high symptom severity, significant feelings of isolation, and conflicts between the need for care and self-sufficiency.
- - The findings suggest that PTSD patients often exhibit less adaptive defense styles and more rigid personality structures, emphasizing the importance of therapy focusing on underlying psychological structure rather than just symptom relief. It calls for preventive strategies to enhance protective factors against PTSD.
The traumatic event produces intolerable excitations to the psychic apparatus that searches to relief them through the production of symptoms. When established, patients with post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD) and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) may experience flashbacks, somatizations, negative emotions about themselves, and difficulty in social contact. This work seeks to understand how the psychodynamic functioning of women victims of interpersonal and urban violence, diagnosed with these disorders, is organized, identifying traumatic experiences, ways of interpersonal relationships, conflicts and psychic structures and use of defense mechanisms, and for peculiarities that may differentiate these disorders.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Intimate partner violence against women is one of the most common forms of violence. Different research fields are trying to understand the cycle of violence, such as the psychological field, to understand how these women's relational patterns and intrapsychic conflict function in the cycle of violence.
Objective: To investigate the operationalized psychodynamic diagnosis of women victims of domestic violence, exploring the severity and experience of violence, structural functions, dysfunctional interpersonal patterns, and intrapsychic conflicts.
Introduction: Intimate partner domestic violence against women causes physical and psychological harm to victims. The relevance of this topic is indisputable and there is a need to identify in greater detail how these women experience violence, since these factors have considerable clinical implications.
Objective: To develop a Portuguese version of the Module for Assessment of Domestic Violence, adapted from Axis I of the Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis (OPD-2), considering content validity and psychometric characteristics.
Introduction: Domestic violence places woman as the victim and man as the aggressor in the family environment. There is limited consistent and clear information based on empirical evidence on the dynamic functioning of the victims.
Objective: To further understand the psychodynamics of women in the cycle of violence taking into account the aspects of psychological trauma.