[Maternal motivation for choice of feeding method]. / Motivations maternelles pour le choix du mode d'allaitement.

We studied the different motivations mothers had for choosing a particular mode of nursing at the University Hospital in Limoges. An anonymous questionnaire was distributed to all mothers who hat delivered between January 1 and April 30, 1992. It was apparent that the medical team did little to promote breast-feeding or to counteract negative attitudes. The results of this study, together with a review of the literature were used to determine conditions for encouraging breast feeding.

[Psychiatric disorders during maternity. 16 cases]. / Troubles psychiques autour de la maternité. A propos de 16 cas.

This study, originally intended to identify the status of puerperal psychoses, has revealed today, on the basis of a review of 16 requests for psychiatric opinions coming from departments of gynecology and obstetrics in Limoges, that this acute psychiatric situation plays only a tiny role in psychiatric psychology associated with pregnancy. Post-partum disorders, with the exception of "baby-blues", were seen infrequently, the majority of cases involving psychological difficulties with or without behavioural disturbances or somatic decompensation, but the onset of which could have been predictable if it had been possible to identify the risk factors of psychological decompensation which our study was able to demonstrate.

[The acute manifestations of alcoholism and their treatment (author's transl)]. / Manifestations de l'éthylisme aigu et leur traitement.

The effect of the ethyl alcohol on the system involves a symptomatology of clinical variable expression. The ethanol has an incontestable psychotrope effect. In small dose it calms anxiety but in large dose it mostly has an anesthesic effect and disturbs consciousness. The well-known acute inebriety beside, there is the pathologic hallucinatory and delusive inebrieties. The practitioner must affirm the correlation between the observed perturbations and the absorption of alcohol, eliminate some disease simulating an acute inebriety and take the therapeutic decisions which assert themselves in a dramatic atmosphere. In that emergency treatment, the use of the new neuroleptic, the tiapride looks us very interesting for it has a sedative effect on agitation; it respects the vigilance and it improves the consciousness.

[Concepts of inhibition in psychiatry]. / Les concepts d'inhibition en psychiatrie.

Following a historical approach, the authors first describe the original development of the concept of inhibition in neurophysiology and then analyze the subsequent adaptations made in psychiatry around such concept including those of: -- Pavlov, Hull, Watson and the behaviorists, -- Freud and the Freudian School, -- clinicians and psychopharmacologists. The concept of inhibition has thus various meanings in psychiatry. Although some unity is achieved on the semiological level, this aspect cannot explain the extent of the process.