An addiction to seeking fortune-telling services: a case report.

The paper describes a case report of a 36-years old female patient suffering from an addiction to seeking fortune-telling services, which is a type of behavioral addiction, or non-substance addiction. This condition is characterized by the addiction to various "occult services", fortune tellers and other representatives of nontraditional practices who are usually manipulative and self-serving. The authors reveal that this case report of fortune telling addiction possesses all of six components universal for addictions.In light of the increasing prevalence of various behavioral addictions, clinical psychiatrists should be aware of this phenomenon.

Cult membership: What factors contribute to joining or leaving?

We assumed that, as in the case of addiction disorders, former cult members exhibit vulnerability and protective factors for cult commitment and membership. Thus, the aim of our study was to identify vulnerability factors that are involved in the commitment and in the retention in the group, as well as protective factors that are involved in the departure. We interviewed 31 former cult members, using semi-structured interviews to evaluate their clinical profile, characteristics of the cultic group and their experience in the group. Cult membership and addictive disorders share some characteristics: persistence despite damage, initial psychological relief, occupation of an exclusive place in the thoughts of members, high psychiatric comorbidity prevalence, high accessibility, leading to social precariousness and the importance of familial support when leaving. Three main axes of improvement were highlighted: regulations concerning cults in order to limit their social presence, which appears to be a vulnerability factor for commitment; social and therapeutic follow-up when a member leaves a group so that social precariousness does not become an obstacle to departure; and familial support to maintain a link with the member, as the intervention of a person from outside of the group is an important protective factor for leaving.

O índice de um enigma: o inconsciente e o fenômeno da premonição / The index of an enigma: the unconscious and the phenomenon of premonition

Em 1953, Devereux editou uma coletânea de textos de Freud sobre a psicanálise e o ocultismo. Apesar de pouco conhecidos, tais escritos foram fundamentais no debate com a filosofia francesa. Merleau-Ponty, por exemplo, debruçou-se sobre esta questão duas vezes: primeiro, relacionando a premonição com a percepção. Depois, a telepatia ao sentir. Sua conclusão nos leva a repensar o tema central da psicanálise: o inconsciente. Sua proposta é relacioná-lo à indivisão do sentir e à sua reversibilidade: vejo e sou visto(AU)

In 1953, Devereux edited a collection of Freud's texts on psychoanalysis and the occultism. Despite these texts being little known, they were crucial in the debate with the French philosophy. Merleau-Ponty, for instance, addressed this issue twice. At first, relating the premonition with perception. At another time, he links the telepathy with the sense. His conclusion leads us to rethink the focus of psychoanalysis: the unconscious. His proposal is to link it with the unity of the sense and its reversibility: to see and being seen(AU)

O índice de um enigma: o inconsciente e o fenômeno da premonição / The index of an enigma: the unconscious and the phenomenon of premonition

Em 1953, Devereux editou uma coletânea de textos de Freud sobre a psicanálise e o ocultismo. Apesar de pouco conhecidos, tais escritos foram fundamentais no debate com a filosofia francesa. Merleau-Ponty, por exemplo, debruçou-se sobre esta questão duas vezes: primeiro, relacionando a premonição com a percepção. Depois, a telepatia ao sentir. Sua conclusão nos leva a repensar o tema central da psicanálise: o inconsciente. Sua proposta é relacioná-lo à indivisão do sentir e à sua reversibilidade: vejo e sou visto...

In 1953, Devereux edited a collection of Freud's texts on psychoanalysis and the occultism. Despite these texts being little known, they were crucial in the debate with the French philosophy. Merleau-Ponty, for instance, addressed this issue twice. At first, relating the premonition with perception. At another time, he links the telepathy with the sense. His conclusion leads us to rethink the focus of psychoanalysis: the unconscious. His proposal is to link it with the unity of the sense and its reversibility: to see and being seen...

Genealogía hipnótica del mito del zombi: The Magic Island (1929) / Hipnotic Genealogy of the Myth of the Zombie: The Magic Island (1929)

Este es el primero de una serie de artículos en los que se pretende estudiar la historia y la significación psicológica del “mito del zombi” a través del análisis de sus elementos alegóricos y simbólicos partiendo de una conceptualización de “mito” extraída de las nociones de la psicología analítica de Jung y de la historia de las religiones de Eliade. Aquí profundizaremos en la genealogía simbólica que antecede y se inserta en la concepción del zombi en The Magic Island de Seabrook (primer texto donde aparece el zombi como muerto viviente) a través del análisis comparativo con el sonámbulo de la literatura y cinematografía del “lado oscuro del magnetismo animal y la hipnosis” y su relación con el autómata (AU)

This is the first of series of articles that aims to study the history and psychological significance of the “myth of the zombie” through the analysis of its allegorical and symbolic elements, based on a myth’s conceptualization extracted from the notions of Jung’s analytical psychology and Eliade’s history of religions. Here, we’ll look deeply into the symbolic genealogy that comes before and it’s inserted in zombie conception in Seabrook’s The magic island (first text where zombie appears as living dead) through a comparative analysis with the somnambulist in literature and filmography of “the dark side of animal magnetism and hypnosis” and its connection with the automaton (AU)

Switching off the cult.

There are more than 500 cults in Britain but where are the services to support those who leave and go on to develop mental health problems?

Lo oculto y las terapéuticas espiritistas del espíritu y del cuerpo en Francia (1850-1914): de la creencia al saber y vuelta / No disponible

En el período estudiado el espiritismo se desarrolla en Francia con un gran vigor. En su seno surge, desde el primer momento, una "medicina espiritista", heredada del precedente magnetismo animal, que se pone en práctica a través del sujeto/objeto de las experiencias espiritistas: el/la médium. Una característica de esta medicina es la sistemática apropiación de los descubrimientos realizados por las ciencias socialmente reconocidas, especialmente la medicina académica y la física, a menudo en franco conflicto con estas mismas ciencias. Se señalan las correspondencias entre el discurso espiritista y el espiritualista en sus dos versiones principales en ese momento (la religión y los trabajos de las Societies for Psychical Research anglosajonas) y se muestran los conflictos entre la doctrina espiritista y los desarrollos contemporáneos de la psicología experimental, la neurología y el psicoanálisis

In the period examined spiritualism developed in France with great vigour. From the very start, a "spiritualist medicine" arose -heir to its precedent, mesmerism, which eas put into practice through the subject/object of spiritualistic experiences: the medium. A characteristic of this medicine is the systematic appropriation of the discoveries made by the socially recognised sciences, particularly academic medicine and physics, although often in direct conflict with these same sciences. The relationship between the spiritualistic discourse and the spiritualist in their two principal versions at the time (religion and the works of the Anglo-Saxon Societies for Psychical Research) are noted, and conflicts between spiritualist doctrine and the contemporary developments of experimental psychology, clinical neurology and psychoanalysis are shown

Sobre los inicios del espiritismo en España: la epidemia psíquica de las mesas giratorias de 1853 en la prensa médica / No disponible

Este trabajo estudia, a través de la prensa médica española, el episodio de las mesas giratorias y parlantes que tuvo lugar entre abril y julio de 1853. Se analizan sucesivamente su recepción por los médicos, las experimentaciones que llevaron a cabo y las explicaciones que le dieron. Asimismo, se consideran las repercusiones que originó esta epidemia psíquica: la atracción de la atención hacia la actividad metnal inconsciente, el fomento que supuso para el magnetismo animal y el impulso que dio a la aparición del espiritismo

This paper studies the table-turning and table-tapping episode that took place between April and July of 1853 through the Spanish medical press. It is successively analyzed its reception by the doctors, the experiments they carried out and explanations they gave to that event. Besides, it is considered the repercussions originated by this psychological epidemic: the focusing of the attention towards the unconscious mental activity, the support that it was to the animal magnetism and the impulse that it gave to the appearance of the spiritualism

La psiquiatría y el fenómeno de las "apariciones" a finales del siglo XIX / No disponible

A finales del sigo XIX el auge de las sociedades y de las revistas ocultistas en Alemania era más que notable. Por eso llama la atención el silencio de la psiquiatría ante los casos de apariciones de fantasmas que a menudo se hacían públicos. Tomando como referencia dos de estos csos se intenta comprender los motivos de tal silencio. La tesis del artículo es que una disciplina que buscaba legitimarse científicamente decidió no "contaminarse" con asuntos que la ciencia y la medicina consideraban dudosos. Sólo a partir de la Primera Guerra Mundial tales fenómenos empezaron a ser objeto de interés en la medida en que podían considerarse casos patológicos ejemplares

At the end of the 19th century, the flourishing of occulist societies and periodicals in Germany was more than noteworthy. For this reason, the silence of psychiatry in the face of cases of apparitions of ghots which were often made public is striking. By taking as a reference two of these cases, an attempt is made to understand the reasons for such silence. The thesis of the article is that a discipline that was seeking to legitimate itself scientifically decided not to "contaminate itself" with matters that science and medicine considered doubful. It was only from the time of the First Worls War that such phenomena began to be a subject of interest, insofar as they could be considered exemplary pathological cases

The third in mind.

Various aspects of the occult as they relate to psychoanalysis are discussed in this article. Drawing on both Freud's writings and Granoff and Rey's (1983) work on the occult in Freudian thought, the author considers the concept of co-thinking and its manifestations in clinical work. The psychoanalytic third is viewed in the context of the occult element known as thought transference, or thought transmission, and is also considered as it bears on psychoanalytic supervision.

El incidente Forsyth: la misteriosa desaparición de un manuscrito / The Forsyth incident: the misterious disappearance of a manuscript

Al recorrer los distintos artículos de Freud que abordan la relación del Psicoanálisis con las ciencias ocultas se encuentran afirmaciones sorprendentes, contradictorias y aún inauditas. Este artículo intenta interrogar el valor de la conjunción en los títulos que anuncian el tratamiento del tema, abordando con especial interés uno de los ejemplos en el que el sujeto de la experiencia telepática es el propio Freud. Pero además, y esto es fundamental, le pasa con un paciente.