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Cuando las pesadillas son un problema. Un estudio de caso.
2020
El siguiente trabajo expone la aplicación de la Terapia de Exposición, Relajación y Reescritura de la pesadilla (ERRT) en un caso de una joven de 25 años con un diagnóstico previo de Trastorno Límite de la Personalidad. Tras la evaluación se llegó al diagnóstico de un trastorno por pesadillas subagudo moderado y un trastorno de ritmo circadiano de sueño-vigilia secundario, de fases retrasadas episódico y caracterizado por dos tipos de pesadillas recurrentes. La intervención se dividió en cuatro sesiones semanales y cinco sesiones de seguimiento. Los resultados de este caso muestran que aplicar los componentes de la ERRT desarrollada por Davis (2009) sobre pesadillas idiopáticas es eficaz. L…
POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER: A FREQUENT WORK-RELATED ILLNESS
2012
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that results from exposure to a traumatic event, and is characterized by hypermnesia of the traumatic event with frequent re-experiencing of the tragic occurrence, hyperarousal, and avoidance behaviour. Depression, anxiety, sleep dysfunction and substance abuse are also commonly reported. PTSD is highly prevalent both in the general population and in certain occupations that are particularly exposed to life-threatening situations, physically and psychological demanding activities, and physical assault, such as rescue workers, firefighters and paramedics. Recent advances in the comprehension of the epidemiology, physiopathology and…
'A Ghastly and Blasphemous Nightmare ': Environmental Ethics in Dickens's Journalism
2018
In the article ironically entitled A Monument of French Folly, published in Household Words, 8th of March, 1851, Charles Dickens targeted a number of civic reforms in municipal abattoirs located within the city walls of London as well as the English arrogant reluctance to adopt the hygienic measures practiced in French slaughterhouses. Dickens’s article was part of the foregoing struggle to relocate the Smithfield livestock market and surrounding slaughterhouses from the City of London in the city outskirts, so as to prevent ventilation problems and the risk of miasmic infection. The aim of this paper is to examine Dickens’s article in the light of contemporary environmental concerns. I wil…