3 credits
This course provides a generalintroduction to dependencies, the criteria of addiction, and the epidemiology of dependencies. It also looks at different drugs, addictions, the psychopathology of drug addicts, the takeover of a cure and post cure, and possible therapies in addictions. The alcoholic illness, psychopathology of dependent alcoholics, consumers at risk and problems, the care of alcohol addiction, eating disorders (bulimia, anorexia, etc.) will also be covered, as well as the addiction to medication, tranquillizers and hypnotics, and mental illnesses that lead to abuse of medicines.
3 credits
This course examines clinical psychology: exploring its definition, its history, its method, its boundaries and the many application fields by showing how the models (psychodynamic, cognitivebehavioral, neuropsychological) influence clinical practice. Such teaching will be done through a variety of clinical cases and illustrations and is spanned by a critical and constructivistic perspective.
3 credits
The course begins by looking at the concept of stress, specifically covering: evolution of conceptions on psychosocial determinants of health and disease, stress issues, the concept of stress, and definitions; the epidemiological model (prospective research, retrospective, quasiprospective, and risk factors); the biological model (Pavlov, Cannon, Laborit, Selye); the psychoanalytic model (concept of trauma, conversion mechanism, the concept of protective shield, the concept of selfskin, poststroke mechanism); the psychosomatic model (Groddeck, Alexander, critic of the typology of Dunbar; School of Marty, concept of operational thinking; contemporary American school, concept of alexithymia); Stress Assessment Methods (scales of "life events", of daily hassles, of perceived stress); transactional stress approach (theories of Lazarus and Folkman, primary assessment, secondary assessment, identification and assessment methods of different concepts - perceived stress, perceived control, social support, coping strategies); links between personality traits (locus of control, expectation, sense of coherence, selfefficacy, etc.); and coping and stress adjustment. The second part of the course examines Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), covering topics on: definitions of trauma; the different approaches to trauma (psychoanalytic approach for archaic trauma, cognitive approach (conditioning model of fear), neuropsychological approach (theory of Damasio); Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; the various sources of PTSD; PTSD diagnostic criteria; psychosocial determinants of PTSD; protective factors of PTSD; PTSD Evaluation Methods; stress and war trauma; takeovers and prevention of PTSD; debriefing, hypnosis, EMDR, cognitive and behavioral therapies; Cells of MedicoPsychological Emergency (WAC); and specificities of takeovers in children and adolescents.
3 credits
The objective of this seminar is to reflect on the history of classifications in psychopathology. The seminar provides insight into how nosography has transformed and enriched for over a century. Similarly, it focuses on the first descriptions of mental illnesses, on the evolution of ideas in psychopathology and the various etiologies found across the time. It takes its beginning from the descriptions of Bleuler, Charcot, Serious Capgras, etc., passing through the extremely rich writings of Henri Ey, until reaching the DSM and ICD.