RESUMEN
Apresenta a categoria médica da neurastenia, criada em solo estadunidense no fim do século XIX pelo neurologista George Beard. São apresentadas as características gerais do quadro clínico, bem como as principais hipóteses explicativas para os sintomas, e as proposições terapêuticas sugeridas nas obras do referido autor. Além disso, é discutida a recepção do diagnóstico fora dos EUA, tanto no que se refere ao seu uso na Europa quanto ao caso específico do Brasil.
The article addresses the medical category of neurasthenia, developed in the United States by neurologist George Beard at the close of the nineteenth century. Points of discussion include the principle features of the category's clinical presentation, the main hypotheses advanced to account for symptoms, and the treatment alternatives suggested in Beard's works. The article also looks at how the diagnosis was received outside the United States, both in Europe and, more specifically, in Brazil.
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Humanos , Historia del Siglo XIX , Neurastenia/diagnóstico , Neurastenia/etiología , Neurastenia/historia , Neurastenia/terapia , Trastornos de Conversión , Historia del Siglo XIXRESUMEN
Este artigo apresenta um pequeno estudo sobre as neuroses num enfoque psiconalítico, visando introduzir, principalmente, o clínico e o médico de formaçäo organicista numa área com a qual estes profissionais näo estäo muito familiarizados - as doenças de etiologia psicogênica
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Humanos , Histeria/etiología , Neurastenia/etiología , Trastorno Obsesivo Compulsivo/etiología , Trastornos Neuróticos/clasificación , Trastornos Neuróticos/terapiaRESUMEN
Work psychopathology concept is outlined, restricted, however, to different disorders and conflicts whose actual cause is to be found in the intrinsic mechanism of work-related activity. Environment- and life condition-related causes are disregarded. Nervous fatigue neurasthenoid syndrome is understood as a result of a dephasing between CNS neurophysiological timing and work rhythms. The author stresses that taking productivity as a parameter for nervous fatigue measurement--which substituted for the former muscular fatigue criterion in industry--is quite erroneous an opinion. Ergonomy is to be developed: Ergonomy is an interdisciplinary science which studies concordance between Man's physical and psychophysiological possibilities and properties, and possibilities and properties of contemporary work technical systems and their functioning conditions as well.