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Published in David Browne, Brenda Wright, Guy Molyneux, Mohamed Ahmed, Ijaz Hussain, Bangaru Raju, Michael Reilly, MRCPsych Paper I One-Best-Item MCQs, 2017
David Browne, Brenda Wright, Guy Molyneux, Mohamed Ahmed, Ijaz Hussain, Bangaru Raju, Michael Reilly
Answer: B. Cataplexy is temporary sudden loss of muscle tone, causing weakness and immobilisation. It can be precipitated by a variety of emotional states and is often followed by sleep. It is commonly seen in narcolepsy. Catalepsy is a condition in which a person maintains the body position into which they are placed. It is seen in catatonic schizophrenia and is also called waxy flexibility. Cathexis is a term from psychoanalysis meaning a conscious or unconscious investment of psychic energy into an idea, concept, object or person. Sleep paralysis is an episode of inability to move occurring between wakefulness and sleep, in either direction. Catatonic stupor is a state of decreased reactivity to stimuli in which the patient is aware of their surroundings. [P. pp. 849–59; D. p. 43]
100 MCQs from Dr. Brenda Wright and Colleagues
Published in David Browne, Selena Morgan Pillay, Guy Molyneaux, Brenda Wright, Bangaru Raju, Ijaz Hussein, Mohamed Ali Ahmed, Michael Reilly, MCQs for the New MRCPsych Paper A, 2017
Dr Olivia Gibbons, Dr Marie Naughton, Dr Selena Morgan Pillay
Cataplexy is temporary sudden loss of muscle tone, causing weakness and immobilisation. It can be precipitated by a variety of emotional states and is often followed by sleep. It is commonly seen in narcolepsy. Catalepsy is a condition in which a person maintains the body position in which they are placed. It is seen in catatonic schizophrenia and is also called waxy flexibility. Cathexis is a term from psychoanalysis meaning a conscious or unconscious investment of psychic energy into an idea, concept, object or person. Sleep paralysis is an episode of inability to move occurring between wakefulness and sleep, in either direction. Catatonic stupor is a state of decreased reactivity to stimuli in which the patient is aware of their surroundings. (5, p 43, 14, pp 849–59)
Contact: William S. Burroughs’s philosophy of love
Published in International Review of Psychiatry, 2023
Though he was inconsistent in his use of the term cathexis (Holt, 1962), a word plucked from Greek by James Strachey to translate Besetzen (Ornston, 1985), Freud most often used it to denote the human being’s redirected, reflex-inhibitive psychic energy that allows for deliberation as a precursor to effective adaptive behaviour (Connolly, 2016). Some confusion has surrounded the term, since Besetzen and its variants were originally used by Freud to mean the current of psychic energy that flows between neurons (Freud, 1950). Later, Freud distinguished free-flowing cathexis from quiescent cathexis, the latter being the exclusive instrument of the organism’s higher structural levels (Freud, 1920). Thus, the mature person was seen by Freud as being able to cathect internal objects, that is, to model future behaviour on memories of past experiences (Denis, 2005). Looking at Freud’s work at a whole, quiescent or psychically-bound cathexis seems to be equated with ‘secondary process’, or ‘ego’, leaving us to conclude that the human being has an inborn executive, that is, a unified subject that is able to do the cathecting, though Freud himself seems to have thought that free will is an illusion (Connolly, 2016).
Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men’s Lives
Published in Journal of Homosexuality, 2021
In the opening chapter, Odets poses the question: “Are gay men homosexuals?” In response, he offers a newly coined term to replace the outdated biomedical notion of homosexuality: homocathexis. Derived from the psychological concept of cathexis—the attachment of emotion to other people—homo-cathexis provides a useful device for shifting away from a scholarship and practice of defining gay men based on who they have sex with, instead defining and understanding gay men as having an emotional sensibility that includes attraction and love, in addition to sex, with others of the same gender. Odets has heard from hundreds of his gay men clients over the years: “The only thing other men are interested in is sex, and that’s not what I want, it’s not enough.” A consequence of this false belief, and reified by historic biomedical notions of homosexuality, is a culture of emotional separation within gay communities—difficult spaces for many gay men to make meaningful social connections.
Gendered powerlessness in at-risk adolescent and young women: an empirical model
Published in AIDS Care, 2020
Danielle Chiaramonte, Robin Lin Miller, KyungSook Lee, Olga J. Santiago Rivera, Ignacio D. Acevedo-Polakovich, Sara McGirr, Jennifer L. Porter, Jonathan M. Ellen, Cherrie B. Boyer
A growing body of international literature examines global inequalities in rates of HIV among women using Connell’s Theory of Gender and Power (1987, 2013). Gendered powerlessness refers to women’s lack of power in social relationships with men. Gendered power reflects men’s ability to limit women’s self-determination and exercise control over women’s agency. Connell identifies three social structures that characterize power dynamics in heterosexual relationships (Connell, 1987, 2013): (1) Sexual Division of Labor; (2) Sexual Division of Power; and (3) Cathexis. Sexual Division of Labor reflects women’s inability to access economic resources and attain financial independence. Sexual Division of Power concerns dynamics within sexual relationships that leave women vulnerable to coercion. Cathexis refers to restrictive social norms regarding sexuality and gender, as well as those that limit access to reproductive health information. These three structures of gendered powerlessness interact and manifest at the interpersonal, institutional, and societal level (Connell, 2013).