Fenômenos alucinatórios auditivos em pacientes com zumbido: relações com o psiquismo / Auditory hallucinatory phenomena in tinnitus patients: relation with psychism

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2009

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In the last few years, our Tinnitus Research Group identified a growing number of patients that repeatedly reported, in addition to tinnitus, perceptions of music and voices. Such hallucinatory phenomena inspired us to study their possible relation with these patients psychism. Objective: To assess whether the delusive phenomena of tinnitus patients are psychosis and / or depression related, in addition to clarify its content and function in the psychism. Methods: Ten subjects (8 women, mean age 65.7 years) were assessed by the Factorial Inventory of Personality (FIP), the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS), semi-structured interviews and psychoanalytic interviews. Results: All results showed a relationship between auditory phenomena and neurosis or depressive symptoms. Nine patients showed a clear relationship between the psychism and the content or function of their phenomena, which represented or rescued affective aspects of life. The repetition of the phenomena and the suffering offered a paradoxical satisfaction, which was noticeable in all cases. Conclusion: A significant relationship between tinnitus, hallucinatory phenomena and depression was evidenced by the paradoxical satisfaction with the repetition of suffering, which is linked to the neurotic trait.

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psychoanalysis auditory hallucinations tinnitus depression psicanálise zumbido alucinações auditivas depressão

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