sábado, 21 de junio de 2008

Investigación-Psiquiatría Transcultural

Cosmetic Surgery, Psychopathology and Body Dysmorphic Disorder in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
A Transcultural Study.

Damián Berenstein – Psychiatrist – University of Buenos Aires.
Marieke Aafjes – Cultural Anthropologist – University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands .

Abstract
In this article the relation between the practice of cosmetic surgeries and the presence of various mental illnesses, especially Body Dysmorphic Disorder, is analyzed. From an interdisciplinary and transcultural viewpoint the authors have made use of both qualitative and quantitative methods and have integrated perspectives from the respective fields of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Psychiatry in order to evaluate the data in its socio-cultural context.

Diágñosis 2007, vol. 4 (pag. 20-61)


En este artículo evaluamos la relación entre la practica de cirugías estéticas, diversos trastornos mentales (especialmente el Trastorno Dismórfico Corporal), y el contexto socio-político en el cual el crecimiento explosivo de la práctica de cirugías estéticas tuvo lugar, desde los 90 hasta la fecha.


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links relacionados

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
http://www2.umdnj.edu/crlmhweb/2007/presentation_11.htm

viernes, 20 de junio de 2008

jueves, 19 de junio de 2008

CONSULTORIO-ESPACIO DE ARTE






Damian Berenstein - Pedro Cuevas

INAUGURACIÓN

El dia 30/05/2008 inauguramos el CONSULTORIO-ESPACIO DE ARTE con la muestra individual del Artista Plástico Pedro Cuevas (Instalacion y performance)
http://www.pedrocuevas.net/

Las muestras se renuevan mensualmente con distintos artistas.
Las mismas son abiertas al público durante el día de la inauguracion, permaneciendo durante el resto del mes como muestra privada para los pacientes.

Proxima muestra : Artista Joaquin Goldstein

http://www.joaquingoldstein.com.ar/

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domingo, 8 de junio de 2008

Dr.Damián Berenstein


Damian J. Berenstein, M.D., is graduated from The University of Buenos Aires. He was resident and trainer of residents in T. Alvarez Hospital (Buenos Aires), and also worked in Borda Hospital and Moyano Hospital (Argentina), and San Carlos Hospital (Madrid-Spain).
Nowadays he develops his clinical practice as psychiatrist and psychotherapist in his private practice.
Dr. Berenstein research and academic interests are focused in Transcultural Psychiatry. He has done his post grade education and training in Mc.Gill University ( Montreal-Canada) and Montreal University (Canada). He has worked with the Wichi (aboriginal) population in Chaco Province of Argentina, and was the author of the video documentary “El Impenetrable Wichi”. He has been professor of Anthropology in the Association of Argentinean Psychiatrits (APSA). His last researches were “Cosmetic Surgery, Psychopathology and Body Dismorphic Disorder in Buenos Aires – Argentina” (Diagnosis 2007, Nº 4. P 20-61), and “Subtle Dissociative Phenomena in Casamance, Southern Senegal” (not published yet).
At the present time he is working in collaboration with the National Council of Scientific and Technique Investigations (CONICET-Argentina) to create the first Service of Transcultural Psychiatry in Buenos Aires City.