Journal of Depression and Anxiety
Open Access
ISSN: 2167-1044
ISSN: 2167-1044
Mendez M
Switzerland
Case Report
Phenomenological Understanding of Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia: A Clinical Case Presenting Howls and Shouting. The Melancholic Type and Phenomenology of Separation
Author(s): Tible O
Tible O
Background: Behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia cause great suffering in patients and their families. Phenomenology can help us to clarify the diagnosis and propose some new therapeutic responses, using Daseinanalyse. Phenomenology, that may be complementary to a complete clinical examination, is a Science and a Philosophy. Separation issue and the melancholic type (MT), described by Tellenbach, could explain a melancholy in dementia, using clinical assessment and phenomenology.
Subject and methods: A 90-year-old woman who presents a mixed dementia Cluster Dementia Rating, shouting and howls, is the clinical case. The BPSD crisis factors are highlighted. Our first hypothesis is a separation anxiety. We evaluated depression and BPSD using the NPI*, Cornell scale and Montgomery Asberg Depression Rating Scale in order to confirm .. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2167-1044.1000290