International Congress of Aplied Psychology in Copenhagen

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in this post we present a commemorative postmark from 14.º Congress of Aplied Psychology that was realized in 1961, at Copenhagen from 13th to 19th of August.

The date of the postmark is 16/08/1961 

Postmark from International Symposium on Psychosomatic Medicine of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

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today we present to you the postmark from the International Symposium on Psychosomatic Medicine of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, that realize in Cluj Napoca in March 27, 2003.

International Symposium on Psychosomatic Medicine of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

RECENT PROGRESS AND CURRENT TRENDS. Cluj, Romania, 27-29 March 2003

Author: Prof. Dr. I.B. Iamandescu

Epidemiological and experimental proofs sustain the intervention of psychic stimuli (psychological stress and conditional reflexes) in the occurrence and evolution of allergic asthma (as main nonspecific triggers, beside allergens). These data suggest some ways of psychological factors' insertion in neurogenic mechanisms of asthma. The action of "primary stress" (life events) increases the bronchial hyper-responsivity but also modifies the patterns of patient's behavior, inclusively his attitude versus therapeutic compliance. The "secondary stress" induced by the illness (asthma attacks and its severe evolution) - represents another factor which enclose a vicious circle of psychological factors' intervention in asthma. The personality traits of the asthmatics represent a "resonance box" to these psychological stimuli, and they are involved in asthmatics' bad quality of life (determined by the discomfort of the disease and the drug's side effects), as well as in their relationship with the allergist, being a main factor for the application of an optimal supportive psychotherapy. All these reasons can be invoked for a reconsideration of the psychological dimensions of the allergic asthma, and are the support for an algorithm of psychosomatic approach in asthmatics. The steps of this approach are as follows:

1. establishing the psychological factors' role among nonspecific trigger of asthma;
2. evaluation of the personality traits and biography of asthma patients;
3. the diagnostic of eventually-added neurotic symptoms;
4. evaluation of the quality of life, linked to the disease and/or to the management effects;
5. establishing of the favoring or minimizing features of the asthmatic personality and of his psychosocial insertion, for a good therapeutic compliance;
6. elaboration of an own allergologic strategy for a simple supportive therapy.

Lacking this psychosomatic approach of allergic asthma patients by their allergist, despite the real possibilities of clinical healing, it is an obvious danger for a large migration of the asthmatics towards the alternative medicine practitioners, who are based, generally, on a more comprehensive (including psychological) approach of their patients.

Retired from: http://healthpsy.home.ro/scientific02.html

Freud (stamp from Portugal)

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today we present a mini sheet of stamp issued in Portugal in 2000 (to commemorate the XX century. In the stamp related with the human sciences and medicin we can see the portrait of Sigmund Freud.

Catalog Yvert Tellier n.º 2369 to 2380

Catalog Yvert & Tellier n.º 2373

Carl Jung (stamp from Grenada)

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in this post we present to you a stamp issued in the Grenade in 1973, were we can see the face from Carl Jung.

Carl Jung

Freud Stamp from Grenada

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today we have a picture from a stamp Grenada issued in 1973 that brings the face of Freud

Freud (Stamp from Czech Republic)

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today we bring the image of a stamp issued in the Czech Republic.

Pribor is the birthplace of Sigmund Freud

Freud (Stamp Marshal Island)

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in this post we present one stamp from the Marshall Island issued about the 20th Century.


The first day circulation of this stamp was April, 15, 1997.

First day cover