Papers by Federico Allodi
Canadian Journal of Criminology and Corrections, 1975
Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal, 1972
Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal, 1972
This paper describes the organization and operation of a therapeutic social club run on a multi-a... more This paper describes the organization and operation of a therapeutic social club run on a multi-agency basis, and attempts to evaluate its efficacy. A number of factors arose in the fall of 1968 which promoted the formation of the Community Group Program. 1) Since the Clarke Institute was located about six miles from East York the staff felt that it needed to have some sort of local base, primarily for group therapy. 2) The use of groups and the teaching of group techniques in order to maximize the use of available personnel had long been one of the goals of the Project. 3) Likewise, plans to develop 'tertiary prevention' facilities in East York had been under consideration for some time. These plans assumed priority when the local public health nurses strongly expressed the need for an improvement in the follow-up care of patients discharged from a mental hospital. 4) The Project was especially receptive to any program which would lend itself to co-operative operation by several agencies. This would demonstrate the feasibility of this type of coordinated effort and, more specifically, would help to weld various East York helping agents. 5) Finally, the community organization strategies at that time suggested the need for a program which was visible, successful and easily understood as being useful.
Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal, 1978
The authors examined physical health in relation to length of psychiatric hospitalization. One hu... more The authors examined physical health in relation to length of psychiatric hospitalization. One hundred and three consecutive patients admitted to an Ontario psychiatric hospital were studied for age, sex, marital status, living arrangements, previous psychiatric hospitalizations, psychiatric diagnosis and length of stay. The patients were classified as physically healthy, with minor or with major illness present. Physical health was found to have a significant association with length of psychiatric hospitalization. Healthy patients tended to stay a shorter period of time (1–3 days) and those with major illness stayed longer (greater than 21 days). As expected, marital status and psychiatric diagnosis were also associated with length of stay; married persons stayed for shorter periods and those with functional and organic psychoses stayed longer. The direct association between physical health and length of hospitalization has not been reported before and, in considering the role of t...
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1981
patterns resulting in conflict with the milieu. It is quite obvious from the bibliographies in ea... more patterns resulting in conflict with the milieu. It is quite obvious from the bibliographies in each chapter that the author has reviewed a considerable amount of literature as well as making his own contribution to the literature in the present study. This reviewer found the material interesting, thought provoking and useful in the clinical approach to this particular problem. As the author suggests, the conclusions presented here have marked implications for discharge planning and community treatment for the schizophrenic. The global approach to the discharge planning of schizophrenic patients has been used in the past, often unfortunately to the detriment of this patient population. The price of $35 may be prohibitive for individual purchase. However, this book should be available to all physicians involved in the treatment of schizophrenia and certainly to residents in training. G.W. PoweIl, M.D. Ottawa, Ontario
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1988
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1981
Clinical data are reported from a psychiatric service to Native Canadian patients, mainly Cree In... more Clinical data are reported from a psychiatric service to Native Canadian patients, mainly Cree Indians. Eighteen out of 41 had a clinical diagnosis of depression, three of mania and only one of schizophrenia. Thirty-seven percent used alcohol to excess but alcoholism was rarely the primary diagnosis. Reasons are given for the belief that schizophrenia has been over-diagnosed in Native populations in the past. Seventy-eight percent spoke Cree/Inuit as their primary language. The patients usually held their parents in high regard despite often reporting that they were alcoholic. In reply to tentative enquiries into feelings about their Native identity, only 5% of the patients indicated a preference for another identity, but this figure is only considered to give a minimum estimate of the possible dissatisfaction with being Native in Canada today.
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1982
In the last two decades widespread use of torture by totalitarian governments has been reported i... more In the last two decades widespread use of torture by totalitarian governments has been reported in over 60 countries. This situation concerns physicians who are sometimes called upon to see the victims. This paper reports the psychiatric findings in a group of 41 Latin American refugees who arrived in Canada from 1977 to 1979 and alleged to have been subjected to political persecution and torture under the military rulers of their own countries. Most of them, young educated men, were apprehended violently and imprisoned under conditions below the minimum international standards. Systematic physical and psychological torture was the rule, including blindfolding, beatings, electrical shocks, sexual abuse and threats of execution or sham executions. These experiences were followed by a cluster of psychiatric symptoms and physical evidence of trauma compatible with the history given. This pattern constitutes the torture syndrome included under category 308 and 309 of the DSM-III and ICD...
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1990
This paper reports a retrospective study of the frequency, severity, modalities and mental health... more This paper reports a retrospective study of the frequency, severity, modalities and mental health consequences of torture in 28 Latin American refugee women in Toronto. The data on these women and a comparison group of male torture victims were retrieved from case records in a hospital outpatient clinic. The results support the hypotheses implicit in the scanty literature available that the frequency and effects of torture in women differ from those found in men. Infernale victims, as in their male counterparts, the severity of the torture was related to the degree of their political involvement. However, torture was more frequently sexual, and its consequences more often affected the women's sexual adaptation.
International Journal of Mental Health, 1989
Canada's mental health, 1978
The authors sketch the development of the mental hospital in the U.S.A. and Canada through the 19... more The authors sketch the development of the mental hospital in the U.S.A. and Canada through the 19th and 20th centuries. It is proposed that from the days of Pinel in France, Tuke in Scotland , Dorothea Linde Dix and Benjamin Rush in the U.S.A., and Bucke in Canada to the present day, the management of the psychiatric patient in need of hospital care has followed, in part, a cyclical pattern. Much of what is called progress could, in fact, be a retrograde step in the history of the mental hospital The rise and fall of the " Moral Treatment" programs towards the middle of the last century and the one-hundred-year period of biological and medical thinking that followed are discussed. The community psychiatry movement of the 1960s and its effect on the reduction of the inpatient population of the mental hospital, with specific data supplied for the province of Ontario and the provincial mental hospital in the city of Toronto, are also discussed. Finally, the current trend to reduce drastically the number of mental hospital beds, " The Revolving Door " phenomenon in the admission and readmission to the mental hospital, and the fate of the chronic psychiatric patient in view of the lack of adequate community-based supporting services, are interpreted as an ominous return to the past when patients did not have
Medicine, Conflict and Survival, 1999
... THOMAS MILLER,* MUSTAFA EL-MASRI, FEDERICO ALLODT+ AND SAMIR QOUTA+ ... An international res... more ... THOMAS MILLER,* MUSTAFA EL-MASRI, FEDERICO ALLODT+ AND SAMIR QOUTA+ ... An international research team was established to design and implement a community-based, cross-section epidemiological survey of 669 school-age Palestinian children and their ...
Social Science & Medicine, 1988
How ordinary young men can become unquestioning torturers is the subject of the film 'You... more How ordinary young men can become unquestioning torturers is the subject of the film 'Your neighbour's son', reviewed here. The indoctrination of selected Greek military recruits during the junta years (1967-1974) was designed to turn them into torturers by subjecting them to sustained brutalization. The process of indoctrination and its post-junta outcome is documented through interviews with several recruits, who
Pain, 1976
The psychiatric complications following acci dents at work or on the roads constitute a problem o... more The psychiatric complications following acci dents at work or on the roads constitute a problem of considerable magnitude in the Province of Ontario. In a large industrial community, such as Toronto, accidents at work are reported centrally to the Workmen's Compensation Board (WCB), and it is the opinion of their medical officers that only a minimal fraction of those involved in acci dents presents a serious psychiatric problem. However, this small core poses a challenge to treatment and rehabilitation. In 1966 A. W. White reported that, "the failure of treatment indicates that present-day methods of man agement of such patients are unsatisfactory" (20). Although The Handbook on Permanent Disability Evaluation (22) offers guidelines, these seem to be inadequate when applied to psychiatric problems (23). Every psychiatrist has experienced the fol lowing difficulties when attempting to pro vide the WCB or a lawyer with the report of a consultation in such cases: • The pre-accident status has to be determ ined in a retrospective manner, relying heavily on informants who may be biased. • Psychiatric symptomatology is potentially affected by the very process of medicolegal •This project was carried out with a grant from the Workmen's Compensation Board of Ontario. Revised manuscript received May 1973.
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1982
"What they are;" "Where does it happen?" and "What does he say?" An... more "What they are;" "Where does it happen?" and "What does he say?" An important aspect for Canadians is that it discusses the origin of a particular section of the law which deals with this offence. There are two pages of wide ranging bibliography, the most recent being 1975. The second half of the book consists of self-test questions on each of the sections and sub-sections in the first half, followed by answers on a separate page, and instructions for self-rating as to whether the number and quality of correct answers merits a re-reading of that section of text. I was unhappy over the relatively large number of typographical errors. This particularly marred the answers in assessing the clinical examples; namely, Was the offender a "true exhibitionist," "possibly an exhibitionist," or "inadequate information"? Fortunately the answer text would correct the errors in the self-scoring column. As a minor point I found annoying the combination of small print and moderately frequent lengthy sentences. The small size, low cost and general clarity of this text outweigh its shortcomings. It could be used by individuals or an instructor working in the field of corrections. To improve a subsequent edition I could recommend only shortening some of the sentences and annotating parts of the bibliography. Considering the high incidence of exhibitionistic acts, this book certainly has a place.
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