Reflections and Opinions of a Mental Health Professional
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Henry Claude Barbot
Dr. Henry Claude Barbot is a graduate of the State University of Haiti. After obtaining his diploma in August of 1977, he proceeded to do a residency training in Internal Medicine at the State University Hospital, which he completed in September of 1980. Following after his father, Dr. Medrick P. Barbot, he later migrated to the United States in May of 1981 in order to further his medical education. After about 8 years in the United States, he was finally able to access the American world of medicine and completed his training in Psychiatry in June of 1993. Dr. Barbot is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology, the American Board of Addiction Medicine, and the American Board of Disability Analysts. He has been writing poetry in French, his native language, since his teenage years in the country of his birth, Haiti. However, he started writing about the human mind specifically when he initiated his residency training in Psychiatry.
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Reflections and Opinions of a Mental Health Professional - Henry Claude Barbot
© 2013 by Henry Claude Barbot, M.D. All rights reserved.
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Published by AuthorHouse 12/28/2012
ISBN: 978-1-4772-7808-6 (sc)
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Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
PREFACE
AUTHOR’S NOTE
CHAPTER 1: ANXIETY AND ANXIETY RELATED CONCEPTS
HOME HOSTAGES AND PRISONERS
INBORN WORRIERS
THE NEVER FADING IMAGES
CHAPTER 2: PERSONALITY AND PERSONALITY DEVELOPEMENT
HAZARDS LINKED TO PSYCHOLOGICAL GROWTH
VARIABILITY IN THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF HUMAN PERSONA
TORMENTED SOULS
ENTITLEMENT
CHAPTER 3: UNIVERSAL CONCEPTS
THE UNIVERSALITY OF DEATH
THE FEAR OF DYING
THE COURSE OF TIME
CHAPTER 4: FORENSICS CONCEPTS
VIOLENCE AND PSYCHIATRY
MENTALLY DISTURBED PRONE SOCIETY
CHAPTER 5: GERIATRIC CONCEPTS
THE GOLDEN YEARS
HEALTH AND OLD AGE
COGNITIVE DECLINE
CHAPTER 6: FOCUS ON SLEEP AND SLEEP RELATED CONDITIONS
THE ANALYSIS OF SLEEP
THE MYSTERIES OF SLEEP
CHAPTER 7: CULTURAL MATTER
HAITIAN VOODOO AN AFRICAN HERITAGE
VOODOO CEREMONY
CHAPTER 8: DEVELOPMENTAL MATTER
DEFENSE MECHANISM AND SURVIVAL STRATEGIES
MAJOR STEPS OF THE LIFE CYCLE
CHAPTER 9: MIND OVER MATTER
THE POWER OF MIND
CHAPTER 10: BIOLOGICAL CONCEPT
THE NEUROTRANSMITTERS CONNECTION AND BEYOND
BIOLOGICAL WONDERS, AT THE DAWN OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM
PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS AND NEURORECEPTORS
NEUROLOGICAL PATHWAYS, PSYCHIATRIC BIOLOGY
CHAPTER 11: HUMAN INTERACTION
FEELINGS AND BEINGS
DEMONS AND ANGELS
CHAPTER 12: EMOTIONAL, SEXUAL ABUSE AND ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIPS
DOMESTIC ABUSE VICTIMS
CHILDREN OF ABUSE
CHAPTER 13: PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC SUBTYPES
PSYCHOTHERAPY OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM
SUPPORTIVE/EXPRESSIVE/PSYCHODYNAMIC SPECTRUM
CHAPTER 14: SEX AND SEXUAL DISORDERS
SEX PHYSIOLOGY AND SEXUAL DISORDERS
CHAPTER 15: PSYCHOSIS AND PSYCHOTIC CONCEPTS
THE DEVASTATION OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
THOUSAND FACES OF INSANITY
INSANITY
CHAPTER 16: PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL MATTER
A TOUCH OF SUFFERING
CHAPTER 17: MISCELLANEOUS
A PIECE OF ART
VISION
REFERENCES
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
I would probably never have completed and published this book without the encouragement of my wife Joseline and my children Alina, Claudine, Henry Claude Jr., Henrika, and Joyce who all kept pushing me during the moments that I became reluctant and ambivalent about tackling this project. I also want to mention my colleague and brother-in-law Jean Joseph Lochard, M.D., who saw something valuable in my writings and kept emboldening me to move forward with it. I want to acknowledge my mother Anne Marie Blot and my late great aunt Alina Blot who both raised me. These women allowed me to become the person that I am today. Furthermore, I want to recognize my late father Medrick P. Barbot, M.D., who probably would have been proud of this accomplishment. He was the one who wanted me to follow in his footsteps. I am happy to thank all of you for believing in me and encouraging me to go on with the completion of this book. You all have brought out what could perhaps be the best of me.
Henry Claude Barbot, M.D.
PREFACE
It is a great pleasure for me to introduce to the readers this fascinating book written by Dr. Henry Claude Barbot. As you are navigating through this book, you are right away captured by the diversity of the delightful subjects presented, which actually touch in some way the essence of life. Through these seventeen chapters, written with passion and a great knowledge of The Mental Health Field
, we can easily recognize ourselves or relate to a family member, a friend, or a member of our community facing these psychiatric problems. That is indeed the beauty of this book. For too many of us, Psychiatry seems to be the part of the medical arena that frightens us the most. We consciously or unconsciously try to avoid it and refuse to make an effort to understand the dynamic of this specialty. Dr. Henry Claude Barbot definitely helps us to clearly understand in simple words the psychiatric events that may affect us every day, that we may not have fully comprehended before. Therefore, because we lack understanding, we are unable to play our part of helping to improve life for those experiencing mental problems. Furthermore, this book helps us realize that Psychiatrists should be much closer to us as our family’s friends, counselors, and advisors. We need to learn to consult them as soon as it becomes evident that their help is required, not when things are out of control and the situation becomes almost desperate. Let us consider all of the cases of suicides which could have been prevented if we were more attentive to the psychiatric aspects of so many problems that we are dealing with, either directly or indirectly. Some of the topics covered in this book include the following: personality development, the changes inherent to the major steps of the life cycle, the concept of aging and its impact on our health, domestic violence, child abuse, and even the peculiar subject of voodoo. In conclusion, I would like to commend Dr. Henry Claude Barbot for a job well done and invite you, the readers, to indulge in this book and get the best out of it.
Enjoy!!!
Jean Joseph Lochard, M.D.
AUTHOR’S NOTE
Reflections and Opinions of a Mental Health Professional
Reflections and Opinions of a Mental Health Professional
is a collection of dynamic episodes that I have encountered during my 20 years working with the human mind. This literary work identifies the impact of the devastation inflicted on individuals suffering from mental illnesses and disorders. Sharing my insight, I have utilized poetry as the platform to discuss how mental illnesses can create havoc in every day life. My goal is to introduce the mental agony, suffering and distress in a less complex manner so people from different social backgrounds can relate. Poetry has a way of capturing one’s interest, by deceitfully challenging their intellect to further examine the beauty of what was read. For the fearful that stray from reading about such dark, somber tales, I hope to enlighten them to reach within themselves and unveil any secrets that may be dormant or buried in the unconscious part of their mind. The book is indeed about the product of my twenty years of practice as a Psychiatrist, including the three years I spent as a resident in the Howard University Hospital Psychiatry Residency Training Program.
Twenty years that had an imprint and really marked me, as a human being and a physician, who has been blessed and honored by the privilege of working with the human mind.
The human mind, which seems so fragile and at the same time so resilient in its interaction with the inevitable stressors of our environment, the multiple stressors located everywhere in our world. Some of these stressors are necessary, in order to keep us on our toes and face our daily chores and challenges. Most of these stressors however, have been in place since the years before Christ. Since the origin of the world and throughout the years people have been facing disasters such as: earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, inundations, hurricanes, tornadoes, wars and various type of losses; such as loss of important others, loss of jobs, loss of social status, loss of our mental acuity and maybe worst of all, the loss of our youth. Once it is gone, there is nothing that can be done about it. We all know that once time takes our youth in its frenzy course, it will become uncatchable, and before we know it, we will find ourselves at the dusk of our life. We will find ourselves looking frantically for a youth, which we will be unable to locate, since it will be in the custody of time. And once time takes our youth under its wing, it will be gone with it. It will disappear with it and will not give it back to us. It will take our youth on an irreversible trip! And the same way, time gone is lost forever; our youth will be lost forever. Since it will be intimately bonded with time, both will be lost forever. It is therefore useless to grieve for either one of them. Since nothing can be done to recapture them. Nothing can be done to even freeze them, keep them pending. Once unleashed, they both continue their course inexorably.
Insensitive to our lamentations.
Indifferent to our whining.
Time will continue its chores; it will be engrossed in its callous task. Once it starts its