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Background: Detection of childhood traumas is important both in clinical practice and in research. There is a pressing need for methods that are relatively simple but comprehensive, non-intrusive, and possess adequate psyc - ho metric properties. In this study we translated one of the most widely used and well-studied measure of childhood abuse and neglect and explored the psychometrical properties of this questionnaire.

Methods: The study was based on data from a clinical (N=171) and a normative (N=358) sample. In total 529 adults participated in the testing process. Beside the trauma questionnaire Parental Bonding Inventory, Impact of Events Scale and Dissociative Experiences Scale were administered.

Results: We examined the internal consistency of the translated trauma questionnaire. The Cronbach's a coefficients for the five subscales ranged from 0,639 to 0,934. Participants in the clinical sample reached higher scores on all trauma subscales except sexual abuse, than normative adults [PA: t (398)=-2,771; p=0,006; PN: t (398)=-5,990; p=0,000; EA: t (398)=-3,679; p=0,000; EN: t (398)=-4,759; p=0,000; total score: t (398)=-4,669; p=0,000]. Correlations among the trauma questionnaire total score and the scales of Parental Bonding Inventory indicating some medium effects (with maternal care: r=-0,661; p=0,000; with paternal care: r=-0,483; p=0,000).

Conclusion: Our preliminary findings suggest that this trauma questionnaire is practical and facilitates the systema - tic evaluation of adverse early life events and maximizes the possibility of detecting childhood abuse and neglect.

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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is one of psychiatry's most long-standing and criticized treatments. Some of the criticisms come from the ethical aspect of ECT. The authors review the ethical issues of clinical application and research of ECT. ECT in the treatment of psychiatric patients is considered ethical, if it is conducted according to the four main principles of bioethics (beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy and justice). ECT research should also comply with other international guidelines and research ethics codes. In recent decades, the principle of informed consent has become widespread in psychiatry, which requires objective information from the attending doctor according to the most reliable scientific information. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities considers psychiatric disorders to be part of the concept of disability. For disabled psychiatric patients, assisted decision-making is a desirable way of self-determination. In doing so, it is important to use decision support instead of decision-substituting mechanisms, although for patients lacking insight, decisionsubstituting mechanisms are unavoidable.

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Anne Sexton began writing poetry during psychiatric treatment following a severe episode of depression, on the advice of her psychiatrist, and went on to become one of the most celebrated among the so-called confessional poets. Her oeuvre offers insight into the emotional struggles of a middle-class woman living in 1950s and 1960s Ame - rica, with poems exploring previously scandalous themes such as female sexuality, domestic violence and mental ill - ness. The latter is the focus of this paper. Anne Sexton suffered from mental problems, more specifically bipolar disorder, which was accompanied by addiction to alcohol and various medicines. She was unable to come to terms with the trauma she may have suffered in childhood, and she herself abused her children later on. Her inner struggles are reflected in her poetry, which she began to write as a therapeutic acticity. Her poems give us a glimpse into the more intimate struggles of her being, which she was unable to resolve in this way - and so she ended her life.

According to French clinicians, Auguste Rodin's mother suffered from haptephobia: her phobia concluded in avoiding to touch her son. This physical and emotional deprivation was a traumatic experience for the young Rodin, and both facilitated his artistic formation and lead to the birth of several artworks. 'Body' and 'touch' emerged to a central motif of his art, and into a sublimation process what we tend to interpret as the result of the maternal coldness. This psychobiographic study aims to examine the imprints of this development in the oeuvre, leaning on parallel analysis of artworks and biographical details.