
Le syndrome de Diogène (SD) est un trouble comportemental des personnes âgées. El tratamiento inicial debe ser un programa conductual, pero no hay suficiente informatión relacionada con el tratamiento farmacologico del síndrome.

Los investigadores han destacado la presencia frecuente de SD (36%) en la demencia fronto-temporal (DFT) y diversas modificaciones neuropsicológicas de ésta pueden contribuir a los síntomas del SD. En el estudio Eastern Baltimore la demencía se encontró en el 15% de los ancianos con un síndrome de desintegración social moderado o grave el doble que en el mismo grupo etario de la poblacíon general. Desde hace tiempo se sabe que las personas con demencia con frecuencia llegan a estar confinados, viviendo en la miseria. Para explorar el fenómeno del SD en la demencia se buscaron los términos: “síndrome de Diógenes, autoabandono, demencia”. Esto se acompaña de un aislamiento autoimpuesto, el rechazo a la ayuda externa y una tendencia a acumular objetos extraños. Los síntomas incluyen: vivir en la miseria extrema, un abandono del estado físico y condiciones antihigiénicas. The initial treatment should be a behavioral program, but there is not sufficient information regarding pharmacological treatment of the syndrome.Įl síndrome de Diógenes (SD) es un trastorno de la conducta de los ancianos. Researchers have underlined the frequent presence of DS (36%) in frontotemporal dementia (FTD): different neuropsychological modifications in FTD may contribute to symptoms of DS. ” It has long been understood that individuals with dementia often become shut-ins, living in squalor, in the Eastern Baltimore study, dementia was present in 15% of the elderly cases with moderate and severe social breakdown syndrome twice as many as in the general population of the same age group. To explore the phenomenon of DS in dementia we searched for the terms: “Diogenes syndrome, self-neglect, dementia. This is accompanied by a self-imposed isolation, the refusal of external help, and a tendency to accumulate unusual objects. Symptoms include living in extreme squalor, a neglected physical state, and unhygienic conditions. It brought him, as one of the most famous French lyric poets ever, unbroken fame and inspired writers like Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Celan.Diogenes syndrome (DS) is a behavioral disorder of the elderly. With his ‘Flowers of Evil’, Baudelaire sets himself apart from romanticism and ushers in modernism, in terms of style and content. Forces that are raw, disgusting, even Satanic, prevail. In his work, the individual is condemned to resignation – isolated and incapable of finding a permanent fulfillment in any other person or thing.

Numerous images and metaphors serve to illustrate the ‘ennui’ of modern man, this feeling made of melancholy, weariness and boredom.īaudelaire unmasks the petit bourgeois longing for harmony and happiness as fallacy. His clear composition and the strict poetic forms render the language with its rich symbolic meaning all the more powerful. Man on the brink, adrift and uprooted, especially in the monster-like metropolis, constitutes the subject-matter of Baudelaire’s work. We exact a high price for our confessions,īelieving that base tears wash away all our stains. Our sins are obstinate, our repentance is faint

Eventually, however, Baudelaire and his publisher Poulet-Malassis only had to pay a substantial fine.Īlready the first lines of the initial chapter of the 100 thematically arranged poems make clear what it is all about: Another six poems, which were believed to be too offensive, were banned from publication.

The author was accused of insulting public decency and of blasphemy. Upon the 1857 publication of the French original ‘Les Fleurs du Mal’, the volume of poetry shocked both the general public and the critics. With ‘The Flowers of Evil’, Charles Baudelaire wrote a book of scandal of the modernist literary movement.
