Le combat de coqs en tant que ludopathie addictive

Abstract

There are records of the cockfight that date back to 3000 BC; Cleopatra was known to be very fond of that distraction. Saint Augustine has expressed in glowing terms about the cock, and it is said that Hernan Cortez landed with his roosters when he arrived on Mexican shores. Despite its symbolic importance and psychopathology, the cockfight has remained outside the psychiatric gaze. Social addictions or without drug addiction are now being recognized and attention is paid to the problem of addictive gambling. The initial motivation for this work came from a patient who consulted for this problem. The purpose of this paper is to explore the experiential world of the patient through the phenomenological and existential analysis. It took the field observation to determine the psychosocial dynamics and atmosphere of the cockpit. Therefore, the description requires a mixture of idiographic and symbolic hermeneutics record, with a story halfway between literary narrative and scientific observation, in a text organized in linear sequences, but each sequence may contain temporal oscillations. We also correlate data from empirical observation with scientific findings of clinical research and neuroscience, as well as a postulate of ours, holding that mental illness is a loss of freedom and complexity, which is accompanied by an interlocking highly predictable behavior, triggered once, it leaves little scope for change, which in other studies, we call mental illness as Ananke. Similarly, evidence is the symbolic and anthropological components that keep the history and personal life, gallero addictive behavior.